[closed] the only constant is change

[capcious]

Who: the Fallout AU crew
Setting: the Commonwealth
Summary: BoS things, institute things
Warnings: Fallout warnings, smut
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- minor timeskip to when the BoS has its feet under it again, shaun asks riley to go up and keep an eye on them and deacon goes with
- they get assigned to a BoS squad composed of AU versions of chancellery guards (paladin archimedes o'hallan, knight-captain anthony norris, lancer-sargeant alex reyes, knight riley reynolds, knight everett wynter, knight henry "hal" saller, aspirant 'jack' "deacon" 'priest')
- maybe some minor quests involving getting to know them, gotta get some solid Bonding going
- sarrith (sarah, secret enclave remnant) and sal's romeo and juliet romance
- that one quest where you get the nukes from the glowing sea for the BoS
- wynter's mistake and gradual ghoulification and the position it puts the squad in
- blind betrayal

- shaun announces ferran officially as his successor
- ferran dealing with the short institute quests that result from that
- shaun discovering ferran's a slut and trying to talk to him about it
- zetta freaking out bc they're spending all this time waiting for her to recover and dealing with the BoS, and not having the time to try to figure out a way to save shaun
- zetta, in general, driving shaun slowly up the wall because she's cooped up and needs to be kept occupied or else Bad Things Start Happening, why is this shaun's life, this was not what he was expecting at all
- ferran going on missions with x6-88 / house divided, warwick
- nathan and zay's one night stand with ferran becoming not a one night stand any more
- at some point we need to have nathan call deacon a mongrel to his face so zetta can go positively nuclear
- zay finding out nathan is taking buffout

- build towards the railroad and institute being on better terms (not *stable*, but they need to be in a position where they're willing to make an alliance at the battle for bunker hill and afterwards to take the BoS down)
- probably need to do a meeting with dez and carrington, bc jfc (and ferran being the next director makes it easier to make negotiations on the institute's behalf though shaun probably doesnt fully trust him with that wrt the railroad yet, shaun needs to see ferran make decisions that benefit the institute OVER the railroad for that)

- mass fusion happens before battle for bunker hill, lighting a fire under the brotherhood's ass (still use it as the faction cut-off point?)
- at the battle, brotherhood wins -- keeping them a legitimate threat and serving as the push for the institute and railroad to work together against them

[image] [lyrics]

well, oh, it seems you're a lot like me
you dug yourself into places you never thought you would be
but don't you fret, and don't you mind
the only constant is change,
and you never know what you'll find

yeah, tomorrow i might wake up nice and clean
and i might believe the things i said i didn't mean
and this might turn and wind up just the way we'd dreamed
and i might become the things i swore i'd always be

Comments

[recalcitrare]

[Zay arches an eyebrow.]

As opposed to waiting here for your troops to try prying me apart?

[And miss watching Nathan at work? (And being alone with him?) Yeah, right. That wasn't even a question.]

[timesbureaucrat]

They wouldn't try to pry you apart. Except perhaps Dr. Singh. He was a medical researcher.

[But Nathan wants Zay with him regardless. He wants to show off to him.]

[recalcitrare]

[And now Zay is rolling his eyes.] That's not what I meant, and you well know it. [He makes a gesture for Nathan to lead the way.]

[falloutpslnpcs]

[Captain Lone leaves with Zellweger to contact the Old Worlders. Singh acts like he's considering bolting so John casually moves to stand in front of the doorway.

They do this together.

He strikes up meaningless conversation to pass the time while keeping Singh with them.]

Zellweger isn't the Captain's usual type.

[crowspy]

[Bellamy's surreptitiously watching Singh, so he doesn't notice John's movements. When he speaks, Bellamy's eyes snap to him.] Really? [He leans forward slightly.] What's his usual type, then? And how do you know?

[falloutpslnpcs]

I've known that boy since he was born. And I've trained enough young men to know what a crush looks like. He'd talk about a future with a wife and children, but he always had eyes for the athletic boys. The tall and muscular ones. Good soldiers. There was one in particular. Jared Phillips. A power armor infantryman. Nice boy.

Zellweger's a different type entirely.

[crowspy]

Huh. And now he's picked up one who's more brains than brawns. Not to mention quiet. With an attitude to match the Cap'n's. Wonder how that ended up happening.

[falloutpslnpcs]

[Regan snorts.]

There aren't any soldiers in the Institute.

[crowspy]

There are coursers. He could've gotten the hots for one of them instead.

[bostoncrossing]

Considering that Institute synths live in servitude, if he'd pursued one I, for one, would have lost any remaining respect for our Captain.

[Carrington has little respect left for the old Enclave ideals or anyone who holds to them. But he remembers Lone as a decent person, not sadistic or one who abused his authority. If he'd preyed on the synths under his power, however, what little bond he felt for the captain who helped keep him alive during the journey to the Commonwealth would have been irretrievably broken.]

[crowspy]

I mean, yeah. No shit. I didn't mean pursue, just, y'know. If his type solely included the buff types, then that's his optoin. Pretty sure if he'd tried to pursue a courser, they would've snapped his neck and we wouldn't be standing here having this conversation.

[bostoncrossing]

Would they? Deadly as they are, I imagine that they're still required to obey orders and would be recycled if they harmed a human in the Institute.

[He doesn't know as much about coursers, beyond their obvious role as the Institute's hunters and killers. He's heard of only one courser aided by the Railroad and that was before his time. But that means that at least one courser considered himself as much a slave as the rest and yearned to escape.

Come to think of it, it was Deacon who told him about that courser, so the entire story might have been a lie.]

[crowspy]

You're putting way too much thought into my dumb jokes, my man. You're probably not wrong, but we're trying to gossip about the Cap'n here. Let's stay on topic.

[falloutpslnpcs]

I think it's sweet. I'm glad he's not lonely. [Sara's urged her father to date, too, but he always says that he doesn't want to take the risk of his past catching up to him and hurting someone he loves.]

[crowspy]

I'd say I'm shocked he's the only one of us to hook up with someone in the past ten years, but let's be honest, I'm totally not.

[falloutpslnpcs]

[John laughs at that.]

My God...what that says about the rest of us....

That we're paranoid egotists incapable of normal affection? [Singh offers up as an answer to John's sentence.]

[crowspy]

[Bellamy points at Singh with a thumb.] What he said.

[falloutpslnpcs]

Speak for yourself. Lone's not the only one who's gotten lucky over the last ten years. [Torvald may hate the wastelanders, but not enough to choose to be celibate for a decade.]

[crowspy]

Getting lucky and actually dating are two entirely different things.