I headcanon Danse has environmental agoraphobia post blind betrayal.
In a close space he at least knows he can’t be fully ambushed. There are limited spaces and ways to maneuver, control of your surroundings is key to him. Open spaces lead to problems. So many angles of attack, too many things to scan for and too many things to keep track of. He prefers to set perimeters and keep them, he’s reconnaissance not a patrol guy.
He likely has to wear his power armor less to realistically maintain it without the tech from the Prydwen. He’d be in basic armor and much less defended when he’s questing with the Sole Survivor. Danse would feel so exposed and less intimidating despite his physique. He’s used to towering over enemies and plowing through them in his armor. He’s no slouch in a fight but it’s much easier to damage to him. Much harder for him to defend his allies.
I think he’d be visibly uncomfortable and tense out in the open. You can tell he’s trying to hide it but his eyes are always darting and he can’t stop checking over his shoulder.
Adding onto the common HC I’ve been seeing of John being the group cook — he is DEFINITELY the “get the fuck out of my kitchen while I’m cooking” type of person, like you walk in to get a glass of water and he is like “fuck off no I WILL get you water do not DISTURB my cooking. Here. Now LEAVE.”
I like to think he’s mainly like that cuz he likes to solely focus on what he’s doing, and alot of the others end up commenting or asking too many questions — this kinda feeds into my undiagnosed OCD/Autism HC for John — and it’s just annoying and overwhelming. But not Bob. Bob is allowed to stay.
John has declared Bob can stay because he is — as John puts it — “a respectful spectator”. Which started as Bob sitting in the common area near the kitchen doing whatever while John cooked, then slowly migrating over to the opposite side of the kitchen island. Then that evolved into Bob randomly saying little tidbits of how his day was and then it ended with Bob just coming in to yap about whatever while John cooks while replying ever so often but mostly just letting him talk.
John now finds a strange sense of comfort in his rambling and everyone else is like “why can he stay and we can’t” and John is like “cuz he’s Bob and you’re not.” And Ava teases him RELENTLESSLY for it like — “oooh someone’s playing favourites” and John just tells her to fuck off cuz in all honesty, he IS playing favourites.
sloppy doodle to celebrate getting all achievements in new vegas 💃
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the doctor is in
first time that man has ever been rendered speechless in his life
that's a trans man, he took the drug that made him into a ghoul out of sheer dysphoria because he couldn't stand his face anymore and then his fucking tits fell off when he woke up, he saw the clothes, he heard the voice of fucking John Hancock and his tits fell off and he thought "i know what i have to do now'
deacon and boone.... two sides of the same (cat-shaped) coin. bald✔️ sunglasses✔️ dead wife✔️my fav lil guy✔️
stupid post but it’s my birthday so i have to self insert with boone beret blackmail
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