Thundercracker’s Dog, Buster

hanging out with my grandson

he has no idea.................

More Rdr2 modern AU thoughts no "criminality" in this. I just can imagine them living in some sort of commune centered around a ranch. (this was inspired by Dutch talking about the Paris commune) I changed a few ages so it fits more modern society and like most of them don't really have exact ages. Some aren't as fleshed out as the others but it's not cuz I like them less or more.

Hosea(55) : was the one who bought the ranch with Bessie then slowly Dutch, Arthur and John came to live here too. When she sadly passed away he was glad they were here. Him and Bessie were a foster home, which is how Arthur and John met them. He sees Abigail as the daughter he and Bessie would have had and therefore think of Jack as his grandson. Bessie and him were teachers in primary school.

Dutch (45): got elected mayor of the commune somehow, it doesn't actually do anything but feeds his need of power so it's cool. He is the one talking to the law and intruder most of the time if there's a problem, can't deny he has a way with word. Has like 3 accusations of starting a cult. It is unsure how he and Hosea met and when, everyone gets lost with all the stories they tell.

Arthur(36): lived here almost his whole life but can spend months away on some weird roadtrip and then comeback. Learned many different job to help around. Spend his free time either drawing or enjoying nature. Likes shooting competition too. He's chronically ill/ disabled because of tuberculosis, he's doing better than a year ago but the sequel will follow him all his life.

John (26): hated living here at some point, couldn't find anything he was "good enough" at. After taking a self discovery journey (and fleeing the responsibility of being a father this young) he found out he liked herding the cows or sheep. I can't really imagine him and Abigail still being together in a society that doesn't push women to find men like in 1899. I think there would be tension at first but they'd end up sharing "custody" of Jack, after all they live in the same "town" (and Hosea would kill John if he didn't take care of that kid)

Abigail (24): arrived here with luck, mother of Jack she would have probably aborted if she didn't have a pregnancy denial cuz she feels she's too young to be a mother (which she was, she finished high school only a year or two before!) Hosea loves teaching her the rope of the ranch, she is family after all.

Uncle (67): Came at some point, acted like he belonged and never left. Nobody can tell how he arrived. He usually goes into nearby town to buy or sell or... Well avoid work at the commune.

Susan (49): She knew Dutch for a while now and after some health related issues he decided to offer her to live at the ranch, she greatly helped with setting up everything that the commune became.

Bill (31): after getting discharged by the army he couldn't find any places that wanted him, struggled with homelessness for a while until he joined the commune. He's very helpful when it comes to muscle jobs which they clearly lacked when he joined. He probably works on the day outside the commune to make himself some money, it's mostly helping with manual task.

Javier (26): just like in the OG story he got taken in by Dutch, Trelawny somehow managed to help him get documents so he could be legal. He's an aspiring musician.

Karen (24): She was on a roadtrip when she discovered the commune, she stayed for a while before leaving and then returned a year or so later as she couldn't find anything to please her way of living in the rest of society.

Mary-Beth (23): Met Arthur in one of his roadtrip and absolutely fell in love with the stories he told her, she asked if she could join the commune in hope of finding inspiration for her books.

Tilly (21): She got to be in the commune thanks to foster care after losing both her parents. She sort of grew up with John and loves going into the city and meet people, she spends lots of time with Mary-Beth discussing their respective lives. She probably does tik tok videos to explain how they live in the commune. Her, Karen and Mary-Beth probably take Arthur with them when going to protest march and even tho he's not fond of crowds he always come if they ask.

Molly (27): A rich girl who discovered the commune through Tilly's videos. She decided to live there as a way to rebel against her family. Despite her upbringing she loves the place and the people but never shows it.

Lenny (19): studying in the university in the biggest city near the commune, Dutch met him the day he initially got rejected from uni, he said he could use a guy like him once he'd graduate and somehow found a way to have Lenny accepted. Comes in the commune when he's on holidays or to study before exams.

Sadie (30): After losing her husband in a fire she tried to kill herself, thankfully Dutch and Arthur saw her and stopped her. They took her to the commune, she still suffer from depression but is starting to feel like living again. Spend a lot of her time with the animals. She used to live in the ranch her husband inherited.

Charles (28): When he was only a few years old he was separated from his mother, remembering very little of her and her heritage. He was given to his father who became an alcoholic as time passed. He visited a lot of tribe to try and find his heritage, when passing in the region of the commune he met Arthur and they talked for a while as Arthur guided him to the local tribe. He comes from time to time, stay for a while. It's like a second home.

Sean(24): tried to rob them in order to feed himself when Arthur caught him and brought him to Dutch the latter decided Sean could be forgiven by working around in the commune, he hasn't left since then.

Kieran (28): after an incident in the ranch he worked at, Kieran tried to find a new place to live. He first found a job with the O'Driscoll but didn't like it. He accidentally entered the commune and they thought he was a robber. After he explained his situation they let him go and he decided to stay there.

Pearson (38): he takes care of the general store but it isn't really a general store it's more like where everything is centered to make it more accessible to the rest of the commune. He arrived here after hearing about it in a nearby city, thought it might reminds him of his time in the navy.

Swanson (47): Pretty much like in the game Swanson went through a lot and lost his faith, Hosea and Dutch took pity of him and offered to help him find peace again in the commune. After he got better and decided to serve as the clergyman of the group.

Strauss (53): I think that the canon version still work quite well for him, I can see his family being Austrian immigrants in a big city and deciding he should live in a more rural place and that's how he ends up in the commune. He takes care of everything that falls under bookkeeping (be it money, materials or food)

Trelawny (41): doesn't actually live in the commune but he's a long time friend so he comes by often.

Jack (5): everyone's favorite boy, spent his two first years living with Abigail (who was kindly helped by Hosea and sometime Arthur) right now John and Abigail found an agreement and he spent half his time with Abi and the other half with John. They do some activities all together too.

There's probably lots of inaccuraty since I don't live in the US and like unless it's disrespectful I don't really care lol

I made the thing haha

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..his arms refused to obey and his mouth was filled with the taste of blood and he couldn't bring himself to take a single breath because his ribs felt like a crooked metal cage and the agony was sucking him into a vortex of unconsciousness and he was too lost and hurt to resist and…

..and it took him a while to realize that he was okay.

That it wasn't his head that was flattened like a rotten apple. It was the head of his mech.

It wasn't his throat that was filled with blood. It was--

[Device 2 not detected. Reconnect.]

_______The whole thing under the cut_________

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Orion feels like a mug without a handle. Like having one earbud fall out of your ear. Like a shirt that's had its buttons ripped off.

[Device 2 not detected. Reconnect.]

He remembers the rattle of metal and the roar of the monster. He remembers someone shouting warnings to him over the comms. He remembers something grabbing his head and slamming him to the ground with so much force, that some part inside his head audibly cracked and it was very warm and stinging and painful and suffocating and he was screaming trying to rip off his helmet and do something but his arms refused to obey and his mouth was filled with the taste of blood and he couldn't bring himself to take a single breath because his ribs felt like a crooked metal cage and the agony was sucking him into a vortex of unconsciousness and he was too lost and hurt to resist and .

..and it took him a while to realize that he was okay.

That it wasn't his head that was flattened like a rotten apple. It was the head of his mech.

It wasn't his throat that was filled with blood. It was--

[Device 2 not detected. Reconnect.]

He can't get used to Shockwave being gone. It feels like a mug without a handle. Like--

..like a part of him has been torn away. Not essential to life. But critical to completeness. The science department calls it “ co-dependence. ” Engineering says that combining two minds into a single whole can make people see themselves as one entity made up of two parts. Most call it grieving.

Orion isn't sure what to call it. He doesn't know the right word for what he's experiencing.

[Device 2 not detected. Reconnect.]

He's not asking to deactivate his implant. He just reconfigures it so the reconnect checks aren't too frequent. The silly little device continues to pretend that Shockwave's absence is a technical problem that can be fixed by trying again.

Orion is strangely grounded by this ritual. Allows him to pretend that Shockwave is still somewhere nearby and all it takes to synchronize their minds is to try to reconnect.

And then he'll be whole again.

[Device 2 not detected. Reconnect.]

He looks in the mirror and sees a puzzle. A mosaic.

He sees the little pieces he borrowed from Shockwave. As well as the holes left where Shockwave took pieces of him.

Connecting minds tends to make them bleed into each other. Blurring boundaries and confusing identities.

Orion thinks that part of Shockwave was preserved in him.

He also knows that part of him died that day along with Shockwave.

[Device 2 not detected. Reconnect.]

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[Device 2 not detected. Reconnect.]

[Device 2 detected. Connect?]

Orion freezes, not immediately realizing what has changed.

Could it be...?

He'd seen a lot of impossible things lately. Aliens and resurrections and black holes and honestly. He had gotten a little tired of being surprised. So when the possibility of traveling to other dimensions gets added to his record?

Haah

He had been told that other worlds would probably be very different from his world. That on the other side could be any kind of unimaginable madness or guaranteed death or nothing at all but infinite emptiness and none of those things could be predicted but when he gets close enough to examine the strange alien portal setup, his implant sends him a ping.

[Device 2 detected. Connect?]

At the end of the day. There is one impossible thing that exists on the other side

he's so breathtakinggggg

"Stan has no idea, but he did it. He saved the world. He saved me. You're our hero, Stanley."

*Something something*- no matter againts who or what-Stan will always protect his bro

Bad Influence

some kirapucci headcanons bc i have brainrot

- they dance together in the living room while listening to classical music, this is a pretty common occurence

- they’re a very cheesy couple and act very married even before they’re actually married. kira gets pucci flowers constantly and he puts actual thought into the meanings of the flowers and colours. pucci melts every time kira comes home with another bouqet

- pucci will go on rants about his plan for heaven and god and kira doesn’t rly get it but he’s a very supportive bf and will listen and just be like “mhm, go on sweetie”

- kira isn’t very good at handling arguments so whenever he and pucci have a fight, he gets flowers after it as an apology

- at first they’re very awkward at cuddling, it takes them some time to figure out the right position but when they do, they cuddle all the time

- kira and pucci constantly argue over the bathroom mirror bc kira just wants to brush his teeth while pucci is doing his elaborate skincare routine with like 133872 different steps

- pucci wears a fancy nightgown while kira has the same pajamas as miles edgeworth, like the pink button up shirt and also the sleeping hat

- pucci loves gardening and they have a little garden behind their house where pucci grows herbs and flowers. he also has a greenhouse for tropical plants and kira got him nice gardening gloves as a present

- kira plays off the gardening gloves as a way to keep pucci’s hands clean and pretty but deep down he actually cares and is happy that pucci has a hobby that he enjoys this much and he wants to be as supportive abt it as possible

- they call each other by pet names all the time. the most common ones they use are dear, darling, sweetie and sweetheart with the occasional honey

- pucci sometimes calls kira “kitty” to tease him and kira gets very flustered whenever he does it

- pucci is very practical when it comes to gifts, he gets kira gifts that he actually needs, stuff like a new pan for cooking or a new vacuum cleaner bc his old one broke etc

-  kira does that thing where nuzzles up to pucci’s hand with his cheek constantly and pucci finds it rly funny but also cute, pucci also takes this as a perfect opportunity to call him a kitty

- speaking of cats, they have 3 of them, one of them is a black cat with long hair, one is a calico and the last one is a tabby.

- pucci acts like he doesn’t like the cats at first but he ends up being very attached to them and pampering them constantly (one of the cats is named perla, after his sister)

- pucci gets flustered very easily while kira is more composed but when he does get flustered, it’s very noticeable. the tips of his ears turn pink and his eyes start shifting, pucci loves to tease him about it

- kira is obsessed with pucci’s hands and is constantly kissing them, he also loves holding hands with pucci

- kira’s main love language is giving gifts, he absolutely pampers pucci with fancy rings, flowers, chocolates and pucci absolutely adores it even if it does get a little overwhelming at times

- they are both incredible cooks and they love cooking together, they do go on occasional restaurant dates, but much prefer staying at home and cooking together while having some nice wine

- they are that annoying couple that will drag on every phone call, they’re just like “okay you can hang up now, dear”, “nooo darling, you can hang up” “no you”

- they do need their alone time sometimes, since they’re both rather introverted but that makes them understand each other a lot better and when they do take the day to be alone and do separate things at the end of the day they’ll share what they did and then go cuddle and fall asleep

i will update this list from time to time when i think of new headcanons, they’re everything to me and i do not care that they have never met in canon HJDSHJDH

Drew some of my favourite panels because. I’m very normal about this guy can you see

+bonus