" Can I Ask You Questions? " There Are Many Things The World Is Lacking Now, But Music Still Remains.

" can i ask you questions? " there are many things the world is lacking now, but music still remains. a great ᴄʀᴇꜱᴄᴇɴᴅᴏ then followed by scattered arpeggios brought the audience to their knees in both grief and unanswered prayer. minor chords now play their ballads as robotic bartenders pass out tainted drink. nate has stumbled out of the bar and into the night. goodneighbor holds no answers and its music, while smooth, no comfort. a graveyard holds a few ferals he dispatches with an empty, and now broken, liquor bottle.

their snarls are only made of discordant notes. rian appears, and the noise in his head finds its rightful key. " just some questions about death. you know, light stuff. " @ischaron

goin to bed bc it's almost 1am but.

bombs dropped on oct 23, 2077

let's just round our numbers and say shaun was 3 months old. -> puts him born july 23rd. -> conceived 40 weeks prior.* sept 23rd, 2067 -> nate was on a short trip home from sept 13th - 28th (2067) then returned to front lines. -> nate was discharged maybe just before birth, so rounding**, that means when the war ends and the bombs are dropped, nate has only been home around 3 months.***

don't you think that for the world, two hundred+ years have passed, but nate feels like he was just at war yesterday. he still twitches at unexpected gunfire, explosions. he still dreams about nights spent in foxholes. he still expects the phone to ring with orders and the feeling of anchorage weather and alaska stars at twilight. the world got to move on, but not him. so not only is he the sole survivor of vault 111, other than a handful of ghouls? he's one of the only survivors of the war STILL ALIVE. and if ghouls are considered dead, then it's just nate.

just nate and army bunkers full of bones.

*that is a 10 month period. everyone says women are pregnant 9 months but a full term pregnancy does last 10 months from date of conception to birth, it's just a thing. **i'm pulling this timeframe out of my asshole. ***"I don't think you two were ever happier than those last few months you spent together with young Shaun." - canon quote from your robot butler, codsworth

suicide tw:

codsworth says this to the player: "Sir/Mum, no matter what may befall us, I hope suicide is never an answer you seek." - nate tells codsworth that he's leaving shaun with xyz and for the robot to stay with shaun. cods asking nate where he's going and he just says "home to nora" and this is when codsworth says this. nate just gives him a little pat.

SINDAY FACTS that are depressing! I love this idiot.

The first person he fucks is pressed into the mattress, face first, and Nate closes his eyes and thinks of Nora. He barely speaks, just ruts into them like if he fucks hard enough, they'll turn into her. Like pressure on coal until it turns into a diamond (a wives tale, something that won't ever be true.)

And then he goes celibate for several months because he feels terrible about it. Because he knows he did get some enjoyment from it, sort of.. - and in his guilt he does not believe they did too - so the next few times, he pays for it and keeps his eyes closed and head fallen back. (Besides, it's the world's oldest profession. The world wouldn't be the world without it.)

Alan Ritchson as Anders Lassen THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE (2024) Dir: Guy Ritchie

other plot ideas holly wants

actual evil vampire nate. 200 years asleep and you were the dumbass who woke him up. ya bit.*

*i really love the idea that the person getting bit can also get off from it lmfao sometimes I question myself.

overboss nate. tbh actual canon nate (by me at least) would be shooting up all the raiders and freeing the slaves. but au nate ... au nate with no nora and only war ... au nate fucks.*

*everyone.

dc / marv verse with a similar origin to cap*&*bucky. frozen, but for 200 years, so he's a little cranky, with ice powers. his eyes would be straight up icy blue. and maybe he's pissed he was left behind. or maybe he died protecting families. or maybe he doesn't mind getting his hands a little dirty to stop an innocent's pain.*

*he and the punish/er would be besties.

forgot to add nate rebuilding sanctuary and needing help (he's very good at being a handyman, okay. let him fix your furniture!) and someone waking nate out of cryo and he's lost some memories but still has panic attacks bc everything is wrong and he doesn't know why. (i kinda have a verse already like this w/ my nora so this would be w/ either her being nerfed ((rip)) or never existing.)

Starter call <3

side note: if someone doesn't mind, I can pay you a little bit for a few icons from reacher.