Nick Valentines Son

This also means you cannot show him an injured stray. His pack instincts plus his love for animals means he will be doing all he can to nurse it back to health, even if he has no medical knowledge or skill. He will even go so far as asking Trashcan Carla to put out the word that a veterinarian is needed in Sanctuary. Then, once that animal is healed, he will try to do the right thing and send them off back to nature… but if they don’t want to leave, who is he to turn them away? He was a stray once too. 

Loves talking to or teaching kids. When they’re small and don’t make any sense? He very seriously is agreeing with them, reacting to what they’re ‘saying’ like they’re actually holding a conversation. When they can start to form real sentences, he talks to them like they’re any other adult. When they’re in their rebellious/adults are annoying phase it’s the most entertaining thing to act like a grandpa. ‘Back in my day’, dad jokes, ‘working hard or hardly working?’, etc. And if they, or anyone really, shows interest in his work he is ready to teach them with patience and praise. 

Finding out he’s a synth was hard for him… but not as hard as it is for other people. He finds out, needs a short time to readjust, and then that’s just life to him. Yeah, he’s a synth. He doesn’t go around advertising it, but it’s not like he can change it. So he can either agonize over it or learn to live with it. It catches him off guard sometimes, going to ‘remember’ something, and the blurriness and lack of details holds a whole new meaning. But then he forces a smile and keeps going. 

The above is aided by the fact that Sturges, though he may not fully understand why it happens, is accepting of ghouls and synths. They don’t bother him none so long as they pull their weight and don’t try to hurt nobody. But he would expect the same of any smoothskin/human. He however doesn’t really think of synths as humans. People? Yes. But not humans. And he is guilty of calling ferals ‘ghouls’ on occasion, but he gets better with time. 

Again, he may not fully understand it, but he loves an ‘intelligent’ conversation. Likes to see other people get passionate and talk about things that are important. He can’t always articulate what he thinks but he’s good at analogies and agreeing or disagreeing and that can take you pretty far in an ‘intelligent debate’. Likes when Hancock visits with Sole for this exact reason. 

And because Hancock readily answers his ghoul questions, no matter how racy they get, because Hancock would rather Sturges ask him as he will tell Sturges if he’s gone too far instead of beating his ass for it. Also makes him have hope to see a smoothskin actually curious about ghouls, care about them even, outside of morbid curiosity. 

When he finds out he’s a synth, he tries to engage more with Nick or Curie. Not necessarily asking them questions about being synths, just out of a sense of companionship. ‘We are more similar than I thought’. Finds he likes talking to them not only for the same reason he likes Hancock, but because of their morals and hopes for the wasteland reflecting his own. 

In the first part I mentioned he loves adventure stories: which is why I think he would get a real kick out of Kent Connolley’s Silver Shroud radio. Possibly Kent’s number one fan but acts casual about it. He’s always punctual about tuning in and reacts like someone’s actually telling him a story in person. Gets into the comics this way, and after asking a couple times, Trashcan Carla starts keeping an eye out for anyone selling comics in her travels. 

Once they’re settled in, I could see him traveling to nearby settlements (Abernathy, Starlight, Sunshine Tidings, etc) to do repairs when they’re needed. Also training a settler or two the basics while he’s there so they can also help themselves. Likes helping people, and won’t ask for payment but won’t turn it down either. Because of this he usually ends up not being paid in caps but instead food or tools or ‘junk’ or crafts or favors. Some offer him chems but he turns those down, even if he could sell them for good money. He’s seen what the temptation of chems can do to a person and doesn’t think himself above such temptations. However, he does accept the occasional stout. 

Cait

Pre Benign intervention

Cait HATES it. At first she pretends not to care, but all the drugs mess with her senses. Things are always shifting between muffled and painfully clear, normally walking or moving helps it, but here? All she can really focus on is sole and maybe the skeleton on the ground.

She isn't much help. Isn't fear she feels as much as she feels annoyance. Even if Sole assures Cait that help is coming Cait will start to strike at the walls for a way out.

Post Benign Intervention

Cait has been put thigh through hundreds of self soothing exercises by Curie. She knows every breathing exercise that Curie could teach her. She never admits to using them but she does.

It isn't so much that the enclosed space scares her. Its the notion she feels unable to leave. That she's got to be reduced to a trapped barely lucid fighting woman again. Even if that is irrational in Sole's eyes.

To soothe herself she will use the breathing exercises and is rather insistent on Sole doing them too.

Cait is eager to get out. Far more eager to get out than she wants to show.

Codsworth

Unfortunately: Codsworth is a Mister Handy. Mister Handy robots are propelled and move by a ignition thruster of some sort. As a result Codsworth likely defaults to immediately powering down to protect Sole from burns or suffocation.

Sole will need to power him back on after they manage to escape the enclosed space. After which he likely apologises for the abrupt action and moves on.

Curie

Assuming this is post Emergent Behaviour. If prior to Emergent Behaviour she follows the same procedures as Codsworth.

Curie isn't exactly scared of many things. Even if all things dictate she should be. She's not scared of heights or the Brotherhood, falling doesn't scare her nor does running into a fight to help Sole.

But she is claustrophobic. In the initial period she is fine. She likens it to the centuries she spent locked away.

But then that's the thought that grips her. Her body feels twisted and her throat clenches. What was unremarkable to Curie as a robot is terrifying to Curie now. She doesn't want to be trapped for more centuries. She doesn't want to die.

Curie will be no great comfort to Sole. She looks exceedingly pathetic and terrified as she tries to cower away into the corner she already has to share. She will plead with Sole to help them escape and slips in and out of French for some reason.

Danse

Pre Blind Betrayal

Danse is mostly unbothered beyond guilt. All likelihood is that he is in power armour and poor Sole is lacking for space as a result. Alas one may perhaps not even be able to see the dawned Paladin's face over his steel bosom.

He's very good at keeping watch and listening out, so if it looks like leaving soon isn't an option he will try to stand up and to a side as much as possible for Sole to get comfortable and rest.

The Paladin is focused on completing the objective and keeping his unit alive. He is radioing for Rhys and Haylen to assist at soonest availability. If they can not assist then he will start investigating the Pulowaski shelter for weakpoints. He is still rather good at scrapping and there is little he cannot tear down.

Post Blind Betrayal

There isn't much that changes post Blind Betrayal bar his armour and that calling for Rhys and Haylen is no longer an option. So this is assuming he is out of the power armour.

He's still rather stalwart. When he's on a mission, an assignment, or just has a goal in mind he its able swallow almost all of his worries. Almost all of them.

He's good at talking Sole through it if they become scared. They wouldn't be the first he's soothed and his time in the Brotherhood has made him remarkably good at talking people through their pain.

Deacon

Deacon never aims to be the focal point in any situation. He likes to melt into the background and a Pulowalski shelter really doesn't lend itself to that. That and he may be slightly unnerved by tight spaces.

He is taking it chin up even if he's really unhappy. Deacon is a liar, through and through, and he will lie to himself to get through it. He will lie to Sole too if he thinks it means they can get out and to safety faster.

If it's a matter of having to wait something out for a longer time; then his discomfort will show slightly. Even when he tries to distract Sole with stories that may or may not be real.

Hancock

Help will be along soon enough. Want a pick me up?

MacCready

He's nonchalant. It's not exactly uncommon for ghouls to be trapped away for a prolonged time. Although he really is trying to not think of that as an impending possibility. He's young. In ghoul terms at least. And he has no experience in being trapped for prolonged periods of time. He doesn't want to have that experience, especially if Sole isn't a fellow ghoul.

If it's merely a manner of waiting out before they can leave he's nonplussed. He's good company and can talk to nervous people without sounding patronising or worried. He talks to Sole like they are a person, a friend he holds dear, even if they are scared and snappy. He can be patient.

If it's certain they are getting out and it's just a matter of waiting: he's nodding off. MacCready is no stranger to cramped spaces. Frankly it is almost nostalgic. He will try to get comfortable and wait it out.

If he's particularly close with Sole he will offer to play some old Scout games he remembers. Mostly memory games. He will do the same even if they aren't close if Sole looks distressed and in need of distraction.

The only instance in which MacCready seems at all perturbed is if he is romanced. Being trapped in close quarters with Sole makes it very hard for him to wait things out as he normally does.

Nick Valentine

Less than thrilled. Verging on flustered. The detective really isn't one for close contact unless it's on his and Sole's terms.

It's mostly due to the way he was built. His body is getting on in age and his synthetic nervous system is... spotty. There are stretches of him that you can drag your hand over and he won't feel until you cross a part that does have the nerves in tact. At which point the detective is alert and less than thrilled.

Being trapped close to Sole makes this phenomenon of his form all the nor inescapable.

Piper

Preston Garvey

More annoyed than anything. If she had a cap for every time she's been caught in a tight space hiding from something or other she'd have enough to buy a spot in the upper stands. Not that anyone would. Suds. The lot of them.

Yet being trapped with Sole? It makes it less annoying. At least there is company - good company, in Piper's opinion - that she can talk to. It makes the waiting easier and the escape sooner in her eyes.

She's far from perfect when it comes to comforting. In fact she may be the contrary. Piper is used to keeping lookout. Not only for stories, but to move quickly to protect Nat, and as a result her attention is focused on the outside, what she can hear, and the exit.

She will alert Sole when she hears trouble coming, even if they are mid sentence, and will miss any signs Sole is nervous until it's obvious. At which point she is better, she knows to try her best, but it's clear this is a situation where she can't give Sole her full attention.

Anxious. Will not shut up trying to comfort Sole but it's obvious he's talking for himself in equal measure. Even at the General's side he will feel so alone and closed off, something that makes the nibbling and scratching guilt in his brain turn to gnawing and clawing.

His hands were never steady. Quite frankly the opposite. But the poor minuteman's shuddering is apparent the moment he isn't gripping something. He will resort to holding Sole's hand if they are comfortable to comfort them both.

It's for the best Sole doesn't call him on his fear. Preston will only do so well in confined space, and forcing him to face his feelings in one is a recipe for a very miserable Preston.

There is nothing more he cherishes than the vast open commonwealth and the duty he serves with his life. To be taken from it, even briefly, is not good for him.

X6-88

He's doing a Relay call to the institute immediately. So fast he may as well be rapping. There is no hesitation.