schrodinger's catboy

there are two middle aged white men with quiffs standing in front of you. one tells the truth the other always lies

i wanted to write a cute little oneshot of my sole survivor and danse and i was like oh em gee what if he gets hurt and wander (my sosu) has to give him like a little bandaid or whatever . bc yes he insists on being the one to do it. and then i realized nothing is getting past that man and he means that shit i can't think of anything that would injure him through his power armor short of just like. a honing missile it was just supposed to be something small so i can't go w a honing missile or even a graze from one really but like do u think paladin danse is getting a papercut? really?

just a very small pet peeve of mine if u can rlly call it that but it always bugs me when ppl characterize danse as being like. weirdly taciturn and then chalk it up to him being a synth or autistic or wtv. i think he's just extremely depressed/traumatized bc he becomes a LOT more expressive in his romance route when he's ACTUALLY happy. a lot of our experiences w danse for 95% of the game are very career oriented and at a time in his life where he is just quite frankly not even sure if what he's doing is worth it (which is a horrible way to feel when it's all he's ever based his value on). as someone who has cptsd it just bugs me that ppl reduce him to what are clearly just symptoms to me and not representative of who he is as a person edit: this isnt even to say that i dont believe danse is autistic or even just reticent but i always feel like chalking up Symptoms of PTSD to being either or of those things is an oversimplification

seven minutes. six or seven minutes is all i can spare to play with you sorry