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from "How to Be Loved" since I'm still very, very slowly working on it :') (this is longer than 7 lines but I swear it's closer to that in the doc)

“Sorry it looks like shit, I had to bring my dumb cat to the vet yesterday and she sheds literally everywhere.” Connor slipped into the seat while Gavin fidgeted with his mirrors. “I don’t mind. I didn’t know you had a cat.” “Bullshit, you’re literally the worst gossip, you know everything,” Gavin called out. “I have two. Socks is a tortoiseshell and a monster, then Princess Fiona or just Princess is a gray ragdoll and I’m pretty sure she’s made out of velcro. Shelter named them before I got them, put that fucking smirk away.” “I have no idea what you’re talking about, detective,” Connor said smoothly. “Sure. Asshole.”

thank you friend :D I'm going to answer for Beckett, my RK800-60 oc for Detroit Become Human who has YK500/child android parts and software installed in him as part of repairs post-Peaceful Ending <3 this got very long very quickly and I am So Sorry about that but also I will do it again next time I talk about my oc's

(there is some talk of abuse in a few sections since Beckett's story is largely about trauma and recovery, but I'm going to try keeping out the more explicit details)

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Hank was not at his desk when Isabelle led him into the main area. The room felt too hot and too big and his ventilation kept skipping and stuttering.

“Shoot,” Isabelle said quietly. “Is there anyone else you feel safe with here?”

He could feel the pressure building up behind his eyes. He wanted Hank. The words wouldn’t come out, just a quiet whine and static that made his chest hurt. His face was wet and he didn’t like it. He dropped his bag and pressed his palms into his eyes to make them stop, make the pressure stop, make everything stop-

“Hey, what’s up?”

“Uh, Hank got called out so Beckett was upstairs with me, but he wanted to come back down...”

“Shit, yeah, okay. Hey, munchkin? Think we can lower your hands for just a sec?”

That was Gavin. Gavin could help. Beckett moved his hands to the side of his head. It was too loud and too bright. He wanted to leave.

“There’s my favorite android,” Gavin said with a rare smile. “Hank isn’t back yet, but we can call him if you want.”

He shook his head. He couldn’t pull Hank away from his job. It wasn’t fair.

“Okay, you can sit with me until he’s back. Uh, I’ll buzz you later, Iz.”

She very lightly squeezed Beckett’s shoulder. “Got it. I’ll see you later, okay Beckett?”

He tried to nod again even though everything felt stiff and sticky. It was polite. Isabelle had been nice to him. It was his own fault he freaked out. The hand on his shoulder disappeared and something settled in his abdomen.

“Come on, let’s get you all set up. You got your tablet?” He nodded again, and Gavin bent down to pick up his bag. “Wanna see my cats? I got some new pictures of them for you.”

Gavin led him to his desk with a gentle hand on his shoulder. Beckett usually sat in a chair next to the desk, but everything felt too bright. He sat on the floor and ducked under the desk right up to the corner so he would be out of the way. 

“Okay, here’s the first one I got, she was sleeping but I woke her up for it,” Gavin said, dropping into his chair and holding the phone down to Beckett. 

His cat was very cute, and looked very soft. In the picture her eyes were still half-shut, with her tongue sticking out just a little from her mouth.

“They’re both gonna love you when you can come meet them.”

He tried to log the photo as much as his memory core would allow, then handed the phone back. “I want to meet them.”

“You will. Soon. Oh, look at this one I found of Socks as a baby before I got her, just a little hairball.”

“Thank you,” he said quietly.

AU gifs for my fic in-progress “How to Be Loved” (link to old version here) using the DBH Model Swapper tool

New “How To Be Loved” set piece, Connor buys this pin for all of his partners. They don’t wear them on the outside very much because they’re all very public figures but like it’s on the inside of Simon and Markus’ jackets every day, North wears it right on the front, and Josh put his on his bag. For all of them except Markus and Connor it’s easier to blend in while in public since their models are all pretty common.

hey I’m still working on this story and trying very hard to get it done for the end of the year I promise, here’s a snippet I wrote recently of Beckett and Gavin post-rescue!

Beckett pulled on Gavin’s wrist in a silent question about the scar he was still touching.

“Oh, no, that’s... more recent.” Beckett moved his hand to his own forehead, to the skin that didn’t load in quite right. “I’ve actually got one that kinda looks like that, look-”

He shrugged his jacket off of one shoulder and pulled his shirt back. The difference was so slight a human might not notice, but Beckett could see the pale patch of skin with a deeper pink around the edges. It was smaller than Beckett’s palm. Beckett reached back out to the phone as Gavin fixed his jacket.

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Soooo, HTBL is on... temporary hiatus? or something like that. It’s increasingly obvious that I can’t continue with the story the way it is, and for a lot of reasons, I want to rewrite it from the ground up. The full explanation is on an update on the fic itself (link) but in short, I’m a different person than when I started uploading this story and I don’t think it reflects the way I wanted to share it anymore.

It’ll still be up on AO3, until I’ve finished rewriting it. Then I’ll upload it as a separate story. The old one will likely stay up as I don’t want to lose all of the wonderful comments, but it won’t be updated, and the story is going to have a few changes.

Thank you to anyone who read the story, especially @emiliaf25​ for all of your amazing support on the original <3 

Since I’m not rewriting from scratch I’ll probably have the rewrite done by the end of the year at the latest, but I’m not giving myself a hard deadline this time. I’ll post some WIP updates on here and post about it on my twitter @ wardenmages along the way. 

In closing, my favorite meme I made to insert into the story for no reason other than I love the idea of polycho800 using old memes <3