#m7-97

DEACON WEEK | Day 3:

Safehouse

can't get rid of the eyebrow scar without fundamentally altering his eyebrows, so let's say he came with that

no one asked but has there ever been a creation of mine where someone did actually ask? no, never, I am impulse and impulse only

Danse was created for maintenance - not just mechanical engineering but plumbing and electrical as well. Meaning if the Institute had a problem he could be dispatched to fix it. Didn’t matter where or what, he could do it. His memories were erased of the Institute and his life there but his skills certainly were not. Since the railroad primarily uses the Memory Den for their rescues I don’t think taking away the skill altogether would be a thing. I think the knowledge of that skill isn’t there but the programming is. So Danse’s aim (as a backup patrol unit) and his mechanical repair skills he knows he possesses but I imagine he can disarm a laser turret or a telsa trap in under the time it would take normally . . . he just doesn’t know he can. Imagine Sole, or a settler at the settlement he inhabits at the time, having some issues with a generator or the way the lines are rigged up and he just knows exactly how to fix it. Or maybe running water is sort of a unreachable dream in the wasteland but Danse is like “no you just have to do [ inset plumbing knowledge I don’t have here]” and soon sanctuary is the first settlement to have proper plumbing. 

Danse hates sleeping out in the commonwealth. He’s used to the business of Rivet City and the constant noises or happenings on the Prydwen (and the glow that the Institute always had in it). Sleeping outside or even in a wrecked building unnerves him, though he’ll never admit it. Sleeping in Cambridge was okay but it was still too quiet, especially when it came down to just him, Haylen, and Rhys. But being outside it’s too quiet and it’s too dark. He tries to tell himself that it’s so quiet he’d be able to hear someone should he be ambushed but it never helps. He’s scared of the dark silence that nighttime in the wasteland possesses even if there’s not much logic behind it.

I’ve seen people say Danse is an atheist but I think he’s agnostic. He wants to believe there’s a rhyme and reason to everything but isn’t certain there is a God or anything of the sort. It makes it even harder once he discovers he’s a synth. If there is a God then he must not be able to go to any sort of heaven because he was not born. He has all the functions of a human but isn’t one, so therefor he must be exempt from whatever that preacher in Diamond City teaches. After learning he’s a synth he doesn’t see the point in believing if there is a God or not because it wouldn’t apply to him anyway. 

Danse is his first name. Again, I’ve seen people speculating that Danse is his last name but I think he actually doesn’t have a last name. Everyone goes by the whole title + last name thing as per usual in any military (though I can’t decide if the proctor’s or scribes go by their first names or not because Teagan, Ingram, and Neriah all sound like first names) but I actually think Danse doesn’t have a last name so he has to use the only one he has. The reason? Danse’s “memories” are of being an orphan. So why would the railroad bother giving him a last name if his new memories were that he didn’t have a family? It would sort of be irrelevant. And then there’d be the risk that he could try and find family based on a last name. 

Paladin Danse M7-97