#mojavecanons

ツ - make my muse laugh/smile

Laura: Make her relax. Get her mind and body to slow down and make her feel like she can lay down and/or breathe. She's a lot more apt to relax and open up when she feels like there's not a million urgent things she needs to be doing.

Zoe: Be friendly! Hang our with her, joke around, talk, and just generally be nice to be around. She loves being able to enjoy people's company. Keeping her and her mind active are great ways to keep a smile on her face.

Laura doesn't have any tats. I don't think she'd want any, especially after going to Big MT. She's super weird about her scars and stresses about them all to the point to where she still thinks they feel really sensitive and freaks out if people try to touch them. She might do the same thing with tattooed areas, or would be in a constant state of discomfort because they'd be "too close" to the scars. Her skin would be crawling all the time.

Zoe doesn't have any either. She thinks they look pretty, but isn't really sure that she'd get one herself. It would take going through something really significant in order for her to really want one.

Lance doesn't have any either. He's really the only one of the three that would go out and get one. He's probably asked around about it. Where are these people finding a tattoo artist in the middle of the desert anyway? He'd probably get the leg's equivalent of a sleeve.

Zoe has always been connected with this one, though it doesn't make nearly as much sense unless you know the story of her original incarnation.

And for Glowing Laura (I need something better to call her) I really can't find anything that clicks other than this. The lyrics are too good.

With Laura if you wanna make her sad all you gotta do is insinuate that she was a bad person before the whole getting-shot-in-the-head-and-losing-your-memories thing. Its a thought that really stresses her out. Her own apathy stresses her out at times and you just gotta rub it in a little to make her start over-thinking and give her a case of the blues. Its part of the reason she's so adamant about improving Vegas and the wasteland to the best of her ability. I DUNNO IF I WAS BAD BUT JUST IN CASE I'M GONNA DO A THING

If you wanna CALM her its best to put her somewhere quiet, with low lighting if possible. Think of the most serene situation you can and stuff her in it. That being said, she doesn't like total silence or darkness, because it just leaves her to her thoughts. So something soft like machines humming or rain pattering on a window and maybe a lamp or two is best. But rain is pretty rare in the Mojave, so sometimes she's left to make do. USUALLY she prefers to be alone for a bit because it gives her time to decompress and work things out in her head, but if you're a close enough friend sometimes you can get her to stop being stubborn long enough to talk her down.

Zoe hates seeing people in pain or upset or anything like that. Friend is sad? She's sad too. Seeing people hurt or in otherwise adverse situations breaks her heart, especially so when there isn't much that she can do for them. She wants to make the Mojave, or at least parts of it, a better place and it kills her when she can't do anything. That and getting yelled at. She doesn't exactly take it to heart, but being the focus of someone's aggravation really upsets her. She really doesn't like messing up.

Calming Zoe is as easy as making her comfortable. Or letting her pet something soft like a cyberdog or something of the sort. Or both. Generally just being warm and fuzzy and around things/people she likes is a good way to ease her tensions. She laughs a lot easier than she already does after she's been crying, so even the stupidest joke could get a giggle out of her.

Lance gets sad about not having done much with his life. Despite his cool-boy facade, he's kindof going through somewhat of a midlife crisis. Its like a scab on his ego. Keep picking at it and he's bound to get down in the dumps. Especially if he's been drinking. Which, speaking of, is another sore subject for him. Like I've said before, he's trying his best to kick his less savory habits, so peeling apart his confidence and making jabs at him is certainly a way of upsetting him.

Laura wasn't much, honestly. She mostly stayed at home with her aging mother, helping her tend the home and places around it. Then caps started getting really tight so she tried looking for more heavy-duty types of work to earn more. None of those odd jobs really lasted long, and the only thing she really took away from it all was to learn to be as diverse as possible. Then the courier job opened up and the rest is history. Zoe was much the same, though the town she was living in at the time was a bit larger than what Laura had been residing in. She didn't live in the Mojave, but close enough that travelling to it wasn't too much of a stretch. She was studying medicine of all types in her town, until she'd gone through everything they had on the subject. She wanted to get out and see if she could find more, and upon seeing a courier spot open up, figured she might as well earn a few caps here and there while doing it! It was a win-win; she got to travel, AND make money! Lance, though, was significantly more boring than both of the girls, if that's even possible. He was pretty much wasting away, and the only thing that got him up off of his butt was a mid-life crisis. Courier running was the only job he could get his hands on, and alas, here he is. 

Laura is pretty good to talking to people, even if she acts like she doesn't like it. Nothing satisfies her more than being able to sway the outcome of a situation without barely moving her finger. This being said, its a bit hard to lose track of who the good guy is and isn't, so she tries her hardest to keep her head on straight. Maybe that's why she avoids conversation when she can. Zoe is good at patching people up, even if she shyly tells you that it was "nothing much". She doesn't have her bearings with complex medicinal techniques and the like (though she wants to get them as soon as possible), but she's more than happy to help you with that infection or bullet wound! Or gecko bite, what have you. And Lance. Lance is good at worrying. He may LOOK like nothing bothers him, but he's really kind of a worrywort. Even if its just about what he's going to do in the next year, he's always thinking, all the time.

They all bathe as often as they possibly can. If they have to resort to using the small pools scattered throughout the waste, they will (but not without checking the radioactivity first). Laura and Zoe are most at home in a motel or casino room, where at least there's the privacy of being in your own room as opposed to being in the birthday suit in the middle of the desert. Lance doesn't care nearly as much, and if you catch him in a puddle, he'll hide himself with a hand and yell at you for a few minutes. Or stare disconcertingly until you get weirded out and leave.

Lance is...okayish with most super mutants and nightkins, but ghouls creep him the hell out. Luckily he knows better than to say that to their faces. Laura and Zoe have a soft spot for both, Zoe even more so. She has no problems running over and chatting them up over anything under the sun. Even if some of them lie about being from before the war, she'll humour them. Its fun to imagine what things must've been like!

They all adore dogs. Laura a little less than the other two, though. They all consider them good company. Zoe, though, is content with spending time with any animal so long as they don't bite.

AND FOR THE SNEEZING...I think Laura would die a little inside. For a minute that facade she wears on the Strip would dissolve and she'd frantically mumble her apologies while offering them something to clean off with. She'd then try her absolute best to avoid them for the rest of the evening, and would be thoroughly embarrassed.

Zoe would be embarrassed as well, though her apologies would be much louder. She wouldn't cry, but her voice would probably go up in pitch and her face would pinch in the most apologetic look you've ever seen. Even if they had to shriek IT'S OKAY!! at her she'd still apologize.

HMM.

Laura probably doesn't really have any specific hobbies per say, but she's entertained as long as her hands are moving. She's big on trying to craft things, practical or not, even if she's not really good at it. The only thing that she's an expert at by now is recycling her energy weapon ammo, but that only lasts so long. When left alone, though, she tends to daydream a bit, and sometimes likes to tell herself that she'd like to write. She really enjoys translating some of the things she comes up with into words, but writing utensils aren't exactly easy to come by. Plus most pre-war books are so damaged that its hard to find something to learn off of.

Zoe actually really enjoys guns. She hates firing them at living things, but she enjoys them in on themselves. Constructing new guns or taking apart old ones, as well as making ammo and firing them to hone her accuracy (or just to shoot them for the hell of it) are things that she really gets into. Sometimes it even doubles as stress relief. When she's not making guns, she's making stims, or finding the things to make them in the first place. Sometimes she has fantasies about making new kinds of medicines, and she's even acted on such thoughts, though she's never tried them out. She's too nervous that she's fudged something in recipe more often than not.

OH BOY

Cooking:

Out of all three of them, Zoe's really the only one that can cook. Her survival is higher than both Jack and Laura's combined, and the other two can really only cook unless it comes with instructions. And even then Lance fares worse. He usually burns or otherwise injures himself if he tries to make something too sophisticated.

Zoe can look at plants and be like. Yes. I can do *insert thing* with that. Its easy! She got most of this from her mom. Most of the time she can put things together in her head, but she still carries recipe and "DO NOT USE THIS IT IS DANGEROUS" notes around in her little belt satchel to remind herself. That being said, most of her cooking "expertise" comes from things naturally growing in the wasteland. If you give her things like cram or instamash and say "do something with this" she'll sit and stare at it for a while.

WHICH IS TO SAY IF ANYONE BUT ZOE OFFERS YOU A MEAL IT MIGHT BE BEST TO PASS

Old Age:

Laura is the most likely out of all of them to get a little bitter and crotchety as she gets older. She wouldn't exactly be the nicest old lady around. She wouldn't outright insult people or scream at kids or anything, but trying to talk to her would be a challenge at best. She'd probably be all work and no play, for the most part. Is this about suggestions for improving the area? No? Then stop wasting my time. B(This could change, but not on the path she's on now...

Zoe I imagine would probably make it to her early to mid-sixties at best. She's not exactly the healthiest individual, and if she doesn't make some changes now it'll probably catch up to her sooner or later. Despite that she'd be a very sweet, albeit cautious older woman. She'd be wise as far as tips to keep yourself patched up and how to fix things goes, but her judge of character wouldn't improve much over the years. She'd be pretty quiet, too. Quiet, but more than willing to engage you in conversation if you'd be willing to start one with her!

♥ - family headcanon

Laura remembers extremely little to none of what her family was like. Is it even feasible for them to be alive now? She has no idea. She’s seen extremely brief flashes of memories from her childhood, and from what little she can gather from those, she had a pretty normal family life. In reality though, I think she was raised by a single parent, probably her mother. If she’s still alive she’d be on in her years by now, and it’s highly unlikely that she approved of Laura taking up a courier job. Looks like she should’ve listened to mommy. 

Zoe had both parents in the picture (though if she remembers correctly, they were never married) and one or two siblings, but they all went their separate ways so she doesn’t really hear from them that much anymore! Her siblings and mother went west while she went east, and god knows where her father wandered off to. But she’s pretty sure that wherever they are, they can take care of themselves just fine! Every now and then she’ll try to get in touch with them, though her efforts hardly ever yield much results. Everything was pretty healthy, though the older of her other siblings sometimes got himself into sticky situations that caused a bit of tension in their family. Her father was always super hard on him, and she was never too sure why…

Lance was an only child. He doesn’t really remember his father, as he vamoosed out of the picture when he was barely old enough to talk coherently. From what his mother always told him, his parents had been drifting even before he was born. She’d been hoping that his birth would bring them together again, though apparently it didn’t. He doesn’t have too much respect for his dad because of this, despite having never really met the man—not that he exactly wants to. His mom is what you’d describe as your typical Latina mother, though her cooking wasn’t always. The best. She’s where he gets pretty much all of his Hispanic blood from, and she tried her hardest to get him to learn Spanish, though it never stuck.