#new again

also idk if you do anon signs offs but if you do I'd like to be 🫟/paint splatter anon :3

I’m actually in a flow state with these requests, a few more and I’ll open them back up!!! :333

New Again!Scout and Lil Pootis!Red!Scout x reader with joint pain and fatigue

New Again Scout:

- While not on the same level (obviously), he injures himself quite often, so he knows how to remedy some of the pain. I headcanon that he both a mercenary and in a band with some of the members from the Blu team, so he’s constantly getting hurt. His favorite is to try and stay active. He does this by going on runs, but since you have to be gentle with yourself due to the pain in your joints, he encourages you to do something lighter, while also keeping yourself moving.

- If you live with him, you likely live in a city apartment not far for him to commute to his job out in the Badlands. He will take you on long walks around the city, stopping to rest if you’re tired. He doesn’t mind stopping, he will sit with you until you’re ready to go again. He also carries extra stuff with him all the time, since he’s always out and about, so he always has snacks on him. He will make sure to bring water and an ice pack fresh from the fridge before you go out.

- The only downside to city living is that your mattress isn’t the best. You basically live in a dingy little apartment with your shared mattress (It’s not a bed, there’s no headboard and it’s on the floor) with a TV and a nightstand in the corner. He gives you the extra pillow and blanket to try and relax the stiffness in your body, so you can sleep better. Anytime you ask for a massage before bed, he will deliver. He wants you to feel good before going to bed.

- He stays up super late most nights and is always out either for work or his band is playing. But if you need sleep, he will either start going to bed with you or leave you in the bedroom to let you sleep quietly. He just wants you to get some good sleep and not wake up feeling badly. Overall, he wants to see you feel better and will do anything he can to help make that happen.

Lil Pootis!Red Scout:

- He looks into how to help, asking Engineer to read him the books he picked up from the Teufort library (before they burned them). There isn’t much knowledge around this time, but he gets a general idea of what to do. Since you are Pootis’ second parent, he will also teach him about joint pain to help him better understand and not question what is going on at inappropriate times.

- He is going to try and get you into healthy eating! I feel like this version of Scout specifically is a health nut, at least later on, and while he still drinks Bonk!, he and Heavy have tried to have a better diet. He will always make sure Heavy makes you a sandwich or that Sniper has some extra fried lizard for you to get some protein in. He will even buy some fruit that you can take with you as a snack in your day-to-day tasks, like bananas or grapes.

- Very much exercise-focused. In the morning, he likes to do stretches with you to help you get some relief in the morning. Even if you complain, he still encourages you to get up and do them with him. Even Pootis will encourage you (Yes, he does stretches with you guys!). Stretches are very important so that you don’t lose your ability to use your muscles as you get older. If it takes you a while to get into it or takes you a bit longer to stretch, he will take his time with you. He cares about you a lot and will always be patient with you.

I remember my first car.

To anyone else, it wasn’t much. A lumbering landbarge. With too many miles. And not much else. Old enough to drive itself.

But it was new to me. And I was grateful to have it.

Looking back at the cars I’ve had since then, all of them were better than my first one. A lot better.

The funny thing is, I wasn’t nearly as appreciative of those cars. Even though they were so much better.

The “new” of having a car had worn off. I had gotten used to having one. And wasn’t really thinking about it.

Cars that were objectively better in every way? For me, they were – car, type “meh.”

This is the danger of familiarity. It’s a risk for all of us. And not just with cars.

Whenever we’re around something a lot. Or someone. Whenever we get comfortable.

There’s danger that we will start seeing them as part of the furniture. Part of the background. Not as what they really are.

We are capable of doing this to anyone. No matter how close they are to us. Even to God.

When we do it to a car, sure we lose out on the joy of driving it. But when we do it to another person? We don’t just lose out on the joy of our relationship with that person. If we keep at it, eventually we’ll lose that relationship.

But know this – nothing is made for the background. There is nothing in life that has to be part of the furniture. You and I get to choose. You and I can choose to make it new again.

Today, look at the relationships in your life.

Be honest. Have some of them slipped into the background?

Are there ones that used to be a priority? But now they’re more like “meh?”

It’s sad. Especially when you think how it used to be.

The thing is, it doesn’t have to be that way. You get to choose.

Today, it’s time to pull them out of the background. Time to reconnect. Time to make it new again.

Starting with the relationship that matters most. The one that supports everything else. The one that supports you.

Your relationship with God.

"If I never found a way to fall,

Then I wouldn't be here at all.

So brush it off and don't pretend,

I've got the feeling that I'm new again.

You may never find a way to be,

So stop and take it from me.

You may not think it every now and then,