#programmablesoul

Jesus, the art of the metaphor really fell out of practice, didn’t it?

>:T

christ the first time jones is around roger without simon she hardly knows what to do tbh

bloodstone: how my muse sees themself as part of the world at large          

A perversion of the order of things, someone that was supposed to die at 17 but by some quirk of fate, didn’t, someone living on borrowed time.  A mistake.

copper: how I think my muse will end up when they're older

A big ghoul with bright red eyes...well, maybe a little less big than before.  His joints hurt; it’s not as easy to work out as it was when he was still  a smoothskin and had all of a nose instead of only half of one.  He’s not one of those ghouls who are just barely affected by the rads: his hands are a medley of colors healthy flesh shouldn’t be, his ears fell away some years back his back continues to be a mess, half his face is a raw, scabrous mess.  He’s past the point of really giving a fuck what anyone thinks he looks like anymore, so the fact that he’s wearing a little sequined half-mask over the raw side of his face isn’t because he’s ashamed but because he does need to protect it from the elements and also because it’s a look.  His wig is bright purple, his lipstick is red, his jacket is black leather, and his necklaces and rings are too many to count.  He hasn’t scavved in years; he has people for that now.

He doesn’t ever really kick the mentats addiction but he hasn’t relapsed into psycho for years, which has always been what he’s more concerned about.  I don’t know if Jackie ever finds a boyfriend (rp will tell, maybe!) but I like to think he gets to the place where he isn’t mentally comparing himself constantly to people who do and people who he thinks have their life in order.  Jackie doesn’t reconcile with his parents; Jackie stops thinking about them entirely.

His kids are okay and he’s an uncle to R.A.’s adopted kids. Jackie has a whole mess of grandchildren (the ones made by Avery are very small and very red-headed) and he adores every single one.  At one point, he starts having pet dogs and he spoils the shit out of them.  His mental issues don’t go away completely because it doesn’t really work like that, but he gets better at dealing with them and dealing with his own feelings.  He builds a house.  His house is a collection of everything bright and cheerful and kitschy he can find.  He gets to make a wedding dress for at least one child.

My guy, I confess, I’ve wondered for a while, now – have you ever flexed out of your shirt?

@programmablesoul

It’d been quite a while since the day that Aniya had met Sam, and a Med-X induced fog and quite a haze of pain made it difficult to recall all the details of their escapade back to Goodneighbor. What she did remember, however, was that they had agreed to talk again. She also knew it was about synths. Not her favorite subject, but he’d helped her out.