#spriteshipping

The premise is that it starts a bit after Uzi got fucking banished from the bunker because she manifested her solver abilities earlier (think before pilot) and was considered a danger to everyone else. Thad, who wasn't particularly friends with her but he DOES feel bad for her-- choses to go outside the bunker to try to find her. He's had some close calls, but it's very CLEAR that Uzi is avoiding him. Who can blame her, she feels like she's been betrayed and is VERY distrustful of ANYONE who comes from their colony. Even Thad who was nice to her. In the process though he meets V, who's ALSO looking for someone-- N. It turns out that N and Uzi managed to become friends through a very... interesting situation. But in the end, Uzi convinces him to ditch his team because he could do so much better. And she's right honestly! It's then what leads the two to start travelling Copper-9 together. And V is none the wiser, only knowing that her teammate that she acts like she doesn't give a fuck about that she ACTUALLY gives a fuck about is missing. J doesn't care as much. Anywayyyy back to Thad and V-- V was GOING to kill him but he used his jock charm to make her change her mind... aka he frantically begged her to spare him because he's just looking for his friend who's got these weird powers and he mentions this particular symbol which causes V some alarm. AND he mentions he's seen V's teammate with Uzi on one occasion where he ALMOST got to her again but he grabbed her and flew away. .... It's what leads them to the situation where they're in now: a truce of sorts as they BOTH are looking for those two fuckers. This truce is what makes V start opening up again and finding herself ACTUALLY giving a fuck about another drone again... a worker drone at that. Thad comes to realize that maybe V isn't ALL bad and that really underneath all of that murderous intent is just a horrendously broken individual. And that much of how she acts outwardly is also a facade. Course, at some point I'm going to write this as a fic. The pov will be alternating between Thad and Uzi, but the MAIN pov is Thad here. Think most of the chapters being his perspective, and then sprinkled within it is Uzi's as it covers her experiences being out in the wastelands of Copper-9.