Telltale Monthly Challenge

My February entry for @telltalemonthlychallenge

By that cut content (if I recall correctly and it’s not actually officially there) Henderson was racist, so I guess Yvette couldn’t stand him and avoided him as much as she could.

Also part of Vasquez’s bullshit in ep 1 can come off as transphobic and trans Rhys is my default soooo either being the case or not, when in doubt it’d be minimizing risks of dealing with crap.

“Any feedback for this plan?”

Right after Rhys finished his question, Vaughn instantly opened his mouth, but Yvette was quicker than him.

“Yes.” She left her glass on the table, crossing her arms. “We switch. You deal with Henderson, I deal with Vasquez. It’s a core requirement for it to work better, unless we’re changing something more.”

“Why?” Rhys asked back at her, genuinely curious. She had a bit more experience in Hyperion than Vaughn and him, so it always was definitely worth a shot.

“Why?” She snorted, raising a hand to take a braid out of her face. “I’m not dealing with Henderson, it’s gonna be a loss of sanity gone to waste. Guess you’re wondering why, as you haven’t been here as long as I had. But that guy…” She paused, now lowering her hand a bit to point at herself, making a few circles with her index finger. “… seems to have a problem with this.”

“Your looks?” Both the guys asked at the same time.

“Imagine which part.”

“Oh, shit.”

“Yeah, right?” Yvette didn’t try to conceal a tired sigh. “So, for not blowing it, I’d rather reduce my interactions with him to the bare minimum so I don’t end up puking my lunch over his shiny new shoes. That’d be lame, for doing something I’d rather come up with a plan to sweep the floor with him.”

“Sounds like you already have some ideas.” When she nodded, Rhys chuckled.

“They’re still on the works, but depending on what you tell me when you’re dealing with him…”

“Got it, we’re definitely switching.”

“Plus.” Vaughn added quickly. “If what I’ve heard about Vasquez’s true, doing that’s gonna have benefits for you too, Rhys.”

“Pfft, a few stuff of what you’ve heard it’s probably true.” Yvette didn’t seem impressed or surprised, more like… well, prepared to be more disappointed if there was new dirt. Most people there had at least one skeleton inside their closets, and the higher you were up in the company’s hierarchy, the most likely it was. “But go on.”

My entry for January’s @telltalemonthlychallenge prompt: It’s the only way. The “I’d fix Pandora” option it’s one of the ton I’ve chosen all 3 times I’ve already played, and thought about mixing it with an idea I had from long (and already sort of used in RP).

“And… what did you answer?” Sasha asked right away, and by the look on her green eyes, it was crystal clear for Rhys how it was a key question.

A question based on another one, as Jack’s AI had asked not so long ago what he would do if he had Hyperion’s resources, something that didn’t happen as he refused to take the chance when said AI had offered it to him. But as Atlas was now Rhys’ and he was successfully raising the company from its ashes… Well, no wonder Sasha wanted to know what he chose.

“I said I’d fix Pandora.” Admitted, briefly looking away as Sasha already had a sly remark.

“That’s what all say they’re gonna do, fix Pandora. And lemme tell you, most of them say it like we desperately need an outsider savior to help poor dumb us. And then just care about making profit.” She said, making dramatic gestures as she talked, and making Rhys smirk, even when they both knew it was a serious topic. But, not forgetting either how she intended to get her full point across, Sasha also didn’t mean it to make it a lecture or an attempt to shame him. “Coming from you, anyway, I’m pretty sure you meant it.”

“I was, yeah.” He answered, resting his head on Pandora’s shoulder. “And I mean it now. There’s a lot of people like you or Fi, who struggled for years, and deserve better.”

“Good, we’re on the same page about this.”

“Please, Sash, tell me you weren’t planning on leaving me depending on this answer.” Though he said it jokingly, deep down Rhys was legitimately wondering so.

“Noooo.” Her responding in the same amused tone… didn’t give him any clues. “Now seriously, if you still talked shit about Pandorans, I wouldn’t even be here in the first place. Talking shit about the planet has a pass… depending on what you say.”

They shared a few giggles, and stayed in silence for a while, Sasha’s hand running through Rhys’ hair, now free from the gel he used in his daily routine. A silence that stayed till he asked his own question.

“What would you say if I actually put a project to make things better there in the works?”

She didn’t even have to think about it.

For the @telltalemonthlychallenge “No Other Way” theme.

I tried a gifset. :)

My entry for the @telltalemonthlychallenge​ December theme, “Remembrance.”  This is my first time publicly posting any of my fanfic writing and I’m incredibly nervous about it. But here we go!

Inspired by the “Vaughn will remember that” you can get in Tales from the Borderlands Episode 3, if you have Fiona buy Vaughn glasses from the Quick Change machine.

Vaughn wandered through Hellion Hole—the shanty town that the former Children of Helios (now known as the Helios Hellions) had erected in the entrance of the wreckage of Helios in the months after Helios had crashed into Pandora. It was one of those rare days at Helios Fallen where no one had any problems to report. No outdated Hyperion systems were failing. No rival bandits (or worse yet, Vault Hunters) had been seen approaching the base. Nobody even had a case of Pandoran Itchy Foot. In short… it was a good day to be a bandit chief.

For some other bandit chief, anyway. Vaughn had learned to dread the quiet days. The peace and quiet gave him too much time to think. To remember. To feel lost and alone, despite being surrounded by people.

Vaughn retreated into his shack and closed the door behind him. He leaned against it and let out a long sigh.

“Don’t,” the little voice in the back of his head warned. The voice and Vaughn both knew Vaughn was going to ignore it. “It’s just going to bum you out,” the voice continued.

Vaughn sighed again and crossed the small shack to a locker against the opposite wall. He opened the door and pulled the contents out: a small black case and a rolled up piece of paper. He carried them to the desk and sat down in the chair. It had been his own desk chair from his office in the accounting department, and had come through the crash of Helios relatively unscathed. He leaned back in the chair, staring at the ceiling of his shack, and spun himself around slowly in the chair a few times. Vaughn let the chair come to a halt again, and he leaned forward, reaching for the small black case.

Vaughn opened the case and pulled out the Apollo Visioneers—the eyeglasses Fiona had purchased for him from the Quick-Change machine they’d found in the Atlas Biodome while searching for Gortys’s upgrade. Vaughn pulled the cleaning cloth out of the case and wiped the lenses, even though they didn’t need it. The lenses were spotless, the frame in perfect condition. Unlike the Hyperion Echo-Spex Vaughn was currently wearing, which had scratched, cracked lenses, and a piece of tape holding the frame together at the bridge.

Vaughn supposed that he should press the Apollo Visioneers into service, but… he still couldn’t bring himself to put Fiona’s gift at risk of being damaged by the harsh living conditions that had rendered his Echo-Spex nearly useless. Vaughn still remembered the way the Visioneers had digistructed on his face while he was eating a piece of fruit. He hadn’t been paying attention to what the others were doing, so it had taken him a moment to figure out what was happening. He remembered seeing Fiona standing by the Quick-Change. She’d given him one of her patented winks, and Vaughn had panicked… rattling off the Apollo Visioneers’ technical specs. Fiona had flashed her cocky half-smile, obviously pleased.

Vaughn took off his Echo-Spex and put the Visioneers on. He blinked a few times as his eyes adjusted to the new glasses. It had been such a long time since he hadn’t had to try to peer around the cracks and scratches in his lenses.  Vaughn unrolled the piece of paper and flattened it on the desk as best he could. He stared at Fiona’s wanted poster.

“Where are you, Fi?” Vaughn asked. He missed her. Still. He couldn’t forget her. He’d tried.

“Hey, Vaughn,” Vaughn’s EchoComm crackled in his ear.

“What’s up, Reggie?” Vaughn asked.

“We’re not really sure, but there’s a group approaching the base. Fast.”

“Vault hunters, or bandits?” Vaughn sighed.

“It kind of looks like… Dahl,” Reggie said uncertainly, “or ex-Dahl? Bandits who’ve looted a Dahl facility? We dunno. But it feels like trouble.”

“Ok, I’ll be right there,” Vaughn said. He ended the call.

Vaughn stood, and gave Fiona’s poster one last, longing look before rolling it back up and putting the Apollo Visioneers back in their case. He stowed the keepsakes in the locker, and hastily donned his Echo-Spex before rushing out of his shack.

Aka a snippet about my take on how Rhys and Sasha’s relationship started to… well, start. Aka my december entry for @telltalemonthlychallenge

Of course, and to no one’s surprise, Fiona had told her.

The two sisters never kept anything important from the other for too long, and after fighting a Vault monster, Sasha having a near death experience and everything that followed after that… Well, Fiona had to tell her.

She knew since the moment Sasha mentioned the flower, one night in their time back at Hollow Point.

“… and maybe you’re gonna laugh, and please don’t but…” Putting it into words had been difficult, truly. “It was just a flower, and he barely touched me, but when he did that… I felt something I doubt I’ve ever felt. With anyone.” And it was no exaggeration. All of her previous  romantic relationships had been teenage flings or cons, and that was new territory, both exciting and a bit scary.

To Fiona’s credit, she hadn’t laughed… then, because the day Sasha had admitted to have started liking Rhys was another thing entirely. She couldn’t say she got it, but… come on, it was her little sister confiding in her, and that was quite serious. That was what inspired to interrogate Rhys right before entering the Vault, and she may or may not have kicked him if the answer he gave wasn’t satisfactory.

But it was, and Fiona was to make do with threatening his life if he ever hurted Sasha. He probably wouldn’t, and if he did her sister sure was perfectly capable of reducing him to dust if she wanted… but just in case.

Sasha, on the other hand, hadn’t ‘what if it goes wrong’ as her main concern, not after hearing about Rhy’s feelings from her sister’s lips. Oh, no. She was getting ready to step into action instead.

Another project that was really fun to made :D

No Content November

What is No Content November?

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Borderlands (Video Games) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rhys & Vaughn (Borderlands) Characters: Rhys (Borderlands), Vaughn (Borderlands) Additional Tags: Drabble, Drabble Collection, Drabble Sequence, Post-Borderlands 3 (Video Game), Post-Canon, Bromance, Epic Bromance, Reunions, No Romance, Kinda Slashey if you want it to be though Series: Part 15 of Scattershots Summary: