The full piece of their first kiss, “Borderline”, can be read on Ao3. Gonna post just the interesting/relevant part here!
Farren doesn’t know where it comes from, nor she cares to find out at the moment. It’s in a heartbeat, strong enough within her chest, when she pounces as he slips away, urgency numbing her finger tips. Before he’s out of reach, and it’s not physically she’s worried about. There’s a brief moment where he gets to be the one shocked as her fingers tangle into his shirt firmly, and she doesn’t bother standing on her toes when she yanks him down gracelessly.
There’s a taste of whiskey and cigarette on the surface of his skin when their lips press together. Smoke that she’d always hated, but now loved all the same. It’s awkward, stiff and lifeless. An invitation rather than a full-fledged action.
Hey there, time for Thest to give y’all something absolutely no one asked for: my Charon headcanons!
He’s a softie under that gruff, bitter exterior, but everyone knows that already
Westerns are his thing; he was obsessed with then pre-War, and whenever he and Lone are wandering and come across books, he reads the westerns before they give them to he Brotherhood scribe at the library
He used to have a really good singing voice, and still doesn’t sound half-bad when he sings after being ghoulified; just a bit more rough than he used to be
Charon is an artist; he has a notebook that he uses just for sketching, though it hasn’t seen much use since before his employment to Ahzrukhal; once he sets off with Lone, however, he begins to fill the pages again with drawing and doodles of random things he sees
Headcanons specific to him in my fics:
His real name is August Randall Donovan and he was born September 7, 2048
Was raised by a single mother after his abusive father ran off with a waitress, got his first job working at an auto shop at 14, as he was always good with vehicles and they needed the extra income
Pre-War he was an army boy and he was at Anchorage I’m convinced that the person you play in the Operation: Anchorage simulation is him and no one can tell me otherwise
He was drafted into the army at 18, and enrolled in a special training program along with four other young men. They were assigned a contract that they were beholden to, and trained to follow every order in combat given to them by whomever held their contract. Outside of combat they were to be vigilant and protect their employers, and Codename: Charon was among the best of them, taking to the program like a natural.
Though a lot of his ‘brainwashing’ has worn off, he still feels the pull to follow orders, though resisting has become easier over the years
Secretly a huge, sentimental idiot who keeps things that Cat gives him, even something as mundane as a note saying she went out for Brahmin milk
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