Red Spinning Heart Within A Heart
I don't have fully fleshed out backstories for each and every au, but for the ones I do have I'll talk about them here! This isn't including OC F/Os, who I've already talked about here!
Boone

I leave home, running away from an unforunate situation, and end up in Novac, staying in the motel on what little money I'd scrounged up in preparation. I don't really know much about anyone who lives there, including Boone and Carla, because I mostly keep to myself, sitting outside on pretty days but otherwise holed up in my room. I'm very sympathetic to Carla because I can see how everyone in Novac treats her and I don't think it's right. Though I'm nursing a little crush on Boone myself, I don't wish anything bad to happen to her and I'm happy that he's happy with her...and then she goes missing. I don't exactly know what happened but I DO know that Jeannie May starts saying suspicious things, saying that she probably just ran off. And even if the other folks in Novac won't snitch on this behavior, I make a note of it to the Courier when he comes around asking.

I don't end up staying to find out how that whole thing plays out because my money's running low and I hear there's work in Sloan. Of course when I get there everything's stalled because of deathclaws. but I'm told I can stay until they get back up and running. I'm there for a while, long enough to get attached to Snuffles, when the Courier and Boone show up...and I'm surprised to see them. The Courier tells me, privately, that I was right to be suspicious of Jeannie May, tells me the the gist of what went down...and then we talk about what I'm doing in Sloan. He asks if instead I'd like to travel with them, after establishing that I know how to use a gun (my dad taught me) and....I agree.

Misc info:

  • I tend to wear face coverings (bandanas and the like) most of the time when we first start traveling together. I still wear them sometimes after we get to know each other, too...combats the dysphoria.
  • I also wear a lot of layers to cover my hips and chest. This isn't particulary safe in such a hot environment, however.
  • I become fast friends with the Courier, who is very extroverted and bright and kind. My relationship with Boone takes longer to blossom because we're both shitty at talking to new people.
  • The Courier can tell from a mile away that we're into each other and wants us so badly to work it out
  • I have issues with paranoia that cause me to be very anxious and panicky, though traveling with the Courier and Boone puts me at ease somewhat because I trust them.
  • It's hard for me to walk for super long periods of time, especially uphill, without needing a break....but at first I was terrified to admit this to them. It results in a scenario where I almost pass out and the Courier tells me that they will absolutely stop and take breaks for me in the future.

Adaman, Volo, Melli, Iscan and Laventon

I end up in Hisui much the same way as the protagonist of the game did, falling into the world and losing my memories in the process. I'm in the Crimson Mirelands when I come to, near the Diamond settlement, and someone from there finds me and asks if I'm okay. I tell them what happened, that I can only remember very basic details about myself but not where I came from or where I'm meant to be, and they take me back to the settlement because they don't know what to do.

Adaman is understandably wary at first because his first priority is keeping his clan safe, but seeing how clearly shaken up and confused I am he decides that I'm likely not a threat, tells me to stay in the settlement until I figure myself out. I'm extremely relieved to at least have somewhere to be, somewhere that has people willing to extend kindness to me, and I spend the next long while just trying to adjust to life in Hisui. My memories, though I try to recall them, don't come back.

Basically, I end up staying with the Diamond Clan indefinitely, with Adaman's permission. I take up a job surveying the Mirelands, making sure there's no trouble, that no one's in danger like I was when I first arrived

Misc info:

  • I have a Goodra, Togekiss and Torterra that I raised from babies. Goodra comes with me everywhere, Togekiss and Torterra come with me sometimes.
  • I meet Laventon when I go with Adaman to see what's up with the protagonist (he figures maybe it'll be helpful to have me there, since I came to their world in the same way). We bond about our love for Pokemon.
  • I meet the others in similar circumstances, traveling with Adaman. Or in the case of Volo, I just run into him because he pops up where he wants to.
  • I tend to mix it up where I end up sleeping at night, after a while. I'm very polyamorous, you see, so I want to give each of my boyfriends the time they deserve.
  • When the truth comes out about Volo I'm surprised but....I did have a feeling he was hiding something, perhaps something very big. I figure he'll run away and I'll never see him again, but he does show up one day after everything goes down to talk to me. We have a conversation about it and he's surprised at how....not angry I am with him. Though he does leave, he promises me that he'll come to see me when he can.
  • At first, with Adaman, I'm very afraid of pda with him because I don't want to make him look bad in front of the important people he has to talk to...after all, some of them shoot dirty looks my way when I try to be affectionate with him. But one day I'm standing beside him, keeping my hands to myself, when he extends his hand for me to take. He'd realized that I wanted to hold his hand but was resisting, and after that I realize that it's not a problem for him, that he doesn't care if those people view him in a negative way because of it.
  • Melli and I play off of each other in ways that annoy everyone around us.
  • I bond with Iscan because we're both very anxious people.

Daniel and John

In my implanted memories, I'm best friends with John and we met soon after he moved to the city! I'm also friends with Emma, through John, because he introduced me to her soon after they had their chance encounter. I end up along for the ride once things start escalating, because I'm one of the people who gets questioned about John's wherabouts.

Misc Info

  • Daniel and I start getting closer after everything with The Strangers is said and done. I'd been the only one who wasn't willing to put any blame on him for the situation at hand, telling the others (John and Frank) that he was just as much a victim as we were.
  • Though our (John, Anna, and I) memories are all fake, we embrace them as best we can. They're all we have, after all, since The Strangers can't change them anymore.
  • Even though Anna has new memories and therefore doesn't remember meeting and spending time with me as Emma, we still hit it off just as well as the first time when we're reintroduced.
  • In relation to that, when I first met Emma we became fast friends, much to John's relief. He wanted so badly for his best friend and new girlfriend to get along.
  • Daniel and I are basically a couple long before we make anything official. Neither of us are as anxious about being affectionate and loving with each other as we might have been before we went through a life changing experience together, but it's still hard to make the leap.
  • For a long while it's Daniel and I + John and Anna as separate couples, but polyamory eventually gets added into the picture. It's a casual conversation topic (that I bring up), at first, which causes it to be something that's on everyone's mind. Anna and Daniel are both supportive of it (as a general concept) and John had never really thought about it, but this train of thought leads him to realize first that he's into men, then that he's attracted to Daniel, and then that he's attracted to me. Polyamory follows sometime after that.
  • Though I'm not dating Anna, I consider her just as vital a part of the relationship as my partners and I love her dearly.