[ Reasons he likes Carolina, in no particular order: total badass. The one other person on this bullshit Rig that he knows, without a shadow of a doubt, can be trusted, especially when it comes to Wash. Being the first two on board the "fuck time, rescue Wash" train is something that can be so personal.
Willing to roll with the gang's myriad communication issues without trying to push them into something different. Very important. ]
Yeah, well. Capture the flag against the Reds is boring when you have an ex-Freelancer on your team. We had time to kill. And the manliest feeling of all: guilt.
[ Luckily for emotionally avoidant troopers everywhere, the dreamscape thing is here to pick up the slack and form up Voltron-style into... still Valhalla, but outside this time.
"You see? In the end we all worked together and everyone got what they wanted." The slack being picked up by the shifting landscape sounds a lot like Doc, which takes Tucker from looking outright mortified and offended by its audacity to looking confused. This is because he literally forgot Doc was there at all, even though Doc is clearly the initial impetus. Oops.
"Not everyone," Caboose says, and Tucker could probably take the awkward, guilty pause before past-Tucker does his dramatic sword thing to go ahead and nip this little case of being put on blast in the bud.
He could.
The problem is, almost everyone who's anyone is in this memory, too, without the emotional breaking points and gun-pointing. And Tucker's the idiot who misses them and how dumb they all are too fucking much to think about a less sappy avenue to land on right now.
So he rolls his eyes as hard as possible instead, while Wash is lowkey flipping his shit because he just went above and beyond protecting them and their right to not go on that very same suicide mission. ]
Okay, yeah, and maybe one of those Sarge pep talks that actually makes sense.
[ He hasn't actively thought about this particular adventure in a while. Not in-depth since that first stretch of being stranded on Chorus, where it was fresh enough to make the fact that Church took off without a word suck even more. With the extra time and bullshit between then and now, it's kinda nice to get nostalgic. ]
links youtube bc im too lazy to type out a scene but the tag is long anyway
Willing to roll with the gang's myriad communication issues without trying to push them into something different. Very important. ]
Yeah, well. Capture the flag against the Reds is boring when you have an ex-Freelancer on your team. We had time to kill. And the manliest feeling of all: guilt.
[ Luckily for emotionally avoidant troopers everywhere, the dreamscape thing is here to pick up the slack and form up Voltron-style into... still Valhalla, but outside this time.
"You see? In the end we all worked together and everyone got what they wanted." The slack being picked up by the shifting landscape sounds a lot like Doc, which takes Tucker from looking outright mortified and offended by its audacity to looking confused. This is because he literally forgot Doc was there at all, even though Doc is clearly the initial impetus. Oops.
"Not everyone," Caboose says, and Tucker could probably take the awkward, guilty pause before past-Tucker does his dramatic sword thing to go ahead and nip this little case of being put on blast in the bud.
He could.
The problem is, almost everyone who's anyone is in this memory, too, without the emotional breaking points and gun-pointing. And Tucker's the idiot who misses them and how dumb they all are too fucking much to think about a less sappy avenue to land on right now.
So he rolls his eyes as hard as possible instead, while Wash is lowkey flipping his shit because he just went above and beyond protecting them and their right to not go on that very same suicide mission. ]
Okay, yeah, and maybe one of those Sarge pep talks that actually makes sense.
[ He hasn't actively thought about this particular adventure in a while. Not in-depth since that first stretch of being stranded on Chorus, where it was fresh enough to make the fact that Church took off without a word suck even more. With the extra time and bullshit between then and now, it's kinda nice to get nostalgic. ]