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[amoray]

the picture prompt meme

1. comment with your character.
2. others will leave a picture (or two, or three...)
( 2a. if you like, link a visualosities post in your top level comment to give people material to work with! )
3. reply to them with a setting based on the picture.
4. for an idea of how this works, see bakerstreet, which is where i stole this meme from!
5. THIS IS A SLOW BURNING MEME IF YOU SAY YOU'RE LATE I'LL SLOW BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN

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[retropolis]

[ Once upon a time, Nelson had been a young boy with big dreams for the future, he'd wanted action, adventure, to get out in the world, to take up smoking so that he could quit later on when he was older and wiser. Much later, it was the opposite; he'd quit and then un-quit, finding the smoke and taste of tobacco a sort of mood cleanser, if not necessarily a consistently effective one.

But he could get lost in the hazy veil of nostalgia without it clouding over, as alcohol would allow, so he sometimes took to sitting outside dressed in his usual formalities (not exactly like something from the forties or fifties, but it as close to his comfort as possible) as he thought of the past. Particularly after a Minutemen meeting, or sometimes before, he takes a moment to sit down on a bench or on the steps outside, and tries not to think about all the ways life here can be disrupted just as badly as it had been back home. If not worse.

It relieves him a little to know that all of the new Minutemen here have some kind of baggage, even if he doesn't know all the details (none of them really do, in regards to one another); it relieves him less to think about how frequently he's reminded of old mistakes, even looking at all their very different faces. Responsibility and guilt always weigh harder, with age. ]