WishboneMotel
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- Fallout (Video Games) (11)
- Fallout: New Vegas (10)
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- Detroit: Become Human (Video Game) (1)
- Fallout 4 (1)
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“You only have one bullet,” Connor muses, eyebrows raising as high as they can go without disturbing the muzzle pressed between them. His volume lowers, the veneer of indifference beginning to splinter at the seams, but Hank can’t place the strain of it. “We could make it a game if you’d prefer.”
Hank is the one holding the gun, he is undoubtedly in control of this situation, yet he has rarely felt so utterly powerless as Connor smoothly raises his hand and with a quick flick of his wrist, sets the cylinder spinning.
After a couple of revolutions, Connor gingerly stops it with two fingers. He nudges it a single chamber down with a click.
“You go first.”
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It’s then that it hits them like a brick to the chest— cigarette smoke weaving with cheap cologne, scent stale and bitter in the still night air. Her cigarettes, her cologne.
The hairs on the back of their neck rise with the fog pressing in, swallowing the cemetery from every direction. Even the crickets and creatures of the night have stilled into a suffocating silence. They are being watched but they cannot bring themself to turn around and break the illusion that it’s her eyes following them.
Any sane person would be running.
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- Part 2 of Where the Stolen Roses Grow
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Wishing4NuclearWinter's Archived Fics by Wishing4NuclearWinter (WishboneMotel)
Fandoms: Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout (Video Games)
30 Apr 2023
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A collection of one shots for that have been rendered non-canon for their respective OCs' stories and thus consolidated here for posterity.
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1. Trust Fall - Courier & Boone
2. Fireman's Carry - Courier/Arcade/Boone
3. Coughing Up A Lung - Courier/Arcade
4. Helplessness, Blindness, Flare Up - Courier & Veronica
5. Your OC's biggest fear/Growth - Courier/Arcade
6. Slow Dancing - Courier/Boone (/Arcade)
7. Lazy Sundays - Arcade/Boone
8. "Please, don't leave" - Courier/Arcade
9. Marriage Proposal - Courier/Arcade
10. Fall Asleep In My Lap - Courier/Vulpes
11. You Will Go Down With This Ship/"I'm Fine. I Prom..." - Courier/Vulpes
12. "That's Gonna Leave A Mark" - Courier/Vulpes
13. Misunderstanding/Betrayal - Courier/Vulpes
14. The Ghost of Courier Six - Courier & OC; OC/Benny -
Achilles' Desire by Wishing4NuclearWinter (WishboneMotel)
Fandoms: Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout (Video Games)
06 Apr 2023
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Caught up in his strange awakening and overbearing concern, Arcade had yet to register the assault on his senses that was Sol’s scent. It hung thick in the air, so far departed from the faint hint of gun powder and sweat he had come to associate with the courier that if he’d not seen the source of it he’d have thought there was an intruder. It was pungent, heady, distressed.
Something twisted in Arcade. The pain was one thing and as much as he desired to soothe it, it was difficult to forget the uneven raised scars painting a mural beneath Sol’s thin sleep clothes, let alone that carved into his skull. He was no stranger to discomfort and he so rarely complained.
But beyond the pain was his scent, his behavior, Arcade himself. If he didn’t know better…
If he didn’t know better he would think that Sol was going into heat.
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Postcards From Home by Wishing4NuclearWinter (WishboneMotel)
Fandoms: Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout (Video Games)
24 Dec 2022
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“I-I don’t get it. It’s… it makes sense for Lily, but it’s a pre-war holiday, why do the rest bother?” When Arcade said nothing, Sol concluded more faintly, “It j-j-just seems… frivolous, I guess.”
Arcade finally retrieved the key and pushed open the door to their room. It was practically glowing inside. For as poor as their memory was, Sol was positive that the warm yellow string lights draped along the walls had not been there when they’d left that morning, nor the wreath hanging center above their bed.
“I thought a bit of festivity might be a welcome break from the dreary abandoned buildings we’ve been holing up in recently.” A barely visible pink tinge worked its way across Arcade’s face and Sol kicked themself.
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Mi Sol y Luna by WishboneMotel, Wishing4NuclearWinter (WishboneMotel)
Fandom Fallout (Video Games), Fallout: New Vegas
28 Jun 2022
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Wait A Minute, Mr. Postman by epicqtefail, sevdrag (seventhe)
Fandoms: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
28 Jan 2025
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Hank Anderson wants nothing more than he has right now: working a quiet night shift, watching shows with his kid on weekends, walking his dog, and generally not having to give a fuck. The dull peacefulness of his life is interrupted when an android sent by the USPS makes it his mission that Hank receives his mail daily - which Hank has been dodging for years, because physical post should be obsolete and, also, see the bit about not giving a fuck. Unfortunately, this RK800 - called Connor - only cares about the requirements of his mission, which tell him to ensure legal and timely delivery of the mail, no matter what's in his way.
Hank thinks Connor needs to obey the instructions of the humans around him. Connor knows he needs to accomplish his objectives. Somehow between the two of them, they fuck up a whole lot of shit before they slowly develop a truly meaningful understanding.
Expect unexpected deliveries, sprinklers in your face, begrudging trips to both kinds of hospitals, a lot of embarrassingly confusing questions, Rube Goldberg traps, extensive apologies, a lot of exploration of what it means to be human, and a bunch of ridiculous bullshit. Created by epicqtefail and sevdrag for the 2024 DBH RBB.
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Bookmarked by WishboneMotel
29 Apr 2026
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Richard was made to be one thing—a child, a predator, happy—and became another to survive, and then, to go above and beyond survival and dominate. Richard will insist—this is often, he has rules, you must know them—that he does not aspire to go beyond his place. That he is not ambitious.
You may not believe this. You likely know Richard. Is he not, if anything, a lion?
(“You’re not much more than food for us,” he had said, which is an exaggeration and not.)Series
- Part 2 of selkie verse
Bookmarked by WishboneMotel
14 Apr 2026
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What to Feed A Vampire Spawn: As Told by Astarion Acunín by In_love_with_writing002
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
17 Dec 2025
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After 200 years of being hungry, Astarion finally has an opportunity to try all of the delicacies Faerûn has to offer. It’ll require some forgiven social blunders, occasional accidental poisoning, and a research-oriented dietician who is up for the challenge of helping one severely traumatized Vampire Spawn learn how to trust himself and others. Maybe he’ll find a favorite food along the way.
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- Part 1 of What to Feed a Vampire Spawn
Bookmarked by WishboneMotel
09 Dec 2025
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In which Connor continues to put his work before himself, Sixty is forced to undergo the mortifying ordeal of accepting affection, and Nines learns a thing or two about troubleshooting.
(Sequel to See the Metal Heal and Grow, Almost Alive but can be read alone)
Bookmarked by WishboneMotel
28 Nov 2025
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After a string of bad decisions leaves GV200 without a place to stay, he ends up crashing with the last person he’d ever want to live with: Special Agent Nines.
Cold, clinical, and somehow more robotic than any android he’s ever met, Nines seems to take a certain pleasure in making him feel small. But GV starts noticing the cracks in this polished exterior: the sleepless nights, the skipped meals, the relentless refusal to ask for help. He always thought Nines was untouchable. Above it all. But his pedestal is beginning to teeter—and it’s a long way down. (Reverse!AU)
Bookmarked by WishboneMotel
26 Nov 2025