Would I be friends with these borderlands characters?
No one asked for this. I'm just so bored and literally hate my reality. I guess if you want more, let me know. -Breezy
Rhys
100% absolutely would wanna be friends with him. Like I would actively be trying to be friends with him (and probably awkward as hell cause I'd do anything for him)
Vaughn
Another 100% even after he falls into madness. Mostly cause I'd wanna join him in his madness.
Maya
This queen. Dude I'm such a giant simp for her. Though since she's so cool I feel like she wouldn't even know I exist. So I'd just be watching from a distance. (Especially if kreig is around)
Zane
Let's be honest, I'm terrified of this dude
. 😂 another one that would 100% not know I exist and if he did, he's probably trying to kill me.
Handsome Jack
Another man I'd be terrified of, but I'd also be the biggest simp. I'd just be another one of his fangirls.
Claptrap
I legit can't stand claptrap, (which people may be mad at me for) I just can't stand his voice.
Lilith
She falls under the same category as Maya, I'd love to be friends with her, but like I'm a random nobody soooo....
The Calypso Twins
I'm 99.9% sure they would both kill me. Once again, I'd be 100% simping for them but that would likely be the reason I die. 🤷♀️
Amara
Idk what it is with sirens, but God damn, though I'd likely be so intimidated of her that I wouldn't even be able to glance in her direction without fearing for my sanity.
Timothy
I just wanna show Timothy some love cause well he hasn't had a great life. Considering all he wanted was to pay his student loans. But yes, I'd 100% be friends with Tim.
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games, day one : self-para
her life had been made up of choices. beautiful, wonderful choices that she could make for herself, ever since she was old enough to do so. she chose to keep her hair braided and long, she chose the color of the curtains in her home, she chose to marry the woman she loves.
now, she has no choice. she is forced onto a tube, forced onto a platform where the sun is blinding and water is flooding all around her, forced to play the games.
she has no choice but to hide. the mentors in six are difficult to work with, at best. they won their games by camouflaging into the background and that's as far as their advice goes. amara has never been one too inclined to play the stealthy game; she is bright, a spontaneous burst of a thing, being still and silent is not her forte, but this is the only strategy she has. she takes it, clings to the idea that they can find a nice spot and hunker down and just wait. just survive. she just needs to survive.
they, because she clings onto her fellow tribute abel like a helpful lifeline. their alliance comes easily and amara finds herself relieved when they both make it onto the shore, away from the bloodbath (away from any supplies). they clutch onto each other's hands and dart into the forest to hide.
abel is strong and kind, a father of two. he reminds her of her own father. he has told her all about the lives of his two little girls, and she has soaked it up, knowing that trading history is all they can ask for now. here, standing at their death bed, anticipating their final breath, they tell ghost stories and pretend to be alive.
they hide. the jungle is thick around them, with strong vines and sharp thorns that slash into her ankles as they make the arduous walk away from the shore. cannons go off in the distance, once, twice, three times, signaling the deaths from the initial bloodbath. twenty-one tributes alive now. twenty people that have to die so she can make it back to her wife. she stares at the back of abel's head as he opens a path through the greenery.
she feels safer on top of a tree, where she can hold herself and shiver, quiet, waiting for something. no more cannons sound. no parachutes come from the sky to greet them. abel is somewhere in another tree nearby, in a higher up branch. for a moment, it's almost peaceful. for a moment, time drags on, and amara can breathe in the humidity around her and calm the beating of her heart.
and then something shifts. there's a buzzing in the air, as if anticipation builds up around them all at once, making the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end. she sits up and looks for abel, only to be distracted by the sudden scream that breaks their silence.
a girl's scream, a little girl. there are no kids in the arena this year. amara's hands dig into the branch beneath her and she hears abel scrambling down from his tree, screaming at something -- for something -- and before she can question it, she hears it.
a pained wail, familiar this time. it sends ice cold water to her veins, it makes her entire body rigid with fear.
"yazmin!" she screams out in response, horror clear in her voice.
yazmin screams again.
why would they bring her into this? how could they? the games have never extended to loved ones -- then again, this is a quarter quell, how crueler can they get -- her mind races impossibly faster than her feet as she stumbles down and around the jungle to find her agonizing wife. "yazmin! yazmin!" she keeps calling, her voice a horrible shriek barely above the screaming. yazmin continues to cry and scream and wail, as if someone's digging a sharp knife slowly into her side and dragging it out.
the image makes amara's stomach turn violently. she doesn't register that the other voice, the little girl's, has stopped screaming now. she runs, and runs, trying to find where they're hiding her wife.
yazmin's howl suddenly falters, hiccups and goes silent. then a heavy rock thumps to the ground, followed by a dead bird.
abel resurfaces by her side, out of breath and eyes as wide as she could assume her own were. "jabberjays," he says, grabbing her arm. "they're not real. it's birds. it's birds."
amara chokes out a sob, looking back at the dead thing on the ground and cursing its entire lineage. "it was her-- it was-- it was yazmin," she argues, panic still loud in her chest. they can't stop searching, what if it's real somewhere, what if the birds are a warning--
"i thought i heard my girls, too," he tells her, still gripping her arm, a strangely comforting presence.
it happens fast. before they can discuss it any further, more birds start to flutter around them, ruffling leaves over the trees. and then they burst into their horrific song, a burst of screams and cries filling up the air all around them. amara doesn't care that she can see the birds, that she knows the sounds are coming from them, it doesn't matter. she can hear it, her wife screaming for her. yazmin's face red, her eyes filled with tears, her mouth wide open as she lets out bloodcurdling scream after scream, amara can see it.
she couldn't tell you who lost their mind first, her or abel.
she doesn't know anything anymore. she heard it once, that there's only so much a person's mind can take before it breaks. people in district six often said that the victors used morphling to keep some of their sanity intact after their games. she gets it. she always got it. amara would take anything now to make the sounds stop.
it's hard to keep track of abel when her ears are filled with the deafening sounds of her entire family in agony, but she tries her best to follow him around as they stumble through the jungle. there's a clearing up ahead, a terrain that looks clearer and different, somehow, and she bolts for it, only to be met head-first into an invisible wall.
she crumbles to the ground, covering her ears, letting out her own screams in an attempt to muffle yazmin's.
after a lifetime, they stop.
all at once, the birds fall silent.
amara gasps for air, takes in deep breaths as if she's been drowning this whole time. her ears are ringing, her throat aches. there's blood on her face, possibly from the collision with the forcefield or from some gnarly plant in the jungle -- it's all a blur, it's all pain, she can't remember what she's done in the last hour that she's heard the screaming. she'd tell you it lasted an entire day.
"abel," she croaks out, standing on shaky legs, reaching for her ally, her friend, as if she's trying to find him in the dark.
he's too far gone. his eyes are wide, his pupils blown. it's as if an animal has taken over his body, gaze flickering from side to side, teeth clenched in a growl, shoulders shaking with rage. "abel," she calls his name again, begging for him to come back to the present. he doesn't.
he runs, and she follows, desperate. she doesn't want to be alone. she can't be alone. she can't.
it happens so fast, again. amara hesitates when she sees the shape of other people ahead of them, but abel doesn't stop. he charges forward. there's a guttural sound coming from the back of his throat and he's waving his arms in the air as if he plans on tearing them apart limb by limb with bare hands. they have no weapons, they have no chance.
"no!" in a flash, abel is folding to the ground as if his body is nothing but an old rag doll. blood gurgles out of his mouth and pours from his chest.
she tries to reach for him, desperate, pulling his body back. "no, no! no!" she cries, her voice unable to drown out the sound of another cannon booming across the sky.
she pulls on him, as if she can take his body back with her. as if it means anything, to carry a carcass somewhere else. as if it helps, in any way, to take care of his corpse now that she wasn't able to take care of him in life.
it's no use, she knows it, and he's too heavy for her to risk taking anywhere and risk her own safety. the careers are still near.
"no! i'm sorry-- i'm sorry." she chokes on her tears and her bloody hands slip away from his arms. his body thumps to the ground and she lets out another sob.
her feet somehow carry her away and she flees, disappearing into the jungle again.
the weight of survival stomps on her chest like an elephant, and she gasps for air as she runs, and runs, and runs until she's somewhere far away. far from the careers, far from abel, far from the jabberjays. far from her home. from her wife.
the image comes back again, of yazmin screaming, going red, purple, breathless with pain. amara hits her own head with the side of a fist and wills it away.
she thinks of something better. she thinks of dancing under the flickering kitchen light, bickering about how they never had the time to replace it with a new light. she thinks of a familiar soft hand in hers and kisses carefully placed over the expanse of her throat. she thinks of stolen glances over family dinners and a smile that's secret.
she curls up on the ground next to a large tree trunk and passes out.
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