A/N: Related to this ficlet.
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Her squad is a bunch of dumb boys who almost never follow orders and barely scrape out mission successes through sheer luck.
Like captain, like squad, she guesses.
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Ryan’s their sniper. Long and skinny and as active as a sloth. He can wait for hours–days, once, in Nevada–in his roost in anticipation for the perfect shot.
Once, she spent a afternoon convinced she was alone in their headquarters only to prove herself wrong when she sat on the couch and spotted Ryan under their makeshift coffee table painting a still life of shoes and empty bullet casings.
He never misses a shot.
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Peter is the youngest; a walking encyclopedia and social disaster, both.
Before they figured out the latter, they tried to use his baby face on a diplomatic mission–The Resistance isn’t the only organization of survivors, but they are, probably, the most effective–needless to say, his vivid blushing and stammered, incoherent pick up lines on the commander were less than appreciated.
Still, there’s no one better for obscure historical facts, navigation, and matching up what little excess supplies they have with what other people inexplicably want.
He’s still their dumb hamster child, though.
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Vinny is her second in command.
She can trust him to get the job done if she sends him off on his own and if she has him go off with one of the others as a leaner, stealthier fire-team then, well, she knows they’ll both come back to her alive.
He has a somewhat worrying preference for eyeball stabbing and a frustrating tendency to hoard guns, but given the current environment she figures neither of them are entirely bad things.
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Chuck, their general, is a man with gray in his hair, sharp blue eyes, and a photograph which he always carries but never looks at.
Once, when he was transferring it from pocket to pocket, she caught a glimpse of it: a pair of kids, a smiling round-faced woman, and a man right beside her who might very well have been her superior officer in a kinder, happier world.
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Nate has surprisingly zero qualms about following the orders of a woman less than half his age.
Most other members of The Resistance attribute that to a lack of… spine… but she knows better: he was a well decorated vet before the aliens invaded, served three tours on the same ship as Chuck before they both got promoted up and away.
By rights, he ought to be running The Resistance alongside Chuck or, at the very least, his own squad.
But she thinks he likes not having that much responsibility.
He would rather fix radios and poke at the sleeping behemoth that was once the internet–occasionally making sure the bunch of reckless children around him have the equipment they need before they run off to pull off even more reckless stunts–than have such a large part in the fate of humanity.
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Anton is her least favorite, which seems like such a petty, childish thing to say at the end of the world.
He’s part of her squad, so of course she’ll treat him the same as the others, but still. She’s not very fond of him.
It’s not as if he’s an awful person: he’s nice and smart and genuine–and under duress she’d admit his face is maybe aesthetically on point–but everytime he smiles at her, or tries to talk to her outside missions, she tenses up and runs away.
One time she even let Peter ramble on about his grandfather’s coin collection for three hours just so she could shrug helplessly at Anton from across the room.
He’s a good soldier, competent and sharp–hell, she’ll even say that he’s a good teammate, a good person!
The only issue is that he knows who she used to be.
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Her squad is a bunch of dumb boys who almost never follow orders and barely scrape out mission successes through sheer luck.
Bizarrely enough, she wouldn’t change them for anyone else.
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A/N: Ask Box Event is still open, I just had this idea and wanted to write it before I forgot…
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