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Shaun Brannen

@s923.bsky.social
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
NONONONONO–
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
....What's a lemon?
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
(Thank GOD) What kind do you want? I can get some tea goin' while it's baking.
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
SORRY I'm... I'm gonna make a cake, okay??
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Help I think I'm going to synth hell.
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Do you mean Se–
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I'm never gonna recover from this
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
IT WAS A JOKE IT'S FINE
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
MOM NO
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Maybe Shaun is my synth name.
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
:0
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
don't cast that spell here, what the hell
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Elaborate.
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I was wondering why I hadn't heard her much lately.
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I thought we had a level ten Ethel Cain incident.
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Oh thank God.
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Babe are you okay? I heard Ethel Cain @gunslingin.bsky.social
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
he carefully, steadily removes the wood, tending to the splintered pieces quickly with a clean pair of tweezers, wiping away grime and blood with a cloth soaked in rubbing alcohol. Hard part done. Now to make sure that wound closed enough to get out...
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"Alright. I know this won't hurt, but I am gonna start now, so hold still, alright?" He's sanitizing his hands as he talks, which is about the cleanest he can manage right now. He turns her ankle, assessing it and the angle of the spike's entry. Once he's sure they won't worsen the damage,
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
He kneels and readies everything they'll need first, because this will have to be quick and it'll go faster if he's not stopping to open everything as he goes. He's listening, trying to hear any footsteps... and the second name his mother mentions sounds familiar, but he can't place it right now.
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"It sure shouldn't! Careful, I'll take it out. How about watching my back while I do?" She always seemed to respond well to a calm tone, and he's seen enough fire (and firefights) that he can mostly keep that. If his voice shakes a little, his hands, at least, stay steady. Thankfully.
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
He doesn't know the ghoul with them but he seems fine, if a little old and dazed. Without signs of pain from either Claire or Clarice, the latter is the obvious choice. "Clarice, your foot. Mom, can you cover me while I patch her up?"
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
but he swings his medpack forward on his shoulder and changes his trajectory to track the wounded. He's glad instinct made him find it before running. And even happier when he finds its source. "Mom! Clarice –" It takes him a second to figure out who's actually wounded.
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"Mom?! Mom!" Her home had been his first stop when the fighting started (again, God...) but finding it empty, he had to search elsewhere. On his way, he found fresh blood streaking the ground, and paced wide enough to know it came from someone running. For just that moment he hesitates,
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
complicated right now - but that's not something he needs to worry her with. Instead, he braces to worry her with, "Uh... I'll be around a while, but mostly on bed rest and light duty. It's nothing bad!"
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
"Marriage-??" He almost sputters and falls into laughter. One would think he'd be used to it by now. He shakes his head and takes a chair. "I just got back into town, Mom, I haven't even [seen] Theo yet. Not! That I'm saying we're ready for that yet." Especially not when things felt a little
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Theo doesn't smell like it.
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
"Didn't think I did." His quiet grin tugs into a slight wince when Theo's embrace jostles his shoulder. He tries to mask it by turning with the other arm around Theo's shoulders, guiding him towards the house he'd use near the infirmary. "...You haven't been smoking." Or at least,
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
"A little, probably. It burned first, though. And yeah, it was a long stint I guess, you know how busy winter gets for supplying settlements." He follows her in, glancing back before the door closes. "So... adoption, huh? I guess I [was] away a while."
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"[You're] something nice." He really wishes he had a better line than that, but he's footsore, exhausted, and his shoulder's starting to throb again. He pulls Theo back in anyway, just holding him in a hug a good while, breathing him in. "Wanna go back to my place and 'catch up' a while?"
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
He's pretty sure she added two more latches while he was gone. He's not about to complain, especially when he gets to see her face light up at the end of it. He leans against the doorway, offering a tired smile. "Hey, Mom. Just got on leave yesterday. Hell of damn hike out here..."
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
He gets a few words in. Neither of them seem willing to allow much space between them just yet. "Don't... have to get me flowers. Barely spring. Not much growing yet anyway." That last part finally breaks him away to catch their breath, but he presses his forehead to Theo's. "Sorry."
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Knockknockknock. Clarice is gonna stare.
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Knocking at @youbankonit.bsky.social's door, fixing his hair. (And the jacket currently hiding a fair swath of bandages wrapping his shoulder.)
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
There he is. Thank god. He doesn't even bother with words, not yet. It's been so long he closes the distance and goes right to kissing him, pulling him close as can be.
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
He blinks twice. Then a few more times. His mouth opens and closes. His mom did a lot of things that caught him off guard, but still, this gobsmacks him. "...Well, I always did want a younger sibling. Um. Yeah, give us a minute to catch up? Do you-?" He shakes his head. "I'll ask her, hang on-"
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"Sounds like you're keepin' on top of it! Good to hear. I don't wanna see you in the med tent too much if you can help it. I mean– still go if you need to, just- oh, there's Mom. You wanna come, or catch up tomorrow?"
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"I try to, and you stuck out. Have you eaten lately?" He walks with her, keeping an eye out for his mom or Theo.
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"I owe ya one... You're... Clarice, right? Been a while. You couldn't feel pain?"
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"Can I kiss my boyfriend first?"
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Shaun Brannen @s923.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"I just walked in–??"
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