20/12/2018 10:35:07 ¶ ●

## thinking aloud about borderlands AU

callmearcturus:

> - Dirk can shower with his legs on, they are sturdy and all-weather. However, he’s really terrible at navigating unstable terrain, like sand and swamp. His blades sink right into the ground and it sucks.
> - Dirk’s blades are digistructed at will, meaning he can still walk on normal feet if he wants. But he doesn’t often want to, lbh.
> - Jake’s closest corporate affiliation is with Hyperion. Obviously Hyperion wants to use a siren’s powers, but Jake’s are really fucking annoying. He’s a walking EMP, so he kept just knocking out entire sections of Helios. Fine, says Hyperion, we’ll send him planetside and he can help us find a Vault!
> - Jake slipped his Hyperion entourage within hours of stepping foot on Pandora. Now, he’ll only answer Jane, and claims he’s still looking for that goshdamned Vault! It’s gotta be around here somewhere!
> - Canon Check: For this AU, Atlas never completely fell. The Vault of the Destroyer fucked them up, but not to the point of total collapse. Thus, Hyperion never vaulted (lol) into power, and they are major players but by no means top dog. Also just to make this AU even work, Handsome Jack isn’t a thing.
> - Roxy is some wandering vagabond bandit, sure, but she keeps close watch over Dirk. Ostensibly this is to be friendly with him, but also keeps her in the know about what Atlas is up to. When Dirk is sent after a siren, Roxy sees it as her ticket to a Vault. Shame Jake is really suspiciously bad at finding Vaults.
> - Jane is going to run everything just as soon as she gets Jake to find thaat Vault. Most of her conversations with her superiors can be summed up with:
>   Them: “Will you just talk some sense into him?”
>   Jane, eye twitching uncontrollably: “What. Do you think. I am trying. To do.”

I’m learning stuff on my own au♡

Although I didn’t imagine Dirk’s leg as digistructed but all robotic (ง'̀-‘́)ง