It is the Year of our Lord 2141 and Marion "Nix" Nixon is a technician in the immortal empire of Great Britain and her Colonies. Politics are the last thing on Nix's mind - as a technician, he only wishes to service machines and their spirits. It is a fact known since the days of Christ and her Clockwork that any machine of sufficient complexity can be spoken with, and so, technicians have needed to be skilled with words and hands alike to ensure harmony between man and metal.
However, as...
In one timeline, nobody left Vault 76 until 2102, well after the people of Appalachia had been exterminated by the Scorched Plague... or by their own hands.
In another, someone left that Vault early - and changed the face of Appalachia forever. In the year 2086, Vault 76 opened to let one dweller out. Jessica Hayes - whatever her ego might say- didn't single handedly change the course of history, but one person can set in motion a whole new chain of events.
Maybe, just maybe, Appalachia...
Cosmic adventurer Spacewarp has had the hots for Perihelion all evening, and tries to keep her composure when Perihelion comes over to say hello... the two talk to work things out when Perihelion brings up items of discussion, hoping that there might be mutual interest.
This was written for the 2022 Transformers Rare Pairing Fest! You can read about it on tumblr, and find the tumblr post of the story here. :3 We originally post this story to Ao3 on October 17th, 2022.
The aesthetic...