me and the followers i pulled by saying nothing and sharing other peoples pretty images
You ever wonder what the other freelancers would think of present day wash??
To see him go from happy-go-lucky to a tired war vet in the few years that have passed since the project imploded??
ALL THE TIME
say some time travel shenanigans occur and the pre-AI pfl-era freelancers come to present day, maybe sometime during S13 so they plop right in the middle of the war against charon? before wash gets (any more) brain damage from his neck injury, before retirement can soften some of his edges–
I think wash takes his helmet off in front of them for the first time, and york or south instantly make the joke, “the rookie finally grew up!!!” because they don’t know yet that all those lines on his face are from stress, not aging–they weren’t pulled that far into the future, and yeah he’s really gained that amount of scars in such a short time period, too. but then wash scowls without a hint of pink on his skin, freckles doing little to mask a frustration that seems to be too familiar for their wide-eyed naïve lil rookie; the pfl-era freelancers see that no one else seems to view this as abnormal for present-day wash, and start to key in on what might’ve changed with him.










