#// having ocs means you gotta write the whole damn character arc yourself smh

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Piper Headcanons: Post-Rook

// Because I had the idea while talking with @maximuses and now I feel the need to elaborate on it-

The main reason Piper took up a job on Rook was because it paid big. When you’re supporting 22 people on basically two salaries one of them has to pay big. Piper needed to make enough money to pay for the place they lived, keep food on the table, cover medical bills, and education for everyone planning on going to college or even public school. She was desperate, which was why she was so willing to compromise her moral compass for the money.

Following the base timeline of Far Cry 3, after Jason fucks everything up and everyone’s dead, Pip ends up leaving and finding mercenary work with one of Hoyt’s other big connections. She stays in the job for five years until basically they have enough saved up in terms of expenses that she can finally go home.

In any verse where the Rook tyrants end up surviving, she just stays there for another 5 years before handing in her resignation and going back home to her family.

At that point, she finds herself suffering with extreme nightmares and PTSD of basically everything she was bottling up on Rook. She wasn’t doing well to begin with before she went and her mental health only worsened as she stayed there to work and went untreated. She ends up opening up to her older brother Gideon about the incident, what she did, everything she saw. He recommends she goes to therapy but Piper is too scared that telling anyone else will get her in serious legal trouble. After all the hell she went through just to see her family again and out of dire straits, she doesn’t want to risk that.

Hearing this, Gideon tells her that she’s sacrificed enough. That it might be time for her to finally go off and claim some feeling of freedom and independence. He acknowledges all that she’s sacrificed and thanks her but that she should feel able to live her life now. Most of the younger kids barely know her anyway and the rest are either grown up or already on their way out the door. He recommends that Piper go out there and start living her life finally.

So for the next three years following that, Piper tries. But the problem is, she has never known anything but living for other people. She doesn’t know how to be her own person anymore. On Rook she built up a persona of toughness and confidence so that the people around her would see her more as a Badger than a Bunny; she was not easy prey, she was not one to be fucked with.

So for three years, Piper is having a crisis over her sense of self and identity. She’s having a crisis over the realization that she’s in her forties and she has nothing- no job, no actual home, nothing to her name, no accomplishments or achievements, no career. Ends up staying in an apartment in Darwin where she has all her breakdowns and trauma-induced panic attacks from nightmares.

She turns to two things to try and gain a sense of feeling in the haze of numbness: fighting rings and breeding parties— both of which are exactly what they sound like.

Piper would sign up for underground fights against others for money, hoping that the pain would wake her up or knock some sense into he’d about what she’s supposed to do. She played into her badger half hoping that she could get some joy out of the thrill but she just felt hollow beating on people and getting beat on all the time.

Breeding parties— basically the mythic equivalent of orgies— were her attempt to appeal to her bunny half. She tried to find some lasting sense of satisfaction or pleasure from sleeping with multiple people. She didn’t feel like she had enough understanding of relationships to actual pursue long-term or short-term commitments beyond having sex with people. But again, it didn’t fill the void and she still felt hollow. The momentary high didn’t follow her out of the bedroom and she’d always just end up back at her apartment crying.

During this time, Piper got really isolated from people. She felt like she was falling apart, had nowhere to go, and had nothing left to live for because she’d wasted her life doing something she was never supposed to do: raising her own siblings because her parents were too shitty to do it themselves. She’d gone off the grid and a lot of people were worried.

Around this part of the timeline is where things can begin to diverge based on things like plotting and verses.

Towards the end of the third year of this, Holly eventually tracked her down and got back in touch. The two of them reconnected and Holly expressed she was really concerned. Piper ended up telling Holly everything and the two met up and decided to try and formulate a plan on how to help Pip work through things.

In the end, they decide that Pip might just need a fresh new start altogether. At this point, Holly feels she needs a break from the life she’s been living too. She hands the reins of her business over to her brother for a while and the two decide to start traveling the world together for a bit.

Between finally getting therapy for their issues and finding comfort and company in each other, the two end up having so much fun and spend the rest of their forties just traveling together and getting a whole new lease on life.

They head back to the States at some point so Pip ends up getting cyborg augments like the stuff Holly has going on. It comes because Holly starts getting concerned at how Pip can’t keep up with her as much as she used to and she doesn’t want her friend to start missing out on life so she casually just... extends that for her.

Eventually down the line, if they don’t end up settling with other people along the way (in plots/verse), Pip and Holly and end up getting together and having a proper, long-term committed relationship. They head back to Australia together and get married surrounded by their family. They end up moving back to the States and have a summer home in Alice Springs, and they take yearly trips around the world to keep things fresh. They don’t end up having kids but they’re alright with that because they end up being the kickass aunts to all their niblings from both sides of the family anyway.

They work in Holly’s shop together and live out eternity comfortably as a kickass cyborg couple.

#// having ocs means you gotta write the whole damn character arc yourself smh #// this is just the canon ending for these two #// obvs is varies by plot and verse and relationships with other muses #// adhering to this timeline is NOT mandatory at all #{ guaranteed to blow your mind : about } #{ keeps their moet et chandon in their pretty cabinet : headcanon } #{ ‘’ never looked back never feared never cried ‘’ | piper } #{ ‘’ friends will be friends ‘’ | holly }