It's a thoroughly foreign impulse to Danse, who has never called anyone a nickname, pet name or endearment of any kind in his life and almost certainly never will. Not that he hasn't served with plenty of people more prone to it. He gets a lot of 'big guy,' and he'd eventually just given up on trying to get Rhys to stop calling him 'Top.'
He thinks he could possibly get used to 'King Poseidon' at least a few times before it got old, and would say so, but Deacon's unexpected reaction to that scaffolding is giving him ideas that it really should not.
"You're afraid of heights," he says, with far too much glee. Oh, Danse, this is not a comparison you want to open yourself up to. He just thinks it's only fair to give Deacon a little taste of his own fucking-with medicine, just the once. It's the most wickedly excited he's sounded about anything since Deacon got his truck radio to play something decent.
"I won't rule out a cannonball if the water gets deep enough." He leads the way downward to where it isn't fully flooded yet, just enough to allow wading without sprouting fins again, though he can see where swimming is going to become necessary soon. After a moment--
"You know, in the Brotherhood we used to see who could jump from the highest spot in power armor and stick the landing." Pleasant, cheerful, informative. Just a bro sharing some facts with another bro. "It was tradition to buy a drink for whoever beat your record. Let me tell you, it was a long time before I had to pay up, but after the first time someone jumped all the way from the Prydwen to the ground, it was a whole new game."
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He thinks he could possibly get used to 'King Poseidon' at least a few times before it got old, and would say so, but Deacon's unexpected reaction to that scaffolding is giving him ideas that it really should not.
"You're afraid of heights," he says, with far too much glee. Oh, Danse, this is not a comparison you want to open yourself up to. He just thinks it's only fair to give Deacon a little taste of his own fucking-with medicine, just the once. It's the most wickedly excited he's sounded about anything since Deacon got his truck radio to play something decent.
"I won't rule out a cannonball if the water gets deep enough." He leads the way downward to where it isn't fully flooded yet, just enough to allow wading without sprouting fins again, though he can see where swimming is going to become necessary soon. After a moment--
"You know, in the Brotherhood we used to see who could jump from the highest spot in power armor and stick the landing." Pleasant, cheerful, informative. Just a bro sharing some facts with another bro. "It was tradition to buy a drink for whoever beat your record. Let me tell you, it was a long time before I had to pay up, but after the first time someone jumped all the way from the Prydwen to the ground, it was a whole new game."