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The Sole Survivor’s Sentinel rank has nothing to do with Maxson’s trust

So if you play through the BoS ending, you get promoted to Sentinel for your part in helping take down the Institute. One criticism about this is that it seems incredibly strange that Maxson would come to trust you so quickly, especially if your decision in Blind Betrayal was to go against his orders. He even promotes you to Paladin immediately after completely Blind Betrayal, no matter what decision you made. It seems way too sudden and that Maxson is putting too much trust in you that has no basis whatsoever, something that reads like bad writing (and well, considering Bethany “four dead wives” Esda, I wouldn’t be too critical of anyone who says it’s just bad writing).

But what if your promotions don’t actually have anything to do with trusting you?

Let’s look at what happens after Blind Betrayal. No matter what happens during the quest, you get the same outcome; you are promoted to Paladin, you are given Danse’s quarters on the Prydwen, and you are given his power armor to use as your own. You effectively take Danse’s position, getting his rank, his quarters, his armor, literally everything he owned that was left on the Prydwen. You replace Danse in the Brotherhood. There’s a void in the chain of command that needs to be filled, so you’re put there.

And then, the promotion to Sentinel. The Sentinel armor was already on the Prydwen, so Maxson clearly intended to name a Sentinel while the BoS was in the Commonwealth. And if he was intending to name a Sentinel, he probably also had a person in mind already, because Maxson isn’t psychic and probably didn’t see you coming. But who was he considering?

Remember back to Danse’s quarters, which are now yours. Around his quarters are Maxson’s room and Kells’ room, the Elder of the Brotherhood and the Captain of the Prydwen, respectively. Danse’s room was right next to the two highest-ranking officers on the ship. That part of the ship is effectively the officer’s quarters. Danse is a Paladin, but he’s not as high up on the chain of command that he’d be equated with the highest leadership. So what’s his room doing there then?

So we’ve got a) Danse’s room right next to the rooms of the two highest-ranking leaders on the ship, b) the likely intention of Maxson granting the Sentinel rank to someone on the ship, and c) you replacing Danse in the chain of command.

Danse was going to be Maxson’s Sentinel, hence why his room was so close to the other high-ranking officers’ rooms. You’ve replaced Danse’s place in the Brotherhood, as established by you taking his rank, his room, and his belongings. So, as Danse’s replacement, you become Sentinel after the Institute falls.

It has nothing to do with whether Maxson trusts you or not. Maxson likely doesn’t know how to emotionally deal with Danse’s absence in a healthy way. The closest way to coping he has is to fill the gap with something else and act like nothing is wrong. He makes you the Sentinel not because he trusts you, but because he’s mentally replaced Danse with you.

That’s what the Brotherhood taught him, after all. When you lose someone in command, you just replace them. Just like how fallen Elders are replaced with new Elders, Maxson replaces a fallen Danse with you.

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Companions react to:

Sole booping them on the nose 

Sole survivor catching a cold?

Sole asking to cuddle by the fire

When they knew knew they truly loved the solo.

Their female ss squirting in their mouth for the first time

Sole saying “Can you hold this?” And putting their hand in the companion’s?

How do the companions hug?

Being kissed out of the blue by solo

Seeing solo take off their clothes for the first time

How would the comparisons + Maxson give SS a lap dance?

Companions on Valentine’s day ♥ 

Sole’s social anxiety and their need for reassurance that their companions like and care for them?

Sole wrapping their arms around them from behind.

SS stripping and giving them a lap dance.

How the companions would be in a heated make out session (that doesn’t lead to sex)

Being tickled/where their tickle spots may be?

Sole wanting 34 kids [GIF]

SS excessively talking about their life before the war - both the good and the bad?

Virgin Sole? 

Catching sole checking them out!

Sole survivor holding their hand for the first time?

Accidentally listening to the ‘Hi Honey’ holotape

SS sitting down , the. Suddenly crying, saying softly, “c-can I have a h-hug?”

Someone noticing the rather obvious hickey they gave Sole the night before? 

Being walked in on by Sole while having some “alone time”.

SS asking them to slow dance.

SS finally gets a perfectly preserved pie out of an eat-o-matic.

Sole doing a perfect split

F!SoSu singing pre-war songs as she makes them breakfast the morning after. (part 1)

F!SoSu singing pre-war songs as she makes them breakfast the morning after. (part 2)

Holding their baby [GIF]

Sole asking to be choked in bed

Being given handmade jewlery

How would each companion eat pussy?

A very horny sole constantly rubbing up against them during a mission?

The ss sleeping nude

Seeing Sole busy building their new settlement/house

SS drunkenly breaking down and sorrowfully exlaiming that they miss their spouse?

Sole hearing/singing one of their favourite pre-war songs?

Companion’s favorite sex position?

How would the companions look like when they cry? [GIF]

Finding stretch marks on Sole’s abdomen as they cuddle

First kiss with sole [GIF]

SS moaning their name for the first time during sex

The way the companions slow dance with sole  

Romanced companions get into an argument with Sole. How do they act afterwards?

Seriously sexy/dirty thing that the companions (+ Maxson) whisper into SoleSur’s ear as they have sex

SS/Companions - type of couple 

How the companions masturbate?

Sole liking/dating someone else!

SS being insecure about their body right before having sex?

Having chocolate for the first time

Expecting a baby (part 1)

Expecting a baby (part 2)

Expecting a baby (part 3)

Sole dying

SS speaking french?

SS asking to be tied up in bed?

How do companions fuck sole (f!SS) [GIF]

How do companions fuck sole? (m!SS) [GIF]

How do companions smell like?

SS taking a bullet for them

SS’s constant use of puns where ever they go

Male companions’ sizes

Getting caught by Mama Murphy while they’re having sex with SS

SS curled up on a sofa asleep with a blanket wrapped around them 

How do companions kiss sole (f!SS) [GIF]

How do companions kiss sole (m!SS) [GIF]

Finding a HUGE spider? [GIF]

How do companions hug sole (f!SS) [GIF]

How do companions hug sole (m!SS) [GIF]

Sole freaking out about their favourite pre-war book after finding a burnt copy.

SS moan their name while masturbating

What would SS get each companion for Christmas?

synth Shaun walks up to a companion and asks how babies are made

Giving SS oral

SS giving them oral

synth Shaun calling them “mom/dad”

Water pistol fight between SS and companions

Sole stumbles on them naked

Spooning

SS wanting to have a threesome

SS casually giving them a smooch on the cheek

SS wanting to draw them, naked.

SS wanting to have sex with their companion the first time?

What do the companions wear to bed?

SS and companion’s first time sleeping together? 

Companions wear the vault suit of the SS and seduces them

SS teaching them how to dance!

Companions: gentle, rough, or somewhere in the middle sex?

SS saying they want to spend the rest of their life with companion and giving them the wedding ring

SS dancing to Diamond City Radio when they think they’re alone

Finding Sole Survivor crying?

SS serenading them

Companions’ heights

How the companions act around sole while they are secretly in love with them?

Companions’ ages

SS shooting a guy in the crotch

SS being all motherly to synth Shaun?

SS getting dressed up all nice after months of traveling!

SS huggin’ them in sleep and mumblin’ their name

Sole first telling the companions they love them

Andale

SS being in a coma for a month and finally waking up

Having to share a sleeping bag with the sole

Sole giving them a pat on the butt as they walk by?

Accidentally seeing SS naked first time

Realizing they’re falling for SS

Finding out the sole survivor is super ticklish

Sole getting a SWEET headshot from a mile away

SS bein’ extremely drunk and fallin’ over the companions in lust

Companions and ss going through a haunted house

SS suggesting to the companions that they should take a bath together

Companions’ first kiss with SS

Someone else hitting on their ss

Sole getting scared/startled and instinctively holding their hand

Waking up next to the ss

Seeing the ss extremely torn about Shaun’s identity and the ss telling the romanced companion that they don’t know what to do now knowing who Shaun is and what he’s done.

How do the companions fuck Sole?

Companions’ favorite place to be touched?

First date with each companion

SS attemptomg to bury they’re spouse and having a break down

Cold weather and/or snow

Sole take major damage and refusing aid

Finding chocolate

SS freaking out with there first Radiation storm

Learning about pop culture from our time (memes, top charting songs, social media, etc.)

St Bernard shuts down a kitten

He is trying his best 

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