I wouldn't mind if people wanted to use BellLocke as their pairing name in general tbh, but "Locke" is based on the name I gave her horse in my AU so ig you'd all have to collectively decide her horse is named Locke or just not think about that part of it haha.

For context: Micah helps her steal Locke in ch4 because he's annoyed that, since they keep going out together, Baylock has bonded somewhat to her and she keeps taking him without asking; and then later on after ch6, sometime in 1903, he kills Locke to strand her once she tries to flee from him so that he can drag her into Hagen. Locke's death, her pairing name's sake, marks the moment she loses her agency in the pairing. So it's extremely contextual to the AU but yeah, idrc. I don't think they have a pairing name otherwise.

He's one of her best friends here; I replace Arthur with her in the mission where they go to Shady Belle for the first time to clear out the raiders and get the guns, as well as the mini stagecoach robbery in ch4 that ends up being a set up. Like to imagine them coming back laughing together about it, with the promise they're not gonna tell anyone that it was botched.

For them, I sorta like to project my experience of having one of your best friends date one of the worst bigots in your highschool who fucking hate you specifically for seemingly no reason onto (one of the most annoying experiences of my life fr, I was so happy when this friend got away, but it sucks looking back on too; it feels like you're not really being thought of or considered in some way, and it makes you feel like you're the selfish one for being upset with it, it's nasty to be in the middle of), it's a terrible feeling, and Lenny attempts to push this aside when he has the realization she and Micah are close in some way at some point in ch4 for their friendship- which deeply hurts him. He tries to ask her about it, but she HAS began her avoidance arc on Micah so she doesn't really dig or fess up much. It's not jealousy at all either, it's really personal, not something he should have to deal with. She doesn't quite realize how unfair it is to him and how much it hurts him until after he's already gone.

He doesn't know they're together, but he recognizes they're close and can't really fathom why, and Jenny's in that REALLY ignorant middle ground where she's like "well why can't I be friends with both people?? They're both good to me." in her mind. It's not meant to be seen as a good thing coming from her.

(Moving this ask from my server inbox to this one so I can link-post to alt twt woop)

Ehh he doesn't NOT hurt her at times, there's a whole comic WIP I have posted up a while ago where he backhands her for drinking and the consent in the sex they have afterwards is kinda dubious. He doesn't beat her outside of impact play (that she asks for, mind you), but idk maybe there's theoretical situations where he would..? He doesn't though, in BLe canon.

(In terms of Micah's patience/brutality specifically) he's REALLY lenient with her. Like shockingly to those around them- where he'd just shoot another woman for backtalking (which she does A LOT), he just rolls his eyes and does a little verbal belittling / writing off to make it clear he's not going to listen, especially because he knows she usually just gives up quick after he does this. He doesn't like the idea of harming her specifically, but again I think theoretically there's things she coulddd do that would drive him to do so?? Idrk, it'd have to be really bad, like something that targets an insecurity / paranoia, like her getting caught cheating on him or something.

The biggest thing that's for sure, completely off the table for him is that he wouldn't violently rape her (there is statutory rape and dubcon scenarios that happen, but nothing that would have her sobbing and begging him to stop). My Micah doesn't have a very high sex drive and gets his energy out moreso through violence in scores and causing chaos outside of camp, and he just doesn't have biastophilia despite otherwise being a huge sadist (bc I hate the idea that just cos a villain is into a lot of evil shit, they have to be into every evil thing ever, just not as interesting to me). Thing that just doesn't get him off and takes more energy than he's willing to give.

But okay, all that aside lol, he DID threaten to kill her if she left. He doesn't actually mean it, but by the time Jenny realizes just how lenient he is with her / how much she gets away with and that he probably wouldn't actually do that, she's become pretty committed to him and the gang (he DOES try to kill her, but it's because she tried to kill him first; it's a very "only person I really trusted tried to MURDER me, confirmation bias to my major paranoia issues" ordeal).
Not that she isn't miserable there, but like. Stockholm syndrome sort of deal ig. Plus, in the very beginning, she's pretty catatonic and focused on just taking care of her kids. Trying to slip out with 2 babies surrounded by a bunch of violent men she doesn't yet know is not an easy task. She doesn't even have a horse, he JUST killed Locke to trap her.

She also deeply cares for many of the goons atp. While Micah barely knows most of them at all and makes them her responsibility, she ends up finding a sort of family out of them. It's the deaths of all the ones she loves most (the last being her BEST friend from around the very beginning) that causes her to finally snap and attack Micah. Until then, she wanted to stay for them, too.

Jenny's would be a type of log of her goons (so similar to cult woman), because she logs her goons daily, so ig it would tell her what they're up to and if they die

Henry would be a medical log of some kind, ig he only sees when someone is injured on his

Josue would be a sketchbook sort of thing, he's kinda like Arthur in that he doodles things he sees so he's similar to the kid's diary

Mouse would be about scores, he logs things that look like easy targets for money, so ig if a train is nearby, his log tells him if its worth robbing or not, or if a rich traveler is passing by, etc etc. It also keeps track of the money they'd get from it since I imagine he keeps track of the gang's financials (sort of a log similar the the one in the VDL camp)

Yeah, I imagine they snuck out a few times.. not too far or anything, but they're allowed to leave camp. Henry just usually doesn't since he wants to be around for Jenny or in case any of the goons need him (although they also at least still have Rainer), so his absence is extremely noticed during these times. I imagine they fucked quite a bit too especially cos their relationship is very.. rushed into? and they don't really know each other at all? Just kinda one of those dynamics where they don't truly know what to talk about even though they want to be around each other-- so they were probably hardcore honeymooning and doing it fairly often as a way to spend time together without having to actually talk. Something Henry will later reflect on when he realizes they probably weren't long-term compatible / that he's not even sure if he really truly loved her in that way, because well, he didn't really know her either.