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fallout 4 character: You have to help me! Radiated toys attacked my home? me: what? toys? hope theres a dialogue option for that fallout 4 dialogue options: ↓ YES, → NO, ← SARCASTIC, ↑ TOYS? me: (picks “toys?”) my character: What the fuck are you talking about? What fucking toys? I’ll kill you unless you tell me how the toys can help me find my stupid son

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FINALLY a robot Dad Funko Pop! to add to my collection ❤️ (I really must finish my custom Hancock)

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Nice evening for a barbecue eh

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OMG he looks so happy

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LET ME PET THE DEER DANGIT

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Why is your tag for Hancock 'surprise boyfriend'?

Because I honestly didn’t think I’d like him.

Not because he’s a ghoul, mind. I’m always excited to have non-human companions in video games. But unlike a lot of posts I’ve seen, I was disgusted and creeped out by him just shanking someone, all eyes on him in the middle of a crowded street, while he’s all smiles and mock-friendly demeanor.

I was annoyed that Bethesda would make our one ghoul companion an amoral, murderous douche. But my mutuals were all going wild over this drug-addled “mayor,” so I decided to have him tag along. See what the fuss what about.

I assumed the appeal was in his humor, or how “edgy” and “dark” he was.

First conversation in, I began to understand that I’d been seeing exactly what Hancock wants people to see. A carefully, masterfully constructed act. Hancock’s literally and figuratively in costume. John Hancock is his vigilante name, the charismatic and calculating anti-hero who strikes fear in the hearts of those who would harm the innocent.

But with a sole-survivor he admires, Hancock doesn’t want them to only see the mask. He opens up. The way he holds himself changes. His typically suave, gruff voice is suddenly lower, halting. Unsure.

I was shocked by how damn fooled I was. Here’s a man who disapproves of stealing, of cruelty, of rude behavior and callousness. He’s everything I thought he wouldn’t be.

Hancock’s confidant of his skill in battle, but little else. He’s depressed and lonely and filled to the brim with self-loathing. He thinks of himself as a coward, a liar, a hideous waste of skin. And it comes as a shock to him that he could be thought of as anything else.

To top it off, he’s also a hopeless romantic secretly crushing on a sole-survivor he approves of. He’ll try to dissuade them, declare that any returned feelings are a lapse in judgement. A mistake. If you have the charisma to sway him though, dear lord. The man’s an absolute mushball.

So, yeah. Surprise Boyfriend. That’s Hancock’s tag. <3

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If you love Hancock at all, you should read this.

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SO true. I was 100% all about a friend companion, and that was always going to be Nick (still is!) but I was so surprised, my plan was my SS was not going to have a romantic relationship at all after what happened to her husband and the hunt for a baby. I get quite invested in my characters, and I just didn't think a Mother searching for her child would even be able to consider finding love in this horrific new world she's woken up in.

She wakes up, a woman out of time, husband dead, baby gone; she's a lawyer and a new mother, for goodness sakes! She has to literally crawl out through the fallout, somehow survive the commonwealth with the sheer determination of a parent who has lost her child, which is why my OC looks visibly battle scarred as the game has gone on - I wanted her to look like someone who had suffered and fought and crawled and gritted her teeth to survive in a literal hellscape.

She meets Preston, a rare, decent person in this new world, and a gang of misfit survivors and helps them and they set up some kind of community in Sanctuary. Then on to Diamond City, and she rescues Nick Valentine who becomes her first closest friend, synth, a man wit false memories as lost in time as she is.

They end up in Goodneighbour to visit Dr Amari, and out comes Mayor Hancock, dealing out brutal punishments to those who deserve it - but after doing some work for him, he realises he's become too comfortable in his position in Goodneighbour and wants to get out and see the world, seeing the real struggle. As time goes on, Hancock reveals that he's questioning his authority and whether he's really doing the right thing or turning into a tyrant like Goodneighbour's previous mayor, Vic. He becomes vulnerable, and ends up opening up about his childhood as John McDonough and his brother, his kindness to the exiles from Diamond City and how Mayor Hancock his just his mask, and really he's consumed with self doubt.

The common theme with a lot of the Fallout companions is that they're all "out of time" and misfit, drifting or carving out a life filled with rage and doubt.

BAM. Hancock is just Hancock, not Mayor John Hancock, but just a man in a mask, lost and lonely and trying to do good, like the SS herself. Despite her focus on finding her lost baby, she manages to make friends, allies, enemies - but also love.

I didn't expect to identify and sympathise with his character as much as I thought, and ended up really loving him because, like Nick, he has vulnerabilities but is trying to do good in a bad world.

Even though the main storyline can almost be a disappointment, I don't think the connections the SS makes with her (or his) friends or companions are. I genuinely think the story is more about the SS making a life in a new world despite losing everything she's ever known or loved.

Come on love, let's get this freak show on the road.

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“As a female veteran, it really bother me that the female Sole Survivor isn’t prior military like the male Sole Survivor. I feel like it would have been easy to write her as such, and I don’t understand why they didn’t.”

Fallout Confessions