Farthest Harbor

A blog for my Fallout 4 obsession she/they, queer, 23 y/o Minors please DNI, I sometimes post NSFW

[farthest-harbor]

Howdy, welcome to my silly little blog!

Be warned, I am unhinged about Nick Valentine, and I love to Overanalyze Themes.

Also things sometimes get NSFT on here, so minors please DNI! Also, bigots and pedos and such DNI. Hope that covers it all..?

My asks are always open, feel free to request HCs about Nick or my OCs, or to just share random thoughts. I love when ppl ask me stuff.

[tanolife]

Interrogation by Skinny Malone in Vault 114

....And a Bobby pin

[thepoisonroom]

it's because you're always identifying with that damn character

[slocumjoe]

What still pisses me off abt fallout 4 is how, in simple text, it is a doomed narrative haunted by both your dead spouse and the child you're tearing the wasteland apart to find. You walk through the park you conceived Shawn in and find children's comic books he would have liked. You go to places you graduated, or were set to give a speech at. You scavenge from the store you probably bought your baby food from. Your home is literally torn asunder and unrecognizable but you recognize it. You pass houses you might have had friends at. Dealerships you might have gotten your car from. The robotics store you got Codsworth from, the only other person who knows what you mean and who you're talking about when you go "I used to take my partner here for dinner," "I had photos of Shawn in this child's swing," "This was the first road I drove on when I got my license."

Like. How fucking haunting. You're the ghost. You're not the one who survived. You died and came back, and to the ones who've grown up here, you're Wrong. You don't act like anyone they've met before. And they don't seem to notice all the things that are incorrect. Everything you are is Wrong. You're a puzzle piece removed and shoved back into it once it was chopped up and sewn back together, and you don't fit. But you're there. Your partner is not with you. They died when you didn't. And your baby, probably one of the last babies before the War, is somewhere out there.

And it's genuinely fucking haunting but the game just does not portray that feeling of wrongness and desperation.

[idkwhattonamethisbs]

Sometimes I walk through places that I absolutely adored and they just don't exist anymore and I feel crushed about it. I imagine it's that feeling but turned up to a 100 and combined with grief for the people that were there as well

[shiningbean]

some doodles of Nick + his VA

[july-19th-club]

simply cannot ever resist what i call the little mermaid or the tin man or the pinnochio plot, the one about a character who is either inhuman or human but outside in some way, constantly searching for whatever it is that they consider to be the quintessential proof of humanity, preoccupied by it so deeply that they fail to realize the proof is in the act and fact of the search itself

[mischiefseven]

(via @notaficwriter)

[sarahreesbrennan]

MAYBE WE’LL FIND IT IF WE BOTH LOOK

[mediaheart]

what are some of you guys woman/girl blorbos. like female characters you are utterly obsessed with

[againforagain]

I've never seen anyone talk about how Nick Valentine's potential immortality might affect him. I don't know much about the lore of games yet, but Nick looks very worn out, which means he's been around for a long time. Has he ever experienced the death of his friends? Did any of them die of old age? How did Nick deal with grief? They don't mention about this in the game, which gives us three options: Nick hasn't been close enough to worry about anyone before meeting Ellie and us, the developers didn't take this into account, or I'm making it up and maybe Nick just doesn't take much care of himself that's why he's such... Such... Such a charmer...

[muzzlemouths]

"the fandom is dying" no it's not. i'm here

[muzzlemouths]

in all seriousness though a fandom doesn't die when there's no new episodes or games or "content" to play with and it doesn't die because people aren't as loud as the day it first came out either. if you're still creating then the fandom is alive. if your mutual who has since moved on still reblogs a post about it every four months then the fandom is alive. if there is even one person out there still engaging in, creating for, or just enjoying that show or that game or those characters, then the fandom is alive.

"fresh content" isn't the soul of a fandom. you are.

[bogdoom]

I've got this Nick!

[rad-roche]

Have You Seen This Man

well here he is

[mrs-sharp]

Some headcanons about Nick Valentine:

- after they’ve solved the case around Shaun, Sole asks him about his payment, but he denies to take money from them and decides to stay with them as partners

- He helps Sole through their traumas - losing their spouse, killing their son (if they decide to destroy the Institute)

- He’s the first and only one to see Sole cry

- He tried to get rid of the ‚real‘ Nick at least once to see what part of his personality belonged to himself - that’s why he visited the Memory Den and he was totally aware that he could lose his entire memory during the process, but he was ready to accept it. He rather wanted to be an independent person than knowing he was just a copy of someone who existed long ago

- He still has feelings for Jenny and sometimes they hit him by surprise, although he knows he has actually never met her

- Sole fears losing Nick after having destroyed the Institute because all the information about synths are lost now, but they do everything they can to collect information on his mechanics and how to maintain his functions - looking for books in the Boston library, working with Sturges and Tinker Tom, working through the data they extracted from the Institute’s server

- Nick watches over Sole when they sleep

- He has twisted feelings about Dima - he’s thankful that he helped him escape, and is happy to have found another prototype, but can’t stand his power play, trying to control all fractions on the Island and then trying to get rid of the memories of what he has done to feel morally superior

- Nick is a pretty good dancer

- He can be an old school gentleman, although he tries to hide it behind sarcasm

- Nick is able to feel and receive love but denies it for the longest time because he’s convinced that this ability belongs to original Nick, but when he falls for someone, he does a pretty bad job hiding it

- Although he acts confident, he’s self-conscious because he views himself as ‚just a machine that is convinced to be human‘

- When Sole gets shot, he’s the one who watches them, he keeps an eye on their recovery day and night

- Nick is the one who helps Sole bury their spouse

- He’s self-conscious about his body because it’s a constant reminder to him that he’s a just machine in the end. When Sole tells him to get rid of his wet clothes after diving through a flooded subway station, he’s hesitant to say the least

- When Zwicky and Edna get married he can’t feel happy about it at first because he realises that is something he has wished for himself but denied it for the longest time

[tanolife]

The man who smells like cigarettes

[lesbiandonquixote]

Ok but especially in the context of nicks story, it would make so much sense to be able date him. Think about it, he struggles with feeling like an individual person since hes got the memories of the pre-war nick floating around in his brain, and those memories lead him to a path of vengance for a dead woman he never knew, yet still loved, and has to deal with all that grief. That vengence is the only thing nick feels is truly *his*. But if you could date him, he could not only move on from jenny, he could have more that is actually his, and isn't pre-war nick's. It would add another layer to his growth, and set-up further recovery for him. But bethesda is full of cowards.

[falloutconceptart]

Piper

Concept art for Fallout 4

Art by Ray Lederer

[farthest-harbor]

Silly Pet Peeve

When people say Nick Valentine has a "Boston accent" or "Boston drawl" or whatever. Like, first of all, no he doesn't. I've lived in MA my whole life and am quite familiar with the Boston accent and he doesn't have it. The Boston accent is what Diamond City Security have.

Second of all, Nick Valentine is originally from Chicago??? It's in the tapes. He moved to Boston from Chicago to work on the Eddie Winter case. But he's Not From Boston. So if he had an accent it would probably be Midwestern. But he doesn't even have a specific regional accent, it's just kind of a generic US accent. Definitely not Boston.

[depsidase]