wham, bam, alakazam

she/her/(they) | raider? i barely know her

[fourfallouts]

"look, dumbass, that's not how baseball was played"

the sole from my current savefile, Mal, full name Mallory Lyons though she doesn't go by that ever since she busted out of the freezer and found out she spent 200 years in there. and yes that is Lyons as in Sentinel Lyons - she is in fact distantly related to the Lyons from fallout 3. she is also Shaun's sister, not his mother; she was about 20 years old by when the bombs fell. also a huge lesbian

[rochenn]

I'm very grateful for the Fallout show framing Lucy and Coop the way it does. There's a staggering shortage of deep, meaningful male-female relationships that aren't romantic or familial in media. Atp it feels like people don't know what a close platonic/ambiguous relationship between a man and a woman even looks like beyond those two tropes because it's so RARE. We got a unicorn here, folks.

This is a huge opportunity to do something new and interesting with these characters, I mean YES please show me how moving this friendship can be, show me it's not a checkpoint on the path to romance but an equally powerful end in itself, show me how these two people are gonna sort out their mess without fucking or father-figuring about it. I'm so seated <3

[drovenna]

And one (or more) thing I have to add: there are no rape scenes with Lucy. Fucking finally we can show about a post apocalyptic world with human brutality without the "mandatory" rape scenes. We got good and consensual and sometimes even funny sexual scenes.

Men are not shown in a 2D dimensional light of "me fight, me sex".

Cooper is a complex character who is putting on a villain mask but has a noble goal.

Maximus is growing up and maturing into a very capable character.

Hank might be an antagonist/villain but he was a good father figure, and a very caring one at that.

All of them are masculine in different ways. It's so refreshing to see this.

And the women...

We see how to write the traditional feminine archetypes into something more complex.

Lucy is trying to help and save everyone. But she is learning that not everybody can or wants to be saved. She's keeping her core goal but slowly changing her approaches.

Stephanie is using manipulation techniques that traditionally women used in other media. But we got the backstory for it, we saw her sacrifices, it makes sense. It's not just "women are manipulators".

I could go on with every single character honestly. These were at the top of my head.

[lesbx]

fallout 4’s faction system really breaks down when you realize every choice is like Okay which do you wanna be a 24/7 hitman for. not even really just fighting for your cause, more just going out of your way to mass murder for your team. this varies though because the railroad doesn’t send you on assassination missions too much but it does happen and every ending culminates in the total annihilation of at least one group. the minutemen are maybe the worst actually bc they’re supposed to be the most blank slate do whatever you want route and it still involves 1000 quests of people telling you to go kill other people sight unseen. hey these people are harassing us. Go kill every last one of them and salt the earth where they stood. in return you will be allowed to redecorate my house however you wish. this is all radiant there is literally No end to the amount of life we can request that you snuff out, human, beast, mutated creature, we leave no survivors here. at what point are the minutemen just the actual most murderous people in the commonwealth

[tinytorchlight]

every day my brain makes up a word or phrase to play on loop in my head during work. today this was it

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

i think benny gecko is a devout catholic but in the same way that illiterate medieval peasants were where they couldnt read the bible and couldnt really understand the latin mass but stilll kinda got the gist through the paintings and stain glass modaics

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

what i mean by this is i think he picked up Maria and went "hot damn toots i'll buy whatever you're selling" because it had a beautiful woman on it and he's put together an incredibly goofy charicature of catholicism through old pre-war stuff he finds. As a protestant-raised atheist, Mr. House finds it highly amusing to tell benny completely incorrect facts about pre-war catholic practices.

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

he would never admit it but he would think its kickass to die like jesus. mostly because mr house gave him an extremely skewed view of jesus that might have had a few more explosion-related miracles involved than is strictly canon.

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

feels fitting to bring this back for easter given both benny and jesus get captured by romans and crucified.

[quantumcola]

[deaconsbeacon]

Wow, ok, unfollowing now. was a big fan of them defeating the enclave, was not aware they were just hoarding technology and committing genocide

[couldyounottalktomethanks]

fallout new Vegas has the funniest protagonist ever?? the other games are like 'you're from a vault looking for your dad!' or 'you're a dad looking for your lost baby!' and then FNV rocks up with 'brain-damaged gunshot victim claws out of a grave and sprints towards Vegas' like???? girl what is happening in Nevada

[demilypyro]

conventionally attractive faceless metal killing machine

[ffunkyspicyy]

back in 2021 I created these fallout new vegas valentine's day cards and this changed my life! now I can post these every year and hope that someone would use them, because i 100% won't! enjoy <3

p.s. OKAY OKAY I will dedicate the last card to myself!!

[fourfallouts]

musician named Johnny Caps who shot a man in New Reno

[auntiemurdoc]

[hallownest-archive-deactivated2]

[fallout-lou-begas]

[ashesfordayz]

I hope yall are liking the AU ^^

[meatgrinderminefield]

controversial fallout take actually I don’t hate Marcy Long. No one should hate her actually.

Yes, she is rude to you the player. However. This woman just lost her son and had to up and relocate several times with no time to process or grieve. Give that woman some grace.

[twosides--samecoin]

It's only a controversial take if the person hearing it is someone who can't comprehend a person who won't put on a Customer Service Smile for them. Female rage has a limited spectrum of acceptability in real life, and it's even more limited if that same someone goes into a video game with a fundamental inability to understand, "Huh, that cashier at the register was real mean. I'm not gonna assume she hates me, actually, I'm going to assume she's got something going on while working a soul-crushing minimum wage job"

Not everything we do/say/think about fictional characters says much about us as real people, but in some circumstances like Marcy Long, it's an interesting data point because opinions about her specifically are so overwhelmingly negative compared to the rest of the Quincy survivors. I wish I could say to the many Redditors and modmakers, "Hey, how do you think you'd feel and act if you lost everything?" because putting on Customer Service Smile is not how I'd act

also misogyny. also don't look up "marcy long" on nexusmods

[inkthecryptid]

Being a fallout fan is first a test of media literacy and if you pass that it becomes a test of endurance.

[neophytepagan]

malpais legate design in my brain because picturing him in a swat vest surrounded by everyone else makes me laugh