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If Mr. House somehow got himself a synth body I think he would love that those things got nothing but the barbie doll gap going on down there. Heaven for control freaks & people who got better things to do. No more interference from the crotch department, just his mind doing the equivalent of this in a body that never gets back pain

#COSIGNED #i’m telling u this man is engaging with pleasures of the flesh using only his mind #dare i say aspec house?????

infernalmachine

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abraxo-official

Yesterday I realized something kinda crazy about Robert House: He likes uncertainty.

He has the money to fully buy out General Atomics and Wilson Atomatoys, but instead prefers to keep them as competitors. He can easily force their hand, but chooses not to. If they get too dangerous, he can still feel them in, but he does like the danger to a certain extent.

He has a body double, but instead of using it as protection against threats, he was invites the would-be assassin to meet with the real him, alone, with little to no outside security. He lets the future of America, along with cold fusion, be someone else’s choice.

He owns all of Vegas, but still allows large parts of its future to fall into the hands of complete strangers, and sometimes even enemies, just for the sake of winning it back. He made the air deterrence system, but won't know if it will work until it's too late to change anything.

He could easily have had the chip be delivered to him by a whole army of securitrons, but chose a courier both times. He could have had the strip run by only those who were loyal to him, but let it instead be controlled by people he knew would betray him. He does the math and yet chooses to go against it.

All in all, he may be placing his money on the safe bet, but he’s still gambling either way. That's what makes him so interesting as a character.

#damn this is great character analysis

rewatching s1 and lucy’s character assassination in s2 makes literally no sense. in one episode alone she’s bitten coop’s finger off, threatened to kill people with bleach and actually killed a feral ghoul. literally halfway through the season. so her refusal to do anything but shoot people in the kneecap at the beginning of s2 makes zero sense.

#yes i am a broken record on this but it really annoys me #bc she’s such an interesting character #fallout s2 #fallout #fallout tv #lucy maclean

mothartella

Oh Maximus Fallout we're really in it now

rochenn

Not enough people talk about how complicit Coop is in Fallout's USAmerican propaganda narratives.

He says very vehemently that he was "fighting for freedom" in Alaska when his friends from the USMC were also the ones invading Canada, executing dissidents on live TV at about the same time. Was that for freedom, too? Does Cooper care? Does he just believe what the government says? Does he excuse or ignore vile shit in the name of American Values because it's easier than facing the truth? I think so. Cooper is content making more and more movies perpetuating the great American myth he references when confronting Barb at the dinner table in s1. His films are propaganda. He finds killing distasteful in his role as noble sheriff, but in the end he does what the script demands of him, anyway. (It's fairly telling as to what he would've done if he were in Barb's shoes at Vault Tec.)

His morals are fucked by complicity. He's a deeply indoctrinated man, we just don't see his indoctrination because he's a fish inside water - it only shows when he talks to people who see the bigger picture. Charlie, Moldaver, Barb, House. And as Mr. House correctly points out, Coop has a small life. He already is a killer, and the uniform is something he's been using to rationalize this because the uniform means America, and America means freedom... right? And as soon as these people show him the cracks in this small world of his, Cooper cracks, too.

Pre-war Cooper is reprehensible because pre-war America is reprehensible. He's coming around, sure, but no amount of him being a generally good person can separate him from the awfulness he is a part of. It makes him so much more interesting as a character.

#oooh yeah i did think his relationship to the military is interesting #something something systemic issues vs interpersonal ones #like he thinks the issue is Bad People in the systems when really it’s the systems themselves

okay it’s actually really interesting that coop’s ultimate goal (finding his family) is at complete odds with his self perception. he’s had to draw a line between the ‘old’ him and the ‘new’ him in order to psychologically cope with the demands of the wasteland. but, obviously, he wants to be accepted by his family when he finds them, and so, when that time comes, he must want to resemble the man he used to be. at least to some degree. but he’s spent two hundred years pretending that cooper howard died when the bombs dropped.

will he try to play cooper howard like another one of his characters? what happens when you have to resurrect a version of yourself that you believe no longer exists?

#there’s such a delicious tension there #like has he actually thought about how it will go down when he finds them #fallout #the ghoul #fallout tv #fallout s2 #cooper howard

breckstonevailskier

#could watch hours of bts footage for this show

pondering whether to hc house as a campy yet repressed gay man who sincerely believes that his obsession with coop is only to do with the end of the world, or fully cognizant of the psychosexual goings on and has just decided to lean in full throttle… much to ponder either way

(OR a secret third option where he is aware of his queerness but staunchly denies feeling anything for cooper howard specifically)

#kinda need him to be aware of his own patheticness but unable to control it #maybe i will just rotate through all three depending on my mood #fallout s2 #the ghoul #fallout #cooper howard #mr house #robert house #fallout tv #robcoop

nightlydisease

FALLOUT

2x01 'The Innovator'

#what a fucking FREAK!!!#like seriously what is wrong with him #(i am obsessed with him)

goslinggf

Yeah, well...How 'bout a boat that's not a boat. You know what I mean? Of course, you do. You take out one plank...boat's the same as it ever was. It's just got a— a hole in it, that's all. You take out a— a lot of planks...and all of a sudden, you gotta ask yourself...what— what the fuck am I looking at? This ain't no boat. It's just a— a pile of wood, man. It's just a fսckin' pile of wood.

Walton Goggins as The Ghoul/Cooper Howard Fallout (2024—) 2.03 "The Profligate"

#ship of theseus reference you are so beloved!!!!#would love to see more of coop’s relationship with himself

okay i am Thinking about the fact that so much of the ghoul is a character that coop has constructed. like the difference between his accent in the flashbacks vs present day is insane. he’s putting it on almost comically thick. and let us not forget he actively chose that clothing.

maybe, at first, part of it was the familiarity of setting into a role. the one thing he knows with certainty how to do. and then, gradually, it became a shield. a way for him to separate himself from the things he was doing, without him even realising.

and then he’s wound up two hundred years later, a caricature of his own characters. unable and unwilling to admit that parts of the old him are still there beneath it all. it’s so much easier to pretend that the wasteland has changed him completely. until the embodiment of everything he used to be appears one day in filly and says ‘i’m going to have to ask you to leave him alone’

#can i just be clear obviously the wasteland has changed him #but not to the degree he probably thinks it has #fallout s2 #the ghoul #lucy maclean #fallout #fallout tv #cooper howard