Hello! I was wondering if you have any headcanons regarding the faction leaders? I know Preston is included in your "daily" headcanon thingies but I was wondering if you have any for the others! :) Feel free to replace Preston with any other minuteman or general minutemen headcanons (Unless you wanna write more for Preston lol) Thank you and take care of yourself!!
Oh! Thank you!
I could never replace Preston. If I let him off the hook he immediately runs free to alert you that there is a settlement that needs your help. Locking your doors won't save you.
Shout out to the four of you perverts that descended on this damn post like hawks when I posted it accidentally and circled whilst I finished it. You are insane. I love you.
Faction Leader Headcanons.
Arthur Maxson
Arthur learnt how to shave from watching Danse a few years ago. Owen had passed on before he could ever teach Arthur, and all the other knights heralded Arthur as more a symbol than as a teen, but Danse? Danse just let him be.
Arthur isn't the most chiselled on the Prydwen. Not by a long shot. He's got a bit of insulation on him that means he lacks the cheese grater nature that some in the Brotherhood have.
He tends to shower at the same time every few days in the communal shower. Part an exercise to demonstrate he stands alongside his people, part its the only way he can technically even consider unwinding around others without having to bark orders.
Arthur is prone to mood swings. Not the kind where one gets energetic, but the kind where a switch flips. He's cold and seething and won't listen to reason. He's in a state where his goal is nothing but the Brotherhood's mission and survival.
It's part of the reason he's so irrational in attacking Sole and demanding to know why they supposedly hid Danse being a Synth from him. Even though (1) If Sole did know and was hiding Danse's nature then they wouldn't have handed over the Holotape and (2) Danse is listed as an escaped Synth, not a spy, and we know the Holotape lists spy synths because there are multiple terminals in the Institute listing them. But when Maxson is seething there is next to no reasoning with him.
It's also the reason that the only thing that forces him to spare Danse is Sole, his one way into the Institute and his one way to prove himself as an Elder, threatening to pull out. It doesn't calm him. He's still furious. But it twists his arm and he keeps his word.
It's the tragedy of raising a boy as an ideal and means to an end instead of a person. A man raised to be a machine to serve the Brotherhood. Funny, isn't it?
Desdemona
I may be completely in the dark here but part of me mulls the idea of her and Deacon being siblings. At the very least they have that exhausted elder sister and little shit brother dynamic on occasion.
Desdemona likely isn't her true name. Desdemona as a name is interesting as it seems to mean "unlucky", "unfortunate", "wretched". Whilst I doubt everyone is brushed up on Greek etymology: why on earth would she choose that name? Did she know what it means?
She and Carrington are old friends. Some days their arguments are entirely silent because each knows exactly what the other is going to say and it continues like that until one of them breaks the silence.
Conversely to Desdemona: Carrington either uses his true name or was dramatic enough to come up with a first name middle name last name pseudonym.
Father
Due to being raised in the most sterile environment possible to prevent any risk of him dying to sickness: Father now has nothing short of about thirty allergies.
Is this far less tragic than the previous two? Yes. But I don't like Father and I think he should have a dust allergy. And a strawberry allergy. No jam for you.
On a more serious note: the way he was raised was equally, if not more, sterile in the emotional sense. Affection or conversation were measured and professional. Empathy and care was stripped from him and he never had clear parental figures. As a result any affection comes to feel inherently unclean to him. The weeping of synths or the excited chattering of staff feels foreign and he cares only for his duty.
He is a very cold man. He is happy as he is but he was not lying when he said he was ambivalent to Sole's survival. They are nothing but an experiment that he doesn't expect to see the result of.
Porter Gage
Has anyone else seen how damn thick his neck is. I know I and Sinclair have but like- look at him. Look at his neck. He is built well. He is build like CERN. Good on him.
He's not actually completely blind in his bad eye. He just really needs glasses and looking with his bad eye can put him in a lot of pain.
I must confess I haven't actually played much of Nuka World. If you want more Gage i recommend going to @begin-again-tonight who is a big Porter Gage Scholar.
Preston Garvey
Preston memorised a lot of the core rules of the minutemen. Even when the castle fell and most of the material was lost: Preston remembered it. He would cite and repeat the rules to himself when pacing to ground himself.
That being said: when given the chance to restore the rules to the page he changes some of them. Some things are best left in the past. Some things need to change for the future.
Preston is very good at organising people. His first port of call was repairing the castle and setting up better beds. The small comforts that make life better. Hes one of those people that can help you fix every problem in your life but then stare gormless at his own.
I was playing Fallout 4 earlier today and had a thought about what possessed power armor would look like, especially with the BOS in Boston at this point and the existence of an automated set of power armor in the Creation Club. Initially this was going to be more like an introductory piece, with the Power Armor watching the BOS and the PRYDWEN settle into Boston, but I got too engrossed in the actual armor to do the rest of it.
What if there was a set of power armor whose pilot gruesomely died, or was otherwise bound to it somehow? Kinda like Springtrap or something. I figured with the oppressive and violent ideals of the Brotherhood of Steel, this Power Armor would be incredibly ruthless and violent, but much less discriminatory of its victims like the living knights and paladins are. I imagine this Armor has a lot of stories passed about it, maybe even settlers or raiders think they see it and sound the alarm. I can image many settlements are much more hostile to the Sole Survivor if they're wearing even just simple T-60 armor, due to the stories about this one. Maybe they can hunt down this Armor and set the spirit free, probably by destroying it or removing the fusion core.
I've got a lot of thoughts about this, so hopefully I'll be able to keep fighting art block and making more of this thing.
I would absoultely love to know more about your possessed power armour oc! I really liked the art you've done of them so far too!
Slowly but surely I’m building it up! I’m glad it’s getting some attention, even though I don’t really know much about it yet (my plan for characters typically just lets them develop on their own through my art and brain, and there’s a lot still up in the air)
Some quick facts I’ve for sure put together though:
- Haunts Fallout 4 map and has for probably 10-20 years
- Died during a long BOS excursion that ended with no survivors (living ones, at least)
- Feels no connection to the BOS anymore, but avoids them where possible (almost like it realizes it would be taken care of if it were to interact with them)
- Springtrappy in the sense that the body of the BOS soldier remains in the suit. This has led to some failed attacks when slightly more clean victims could smell it coming (it’s a post-nuclear war world, everything’s gonna be stinky but rot is rot)
- Can’t make any noise whatsoever on its own, but sometimes parts of the suit gets stuck and can squeak or grind
- Doesn’t have a set way of hunting. Sometimes toys with victims, sometimes will simply clear minor settlements very quickly and efficiently
- It is decaying, so it’s not strong enough to carry anything more than the machete (fused to left hand) and 10mm (fused to right hand). It can’t put these weapons down
- Walks similarly to a feral ghoul, kinda ambling but much slower and louder
That’s really all I’ve put together so far. I’m hoping to do more story art and then more fun doodles. Thanks for your interest!!
ABSOLUTE BEHEMOTH of a job this was. I sat still for probably four or five hours just absolutely CRANKING this out and I couldn't be prouder of it. Stitching together references alone probably took like thirty minutes.
This is a continuation of my possessed power armor idea! This time to the lyrics of "Trials" by STARSET. They're my favorite band of all time and while this doesn't really have a whole lot of story to it, it was an excellent practice in power armor anatomy. I can safely say that I'm getting more comfortable with the shapes that the T-60 edition in particular is made up of, so hopefully I can do a few more studies and be able to draw/sketch them without tracing the models themselves. Hooray!
". . . but Operation Common Knowledge was a disaster. Six paladins went in, none of them came out. There's rumors, though. . . that an old suit of power armor that was active during Common Knowledge is roaming - and killing - again. . . "
After a long-ass sketch and then nearly two weeks of inactivity, we have the major players of my possessed power armor AU!
Meet Aster Herz, once-squire to the possessed suit and now a star paladin intent on hunting the suit down and . . . who knows? He's made it his life goal to at the very least capture it for study. He would be located on the PRYDWEN, having entered the Commonwealth with the rest of the Brotherhood of Steel. At the time of Common Knowledge, he was in his early twenties. Now, he's in his later thirties, nearly early forties.
Squire of Paladin Nex
Became a star paladin for an Institute Raid (the first since Operation Common Knowledge) that resulted in zero casualties
OBSESSED with Nex and finding him again
Branded on arm
Then, there's the suit of armor itself - before he died, anyway. This was Sir Leonard Nex, a prestigious paladin before his death. His scars are attributed to a deathclaw he tried to fight when he was younger, and was saved by a pair of paladins from the Brotherhood of Steel. This pushed him to take his rise in their ranks more seriously, at it really paid off for him. He was in his later thirties when he died, but the suit has been haunting the Commonwealth for another 10-15 years afterwards.
Paladin
Brash, charming
"Ladies man" but he's gay
Not amazing to Herz, but not outright abusive
Died during Operation Common Knowledge to the Institute
