Dala seems to be a very practical person but taking a peek into her house at Higgs, it also seems that she enjoys fashion and showing off the latest look. So up next on the runway, we have the lovely Dr. Dala!
I think of Dala as being very fashionable outside the lab, so she would wholeheartedly embrace the 50s trend that was dominated by Dior’s New Look: a wide skirt and a tiny waist for dresses. This look was achieved with petticoats, girdles, and sometimes corsets, so Dala has plenty of those in her closet! Stockings were also very commonplace, so if Dala is going out, more often than not, she’s wearing them (she especially likes ones with the fancy details).
For more formal events, Dala has her dependable black cocktail dress, paired with a matching pearl/rhinestones jewelry set, a black evening bag, evening gloves, high heels, and a fur coat/stole. Dala likes feeling glamorous!
For professional events, like meeting with shareholders, Dala's business attire is a business suit, with oxfords, and a pillbox hat.
Dala has endless combinations and looks for casual attire. For dresses, she wears shirtwaist and swing dresses in the warmer months, and coat and knit dresses in the cooler months.
Dala also has sheath dresses when she wants to feel sexy while going out.
For patterns, Dala likes almost everything, but the most common thing you’ll see on her dresses are florals and abstract patterns. In the winter, Dala’s go-to is a swing/princess coat to go over her outfits.
Dala also likes wearing hats to go along with her dresses. Her personal favorite styles are the cloche and the French beret.
Blouses are also a go-to for Dala and pairs them with slacks (such as cigarette pants/capris), shorts, and skirts.
To go with her shorts and pants, Dala usually pairs them with loafers and flats for a more dressed down look.
Dala also has a poodle skirt with teddy bears that she embroidered on herself.
Turquoise, coral, and pearl jewelry were all big in the 50s, so Dala has a jewelry box filled with matching necklaces and earrings. Brooches in the shape of flowers, butterflies, and teddy bears also can be found amongst her jewelry. Has a purse for every occasion and chiffon scarves to accessorize with as well.
Dala’s favorite nightwear are Baby Doll nighties and peignoir sets.
When Summer starts, Dala breaks out her summer look with halter blouses, shorts, wedges/sandals, cat eye sunglasses, and a matching sun hat and straw bag. And of course, Dala is going to bring her bathing suit to the beach!
Dala is very on trend for short hair, as it was the most popular length of hair in the 50s. I’d imagine Dala would perm her hair to add more volume when she’s going out, to style it and add some flair.
(The two pictures of the left are of Chinese actress Lucilla You Min and to the right is singer Leung Ping/Teresa Leun).
Dala does actually have a Qipao but considering the setting of Fallout's war with China, she's too afraid to wear it and it's sadly collecting dust. 😥
Dala likes having fun with her makeup, adding colorful eye shadow in shades of purple or blue, and lipstick shades in pink, red, coral, and orange.
Dala's signature perfume is Intimate By Revlon, a sensual scent of gardenia, jasmine, and musk.
What’s in her pockets?: Freshly picked flowers, a tiny teddy bear, and a scalpel.
Color Palette: Dala's colors reflect the vibrant, soft hues of flowers, with purples like violet, lavender, plum, along with blues and pinks.
(A special thanks to my friend @snappellroan for brainstorming with me and helping with the colors and picking out the perfume! 😄)
Ahem.....I saw that GLADOS hear me out and I erm, raise them Dr. Dala from fallout new vegas👀 if not familiar you should listen to her "romance" option voice lines
because i have several thoughts i have accrued and they should be released into the world like a bird or perhaps a cazador....
they're all under the cut
i'll go left to right
everyone has autism btw
DALA
- age at tank: 35
- skipped forward several grades in school. got started at college ludicrously early. gotta have time for all those phds
- han chinese, youngest of 3 sisters. sort of an outlier in the family, not really as effeminate as her sisters, but extremely smart.
- has always collected teddy bears. they do NOT play about beanie babies
- i feel like she'd be from california originally
- had pcos as a human, enjoys being a tank due to lessened pain, but still misses the other stuff. eating. blinking. intercourse...
- she/they, definitely. very experimental about gender and such. dresses how she pleases. slings a mean strap
- very sociable, probably the most out of the tank, rivaled by mobius. went outside of big MT/higgs the most, until that was no longer an option.
- not very animated. doesnt move a lot, doesnt blink a lot. very enthusiastic abt things she likes, but her intensity is very still....not a lot of moving around. it doesnt rly occur to her that she "should" move. takes things at her own pace. stares.
- liked traveling, couldn't do it often.
- the other execs rarely ever viewed her as a "woman," really...and that suited her fine. she/they, you know. but she was never one to just disregard an ignorant comment whenever one would come their way.
- was treated quite well by their fellow execs, really. any mistreatment was from other employees or board members and was swiftly dealt with, either by virtue of her variety of achievements and accolades, or the respect of her colleagues, or....you know. one or two pockets of highly allergenic mold spores found under the offending party's desk. academia is a jungle and brother sometimes you gotta bring out the neurotoxins
0
- age at tank: 31. the youngest of the tank.
- i feel like he's a white latino for some reason but i don't know why
- only child. raised by his mom, i feel like his dad was absent a lot, but he's a real momma's boy. was told he was more special than other people as a child and never forgot it
- one year borous's junior. he went to a different school district until high school
- he had friends as a kid but nobody close. kind of in the background, not really popular but not an outcast. midcard classmate
- has hated mr. house since forever. would rant and plot and collect information about him just to hate on him more. sometimes, as a form of entertainment, other think tank members will ask him "oh, did you hear about what robco-" and yes he DID hear about robco and he will rant passionately about it for the next few hours
- has that kind of autism thats like....almost overly sarcastic. its sooo close to being normie speech but he just gets the little stuff wrong, hes too sassy abt it, just slightly too exaggerated..."this is how normal people talk, right?"
KLEIN
- age at tank: 59
- polish heritage, definitely
- also from california.
- i feel like he'd come from a military family, something with government connections. a very serious environment. i feel like he'd have gotten his position at big MT through some form of nepotism. that's not to say that he's incompetent, i'm sure he was perfectly competent at logistics and idea-ology.
- he worked his way up to head researcher through hard work and a pushy personality that resonated with the board of director's political leanings
- gaaaaaaaayyyyy but so deep in the closet he's found narnia
- abrasive, better people skills when tipsy. he and mobius had a good cop/bad cop sort of thing when talking to investors. he always saw himself as the good cop
- old man autism type A. hes just bitter and repressed abt everything. seems the most "normal" at first glance. kinda hates himself and thinks way too highly of himself at the same time. when u talk to him a little more that social weirdness starts leaking through the cracks...but one might not notice it if theyre not looking for it. hed be just a little weird to them, and they wouldnt know why. inverse of mobius.
8
-age at tank: 44
- mormon. older sibling out of many siblings. big family.
- from utah, kind of closer to colorado and wyoming. raised in a rural area. probably developed his interest in radio signals due to the relative isolation
- professional erotic arts connoisseur. oh baby
- strangely high charisma. normally he might come off as unsociable or even slightly creepy, but when he turns on the charm, it's hard to resist. not even other tank members know how he does it. it's not an invention or anything, either, he can just naturally set people at ease. but he doesn't often have a need for it, so it's rare he utilizes it.
- they call him doctor 8 inches
- big audiophile. pretty much canon but i can see him REALLY being a stickler about sound systems. if he had a car it'd be ridiculously tricked out. a home theater constructed by him would go hard. post-tank he'd probably work with movie theaters around new vegas to help with their sound...probably created synthesizers
- would go antiquing for rare records, tapes, what have you
- quiet autism. just kind of a mild guy. he likes what he likes and dedicates his time to that. when one goes out of their way to engage w him on his level he will reciprocate
BOROUS
*cracks knuckles*
- age at tank: 32. looks older than he is.
- ukrainian heritage, mother's side. father worked for the government.
- one year 0's senior. 0 was his only friend throughout high school.
- while betsy and richie were his primary bullies, he'd get bullied by a lot of other kids. with how uptight and zealous he was, he was an easy target.
- gabe was a gift, the only nice thing his father ever did for him. one day his parents came home with a dog from the shelter, said "this is gabe, he's your responsibility now"
- without borous around gabe was severely neglected. borous would go to a science camp for a few days, come back, gabe would have barely been fed, dehydrated, etc. gabe was the most important responsibility in borous's life.
- adding to that, he would absolutely sic gabe on small woodland creatures. tearing apart roadrunners and squirrels and especially any invasive species
- borous would definitely have kept animal parts in jars. periodically his parents would find them. his mom would throw them away, his dad would beat him and then throw them away. he always found ways to replenish them though. had a library of different animal parts in big MT, just not kept in his house. he'd often harvest new entries to the library in his basement, though. the grind never stops
- we're getting a little dark here but i think he'd work with the local wildlife services to hunt down and kill stray/feral cats. i feel like his passion for biology and ecology and his disposition would bring him to this conclusion. cats are an invasive species to the mojave, they disrupt the balance of the ecosystem, much like COMMIES invade our DEMOCRACY...they should be hunted down and killed and he funded part of his college this way. selling cat intestines to string instrument makers and such. that's my guy!!!!
- THEATRICAL autism. learned human interaction from movies. big, broad movements. theres a theater kid in there somewhere
- liked the narrators of movies, especially sci-fi shows and movies, because they were omniscient. far away from conflict, knowing everything, confident and essential, and nobody could beat them up or give them wedgies. modeled his speech patterns after them because of this.
- had sizable comic book collection
- i have a lot more but i want this list to have a semblance of balance lol. my special guy
MOBIUS
- age at tank: 59
- italian heritage. raised catholic, has the healthiest relationship to religion out of the tank
- pennsylvanian because i said so. would send letters to his mother from time to time.
- bisexual absolutely. very free-spirited, klein would call him a hippie on occasion.
- also like hippies, very experimental with substances. knows just how much of a dose to take of anything for every occasion.
- the most well-adjusted out of the tank. the good cop in his and klein's good cop/bad cop routine
- his morals, instead of deteriorating over time, only grew stronger. i imagine he was slightly more ignorant of ethics at the beginning of his employment, then sort of became more aware as time went on...culminating in his brain-zapping of everyone.
- not to say he wasn't dubious! he's quite dubious. you don't invent roboscorpions without being dubious
- old man autism type B. just a quirky guy. quirkiness is immediately noticed, but he doesnt rly hate himself for it so its just a part of his charm. odd guy. however, he almost seems the most "normal" past that. he is who he is and he accepts this. inverse of klein
GENERAL
- shortest to tallest: dala<mobius<klein=0<borous<8
- as time went on, they all grew closer. they became a sort of scientific hydra, at their most cooperative. company trips, they'd all go together. they were all neighbors in higgs, they were subject to a lot of gossip amongst the employees
- mostly isolated from the broader employee population, out of touch from their needs. made them perfect candidates for becoming tanks.
- becoming tanks wasn't completely their decision, it was mostly up to the shareholders, to keep the innovation (profits) flowing even after the world ended. it's not like they had anywhere else to go, anyway. keep making us money! get in the tank shinji
- i feel like they became tanks shortly after the great war...then employees either, fled the facility or died...i bet a few of them joined the enclave
- if you disabled their weapons, and took them far away from big MT....i don't think they'd be that dangerous. they'd need supervising, of course, but really...i think they'd be okay. i don't think they'd cause another apocalypse scenario without their laboratory. especially not with proper guidance about what the world is like now. they probably didn't have a good idea of what it was like even before they became tanks...i think they deserve to learn how to be human again. beats sitting in a crater for the rest of time
anyway those are my thoughts LOL you can kind of see some of these reflected in the fics ive written....mmm if i think of any more ill add them later yesh......
Post for the last few day of Pride Month because I procrastinated until the last minute, and I've had this post in mind for awhile.
Happy Pride Month to My Beloved Childhood Game Franchise, Fallout!!
Some of the darlings that I'm going to point out are from the show and the games (Fo3, FNV, and Fo4). Oh- Also the second game gets a full mention in its own right. I've literally played nothing else (except F76, but I played it on launch and haven't gone back, I might since there's fishing now), but I'm sure there's plenty representation in the rest of the games as well.
Be prepared for spoilers of ALL of these games, after the cut.
In the order of:
Fo2 - Fo3 - FNV - Fo4 - FTV
In that order, with those colors, skip around if you don't have an interest in those between them.
Fallout 2. While I've never played it, I know that it's the first video game to allow same-sex marriage, and for that it win me over just that much more (although it is a shotgun wedding and the partner is no good in combat, but hey- The circumstances are the same regardless, so that's its own win)
Fallout 3. Flak and Shrapnel in Rivet City. It might not be outright stated, but it is HEAVILY implied. Imagine being so dedicated to a guy that you'll travel across the Capital Wasteland just to sleep in the same place as him. Plus, they run a shop together in the Capital Wasteland's safest city, place where people can actually grow old. They also have full schedules based around one another. Never mind, their dynamic is just two guys trying to move forward beyond their rough pasts. That's something I feel we can all empathize with in a way.
Emaline and Sydney, to tell the truth I haven't done this quest (because the last time I played Fo3 I did NOT do it right, and got lost a lot), but they're mostly here because of Google accidentally playing Historian with these two when I looked up "Fo3 what is emaline and sydney relationship" by calling Emaline a "Very close friend" in the overview of Sydney's wiki page (and then girlfriend in Emaline's). But from what I've heard/seen in videos they're very ride or die. By one another's side even if it means facing down death (*cough cough* the Lone Wanderer) hand-in-hand.
Carol and Greta, the moms of my absolute favorite bartender, and two ghoul girlies who've been life partners for 60 years out in the wasteland. Dedicated to one another enough that killing one pretty much guarantees a double kill (fuck you Ahzrukhal). I'm sure if chapels were commonplace in Underworld, they'd be married faster than Angela Stanley and Diego. They're also on this because they're my favorite. Partially because they're Gob's mothers, and also partly because a younger me, hyperfixated on Pride in general (mostly the flags), just stuck to them as some of my favorite characters. Also- They're literally Sunshine and Grumpy, and raised one of the sweetest characters in the Capital Wasteland (I adore Gob). What more could you really ask for?
Fallout: New Vegas. To start, everything about Christine Royce and Veronica Santangelo. Christine is one of my favorite characters, and definitely top three DLC character. Veronica feels so fleshed out as companion, and has one of the sweetest quests (where you literally just bring her a nice dress). They're ex-lovers, and there's so much tragedy within their story. Christine leaves the brotherhood to chase someone Veronica looks up to - her parental figure. They speak about one another so often to the Courier, who knows them both yet can never say a word. Christine will always stay within the Sierra Madre, and Veronica will always be left wondering why she wasn't enough. It's cruel, and I'm not at all over them, I think about these two almost daily.
Arcade Gannon, my favorite member of the Enclave. One can literally recruit him as a Male!Courier by hitting on the man. To which he says, "Flattery will get you everywhere." He's my favorite companion and has some of the funniest dialogue (besides maybe some things I've heard from Raul). This isn't as much of a rant because– Well, New Vegas did WELL with their characters and actually made them people beyond their sexualities. It's nice, I enjoy it. It makes it so that the fact Arcade is gay is LITERALLY the least interesting part about him, because in the wasteland that's normal, and in real life it's completely normal. [Bonus: I love traveling with him and Veronica (using glitches) just so we can be a semi-full spectrum of attraction– Because of course my Courier is bi]
Dr.Dala of the Old World Blues DLC chooses to refer them self as a "gender neutral entity" when attacked. As well as always being shown to very androgynous, although they still is referred to with she/her occasionally. So I personally consider headcanon them as a She/They with a Doctorate! (Which also- Getting a Doctorate so people have to call you "Doctor" instead of "Miss/Mister" is a dream for my genderfluid self)
Finally...The Courier Six themselves. There are literally perks to allow you to pick a sexual orientation (In the most basic form of "hetero, homo, or both)?? PLUS- The game lowkey rewards you for picking all the options, you get more damage and more dialouge options (like flirting with Arcade or the man who shot you in the head 😃👍). Although, the best one is being able to flirt with your own brain...much to his disgust.
Fallout 4. Again, I gotta give SOME props to the Sole Survivor for being able to romance anyone...However it is a bit sad that we no longer have the Confirmed Bachelor and Cherchez la Femme (why is that name so difficult??) perks. I think it'd be more interesting for roleplay, but the game's roleplay is kinda pretty limited given the existence of a voiced protagonist.
Next up- Piper Wright and all of her dialogue about women. I truly believe that if Bethesda was more willing to give their characters actual sexualities as opposed to just "Player Character=Lover" she would've been a lesbian. I mean- Come on. Her dialogue with Magnolia always comes to mind for me.
Honorable mention has gotta be Deacon. He was disguised a woman for a while and was, apparently, very convincing. Therefore, any transmasc/transfem/genderfluid/nonbinary headcanons have some decent ground to stand on.
Finally, the most recent in our timeline...Fallout TV/Fallout Prime. I'm gonna say,
DO NOT READ ON IF YOU CARE ABOUT SPOILERS FOR SEASON ONE OF FALLOUT.
I've watched every episode several times since the show came out, and I'd hate for anyone's experience to be ruined because I labeled something wrong. So while the rest were decently surface level to totally unrelated to the plot, consider this is second AND THIRD warning of spoilers!! One of these at least will be very relevant to the main plot, and even the very last episode.
Everyone gone? Good!! First up,
We have Dane, as non-binary rep, and probably one of my favorite characters in Fallout Prime BoS chapter. They were really interesting. Although I had guessed the twist about them sabotaging their boot, I still enjoyed seeing exactly how that storyline played out. They were honestly an absolute bro to Maximus, even if he seemed to be second-guessing his place in the Brotherhood by the season's end. Also! A win for the brotherhood?? They hate lesbians in Christine and Veronica, but are cool with Dane?? (My belief is that it's genuinely just based on reproduction, or the 24 years and relocations/totally different branches HAVE actually had an effect on their ideologies)
Whatever Ma June and Barv have going on. They genuinely reminded me of Carol and Greta in a way, and I've already talked about how much those two Ghouls mean to me. They were fun for their moments on screen and genuinely felt like an old married couple trying them best. Nevermind they had like- Actual communications?? Real apologies after an argument?? Even a small one?? It was great. Lovewhatever they have going on too bad nothing was confirmed or formally shown between them.
Finally...The relationship of Lee "Flame Mother" Moldaver and Rose MacLean, I enjoyed this reveal and I think raising Rose's little Vault children together is really sweet (RIP Shady Sands)...Also Moldaver couldn't bring herself to kill Rose, and even saw a bit of Rose in Lucy, it's just really sweet all. A shame for the tragedy, and I do somewhat hope we get to learn more about Rose in this upcoming season?? Who know if there will be time, we're goin to New Vegas!!
If you've made it here, hi!! I really hope you enjoyed my breakdown. I love these games so much, and I put a lot of thought into this list.
Full honesty? With no hostility towards you, Anon (because this is just one of those topics that gets me hot under the collar instantly): I think they're a group of antisocial, unfuckable, egotist losers who are all an unimaginable level of war criminal to boot. Nightmare blunt rotation, nightmare polycule, nightmare DND group. Nightmare everything. I would dread each and every second of interaction with any one of them like I would dread passing a kidney stone. Each of them, in their own unique way, is a textbook example of letting one's intellect or ambition trump their humanity.
Come the end of Old World Blues, I typically let Mobius live, as he's not much risk to anyone anymore, and he's already being punished quite a bit by living in squalor with a decaying body. He also appears to feel some modicum of guilt over the history of Big MT, a quality you don't see in the rest of the Think Tank. Sometimes I give him the Old Yeller, because he's just as culpable as the rest of them at the end of the day, but it doesn't feel good, because he's so feeble, and all he remembers is what he doesn't remember. He made some effort to fix things, to stop his friends from inflicting themselves on the world, but that can't take back the things he's already done.
When it comes to the others, however, I often can't resist the urge to straight-up clean house. They're a danger to the entire world as long as they continue to live. You cannot instill the kind of morality these people lack, and they often don't even have to try to hurt people. Their innate curiosity quite literally kills.
They need to pay for their crimes, if you ask me. The entirety of Big MT is strewn with the corpses and disembodied brains of those caught up in their whims, their personal insecurities.
In terms of the sort of takes people usually come to this blog for, Dr. 0 and Dr. 8 have mild potential, as I do like wormy patheticalness and isolating perversion in their own ways. I guess Dala could have a certain appeal to the "stab me and play in my guts", "gouge out my eye and literally skullfuck me" crowd. The whole gorecore thing isn't really my jam, though, so I'll leave that to the experts.
