#fallout harkness

[distractedrighter]

Butch’s slur list he keeps for Harkness

[cyprith]

If that Harkness is the Harkness I think it is, New Vegas is about to pop off.

Wild (spoilers? Future psychic spoilers?) theorizing below the cut:

Story-wise (and I am about to take a huge leap so bear with me) I want to place my bets now:

If that Harkness is A3-21/the former head of RivetCity Security, then we might just know which Fallout 4 ending just became canon.

I think we're seeing the result of the Brotherhood siding with the Railroad against the Institute and evolving into a chapter that is okay with/protective of/run by synths. That's why the Brotherhood in the show is so frusterated by the Commonwealth Brotherhood appearing to not play ball with them; they're protecting their synth members that the older faction of the Brotherhood would feel inclined to contain/destroy.

Hank McClain is making Yes-Man.

He keeps failing with the chips, over and over. The CHIPS themselves clearly work but flesh is too fragile to contain it. He needs something more durable... like a securitron. Especially if he wants to come for House, he is going to need a means to break into his system like Benny did. (And what is more Vault Tech coded than a Yes Man who can't say no to management?)

But securitrons are simple. They can't really problem solve on the fly. They only follow programming. Fallout New Vegas was never super explicit but I always had a theory that Yes Man and Victor are so different from the other securitrons because they have android chips (like the kind you loot from dead synths) instead of the standard securitron software. That's why it's so worrying at the end of an independant New Vegas run when Yes Man tells you he is updating his programming to be more assertive. He is downloading free will. (a thing androids demonstrably can obtain but standard securitrons don't have or even really have the capability to want).

I think this is also the reason why we don't see the face on the securitron in the opening. We are meant to assume it's Victor because he is so symbolic of the franchise, but I think someday soon we're gonna see my boy 🥹

That's why Harkness was such a deliberate choice. He's an android from an older installment of the franchise so not everyone would instantly recognize him as a synth. But at the same time, the existence of androids = the existance of android chips = the ability to make a securitron that can hack the Lucky 38.

Hank McClain is about to become the Courier.

[harveybwabbit92]

[ Branwen and Charon are escorted to the Rivet City holding cells by Harkness. There they find Butch sitting alone; playing card flip, he sees them and smiles sheepishly.]

Branwen: What did you do?

Butch: Okay, I'll tell ya, but ya can't get mad at me.

Branwen: What. Did. You. Do.

Butch: Well first, I was just minding my own business-

Charon & Branwen: Bullshit!

Butch: I was!

[kaybrandchaos]

hi! really enjoyed the danse sketch you did before, can I request Harkness (FO3) in the moth wings palette? thank you!

Turns out, I’ve always been a synth simp XD

[artistsoftheapocalypse]

Hi all! Very excited to see so many artists this week and a very fun start to Halloween month and really enjoying all the art so far 😃

Can I request a mysterious Harkness in Snow Queen? Thank you!

[ Sketched by @fanthings , colored by @bexatomarama ]

If anyone asks, he lost a bet.

[solesurvivorpaigeargot]

May I please ask for: Couple: Deacon and Harkness; “My dear, my darling, love of my life….” – “What do you want?”; Romantic/(un)Professional mix (AU where Harkness joined the Railroad after Rivet City was destroyed); they're also both poly-involved with my OC Nate Charles, who is also a Railroad agent and who knew the human Harkness pre-War in the Army, from whom synth Harkness's memories were sourced. Thank you!

Why is Deacon on the floor?

[solesurvivorpaigeargot]

I would like to please request Harkness (Fo3) with A3-21's plasma rifle (Fo3), both findable with picture references on the wiki. Thank you for your consideration.

Picking off ferals from the other side of the bridge... well, there are worse ways to wile away an afternoon on watch.