#fallout hcs

[mai-mellow]

I don’t care what Mr.House says there are cats out there and they have survived just fine :)

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HC’s for the big Graham (from a ball knower)

(some sad, some random)

(also cw for the Legion)

Called Caesar hot nonchalantly

attempted before

But actually…

Joshua only really tolerates Daniel because he’s the son of a family friend. Daniel was a baby when Joshua left on his mission.

He once came home as a kid with a stick in his leg. He didn’t realize it until everyone in his house started screaming.

He was extremely quiet as a kid, and was expected to higher coursework because of his perceived intelligence. At one point he was receiving college-level theology education.

Imagine “gifted kid burnout” but instead of becoming a pothead because you were good at shapes and colors class, you become the right hand man to your dictator situationship instead

His language skills caused a lot of people to say he has the Gift of Tongues.

His father is a New Canaanite who can trace his ancestors back to Utah Pioneer days and his mother was a former Desert Ranger who renounced her old life, which explains his love for guns.

He didn’t know the Courier was high on Dartura during his daughter of Babylon monologue

Before Caesar, he had bisexual thoughts for 0.00001 seconds about his older sister’s boyfriend as a teen, and avoided the guy like the plague. He turned out to be right in a way because the boyfriend was rude and mistreated his sister.

He is oddly fascinated by New Vegas: but just the lights. He wants to see all the pretty lights and the fountains. He said he’d try to convert some people if he could, but he’s lowkey lying to himself.

Boobs guy

In modern day, he would probably be a theology debate bro on an anonymous twitter account. But also contributes to society

He probably fell right into the Colorado river during the incident. His 4 luck finally came into clutch.

Joshua had failed Caesar many times (both on the battlefield and in private) before the first battle for the Dam. The Dam was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

At one point, he was more respected as the Malpais Legate amongst his Centurions than Caesar was. Rumors were going around that rules in the Malpais Legate’s camp were laxer compared to some others. Slaves and Legionaries alike had Sunday off.

He knows about the Survivalist caves in Zion, but chooses to leave it alone. Mostly. Sometimes he’ll sleep in one of the caves if he wants to be left alone.

People around him offer to help him with his bandages, but he outright refuses.

Joshua is one of those Guys who use the Deseret Alphabet unironically and says it “makes more sense orthographically” or some nerdy junk like that.

Joshua was technically a Member of the Church for a good ten years after the Legion started. In ~2257, The New Canaanites got a radio signal about the complete ransack of a village some Sister Missionaries were sent to a few months prior. They finally took his name off the books after years of his family trying to keep him on there (as a cope).

I would also like to think the New Canaanite (LDS) Church is operating out of a Vault, like I think (?) the Vatican City already is in Fallout. Both organizations have the funds to survive a Nuclear War

If the Legion did not exist, he would probably be a gunsmith or a teacher with like 6 or 7 kids

The Legion ban on chems and alcohol was his idea.

[queer-spectre]

Some MacCready Hcs

-always cold. His hands are especially are fucking freezing. He wrings his hands a lot rubs them together to try and warm them up.

-his cap and jacket both have a worn little tag on the inside, hand stitched with his initials — put there by Lucy in neat black thread.

-he and Hancock were passing friends for a bit before sole was thawed out, but became very close quickly once they spent some time on the road.

-Mac gets along famously with Cait, but hates that she—without fail—calls out his cursing with a shit-eating grin. Sole introduces the concept of a swear jar, which Cait thinks is funniest thing in the world.

-Mac is an excellent at herding drunken people, a highly admired skill in Goodneighbor, and later in any settlement. Probably from his years as mayor of little lamplight: he’s stern but even the drunks can tell it’s mostly affectionate.

-Magnolia is on a personal quest to (subtly) play matchmaker for him. Hancock is notably less subtle about it.

-one of the ways sole knew he really trusted them was when he somberly requested a mod on his rifle. He tried to pay and everything but sole would only accept payment in the form of helping them haul salvage across the waste. (Need more aluminum after those upgrades, after all).

-Mac’s jumpy and fidgety both, to an almost comical (or worrying) degree—unless he’s peering down a scope, where everything he can see is his to control.

-close combat makes him nervous, but he does a good job of hiding it. He hates it more if sole has him hang back while they go in close.

-his dry sense of humor was born from many years of not understanding the joke/metaphor as a kid.

-sometimes his deadpan is too good, and people don’t realize he’s joking, then he has to backtrack: which makes him all flustered and shit.

-while he cracks a grin easily, his actual laugh is rare. but when he does it’s full force: the loud, can barely breathe, eyes-watering kind.

-his letters to Duncan include drawings sometimes—usually encountered creatures or people he’s met. Per his kiddo’s request, there is a pretty decent sketch of sole tucked under Duncan’s bed—he likes knowing someone is keeping his dad safe.

-sole and Hancock collect the all the pens, pencils, and intact paper they can find for Mac. They never give it to him directly: it feels like too much to address it unless Mac wants to talk about his kid, so they just add it to his pack. Mac knows, and returns the favor in his own ways: gruffly shoving shotgun shells into Hancock’s hands, and a giving a variety of ammo types to Sole.

- once the dust settled, Mac and Duncan moved out to the commonwealth: diamond city for the first few years so Duncan could attend school with the other kids. Duncan and Nat are thick as thieves and cause endless (mostly harmless) trouble. Nick’s had to drag the pair out of trouble a few times, only sometimes reporting the shenanigans to their respective guardians.

[beware-the-red-menace]

idk if y'all've had crab eggs but they look like this

(tiny lil things in a clump) and they're Really Rich when cooked. I'd compare the texture to egg yolk, but theres more savory seafood flavor. They're also super nutritious, according to my 2 minute Google search

lobster eggs are like that too

I'd like to think mirelurk eggs retained some of those qualities from crab/lobster eggs, and are really orange when you crack them open. You gotta add milk and cook them low and slow if you wanna make an omelette with them, otherwise the egg sets hard and looks kinda dry and cracked.

The resulting mirelurk omelette has got a rich seafood-y taste and a more egg yolk texture than normal omelettes.

[beware-the-red-menace]

I think way too much about pre bomb society and music cuz I made a musical communist OC that got snatched up by the government so I'm gonna throw this one out there:

Firstly, why are there so many jazz songs on the radio from the 1900's? I think it's because the facist pre war government forced a shift in culture to return to a rose tinted picture of the 50's.

They started prioritizing the oldies (a sanitized collection without all the songs that address racial and economic inequalities), resulting in other music being scarce.

Lots of songs were banned and even stuff that wasn't banned (country, classical) became scarcer because of the priority on one genre. I have no doubt the government paid off and threatened artists to conform.

The brotherhood of steel, as fascist as it is now, was founded by a rebel. Given the focus on preserving pre war stuff, they must have archives of banned pre war music that the soldiers could listen to. Roger Maxon probably listened to country and his collection just ended up being passed down to the brotherhood.

Also the institute (formerly the CIT) has classical music cuz of an association of classical music with being intellectual, they were allowed and encouraged to listen to classical.

[illdesigns]

since ur sosu is trans and u have a presumably cis actor as a fc, how do u think being trans is handled in the fallout universe?

lol i am pretty sure nikolaj c-w is cis but idk what using him as a faceclaim for a trans character has to do with it? the main reason i didn’t pick a trans actor or celebrity is because i’m not familiar with many trans celebs much less ones that look like how atticus looks in my head! and also i fleshed out atticus’ character around the same time i watched (and looooved) the parts of got where jaime and brienne are captured by roose’s bannermen. and sad, greasy, handless, be-bearded, long haired jaime is 100% atticus.

but i think it’s expensive pre-war! even more so than it is now, because of inflation and the fact that surgeries would have been improved. i think pre-war there were probably ways to alter endocrine systems and primary sex characteristics fully so you wouldn’t need hrt all your life and could have bio kids. auto-docs can heal your brain tumors, change your skin color and your bone structure flawlessly 200 years later much less in peak condition! in my head atticus is mostly post-op (top surgery, endo system, etc) except for bottom surgery due to the fact that the military covered his transition. and the military was slow with it and took forever to clear surgeries.

in the wastelands auto-doc transition is extremely rare due to how rare it is that there are fully functioning auto-docs. hormones are common in larger areas with steady doctors and scientists (ncr, diamond city, new vegas) and the followers try and synthesize as much as they can for trans members and patients. buffout might be used by some desperate trans guys like human growth hormone and steroids by some trans men today. surgery might not be as common but in areas where other surgery is possible i wouldn’t say it’s far fetched.