people of the Wasteland should bring back she/her-ing nations and ethnicities. yes, even the Legion
(it is only the Brotherhood that doesn't feel like a she/her country to me. probably bc it's literally called the Brotherhood. the Legion is a woman because the Legion is Rome and Roma is a woman. both grammatically and the actual deity named Roma herself. also Lupa ig.
the Enclave has Lady Columbia, which lowk fits their aesthetic more than Uncle Sam tbh. the NCR is the NCR but they have Tandi, and also the lady on the Women of the NCR poster. that random blonde lady is the NCR's Columbia. California...a. fuck. Miss California? Queen Califia? i know that's insanely problematic but blame the Spaniards for this one.)
"Vertibird pilot. Seventy-one missions and only lost one chopper. Rotor malfunction over Klamath. Hard landing, but I walked away."
-Daisy Whitman (Fallout New Vegas)
All of my Fallout characters, in one single location. Descriptions under the readmore.
Gavine Belmonte- young adult Boomer teen wanting to learn about the rest of the world and maybe get away from his family. Trans and gay.
Jasper Shi- mean lesbian Great Khan who’s grappling with her heritage and what the Khans mean to her.
Wendy Shi- the mean lesbian’s mother. Trying to be there for her adult daughter but it’s a mixed bag.
Lou Carver- a former field medic exposed to many terrible things on the front, he suffered a “fast” ghoulification and then wandered the continent before settling down in Louisiana. About 260 years old.
Leo- ghoulified Chinese Sole Survivor here to smoke cigarettes and meditate on the nature of the apocalypse.
Robin Yu- art thief based on the East Coast, somewhere between a counterfeiter and cat burglar. Loves to sell garbage to rich idiots who don’t know better and can spin yarns very quickly and easily.
Tierra Fontana- a mechanical mind who considers the Kings to be extended family, she works with the Followers to repair water spigots, piping, vehicles, robots, and the occasional musical instrument. An older Latina trans butch lesbian with a good to strained relationship with her siblings.
Josue Fontana- a caravaner and traveling merchant by trade, who likes to make friends in each town. A little flighty. A little bit of a charmer. Very bisexual.
Mack Fontana- a bisexual biracial bigender Chairman entertainer who moonlights as an assassin. Loyal to Benny and his plan to take the Strip from House. Might even start out a little hostile to the courier.
Charlotte “Charlie” Nash- granddaughter of Ruby and Johnson Nash in Primm. She is in the process of becoming a doctor and hopes to open an office in Primm, since the closest is Doc Mitchell in Goodsprings.
Magnolia “Magpie” Pines- a young thief born in the Central Wastes (Kansas), who joined a group that rebuilt a train system, explored a crashed space station, and might have stopped a faction of supermutants kidnapping ghouls. After a long time, they have all gone their separate ways, and Magpie’s way was a floating city with her girlfriend.
Beans- beans.
Isabella- Railroad associated Sole Survivor. Before the war, she was hellbent on taking Robert House down. After the war... who knows?
Grace- Minuteman Sole Survivor, more focused on moving on from the prewar era and rebuilding than looking back.
Mx. Stitches- independent courier with a penchant for explosives. Slowly ghoulifying and is trying to make the best of having most of their skin.
Sweet Caroline- a crawrad rancher who has stayed in the same multigenerational farm her entire life and has only recently been meddling in the affairs of others.
Ginko- a problematic fave lone wanderer courier who buckles psychologically at the wrong moment. A poor decision for her and for everyone on the continent, being a primary tool in the NCR’s expansion eastward. Her ‘adventures’ continue into Wasteland 2 and 3. In the end, her agency is denied at every level.
C6-38- later known as Courier-6, a synth in the far future after the NCR finds the Institute’s tech and starts building its own synth coursers based on the brainscans made of Ginko herself. She is tasked with the same kind of horrid work that Ginko was made to do, a diplomatic first contact in most cases.
Daisuke Kubo- a nuclear physicist from before the war, who, after the war, has decided to become a land steward. Hated by the Brotherhood of Steel. Gay.
Zoe Nicolazzo- a Follower botanist and environmental scientist who learns about Vault 22 and gets extremely pissed about it.
???- what if Y-17 Trauma Harnesses were just a little more fucked up than they are in the base game? What then?
Washington Richardson- an evil bastard. Originally a Legion playthrough courier but it’s a little up in the air. Grew up so hateful of the NCR for what it did that he would give anything to see its ruin. Imagine Wile E. Coyote but so much worse. His singular humanizing trait: he likes dogs.
when i first saw this on Hoover Dam i first thought it was mocking (America's gone and the NCR is here, suck it), then i thought it was bittersweet old world blues (we don't even know the nationality of the person who did it, maybe it's an actual distress signal, pls come back America etc), and now i'm thinking someone put in enough effort to white out the background and stencil out all the straight lines and letters for America but the best they could do for the Legion was a scrawl. hey at least they reached pretty high
finding out the Brotherhood is just a offshoot descendant of the U.S. army explained so many things about them. so the Enclave and the BoS came from the same source. me when the BoS was made by war criminals who couldn't even make it high enough to be calling the shots. many implications
