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[tinytorchlight]

ok but what is christopher's representative dog breed...

GOOD QUESTION!! his representative animal is a sheep so first instinct would be "some kind of sheep dog" BUT that goes against the reasons his animal is a sheep to begin with. so my mind leads me to "companion breeds", which leads me to labradoodles: a mix of two working breeds known for being obedient and highly intelligent. ALSO known to be anxiety prone (labs) and stubborn (poodles).

with high intelligence comes a need for constant stimulation, which often turns into neurosis and destructive behaviors without it for these poor guys. incredibly apt for our boy, i say

[high-voltage-rat]

HIII SMILES :( I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE NICE TAG ON THE COLE POST EHEHEHE I’m working on writing for my OCs more so the positive words mean so much :( time to dig through Corey’s posts in return eheheheee… do you have any most essential posts to read about her…

HELLO FRIEND!!! I am very 🤝 about trying to write more for OCs, especially publically! I love reading about other people's OCs though :^) you can bet I will be eagerly awaiting more Cole lore to peruse 👀

Corey has been a beloved blorbo for long enough that her tag on my blog actually isn't super consistent- my more recent posts about her are under #oc: corey-er, and those are the ones I recommend reading! This one about her SPECIAL stats, this one listing her fun facts, and this themed ask set are probably the most detailed I've done so far. I have some uh. Very old art of her hiding away in my blog, though it's not particularly up to my standards these days and I'd like to re-do a lot of it some day. I also have a post in the works about her brain damage because I love medicine and cranial GSW is a fascinating injury to explore.

The tl;dr is that she has retrograde amnesia, though it's mostly only autobiographical in nature. I like to describe her deal as "former self haunting the narrative". She brushes against her past a good deal, and is still affected by her trauma even if she doesn't realize she even has it, or remember where it came from. She's driven initially by her desire to find out who she is, so she chases familiarity pretty hard in the hope that it will jog her memory. She sides with the NCR, partially because of the fact that they feel so familiar to her and they're the most directly opposed to the Legion, who she has a very visceral instinctual hatred for. She primarily travels with Boone, Veronica, Arcade, Rex, and ED-E as companions, though she does travel at least briefly with all the companions in canon.

Outside of working for the NCR, she's most active as a member of the Followers, and is respected enough by the Brotherhood to have been offered an opportunity to join them, though she never accepted. She's also viewed positively by the Boomers, Great Khans, Kings, and most small townships around the wasteland. The Powder Gangers she put back in NCR custody are scared shitless of her, and her bounty in the Legion is probably the highest of anyone in Nevada. The Strip has pretty... mixed feelings? I would say? She essentially castrated the Omertas, and is generally frowned upon by the White Gloves for her crass and unsophisticated demeanour, so ironically that means the Chairmen like her the best out of the three families.

...She also is in love with wordplay and dark humour. She's obsessed with the Legion Ear joke Private Sexton came up with, and it never fails to make her laugh. (Not that that's hard to begin with. Because brain damage.)

[daggerfvll]

LICHERALLY logged onto tumblr after finally combing through the season 2 trailer to see what your response to House was and Yes God I’m in the same boat with a lot of things.

I really hope they don’t fucking pin the start of the war on House because I really, really don’t think it aligns with his established character much at all. Being “undone by his own action” I think is already a very established and repeated character beat that he falls into with repeated oversights of small details or lacking tools of perception (see 10 hours late on the bombs, initial system support failure, Benny slighting him, Gomorrah and White Gloves going against his rules, no established line to foresee NCR or Legion betrayal like those factions have).

Literally the entire point of failing to deliver the Platinum Chip is undermined if he Literally Started the War. Why the fuck was it started 10 hours too early then? Did he set pieces in motion but have it muddled by others? That does seem to happen fairly often and people Always Mucking Things Up seems to be an attitude he regularly has. IDR if the show is supposed to be parallel or actual canon but it definitely complicates motives and some of the information we’re told by House.

He absolutely embellishes or omits things but I haven’t gotten the impression he’s an absolute liar. It wouldn’t “look good” to admit ending the world to a new contract hire, but… idk bro you seemed pretty chill fueling the military-industrial complex and violently overtaking other companies for your SpaceX dreams before the war why the fuck blow it up

Btw I do want to see House fuck but specifically in his weird freak way. Side note I wonder if House actually fucked pre-war or if he was already preoccupied with developing whatever mind sex zone he needed brain scans for. House failing at intimacy due to self-exposure and vulnerability king

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[tinytorchlight]

WHEEE chriscade 1, 3, 4, and 25!! ^_^

answered 1 :-)

3. What do they like about one another? Include both physical and personality traits, anything they like.

after feeling so burned by the brotherhood seizing project purity and how they handled it thereafter, christopher lost a lot of faith in the goodness of people. so when arcade said "it's an inhumane kind of public service when people and the basic resources they need become numbers in a ledger." it kind of made him want to cry. this guy gets it. as far as looks... arcade could have been a ghoul for all he cares about that. all he needs to do is be arcade. that said... christopher does think his eyes are pretty :)

similarly arcade also likes christopher's passion for helping people, but additionally... christopher is an incessant questions asker and arcade likes that. i wouldn't say he loves to talk, but he does appreciate when someone wants to listen to what he has to say. and he does like to teach! physically even though christopher is in pretty bad shape when they meet arcade still finds him cute... (as @dannyburke put it, like a stray cat covered in motor oil LMAO) he's also still got that captivating smile. arcade wants to see it more.

4. In what areas would they help one another grow?

christopher helps arcade realize just because he left the followers doesn't mean he still can't help people, encouraging him to put his medical skills to use as a family doctor instead of the more hands-off sciences he was looking into. he also helps him with his people skills a little to make it easier on him. they go through a lot of theoretical scenarios together. (something christopher's dad and jonas did to help him with his social skills growing up)

just knowing arcade has his back helps christopher a lot. he relearns to stand up for himself and most importantly, to channel his grief and guilt into something productive, like arcade did when he joined the followers. not only becoming a medical assistant, but an active participant in their community. he gets pretty popular for it, too! christopher really wishes he knew someone like him when he was fresh out of the vault...

25. Try and think of either 3 silly or angsty headcanons for them as a couple? Depending on the dynamic of the ship, could be anything at all. If you cant think of 3, thats fine.

christopher steals arcade's glasses all the time. he wears them while arcade looks for them and waits until he finally realizes. it doesn't take long though because he thinks it's so hilarious that he's gonna start laughing and give away the bit. he did this with jonas all the time back in the vault...

if arcade ever has to be anywhere very early in the morning, all christopher asks is that he wakes him up before he leaves.

since arcade has a latin phrase for literally everything, i imagine "ubi amor, ibi dolor" (where there is love, there is pain) comes up a lot. symbolic of their journey together and whatever the future holds. christopher finds that particular phrase comforting.

[tinytorchlight]

being a big Questhead atm… are there any side quests that are super important to your player characters? Do they complete any quests in an interesting way, or are any quests significant to their values, story progression, etc.? (can include companion or dlc quests :] )

tbh all of the side quests in 3 are super integral to christopher's development in Some way... trouble on the homefront is an obvious one since it's kind of the catalyst of his downward spiral, and oasis, an uncomfortably positive blip during an extremely dark time. "why didn't i kill harold? isn't that what i would want? why wasn't he mad about it? why am i mad about it?" is something that keeps him up at night

i think all the quests on the strip are important for nat, but beyond the beef/pheeble will is a big one for her. she feels walter's plight because one of her husbands was a brahmin rancher and she's more than familiar with getting screwed over by fat cats. thing is, she's already decided what happens outside the mojave is not her problem. heck gunderson provides a service to the strip, a beneficial connection she'd like to keep. one of many cases of her sacrificing her morals for own interests.

the lost patrol is a pretty important quest for esther. since she feels like she's got something to prove, she goes looking for that signal in a super mutant camp and a super mutant gets a lucky shot with a molotov, she then is forced to forge a connection with the minutemen while she recovers at sanctuary... she loathes this but it will pay off for her big time in the future!! it's a quest she starts early on (before she even recruits danse, or he recruits her) and finishes much later, convincing brandis to rejoin the brotherhood just before wondering if she ever should have joined at all.

[tinytorchlight]

Hmmm… Esther show me your Fear…

oh god what isn't she afraid of. i guess betrayal would be the worst one. she's spent her whole life having the rug pulled out from under her, so she's used to people being fake and builds her relationships on that assumption... then when she finally has someone she can really get close to, finding out they aren't who they seem is devastating. unfortunately this happens to her twice in quick succession, with her husband and danse...

she kinda just falls apart after that. she doesn't know who she is or if she can even trust her own judgement anymore... she's gotta start from scratch.

[daggerfvll]

WEHHH I didn't see the option to send asks on your main so I'll send one here smiles. Lmk if you'd prefer replies or something else instead...

Anyways IIRC Jacob is a House courier, yes? I'd love to hear how his NCR background (especially regarding his father's death and reliance on community) affected his thoughts when siding with House...

Hello, and thank you for the prompt!

I'm very, very particular about what goes on my main blog because of either ADHD or ADD, so I try to restrict a majority of my ramble-posting to my spam blog, where such posts are plentiful already. I'd be happy to splurge about Jacob here, however, so here is what I've managed to compile from what I've already said about him in less organized places.

If I'm remembering correctly, I believe Jacob was initially an Independent Vegas courier, but when I subsequently discovered my uncouth longing for the hue-shifted, capitalistic old man, any and all ambition of having Jacob remain an Independent Vegas courier was thrown out the window; not only because I felt it better suit him as a character — what with growing up uneducated, being unable to read the room, and being relatively naïve despite his age — but because it would present an interesting political and moral dilemma upon which I can further build his character.

I'd prior reasoned that his father — or other nondescript members of his extended family / ancestors — was some kind of military veteran, given the dog tags present on his person, however I never specified whether or not the previous owner of said dog tags were either New California Republic soldiers or diplomats. It was this question that gave me cause to attempt to further distinguish his character, and so I decided that they belonged to his father, a former NCR soldier who succumbed to his battle wounds, thus leaving Jacob orphaned and without a remaining family or lineage to claim. Both the political polarity between he and an individual like Mr. House, as well as the kinship they may develop from both having experienced orphanage or homelessness, I felt, was the best direction to take to better develop Jacob, to explore the tension that may be born from he and Mr. House's opposing ideologies, were Jacob to side with Mr. House.

Not only does it go against the grain of the patriotic political views Jacob grew to adopt over his childhood and teenage years, forcing him to confront and challenge those biases in the face of an individual who views the game of politics under a very different light than him, but it also presents external conflict with regard to some of the tasks Mr. House might ask of him; I.E. destabilizing the NCR's political influence over the region, killing General Lee Oliver... so on and so forth. Accordingly, I imagine Jacob might get defensive over the prospects of being required to betray his ideals, therefore resulting in Jacob developing a form of identity crisis when confronted with the reality that his personal ideals can so easily be disposed of or disregarded by others.

And because Jacob is so naïve, and given Mr. House knows this about him, he's easily molded into the employee Mr. House wishes him to be due to the fact that he is already so taken by his employer's charisma. When observed under a different light, he is a personification of pre-War capitalistic ideals; blind, indulgent consumerism with no true grasp of the accompanying consequences. Jacob holds the past close to his chest (his father's dog tags) because it is all he has of value or unique distinction to allow to mesh into his person; as does Mr. House, with his idealistic vision for New Vegas. His ignorance is not all bad, as he is kind to those around him, and tries to avoid confrontation, but when his ignorance instructs him to violate his own ideals, that is where problems begin to prop up.

Jacob has problems! And so I saw it to be more realistic to give him additional issues, what with everything the courier endures throughout the vanilla game already. I want to elaborate more, but I'm suffering from influenza right now. So take this... my five hundred cents...

[kyberinfinitygems]

there’s a lot of buzz about it so why not… potential fo3 remaster ☕️

YES

Fallout 3 is my favorite of the games! (I’ll be kicked out of the fandom but I just couldn’t get into New Vegas.😢) It would be great to see everything with updated graphics and would love to see Penny and her story again with them. It’s a remaster, not a remake, so I will have to keep my expectations low.