Comic Book Nerd! RJ MacCready who can quote every Grognak comic, knows every side character and backstory, who can talk passionately for hours about character arcs and History Nerd! Deacon who read the bibliographies of authors of the Grognak comics and can tell you the inspiration behind characters, fun facts not included in canon, and the societal impact of the comics.
Do you have any headcanons or thoughts about MacCready when he leaves little lamplight? I’m not sure if he’s ever discussed about big town where all the little lamplighters go or not.
I kind of wonder if he was mayor of big town for a bit too.
I did read MacCready's wiki page, just to make sure I wasn't missing anything or completely contradicting canon when writing this. Although, I think canon can be whatever anyone wants it to be, I still religiously play Fallout 4 as my courier, rather than Sole. Honestly, I will never tire of writing for MacCready, I think it might be physically impossible.
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Post-Lamplight MacCready Headcanons
MacCready didn't spend much time in Big Town truthfully. He had gone there, expecting to be welcomed with open arms by his older friends from Little Lamplight, but to his dismay, he hardly recognised anyone currently living in the town.
He'd certainly had expectations that, after being such a successful mayor in Little Lamplight, he would find something similar in Big Town, at the very least. However, these expectations were soon shattered, Big Town was a far cry from the home that he had grown up in, the one he now sorely missed.
It was hard to bond with the other kids in Big Town while worrying about when the next Super Mutant attack would be. Either, MacCready would get close to someone, just for them to be taken or killed, or he would be completely disregarded by the others there. It was lonely, no matter what he did.
He certainly did not make it easy on himself either, often demanding that he should be respected, seeing that he was the mayor back in Little Lamplight. Some of the kids would jeer at him or dismiss him, others were simply too terrified to acknowledge him at all, more focused on when the next attack would be.
It was only a few months into being sixteen that MacCready decided to leave Big Town, finally growing fed up of living in fear and simply taking off in the night with just a rifle and some food. He never returned and, in truth, he did what he could not to think about Big Town, the people he'd left behind and the looming threat that they still faced with the Super Mutants.
As we already know, MacCready spent most of his time after this wandering the wastelands, as a gun for fire. He never did find a home for many years after that, knowing nothing would ever be the same as Little Lamplight, wishing he'd appreciated just how easy he'd had it when he'd had the chance.
He adjusted better to a life constantly on the road, more so than he had adjusted to Big Town. By then, he had accepted life for what it was. Although, he had always known what the world outside was like, he just never thought he'd have to face it
More often than not, he wondered if he should return to Lamplight, ask them to let him come back. Sure, he wasn't a child anymore, but he'd kept them safe for years, they'd have to let him back in again. Still, he knew the answer and he never did work up the courage to return anywhere near his former home.
i actually really like the deacon is lone wanderer headcanon because it gives space to a really funny LW ane MacCready reunion
maccready just doing his thing, hanging out at the third rail, when hancock comes by to introduce a friend of his. a buddy from god knows where. hes just helping with some stuff around here, dont worry about it man.
deacon is told maccreadys name and sees a grown man and almost starts crying on the spot because. what the fuck!! what the fuck happened to that foul-mouthed 12 year old kid!! why is an awkward adult man looking at his surprised face like a personal slight?
