Why does the Sole Survivor betray the Commonwealth to join the Nuka World Raiders?
So I’ve recently replayed the nuka world dlc and it got me thinking. What could drive Sole to betray all they have work for in the main game like that? What happened in main game for them to do this? What made them change sides?
Sole is a prewar person with strong morals who wanted to stop the war and was ready to become a whole ass activist to stop it.
Then, they join a faction that helps people one way or another, they rebuild the commonwealth one settlement at a time and even if they show violent tendencies or greed or even apathy, you still have to do the right thing (a general right thing like stopping a murdered by killing them instead of making him see the error of his ways). So throught the whole game they are helpful and want to build something.
So, why do they became a raider? REVENGE.
Sole already visited nuka world and became overboss, or at least had some contact with Gage and the raiders. They leave when they ask them to take over the commonwealth because they still have friends and family in there. Also, big morals.
I imagine a Sole whose main faction ordered them to blow the Institute and they refused. A Sole that wanted to rescue their son and save the scientists but whose faction saw this as betrayal or a coop. All those scientists were at fault for creating the synths, for abusing technology, for the disaperences and the deaths, of the fear that took a hold of the Commonwealth as a whole. All of them deserved to fall with their home. None of them deserved redemption.
Sole is mad that this is the hill their faction decided to died on. They try to go against them anyway, sneaking letters or sending another companion to get the scientists to run. But the faction catches on almost immediately and acts on their plan to avoid any more obstacles. Maybe the companion they trusted ratted them out. I want to see multiple companions against Sole and their resolve to save the Institute.
Imagine Sole being grabbed by their arms on top of the mass fussion building while the faction stand over the detonator, repeating their monologue while Soul just cries. A quiet cry with tears running down their face. And then the faction approach the detonator and Sole just starts screaming, they elbow their captors and tackles the faction leader and starts beating them while screaming bloody murder about how they trusted them, how after everything they gave the faction still chooses their paranoia over their true enemies and about how they betray their oath of protecting the commonwealth when they are about to destroy a large part of it. If romanced (Deacon or Preston) then they also yell how they thought he cared about them and their situation but he only cares about his own mission.
The rest of the faction catches them again and hold them down while the faction finally detonates the bomb. Sole struggles, yells and cries. After a few minutes they keep quiet and rests their forehead on the ground, promising to end this faction and make all who were with them PAY. (This includes settlements like Abernathy, Finch Farm or even the Slog) .
The faction lets them go since they had a huge part on their victory. Maybe they demote them or full on expell them but Sole gets to walk away.
Sole takes dogmeat and goes straight to nuka world. They are going to burn this city to the ground. The Commonwealth took their baby and there was hell to pay.
... extra points if that faction was the minutemen and Sole is just disgusted by the doble morals. (also applied to the railroad and Desdemona that treats the courses as ITS even though they are synths too)
