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Character ask for Fallout OC of your choice?

Send me a character and I’ll answer these!!Sole Survivor: Ruby Irving

1: sexuality headcanon: Biromantic demisexual2: otp: Ruby/Piper3: brotp: Ruby/Nick4: notp: Ruby/Kellogg or something? Lol5: first headcanon that pops into my head: As you might gather from the picture above, she’s a massive Silver Shroud fangirl6: favorite line from this character: (while cooking a radroach here) “Still wondering why I didn’t try this recipe back in my days of being a housewife.”7: one way in which I relate to this character: I also act like a fool around pretty ladies8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character: I don’t really do self-inserts but she’s probably the closest I have to one, so there are a few things lmao, such as her fangirling when it’s not really appropriate9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?: Problematic cinnamon roll

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R U B Y I R V I N G!

Spell a character’s name in my askbox and I’ll tell you my headcanons…

R: What are their hands like?Smol, but she has an iron grip. Also prone to dryness in cold weather.

U: What’s their voice like?Kinda deep. Generally softly spoken, except when she’s playing the Silver Shroud.

B: Do they have any allergies?Just dust and pollen, but it’s not too much of a biggie.

Y: What is one question they’ve always wanted an answer to?“Why me?”

I: On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do they love themselves?Depends what kinda day/week/month/year she’s having. But probably around a 6 or 7.

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V: What’s the easiest way to annoy them?In terms of irritation as opposed to actual anger? Start pointing out inconsistencies in the Silver Shroud canon. 

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N: What do they usually eat for breakfast?Nowadays, grilled radroach. She’s gross and likes it lol. Pre-war, she liked eating a full English breakfast - she has a big appetite on a morning.

G: How do they flirt?Oh gosh, awkwardly. She’s about as smooth as Piper when she compliments Magnolia’s “set”. It gets marginally better once she’s actually dating someone.

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dreadbythesea replied to your post “dreadbythesea replied to your post “Thought about mass murder?...”

Killing off raiders would be on the agenda when i get to nuka world too which is, with how gage is, disappointing but oh well lol

Yeah, I was super disappointed that Gage turned hostile as well but like...it would have been so OoC and made no narrative sense for Ruby to suddenly become a raider lol

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dreadbythesea replied to your post “Thought about mass murder? Innocent Actually committed a mass murder?...”

This is kind of an easy one because well, destroying the institute. Dread never thought he would do such a thing but for the good of the commonwealth of course. You could also say wiping out the railroad, this is based on my in game canon.

Ahhh yeah, that makes sense! Ruby had as many people as possible evacuate the Institute, and the Railroad are still going strong, complete with (ghost?) Glory. In the main game she didn’t fall out with too many people but Nuka-World...was a different story lol

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Not entirely sure what the occasion is, but I heard something about sharing our OCs today, so here are four of mine!

First row:  Pyrrha (dunmer/dovahkiin, TES: Skyrim) Kat Smith (lone wanderer, Fallout 3)

Second row:  Ruby Irving (sole survivor, Fallout 4) Aeliana Erimond (Tevinter mage & long suffering sister of Livius, Dragon Age) 

Once again, a big thank you to @chupacabrasmustdie for drawing Aeliana for me <33

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Two

Time for some more synth family feels. Nick and Ruby chat by the campfire after meeting DiMA for the first time, while Ruby cooks up some...interesting cuisine. (Dialogue relating to DiMA is taken from the game)

The heavy, oily smell of the roaches filled the air around the campfire. Over several months, Ruby had learned to tolerate them – at least, when they were no longer crawling around. The thing about the roaches was that their odour, their taste, would linger and get into any food stored nearby. And they were everywhere. You might as well get used to it. She separated the tough outer shell from the softer, fleshier bits using one of the knives she’d borrowed from Aster before they’d headed out.

“Roasted radroach again?” She didn’t need to look up. She could picture Nick’s expression from the tone of his voice. He’d been shaken up when they’d first spoken with DiMA, but camping just outside of the bustling little harbour town seemed to have grounded him. Sitting by the campfire, sharing their old world blues, was one of their tried and tested routines.

“You know me, Nick. Can’t get enough of it.” She rubbed salt, herbs, and spices into the edible bits before skewering the meat. “Still wondering why I didn’t try this recipe back in my days of being a housewife.” She laughed softly, remembering Shaun’s face when he’d first seen her cooking after they left the Institute together.

She wondered what sights, sounds and smells Nick and DiMA had first encountered when they’d escaped, and her chest tightened. She stayed quiet for a while, basking in the warmth of the fire as she turned the skewers. It had to be cooked through. You didn’t eat medium-rare radroach, not unless you wanted to give yourself a mild dose of radiation poisoning. Nick sighed, and she looked up to see him fiddling with a few exposed wires on his wrist. Running a diagnostic, he called it.

“Nick?”

“What? Oh, sorry. Just got my head full of what DiMA was talking about. It’s…a bit of a shock. What do you think he is really…family?”

She recalled what Nick had said, back in Acadia. “Can synths even be related? Just because we’re from the same assembly line, does that make us family?” Shaun was a synth, and she was his mother. Not by blood, not exactly, but they had a bond – they had memories, things they did together. Things they shared. Ruby thought of DiMA, surrounded by wires, almost entrapped by them, and fitted with more memory banks than she’d ever seen together in one room. She couldn’t imagine Nick living like that. Confined to one place, by choice.

“Before I answer, are you okay?”

“I’ll keep. Don’t worry. Just need to figure this all out.”

She stayed quiet for a while, basking in the warmth of the fire as she turned the skewers. It had to be cooked through. You didn’t eat medium-rare radroach, not unless you wanted to give yourself a mild dose of radiation poisoning.

“Honestly? I don’t know what to think, Nick.” He let out a tired laugh, muffled by the sounds of the meat sizzling.

“Yeah…Guess that makes two of us.”

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Fallout fic masterpost

I haven’t written a whole lot of FO fic yet, but I thought I’d gather things together here, and keep adding to it!

Mundus Novus series

Drabbles and short stories about former vault-dweller Ruby Irving, and her intrepid reporter girlfriend, Piper Wright, along with their friends and family in the Commonwealth:

Bubblegum and Cigarettes (Piper/Ruby, 821 words, NSFW - angst/smut/fluff)

Piper and Ruby agreed to take things slow. It worked well, for a time.

Story of the Year (Piper/Ruby, Nat, synth!Shaun, Dogmeat, 494 words, SFW - fluff)

“As she woke, Piper’s nose twitched at the familiar scent of wet paint. She could almost smell the freshly painted green walls of Diamond City - of home - here in Ruby’s house.”

The Article (Piper/Ruby, 342 words, SFW - fluff)

Piper wants Ruby's opinion on her latest article, but her girlfriend is taking an insanely long bath.

Two (Nick & Ruby, 503 words, SFW - light angst/family feels)

Nick and Ruby chat by the campfire after meeting DiMA for the first time, while Ruby cooks up some…interesting cuisine.

Blue (Piper/Ruby, 215 words, SFW - fluff, minor injury)

Piper suffered a minor scrape in the Wasteland, and Ruby gets out her first aid kit.

Rust (Piper/Ruby, 277 words, SFW - light angst/guilt) 

Piper and Ruby gather resources to take back to Sanctuary.

Blackthorn Winter (Nick/Nora, 1000 words, SFW - light angst)

Nora shares some of her feelings about the doubts DiMA planted during their time in Far Harbor and worries about her son.  Written for Press Start 2018.

(Big Wheel, Manchester by James Chadderton)

And while it’s not exactly fic, I have a few headcanons/meta posts in my British Fallout AU tag if anyone’s interested in that kind of thing, as well as my newer Fallout World series tag

Ruby’s tag can be found here for art/inspiration/headcanons/fic and if anyone wants to find out more about my lone wanderer, Kat, she can be found here!

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★★

For every “★” I get, I will post a fact about my characters

★ Ruby used to hate bubblegum, but now she often keeps a stash with her when she’s travelling the Commonwealth, because it reminds her of Piper. She also paid way too many caps for a lip gloss, just because it was called “bubblegum pink” and she wanted to give it to Piper as a gift.

★ She stopped smoking after she became pregnant with Shaun, and (against all odds) she’s actually managed to stay smoke-free after the events in the vault. But sometimes, when she hasn’t seen Piper in a while, she’ll just light a cigarette and pop it on a nearby ashtray so she can smell it.