Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fallout 4
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Original Fallout 4 Character(s), Preston Garvey, Mama Murphy (Fallout), Sturges (Fallout), Companion(s) (Fallout 4), Marcy Long, Jun Long, Gunner Character(s) (Fallout), Codsworth (Fallout), Institute Character(s) (Fallout)
Additional Tags: Non Canon main character, Found Family, Redemption, Past Trauma, False Identity, new life, Gunners (Fallout 4)
Summary:
What happens when a gun gains a conscience? Or when that gun takes on the mission of a dying man near a vault entrance? Can your really build more than you burned?
And does it even matter if you do?
List of surges is in development! I've tried to be systematic about it AND make the list 32 units long, and mostly succeeded!
Abilities are divided by surge and by order. In order for an ability to be different from another ability, it needs to EITHER be a different surge OR belong to a different set of Radiant orders.
Some of the Fused abilities are not notably different than their Radiant counterparts, but unlike Radiants, all Fused can hold Light indefinitely. Also, if I included all nine, this list got closer to 32 exactly.
A few abilities are unique to specific people! Shallan, Rlain & Renarin, and Ishi all have unique abilities represented here, as the rest of their orders couldn't do them.
My tentative list is below the cut, but I have a few questions for you.
Which Ideal should this tournament represent?
3rd Ideal (all Surges accessed, no armor, less Invested than Fused)
4th Ideal (with armor, more Invested than Fused)
Voting ended onJul 27, 2025
These are the only two options, because below 3rd not all orders have all Surges, and at 5th Ideal we don't know enough about the Radiants yet!
A phrase in my feed caught my eye. "20 years" was trending.
"People share their memories and experiences 20 years after the first Surge," the caption claimed.
I press my home button and– yep. June 21st. The first time the world turned upside down was exactly 20 years ago.
When I was in primary school, we learned about the Surges on the anniversary of the second Surge. They say everyone remembers exactly where they were during the Surges– my mom was out for lunch in lower Manhattan while on vacation in NYC. She said it was terrifying, she just stood there shocked. Unsure what to do, if she could even do anything at all.
It used to be that every anniversary, she'd spend the day distracting herself, doing just about anything but acknowledging what day it was. In the years since, she's attended therapy, and support groups for "witnesses". She barely even flinches at the memory anymore.
I wasn't born in time for the Surges, but I can sympathize with how traumatizing it must have been. Still, it's always been hard to relate to those who saw it happen. Even the oldest of my peers were something like 4 when it happened. A lot of the people who do remember call those of us who weren't around for it ignorant, or insensitive for criticizing all the rash decisions people made after it happened. I don't think that's fair. We don't see it through the same lens they do, we didn't watch it happen. All we have to judge them on is what happened next. The rights that have been violated, the opportunities that were robbed from us, the people who were killed in the pursuit of some spectre of evil who caused this all to happen.
Hell, in some circles, bringing it up in even a semblance of a critical light is taboo. I heard last November, a congressperson was almost shot on the steps of the capitol by some lunatic because they said that 'hey, maybe fucking killing people was a little much' after nineteen-and-a-half years.
I don't know. Maybe I am just insensitive. Maybe after 13 years of it being drilled into my head, I actually don't, in fact, understand the situation at all. Maybe it really was some spirit of absolute evil in east Asia who did this to spite us specifically, while also, in the process, making everyone's life much harder, their own included. Who knows?
going about my life, everything fine... then I have a flashback about Elhokar's death scene and I get angry again...HE.WAS.TRYING.TO.BE.BETTER. I'm almost certain though Sanderson is gonna write such an arch for Moash that we are going to end up cheering him on again 😅... like, to fit the recurring theme of flawed characters whose past misdeeds can't hold them back from doing the right thing in the present
I would probably want to be a Pewterarm/Soulbearer. (Pewter Allomancy/Nicrosil Feruchemy) Nicrosil Feruchemy is probably one of my faavorite feruchemic metal just to learn more about. It seems really unexplored. Could it store my allomantic reserves to use later? Or would it just store my ability? Could it store forms of Investiture from other worlds if I could get there? I have too many questions.
2. Radiant order?
I really don’t know, maybe the Order of Lightweavers, but not entirely sure. This might change as we get more material and I read more of the stuff beyond just Way of Kings and Words of Radiance.
4. if you were a shard, what would that shard be called?
I really don’t know. Probably Protection or some such.
