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Does your character use a legendary or iconic weapon? What is it? How reliant is your character on it?

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Regis - Papa Khan’s advisor and right-hand man

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fnv mod that makes you play a round of caravan against a companion every time you use the wait menu 🃏

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I think the reason there's an infinite number of unnamed bandits attacking you all the time in bethesda games is because that's genuinely what the late-middle-aged libertarians working at bethesda think the world is like outside their gated communities

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Watching baseball

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one of arcade gannons core character traits that i love is that he is literally, canonically, incapable of shutting the fuck up to save his life. and its not like he revels in being a yapper. he wants so badly, so fervently, to be the kind of person who Shuts the Fuck Up. but he shrimply isn't. he's going around the mojave with the constant internal monologue of "dont reveal the fascism backstory" and then it gets thrown out the window the instant he sees something cool that even remotely reminds him of his past. hes so incapable of shutting the fuck up that in one ending it gets his ass crucified. you know, that shit they did to jesus. and it happens to arcade gannon for being a talkative smartass. man of all time

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and another oc photo dump since i remembered how to use my enb

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have you ever noticed how Bethesda loves to imply that raiders don't want to work hard to survive, they'd rather take someone else's hard work when like..... there has to be a more nuanced reason than they're lazy, violent thugs. But it brings up a serious question, why do raiders raid? What is stopping them from settling down? Is it that prime land is taken up? Terrible soil? Lack of education? Unable to form alliance when settlements are shoot on sight? Why?

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Me before law school: I don't get why Fallout 4 made the female Sole Survivor's pre-war job a lawyer. You expect me to believe that a lawyer would start fighting people and eating corpses after being in the post-apocalyptic wasteland for one day?

Me after one year of law school: Nora, I'm sorry I doubted you

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I've been on a bit of a mission recently, because one of the things that I really love about the Fallout fandom is the huge, huge variety of OCs that people populate this setting with. I still love a lot of the canon characters, and the stories that go with them, but I'm so interested in the lives and relationships of the other characters we make to fit into that world. I realise I've spent five years building up lore and stories about my own oc that I've just never shared here, and I wonder how many other people feel like they desperately want to talk about the cool guy they made up, but... Don't? For whatever reason?

So if you're seeing this post, reblog it with your OC and something about them. Or send me a message and gush about them. If I reblog some art or fic etc. of your character, that is an invitation to DM me or go off in the comments about them - please, because the joy of this setting, for me, is the depth and variety of human existence. This is especially true for characters of colour, characters with mixed heritage, characters with disabilities. And characters who are outside the mold of the game protagonists too, even if they started out that way.

The setting is so full of opportunities, and that's why I have stuck around so long and still feel so strongly about it. I would genuinely love to hear from anyone who wants to share their thoughts.

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im a real fallout fan. i only like realistic lore, like the gunner faction. because when you think about it, in this fucked up fallout world, they really would use guns. maybe that’s too “edgy” for some of you, but i looked it up, and they had guns in classic fallout! by the way, you ever noticed how the prewar food should have gone bad by now? that’s really unrealistic. you say it’s a joke about preservatives but realistically they don’t last that long so it doesn’t work. even still, to me, fallout 4 is good, even though there’s an unrealistic part (the food should be expired). tunnel snakes rule

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it’s kind of crazy that both fallout new Vegas and fallout 4 have the same driving force for the first half of the narrative (find the guy who wronged you and make him pay) but Benny is so much more memorable and narratively interesting than Kellogg.

It’s a matter of a strong character foil versus a weak one, in my opinion.

Benny and the courier are very much alike. They are both ambitious people who are willing to do anything possible to stack the odds in their favour. Honestly, Benny and the courier are the same card, reversed.

The Sole Survivor and Kellogg are also intended to be character foils. The game tries to convince us of this with the scenes in Kellogg’s mind, where we see that he ‘isn’t so different’ from our protagonist after all. But we don’t know anything about Kellogg other than his backstory. How can he parallel the protagonist if we don’t know which traits he has? Which traits the two of them share?

(As a side note, I wish Fallout 4 had touched way more on the ‘Man/Woman Out of Time’ thing. The protagonist being frozen in the past + Kellogg being functionally immortal would’ve been really cool to explore! Especially in the context of grief!)

In the end, I think the reason Benny is a more powerful character foil is that he doesn’t disappear from the world when you kill him. The chairmen can mourn him, House will comment on it, and even NPCs across the Mojave will talk about Benny’s death!

In Kellogg’s case, the protagonist is basically the only person who knows he even existed! Once he’s dead HE’s DEAD! He disappears completely from the narrative! As soon as you leave fort Hagen, the game doesn’t bother looking back.

that’s why Benny is a more haunting force for new Vegas; particularly an independent courier. You are Benny’s legacy because you are what he leaves behind whether he likes it or not. People remember him as the couriers victim. Meanwhile, nobody remembers Kellogg at all. The memory of who Kellogg was dies with you, and you can choose to forget him.

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To be clear, it doesn't actually matter if FNV got "retconned" by the show or not.

I'm already seeing people on social media post screenshots of Emil Pagliarulo's tweets where he confirms that FNV is canon to the show, but that was never what I was upset about. In fact, I didn't even notice until just now that the year that the "Fall of Shady Sands" happened the same year as the First Battle of Hoover Dam.

The thing is, even in the most generous interpretation: that FNV did happen, the writers just can't keep track of the year when it happened (an embarrassing mistake by itself) is still terrible, because that means that NCR and New Vegas got offscreened, and the events of FNV ended up not mattering worth a fuck. The way the writers handled this still speaks of immense disrespect towards Obsidian's work on the game.

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[Jun 25, 2021] “Silver-tongued, gunslinging, chain-smoking Jane. My Courier from a current playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas.”