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#myhomelandaz #crossover #bioshock #other characters #art

Booker and Valentine crossover

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NICK VALENTINE

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Prewar Nick and George for the lovely @omkdear!! <3

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Since you have a lot of nick v. Hcs, do you have any hcs bout pre war nick and synth nick where their likes/dislikes/opinions/traits are opposite from each other. Like ex pre war nick hates cats while as synth nick loves cats.

Hell yeah!

- I think prewar Nick was more outgoing than synth Nick. I think he had more confidence, as life had been much kinder to him (up until Jenny’s death, that is). He may have even been a little arrogant, but still kindhearted. Rather different from our much humbler, much more laid-back synth Nick. Synth Nick is certainly much more insecure, partly to do with how people treat him, partly because he compares his synth body to his human one, and partly because he believes that not even the Institute wanted to keep him around. He uses sarcasm and witty retorts to deflect people’s nasty remarks and keep up an outward wall of invulnerability, but he’s still affected by the way people treat him deep down. Still, he’s much more relaxed, more able to sit back and enjoy the little things. Many of the changes in his personality have to do with life circumstances, but some of them also just have to do with getting older and more mature.

- Prewar Nick liked more upbeat music. Both love jazz, but prewar Nick was more into Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Louis Jordan, energetic music for dancing fast. And he loved to show off on the dance floor. Synth Nick’s tastes are a little mellower, he loves Billie Holiday and Chet Baker. He doesn’t go out to dance anymore, with no partner to dance with, but you might catch him practicing on his own to the radio if you barge into the agency late at night, his motions slow, smooth, and elegant. He’d be a little embarrassed if you saw.

- Prewar Nick was a huge workaholic and a budding alcoholic. The drinking got much worse after he lost Jenny. Synth Nick can’t get drunk, although he wishes he could sometimes. He is still very much a workaholic. He’s got twice as many hours to fill each day without the need to sleep, so he spends a lot of them working. He’s gotten better at taking breaks since Ellie joined the agency, though. She takes some of the more tedious work off his shoulders and reminds him to step away for a bit.

- Prewar Nick liked to gamble. Mostly pool and card games at bars. Jenny made him promise to stop after he lost very badly one night and they had to borrow money for rent. Synth Nick hasn’t picked the habit back up. He doesn’t have that many caps to spare, and not many people in Diamond City would play a game of cards with a synth, anyways.

- Prewar Nick was very picky about his cigarettes. Had a niche preferred brand. Synth Nick can’t afford to be so picky, people don’t manufacture cigarettes anymore, so he’ll take what he can scavenge, usually just the basic Gray Tortoise brand. They don’t do anything for him on a chemical level, but he finds comfort in the ritual of smoking. The brand doesn’t seem so important to him now. But if you managed to scrounge up his old favorite somewhere as a gift, he’d probably be over the moon.

- Prewar Nick didn’t like Boston at first. Moving there from Chicago, he felt that the city was smaller, less lively, with worse food, and the streets were harder to navigate without the grid system. The longer he lived there with Jenny, the more it started to grow on him. He could envision raising a child in Boston, going to all the parks as a family, and he started to have a list of favorite pubs and delis to visit. Boston was ruined for him after he lost Jenny. Everything was ruined for him, really. Synth Nick has lived in Boston long enough to know its virtues and its flaws, changed as they are in a post-war world. He likes the charm of the old brick buildings in the North End, the boats in the harbor, the Esplanade with its view of the Charles, and the old-fashioned vibes of the Fenway area. He even likes the lazy Boston accent, although only a few people still have it. But he also sees the long history of prejudice and elitism that’s always been a part of Boston throughout history and the disturbing ways it continues on postwar. He’ll never leave, it’s where he’s made his home, but it’s certainly not paradise either.

Hope you enjoyed, feel free to send more asks! I’m having lots of fun with these hcs :)

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hi grampa..

nick in a winter oufit, doodle requested by @/roosterm3at :D

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Almost forgot to share the complete version of my contribution to @chunklet 's War Never Changes zine !!

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These would probably be better if I had used a ruler instead of eyeballin it

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NO MATTER WHERE I HIDE MY DONUT FRYER NICK ALWAYS FINDS IT AND USES IT

I'M SO SICK OF HIM

HOW?!!?!?

NICK. NICK STOP MAKING DONUTS PLEASE NICK WE NEED TO BREAK INTO THE INSTITUTE AND GET MY SON NICK PLEA

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booted up sfm cause i needed refs for nick (especially for his head), putting here in case this helps anyone :0

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Talking about Valentines

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I caved and finally gave my human Nick Valentine design a mustache and now him and Jen are just look like Tedbecca oopsie (also Widmark and his wife Nancy because my roommate likes the silly blonde guy haha)

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It's weird, but everything about Nick Valentine makes me think that he was made to be paralleled with the Tin Man from Wizard of Oz.

Like- he's a synth, so made of metal. He's got a heart motif. He's got the memories of a pre-war human the same way that the book version of the Tin Woodsman is a tin body containing the consciousness of a presumably-munchkin man and has angst about whether his emotions are real despite being the kindest, most empathetic, most human member of the group. The Tin Woodsman's original name in the Baum books is Nick Chopper.

Everything about this guy just screams 'I am here to be the Tin Man in a Wizard of Oz parallel'. Hell, Diamond City is full of references to the Wizard of Oz - it's the Great Green Jewel! Don't look at the man behind the curtain!

And it's absolutely doing my head in, because for the life of me, I can't identify a Scarecrow or Cowardly Lion anywhere in this mess and somehow my brain keeps insisting that those three come as a set.

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Okay, tldr, I have worked so long and hard on this, I cannot look at it anymore. This is my human Nick from my pre-war Fallout fic, and obviously robot pepaw too. The concept and background would take too long to explain--but know that over 300 hours has gone into this (Four months worth of work). ✨Please do not upload this to other websites without my permission, reproduce, print etc. I am working on getting my print store up! I am just gauging interest right now, so feel free to comment if that's something you'd be interested in ☺️. ✨

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OKAY HEAR ME OUT Paul Rudd as Nick Valentine (Fallout 4)

Live action Nick Valentine. You understand. You see my vision. Paul Rudd let me CGI holes in your face.

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Toaster husband

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Valentine's Eyes

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Companions and the typical ice cream truck selection I think they’d prefer:

Cait:

Curie:

Danse:

Deacon:

Hancock:

Macready:

Nick:

Piper:

Preston:

X6-88: