this was going to be a simple sketch in a boonecade post about how I like to think about boone hanging out with arcade after arcade has had a few drinks, i think that i like to think about that specifically because then their personalities would contrast more and boone would probably be awkward an not know what to do about it meanwhile arcade is just giddily throwing an arm or two around boone's shoulder talking about some obscure piece of pre-war literature that he read years ago.
here is some bonus imagery of what it was originally supposed to sorta look like. just imagine that either boone is higher quality or arcade is lower quality lol.
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