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So, any Fallout/Red Dwarf fans out there?

Just here to tell you all that MacCready has been inspired by Dave Lister, as - he's from a box *check - he's been alone and uneducated most of his life *check - he's been (almost) named Rob (Robert - OurRobOrRos) *check - does that break his mood? No *check

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I couldnt add a comment, so I reblog this and wanna ask, what did he use to eat? I never heard him say that

MacCready’s backstory dialogue + references to Fallout 3

Backstory:

Everyone pulled their own weight. Just like a colony you’d find anywhere, we all had our designated jobs and we watched each other’s backs. Can you believe I was actually the mayor for a while? Me? Crazy, I know.

I took the odd job here and there, but things were pretty hot with the Brotherhood of Steel running the show. So I hitched a ride with a caravan and made my way north until I ended up here. Made a pretty decent name for myself before I heard that the Gunners needed some sharpshooters. Biggest mistake of my life. They were animals. Killed anything that moved if it got in their way. I went with it for a while, because the caps were good. But, I dunno, I guess it started to catch up with me… so I quit. Which pretty much brings us to now. So there you have it, my whole life in a nutshell.

Look, I know I tend to be a pain in the ass… I mean, I know I tend to be arrogant and I come off like I want to be alone. Nothing could be further from the truth. Being alone scares the heck out of me. Now that we’ve been traveling together for a while, I’m beginning to realize how much I missed having someone I could depend on. I just wanted you to know that I’m going to do everything I can to see that it stays this way.

“Pretty brave, a bunch of kids living alone like that.” I don’t know. Looking back on the whole thing, I think we were just lucky.

“That sounds ridiculous.” Maybe, but it kept the colony alive for a couple hundred years.

“Makes sense, I suppose.” Nothing makes sense anymore. You just roll with the punches.

Other References to Fallout 3

I spent my childhood living right next to a Vault. Those are some seriously bad memories I wish I could forget.

Used to know a kid named Knick Knack who ran a store like this… kept all sorts of junk laying around.

Spent a lot of time in tunnels when I was a kid. You get used to it after a while.

Pfff. The monument here is a joke compared to the one in downtown Washington D.C.  

When I was a kid, I heard stories about Liberty Prime Junior stomping around the Captial Wasteland.

Ugh, I used to eat these things. Still can’t get the taste out of my mouth.

These mutants don’t scare me. Been fighting them since I was a kid.

The Capital Wasteland used to be crawling with these guys.

You think this place looks bad? Go visit the Capital Wasteland sometime.

The Commonwealth’s got the Capital Wasteland beat… that’s for sure.

Hmm. Not quite as cozy as Little Lamplight, but I could call it home.

I grew up living in a cave just like this. Can you believe it?

The caves I grew up in were luxurious compared to this dump.

Why couldn’t Lamplight have been a park… sigh…

Would have been nice to put down roots somewhere like this. Beats living in a cave.

This place reminds me of Big Town. Better days, I guess.

This reminds me of the time we tried to perform “Pyramus and Thisbe” in Little Lamplight. Yeah… that didn’t really go over too well.

We used to have a hoop setup in Little Lamplight until Eclair broke the darn thing.

When I left the Capital Wasteland, I didn’t just leave Little Lamplight behind… I left my family behind.

I’ve got to be honest with you, I feel more comfortable with a rocky ceiling above my head.

Used to live near Vault 87 back in the day. The stories I could tell…

Growing up underground makes you appreciate places like this.

Where I’m from, you couldn’t walk five feet without tripping over a memorial.

Only thing I missed when I was living underground was the daylight.

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Sooooooooo, I found MacCready in my film history class the other day. Was absolutely losing my shit every time he came on screen.

It's uncanny! The pictures kinda suck, but he's got the same hat, the same beard situation, same nose, even similar TEETH, ahhhh!

I was calling him MacCready throughout the whole film 😅. It's hard to tell in the pics, but he even had super blue eyes and the ammo wrapped around his waist like Mac, and I-- I just can't. It was wild, and I HAD to share.

If anyone's interested, the movie is called 84 Charlie MoPic, it's from the 80s, and it's a found footage-style film about the Vietnam War. (Really good movie, but a lil hard to watch if you're squeamish about blood n stuff.)

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Failing the flirting speech checks in fallout 4 but I rewrote them to be significantly worse

(Basically im doing the thing they did in fnv where if you dont pass a speech check, it gives you an option to say something that matches said failed speech check. This is specifically the flirt speech check and not the romance speech check. Also all of these are written as sole i just labeled them all)

Maccready

“Sounds like the. The uh. Uh. Uhhhhhhhh. I like y—“

Cait

“No p-problem b . bestie”

Piper

[said on the verge of tears] “I li…yeah!!! Yippeee!!!!”

Preston

“You wanna . you wanna uh . the settlement. you wanna help settlement . my heart is the settlement . i need help .”

Hancock

“I see . the see the uh world for uh …. you too . y you are the . the world h …. john”

Paladin danse

“But what if . would you . do you wanna be the commanding officer of . of my heart?”

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omg what an emotion rollercoaster, you rock!

I love seeing everyone’s headcanons for where MacCready’s homestead would be located, and since I’m piecing together more parts of One if By Land, here’s my own unhinged way-overthought headcanon on the topic.

The first time I played through Mac’s affinity quests, a location for the homestead IMMEDIATELY clicked for me (complete with vocal “oh. well shiiiit.”) because, well, you’ll see!

 Let’s take a look at the affinity dialogue about Duncan’s illness for a sec:

With that in mind, let me introduce y’all to still-partially-agricultural Frederick, Maryland, just north of Washington, D.C. - and its largest local employer, Fort Detrick. (For reference, the Bethesda, MD location for Bethesda’s/Zenimax’s studios is literally 30min away from this location…unless it’s rush hour! Then it’s 90min away. That commute sucks.)

1) Um, what do you mean, “there’s a military installation for WWII/Cold-War-era bioweapons research, turned military installation for modern infectious disease research, just outside DC?”

Yup! Welcome to Frederick City.

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Blah, blah. But I didn’t come here to show off population stats, I’ve got Actual Reasons™ I promise, so lemme skip to those: ______________________________________________________________

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Back up, though: “Bioscience/communications research” doesn’t quite grasp the scope of what my homies at Detrick have going on. This is more like it: ______________________________________________________________

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If you hear “unknown disease” or “bioweapon research” or “Ebola zaire” or “the plague” or other scary phrases regarding disease around the DC-MD-VA area, this is kind of the one and only place that comes to mind. It was the center of US bioweapons research for an extraordinarily long time, starting prior to the Fallout universe’s continuity split.

After Detrick’s bioweapons research was, ahem, shut down (as far as we civvies know), biological defense research and biomedical research continued to persist and still persists through present date: ______________________________________________________________

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Remember the US’s Ebola zaire outbreak a few years back? In 2014 (right before Fallout 4 was released)? They brought several Ebola patients to Detrick for observation when they weren’t under observation with the CDC.

Biomedical research has better optics than bioweapons development, though, right? Uhhh…Detrick’s recent history here has not been without its complications. Observe: ______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________ Yeah. Just imagine how much worse the ‘safety violations’ would have been in the Fallout universe, right? And there’s more – decades of controversy regarding materials disposal methods predating the latest issues: ______________________________________________________________

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There’s been argument for years about whether there is a “cancer cell” area for civilians located around Area B (colloquially ‘B-site.’) Funsies.

So - sometime in the 2280s after 200+ years of facility abandonment, a kid getting sick playing in the back 40 of a farm in this area? It’s not only believable, I’d freaking expect it.

2) Okay, but does the area have agricultural potential?

100% yes! Uhh…at least, it does pre-nuclear-apocalypse.

This area was (and in some places still is) HEAVILY agricultural, particularly up until about a decade and a half ago. There is still active farmland RIGHT next to Detrick. It’s good soil.

Basically: farms, the I-70/I-270 interchange, the Barbara Fritchie house, many DC suburbs, the downtown area, various important Civil War historical locations, and Fort Detrick. That’s the whole area in a nutshell.

3) But is it on the Fallout 3 map? I don’t remember seeing a location named “Frederick” anywhere.

Frederick isn’t a named location on the FO3 map, likely because the area where it would have been pre-war is half-on, half-off the northern map edge. However, consider: there’s a military installation nearby the area where Frederick would sit on the map, and it’s a sattcomm base. Fort Detrick, as you might’ve seen above, is also known for communications research.

Here’s a shitty overlay image for reference - I’ve traced some of the major roadways on the FO3 map and have labeled them with their likely IRL equivalents (everything’s very skewed to IRL locations), to give a general idea of where this area falls on the map.

Compare to IRL:

TL;DR: I’ll die on my headcanon hill that Mac’s homestead is in what used to be Frederick County near Detrick’s Area B, just at or just above the northern edge of the FO3 map.

(Fun bonus fact: I took some summer courses with Detrick employees when I was college age! One of those classes was a public speaking course. For his demonstrative speech, one of them walked us through how he gets into his HAZMAT suit in a span of less than 15 seconds! Oof.)

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too good of a pic :3

More Maccready! (Because there can never be enough)

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What personality type is Robert MacCready from Fallout 4?

You all, I have hard question! What personality type is MacCready? Is he one of Diplomats? I mean, he talks about his feelings a lot, and is not afraid to do so. Hes vulnerable around those he loves. Has a lot of axes to grind, strong morals that he stands for...

Thanks

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We can't expect god to do all the work.

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I identify as a bachelor, my pronouns are Mrs./Bc., thank you for respecting it

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asking the real questions

do wastelanders still call large hairy gay men “bears” or are they called “yaoi guai” now

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thnx

I’m not an expert but I like hands a lot so hopefully some of this was helpful!

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omg :D

WELCOME  TO  THE  BROTHERHOOD OF STEEL

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I deeply wish we had gotten multiple companions as an in-game feature so I could walk around the Commonwealth with Danse and hear him say “this could prove useful for the Brotherhood” followed by Hancock, behind him, “tHiS cOulD ProVE usEfUL fOR ThE bRoTHerHoOD”

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Reblog if I can go on your page and write stupid things in your ask box whenever I'd like to.

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