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When Ulysses said:

"There's your signal... faint, but there. Just like NCR - voice without fire, without strength, sick. Heard tales of you walking the Mojave. Giving the two-headed bear strength. Giving hollow men like Kimball, like Crocker, half the life Hanlon had."

I think about that a lot. Ulysses had a lot of raw as hell dialogue but that's the one that really stuck with me

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LOT 

© Sem Langendijk

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kind of a dumb ask, but could you guys give me some constructive criticism on my fic, dis manibus sacrum? i feel stuck, like something’s off but I can’t figure out what like what should i do for next chapters to fix it mann

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replaying new vegas again and i realised legionaries are hostile to traveling merchants. like they attack on sight. got me curious on why that is the case as we know the only reediming quality of the legion is being nice to caravans and traders. maybe its to cut NCR supply chain?

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Legion Defensive Position

Concept art for Fallout: New Vegas

Art by Whit Brachna

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Dis Manibus Sacrum

Chapter 3 is posted now!

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are the dogs in fallout suppose to parallel the protag or??? in fo3 you find dogmeat lost and fighting for his life with his owner gone/dead, like lw with their dad, rex in fo;nv is pulled apart and put back together, like the courier. in fo4 sole finds dogmeat, purebred, waiting for you. ????? did todd do this on purpose or am i just losing it

this is the best fallout meta i’ve read thus far holy shit

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Vulpes inculta

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also, going off from fallout wiki the white legs have been around for a long time since they are descended from the survivors of the great war. so i find it so weird that this tribe who has managed to survive for years has no form of divided labour or agriculture and is said to be lacking "many survival skills considered essential, including food preservation, tanning, even basic hunting and cooking".

i have zero to no knowledge about real life tribes and how they survive and thrive but im pretty sure its kinda impossible to live off just raiding/scavenging alone especially considering the fact that the white legs are not nomads.

coming back to your point about “they're evil people who have found someone to be evil for” i think all of this stuff about the white legs being “savages with no way to survive except by feeding off the tribes you’re meant to root for” is deliberately constructed to further villainize an already incompetently written faction.

they’re written to have no reediming qualities or nuance in every aspect of their lives: their culture, their survival, their alliances. it’s hard not to see this as a intentional way to ensure the player doesn’t feel conflicted when siding with graham to wipe them out. (also this is not me saying daniel option is better in any way. it definetly sucks more.)

idk just lazy writing in general.

One of Waking Cloud's idle remarks refers to how Salt-Upon-Wounds has his men salt the land where they fought to prevent anything from growing there. She asks what kind of a monster could do such a thing and I wish Obsidian cared enough about who the White Legs are for that question to actually have an answer.

See, Legate Lanius decimating his underperforming squadron has an explanation, multiple actually. It's Caesar's obsession with replicating the power dynamics of Ancient Rome (or at least how he sees them) at all cost. It's the Legion's use of fear and image as power of their own people as well as those they seek to conquer. It's the acceptance of violence as some "necessary evil" for the greater good because, for fascists, a world of endless struggle demands cutthroat ruthlessness over empathy.

Meanwhile, the most that Honest Hearts has to say about the White Legs is that they are savages and monsters who do evil things for shits and giggles I guess. The most charitable read is that Salt-Upon-Wounds is being pointlessly cruel to impress Caesar but iirc there's no point where Joshua goes "They weren't always like this, Caesar has corrupted them" it's just that they are Evil People who have found someone to be evil for.

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NCR political cartoons - Kronos Productions

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something i’ve noticed in a lot of fandom content (but fallout especially) is that characters tend to get put way above the world they exist in. like they’re seperate from it. which isn’t bad in any way, i love character studies and hcs, but I feel like worldbuilding often gets overlooked. the legion suffers from this most bc there’s so little canon content to work with.

also another thing i have noticed is the lack of fnv content that doesn’t involve the courier. i dont know how to word it properly but most content i have seen is always about courier six, its almost as if the world didn’t exist before they showed up. i think that is very boring. obviously i get that the world only exists when you view it through courier six bc fnv is a video game but in-universe, the mojave and its factions existed way before the player did. idk i do love courier ocs but I’d love to see more stories that aren’t about the courier or ships.

so yeah I think the main issue for me is how much focus is put on individual characters over the world itself rather than a lack of seriousness towards factions (which i guess could also be the case but i never really engaged with that type of content so idk) caesar's legion is super interesting to me, and i just wish there was more content about them that isn't the same 4 recycled ideas over and over. there's so much potential that barely gets touched.

again, maybe im totally off, but that’s just how it looks to me. feel free to disagree lads

I just feel like most of the issue with FNV legion content in the fan space is a refusal to take the faction seriously. Like yes, to US the reader they are a straightforward caricature condemnation of fascism worthy of ridicule but within the text theres no reason not to engage with them seriously when interacting with the world through player characters and fan characters, but no one does that so you get HC concoctions about Vulpes being gay and transgender because we've set the precedent that this isnt a character to be taken seriously. and no one wants to speculate whether or not the legion synthesized heliocentrisim or geocentrism into their belief system with me

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Low quality brahmins in the style of cave paintings I drew while on a train

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Dis Manibus Sacrum

idk how to format this post but chapter two is posted now yippee yay! feedback is welcomed and appreciated

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If I watch Irene Papas’ Iphigenia just for Legion Women Inspo god help me

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fallout in alaska, send post

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ugh the Ancient Roman who joined our birdwatching club won't shut up about "bad omens" or "signs of impending war" 😒