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theories w/ rocki bc @caterva told me to put it on the dash:

today's edition: cooper howard is not a naturally occurring ghoul.

i am pointedly putting this on lucy and not barb because we're going to talk about how it affects lucy and cooper's interactions. i may expand upon it on barb later. under the cut bc i am long winded and do not want to clog your dash with my cooper was an experiment theory.

disclaimer: these are my thoughts and opinions and that's it. they aren't law. do not have to apply to anyone. they're just here as thoughts and theories. that's it.

let's discuss how cooper howard is nothing like a naturally occurring ghoul in the fallout universe.

the first time we meet the ghoul, he's in the ground, and he's let up every year by dom pedro, but he's hooked to the same chem that's in the vials via iv. this directly goes against the general knowledge of natural ghouls being a. highly chem resistant and b. able to go on for at least a few decades without intervention for turning feral. it's important to note that todd howard himself said the show was canon, so that means game lore is in play here.

he called himself a bucket of drugs, which also, doesn't make sense to a naturally occurring ghoul or his personal character motives and development to that point. chem addiction itself is not uncommon in the fallout universe, but if we take his character as a whole. he takes it as it comes, he's a bucket of drugs. we see no indication in his supply that it's a chem addiction. hancock had a chem addiction that started his ghoulification. howard? yeah. no way.

and we have to consider how close he was to the memories of his past life after two hundred years and what he says about torture to lucy. he strung her up and lucy immediately dived into her own memories and personal mission to make him see reason. he immediately brings up studies, and if you look at his face, you can see a whole play of emotions before he said anything. that points in the direction of him having been where she was at some point. on the receiving end of what he perceived as torture.

so, let's say he was an experiment and not the product of continued radiation exposure. that also explains why his reaction was SO BIG to lucy smashing his supply. There is something inherently wrong with his regeneration and degeneration rates to need support beyond maybe radaway/radx on occasion to keep the radiation at a healthier rate? If the radiation were that bad, for him to need chem support so frequently, people would be dropping like flies due to the radiation. we don't see any evidence of that.

in theory, there's more than enough evidence to say he was tested on in a vault (hence why he knew at least janey made it in to one and not where she went after) and he likely wasn't the most willing to go in but did it for his daughter (dad of the century. take notes hank). If they'd separated them under the guise of protocol, he likely would've been more receptive to letting janey go before they went to night night sleep. it would also explain why he asks where the hell they are, because he knows for a fact at least janey is in a vault and likely trusts barb followed her own plan and went in one, too (more on that later. on barb). yes, he hated vault tec. that isn't up for debate. what is up for debate is how far he went to protect his daughter. his memory of where he knew she should be is too clear to indicate he was knocked out at any point. he knows they're in the vaults. that part he doesn't debate. he wouldn't know that unless he put janey in one himself. it would be more likely that he assumed at least she died.

now, what does this have to do with lucy? i'd be kinda hostile if i saw someone in a vault tec suit and i was their pet project, too. let's be clear about that. It's how he tells her he's her and to give it time is what I want to draw on first. we assume he means physically given the constant callback to her checking her radiation levels, but consider he meant mentally. that he too was a product of their design and look at how he turned out. he'd already called it quits with vault tec before the drop to think that kept him bitter. something in what we didn't see has his ire for them even higher.

plus, the name maclean would've triggered some memory. moldaver, too. we saw that. we know he's got a good grip on his mind (another reason the constant chem recall makes no sense in the grand scheme of things). i truly think his initial motive with lucy was to fuck with her because of her connection to vault tec. it was luck and chance she was useful to his personal mission, at least in the beginning.

let's put this naive (not dumb unless it's street smarts, in which she has no experience) girl in front of someone who has been through hell and back and still just wants to find her family. You see he's still capable of humanity (which goes against him being on the edge of turning feral too) because he does, in a way take responsibility for her, covers for her, and at least invites her along later.

nothing about this is to say the relationship can't turn romantic, okay? we aren't discussing that. if you want that for what you're writing, go for it. the room for interpretation is a beautiful thing, but at the very least, he cares enough about her to help her see her mission through to the end, too.

we aren't even going to mention the ghoul organs for sale which really wouldn't do anyone any good unless they're for science and research, which feeds back into the logic that someone is running experiments.

AGAIN ROCKI; TL;DR: all of this is to say that there are inconsistencies in the lore we know about ghouls and cooper howard to say he was a naturally occurring ghoul. his chem dependence leads to inaccuracies of his own cognitive function, and he was likely experimented on. it also explains why dom pedro kept him as he did in it's own way. his chem dependence also makes him unique in terms of a ghoul, and it's my theory that vault tec made him the way that he is.

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here today. finishing asks and trying not to go back down a rabbithole about cooper howard potentially being made via experimentation and not a naturally occurring ghoul. might share those thoughts later. we will see.

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I will be here tomorrow to finish things up in my drafts and post them :). find me @bellemcrte between here and there.

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Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, and Ella Purnell photographed by Shayan Asgharnia for The Los Angeles Times

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"don't call me that, either." but he draws her short, and she's turning doe eyes up at him. "i know the idea is foreign to you, but i choose to be kind. this world can change a lot of things about anyone, but it won't change that fact about me. you don't have to like it, but it's who i am. it's what i have as a foundation, and you won't shake that."

she wouldn't give him the satisfaction. everything she thought she knew was taken from her, and he wouldn't be the one to swing the final hammer. "now, do you want to share where we're headed, or are you content to drag me around into the unknown?"

"claws in, kitten. i know where i'm goin'." he replied, and he tightened up on the rope around her neck to pull her square to his chest. "thing is, sweetheart, i've known exactly where we were goin' from the moment we stepped outta that observatory. so tell me one more time about your precious rule and how this world ain't changin' you. i'll wait for the realization you're a goddamn liar to set in."

he watched her, fully aware she could snap whenever she damn well pleased. she fascinated him, but he wasn't going to tell her that. no, he wanted to watch his vaultie break into a million pieces and see how she put herself back together.

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here lies lucy's main call. i have a habit of getting sidetracked at every turn, so we're opening up mains for the time being. the bottom of this post will be labeled open or closed at any given time. so, let's discuss what mains are and aren't, and what you get out of it.

what this is:

a quick way to show interest instead of the interest tracker. i will keep a working list of who is a main and feel better about contact.

an open allowance for all the memes. this will work both ways.

entitlement to one (1) discord server with me for our muses, if applicable.

edits and playlists, because i have a habit of making things.

general open access to me and lucy at all times.

what this isn't:

a character lock. write with as many lucy's as you want. i don't own you.

exclusivity. i am not going to monopolize your time. it's more of a make us both comfy thing.

an attempt to force a ship of any sort. i've seen main calls become that, but that's what not this is for. i may do a shipping call to determine relationships. this is what we make it as partners. force shipping is weird and not cool.

a means of being territorial. do what you want, really, i mean it. i do not own you or your character.

rocki, tl;dr:

okay, so basically, we're dumping meme calls, plotting calls, and all other calls by jumping straight in to being mains. we can write here and on discord. i'll send you all the things without fear of being annoying and vice versa. plus perks.

Current status: OPEN

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since i don't do starter calls, here lies lucy's permanent plotting call. give this a like and i will reach out to plot with you. i am going to do my best to do a 24 hour turnaround on contact, but i will repost once a week. this will apply for every verse, and we're free to make new ones. i can even make a little discord server as a treat, if you'd like.

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Lucy's S.P.E.C.I.A.L and Perks:

Strength: 4. Perception: 7. Endurance: 6. Charisma: 5. Intelligence: 6. Agility: 5. Luck: 7.

Tag Skills: Survival, Guns, Repair Perks: Black Widow, Awareness, Science!, Action Girl

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thinking about the fact that lucy probably has compulsive sexual behavior disorder thanks to vault tec. a lot of it is her being a freak. some of it is not. there’s no chance she got out of that experiment without a little damage.

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Ella Purnell as Lucy MacLean - Wedding outfit Fallout, S01E01, The End

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                i have 𝚂𝚄𝚁𝚅𝙸𝚅𝙴𝙳. i am 𝙃𝙀𝙍𝙀. confused, 𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐖𝐄𝐃 𝐔𝐏, but 𝐻𝐸𝑅𝐸. independent & MUTUALS ONLY l.one s.urvivor from the f.allout universe. rarely follows first. don't like my promo post. read my rules before following & interacting. failure to do so will earn you a hard block. survived by CORI ( she / they, 30s, pst ) // promo temp. credit.

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"stop calling me that," she murmured, though she assumes it's true at this point and after what she'd done to her mom-, "and you still don't know if you're going the right way."

it wasn't his business to know that, though, and he still had a rope around her neck for whatever reason he saw fit. it's the shove that annoys her, scoffing at his audacity when he wasn't actually giving her a choice to back out anymore. she chose to do the right thing, because that rule meant something to her. he chose to work on her already frayed nerve endings and turn them into shreds because it was what? entertaining?

he knew it was only a matter of time before she lost some of that holier-than-thou mindset she was brainwashed into. he'd purposefully ignored her for two days straight to see what would happen. the vaultie slowly but surely began to crack at the edges. and damn was it nice to hear her lose her cool with him.

"careful, now, killa. you keep usin' all them grown up words, and you'll have me thinkin' i broke you or somethin'." he responded coolly, shoving her gently forward because she'd stopped when she'd said it.

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Cooper: this is Lucy. Watch out, she bites

Lucy: I dont-

Cooper: she's also a liar too apparently

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I think we overlook the fact that Lucy is a history teacher nerd hanging out with a 200-year-old walking encyclopedia.

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@armageddonpitchman → ✮

she'd spent the last hour trying to sort through the cacophy of emotions in her head. she did what she's always done when her feelings were too big- started rambling about any and everything. She's been this way for two days.

today's topic of conversation was her little brother, telling the ghoul everything there was to know about him and how proud she was to be his big sister. he hadn't told her to shut the fuck up, so she just kept filling the space to think with her own thoughts allowed.

she's running run out of stories about her and norm in the vault. she missed him terribly, but it was what it was. lucy startled at the first time she'd heard him join the conversation in days. she went back to her tale of bravery he brother made up for the second time.

when she couldn't find anything else to fill the space, she frown, still walking but slowing as she went," I didn't ask for this." she concludes, and finally, she let the emotions brim to the surface sending tears ricocheting to the sand below.

someone was an angry crier.

accepting!

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@janeyjhoward → ✮

they'd only separated because he needed to get himself together. they'd cover more ground and hopefully find his family, too, and that was an added bonus. by luck or fate, she found janey first, and she knew by watching the woman swagger that she, just like her father, was straight out of the old western movies she'd watched with her dad back home.

she took convincing, but lucy was nothing if not persistent, explaining everything as best she could to janey. she's well versed in what a panic attack looks like, having witnessed and soothed her baby brother through so many before. janey was in a full on panic.

"are you alright?" she asks carefully, keeping her distance in case she didn't like being touched like norm.

accepting!