#Gen 1 synths

[lucilleandherrobots]

Look, I know we like to stick to the pre-60s aesthetics in Fallout, but CONSIDER...

The Institute developed synths that can see the world through the style of 90s to early 2000s graphics and interfaces. Information looks like the early Internet and program windows.

All this to say, Nick sees the world like we see abandoned mmos and the windows brick maze. He sees gaudy colored windows with case info pop up when he's recalling info from a case.

[discordofsound]

Ah, I see the Institute is busy! Looking forward to the Gen 3 Synth model!

[deus-ex-mona]

w. well. the parents’ silhouettes do match up with mochiaka’s pretty nicely…

[psybrepunk]

Does anyone have like, ref images of gen 1 synth faces from different angles? I want to be able to choose a ref image of Nick Valentine, and a ref image of a gen 1, from the same angle, and use the gen 1 ref to draw Nick with significantly less skin covering his face.

[vault81]

doing the railroad side quests and I’ve already gotten an idea for a new fo4 oc…

all ik about them so far is they’re a pre-war ghoul who used to work for DIA and is now a Railroad agent (code name is either Whisper or Charmer not fully decided yet)

[stoat-party]

Every Fallout 4 Companion’s Approximate Birth Year (Part 3/3)

CVRIE — 2076

I assume Miss Nannies went out of production when the world exploded.

Codsworth — 2077

His box is still in your house during the prologue.

He also mentions enjoying the “months” he’s spent with you, though he might mean since Shaun was born.

Nick — 2175

We know it was over a century ago, but it can’t have been too far prior to the Gen 3 rollout around 2227.

I think Nick is the older brother, because it makes sense to start by creating a synth with stored personalities before trying to make one that develops a personality autonomously.

Longfellow — 2223

This man is only in his SIXTIES, they are LYING TO YOU

The Children of Atom were full-fledged on the Island when Longfellow was young. Confessor Cromwell is the one who sent them to Maine.

But he couldn’t have become Confessor until the mid-2250s, because he’s only FORTY-FOUR in Fallout 3, and he had a background as a trader before that! AND there still had to be time for the Children to travel all the way to Maine.

So Longfellow was born in the twenties, had his sad backstory in the fifties, and is about 65 in Fallout 4.

Strong — 2230

Strong could have been anyone, but I think he was either a divorced dad who would’ve been an accountant in another life, or just Mayor McDonough.

Hancock — 2235

Is 53-year-old Hancock controversial? Let me cook.

There’s support for the theory that synth McDonough was created before the election in 2282. We can assume the human had full gray hair at that point, because synths don’t go gray. So he was probably in his fifties at least.

John was younger, but he can’t have been that much younger. So he was probably ghoulified in his late forties.

Deacon — 2245

If you accept the John D. theory, this does put him a little on the young side, but it fits.

Gage — 2251

There’s not much backstory from his teens up to 2286, and I’m tempted to believe it was a shorter period. But he has late-thirties eyes.

…Eye.

Cait — 2260

Her parents helpfully drew the line at child trafficking, so we have a good idea of her age. She was 18 when she went into slavery and about 23 when she left.

Some time later, she spent about three years at the Combat Zone. Assuming some buffer room between the two periods, I put her at 27 years.

Danse — 2261

He’d have lived in the Institute for awhile, then Rivet City, then the Brotherhood.

He was already a paladin in 2277, but Maxson says it took him “many years” to become one.

Preston — 2262

I don’t know what it is about him that screams 25-year-old to me.

He joined the Minutemen at 17, then had “a few good years” before 2282 when Becker died.

MacCready — 2264

He was twelve in August 2277, and at that point he’d been mayor for three years.

He became mayor at ten. So he’s got to be nearly thirteen at the start of Fallout 3, which would make him 23 in Fallout 4.

Piper — 2266

Nat seems 13 to me. 

If Piper is old enough to have taken care of her as a baby, but not old enough to have significant memories of their mother, 21 sounds about wright.

Curie — 2277

Glory escaped the Institute in 2280, and she and G5 had known each other for some time before that.

Ada — 2281

Jackson seems to have created her reasonably recently.

Dogmeat IV — 2285

I think he is ouppy:)

X6-88 — 2287. 

Yeah, I said it.

This man thinks he’s so evil but he’s an actual baby.

My reasoning is that he wishes he had been there to see the University Point massacre in 2286, but apparently wasn’t.

It makes the game so much funnier.

If he was born earlier in the year, he could have been trained in time for the Kellogg flashback.

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[irradiatedpiratebooty]

Gen 1 synths have the same vibe as a dog that has no idea what it's doing, it's just happy to participate

[wetsocksinbed]

in light of Fallout being popular again, this is a list of things I wish Bathesda had done in Fallout 4:

made a way to side against the railroad without having to kill Deacon. Even if you send him to the most distant settlement, he still spawns in the RR HQ and you MUST shoot him. I don’t like it :(

have the option to remove Danse from power armour after saving him from the BoS. It doesn’t make sense that he’s an enemy of the BoS and still walks around in their power armour. Especially since the armour he wears until Blind Betrayal becomes yours if you side with the Brotherhood. It’s physically impossible for you to own it while he’s wearing it.

on that note, I wish Bathesda had written Danse’s dialogue differently once he’s revealed as a synth. He’s still calling himself a solder of the BoS/acting like he’s a part of the BoS months after the BoS kicked him out and literally said they’d kill him on sight. It doesn’t make sense for him to keep speaking that way. I know he sees himself as a solder, but the things he says counteracts everything you do in Blind Betrayal

adding more to that, I wish some of Danse’s romance dialogue was…nicer. Spamming “Thoughts?” only gives you TWO romance lines and they’re both very vague. Nick says nicer things to me and he isn’t even a romance option

MAKE NICK A ROMANCE OPTION

make Synth Shaun a companion 🥺

dialogue between Codsworth and Synth Shaun about pre-war life/Codsworth talking about Nate/Nora (whichever spouse died) to Shaun

i wish you could REPAIR NICKS FACE??? Like Nick has the same face as the Gen 1’s, and you kill plenty of them. How hard would it be to remove a Gen 1 face and give it to Nick so that he isn’t falling apart. You’re telling me that DiMA looks absolutely fine and Nick has to stay looking like someone threw him into a shredder? Bullshit.

personal quest for Hancock, that includes a decent amount of dialogue if you’re romancing him

interactions between the character you’re romancing and Synth Shaun, specifically them treating him like family

[lucilleandherrobots]

Lucille is ridiculously good at robots and programming. So good, that she isn't daunted by the fancy-dancy UI the institute developed for their gen 1 and 2 synths. It runs on code at the end of the day... Better open the Fallout version of Command Prompt to access the command line she's used to.

[matchalovertrait]

Dulce is basically unemployed, so she might as well take advantage of her free time and try some new things, such as: 1) Baking for fun! That's always been more of her mom's thing, and Dulce doesn't have much of a sweet tooth anyway. Still, it wouldn't hurt to improve her baking skills. The smell of baked goods is essential for the fall vibes too. 2) Spooky music??? Well, it's not totally spooky and it helps that the songs are more synth-pop. She thinks edgy music is weird, but these are lyrics she can relate to! Gossip and vampires 😪😪 Ugh.

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[fink0680]

Also here’s the concept art I’ve so far drawn up for the fanfic au (haven’t drawn Thomas yet bc so far bros just wearing like a blue shirt and pants lol)

Fallout relevant context:

- BOS = brotherhood of steel, they’re an important faction in like all of the games but won’t be super relevant to the story, they have nice outfits tho so I thought Minho would dig it

- power armour is also a BOS thing and it’s legit a wearable suit of like mechanical armour and they’re sick af. This’ll be in chapter 2 lol

- in regards to the whole synth Gally thing. In fallout 4 gen 1 & 2 synths are basically greyish human looking robots built kinda from polymer I think (insides are like a metal skeleton thing) and they all have glowing yellow eyes. For story reasons that’ll be explained in later chapters, Gally’s basically an upgraded gen 2 synth that they managed to get customized to look like him lol (again it’ll be explained)

- the story takes place in the last city which we’re gonna pretend is also in Denver like how it was in the books. Luckily I found out there isn’t muuuuch fallout lore regarding Denver actually, so I decided yippie ig I get to make *all* of it up myself

[wasteland-wrecker]

So I know Rico likes robots more than humans... but... what about Synths? What would he think of them?

I WAS LITERALLY THINKING ABOUT THIS LAST WEEK ANON‼️‼️

It’s not easy to answer. I think he could get along with synths if he KNEW they are synths. But like, a sort of placebo effect. You could just go to him and state you’re a synth, he’d immediately feel more comfortable talking to you. But he would still be suspicious with Gens 3, looking too much like humans.

Gen 1 would scare him. Gen 2 would be great, like Nick Valentine for example. I think Nick could be a good match for him……..

[hancocksbestgirl]

The Ballad of Elle Douglas, Chapter 15

See Chapter 1 for Whole Work Summary

Chapter 15

Chapter Summary: Elle runs an operation for The Institute and makes a visit to a charming little place called Libertalia.

Whole Work Rating: Explicit

Whole Work Archive Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death (described in detail), Rape/Non-Con (implied threat of)

Category: F/M, Gen

Fandom: Fallout 4

Chapter Word Count: 4.5k

Whole Work Relationships: John Hancock/Female Sole Survivor, Paladin Danse/Female Sole Survivor, Edward Deegan/Female Sole Survivor, Robert Joseph MacCready & Sole Survivor, Sole Survivor & Nick Valentine, Arthur Maxson & Sole Survivor, Deacon & Sole Survivor, Preston Garvey & Sole Survivor, Sturges & Sole Survivor, Preston Garvey/Sturges, Mama Murphy & Sole Survivor, Sole Survivor/Sole Survivor's Spouse, Father | Shaun & Sole Survivor, Synth Shaun & Sole Survivor

Whole Work Characters: John Hancock, Sole Survivor/Original Female Character, Paladin Danse, Edward Deegan, Nick Valentine, Robert Joseph MacCready, Arthur Maxson, Preston Garvey, Mama Murphy, Father | Shaun, Deacon, Elle Douglas (oc)

Additional Tags and Excerpt Under the Cut

Additional Tags: Commonwealth Minutemen, No Beta We Die Like Kellogg, Porn With Plot, Smut, Monogamy, Multiple Relationships, Canon-Typical Violence, Not Canon Compliant, Drama, Romance, Action/Adventure, Pining, Angst, Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Found Family, Suicidal Thoughts

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In the slight warmth of the pre-dawn, Elle braided her hair tightly. Then, she kissed a lightly dozing Danse goodbye, and climbed out of the root cellar as quietly as she could. She bent over to close the door slowly and walked down the ruined street towards the cul-de-sac with the large, dead oak tree, away from the rest of the residents of Sanctuary. Then, she stood on the slope behind the last crumpled house on the hillside, contemplating the water below, which was beginning to light up with reflections of the dawn’s red sky. 

Somewhere behind her, a bird trilled softly.

Elle hadn’t wanted to chance an argument (or even really a discussion) with Danse before she left, so she had taken advantage of his tossing and turning late into the night to slip out as soon as he drifted off. Without sleep, she found herself a mix: physically exhausted and feeling a bone-deep tiredness through her entire body; yet completely wired. The mingled excitement and fear of going to see Shaun again wouldn’t have allowed her to sleep anyway.

With the full light of day still at least an hour off, and mindful of arriving too early, Elle decided to walk in the general direction of CIT for a while before relaying in.

She shouldered her rifle and began her hike.

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[therightrighthand]

And Pt.2 of the Fallout-Delv-erse lore! Because honestly, I couldn't pick between soft lovable herbo, and murder hobo, so we're getting both.

D.31-A, rouge Courser jerk of the Commonwealth.

Follow on from Dee & Rolls

~

Lore:

[???] "Audio recording, date [REDACTED] between Doctor Langstrum, Senior Institute Bio Division, and myself [REDACTED] regarding project D.31-A"

[D] "Again, I am going on record to state that there was plenty of oversights on project D.31-A and-"

[???] "Please Doctor, let keep to the questions. How about we start with what D.31-A is, and it's history."

[D] "Hmmph ... Fine. -sigh-, well we may as well start at the beguining with the Synth Program. After the sucessful test run of our 3rd generation Synth in the Capital Wasteland passing undercover as human in 'Rivet City', full production of next gerneration syths were approved for masss production."

"And whilst the topic of Synths seemed focused on under-cover intigration, security was also a keen concern. Our second genration synths, though tough, were far from subtle, and a militerised third generation synth seemed nessasery. The goal was to create something with a bit more bite, a single agent, rather than dozens of gen-1's and 2's littering the commonwealth."

"D3.1-A was the answer to this, our first official prototype of the Courser's we know today."

[???] "Why was D.31's biodata used for the Courser program? And can you explain in detail why they were so well equipped for a prototype?"

[D] "Well, obviously, D.31's DNA proved to create a natural resistance to radiation, so it only made sense to base D.31-A on their genetic makeup and memories, as we had done with Gen-3 synths so far."

"As for their ... 'equipment', you must understand that in the early days of testing, D.31-A wasn't built like our truly synthetic Coursers. They were designed to combine the most physically powerful elements of our Gen-2s with the outer fleshy coating of a Gen-3. Machine, wrapped in flesh."

"At the time, we believed Courser's would be going toe-to-toe against Death Claws and super mutants, so we ... built them to durable, strong and-"

[???] "Exessivly costly?"

[D] "Effective. We built them to be effective. However, as time went by, we realised that less was more, and discreet agents worked more effectively than super-powered assassins."

[???] "Can you tell me what led to losing D.31-A in the field?"

[D] "... again, I want to stress the oversight wasn't just on myself or my team at the tim- ok ok, fine."

"After successfully activating D.31-A and testing them rigorously for months, we felt it was time for a field test in the Commonwealth. So we fitted her with an old raider outfit, had her infiltrate an encampment, and simply let her get to work."

"Needless to say, she was effective—almost ferocious, in fact, if you could call it that."

"But, unfortunately, during the fight, a nuclear device was launched, which knocked out our communication with the Synth handlers observing the experiment. After several hours, we deployed security teams and mercenaries to scout the location and report back. There was no sign of D.31-A ... or her handlers, whom we believed to have been killed by D.31-A"

[???] "What led you to believe it was D.31-A?"

[D] "The entire team had been torn apart and stapled to a concrete bunker with steal poles through their chests and their power systems removed. The working theory is that the blast may have ... damaged ... D.31-A's hardware and left them to go-"

[???] "On a five-year-long murderous rampage of Institute assets, including research centres, 23 mercenaries, 12 staff members on the field, and 18 Courses?"

[D] "... Look, it's been months since we've heard from her, and this speculation that she is helping the railroad is preposterous. It's more than likely that her power core has started to falter, and any information on the institute has been damaged in the process."

[???] "Which brings us to the point of this interview: to uncover the lack of oversight that led to a hostile agent that we cannot stop with information on our most sensitive security protocols. What makes you so sure that information has been destroyed?"

[D] "Because I built her [REDACTED] and if she still had access to our location, our relay, and our defences, we would have been dead a long time ago..."

[INTERVIEW END]

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[beentobeetle]

New Fallout oc just dropped

His name is Foster,, they’re a gen 1 synth who keeps trying to convince himself they’re just an average human guy <33

[blackmoonowl]

you think synths can reproduce?

One way to find out.

EDIT: I thought this was obvious but people keep mentioning it, we're talking gen 3 synths. Obviously gen 1 and 2 can't.