#ahzrukhal

[galoogamelady]

sorry if this is unreadable

[valen-dreth]

fallout 3 brainrot's come back for me

i think he should have a cane just for funsies. likely he doesnt even NEED it its probably just for show

+ i immediately thought of this

[sealz888]

If you're still doing hcs could I get one for Ahzrukhal? (if you havent done one for him already)

Hello Anon, of course! You may be interested in my Charon Headcanons, BUT please heed the trigger warnings. I'm really sorry it took me this long too. Regard, please enjoy.

Ahzrukhal Headcanons

Ahzrukhal was a pre-war businessman ghoul. Towards the end of the war, he became a loan shark seeking opportunities in the turmoil of pre-war economics. He’s also an experienced bar owner.

Because of his status as a pre-war ghoul, he really does not give a shit for pre-war stuff because he’s already seen it. There's no mysticism or anything for him anymore.

Opened up a bar the day before the bombs dropped, LMAO. However, he decided to just open it up and sold his water and booze at super extortionate prices.

Deep down, there’d be some aspect that's genuine of the “Uncle Ahzrukhal” persona during this time, and there still is, but it's mostly covered by his desire for profits.

Surprisingly has a somewhat strong belief in his morals, albeit, his morals aren’t good, but he does hold up the ones he does have to a T. Does his own cleaning, doesn’t deal chems or sell booze to kids and won’t outwardly insult his customers.

Brews his own stuff too, mostly to save cash. It’s actually pretty high quality, but he saves it for really import visitors or people with the most caps.

He got previously kicked out of megaton for selling chems, despite living there for a while. Moriarty did take over his bar. His original bar was also destroyed at some point. Still really bitter about it.

Along with this and Underworld’s chem policy, he’s incredibly picky about who he sells to. Has been tempted to spike Carol’s andGreta’s food with chems to get them kicked out

He really wants to open a bar and sell alcohol at Tenpenny tower, but really pissed off by ghoul xenophobia. He’s still trying to get them to at least let him trade his own stuff.

Changed his name to be more fitting to the Underworld and specifically the 9th Circle. He also renamed Charon to be more fitting to the theme as well.

[shrimpinaa]

honest lee reaction

[thewastelandlosers]

Again, this is asking a lot from Bethesda, and I wouldn't worry if they didn't consider or think of this.

But it would be so, absolutely so amazing if they had a sleazy scummy antagonistic Ghoul whose trying to take advantage of the fact that Lucy is naive and new to the world to oversell things, who doesnt affect the plot of the story but is a recurring character, possibly a merchant of type.

Just so we get a nice variety of Ghouls, as a fun treat.

[danses-with-dogmeat]

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[staticymaticyyourlifeisatravesty]

I know a popular theory is that the Lone Wanderer becomes the Courier, but what if it's Charon that's the Courier? I mean he sort of fits, considering we don't know jack shit about what happens to him after Fallout 3 to my knowledge, and honestly you can't tell me that man isn't unhinged enough to both punch a Deathclaw in the face, and kill a super mutant with a pen knife.

And getting shot in the face at point blank range is going to fuck with some mental facilities to the point that Charon could straight up just be like "contract? You mean the one where I supposedly get paid if I deliver this chip?"

"No, I mean the one that caused to work for Ahzrukhal and that vault dweller."

"That is a rather horrid name. I think I would recall working with a vaultie, or this Ahzrukhal."

Anyway, that's my theory that may spawn hideous amounts of plot bunnies. So many plots, so little focus.

[datura-tea]

i want to talk about gwen and charon (and butch, a little)

the dream team (what butch calls their little gang, to gwen’s chagrin) would not be complete without charon. he’s the stoic straight man for gwen and butch and their shenanigans. he’s there not because gwen has his contract - she tore that shit up right in front of charon, after he killed ahzrukhal (and after she made sure he won’t kill her too) - he’s there because honestly he doesn’t really know where to go (at first, anyway). after a lifetime of brainwashing and slavery, i don’t think he really knows what to do with himself and his newfound freedom and agency.

so, i think he throws his lot in with gwen and butch. mostly because they’re leaving the underworld and he wants out asap, partly because he doesn’t know what else to do. once out of the underworld, gwen and butch say goodbye, and to their surprise charon follows them. gwen reiterates that she’s not charon’s employer, that he has no employer anymore and that he’s free to do whatever the shit he wants. and i think this annoys charon because he knows that. he saw her tear up his contract. he knows it but i don’t think he really understands it, yet. still, he tells them that wants to join them. so gwen and butch have a little talk (very short talk: “should we-” “hell yeah man, the dude’s badass!”) and they “allow” charon to tag along.

charon’s addition to the dream team is a little awkward at first, because third wheeling is always awkward, especially when you’re accompanying two people who’ve known each other their whole lives and have their own little vocabulary. plus gwen and butch are so annoying together: they hate it but they often interrupt each other and drift off mid-sentence only for the other one to go, “yeah yeah yeah” but charon doesn’t make it seem like it bothers him much. they get used to each other in time, both in combat situations and off, with gwen often asking charon what he thinks, what he wants, etc. charon doesn’t think much of this - the choices gwen asks him to make are so inconsequential - (“charon do you want to go left or right” “charon do you agree that butch is being a little bitch right now” “charon do you want to watch me do a backflip”) but these add up and eventually charon starts offering his thoughts and acting as tie-breaker whenever gwen and butch have differing ideas on what to do (he often sides with gwen, because while gwen’s decisions are also bad, they’re not as disastrous as butch’s - gwen calls this “tall people solidarity”)

gwen and butch help him make small choices until he makes the big one of leaving their little gang. it takes a while, a few years in fact, and in those years i think they’ve built a rapport, a friendship. but still, charon decides to go out on his own and this makes gwen and butch a little sad, but also so so happy. they promise to keep in touch and then part ways amicably. once three dog gives gwen airtime on galaxy news radio, she often gives shoutouts to charon and this makes charon smile a little :) but only a little

[astrovagrant]

lucy woke up in the underworld's chop shop fairly healed up after her No Good Very Shitty day and now it's charon time

[jackals-ships]

@virus-selfship tumblr keeps hiding my notifs it said No Away To Gay Baby Jail With Ye-

HFKD THO I DO HAVE. LISTEN. JACKAL IS NOT IMMUNE TO THE ALLURE OF GHOULS- jackal is not immune to the allure of ghouls who are bastards specifically

REAL TALK THO I AM KISSING HANCOCK AS WE SPEAK i have an older fic floating around that was b4 i figured out their dynamic but it's still cute

also fallout jackal is somehow dogboy. there is no escape. ONLY pubby

[stoat-party]

Big fan of The Charon Situation being just so incurably screwed up. If ever there were a person equipped to have full control over an adult man’s free will, it’s definitely not the Lone Wanderer. Even the most educated, well-meaning, and genuinely righteous LW couldn’t handle the responsibility. She’s a teenager raised in an insular totalitarian ant farm who’s suddenly been thrust into a world with no authorities, no guidance.

Which creates a wonderful dynamic with Charon. If Ahzrukhal is to be believed, he was raised this way - he never had the chance to be an adult, taking risks, shouldering responsibility, gaining independence. His parents probably weren’t in the picture for long. I imagine his lack of agency causes him to be emotionally immature sometimes - how can you learn to solve problems like an adult if all the adults in your life treat you like a weapon or a dog or a houseplant?

This guy has to be so screwed up in every way. According to the game guide, he just doesn’t sleep?? Or Azzy never let him sleep? He has that idiosyncratic formal speech pattern, he worries a lot, and the only personal detail we know about him is that guns make him happy. He also kind of openly hates the player’s guts sometimes (he’s sarcastic when given certain commands, is joyfully mean about the GECK, and basically sentences you to death in the non-canon base game ending). No matter how hard the LW tries, some damaged part of him will always resent her authority. She could be a thousand times kinder, fairer, and more just than all his previous employers combined, but she’s still one of them. He still doesn’t have free will.

That power is illegitimate for a reason. There’s no way not to misuse it eventually, especially for a teenager with endless stress and trauma of her own. You’re fighting and you tell him to shut up so you can have the last word. You get a significant other and he gets left home with the dog some nights. You take a quest path he doesn’t approve of and he has to grit his teeth and go along with it.

It’s not fair, can never be fair, and that’s the perfect dynamic to explore. Because as much as he hates her, he loves her too. She literally saved him from Hell on earth, gave him the opportunity to be a force for good. He’s not dumb, he knows that the problem is the contract, not her. Over the years they’ll mature together and learn how to fix a lot of these problems. There are so many unique challenges to creating a healthy relationship out of… that.

(A lot of writers have the contract get destroyed, especially for 😉 reasons. There’s nothing in the game indicating that can’t happen, and it works fine for their purposes. I just think it’s more fun for it to be a continuous obstacle.)

[valen-dreth]

omg ahzrukhal jumpscare!! i remember all of your old ghoul content, I was wondering if your interpretation of ahz has changed since then?

uuguggfhg he compels me.... i have thought abt him nonstop the last week. some new thoughts:

i think he had something to do with gob leaving. either he talked up the idea of making his fortune in the wastes or otherwise convinced him of like a Specific opportunity or something, i think it was a play at trying to get at carol. his current scheme with greta is kind of a last ditch effort

was considering how he might have come upon charon's contract as well! my current idea is that it was won in a wager though who with and what ahzrukhal might have bet with im not yet sure. i do think it was a long con trying to get the contract though, they'd encountered each other before

i maintain hes not creepy in the way of trying to hit on customers. its bad for business

i said previously he has some fluency in latin BUT ive decided he knows some fr*nch too

in my last art of him i drew him missing half of his right pinkie (initially on accident but i was like ykno lets roll w it)

thinkin on ahzrukhal's ghost au. will compile more on that later

ive noticed my previous interpretation was really lacking in his measured composure and underhanded scheming. i need 2 do better lol

i ALSO wanna do some more thinking on charon and the two of them... much to think abt

[mixterglacia]

I would 1000% romance almost every ghoul in Fallout canon if they'd let me. Lemme smooch Gob. Let me listen to Raul's stories. Let me get dinner with Charon. Lemme go on a cute lil date with Snowflake, let me take Harold out for tea, lemme buy gifts for Tulip, let me listen to podcasts with Mort.

Let me punt Ahzrukhal off the washington monument.

[riivetcity]

"Talk to Ahzrukhal..."

[thewastelandlosers]

There's one thing I like about Ahzrukhal is that he's a man of his word and you just know he loves being perceived that way.

Like, if you choose to pay up the 2k caps (or 1k if you Charisma check him) he gives you the contract as promised, even though he could easily just take the caps and be like "Thanks for the donation, smoothskin" and leave you sitting there with a stupid look on your face.

What are you gonna do if he didn't give you the contract? Threaten him? Shoot him? Charon will shove his boot so far up your ass your tongue would be cleaning them.

Cause he didn't know the contract was on the verge of being traded so of course he'll jump to defend Ahzrukhal.

No other Ghoul will be on your side either, or they may be sympathetic but still tell you 'Hey that's why you don't make deals with Ahzrukhal' and ain't gonna do anything about it.

It's the same with if you go the garbage choice of killing Greta, he'd shrug and go "No idea what youre talking about" No one's going to believe the outsider over the guy who has been serving them alcohol and chems for years, plus you'd be admitting to killing Greta and he could easily just pit it all on you if you try to confess.

That's why I like him,cause he never thought of doing that. Like my guy you could've pocketed 2k caps or had your competitor murked and still keep your bouncer but instead you kept your word to some weird 19 year old stranger.

One might say Greed was what killed him, but it was Pride in the end.