#boy do i like crashing fandoms together like two blobs of clay in a stim video

[ladyfl4me]

so I've been thinking bout a TAZ amnesty fallout 4 au

I don't have much plotwise yet but i'll leave y'all with this:

indrid cold in the place of Nick Valentine, except he was originally a human archivist/researcher, augmented with a computer that attempted to predict the future, using his human knowledge as a constraint for vision possibilities. these days he only solves, a la minority report, the most catastrophic crimes that he can predict, like massive settlement murders or the CPG massacre, (this universe's Silver Bridge for indrid,) which gets him in hot water with a local gang who wants to use him to predict shit. yes, he's a synth. yes, he still has the red glasses and ratty clothes. and yes, he's just like he is in canon, which makes his nog fixation a... messy affair.

Aubrey as sole survivor, looking for her parents

sylvans as sylphs

sylvain as the institute

super mutants as feral sylphs and/or abominations (which, as per Virgil's quest and supermutants being connected to the institute... may not be too wild of a leap)

Hollis as hancock, except they and their hornets have power armor stolen and rebuilt from the brotherhood. because Hollis in power armor? that's hot

the FBI/unexplained phenomenon as the brotherhood

Stern as Danse, maybe? (yeah that requires some Tweaking and might be on the chopping block, but that would be cool)

local law enforcement and the forest service as the minutemen

which could mean duck newton (albeit more like a post-Minerva, all hope lost duck newton) in Preston garvey's role. or, alternately, Sheriff Owens

amnesty lodge and the pine guard as the railroad

also holy fuck it's not going to be as grimdark as the original game. "war never changes" my ass. if Aubrey's the sole survivor, she's gonna have more of a lone wanderer from fallout 3 approach to the world, and also she's just gonna be. chiller. she's Aubrey! she's young and happy, not a war veteran like the original game

it's been a while since I touched fallout 4 but hey. guess it's time to watch playthroughs and get brushed up again

I might pull a "here's my 999 au, a month late" and expand on this later. it won't be an exact parallel, of course - like there's not nearly enough NPCs or PCs to go around to fill all the fo4 companion roles, and it will only follow one set storyline, where Aubrey (in keeping with Amnesty themes) joins the railroad, and all the factions gradually unite, in their own way, to fight the evil that's corrupting the institute (see, another thing I'm tweaking, a straight up Shaun plotline with Aubrey's parents would be heartbreaking). the factions would be less like their fallout versions and more like their amnesty institutions.

I would also have to take plot threads from amnesty and weave them into the world of fallout 4, in keeping with canon so we can have stuff like. H2Whoa, Fallout edition. (would that just - would that just be fucking Nuka World??????? goddamnit)

and the characters would follow their Amnesty characterizations from the very start, which would require tweaking the backstories of the fo4 characters they're replacing, and some stuff will either have to be torched, made up, or reshaped. but hey, that's the fun of AU-ville, and it's not like I haven't done something like that before.

cheers, y'all! I'll come back in a while to sort out my shit. feel free to drop an ask or a reply on this post, feedback on this buck-fucking wild AU would be swell