#charon fallout

[ultra-baklan-the-ovosh]

charon be like you can have my contract but i'm stealing all that exp

[sayodoko]

[victoryrifle]

Charon my beloved - FALLOUT 3 [6/?]

[apraxvalith]

Hi I'm Valith and I think normal thoughts about Fallout ghouls

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[anonwyvern]

How every ghoulfucker on main be looking right about now

[folkdevilist]

[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.)

[elven-butts]

*grumpy charon noises*

[tsima-d]

quick "remake" of one of Ask's arts

[metallinemenace]

Nuclear Family

[p3s3481]

small sketchy fan art of my two very favorite companions :)

[mildlymortified]

Some Charon love

[sayodoko]

[gwenthebard]

Fallout is contractually obligated to have a ghoul women want to fuck at this point

[apraxvalith]

I made a joke the other day about the overlaps between all my favorite ghouls and how the Cooper-Desmond-Charon-Hancock Venn Diagram was forming sacred geometry in my mind.

I tried to actually MAKE the diagram (thanks ADHD) and then promptly got mad and gave up (thanks ADHD). BUT ANYWAYS. Here are my Ghoul Thoughts™ as a bulleted list, instead:

[Spoilers below the break, kinda sorta. Probably overkill but I wanna be nice]

Cooper + Desmond:

Nasty awful Pre-War bastards

"Listen princess, if you want to survive you gotta be an absolute cunt like me"

Cooper + Hancock:

Smooth talker

DRUGS

Cooper + Charon:

Dragging around some squishy Vault Dweller and 110% over it

Shotgun gore

Charon + Desmond:

Ambiguous backstory involving heinous science shit

"Please stop saying words at me"

Charon + Hancock:

Companion 💗

"Hang on let me kill this guy real quick, anyways Hi"

Hancock/Desmond:

Immaculate drip

Filthy mouth

All:

Ruined my brain chemistry YAY

Anyways. Yeah. I love them all. And I love how Cooper has just a little bit of everything I already enjoyed about my video game faves. Well done, Fallout TV Show People, your did it ⭐️

[anonwyvern]

I couldn’t fit them all, okay?!