#erickson the super mutant

[magg0t-king]

Here's my list of 'Top 5 Characters Evan(me) wishes he could romance within the entire Fallout game series'

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5. Nick Valentine

-I like robocop.

-He's one of those characters I talk about constantly to my parents.

-I loved building a friendship with him.

-Idk what else to say but uh... He's a dreamboat???

4. Erickson

-I didn't know how to feel about him at first, but then I was like 🥺

-He's respectful, he takes care of dogs, and he offers me food + a bed to sleep in.

-I've spent over 4,000 caps on buying dogs from him(my favorite being Gracie)

-To be honest, I'd kill to just be bffs with him.

3. Sergeant Arch Dornan

-Bro makes me giggle.

-Would've killed someone to have him as a companion.

-I'm the mo-ron he's talking about.

-I think I'd end up breaking down if he yelled at me.

2. Lieutenant (Lou?)

-He's so elegant like--

-I am not ashamed to say that I'd pick him over Valentine any day.

-Love how he calls me dear human lmao (in the game y'know)

-I do not like how he'd want to turn me into a super mutant tho.

1. ✨Harold&Bob(all games)✨

-God I love him so much.

-He's an extremely lovable character.

-He goes from homeless guy, to cranky peepaw branch, and then all the way to big depressed tree(+he's in the bos game, but I'm if-y on it)

-I really wish he was a fallout companion because then I could read to him and show him my collection of random things.

-Also I love taking care of plants so expect this guy to have the best plant care known to man.

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[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout 4 Far Harbor: Erickson

“There's a group of humans living at the top of the mountain. Heard someone call them Simps. Maybe you know what that means.”

- Erickson talking of the Synths at Acadia, Fallout 4 Far Harbor

Erickson trains dogs that the player can purchase and use at their settlements. You can read more about him here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Erickson

[shatinn]

Fallout 4 - Far Harbor - 14/?

Erickson the friendly super mutant

[finniestoncrane]

Having Thoughts™

Like... Okay. So Far Harbor has radioactive fog, right? I kinda wish it worked kinda like a sex pollen of sorts, you know? But like.... Specifically for Super Mutants and Ghouls. So like... taking Hancock or Strong into the fog he gets really fucking horny and NEEDS to fuck you right then and there.

Or like... So I have not met Erickson yet sadly, but I've seen videos. But his camp seems to be in a place without the radiation fog, seeing that I haven't seen people take on rads while in his camp. Maybe he set up camp there to resist the urges the fog gives him. If he really trusts you and you're in a relationship with him, image him taking you out into the fog and fucking you so hard that you can't even think.

ANON YOU ARE HAVING THOUGHTS YOU ARE HAVING BIG THOUGHTS THOUGHTS WITH A CAPITAL T AND A LITTLE TRADEMARK SYMBOL AFTER THEM

i'm all for tearing my clothes off and getting fucked on the island, taking in the beautiful foggy scenery while hancock ruts into me, it's no different than him taking ten puffs of jet during sex lmao

erickson is a sweetheart ;-; i could totally see him forgetting, being blinded by love and wanting to take you on a date to a special area, down by a pond or up on a cliff, then remembering the way the fog makes him feel. big hands on you. not so gentle anymore. good GOD ;-;

you have given me a lot to think about anon, a lot indeed...

[thornfield13713]

Oh my god, I love him, he's my new best friend.

And, yes, I did end up buying dogs from Erickson here. My settlements are going to be full of good boys and girls! Some of them may technically be wolves or mutant hounds, but that just adds to how good they are, in my book.

It's maybe not the politest question, but it's interesting to see how different he is even to Strong, who's the friendliest super mutant Georgia has yet met. (Virgil sort-of counts, but he hasn't been a super mutant in a while at this point.) And that it's somehow a result of the fog. Not sure what causes this - something anomalous about him, his reaction to the fog - but either way, I like Erickson.

[fuzzydreamin]

Y'all brought back my post about Strong and the Institute, so I'm going to go ahead and ramble about Super Mutants and their dietary habits under the cut.

Warning: talking about cannibalism.

So, mutants eat people (at least the east coast ones do it very often), and this is often used as part of peoples arguements when complaining about how Bethesda changed mutants for the worse - which, yeah, but I wanna go into why this actually makes sense lore-wise. Because that's more fun for me.

Now, it's literally called a wasteland for a reason. One of the biggest struggles facing anyone out there is procuring food. There are multiple instances of regular humans in the fallout world committing cannibalism, either alone or in whole groups, and it's often left up to the player to make a judgement on whether you'll let it slide or not - the rest of the world tends to turn a blind eye unless it’s rampant and/or affecting them directly. You as the player can eat human meat without taking the cannibalism perk even. “Iguana meat” is human meat. “Strange meat” and “Strange Jerky” are human meat. Longneck Lukowski’s “Canned Meat” has ghoul in it. The PC can choose to become a cannibal and directly eat their fallen enemies (or friends), and while most of the companions find it gross, and some (but not all) will lose affinity, they won't argue or leave the player's side for it like they do with murder. It’s just a reality of the world, you eat what you must. To most it’s deeply unpleasant, but no one is getting ousted from society for having to pick a desperate meal.

So then you get Super Mutants, whose diet mostly consists of meat. Red meat especially, since Strong claims that they don't like eating insects. They will eat mirelurk and fish, but it's not as good and harder to catch. They’re also huge, presumably eat a lot to make up for that and since their hunger is one of the main things on their mind, and live in groups where they share resources. So that means they have to catch big game, and often, if they want to be fed. Sure, some can try to live off just catching things like radstags out in the wild, but they’re fast, on the lookout for trouble, dangerous in a fight, and you aren’t always going to bump into them. Brahmin and other types of livestock are kept by and near humans generally - wild pockets would be rarer to find, and would be wiped out quickly when they are. Erickson on The Island manages to live without hurting people, but it’s important to note that he only has to worry about feeding himself and his dogs, so he can make do with fewer catches - mutants generally live in groups, the larger the better, so they need a lot more. Which means being less picky.

With all that in mind, you know what is in abundance? Humans. Stubborn little humans popping up seemingly everywhere despite whatever the wasteland throws at them. Sure, they’re wary of dangers too, but not so much as the radstag - nor are they as fast, or as strong without a weapon. There’s also the addition that Super Mutants don’t think of themselves as human, even knowing they came from them. The Forced Evolutionary Virus has made them something new, something else. In their mind a super mutant eating a human is little different from a wolf eating a hare. It’s just the natural order to them. That doesn’t absolve the cannibalism part really - it’s not a perfect analogy and just helps explain their mentality. It's still sitting in the cannibalism zone. And they aren't even opposed to eating other super mutants!

With enough perks into cannibalism the player can eat dead ghouls and super mutants, to which Strong is positive towards the latter, stating that it’s an honour to the fallen mutant that they eat his flesh, and will even inherit his strength from doing so.

Give honour to brother by taking his flesh.

Save some for Strong. Fallen brother died well.

Eat well, human. Take strength from dead brother. It is our way.

So, in this way the super mutants have also tied something of a belief system into their diet. Which is quite interesting, and honestly very human. In real life when cannibalism crops up en masse it’s often tied to mystical beliefs and superstitions. 

This all also explains why you don’t find many, if any, super mutants out in the Glowing Sea - not counting Virgil, of course. Strong states that the Sea is for “ghouls and bugs”, which are two things mutants don’t enjoy eating.

Brother super mutants not come here. Not enough to eat.

Strong not like Glowing Sea. Too much glow.

Ghouls and bugs like Glowing Sea. Not super mutants or humans.

There’s no humans (as far as anyone knows) or large game, so super mutants going out into the sea would starve and end up eating each other and then just dying eventually. There’s also the unrelated but still interesting note that the Sea has so much radiation that it even starts to affect mutants, who are highly resistant to it. Virgil is surviving similarly to Erickson, in that he only has to worry about feeding himself and is friendly enough to trade with the humans nearby.

Anyway, the super mutants diet including human meat is interesting in lore and beyond a “these enemies are just yucky and mean”, especially so in the fact that these kinds of mutants can’t live without humans nearby because they rely on them so much as food. 

“But what about farming livestock? What about Jacobstown?” I hear you say, and yeah, that’s a totally valid thing for mutants to get into - but probably only on the west coast.

There’s still a big difference between the east and west coast mutants, and that’s that the ones over on the west have been around a long time, since The Master made them, and have had time to learn and grow. They’re also noted to generally be stronger and smarter than the eastern mutants because of the influence of The Master’s design -which wasn’t perfect, but is better than the ‘no real aim but to make more of us’ approach Super Mutants usually go for. They’ve been able to carve out their own niche in the wasteland and we know that some mutants live just fine among humans and that friendly super mutant towns do exist out there.

But the east coast is different.

The mutants on the east coast lack The Masters design. They never had it to begin with as far as we know, and just came about due to Vault 87, The Institute, and general human exposure to leftover FEV. The mutants on the east coast are young, and results vary a lot. They haven’t had any time at all to develop themselves, individually or as a society, and are mostly acting on the heightened adrenaline that the FEV fills them with and trying to make more of their kind. They're in survival mode still.

There’s also the issue that the east coast was hit worse by the bombs than the west - there’s a reason the east and west are in different levels of rebuilding - which means there’s less good land to raise crops and animals on, once again leaving us with humans being the common animal populating the wasteland after they've taken all that land for their own needs.

So, yeah. It's just interesting when you compare these different groups and their situations, but overall: Super Mutant's cannibalism makes sense. Maybe one day the eastern mutants will move away from it, maybe it will stay as part of a belief system, but no matter what it's going to take time, and in the meantime there are plenty of groups out there not willing to let them make a snack out of people.

[ultramaga]

"Erickson will frequently walk away from the player character while they are attempting to converse with him. This interrupts whatever Erickson is saying, and the game assumes the player character heard everything and moves to the next dialogue when they return.[verified]" Yup, Bethesda never fixed that bug. "If a wolf or mutant hound is assigned by the player character to guard Bunker Hill, the radiation they emit will cause the caravan workers to attack them. This may also happen at other settlements where Bunker Hill caravans visit if the wolf or hound gets close enough for the caravan workers to sustain radiation damage from their presence." Or that one. Basically it is a really dumb idea to have them emit radiation, as they aren't glowing ones or anything close, and it causes havok with npcs. But I do love the character. Beth. might be incredibly lazy with bugs, it might be incredibly stingy and cheap and lousy in almost every other way, but at least Far Habor was mostly done right in terms of story. Erickson is a very chill character, and I think it's a shame you can't formally improve his situation, maybe find some other friendly supermutants, have him as a part of the Minutemen. Oh well.

[purkinje-effect]

I would be interested to see beloved grandpa Old Longfellow in the Far Harbor palette if you're up for it 👀

“No finer company than a drinking buddy or a dog. You'll find both with Erickson.”

[bexatomarama]

Gadzooks!

There’s this absolute killer Betty Page illustration of her getting carried creature from the black lagoon style by some sorta ape man, so I recreated it with my Far Harbor denizen Sunshine and everyone's favorite dog breeder/docile super mutant Erickson!

[noodle8]

#1 dogi dadd

[drovenna]

Have you ever drawn a super mutant before? I recommend Erickson or one of the older super mutants with their lips pulled back like this 😬

I haven't drawn a super mutant until now. I remember when I was 10 or something we always played pretend with my siblings, in the fallout 3 universe. We were fighting, we were bartenders in megaton etc. And the boss we had to defeat was ALWAYS a super mutant behemoth. Always. 🤣

[infernal-jokesses]

The Far Harbor DLC is the best dlc cause you can buy dogs. you go to erickson you buy dogs. i shit you not you can buy dogs and have them go to settlements it's the greatest shit in the world. dude i stimmed so hard i almost shit my pants you don't understand you can buy DOGS

[zaxlover]

Far Harbor makes me sad for still making super mutants attack people even when the VIM! cleared their minds, so I made a mutant oc named Neta who helps Erickson raise his pups and even does a lil fishing to feed them all :) Puppy is named Slobber for obvious reasons hehe

[docgold13]

365 Marvel Comics Paper Cut-Out SuperHeroes - One Hero, Every Day, All Year…

August 4th - Aarkus the Vision

The being known as Aarkus heralds from an extra-dimensional realm called the Smokeworld.  There Aarkus was a Keeper of Law, responsible for capturing the criminal who committed the first murder on Smokeworld in centuries.  In his journeys, Aarkus sensed the human scientist, Markham Erickson, who had created a special device that could breach the spatial/dimensional barriers between the two universes.  Aarkus had captured his culprit and used this breach to deposit the criminal on the planet Jupiter where they could do no more harm.

Some time later, another scientist named Enoch Mason had duplicated Erickson’s device and was also able to create a portal to the Smokeworld.  Herein, Aarkus saw that Mason and his daughter were being threatened by a criminal loanshark.  Aarkus traveled through the portal to give aide, but in the ensuing ruckus the machine was smashed and Aarkus became trapped on earth.  

Marooned on a foreign planet, Aarkus continued his quest to battle evil, becoming a mysterious guardian of those in need, disappearing as quickly as he came to people in need.  With his striking appearance, Aarkus came to be known as ‘The Vision.’

Following exploits that took him all over the world, Aarkus began to focus his attention on battling the Axis Forces during the Second World War.  Although he mostly acted on his own, Aarkus joined forces with the Allied superhero team, The Invaders on several occasions.  

Following the war, Aarkus became more and more detached from humanity, possibly missing his home dimension.  He reappeared to assist the Avengers during The Kree/Skrull War event, but was infrequently seen.  Aarkus took up residence on the dark side of the moon where he remained in solitude.  He periodically returned to earth to purchase books so to feed his desire to accumulate knowledge.   Following a misadventure alongside the Mutant, Legion, Aarhus has more recently become involved in unraveling the secrets of Sin-Cong.

As a being from Smokeworld, Aarkus possess a host of super abilities.  Along with enhanced strength, speed and durability, he can exert mental control over any form of smoke, gas or vapor.  He can use any form of gaseous matter to create constructs, project illusions and teleport over vast distances.  

The mysterious hero first appeared in Marvel Mystery Comics #13 (1940).  

[scorpio-skies]

So anyone else think that Erickson would have been an awesome super mutant companion? 

[shitty-fallout-art]

If you could swap a companion for an npc, who would you swap? I’d swap curie for Ronnie Shaw (I love how she isn’t too impressed by you, unlike everyone else) and Longfellow for Erickson (I like his hat, and super mutants are cool. Also, he seems like a pretty nice guy and loves dogs). A mutant hound would be a nice companion, but I wouldn’t remove dogmeat.

Hmmmm, I’d swap dogmeat for zeke. I also think that: Vault tec rep, jack Cabot, Mel cronin, father gabe, sinjin, pickman, ironsides, skinny Malone, captain zao, and Kellogg all have potential to be interesting companions