#fallout Oliver swanick

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Content Warning: Violence, Death, Blood

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Okay gonna go on a slight tangent here

Am I the only one who thinks Oliver Swanick kinda ruined Nipton?

Like you know Nipton is the player's first introduction to The Legion and everything is perfect

You got Necropolis playing in the background people strapped to telephone poles tire fires that go up to the sky heads on pikes it's a perfect introduction to show how ruthless The Legion is

And then it gets ruined by some asshole yelling about a lottery completely oblivious to his situation before hand

Like I think Swanick would have been perfect if he tried to get you to turn around and get away from The Legion rather than screaming about winning a lottery as if everyone in his gang wasn't brutally tortured enslaved and killed

I mean sure you know he could not care about you or his gang like Boxcars but at least have him be in a rush to get out of Nipton before Vulpes changes his mind

I dunno I think it would be interesting to have a member of a faction most players would start off as enemies with and perceived as an actual threat by both The NCR and the local settlements be actually fucking terrified of a much larger faction and a much bigger threat rather than screaming about a lottery which isn't even a valid lottery so he really didn't win anything just his own life

Going into Nipton for the first time in a new playthrough is such a chilling experience if you have a mod that removes Swanick from the game

I dunno I just think that Swanick was a bad choice because how am I supposed to be terrified of what The Legion did to the town of Nipton if I have this guy and his stupid haircut yelling about a lottery in my face?

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[papakhan]

honestly though reading the tags on that post is soo eye-opening about how people really feel about the Powder Gangers because you get a post that's basically like "hey what if the powder gangers were portrayed more sympathetically and humanised in Nipton instead of played as a joke" and then you get half a dozen people saying "Swanick serves a good purpose because he proves that the Legion were right to destroy Nipton because it was probably filled with CRAZY PSYCHOS like him so killing him as he runs away is SOOO FUNNY!!!" And the rest of the people in the tags are like "Um Actually having a #Joker Moment is exactly how traumatised people work??? you're misunderstanding the text there's nothing wrong with his portrayal" as if thousands of fallout fans don't just shoot him for the way he acts and the fact that he's an escaped prisoner

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Okay, this is the first weird one 😅 There were a couple letters where there just wasn't enough companions/npcs of interest (that I could find/think of) with that letter, so I had to combine a couple.

So, choose a favorite character whose name starts with either "I" or "O"!

(Or a character you just want to see me write for 😁)

If you have any questions on these characters, please feel free to ask!

And if you think of someone who's not listed here that you would like to see, feel free to add a name to the comments/reblogs!

[kindofblue28]

i actually have no memory of drawing this but i apparently did last night. does anyone understand the creative vision

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"Yeah! Who won the lottery? I did! Smell that air! Couldn't ya just drink it like booze!"

-Oliver Swanick, Fallout New Vegas

You can read more about Oliver here

[gibsalad]

literal coolest lottery ever

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FNV Minor Character Poll - Round 2-B, Day 1

Left: Angela Williams, scientist with the NCR Office of Science and Industry at Camp McCarran. —"Taking credit for other people's work is one thing. Sending people to die in the waste is another. If Hildern tries to recruit any more mercs, I'm going to warn them. What can he do to me? I'm the only one who can run this lab."

Right: Oliver Swanick, winner of the Nipton Lottery. —"Yeah! Who won the lottery? I did! Smell that air! Couldn't ya just drink it like booze!"

Designated cheerleaders were not available for this match-up.

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[wwwyzzerdd420]

He fucking survived

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