#harold fallout

[analogbreakdown]

Harold and the Master are literally parallels.

They both knew each other

They both were affected by the same FEV at Mariposa

They both spread something; Harold is life, Master is death

They're both plural; Harold has Bob and the trees he can see through, the Master has the creatures and humans he has absorbed.

They both became immobile due to the exposure to FEV

They both are worshipped as gods; Harold by the Treeminders, the Master by the Children of the Cathedral

[atombombkaytee]

I know everyone loves ghouls now because of Coop but do you like Ghouls like Rotface, Harland, Gob, Charon, Edward Deegan and - obviously - my man, Hancock?

Hancock is my husband, Coop is my new serious boyfriend but the rest of these cute boys are either casual sex buddies or drinking/cuddling buds 🥹🥓❤️ ✨ Polyghoulamous ✨

Why are ghouls so freaking adorable though?

*Ps. I know Harold is technicalllllyyy not a ghoul but I still see him as my OG boy so he gets bundled with the cutie pies 🥧

[basementnaw]

Wonderful Harold

[stymshots]

In all his greenery.

[theology101]

A Brief Explanation of Super Mutants, The Master and Harold for the Unititaed

In 2163, the super mutants tried to take over over - and they almost won. Decades prior, a man named Harold and Richard Grey were exploring the Mariposa military base (A west-tek facility where the Brotherhood of Steel was founded after learning about unethical experiments, though since abandoned) about 50 years after the bombs dropped looking to deal with some random murants. Harold was exposed to the Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) through a splash but Richard Grey was knocked unconscious and fell into a vat. When he emerged he was a shambling, ever expanding mess of organic material that spread throughout the base.

He repeatedly reintroduced FEV to his body in order to “grow” it, including incorporating most of the bases automated systems and computer control into his own body. He eventually got to the point where he could communicate via radio waves into the minds of anyone close enough to either himself or one of his sensors

He believed that Humanity was fundamentally doomed and that, after a few years of experimenting, his perfected “Super Mutants” would reclaim the wasteland all under his control. Not wars, no conflict, only the Unity under the Master. The Master, as Richard now went by, began a mass campaign of kidnapping and infecting un irradiated people (as they had the best chance of gaining psychological/intellectual positives in addition to being super big and strong), before threatening the Village of Shady Sands and Vault 13 - the home vault of the very first Main Character in the fallout series. Since the Vault was filled with unirradiated people, the Vault Dweller, who has repeated contact with Super Mutants during their quest to find a Water Chip, was forced to take down the Master in order to save their home by the corrupt overseer Jacoren. Through an alliance of the Brotherhood of Steel, a humanitarian organization called the Followers of the Apocalypse, and a bunch of villages in the proto-New California Republic were able to band together and attack the Master’s two forts

while the games dont say officially what happened either way, the story hints in fallout 2 that the Master committed suicide. After revealing that Super Mutants are infertile and instead of being a continuation of a New Species, they would actually just lead to the slow and inevitable end of all intelligent life as they died off without replacement. So, the Master after realizing his goal to save humanity and the world instead caused suffering en mass, explodes himself and the Cathedral - his new base of Operations

Ironically, Harold sticks around all the up up until Fallout 3, a full hundred and thiry years later. He followed the Brotherhood out east leading a merchant caravan before Bob, a tree that was growing out of his head, eventually started going haywire. After making it to DC, the FEV and Bob finally overwhelmed Harold, turning him into a stationary Tree God, able to sense and communicate through all organic life that Bob’s spores interact with. With project purity cleaning the potomac, theres a very real chance that Harold and Bob might bring about that renewal and regrowth that his old friend Richard always dreamed of

he’s similarly inhuman - his organs are seperated by several meters and are all connected through a root system and, facilitating them swelling to tremendous size. But Old Harold is always content to listen to and talk to travelers that come to his Oasis. He was a close friend the protagonist of Fallouts 1 and 2 before appearing in 3, and was involved with pretty much every major event in California prior to 2255 when he went to DC

[slapfish-reblogz]

This fanfic made me cry so hard so I had to draw fanart

[mariasklodowskastwixbar]

I hate that just because it's a wasteland and everyone is sad that there aren't any happy endings for the characters

Wdym the only options in fallout 3 for harold are to let him be a slave or assist in his suicide???

Todd you bitch

Let me hook Harold up with a radio, some books on tape, and a kiss on the cheek before I kill him damn. Like, it seems like his biggest issue is that Yew is the only one actually spending time with him. Maybe, idk, the other fucking tree cultists did their job honoring him and took care of him he wouldn't want to fucking die.

Fuck you tree cult

Fuck you todd howard

I love you harold

[neutralgrey-fallout]

Fallout 3 Writing Project: Ending Slides styled after New Vegas Part #2 of 2

[hosiko]

Harold in 2090

[its-a-humanriot]

so I was having a bit of a shitty day because cramps and feeling gross but then I got to pet not one but TWO cats and my partner has offered me his old tablet to use to try out digital art for the first time

so behold

a very shitty Harold

[analogbreakdown]

[Speech 80; has Harold] I know the original you is somewhere in there. Let him out, for Harold at least.

No. No? NO! n o... RICHARD IS DEAD! We. WE are the Master. His name means n o t h i n g to us. You cannot break us. Can? NOT!

[marcheriest]

harold, for a patron

patreon.com/marchery

[snapitkeeper]

a little Harold

[dykedvonte]

Fallout should really get more into the micro mutations that the radiation has caused. Like both with already mutated creatures and non-obvious ones.

Psykers, Night-kin, tunnelers and multiple other variants of mutated things exist so why can’t humans with other slight mutations? We know that radiation and FEV have affected how things have evolved, so it’d be really easy to say that these tribes or factions can do this cause they are slightly mutated to better fit their environment.

Perhaps Mojave people that live in very high areas have just noticeably long limbs due to all the climbing. Perhaps those who live in dark areas have larger pupils and borderline night vision. Perhaps rando NPCs that just mention having webbed hands cause their families live around water.

Like I’m not saying a bunch of new mutants or factions but just like humans who are more obviously slightly mutated.

[arimabari]

Finally finished my six characters! Thanks again to everyone for your suggestions.

In order:

Dar-Ma - Oblivion

Jiub - Morrowind

Harold (and Bob) - Fallout 2

Moira - Fallout 3

Silus Vesuius - Skyrim

The Final Pam - Fallout 4/Monster Factory

[renxamamiya]

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