#horrorout curie

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[ID: Chibi digital drawing of Curie from an alternative Fallout universe. She is standing, wearing a slightly bloody lab coat over a pink dress. Half of her head is replaced with a visible brain in a robobrain dome. She is biting on a pencil while looking at the ground and holding a neurology book in her right hand. A doctor's bag is held under her left arm. A broken skull, bones, and arm on the floor. /end ID]

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it’s such a shame, she wanted to be human so bad, despite everything

-An enigmatic individual whispered throughout the Commonwealth; Curie is a wandering physician with a suspicious history and curious motives.

-Initially an acquaintance of Nora, Curie was eager to explore the Commonwealth in pursuit of scientific discovery, gladly accompanying anyone that could fulfill her desire for knowledge. With Nora’s position as General of the Minutemen, Curie was able to closely study the modern human and provide necessary medical aid to many settlements she visited with her during their travels.

-But as the Minutemen grew in numbers, so did the amount of work. Medical expertise was hard to come by, and Nora felt that Curie’s skills were best utilized if she acted as a primary physician for her settlements. So, she gave Curie the title without second thought and made it clear that she would no longer be taking Curie with her on missions.

-Except….Curie was a doctor, yes, but her interests and skills were primarily in scientific pursuit. In short, she wanted to discover and create and explore. She could act as a simple medical doctor of course, but that was never her end goal, and Nora did not leave a lot of wiggle room for negotiation. In fact, when she tried to convince Nora to allow her to take some time off and explore one of the Vaults she heard about from Cait, Nora told her she was selfish for wanting to abandon her position when she could be a much more useful asset by staying with the Minutemen and actually helping them now.

-Curie didn’t question Nora after that.

-And for a few more months she traveled from settlement to settlement, curing citizens of radiation poisoning, negotiating and rationing stimpack and med-x supplies, trying to convince settlers that they still needed to keep off their leg for at least another week before they could go back to working the fields, but they just don’t listen…

-Curie was overjoyed when Nora offered to travel with her again. Nora had wanted to investigate a group called The Brotherhood of Steel and couldn’t bring her last companion on account of “differences,” so she decided to bring along curie.

-That was when Curie learned more about the rumors of Synths and the fabled technological advances of the world that she didn’t have a chance to fully explore before she was put to work.

-After traveling for a short while afterwards Nora began to pressure Curie into going back to settlement upkeep, but Curie’s curiosity was peaked by new discovery and soon she was begging for Nora to help her proclaim a synth body for her.

-Nora didn’t see the point in it, but one of her other companions managed to convince her, and soon Curie was given a synthetic body.

-And Nora “asked” her to return to work on the settlements while she adjusted to her new form. Which curie agreed was for the best, all things considered, and took the time to fully explore her own humanity while traveling from homestead to homestead.

-Then one day Curie was sent to Croup Manor after a report that the majority of the settlement had fallen sick with a mysterious illness.

-It had started as a stomach bug, presumed mild food poisoning resulting in diarrhea, stomach pain, and sweating. But then it got worse as the settlers began developing stiff muscles, confusion, tremors, and hallucinations. They said it had started after buying some canned food from a traveling merchant.

-Curie had sent for Nora at once, explaining that the settlers had become infected with a Prion disease and that the canned goods they had bought were possibly contaminated. Nora asked if she could fix it, Curie said that there was at this moment no known cure for Prion disease; even with Vault 81’s research department, they specialized in viruses, not prions. She could try her best, but she would need a lot of work done in not a lot of time. The life expectancy of the settlers was not great, and there was little she could do for them without proper research.

-Nora left her to care for the settlement while she investigated the source of the canned meat, and Curie could hardly do anything on her lonesome like this.

-So, she made the decision to visit Isabel Cruz, the former mechanist, and asked if she could utilize RobCos former robobrain labs for prion disease research. It was a difficult negotiation, but ultimately, Curie ended up taking the space.

-For almost two months Curie juggled her research and her care of the settlers as the disease progressed to violent seizures and severe discoordination. Isabel helped where she could, but her expertise in robotics was useful for little else then keeping the monitors and machines up and running.

-Then Nora came by and asked why Curie was busying herself with Prion disease research instead of traveling back to do her check ins on the northwestern settlements.

-Curie tried to explain that she was utilizing her initial purpose to help the Commonwealth just as Nora had asked her too. There was no way to help the settlers without uncovering the nature of prions and cell mutation and she felt that she was close to getting somewhere. Nora wasn’t happy about it but allowed her to continue her research as best she could.

-Then Nora disappeared and suddenly Curie had to abandon her research to keep up with the influx of emergencies sprouting up around the Commonwealth. As tensions rose between the Minutemen and the Brotherhood of Steel, so did the number of injuries and “accidents” within settlements. The Brotherhood started to take control of much of the eastern Commonwealth and any places of scientific and technological interest, including the RobCo facility.

-Between the famine and her being a synth, Curie’s life was in more danger than it had ever been. It started to become dangerous for her to travel, and so she eventually took up residency in the Castle while trying to make do with what little she had into investigating the mysterious insurgence of TCD and Compound V.

-Then Nora had Curie abducted from the Castle and brought to the Institute.

-She told her that she had big plans for the Commonwealth and needed Curie’s expertise at her disposal. The Bioscience division had making the viruses the easy part, but it was the production of anti-bodies and cell mutation that she needed research done in, as well as a few possible new ideas that she was toying around with.

-Not to mention that Curie was technically an escaped synth, and her unique disposition as a general atomics ai inhabiting an organic mind made the Bioscience division all the more eager to reclaim her.

-Of course Curie was…”hesitate” to participate, but Nora had made it clear that this was a decision she had no say in. Curie became a lot more compliant after Nora had her reuploaded into a Gen 1 synth model with her personality mode disabled. Her synth body, particularly her brain, would be kept under study. From that day forward Curie was back to being a lab assistant drone.

-However, Curies Ai was considering strange. Whether it was because General Atomics AI programing was advanced enough to simulate almost complete sentience if left unchecked (Codsworth’s emotional state had left Nora in constant questioning), or Curies existence in an organic body possibly contributing to permanent changes, (or perhaps even the nature of artificial intelligence in general being a lot more independent than previous thought, though no one outside the synth division dared to speak that outloud) Curie displayed occasional traces of opinionated logical thought and actions, and that had her a very dangerously interesting case.

-One of the people who took special notice of this was Doctor Amari, who was also abducted and forced to contribute her work at the memory lounge to the institute. She had of course known Curie beforehand, having been the one to upload her into her original synth body; and seeing her in this state and catching glimpses of her independent thought hardened Amari’s resolve to submit completely and kiss ass hard enough to be promoted to a higher and more trustworthy position within the institute.

-Once she got promoted to the synth branch of Bioscience, she saw the remains of Curies synth body. They had preserved her body and removed her brain for observational study. They didn’t want to completely reprogram her just yet, a little too curious about the possibilities they had at the moment, but Amari didn’t want to push her luck.

-There was little she could get away with in the Institute due to heavy surveillance, so she took an opening and made off with curie and her body, retreating to the mechanist lair under the robco facility.  

-Although the Brotherhood was beginnings its downfall by this point, they still held considerable control over much of the eastern Commonwealth. The RobCo facility had become a prosperous recycling and manufacturing plant when it was taken, with Isabel being granted a comfortable position as assistant-chief engineer over the facility after she complied with their demands.

-Smuggling curie into the plant undetected was difficult, as was convincing Isabel to help put Curie back together. Much of the medical plant had been scrapped or was under control by the scribes, Isabel didn’t have the clearance to access most of what they would need, the risk of getting caught was far too great, and above all, the RobCo facility didn’t have the same amenities as the Institute.

-But with the Cat’s Cradle blocking incoming shipments from the Capital, the Brotherhood was forced to make budget cuts and restrictions. Most of the Eastern Commonwealth was still fluid, but the RobCo facility was starting to face unemployment and decrease workload. Amari took that as leverage and soon Isabel caved in, managing to hide them within the facility.

-Isabel kept busy making excuses and putting together worthless pet projects to justify buying, begging, and occasionally stealing supplies from the Brotherhood to give to Amari. Amari on the other hand struggled to keep Curies body on lifesupport while she tried to cobble her brain back into her body, reluctantly activating her gen 1 body and demanding her assistance.

-Due to limitations they were unable to safely remove her brain from its artificial life support, the best they could do was attach the mechanism to her body. A temporary measure they assured themselves, just to keep her alive long enough until they could procure a proper body for her. They were pressed for time and needed her alive and in one piece, whatever that ended up being. Curie was very insistent on that.

-The result was….inhumane, but temporary. They wanted it to be temporary so bad. Amari hated it, hated everything about what they had done, but the moment the institute was taken down they would fix this and Curie would be back to normal and everything will be ok.

-Except, before they could upload Curie into her “temporary body”, it woke up. Whoever she had been before the failed memory wipe comatose her, somehow she was reset and was now conscious. And Amari didn’t know what to do about this…

-The Brotherhood started breathing down Isabels neck once the mass desertion became apparent. They wanted to gut the facility for ration trading and were concerned about her recent suspicious activities and projects. Isabel told Amari she had to move Curie somewhere else, but G5-19 (the synth whose body curie had been inhabiting) was confused and scared and didn’t know what was happing.

-They had already had everything ready to go by that point. Curie’s gen 1 body was deactivated and her ai in status while it waited to be uploaded, but the “host” was blocking it. In order to properly upload curie, they would have to override G5-19….and they did. Amari had wanted to just…transfer G5-19 into the gen 1 body, but it didn’t take.

-The moment curie woke up Amari had her head concealed with a hazmat helmet and fled west. Isabel ended up being taken into custody for questioning after a scribe found some of the scrap from the Gen 1 body at the facility.

-Neither Curie nor Amari knew what to do from that point. Curie was “back”…but she was a little different. She seemed distant and confused a lot of the time, occasionally mixing up events or logical reasoning, but more over she seemed conflicted on her being. For the majority of the time she was weirdly ok with everything that had transpired, almost not acknowledging it, but sometimes she was…very upset over it, but only briefly.

-They had decided to stop by Vault 81, hoping their amenities might provide some insight on what they could possibly do next. They almost weren’t let it until Desdemona recognized them and allowed them in, begging them to help stabilize Deacon in the aftermath of his suicide attempt.

-Curie didn’t stay in the vault for long. She had acted strange and quiet the moment they arrived, but once she wandered into the second part of the vault, the place she had inhabited for years, she fled. And Amari never saw her again.

-Curie ended up wandering back through some of the settlements she had helped previously on instinct. Many of them remembered her, and welcomed her and her assistance.

-As the famine progressed and the majority of the Commonwealth succumbed to cannibalism, Curie restarted her research on Prion disease. And the Institute of course took notice to this. They had sent a synth out to pose as a settler, a “caravan guard” that would protect her and take copy of her notes and data on their behalf.

-In the present time of Horrorout, Curie wanders across the wasteland as part of a small “Caravan.” Mostly composed of Institute spies, the guards protect Curie and occasionally mark subjects for abduction, as well as reporting any suspicious activity from the places they travel. Their territory is rather limited however, primarily focused along the north eastern Commonwealth, where Curie has a homestead set up at Parsons Asylum (utilizing Jack’s former lab).

-Curie is completely unaware that the Institute is aware of her presence and is stealing her data. In fact, she doesn’t remember her time in the Institute. If asked, she says that she was busy aiding Vault 81 or the Castle.

-When presented with logical errors or loops, such as the time gaps in her memory, she freezes for a time and then resumes as if nothing happened.

-Her personality and psyche took a lot of damage due to its consist movement from body to body, its direct personality manipulation, and overall trauma. For the most part she is reduced to her basic personality matrix with almost complete obliviousness, almost seeming apathetic if not for her insistence that she do good. There are moments when her personality rapidly shifts between extreme anger or sadness or awareness, but they seem to suppress themselves rather quickly, and she doesn’t remember when this happens.

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uhhh memes i guess

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they say she's the nicest doctor in the wasteland, so why do her patients keep disappearing?

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curies horrorout story got me out here like

Nora was a master at gaslighting, gatekeeping, and girlbossing her around

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Adding on to the Horrout Curie idea, she made Robot Armor out of her old Miss Nanny body and never takes it off, or maybe has been using it to replace the parts of her that people eat, or both. As a coping mechanism, she’s deluded herself into believing she’s still a robot, and that the parts of her she lets settlers eat aren’t really a part of her body, but random meat she’s found in the wasteland. She constantly tells herself that robots can’t feel pain, get infections, etc., and her health is poor as a result.

Achievements:

Snap Out of It!-

Break Curie’s delusion.

Robots Can’t Feel Pain-

Find Curie a steady supply of painkillers and antibiotics.

Don’t Mind if I Do-

Accept the chunk of Curie’s body that she offers you when you first meet her.

The Million Dollar Medic-

Upgrade Curie’s cybernetics to the point where she’s more machine than synth.

The Makeunder-

Help Curie put her mind back in her robot body.

No Sense in Letting it Go To Waste-

After completing The Makeunder, eat the rest of Curie’s body or serve it to starving settlers.

I really really like the idea that curie is totally into consentual cannibalism even though as a doctor she damn well knows the medical side effects

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“I am sorry that I cannot do more,” the brunette woman says as she kneels before an emaciated child.

Her arm is outstretched. Waiting. But there is nothing in her palms.

the child looks to her, then to her arm, then back to her.

She takes a deep, shuddering breath and steels herself. “It’s alright,” she assures him, “You can do it.”

the boy doesn’t hesitate before sinking his teeth into her outstretched arm and tearing out a chunk of her synthetic flesh.

Curie bites her lip and grits her teeth and closes her eyes to keep from screaming. This is a game she knows how to play.

She feels a lull of pain echo across similar wounds littered around her body, but ignores it. She has learned to live with it.

After all, they need food more than she needs her arm.

And robots don’t feel pain.

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Ahahsbdbdh I’m so sorry I’m the anon from before I went offline for a bit and didn’t see you answered my ask

I like to think that Horror!Curie would be very traumatized, as the doctors she was with ended up eating each other and she was forced to prepare their bodies for consumption. So she basically did that whole coping thing where “oh if I just rationalize this as being fine I won’t get fucked up” (spoiler alert, she gets very fucked up) and is low key terrified of becoming a synth bc people might try to eat her

Horror!Hancock I see as being a wildcard, my current idea is that he only survived cannibals bc he’s a ghoul and he has a close knit group of settlers under his protection that he takes care of, but any traitors/people who can’t be trusted/people who can’t/won’t provide have to be killed and eaten

You’re very correct with horror hancock except not even ghouls are immune to being hunted as food.

Your description of horror curie is a little closer in personality to fell curie, horror curie is still ambiguous at the moment but she will DEFINITELY not be ok :)

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I imagine Horrorout!Curie as a synth would be trusting and selfless to a fault. Like I have this idea of her hiding bite marks and chunks of her body missing from the others because she lets starving settlers eat parts of her

And like imagine she’s sitting there, trying very hard not to scream as a weary settler eagerly takes a bite out of her arm, tears welling up in her eyes as she tries to keep up a smile because these people need food more than she needs an arm-

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Some Details Mentioned in The Official Horrorout Timeline

The Preestablishment Accords: Although the Minutemen is a volunteer militia, Elder Maxson has issues with addressing them as anything less than a formal military and primarily chose to conduct business with Preston Garvey on grounds of territory and control. The Preestablishment Accords were an “official” legislation that protected the rights and independence of any settlement that was considered “Minutemen property.” This was established in April of 2289 after the Brotherhood of Steel attempted to colonize Finch Farms and was considered nullified after Elder Maxson ordered an attack on The Slog in September that same year. The Accords also reflect the Minutemens territory and protection in present horrorout, any settlement that is considered a Minutemen settlement is often avoided by raiders or human hunters due to fear of retaliation.

The Brotherhoods export/import: I had mentioned in previous posts that the Brotherhood of steel was able to establish itself rather quickly in the commonwealth due to mass imports of food from the Capital and thus forced the majority of the commonwealth to join their ranks or allow them to control their settlements out of risk of starvation. However, along with mass import of goods, the brotherhood of steel also exported a large amount of raw material to the Capital in exchange. Elder Maxson had reablaihed quincy and Quincy quarries, as well as establishing Sangus Ironworks and Corvega Assembly Plant for processing and manufacturing. As you know, D.C is pretty barren at the best of times, they simply could not feed an entire commonwealth of people, and with the constant export of raw material there was massive inflation in both D.C. and Boston.

Institute’s Biological Warfare: The Institute released three different things into the Commonwealth that induced the famine. While I won’t go into too much detail at this time to avoid spoilers, I can say that Compound V is a chemical agent that killed off plant life and rendered the ground too toxic to grow in, TCD is a virus that killed off livestock, and MFEV affected the supermutants.

Institute’s Tactical Warfare: the thing that prevents everyone from leaving the commonwealth has finally been named, The Cat’s Cradle. This is a pretty big spoiler but not only does it isolate the commonwealth completely, it is difficult to detect and thus difficult to work around. The railroad is only aware of one “weak spot” in it that they use to smuggle people out, but it’s not that simple.

Some other background details that are worth mentioning:

-Danse received his power armor upgrades as a reward for single-handedly defeating a supermutant behemoth. Way to go.

-At the present time of horrorout the Minutemen are primarily located at the top southwestern corner of the commonwealth and contain the following settlements: Santuary, Concord, Abernathy Farms, Sunshine Tidings Co-op, Starlight Drive-In, Tenpines Bluff, and the Robotic Disposal Grounds.

-Curie’s character profile is still a w.i.p but the last anyone had seen of her she was allied with the Minutemen and working at the Castle before she was mysteriously abducted. A few years later people have reported seeing her wondering around the commonwealth at different locations.

-Elder Maxson has received numerous “mysterious holotapes” just as the railroad did.

-Desdemona is alive and she is a ghoul now.

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I haven’t done anything for horrorout recently so Im gonna try and update my timeline and incorporate curie and strongs profiles into it

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The Horrorout AU is amazing, and I wanted to give some of the achievements a go, so...

(some of these are like. really dark? so a warning for suicide and drugs):

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!

- Successfully persuade ten settlers that the meat you gave them isn't human flesh

It's Called Being a Badass...

- Kill a raider by shooting a bullet through another human

...Haven't You Heard of It?

- Kill a human by shooting a bullet through your own body

Like It's Hard?

- Kill six deathclaws with a melee weapon when you have at least three crippled limbs and without using any chems or stimpacks

Magically Delicious

- Eat human meat that's been treated with Psycho, Jet, or Buffout

Home Makeover

- Kill every member of a settlement to take it over, and completely replace the population

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

- Feed your settlers meat from the previous inhabitants of their settlement

Like Pigs to the Slaughter

- Convince twenty settlers to move to one of your meat farms

Nuke a Cola

- Launch a missile strike at Nuka Town

I'll Mark it On Your Map

- Kill Preston Garvey at one of the settlements he helped establish

Who's Blue Now?

- Kill Piper through suffocation or strangulation

General Atomics Finest

- Loot Codsworth's body for scrap metal, and use it to build another robot

Hey Mungo!

- Snipe McCready from a distance of at least 800 meters

Milk of Human Kindness

- Poison Strong

Lying Liar Who Lies

- Incite a nonhostile faction to kill Deacon

Psycho Killer

- Kill Cait with a chem syringer loaded with psycho

History Repeats Itself

- Kill Curie with a gamma weapon

Semper Victus

- Kill Danse in the ruins of the Boston Airport

Beep, Beep, Beep

- Kill Nick Valentine by reverse pickpocketing a grenade into his inventory

Signature Look

- Convince Hancock to commit suicide after seeing himself in the Fallon's Department Store mirror

Run its Course

- Use a reprogrammed captured synth to kill X6-88

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rejoice, horrorout curie be upon yee

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I have been thinking incessantly about horrorout its infected my brain like a flesh eating bacteria so I come baring thoughts

You mentioned in Preston's profile he has kuru, as do alot of folk in the au, but when I went to actually look into kuru bc I'd never heard of it before, it said that it's a disease you get from specifically eating the brain and that on average afflicted only live up to a year or so after infection. After so many years of doing the cannibalism thing wouldn't SOMEONE read something or make the connection and eating the brain would become a taboo done by only the most desperate? I know everyone's ravenous and feral but the whole reason they're eating folk is to survive, why cut your life short in the process ya know?

Along with that, preserving food. A human body is alot of meat but when meat goes bad quick which probably only exacerbates the problem. Drying it out to make jerky, pickling it, salting it a bunch and wrapping it in paper even- again I know everyone is starving and probably just shoving everything they get their hands on in their mouths but when your starving your body cant take alot of food suddenly and in general you won't able to eat a whole dude in one go, making a few meals and preserving the rest for later would probably keep you semi stably fed if your smart about it and go hunting regularly. Still starving but eating once a day.

My point is it's been like 8+ years get your shit together Commonwealth theres gotta be someone who figured this shit out and is doing decent.

The thing about kuru is that it’s a prion disease and prions aren’t very well known or understood, and yeah it does come from eating brains specifically but eating meat that’s been tainted with prion disease can also cause it. It is also a recent development in prestons case, he hasn’t had it for very long, to be honest he’s only been eating flesh for maybe two to three years (I gotta draw out a timeline but I’m chipping away at it in the story, mass consumption of human flesh hasn’t been that common for that long). And yeah you don’t survive very long with it, and I’m deciding if maybe curies role in the story is prion disease related (prestons mortality is kind of a part of horrorouts story).

Also yes, a lot of meat is preserved. a single person might be just enough to feed an entire small settlement. Human hunting can be kinda hard tho, since it’s a known threat and possibility it’s harder to just run into people nowadays. Settlements are locked down and travelers are few and far between. The population has gone way down as well, plus a couple…other threats that have been prominent.

“Having your shit together” is kinda weird when you’re talking about killing and eating people