#the song moonshiners by goodnight texas makes me think of this au a lot

[cult-rangoons]

can i hear about your fallout oc/s? it would be cool to chat about an interaction too, I want to know how chaotic this could end :)

YESSSSSSS ABSOLUTELY!!!! Thank you so much for the question!! A chat would definitely be fun and chaotic >:)

Ok, this is going to be kind of long, but a disclaimer first. These characters aren’t originally made for Fallout, they’re from my original project thing I’ve been working on for like. 3 years now? Yeah that sounds right. but i wanted to put them in fallout, (4 specifically, i am very new), and see what kinda stuff i could come up with.

I have a plot for them and everything, but that’ll be a short blurb at the end.

So!!!

Simone!!! She was formerly in the BOS, but left to raise her younger brother Oz, in the Commonwealth. She’s pretty much a reclusive hunter and tracker, and makes caps by selling the hide. She lives in the more northern areas of the Commonwealth, so she has to travel down to Diamond City to get restocked on supplies, and sell her hides.

She’s aggressive, a deep thinker, and tends to be the one giving the orders. But in the plot, she’s thrown into unknown territory, and unable to be the one leading. She refrains from violence towards others, but can if needed to. She’s pragmatic, but remains impulsive, yet other times too indecisive. She has a strong sense of justice however, and tends to look back on her time in the BOS with frustration.

‘Adara’!! An escaped synth, who now spends her time researching the Institute, just to take it down. She’s escorted by her basically-adoptive-father Cedric. She has repurposed lots of stolen institute tech, and dreams of getting her hands on a courser chip. Her and Cedric usually stay in Hangman’s alley in Diamond City.

She’s very intelligent, but feels a sense of alienation. She’s basically the ‘techy’ one. She has a fascination with very odd things.

Cedric!! Formerly in the BOS, (a different time than when simone was there.) and then a gun for hire. He eventually got the name, ‘The Spider’ from his appearance in the dark with his sniper gear. A mask with multiple lenses, all glowing green, giving the appearance of multiple eyes. He then found Adara after her escape, and took responsibility to help her.

He is very formal and polite. He holds many regrets, and tends to be harsh on himself. Amazing at recon and stealth.

‘Lucky’!!!!! This guy. Oh man. This one is worded purposefully vague and confusing in some parts. I have smth i might wanna make or hint to to clear stuff up, that is of course, if i didn’t word is obviously. I cant tell.

One of the VERY FEW survivors of Vault 111. In my au, many of the vault dwellers didnt die. (Although shaun was still taken and stuff, but both nora and nate died.) and for some reason!!! ohhhhh nooooo!! yeahhhhh. everyone there was killed. this guy, and his best friend were the only survivors. However, when he woke up, his friend wasnt there, and left to find them.

When he left the vault and made his way to Diamond City, he told the people there that he’s from vault 111, and is looking for his friend. They told him that he was ‘lucky to be alive’ and that apparently the vault was attacked by raiders. He absolutely knew something they didn’t, but didn’t DARE correct them. He just took the ‘title’ and ran with it.

He became a gun for hire afterwards, but claims he is better than a gun for hire, and that guns for hire are trashy, despite being a gun for hire right down to its base definitions. he’s pretty chill, and seems like he isnt even paying attention half of the time. he just seems sleepy. and flamboyant. he has a tendency to misread sarcasm, and he’s very rarely sarcastic himself. He’s kind of a slacker, although he has a small reputation for being one of the very few who’s killed a courser.

X2-13!!! A courser!! She wears a gas mask usually. mysterious and stuff. I’ll explain more of her in the plot.

Some side characters:

Anwin. Shady radio operator in Diamond City. He’s like a weird scammy-televangelist. He’s this old wrinkly dude with a weird mullet who will get drunk and pick fights with people. and everyone in Diamond City wants to kick him out, but cant because they’ll feel guilty for letting this old fart out wild in the Commonwealth. Not guilty for him, but guilty for whoever has to deal with him next.

Kestrel and Quinn!! A duo of low ranking BOS squires. Kestrel’s vocab is filled with ‘bro’ and ‘dude’ and then Quinn is afraid. Afraid as in. Just in general. They’re best friends.

NOW FOR THE PLOT (NUTSHELLING??)

Basically, Simone’s brother is taken by the institute, and she is led to Diamond City, asking ‘wheres the institute so i can destroy it and get my brother back’. she absolutely sounds crazy, so they direct her to people who have came in wondering the same exact thing. Enter, Adara and Cedric. They unite under a common goal of wanting to get into the Institute. Small problem. They dont have the chip. So they find someone who might. Enter, Lucky!! He absolutely does not keep the chips. They eventually convince him to help track and kill a courser. The courser they find is X2-13. Lucky eventually rips off their gas mask in an act of triumph, but finds that they have the face of none other but his best friend. He is unable to attack, and the others are too, probably because they’re trying to defend themselves from other synths, and not because they are absolutely devastated, but thats neither here nor there. X2-13 gets away.

so its kinda blurry here for me, but i think they eventually track X2-13 again, and they decide to take her chip, and her corpse, to see that when they get into the Institute, they can revive her or something. They dont know what they’re doing or if it’s possible, but they’re hoping it is.

Then the rest is just them wandering around the Commonwealth looking for equipment to make the teleportation machine thing. (they probably found virgil and got the blueprint from him.)

They’re all like a weird messed up found family. found family as in. cedric is making sure simone, lucky, and adara don’t get into something they cant back out of.

The au was made as a for funsies guilty pleasure kinda deal, so i try not to worry about fitting it into canon.

I drew them all too!!

From left to right, its

Simone, Lucky, Adara, Cedric, Anwin, (old version of X2-13), Kestrel, Quinn.

(I messed up adara’s wrist so bad it haunts me)

Lucky is the character i made first to play in the game. I’ve attempted at making Simone, but i still have some ‘figuring out’ to do before i can feel content with her design in-game.

Thank you so much for the question!!!!! This was fun to write out!!