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"Not a perfect soldier, but a good man"

#fallout #fallout 2024 #maximus #not enough maximus gifs :(

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Walton Goggins as The Ghoul/Cooper Howard in Fallout "The Head"

#fallout #fallout 2024 #walton goggins #the ghoul #cooper

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You need these or you turn into one of those, that how this works?

#fallout #lucy maclean #fallout 2024 #im love

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Regardless of my feelings about the BoS as a whole in the Fallout series, Maximus as a character exceeded all my expectations.

Maximus, honestly, to me, was the most nuanced and best acted character in the series. His situations were fantastical and yet the way he reacted to it all was so grounded. He was like a prestige drama character in a series full of cartoons. Don't get me wrong, I like the cartoons. Fallout leans heavily into parody and it's totally on brand. But Maximus' entire emotional arc was so understated and I really appreciated it.

He isn't a very vocal OR excessively emotive character because he knows being vulnerable hurts him. He shapes himself to that idealized memory of the knight in the armor even as he doesn't seem to really understand or care for the beliefs behind the armor. He's failing his classes as an aspirant. When talking of the BoS beliefs, he throws in a "or whatever". That part of it doesn't matter to him. The armor IS his belief system.

His whole story is about the cycle of violence and toxicity. The bullies who beat him. The abuse he endures. He wants power so that he can escape it but once he gets that chance he's doomed to perpetuate it, because that power is coming from the system. It's tainted. Deep down he doesn't want revenge, he doesn't even want power for power's sake, he wants safety. And he wants to be the hero from his memory, he wants the strength to save himself from this cycle.

And yet, he just keeps making he wrong choices. Over and over and over. He can't get out of it.

And then Lucy throws him a lifeline. And it takes someone from outside of the cycle to break through. And then he makes the choice to do the right thing even though it means making himself weaker, making himself less safe. He chooses to do the right thing for the first time in the show. And it means finally letting go of his dream, the armor.

And he sees a light at the end of the tunnel. He thinks his reward is going to be Vault 33, he's going to be safe and happy with someone who cares about him and makes him feel like a real, good person.

And by the end of the series, he's trapped in the cycle again.

There is just something so delicious about someone getting everything they wanted at the start and being miserable about it. There's something so REAL about wanting to be something but every instinct makes you sabotage yourself every step of the way.

And the thing is, he had all of these little moments of genuineness, selfishness, pettiness, virtue, I genuinely didn't know what he was going to do for most of the show. I thought he might turn on Lucy at some point. I honestly, truly thought he had sabotaged Dane even though Dane was his only friend. He is so morally hard to pin down because he's so full of life's little hypocrisies. His ideals and his feelings are in conflict so much and he doesn't have to look anguished for you to understand that. You just see it in his resigned stares, in his hesitance and his ultimate actions.

I just... I really loved Maximus. Bravo to Aaron Moten.

#Fallout #Fallout 2024 #Maximus #he gets so much hate and im watching here and like... why? #he's awesome and i love his arc

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Best girl, best companion "CX404 : Dogmeat" 🐕 - F A L L O U T ( 2024 )

#fallout #fallout 2024 #dogmeat #best girl

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Aaaand Fallout TV show threw me straight back into FO craze

(its GOOD)

#fotv #fallout #fallout tv show

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Gamergate 2 making lists of woke games

I'm gonna check all the "not recommend" ones, I've been looking for new games to add to my wishlist

#Ahahahahaha #battletech is among not recommended #I can’t even XD

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#Hah #i don’t even have names for my ships #but whateve #legit all of them #are on various scales of toxic

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I've finished my Fallout OC Character Sheet! this is my first time making something like this, but I like how it turned out!

PSD below cut!

Compressed Version!

#Fallout #fallout oc #save for later #oc Eva Anderson

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Can your OC sing?

#Well Ari is a bard so she can #shes more of a composer though but she has a lovely voice

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Archduke of Baldur's Gate? Oh, you mean my big tiddy goth girlfriend? My Final Fantasy villain reject? My 40 year old gamer who subsists off of mountain dew and doritos? My skrunkly little tyrant? My struggling actor in an early 2000's hair product commercial? My ride-or-die Durge simp? The man that proposed to me with a Taco Bell hot sauce packet? My precious Gorty? My wife? My-

#Bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #enver gortash #i love gortash normal amount #can’t you tell? #I’m almost sure he’s older than 40s though… 50s maybe?

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Apparently dragon's dogma 2 is filled with micro transactions.... Even you change your character appearance?? Or create a new game??

#Dd2 #dragons dogma 2 #lmao what #after Baldurs gate 3 this is shameful

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You ever think about your oc in a way that makes you legitimately embarrassed

#im in this picture and i dont like it #XD

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Proficiency in both ranged and deranged combat

#hah

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i am not arguing with a man with curly hair. whatever you say babygirl

#My husband has curly hair #XD #Can confirm

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#Where is the lie

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"Kaidan Alenko is boring" WRONG. Kaidan Alenko is one of THEE characters of all time. He's Canadian, he's Schrodinger's man of colour, he's DOWN to fuck and still didn't manage to figure out that he's bisexual until his thirties, he killed a man as a teenager and almost caused a diplomatic meltdown bc of it, his tits are bigger than yours, he's constantly getting migraines, he has autism but doesn't know it AND he glows. What more could you want

#Kaidan alenko #mass effect #well you’re not wrong