What if Caesars Legion was called Freaksars Legion and instead of being an authoritarian state they all just got freaky
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the two worst and irredeemable men make each other miserable for years and make it everyone elses problem, hundreds dead, a courier struggling
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Vulpes Inculta
Many years ago, when I set foot in Nipton for the first time, I immediately knew I was going to love this game.
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young NCR soldier looking at a Legion helmet
never going to finish this at this rate so here, have the posterized version
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general lee oliver showing up to lanius‘s camp seeing lanius already dead and the courier on the biggest trip of their life from the cocktail of every chem in their inventory like
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One interesting thing about Caesar which I basically never see anybody talk about, right, is that his father was killed by raiders. I understand why nobody talks about it, because he's the world's biggest asshole, and the game itself only addresses it in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it line. But it's notable to me because it's basically the textbook example of a Freudian excuse, and in a lesser game likely would have been played up as such. His father gets killed by raiders in the NCR heartland, and fifty years later he's built an empire standing opposite the NCR that's noted for having basically eliminated raiding as a concept within its borders (part-and-parcel with the rest of the oppression.)
This is never directly presented as a contributing factor to Why He's Like That. It isn't presented as the fulfilment of some oath he swore on his murdered father's grave. In fact, it's almost the inverse- you only find out about this when he briefly mentions it as part of the extremely curated, self-aggrandizing backstory that he's giving you as part of an extended sales pitch. It's a curt mention- something that happened, an explanatory factor in how he and his mother wound up in the care of the Followers. A figure he has to account for in telling you his life story, because as an outsider you aren't going to fall for the "Son of Mars" routine. But not something terribly important besides that. Not something with a place in the mythology. Definitely not a loss or absence that's meaningfully impacted him in any way going forward, because the Mighty Caeser is of course totally above such petty concerns.
That digression aside, the point is this- it's comically easy to imagine the version of this story that leveraged these exact backstory details, unchanged, to paint a picture of Caesar as a brooding antihero, making the both-sidesing rampant in the fandom textual. There's probably some Conan-style grim-and-gritty sword-and-sorcery rise-of-a-king epics out there you could seamlessly slot him in as the protagonist of (the man himself reads Grognak comics.) There are the bones of an unironic self-satisfied ultramasculine power fantasy rattling around in there, the shrewd modern man who uses strength, guile and modernity to dominate his lessers, a hard-man-making-hard-choices, the whole process a masturbatory tract in favor of whatever ideology the infallible Great Man Protagonist chooses to embody. This is a kind of story, in science fiction, more often than not a grotesque one. And it's clearly the kind of story Caeser thinks he's the protagonist of. But Hank Morgan this fucker is not. And I'm intensely grateful that the narrative refuses to let him get away with pretending that he is. At the end of the day his army is wearing football gear.
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I thought this was funny
(Feat. My ghoul courier)
[EDIT]
to whoever re-uploaded this on to Pinterest: it gave me a heart attack and I'm going crazy trying to find the pin again/pos
[EDIT 2]
I FOUND IT HAHAHAH
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Cottonwood Cove
Ready to travel to the Fort?
This is my first real attempt at animation.
I tried to do something simple and it was still hard as hell. Fascinating.
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