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cmishwrites · 4 months

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Random fo4 moment… traveling with Deacon, went to vault 81, as I was heading to give tools to an npc Deacon says “I miss the old world”

Wait… what??? 😳 I know that Deacon’s history is really shady and mysterious, and a lot of what he says might be a flat out lie, this is unprompted just a random line, but it hints that Deacon is somehow familiar with the pre-war world..

Just a thought.

How could he have survived so long? 🤔

EDITED TO ADD; I’ve been reading some of the companion reacts and now I want to write out little scenes based on some of these reacts. 🤔

#deacon fo4 #lore #fo4 lore #fo4 fanfic #fo4 snippets

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stoat-party · 7 months

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How Much Territory Are the Fallout Player Characters Actually Micromanaging: An Analysis

I did some amateur research to figure out which of the Fallout protagonists (specifically 3, NV, and 4) have a reasonable area of land to constantly traverse. I used Apple Maps to find the straightest possible walking path from a point on either end of the game map, then multiplied the north-south and east-west figures to get an approximate square mileage. Since none of the walking paths were completely straight, these numbers will all be a little higher than actual. BUT the game maps also don’t completely correlate to the real-life locations, so consider these numbers to be estimates.

The Commonwealth: Around 600 square miles. This is honestly pretty manageable, especially if you’re teleporting or helicoptering all over the place. It would be exhausting, but you could theoretically get across the map in a day with time to spare for questing.

The Capital Wasteland: Around 800 square miles. Fairfax is the halfway point; very few locations on the western half of the map actually correspond to anything in real life. The exception is the cavern Little Lamplight is based on, which would make the game map 100 miles long. The map definitely doesn’t extend that far into Virginia.

New Vegas: Kind of hard to calculate at this scale, but we’re looking at a little under 3000 square miles! Through. the Mojave. Desert. The Courier is really going to have to commit to a course of action before traveling, because they won’t be coming back for about a week.

If you’re a fanfic writer, remember that you don’t owe realism to anyone. BUT, if realism is something you care about for your writing, keep these distances in mind!

(Sequel: distance from game maps to DLCs)

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nukacoola · 4 months

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Omfg I know I’m shouting into the void but every Fallout fan needs to read the journals of the Railroad leaders from P.A.M.’s mainframe terminal. There’s that huge theory that Deacon is the lone wanderer but he was actively, documentedly, doing stuff in the Commonwealth before, during, and after Fo3’s events jfc. I feel like I’ve uncovered sacred texts with untold secrets but they are fully available both in game and online.

The timeline does match up for Pinkerton in Rivet City to be Pinky from the Commonwealth Railroad tho which I fully believe.

#there is so much insane lore in there I swear #I’ll never be able to read a Deacon fic again knowing now the inaccuracies #fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #fo3 #fallout 3 #the railroad fo4 #the railroad fallout #the railroad fallout 4 #deacon fo4 #deacon fallout 4 #deacon fallout #fallout deacon #fallout 4 deacon #fo4 deacon #the lone wanderer

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conkreetmonkey · 2 months

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Curie from Fallout 4 is transfem. Please bear with me.

In the lab where she is found, according to the terminal of the Vault Tec scientist who created her, she was built out of a repurposed Mr. Handy his team already had. She was not a Ms. Nanny out of the box, she was a Mr. Handy who was given a female voice and presumably painted white. True, there is no real mechanical difference between the Mr. Handy and Ms. Nanny, but regardless, she used to be a Mr. Handy. This reasoning may seem flimsy, as she probably wasn't sentient at the time her robo-gender was changed and almost certainly didn't choose to make the change, but this is only half of my case.

Consider her entire character arc, about wanting to become human and eventually managing to upload her conciousness into the body of a synth. An imperfect yet more than sufficient solution, this new body allows Curie to easily pass as human, experience human senses, and for all intents and purposes be a biological being, just a synthetically created one, missing a few features such as reproduction but still far more physically human than machine. She is happy with this compromise, and presumably lives out the rest of her days happily as a human woman.

Like what else is there to say, that's a transition. That's just about as tight an allegory for a gender transition that I can imagine a robot undergoing without them explicitly being transgender. The factory built her as a male model of robot, and she would go on to gain sentience, discover herself, decide she didn't want to inhabit that body anymore, and become a woman.

Curie from Fallout 4 is trans. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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lordjimp · 7 months

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so, about the last names in fallout…

I’ve noticed in fallout theres a lot of characters that go by their last names or titles alone. it kinda makes sense, in the wasteland theres just more title oriented jobs that people tend to pick up. more military and secular organisations with titles and formalities surrounding names. but theres also lots of characters without an active or previous title that just go by their last name anyway. it seems to be apart of the culture. (or maybe its an American thing or something thats inspired from the same things that inspired fallout).

But I think about it sometimes, and I just think how weird it is. personally, unless their last name was a derivative- it just feels weird to call people anything else but their first name. And I internally cringe, because if I was plopped into the world of fallout with no prior knowledge and if for example Hancock was like “welcome to good neighbour, I’m mayor john Hancock”, from that point forward I would only call him john. I don’t think it wouldn’t matter how much i’d hear people call him ‘johnny’, ‘Hancock’ or ‘Mayor Hancock’. it feels superficial and strange to me to call someone by their last name unless they ask you to- and I cant help but feel like some other people might agree?

cringing cause I would totally call Boone- Craig. and he would tell me to stop.

has anyone else thought about this? where is this from? is it actually a very American thing?

#fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 companions #fnv #fallout new vegas #fallout headcannon #last names #fallout lore #fnv boone #hancock fo4

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violethyacinth · 4 days

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I loved this season of Fallout so much. I think they touched on every part of what's good about fallout: the suspense, the horror, the comedy, the morality, the mystery. Ugh I just think it was so so well done.

I remember watching the first few episodes and thinking "shit I hope they dip into the Lovecraftian horror that the games tend to get into" and I know it wasn't quite all the way there, but I felt like the scene with the worshiping surface dwellers in Vault 4 came pretty close and was really cool. It was a really interesting buildup from worship service to slightly disturbing/unsettling elements involving blood sacrifice. I was reminded a bit of the Children of Atom from Far Harbour and their worship of the Mother of the Fog. FUCK

idk man I just feel like this was a tv adaptation of a series made by people who love the series and that really makes my chest warm.

#Fallout was good actually #I loved it as much as I loved The Last of Us series #Granted I've only played fo4 and never played any of the last of us #but i'm also the type of fandom trash that absorbs information about a work by looking up shit that folks i'm following are into #but i'm also the type of fandom trash that will see a mention of something in a fic and go search the wiki for 3 hours for context #so i feel like i have a decent grasp of both of these original works' lore #vi speaks #vi watches #fallout series #fallout tv series #fallout tv show #fallout amazon #fallout prime

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never-gonna-danse-again · 14 days

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Prydwen quarters

aIGHT so you know how you get the quarters and T-60 armour from Danse after becoming paladin? I’ve been obsessed with some of the little details left in there- like the dog bowl which a few other people have touched on

but I also noticed some bottles of whiskey and vodka (I think) on the side which seems out of character for him; he dislikes whenever you have any sort of alcohol

so what I’m thinking is maybe he is (or has) overcoming some sort of addiction bc that guy has seen things and it would make sense that maybe the insomnia and headaches also tie into withdrawal symptoms

idk I massively overthought this but it’s nice to add more depth to characters (ahem Bethesda cough cough do a better job)

#fallout 4 #fallout #fo4 #brotherhood of steel #danse fallout 4 #paladin danse #fallout 4 companions #I love accidentally making silly lore in my head and thinking about it a lot #bos fo4 #fo4 danse

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neuroticreno · 9 months

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synthetic man

#small reupload cause had to fix one. tiny. thing #anyway i dig synths a lot for their designs #and their lore in general and how they're built #my art #fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #synth

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wishing4nuclearwinter · 26 days

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Showcase of the Daisy Synths' eye colors and variations. The Combat and Research models have dedicated combat modes that are automatically triggered when a threat is perceived, as indicated by the change in eye color. This was originally intended as an easy way to track and record the units' responses to stimuli during testing

Combat models include the A, B, and C series. Research models are exclusively the F series

The Enhanced Coursers and Zenith are not experimental models like the others and thus have static eye colors

#the D and E series are outliers; D being infiltration models with fully changeable eyes and E being a mishmash of other models #but all the eyes also flash when receiving data. yk. like a usb stick #fallout 4 #fo4 #fallout synth #the institute #timeline: the daisy experiments #drawing4nuclearwinter #id in alt #i swear i'll post the actual lore for the daisy synths at some point

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oldworldwidgets · 3 months

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DELILAH TIME DELILAH TIME

here she is. officially. my beloved fallout 4 oc delilah !!!! first piece done by @zetobii and the second by @leavingautumn13

i dont draw so all art of delilah comes from my dear friends who draw her for me/with their ocs and tell me i can post it OR from commissions. what i can do, however, is write <3 and make playlists and pinterest boards for visuals <3 so prepare urself <3

speaking of which, you can find her playlist here and her pinterest board here!! theyre chronological, so listening/scrolling in order should more or less tell her story too

ok so: her appearance, personality, stats, story, and some fun facts are here under the cut (its a lot fyi ok i just love her so much) pls enjoy

delilah lore (delilore?) be upon ye:

appearance:

24 years old, 5’10”

very fair skinned with bright green eyes and jet black hair

her hair is wavy and flows down to the middle of her back. she has one small braid behind her right ear

covered in freckles, from her nose to her knees. she has a tiny scar above her mouth from a past split lip and a slit in her opposite eyebrow from a past black eye

midriff is heavily discolored from past bruises - the pigmentation never fully went away - and marred with keloid scars from deep cuts from things she refuses to talk about. if her dress has a high enough slit, bruises can peek out near the very tops of her legs

large black kingsnake tattoo wrapping up a her left arm with its head near her shoulder and its tail near/on her hand

she can almost always be found in her wine-colored silk dress that reaches only about mid-thigh, nails manicured and lips painted to match. it has spaghetti straps and is loosely bodycon.

she wears stacks of gold rings (as many as possible, really) and dangly gold snake earrings

the only things she keeps on her person are the dagger and the gun strapped to her thighs under her dress. her gun was a gift from KL-E-0. it is a custom gold-plated, silenced 10mm. lilah named it "Mine"

stats:

if fo4 had a karma slider, lilah would land pretty firmly on evil. on a dnd alignment chart, think chaotic neutral or neutral evil

SPECIAL: 2, 8, 2, 10, 7, 4, 3

she's not strong nor has much endurance, but when you're as smart, perceptive, and charismatic as she is, you can charm people into carrying your stuff for you anyway.

her perks are party girl (alcohol/chem resistance), black widow (damage/persuasion against men), night person (higher int at night), and intimidation (pacify, instruct, and force opponents to attack). and deacon's cloak and dagger, of course.

personality:

cold, calculated, distant

cares about very, very few people (and even fewer things) but is fiercely loyal to those people. she's a railroad agent, but only because deacon cares about the cause and she begrudgingly cares about deacon

she and deacon clash. he refused to even vouch for her admission to the railroad. she gets along much better with glory, but she still gets assigned to run jobs with deacon because they keep each other in check and are deadly efficient as a pair (theyre also in love but they keep it a secret from everyone including each other)

she cares about very very few people but it fiercely loyal to those people. she is a railroad agent, but only because deacon cares about the cause and she "begrudgingly" cares about deacon (she cares literally so much do not let her fool u)

her moral compass is not magnetic. right and wrong is whatever she wants it to be. she takes no issue killing people if they wrong her. sexual harassment or subterfuge/targeted deception send marks to the top of her hit list.

her story:

her birth name is allie eden

she is not a sole survivor; she was born into the capital wasteland chapter of the brotherhood of steel. despite sentinel lyons' best efforts, delilah responded far better to scribe training than to combat training

she and arthur maxson were the only two kids in the citadel, and they became fast friends, even after the lyons pride crumbled and maxson was appointed elder.

he appointed her his sentinel, second in command, which she embraced until she saw how terribly the wasteland was faring under his leadership.

she promptly absconded and, because she had been so sheltered until that day, quickly lost herself to chems and alcohol.

months passed in, thanks to all the blackouts, what felt like hours. one night, allie woke up in a warm bed that she did not fall asleep in. a man named dante deangelo had pulled her body from a D.C. gutter and made sure she was safe.

in no time, they fell in love and decided to escape to the commonwealth. they found a small, basement apartment in goodneighbor and allie began tending bar at the third rail.

dante, slowly but surely, became more abusive. he left bruises and deep cuts on her body anywhere her third rail uniform would cover. she stayed, though, because she'd been raised by the brotherhood to believe that love was harsh and painful. to obey without question. to submit to authority.

eventually, she tired of that life and snapped, killing dante before he could leave any more marks on her. something... shifted. maybe it was allie eden who entered their apartment that morning, but it was delilah who left it that night.

KL-E-0, who was quite fond of allie and is far fonder of delilah, fitted her with pistol, Mine.

instead of hiding behind the bar like she had when she was with dante, she began to use it to her advantage. every dusty drifter with full pockets full of caps left her bar empty handed. but it wasnt enough.

she began targeting triggermen, who she knew were peddling chems for... someone in goodneighbor. the moment a man started flirting with her (which she hated), it was like a red dot sight appeared on their foreheads. she'd seduce them, take them back to her apartment, get her caps and chems and information, and the men would never be seen again.

morowski, goodneighbor kingpin, eventually approached her at work about his shrinking pool of chem peddlers. they struck a deal: he would slip her into his operation as his newest arm candy, and she would peddle his chems at her bar.

it worked flawlessly until morowski actually fell in love with her. go figure. unless, of course, that was lilah's plan all along...

while she's still participating in this farce with morowski, she meets drummer boy, who she ends up truly enjoying the company of even despite her general distaste for men. eventually, he convinces her to join the railroad with him

because morowski is in love with delilah, she has no issue squeezing information out of him when deacon asks her to: morowski is an institute informant. lilah quickly, uh, deals with that problem, and the next days, morowski is found dead in his office at the rexford. cause of death: self inflicted gunshot wound. what a tragedy.

because delilah was his "other half," his unofficial widow, she inherited morowski's whole chem operation

now, she happily spends her days directing the triggermen and tending her bar - for fun and for information, at this point, because she certainly doesnt need the caps. when she needs to run for the railroad or her beloved friends need her professional black widow skills, whitechapel charlie is "happy" to cover for her. as happy as he can manage, anyway.

fun facts:

she is terrified of storms, heights, and violent outbursts from people she trusts

her name comes from the bible story of sampson and delilah, where delilah is paid by the government to seduce sampson (a man of god) and tempt him to sin by telling her what gives him his inhuman strength. after three attempts, she is successful. sampson tells her that god gives him his strength through his hair. she then cuts his hair, which ultimately leads to his death. i mean what a bad bitch

she is still deeply unhappy even after she wraps goodneighbor around her finger because she still doesnt know who she is

she's skeptical of maxson's move to the commonwealth. she is very much on the run from him (and the bortherhood as a whole), and ham happily vets drifters for her to ensure theyre not undercover brotherhood before letting them into the bar.

she and maccready arent exactly "friends" but they harbor mutual respect for each other since they spend so much time together. mac had to call her off like a guard dog when winlock and barnes paid him a visit, so shes confident he would do the same if the brotherhood ever came knocking.

#WHEW LORE DUMP #mutuals and followers u r gonna MEET DELILAH and u r gonna LIKE IT ‼️‼️#shes not very nice but she would LOVE to be friends or frenemies or rivals with ur ocs!!!!!#she wont bite i prommy!!!!! (voice of a guy who is lying)#its taken so long for me to dump about any of my ocs bc being a writer on The Art Website is not ideal #nevertheless i persist #and my ask box/comments are SO open for questions or ask game suggestions or marriage proposals idk whatever :P #anyway bring on the tags #oc: delilah #oldworld.ocs #fallout 4 #fallout 4 oc #fo4 oc #fallout oc #fo4

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corbasm2 · 5 months

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i'm bored. Fight me about Fallout lore. post your hot takes or whatever.

#fallout #fallout 2 #fallout 3 #fallout 4 #fallout new vegas #fo2 #fo3 #fo4 #fnv #fallout lore

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somethingaboutmint · 1 year

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Ok whatever MASSIVE dump of various fallout oc art (half of these characters are @ghoulghostly 's for the record cuz im #obsessed)

#fallout #fallout oc #fallout 4 #fallout new vegas #fo4 #fnv #art'd #i was like i should start tagging my ocs individually! no not happening #theres too many #this is the best you get #the lore for these is longer than the bible but im too lazy to type it out

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conkreetmonkey · 7 days

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(no spoilers dw)

The Fallout TV show really had me worried that the ghouls's visual grossness would be toned down, due to that one shot of one in the trailer. However, after watching (up to ep 4 so far), I can gladly say that that was just a bad picture, and there are some pretty gross ghouls in the show. Like, proper FO3-FO4 levels of gross. Skin sloughing off bone, fucked up eyes, rot and discolouration, the works. The ghoul character from the trailer is just well-off monetarily and takes good care of himself.

Honestly, the show doesn't tone anything down. It's far grodier than FO4. Just by ep 4, there's been gore, incest, sex and cannibalism. This show has not been watered down to appeal to a broader audience, so we can all put those fears to bed.

#fallout #fallout lore #fallout tv series #fallout tv show #fo4 #fo3 #fallout ghouls

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jennystahl · 7 months

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fo2 implies (along with the actual highwayman) that there are some existing and working cars. what are everyone's headcanons on this concept

#fallout #i think they only exist in the west and not anymore as of fo4 really #like the stuff needed to keep a car (a fallout lore car especially) working just ain't around anymore #but there are BIKES. come on. bicycles i know they're out there they aren't hard to build and scrap and such

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grease-weasel · 2 months

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