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tannnnblogs · 20 days

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"Aw, shhh, don't cry."

#fnv #fallout new vegas #fallout #dead money #dean domino #vera keyes #spoiler #spoilers #my art #i still think about them a lot

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kuzmich-isterich · 1 year

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Welcome to the Sierra Madre!

music: POWERWOLF - Poison (Alice Cooper Cover)

#fallout #fallout new vegas #dead money #dean domino #christine royce #courier #dog/god #vera keyes #frederick sinclair #veronica santangelo #queue

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louhinks · 1 year

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Back again with a new FNV fanart series. Starting the DLC with Dead Money :)

#fallout new vegas #vera keyes #fnv #fnv fanart #fanart #my art #art #illustration #artists on tumblr #dead money #fallout #fnv dead money

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artbyblastweave · 5 months

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Frederick Sinclair is a really interesting foil to Mr. House. I mean you start digging into this and it's just parallel after parallel after parallel. Start at the high level. House sinks inordinate amounts of resources into saving the city of Las Vegas - not the people, but the city- from nuclear destruction; as long as the stage endures, he can get anyone to wear the costumes. Sinclair sets up an entirely new "community" totally off-the-grid for the sake of protecting one woman, plasters that place with her likeness. House is a visionary with a 200-year action plan to rebuild society in his image, bootstrap space exploration, and construct an interplanetary empire; Sinclair sank everything he had into building the most secure facility possible for a woman who he knew was terminally ill anyway, just to ensure that her last few years lived in the aftermath of the nuclear apocalypse would be as comfortable as possible- there's a fundamental pessimism baked into what he was doing. Both House and Sinclair relied heavily on automated defensive systems and cutting-edge, esoteric technologies to accomplish their ends, but House built his power base on proprietary robotics and computing technology, much of which he personally designed- an outgrowth of his policy of never widening his circle any more than he absolutely has to. Sinclair, in his naive techno-optimism, outsourced his utopia, grabbing flashy third-party technologies like a kid in a candy store- opening a backdoor for the Think Tank to poison his city and ultimately getting everyone at the Gala Event killed when the holograms malfunctioned and went berserk.

Their management styles are inverse. House allows countless abuses to occur under his aegis because he subscribes to a libertarian-when-convenient philosophy where he doesn't much care what the little people do as long as he gets his cut and they don't rock the boat too much- a hands-off approach that fosters resentment amongst his subordinates, lets the White Gloves and Omertas get up to untold levels of fuckery while Freeside languishes and Benny conspires against him. Sinclair, by contrast, had a sincerely-held utopian-straight-edge safety-first micromanagement approach built into the very bones of the casino, he appeared to genuinely give a shit about the safety of the construction crew on the villa, and he was well-liked by nearly everyone who had any direct contact with him- and yet untold horrors also went down under his aegis, because his myopic focus on building the vault for Vera let Dean Domino and the Think Tank run circles around him, good intentions be damned. Their respective interpersonal dispassion and obsession are on display in how they react to betrayal. House's tone never rises above exasperation when it comes time to clean house of Benny, the Omerta Leadership and the White gloves; he treats them as problems to be solved, gears that are slightly out of alignment; By contrast, when Sinclair learns that Dean and Vera have been playing him, he channels the monomaniacal energy he previously directed towards protecting Vera towards the goal of building the perfect poetic-ironic death trap for her and Dean.

There are some other parallels in their personal lives. For one thing they both trusted a pastiche of a 40s lounge singer a lot more than they should have. They both tried to digitize, immortalize their girlfriends- and the discrepancy in how they went about it is telling. House's recreation of Jane isn't terribly robust, and in terms of House's overall project she's an afterthought. She's more a sock-puppet than a person, a sanded-down copy of a woman who died forever-and-a-half ago, forever agreeable, never saying no. Convenient. Only the most superficial visual elements preserved- an illustration of her face on a robotic chassis. Sinclair was obsessive in recreating Vera, preserving her likeness. It's all over the villa, her hologram is everywhere, her voice is everywhere. The terminal in the lightwave lab in Old World Blues reveals that he was still obsessed with getting her hologram right even after the love curdled into hate. All of it a monument to the real woman, and yet in all of it the real woman is still lost, buried under the mythologized projection. He didn't respect the real person enough to let her know that she was dying. A total failure of preservation from the opposite direction. (Except in the suites, where you can hear her very authentic dying pleas.)

You find both of them in their basements. House only looks a little better than Sinclair, but he's got much more of a voice in the narrative. He took steps to make sure he'd be around to tell you what he thinks about everything, fine-tuned the voice with which he speaks to the world, the face he presents. It matters to him that he gets to tell his own story. We find out a lot about House, from House; but for the kind of figure that he is, a shocking amount of what we learn about Sinclair comes from other people, people who knew him or wrote about him. The only image of him you can find is a downplayed element of a larger mosaic. The two documents you find that're written from his perspective have been buried for 200 years, and they're yards from his corpse. And the more recent of the two is an apology. I mean admittedly at the point where he wrote that apology Sinclair was personally turbofucked regardless. If the cloud didn't get him the holograms would have, or the radiation, or, or, or. You can read some level of ego into what he did in the face of that. But however futile it was, he died in the specific way that he did because he recognized that he'd done something awful, and he was trying everything he could think of to correct it. Somehow I find it very hard to imagine House doing either of those things- admitting fault or putting skin of his own in the game to make it right.

#fallout #fallout new vegas #fnv #mr house #frederick sinclair #meta #vera keyes #fallout jane #dead money #thoughts #fallout: new vegas #robert house

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userdogmeat · 7 months

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Vera Keyes, the Fallen Star

@falloutober 11

Fallout: New Vegas Dead Money DLC, Abbe Lane at Ciro's Nightclub, L. Starla "Undeniably Wrong", Double Indemnity (1944), Marguerite Chapman by George Hurrell, The Killing (1956), Katie Maria "the memory of a memory", Fallout: New Vegas Dead Money DLC Vera's Room

#vera keyes #fallout new vegas #fnv #fallout new vegas dead money #dead money dlc #webweaving #falloutober #userdogmeat creates #dead money #fnv dead money #falloutober 2023 #falloutober2023

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inksplit · 4 months

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#fallout #fallout new vegas #dead money #vera keyes #death #ghosts

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i-wanna-hug · 1 year

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Begin again... Let go...

#fallout new vegas #dead money #fnv dead money #dean domino #vera keyes #fallout #my art #((i loved dean when i first played dm cuz i thought him being a petty bitch for no reason was really funny))#((but hearing that old holotape of him blackmailing vera GRRGKSDJFHLWIU that shit broke my heart so bad))#((thinking about vera always makes my heart explode into a billion pieces she didn't deserve any of this q-q))

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crystallizedmiracle · 4 months

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Happy Birthday to one of my frens!!

#my art #digital #fanart #fallout #fo #fallout new vegas #fnv #fonv #vera keyes #dead money

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fallout-lou-begas · 1 year

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this is extremely niche fallout fandom discourse but as someone who really, really loves the story and characters of Dead Money, i swear to christ that if Vera Keyes wins the "fallout fridged women tournament" poll that's going on, i'm going to snap. anyone voting in this way would probably think that laura palmer was fridged in Twin Peaks just because she's dead. are some people really so poisoned by extremely watered down "media analysis" (so malformed that it can barely be called that), terminal cases of tropebrain, and an insistence on good representation that to merely suggest the value of negative space in a narrative would be to cast pearls before swine? sinclair built the whole casino because he couldn't let go of his love for vera, even though he knew all along that she was planning to betray him, and after she finally came clean about her partnership with dean it couldn't stop them from both dying lonely, regretful, stupid deaths inside of it. dean domino couldn't let go of his grudge against sinclair in which vera was a pawn and so he seethed over it, staring at her immortal hologram, for two hundred years -- she still got inside when he couldn't. vera's secret terminal illness meant that she was going to die anyway, no matter what. the fact that we don't get "vera's side of the story" is intentional because the fact that she became totally absorbed by the casino to haunt it forever as a holographic ghost, as much a part of it in death as she was a part of sinclair and dean's obsessions in life, reduced to reciting a looping script of the casino's promotion or her last desperate moments forever, is also intentional because it is horror and it is tragedy and it is supposed to feel really fucked up and emptying. if you wish that vera could have gotten a better ending then of course you do. even at the ending of the story, if Christine survives, she has been given Vera Keyes' voice and because of Christine's decision to remain in the sierra madre, it's as if Vera Keyes is still chained to this gigantic mausoleum that sinclair carved out for her, but now her famous voice is warning people away from this same fate instead of luring them toward it. this is all A-B-C 1-2-3 baby block stuff to me and yet some of you would still call this "fridging?????" ask for your parents' permission before going online

#i'm putting 'fridging' on the tall shelf next to 'male gaze' and 'final girl' and everybody can get it back when they've earned it #carla boone is absolutely not just 'fridged' either but that's another post #louposting #fallout new vegas #vera keyes #dead money

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psykersomatic · 11 months

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thefalloutwiki · 6 months

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Fallout: New Vegas: Vince Natali

Were you previously aware that, according to Chris Avellone, the name “Vince Natali” on the poster for Love Sets Sail! is an anagram for Canadian film director, Vincenzo Natali?

His movie, Cube, also played a key part in Dead Money's design.

You can check out the page for Vince Natali here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Vince_Natali

#fallout wiki #independent fallout wiki #fallout #fallout series #fallout new vegas #fnv #vera keyes #fallout wiki facts #fallout facts

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tannnnblogs · 1 month

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