nate // 18 // mostly oc content // classic fallout enthusiast
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Latest Posts by ocelotinc - Page 3
There's a question which the west coast Fallout games are quietly litigating, which is that age-old gotcha about what you do with the remaining orcs once you've deposed Sauron. In the original Fallout, the Super Mutants are basically universally aligned against the quote-unquote "good guys," for whatever value of that term is applicable to the wasteland at large, but subsequent games make it clear that this was an ideological thing, and a product of the political moment of the mutants creation rather than an ontological quality that they have. The game is very aware that this is something that was done to them, and the tragedy of that; the first mutant you're likely to run into is dying scared and alone.
Fallout 2 presents super mutants who've broken in every direction ideologically in the aftermath of the Unity's collapse; the peacemakers under Marcus at Broken Hills, Gond as a member of the abolitionist NCR rangers, reactionary remnants of the original mutant army, genocidal self-hating fascists like Frank Horrigan. Fallout: New Vegas iterates on this beautifully. The mutants dovetail perfectly with the theme of how every faction in the wasteland is trying and oftentimes failing to reckon with the weight of history. Their utopian movement imploded outside of living memory, closer to the apocalypse than to the present day. The survivors- who can only dwindle in number due to their sterility- have been left to reckon with that in whatever way they can. And they have their backs to about a hundred and twenty years of that reckoning not going particularly well, of being the bugbear and boogeymen for bullies and ideologues whose grandparents weren't even alive to suffer from the Unity's actions. The lack of a collective future for mutantkind casts a pall over even the best ending for Jacobstown; humans are collectively resilient within this setting, but through violence, and accidents, dementia and senility, the day will inevitably come when there are no mutants left. And worse still will be the day before that, when there's only one mutant left. Finding some form of satisfaction or contentment within that dwindling window, with the world against you, is a task that falls to the individual mutant. (Take Mean Sonovabitch, for example. He seems to be doing alright for himself.)
Then we slide on over to the east coast games, where the mutants are.... morons. Cannibals. Marauders. And when you meet one who isn't, the game throws itself a ticker-tape parade for containing such an audacious twist. To go back to the orc thing, it's like if The Hobbit had contained a lengthy, empathetic subplot about the rich internality and fleshed-out-if-deeply-flawed ideology of the orcs, and then there was a pivot to treating them like a monolithic block of ontologically evil marauders in LOTR. While staring you straight in the eye the whole time, unblinking. Daring you to say something
Concept art of a "Bloodman" of which would eventually morph into Ghouls as we know them. This drawing was created by Scott Campbell, a concept artist and designer for the first Fallout title.
Benny and Yes Man charms <3
There's only about 5 Benny's left (3 Kiss, 2 No Kiss) so get them while they're still available <3
Nameless Ghost...
Just a forgotten ghost wandering in the darkness, waiting to be remembered.
fixed his ref so he doesn't look stupid and wet anymore
i hate him they should've finished the job and killed all of him !!!! not just his human body!!!! brain too!!!
I haven't posted cause I'm getting used to my new tablet but yippee. Doodles of my fallout two character both in fo2 and when the events of new vegas take place.
I LOVE PARIAH DOG!!!! I LOVE MIRIA!!!
Character is Isabella Reid (She/They)
Ryan face reveal.
Also here's a document that summarizes his story. It skips over a lot but it has most of the important stuff.
Funny things abt Arcade Gannon that I LOVE:
He gets angrier when activating Archimedes than when you literally sell him into slavery. The difference between his fake-nice "Hi! Did you always mean to sell me to Caesar or was that a spur-of-the-moment thing?" And him screaming "YOU ACTIVATED ARCHIMEDES!? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING!?" is SO FUNNY.
ALSO WHY CAN YOU DO THAT?? WHY DOES NOBODY TALK ABOUT THE FACT YOU CAN SELL HIM TO CAESAR???
How nice he is to a low-int Courier. He feels responsible for you and tags along to make sure you don't die. There's a low-int dialog option when he remarks on ED-E also, where the player can say they don't know what an EMP grenade is and he responds: "It's... a thing. A science thing. It hurts robots. Don't worry about it. Silly Arcade's just telling magnetic field jokes for his own amusement" (the only time he's rude to the low-int Courier is when they turn on Archimedes, and even then, he just calls them a moron.)
You can make him a follower by (as prev mentioned) being stupid, charismatic, a good friend of his organization, or gay as a daisy. Male couriers flirt with him ONCE and he abandons everything. Idiot couriers stumble over their words and he feels a horrible amount of sympathy for them, to the point he simply cannot let them walk off and die bc of something stupid.
He is, to his core, an idealist. This does not work in his favor in most of his endings.
Some of his only friends are war criminals.
Craig Boone from Fallout New Vegas is Forklift Certified!
I just remembered I still need to share these.. None Jr doodles and his PIP-Boy design.
Finish my drawing for the one who started it all.
Say hello to the vault dweller, Brain! He hates it here and he hates you too.
Name: Brain
Gender: Cis male he/him
Age: 29
Race: White American
Sexuality: Bisexual
Character flaws: Cowardly, paranoid and insensitivity.
Back in Vault 13, he was a well respect doctor. Sure he was a bit withdrawn and awkward but that just how he is...
But that was just a facade to cover up years of trauma inflection on him from his uncle at a young age which has become a shameful secret in the vault. But everything he went through now seems like childplay now in the wasteland.
He now no longer fears hell
Garvey n’ Gage
old art from December ^^ I’m ngl I still like it though so I’m just gonna put it here
Who is curly? What the hell is mouthwashing? Why do people call Joshua new vegas that name??
Some work in progress things and a little animation.
my dark, fucked up version of the classic vault dweller sprite