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you look good with blood on you what are your pronouns

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Art I made of my Courier and friends!

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ending every fully botched sentence with "thats my sentence i hope u liked it"

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WRITE IT ANYWAY!!! EVEN IF YOU DONT THINK YOURE GOOD ENOUGH!!! WRITE!!! IT!!!! ANYWAY!!!!!!!

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the fanfiction in my head is soooo good wish you guys could see this

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The one and only Ghoul.

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i love that in fallout games there are articles of clothing that lower your charisma like yeah you can wear this but everyone will hate you a little bit

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Good fucking lord

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So some time ago, it occurred to me as to why there's strong ghoulcy vibes in Fallout. It was kinda obvious in retrospect, but I was slapping myself in the head when I noticed it.

The flashbacks.

Cooper and Lucy's flashbacks are being shown in greater detail than any other characters. Maximus has his, but they keep repeating back to an image of a Brotherhood knight rescuing him, not his life before Shady Sands was destroyed. It's odd, because you'd think that Maximus and Lucy would have more in common since they both had once lived in Shady Sands and that Lucy's parents directly affected Maximus.

But no.

Instead, we're seeing more parallels drawn between Lucy and Cooper to explain why Cooper invited Lucy along his journey, why he sympathizes with her and why they're leaving together at the end.

"Well duh," I can hear in the back of my mind. "Of course that's why other ghoulcy fans are fascinated by this dynamic."

Thing is, why go through all that for those two? Why not a rivalry that continues, a race to get to Lucy's father instead? Why not Maximus leaving with her since he too would have been ripe for a revenge tale? We'd get more of a destined lovers feel if we were getting more of Maximus's past shown in flashbacks alongside Lucy's, but instead, we get the sense that Maximus is more focused on the future instead of being haunted by his past.

Things aren't still decided, and for all we know, Maximus and Lucy may still be endgame, but it gets harder and harder to ignore the questions. I do want to see more of Maximus's life before he joined the Brotherhood. I want to see why Dane is so devoted to him (there has to be a history there). I feel like Maximus is on the brink of becoming a revolutionary in changing the Brotherhood once he figures out himself and what he ultimately wants. He straddles the line between doing the right thing and being pragmatic.

But most of all, I want to see more ghoulcy. I want to see Lucy and Cooper develop alongside each other. I want to see Lucy change in ways Cooper didn't expect the way Clarice from Silence of the Lambs became someone Hannibal didn't predict.

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Something that bugs me a little with anti-Ghoulcy shippers...

First of all, if you don't ship Ghoulcy, that's fine! I don't have an issue with that if you don't see what we see between Lucy & Cooper. We all have what we like and don't like. And for one, I don't usually argue with anyone who disagrees with the ship because again, I'm free to like what I like and so is everyone else and life is so much more peaceful when I focus on what I love. But this is just starting to irk me a teeny bit.

What I have seen a few times in regards to those opposed to Ghoulcy is the level of HATRED towards the ship.

If I don't like a ship, I might go "Ew I don't get that" and it doesn't interest me, so I simply move on and enjoy my ship because I'm free to do so.

If you don't like the ship, why do you tag it? Why do you get angry about it? Why don't you just enjoy your ship? They're all just fictional characters.

The second and equally most important issue is; we get labelled as "racist" because we don't ship Lucy x Max....how exactly does that make us racist? Max is fucking brilliant as a character, he's adorable and so very human.

I just don't see the same connections between him and Lucy as I do between Cooper and Lucy. I actually see a better connection between Max and Dane, but that may just stay as platonic - either way, they do care for each other.

The third thing is "why don't Ghoulcy shippers make a self insert?!" Well....on AO3, there are many Cooper/Reader fics or Cooper/OC fics for those who do want that and they do well. Do I want to ship myself with Cooper? Fuck yes. Hancock too, in fact give me both of those sexy bitches, I'll slap on my ghoulfucker badge and off I fucking go!

But do I read those fics? No, actually. Because I only want to read Lucy & Cooper fics. As do most of the Ghoulcy fandom. Again another thing getting thrown at us as a reason why we ship Ghoulcy. But I'm afraid it isn't correct.

I'm also guessing none of the Antis are Buffy/Angel fans? Or a fan of any Vampire/Werewolf/other mystical immortal being ship with a human? Dare I say Twilight? Because it's not like Ghoulcy is a new type of ship.

Not to mention that the Sole Survivor in FO4 is over 200 years old and can pair up romantically with a companion who is significantly younger than her. Yes, yes, she was cryogenically frozen but she's still over 200!

I'm gonna try to sum up why I ship this ship, just because:

* I ship because of the potentials that could happen after the S1 finale - as their relationship has fundamentally changed at that point.

* Enemies-Friends-Lovers trope.

*The moment Lucy gives the Cooper his vials, he respects her, realises she is a decent human being because she actually followed the golden rule.

*When she finds out he's the cowboy she grew up watching in those old movies....he could very well have been her first crush.

*She's got an interest in history as a teacher, she even asks Max but his knowledge isn't great. Guess who's pre-war AND lived through 200 years of post war history?

*They share the same sort of betrayal by people they loved and that makes them equals. Regardless of their relationship dynamic going forward, they WILL need each other to get through this journey.

*The parallels written into the show by the writers are beautiful. It's so clever.

*Cooper's approach to Lucy in the finale; he would have heard the conversation between Lucy and her dad, hence one of the reasons why he changed his tone, he softened it - because he gets it. He gets how she is feeling & he will know how much she's going to want answers. If he was as evil as some people say he is, he'd have left her there for the Brotherhood. Instead, he invited her along. The "You comin'?" Was almost like Pre-War Cooper Howard. Walton even said himself how his tone changes towards Lucy in their Variety interview. He's even said that he never viewed the Ghoul as cruel. The man has done horrible things - I mean, could anyone who is betrayed and heartbroken like Cooper, then to go through ghoulification and 200 long years of trying to survive stay "good"? I highly doubt it.

But Cooper still isn't innately evil. We wouldn't see those moments of humanity and empathy in him if he was.

*Has he been shitty to Lucy? Yes. Should she forgive him right away? No, of course not. I can understand why he was the way he was with her - he thought she'd killed Wilzig, so he approached with caution. After all, she's wearing the suit of the enemy. He's also likely never had any kindness shown to him from any smoothskins since he became a ghoul, doesn't expect that a beautiful vault dweller will show him any kindness especially. So he assumes she's the enemy from the start. He still has to make up for this though and I hope Lucy does give him a bit of a hard time about it. So although she still more than likely hates him at the end of the season, she still chose to go with him. I think she felt his change of tone and decided that he's actually the most honest person she's met so far - even if it hurts - and that's what she needs right then. She could have shot him, but she shot her mother instead. The fact that Cooper didn't flinch either when he heard the gun behind him shows he trusts her.

So yes, their interactions in season one mainly consist of them being at odds with each other and seeing him as he has been for a very long time - the show NEEDED to portray that if there's going to be a "redemption" arc for Cooper in future seasons. But the finale shows promise of a much more positive relationship between the two of them.

Do all of these points mean the Lucy x Cooper dynamic will definitely be romantic? Of course not. It could simply stay platonic - NOT father/daughter since Walton has already said it isn't (in the Variety interview again). Either way, I'm excited to see them get to know each other and see them team up together to fight wasteland monsters.

Will the Ghoulcy fandom be disappointed if a romantic pairing doesn't become canon? Sure. But that isn't up to us, it's up to the Fallout writers what they do with the show and we accept that. If it doesn't, we've got our art and we have our fics and we will enjoy the show regardless. Cause it's fucking awesome.

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i love how viscerally and immediately the ghoul is affected by lucy. and she's just like *unbothered queen*

-> lucy shows up mid-shootout and two seconds into her speech he is Locked. In. -> she calls him out on his life choices while he's cutting up roger and he's so caught out by her disappointment that he retaliates with cruelty (and shame?) ten-fold -> she bites his finger off in an escape attempt and he cuts hers off (saving it in his sewing kit for later attachment to his person,, which is SO normal mr. ghoul i see you) all while spewing romanticized poeticism about "honest exchanges" -> she gives him a few vials and he damn near starts crying in the SDM and confronts cooper in probably the first time in a long LONG time -> when he's affixing her finger onto his hand, the ghoul is almost gleefully taking the blame for her crimes... for uhh no reason at all -> after witnessing perhaps the lowest of lows in lucy's life, he a) asks her along to find the truth and b) puts his back to her -- and in a way gives himself over to her mercy -- as she wields a gun

guys i am SO READY for the ghoul to be psychosexually obsessed with lucy in s2... i need to see that man PINING over her,, i need to see him in constant agony bc he's falling so hard and being molded too much by this vaultie !!!

and i want lucy to be soooo slow to the uptake and then just totally knocked over by this huge thing between them

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like holy hell he's so badass

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I just can’t stop simping for fictional cowboys can I.

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SOOO... i watched kill bill recently.

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in the second movie her relationship with bill really made me think about ghoulcy. the age gap, the drawl in his voice, the way he risks it all for her? uhhhh

i feel so delulu when it comes to ghoulcy because i am legitimately struggling to find ways their relationship will evolve that WONT end in romance.

also! i wouldnt say its a stretch that the writers alongside jonathan nolan would have taken inspiration from movies like this, in the construction of the cowboy aspects of the series. the crossover between the graveyard scene in kill bill and the ghoul's introduction? the fact that beatrix and bill express their love for each other through this enticing power play around death and bloodshed? not to mention bill being written as this invincible killer cowboy with only one weakness - her.

i got ghoulcy on the brainnnnnn!!! (as usual)

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Sketch of John Hancock. I wanted to draw him feeing pretty.