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Hi! I have to admit that I know nothing about Fallout but would like to understand your AU so idk could you explain Fallout for beginners please? (and maybe how the AU works specifically) 🧡
I’m going to try and put this in the most straightforward terms I can and maybe steal a few things from Wikipedia if I can’t.
And I hope you don't mind, I'll publish this as well so others can learn.
There are currently 7 Fallout games: Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76. (This is not counting the small things like mobile games or the table top games, or even the freaking pinball game either) PLUS there is also the “Fallout” TV show on Amazon (It's good, My dad who knows NOTHING of Fallout loved it) ▬ The Show on Amazon is based in Los Angeles.
▬ The setting, back story, lore, just a little history:
The series is set in a fictionalized USA in an “alternate history scenario” that diverges from reality after 1945, following World War II. In this alternative "golden age", where atomic physics serves as the foundation of scientific progress, which leads to a bizarre socio-technological status quo. This means things like advanced robots, nuclear-powered cars, directed-energy weapons, and other futuristic technologies are seen alongside 1950s-era computers and televisions.
▬ Nuka Cola ad featuring Nuka Girl leaning heavily into the atomic/nuclear aspect
The United States divides itself into 13 commonwealths, and the aesthetics and Cold War paranoia of the 1950s dominated the American lifestyle well into the 21st century.
▬ Map of all of the Fallout Commonwealths
The a whole bunch of history happens, it’s honestly wordy and gives the lead-up to how the bombs dropped on the morning of October 23, 2077, a “global nuclear exchange”, which subsequently created the post-apocalyptic United States, the setting of the Fallout world.
▬ Now, in my AU, I say that Buck is from a Vault.
The U.S. government, having foreseen this outcome just a few decades earlier, began a nationwide project to build fallout shelters known as "Vaults". The Vault-Tec Corporation designed the Vaults as public shelters, each able to support up to a thousand people. Something round 400K Vaults would have been needed if they actually wanted to help the American people, but only 122 were commissioned and constructed.
Vault Boy; He is the corporate mascot of the Vault-Tec, His female counterpart is Vault Girl. They appear in virtually every released game and evolved over the years into a symbol of the Fallout franchise in general.
However, the Vault project was not intended as a viable method of repopulating the United States; instead, most Vaults were secret social experiments and were designed to determine the effects of different environmental and psychological conditions on their inhabitants.
▬Lemme just use Norm Maclean (Fallout Series) here to showcase the sort of view in the vault and the lovely blue and gold jumpsuits ALL vault dwellers basically wear.
Now, only Seventeen control Vaults were made to function as advertised, in contrast with the other Vault experiments. However, they were usually shoddy and unreliable due to most of the funding going towards the experimental ones. Many Vaults remained sealed as part of their respective experiments even after the radiation had reached safe levels.
EDIT: I forgot to actually talk about the Brotherhood of Steel.
▬ Eddie is a former Brotherhood of Steel Knight.
The Brotherhood of Steel, commonly abbreviated to BoS, is a quasi-religious technocratic military order founded in the immediate aftermath of the Great War The BOS' core purpose is to preserve advanced technology and regulate its use. They believe humanity cannot be trusted with the means to destroy itself, and they think that acquiring technology would prevent another apocalypse. The Basics of BOS came from the fall of the western Roman Empire when the knights and scribes kept the fire of civilization going after the empire imploded. The BOS is a military order with a strictly enforced hierarchy and chain of command. At the foundation, that mandates obedience to one's superiors and forbids circumventing ranks when giving orders. When it comes to the individual members of the BOS, loyalty to and defense of the organization are the top priorities, - 1st: Loyalty to and defense of the organization - 2nd: Dedication and loyalty to the mission. - 3rd: Dedication and loyalty to one's superior officer. Brotherhood members are expected to follow each of these rules in that order. If one's superior should act against the interests of the organization or mission, the third rule is superseded by the second or first rule.
▬ Brotherhood of Steel Ranking Structure
The Brotherhood has been featured in every game and other entry in the Fallout series in one form or another.
▬ My manip of Eddie in a Brotherhood jumpsuit
Eddie's History with the BOS without spoilers
▬ My manip of Eddie in a Brotherhood jumpsuit
While homosexual relationships are generally tolerated, they are pressured to instead seek relationships that will result in 'repopulation.' This leads Eddie to be arranged with Shannon, which then leads to Chris's birth, though Eddie and Shannon are able to keep Chris' Cerebal Palsy (though in the FO Universe, it would be considered his 'disorder or ailment) secret from the BOS for the first few years. BOS finds out about Chris, and would never tolerate someone like Chris within their ranks. Eddie ultimately decides he can no longer remain a part of them, and following his own moral compass, he chooses to desert the BOS. The Diazs, on their own, now in this new reality, Eddie is constantly on the lookout, aware that his status as AWOL from the BOS makes him a target.
▬ I have planned in the future that Karen is a former Enclave Scientist.
The Enclave is another military organization dedicated to the execution of an all-inclusive holocaust of non-members, who they dehumanize as "genetic non-compliance offenders." While being the continuation of a pre-war American deep state consisting of high-ranking political, military and corporate figures, its members publicly claim to be the direct continuation of the United States of America and its government after the destruction of the world during the Great War.
▬ Enclave power armor, X-01 power armor
Without going too in-depth with them, it's obvious I hate them, they're the worst, they Suck, and I'm glad Karen left them (In my AU).
here are things I may mention in my AU (when it comes to finally posting my fic)
Pip Boy: The Pip-Boy (Personal Information Processor-Boy) is a wrist computer given to the player (Vault-Dweller) early in the games and series, which serves various roles in quest, inventory, and battle management, as well as presenting player statistics.
▬ This version of the Pip-Boy is not stated in-series, though the official replica sold by The Wand Company is called the Pip-Boy 3000 Mark V
Power Armor: Power Armor, is a type of powered exoskeleton featured in every game in the Fallout series. It allows for protection from enemy fire and enables the wearer to carry cumbersome weapons and other objects with ease. There are so many types, levels and styles of Power Armor. It is considered an iconic part of the Fallout universe, an effective marketing tool for a faceless protagonist, and a prominent symbol within the game's lore. ▬ “Post-war” the Power Armor is most widely used by the Brotherhood of Steel, a cult-like organization that collects and preserves technology (My husband said the BOS is like Mormons and their obsession with Geneology)
▬T-60 Power Armor
There are INSANE Animals that roam the ‘wasteland’. Some were modified by the Government (ie. Death Claws), but some were also just changed by radiation.
▬ BAD: genetically engineered creatures developed by the United States military to replace humans during missions, but they escaped into the wild in the aftermath of the Great War
▬ GOOD: Brahmin are mutated two-headed cattle; they still provide meat, milk, hide, and manual labor.
Ghouls... Ghouls are humans mutated by radiation, rather than killed by it. The mutation process, referred to as "ghoulification", this typically results in an extended lifespan, if not functional immortality, real-time regeneration of wounds allowing for reattaching limbs, and immunity to direct damage resulting from irradiation. However, it changes their appearance, resembling rotting corpses, burn victims, or walking corpses
▬ Cooper Howard - The Ghoul From the Fallout Amazon series
▬ Feral Ghouls in Fallout 4
Now, with my AU, I’m doing a small mix of The TV show, but throwing in elements of Fallout 4 and New Vegas (Kinda) While I won't delve into the details of every single game and its historical context, I hope this overview will provide you with enough information on the basics of Fallout? If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask!
Much Love, ▬ Kenna
#answered#travellingdragon#asks#Fallout Fundamentals#fallout/911#fallout 911 mashup#911 Fallout AU#911 AU#In this essay...
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Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (04/29/2024)
Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms. Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.
Overall:
Over 1,000 Fics:
Over 5,000 Fics:
Over 10,000 Fics:
Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard
#ao3#ao3 stats#Madagascar#Fallout#Sherlock & Co.#X-Men '97#Ella Enchanted#Alien Stage#KinitoPET#23.5 23.5#Fundamental Paper Education#Hokuto no Ken Fist of the North Star#Dungeon Meshi Delicious in Dungeon#Mtley Cre#Spider-Man#Love and Deepspace#Poppy Playtime#Murder Drones#Honkai: Star Rail#Hazbin Hotel
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Ulysses obsession with the Courier is a special type of sad to me cause the Courier’s part was so important but so unwitting. They had no idea what was in the package they delivered and neither did he. Neither had an idea of what it could’ve done and the Courier was only caring out their job (mind you the Courier could be killed via notes in the express contract if they don’t). To them it was just another regular delivery to the divide and one that they likely thought would help, just like all the ones before.
It’s so tragic for Ulysses to hold so much ire to the Courier when it really was the case of it could’ve been anyone. Anyone could have delivered that package but they did and so he focused the blame on them and it destroys what he is trying to instill in the courier on a fundamental level.
#like yeah the courier delivered the package but in the end that’s a job#any random courier could’ve delivered it especially since we know in the past the factions were farther apart and this travel was a smidge#safer but courier six got it and this Ulysses blamed them#like I don’t care much for Ulysses because I think lonesome road embodies don’t shoot the messenger at it core#and what people focus on doesn’t focus on the fact that in the bigger picture#everything went wrong because two factions were at war and at some point the codes would have been delivered#and the divide destroyed cause with how close it is to NCR territory it would of been found#like there is an inevitable and too many people treat Ulysses as if he knows more or is more aware of the idiosyncrasies of conflict#when he’s like fundamentally flawed just at the standard of being a legion apologist STILL and just how focused he is on one persons#involvement cause yeah choices matter even the small one but I think Veronica’s quest says it best with a line from the courier#you can’t control what they do#like the courier couldn’t and can’t control what they deliver and yet it’s got them in hot water multiple times#like do you think they enjoy being shot or knowing they are indirectly responsible for activating the annihilation of a community#to me it’s hypocrisy to be willing to end the world or one world to prove a point and whatever argument made that only military factions#suffer forget there are innocent civilians suffering that had no part and Ulysses is no better than the Courier#I don’t like devils advocate and a lot of the dlc just feels like that but idk I know people love it but the depth is just not there for mr#ulysses fnv#fallout#fallout new vegas#courier six#the courier#lonesome road#the courier has very little personality outside what we give them but some lines and delivery paint a picture#like uhhhh undertale deltarune rules ig
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*gulp* deacon/iris "please just kiss me" intimacy ask........ NYE party- (i am shot)
@oldworldwidgets — [ intimacy prompts ]
It's in the stars, it's been written in the scars on our hearts
We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again
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#if u need me I'm gonna be on the floor thinking abt the doomed love of the disaster besties#aud.. aud my love my darling.. this little scene we crafted has been rotating nonstop in my brain for months#it has fundamentally ruined me#but it's so perfect it hurts so good I love seeing the lines blurring I love them not being able to get it right#struggling to communicate through the heartache *chefs kiss*#him.. him being the one to ask..#I am unwell you are always sending me banger prompts my dear AND you always know how to help put my chaotic ramblings in the perfect words#OUGH miss aud oldworldwidgets I love you with my entire heart and soul you are such a ray of sunshine in my life#also I still have the other two intimacy prompts u sent me for them in my back pocket.....#I've had some ideas of how they can spend the night on the roof under the stars together......#more on that later#ANYWAY#ilysm I am blowing you so many kisses rn#finally the people get to know who miss iris really kissed on new years eve on this fine day of *checks watch* valentine's day#(sorry nicky ✌😔 just bestie things u know how it is)#my art#sole survivor#fallout#fallout 4#fo4#deacon#deacon fallout 4#deacon fo4#oc x canon
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Wasteland adoption be like "this grown-ass 22-year-old woman is my daughter now"
You can read about Jack and how he's fumbling through the fatherhood he never got to experience with the child he thought he'd lost his chance to raise here
#long time running#fallout 4#yeah it was never just an f!sosuxmaccready fic. it's also very much about found family and adoption#it's also 'how do you be a father to an adult who still needs her dad when the entire parenting experience was stolen from you'#how do you parent when you thought you lost your chance; when the world you live in fundamentally rejects your understanding of family#the answer is you go be the dad she needs you to be; you collect new family members and weave a new tapestry#welcome to my ted talk#this is long time running#back and better than ever#father and daughter#fallout#fo4#screenarchery#sole survivor#my oc#writing#game screenshots#fallout art#adoption#family#fallout fanfiction#fanfiction#fallout screenshots
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tbh i think one of the most damning things i can say after playing pokemon scarlet is that the bugs aren't even funny when they're happening to you
#it's only funny watching them happen to someone else and that's bc fundamentally i know they suffered#i play a lot of fallout and at least when those bug it's usually not gamebreaking and pretty fucking funny#but in comparison to a real open world game the ingame world of sv is lifeless and empty#so when the bugs happen it's pretty much always something negative happening to your character#and not an npc ragdolling bc they stepped on a rock wrong#anyway they're not the worst pokemon games i've ever played but they're in the bottom three#there was potential but they did not realise it and only the story saves it to at best low-mid tier#and this is why we need to kill the pokemon company
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i laughed when i saw someone on tiktok say how can anyone ship lucy with the ghoul when he sold her for parts and let me just tell you right now, if one character sells another character to a gang with an organ harvesting robot, i will immediately ship them. immediately. zero hesitation. that's peak romance to me.
#selfishness and keeping oneself alive at all costs is a fundamental part of romance to me#a character starved of the thing that will save him trading another's life for his own is delectable#delectable#selfishness and greed and hunger#clapping as i sit here drinking too much coffee at my laptop#ghoulcy#lucy x ghoul#i love it#i wish they had done more fucked up things to each other tbh#the organ harvesting thing wasn't enough#fallout
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actually. you know what? maybe I will play Fallout 3
#abc shut it#i know i never SHUT THE FUCK UP about fallout new vegas but actually fallout 3 is my personal favorite fallout game#but fundamentally i understand new vegas is superior LMAO
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Went on a tangent a bit about this on twt but the useless hill I'm ready and willing to die on is wanting these rpg worlds to have a more fleshed out (from a lore perspective) explanation to how the currency system works, because so many just use single gold pieces, which makes sense in a gameplay way but how does this work in terms of commerce... Are we just carrying around sacks of several hundreds of thousands of coins...
Just think about how much of a pain in the ass it would be to buy an enchanted weapon from an enchanter for, even just 1k gold, okay maybe we can assume there's like some standardized 500 gold sleeves (like how there are coin rolls irl) well what if that weapon is a weirder number like 1439 gold, okay well now you gotta get more specific, and the vendor's counting all the coins to make sure you got the right amount (assuming we're talking purchasing rather than bartering, but at least in TES, bartering has long stopped being a thing) And don't even get me started on large quantity sales like purchasing estates... I know we're never going to get an actual banking system like Daggerfall again, but at least...idk have a bank or mention of that stuff somewhere, even if it's just flavor text or decorative and has no gameplay function to it... I am begging....
#i know i specifically focus way more on niche worldbuilding aspects like this than i'm supposed to like. yes i know it's a game...#and im just coping reminiscing on daggerfall's bank system and some fallout games having different currencies than just caps#(which ik i don't talk about fallout a lot but my gripes with individual septims being the only standardized currency is the same with caps#thank god there are mods for skyrim that add banks and letters of credit (they don't really have gameplay function bc skyrim fundamentally-#doesn't but i still appreciate they're there...)
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iirc i never posted about this but. it's on my mind rn.
okay so. i'm FTM, yeah? and by some metrics i am a "late bloomer" in that i didn't begin my transition until i was an adult. and also, i am effeminate. i've never really been a Masculine person.
growing up, i had access to my older siblings video games. and then whatever my parents got me for birthdays and holidays. which tended to be games that were marketed towards girls. i'm talking your barbie games, your horse games, your nintendogs.
and when the internet began to develop central hubs for flashgames that weren't just insensitive jokes and pro iraq war propaganda, i always gravitated towards the "girly games." usually dress ups.
and as i kid i never wanted, say, nerf guns or toy soldiers. i think the most masc interest i had was rewatching the same power rangers episode on VHS over and over.
so i never got into War Games. i never got into Male Power Fantasy. i was playing harvest moon. i was playing pokemon for the cute critters. i played TF2 i guess? but that was about it.
and i feel like. my experiences as a Man Who Plays Video Games is very different from other Men Who Play Video Games. i will watch streamers on twitch and they'll gleefully reference something from their childhood that i have no frame of reference for.
there's a disconnect there. what feels like, to me, a Central Lore that i am missing. and it can be very alienating sometimes. like i'm not Allowed into the Boys Club because i was playing with virtual dolls instead of virtual guns
and that, as an adult, i still tend to skew in the direction of cute games/dress up games instead of like. fighting games and FPS and RTS
so.... ya. this is a post for Girly Gamers. love u
#that said like. i love bioshock. i love the fallout series.#not every game i enjoy is a quote unquote Girly Game#but i'm talking about the Fundamentals#what is a gmod. what is a call of duty. what is a metal gear solid#what is a street fighter. what is a dark souls#these are just Words to me#also for my fellow millenials: referencing blinkerfluid when i mention the propaganda stuff#jay.rtf
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So how much longer must I wait to fill this emptiness? I make mistakes and had my dreams slip through the cracks I've seen such hate surround the inside of this dark abyss But all this pain just makes me certain that there's love for me to find a brighter paths
#guys. do yourselves a favour and go listen to crown the empire#this song is one of THE daryacore songs ever. like. this is what my glittery soul sounds like 10000%#the fallout and the resistance albums changed me fundamentally as a person#i'm listening to my og emo playlist and omg nostalgia trip#this is high school to me#crown the empire#darya's mixtape#Spotify
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Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (05/07/2024)
Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms. Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.
Overall:
Over 1,000 Fics:
Over 5,000 Fics:
Over 10,000 Fics:
Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard
#ao3#ao3 stats#Fallout#Cal Leandros - Rob Thurman#The Lone Gunmen#Fundamental Paper Education#Kuroshitsuji#X-Men '97#Lisa Frankenstein#Control#Alien Stage#Dungeon Meshi Delicious in Dungeon#LEGO Monkie Kid#Love and Deepspace#Poppy Playtime#Honkai: Star Rail#The Amazing Digital Circus#Willow#Murder Drones#Dune
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If Ulysses has a million haters, then I'm one of them. If Ulysses has one hater, then I'm THAT ONE. If Ulysses has no haters, that means I'm dead. If the world is with Ulysses than I’m against the world.
#this is slightly joking but like also not but also like am mixed on Ulysses on many factors#infuriating because i sympathize with his pain but it’s like#he is a well written and fundamentally flawed character whose hypocrisy I found doubly in#black characters I can tell were designed by white people with a semblance of an understanding of activism and bipoc oppression#but not enough for the character to not feel like hand holding for the majority white audience#plus personal grips with the whole twisted hairs thing and reference to slave braiding patterns#Ulysses irks me as a black person on a weird personal level and I can go into debt on why him being black is a big detractor for him to me#like he continues this cycle of distancing himself from his roots before remembering over and over again through his actions#he leave so much in his wake that the courier ends up correcting or helping like in honest hearts and old world blues because he’s self#righteous in a subtle way even to himself that he believes he stand out of his one man rule when he does not play an active hand#saw a post talk about how you choose to continue moving through his story and can leave at any moment and this it is partially your fault#but what of the oath that is set before you and is forced to take that he set up#I do not have to walk it but when I do the steps are not my own but those taken for me#you have to go out of your way to change it which is not something he expects because he’s playing by a story he’s been perpetuating in his#head about you two and the effect one man has when he’s continually been that one man more so than you as many of his actions directly lead#to the one you go through also the irony in the flag he continues to bear being the real reason he has no home#like he reps it when the package is likely enclave and thus use the same symbol#also still can’t get over how anyone could have delivered the package and he tries so hard to act like it was the couriers destiny or fate#when this was the one case of chance and that once man was likely a enclave engineer and how it’s really is never one man#it the process and he’s so annoying about it like he’s a cool character but if you don’t believe in his philosophy or already went through#these ideas cause they are very common talking points in poc especially BIPOC spaces he’s just old hashings and stunted#fallout#fallout new vegas#Ulysses you upset me but I’m like I feel you could be better if you weren’t so incessant#I don’t think I ever want to make a serious post stating this about him just because I’d start yapping and it’d never get finished#ulysses fnv#fnv ulysses#lonesome road
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yaz, whose master mirror status becomes so very obvious when shes mad: nice house you got there.........would be a shame if someone..............burned................it down..............haha! unless
#BELOVED#mad here both meanings#shes actually in a very similar state as the master in s12 i think#feeling sort of like.................meaningless compared to the doctors life#'what did our ''friendship'' even mean'#anyway shes not gonna burn his house down bc i think that would be some bridges also#and i dont want to write the fallout of that#and fundamentally she is not the master of course#maybe there is a way to get here somewhere she would actually attempt arson but#not for me right here#still considering whether shes actually gonna give the doctor a black eye#kinda really do want it to happen esp also for the reaction of the entire companion extended family#but i dont really know where to fit it in yet#we'll see
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Literally nothing, without exaggeration, has firmly cemented itself into my brain that I really do want make video games, than seeing this spectacularly greedy downfall by hubris of bethesda
#seeing this dlc launch just. flipped a switch in me#ive been passionate about it as a hobby since forever#dabbled in ways over the years but like. having that flip switched just set it in me I only have to commit to make one#someone so deeply deeply insidious about them as a company recently but now its different. seeing that happen in real time i think changed#me fundamentally in a way. i simply do not trust them as a company as a game studio as a creative entity and in fact do not respect them#let alone have hope they will release a game worth my time to play it anymore :=) !#context: im an elder scrolls fan since forever and fallout fan overall bethesda enjoying gamer until fallout 4
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"iceberg explained" youtube videos are the lowest form of media and entertainment. enter youtuber who hasn't engaged with anything on the iceberg, just reading wikipedia pages and reddit threads to go over SpOoKy stuff. this guy just said "bloodborne isn't really horror but it has dark elements". you know literally nothing about genre or video games please stop talking
#dany.txt#it's actually embarrassing when they're like uh for the purpose of time i'm not going over this part#what time? you're the one making the video(s) bud#or when something is fundamentally misunderstood. he said#fallout had dark elements then recommended playing nv and 4. the ones with practically no dark elements lol
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