#Fo1

[monetscreature]

HEY! YOU! tell me your favorite fallout character AND your main headcannon for them! They can be from any of the games/the show, and feel free to explain the headcannon in as much depth as you so please! I've been wanting to draw more of the fallout characters, but thought it would be fun to do so with the headcannons of people who like these characters the most in mind. So please, humor me!

(you will be tagged + credited with your headcannon if I draw it!! )

[vnynv]

You're a hero... and you have to leave.

celebrating finishing fallout 1 with my vault dweller! every time a companion would die in battle, the game would run out of memory and thus crash which i like to think is quite representative of his mental stability.

[calder]

THIS IS SO FUNNY

[bongosinferno]

A devastating and confusing thing about the Fallout setting, when you explore the pre-war aspects, is what the creators think about pre-war America. In the first games we only get hints of the pre-war world, but they seem to be some sort of wild fascist nation invading Canada. In Fallout 1, the first thing we're introduced to of the pre-war society is seeing a soldier shoot civilians and laughing.

Now, for the first 2 games and New Vegas we don't really know much. What we know is that there's a fascist military group known as the enclave who were a sort of US deep state even before the war, and that the government teamed up with corporate interests to preform vaguely MKULTRA-ish experiments with the Vaults. Basically, the government was an extreme version of the 50s American jingoism and McCarthyism.

This is well and dandy, I guess issues come up more when we get to the later games, especially 4, where it seems like none of this extreme plotting and societal civil unrest which would exist is seen. The society as presented in 4 also seems quite progressive, gay people are featured in the opening, and none of the baggage of say, civil rights not existing are included. Now on a baseline, I don't want settings to be more conservative, homophobic and sexist etc., but it becomes a very confusing setting when it's displayed both as this jingoist extreme thing with fascist tendencies aswell as a progressive place where everyone is seemingly equal. If you're focusing on the 50s as your setting, and American nationalism in the 50s, then you can't have McCarthyism spoofs and anti-communism as a societal paranoia norm while also general equality is the norm without misunderstanding why McCarthyism and nationalist jingoism is bad. A massive harm done in anti-communist paranoia is how it degrades and vilifies any progressive movements (women's rights, civil rights, homosexuality) as being morally un-American and therefore connected to communism. To ignore this just makes any critique of MacCarthyism and jingoism weird!

Basically, pre-war America in Fallout 4 becomes this both sides thing where America is both pure and equal and white fences in every instance that we see as the player (the intro), while also supposedly being this dystopic MacCarthyist hellscape that's broadcasting gladly about their war crimes in Canada, and wants to root out communism. I guess the only fix for this issue without getting into the fine print like they had to do is just not to focus too much on the pre-war world.

[piccolos-bigtoe]

Hello all,,, I’ve been dead for a bit,,, but I return…. For a bit… with postcards from the Fallout WNC fanzine!!!!!! Go buy them!!!! Funds go to charity!!!!!!!!!!!! And buy the zine too!!!!!! Go buy everything!!! Even if you don’t like my postcards, there are other items by other wonderful artists that are available (and even more wonderful art in the zine full of images by wonderful artists!!!)

Buy it if yo spurs jingle jangle… or if you were caught standing alone under a blue moon… or if you’ve got a big iron on your hip… or if you’d begin again tonight… or if yo name is Johnny guitar… especially if your name is Johnny Guitar...

[stoat-party]

Fallout + Text Posts pt. 3

Pt. 2

Pt. 4: Minor Character Edition

[bardspeak]

MY fo1 stickers I made for the charity fallout zine I'm in! All profit will all go to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund. Etsy listing here: link.

I also designed the below washi tape and I'll have a SIX page comic in the main zine! (you'll never guess). But aside from me, there's a TON of other, even cooler merch and a ton of incredible artists in the zine itself.

[ginormouscobe]

A little map of Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 New Vegas would be visible on the right side, but this is only including areas from the classic games.

[malwaredykes]

mr. lou

as you can probably guess i was gonna do a half body + armor but i gave up because i havent quite figured out how to do classic fallout metal armor My Way yet. ah well this was a warm up sketch anyway

[owenwilsonkisser]

Fallout fellout fall off

[fallout-tactics]

had a dream where bethesda finally made merch for classic fallout and it was just a shirt with a screenshot of the default male vault dweller sprite with "Yep... Still good." under it

[noodle8]

look at my companions dawg I'm going to die!!!

[calder]

NEW OFFICIAL ART

THANKS MODIPHIUS

[jroahn]

the vault dweller

[lesvegas]

(There are only 12 possible options to add in polls, I'd add more characters if I could but I'm pretty limited here so I had to be selective </3)

[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout Release Date: October 10, 1997

On October 10, 1997, exactly 26 years ago from today, the first Fallout was officially released!

Happy 26th anniversary Fallout! And thank you to all the developers who have worked on the series as a whole to create something we all cherish! 💜

Here are some excerpts from the development team leading up to the game's release, from the old Fallout website!

You can read more about the first Fallout here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Fallout