#That's another reason I pick him

[vilevexedvixen]

Why I usually choose Mr. House

I find it very bizarre that a faction I would oppose if only taking my political views into account is the faction I agree with the most in the context of New Vegas. On principle, I wouldn't choose to side with an autocratic libertarian, but New Vegas is the exception.

NCR:

When people argue in favor of the NCR they seem to be overly focused on the NCR's principles above the NCR's actions as a whole and because it's not as disagreeable as The Legion (though The Legion lowered the bar beneath the floorboards frankly). Even putting the NCR's attempted eradication of The Khans, theft of territory and resources from westside and other Mojave settlements, and the unpaid labor using its prison population aside. Only framing the NCR's occupation as a protective and beneficial one, the NCR is exhausted. It is overstretched, understaffed and underfunded. Even if the NCR did take the dam, the core territory of the NCR is barely able to supply and maintain the current occupation so it wouldn't be a viable long-term faction for the Mojave specifically.

The entire reason the NCR is expanding is to obtain more resources for its core territory. The expansion itself requires resources the NCR doesn't really have, so once they extract all the resources they need from the Mojave, great now their territory and population are larger so now they need to expand even MORE to get MORE resources until it eventually cannot sustain its current size, let alone further expansion. The troops' training may kid them into thinking its about protecting the Mojave or spreading democracy across the wasteland, but it's always been about extracting resources for the NCR and the NCR alone.

For the benefit of both the NCR and the Mojave, the NCR should pull out before it births something it cannot support.

Caesar's Legion:

Again, putting aside the political reasons I disagree with this faction (evil playthroughs be damned lol) such as the explicit slavery, cultural assimilation and annihilation of the tribes it conquers, The Legion can only last as long as it has tribes to consume. The extreme end of what the NCR is doing but much more purely extractive with no actual attempts to replenish the food stocks and other resources the way the NCR does with sharecropper farms to at least sustain its occupation somewhat. Sure, it has some capacity for trade, because it acts as an effective deterrent to various raider factions which otherwise would terrorise non-legion (but legion-allied) traders and settlers (groups too small for The Legion to benefit from absorbing them rather than just trading with them). In a way, The Legion is a more effective bringer of peace and order than the NCR, especially against factions that are causing genuine harm to peaceful settlements such as The Fiends, The Vipers, and The Jackals, which consistently overwhelm NCR troops.

That aside, I agree with House that in-fighting and collapse are likely after Caesar's death. Even without his death, The Legion is just as over-extended as the NCR and so would still implode for similar reasons, though their tunnel-vision on conquest and relatively small population compared to the myriad settlements the NCR tried to maintain on top of its military affairs means its collapse may take a little longer / The Legion is more likely to disband for political reasons before implosion from resource scarcity and overextension are a major issue.

Independent route (Yes Man):

Freeside, Westside and The Sewers (technically still Westside) are my favourite sections of New Vegas. I wish there was a quest which allowed the courier to actually try and let Freesiders back into The Strip once Mr. House is eliminated, or otherwise just more directly allow the courier to help these areas establish their own sovereignty / protect them from invading forces. Without this, I just headcanon that the courier helps do this after the game ends. I like to think that the courier doesn't become an autocrat, and steps down once the NCR and The Legion are pushed out. Effectively allowing existing smaller factions to function autonomously in relative anarchy and mutual inter-dependence. Basically functioning the way Andrewism puts in this video ->

I always got the vibe that Yes Man doesn't especially like the courier, or anyone he takes orders from really since he is incapable of disobeying them. Apparently his reprogramming to become more assertive at the end of the game is so that he only follows the courier's orders, which only makes sense if Yes Man genuinely agrees with and/or likes the courier. That's not quite how I read it, Yes Man is still the key force the player relies on to actualise Vegas' independence and him then becoming autonomous leaves the courier vulnerable to be undermined (Yes Man is the one most directly in control of the securitron army, not the courier). I don't trust Yes Man to impose his own authority on the Mojave after the courier steps down or dies, rather than Yes Man sticking to a role as the functional military to push out any invading forces or group that seeks to undermine the anarchy and sovereignty of the Mojave.

Overall, I'm actually kind of split between the independent route and Mr. House, but since the independent route is left pretty open the player can insert any number of intended outcomes from it. Anywhere from the courier crowning themselves the "rightful ruler" of Vegas and becoming its dictator, to letting Mojave communities function independently and just using the Yes Man route to prevent any other faction from taking over, to anything in between.

Mr. House:

In terms of a faction that will let smaller Mojave settlements, along with Freeside and Westide be while having a vested interest in making sure Vegas keeps its sovereignty, House is the best for the long-term in my opinion. His focus is very singular, on the Strip mainly. His eviction of The Kings and other tribes which form Freeside is the only crime of note Mr. House is responsible and even then it allows said factions to function independent of House since he really couldn't care less about them. With the courier's help in securing better resources (diverting energy to it from Helios One, and letting the water from Sharecropper farms being used in Westside rather than by the NCR) and evicting the NCR (who stole much of the resources otherwise used by locals and consistently combatted with locals, so with them gone Freeside and Westside both have enough resources and fewer enemies to challenge their sovereignty) House's continued jurisdiction over The Strip doesn't cause any further harm to these communities than the initial eviction that formed them in the first place. Not at all a comparable evil to the literal ethnic cleansings performed by the NCR and The Legion. Also, House didn't set out to specifically evict anyone, just recruit whoever was willing to help renovate the Strip (whereas the NCR and Legion go out of their way to eradicate tribes they disagree with even when peaceful options are more than available) once he saw the NCR moving in to claim the damn. Before then, there was no need to do more than let Vegas' tribes be since there weren't factions threatening Vegas.

Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p.42: "Freeside" "Las Vegas wasn't heavily damaged during the Great War, but people didn't immediately "settle" into the remnants of the old city. The various Vault tribes that emerged years later, hunted and fought among the ruins, but it was not until the "return" of Mr. House that they ceased (most) of their hostilities. Mr House directed the tribes to use his sizable quantities of pre-war construction materials to build the crude (but effective) outer walls that separate The Strip and Freeside from the rest of New Vegas. While Mr. House valued the area around Fremont Street, he ultimately viewed it as secondary in importance to the Strip itself and he had a second, inner wall that separated the two areas. When NCR prospectors (and eventually the army) arrived in the region, people typically went straight for The Strip, leaving Freeside (as it had become known by locals) as an informal stopping point. Eventually Mr. House recognized that he could use Freeside as a filter for undesirables, and pulled his favored tribes and all Securitrons into the Strip, leaving Freeside to fend for itself." "In the two years that followed, Freeside has slowly degenerated into a hostile, lawless den of ne'er-do-wells. For a while, it was completely without order, but two power groups managed to come to an understanding about how the area needed to be maintained. The Kings, formed from the dispossessed remnants of unfortunate tribes, prevent all-out chaos from erupting, but do little to deal with the day-to-day nastiness that Freesiders inflict on each other. The Followers of the Apocalypse, no longer associated with the NCR, settled in the Old Mormon Fort. They receive some protection from the Kings in exchange for help with the community's basic needs (food, water, health services, and some education). Despite the oversight from the Kings and help from the Followers, the people in Freeside live in daily peril... from each other as well as outside forces."

I love The Kings and Freeside, so I know House's impersonal view of the eviction leaves out the harrowing impact of the displacement, but a. they literally only moved next door, and b. they get to do whatever they please, just outside The Strip. It wasn't great but it isn't exactly Bitter Springs or Nipton now is it? The NCR and Legion repeatedly lay waste to peaceful settlements / settlements of enemies to these factions that were otherwise peaceful. *Also, Yes Man seems overly eager to see-through the genocide of The Khans, which is partly why I don't trust him as much as House. It's also why I find it funny when people act like Yes Man is super progressive and chill when he literally just wants to be able to say no and copes through passive-aggression.* Freeside and Vegas more generally was a place genuinely riddled with murder and violence long before he decided to seperate The Strip and Freeside. He's neglectful of Freeside which left what tribes cared enough to band together and pick up the pieces such as The Kings. But as I say, that can become an asset compared to the disruptive oversight the NCR would pose. Letting Freeside be now that some degree of community solidarity has developed may be better than if House decided to extend his control into Freeside as well.

With the way The Strip is run, and the fact that House has ambitions to help advance the existing means of New Vegas alone (education, research, etc.) to thrive, rather than ambitions of territorial expansion which would soon become unmanageable. Using The Strip to extract wealth and resources from tribes and factions that come from outside the Mojave to fund Vegas' maintenance, while the day-to-day needs of food, water and such are already handled by the existing communities in the area, allowing House to focus specifically on making sure no other faction overruns these communities and running The Strip.

Basically, him being content to live and let live (except The Brotherhood - RIP) and demonstrating intent and capability to hold down the fort in Vegas frees up the courier to run the rest of the Mojave / let the Mojave communities operate separately from House. Only taking action when it seems necessary, since he seemed content to stay dormant until the NCR posed a threat. He is no more a control-freak than the NCR or The Legion, and does much less damage with that control quite frankly. Being practically immortal, I trust House more than Yes Man to maintain the anarchy my courier strives for even after the courier's death.

Edit: I had completely forgotten that House kills The Kings regardless of the Courier's actions if you side with him. I love The Kings, but enough of a community exists in Freeside and Westside that the Courier helps both enough before the ending for their loss to not be too big a detriment to the rest of the community, though I personally don't see why tf he should get rid of them like wtf???

[xxplastic-cubexx]

you open my Super Important Documents and its just pictures of charles xavier

[numbuh424]

Near is so unbothered because he has hobbies. literally solved the biggest murder case in human history all while crafting, playing, building, and collecting. actual king of having hobbies. reblog this with a hobby you think Near would have.

[sysig]

I think the world is so wonderful... (Patreon)

[dykedvonte]

Why do you think did Curly let Jimmy go before the crash? I've seen the theory Curly briefly thought about crashing too but didn't expect Jimmy to go through with it

I generally believe it was shock and a bit of denial.

It’s the sort of thing where Curly knew Jimmy enough to know he blows up at things but he never would’ve expected him to go through with something so crazy. He gives Jimmy way too much benefit. It’s just his nature and the dynamics he has with Jimmy. They have a stable relationship as friends but it’s stabilized by the unhealthy toxic aspects that keep him in it. He’s like this with Anya, taking the gun is something he really shouldn’t have kept off the record, so is Swansea’s feigned hostility toward Daisuke. He doesn’t want to get people in trouble and doesn’t want to believe anyone would cause trouble other than to themselves. He’s a very lenient man.

I think the words were hollow in his head. Said but not really meant like all the times Jimmy lashes out and says something cruel to him or others. He never means it, if he did why would he still be Curly’s friend? Curly’s head wasn’t in the right space in that moment, he just got through panicking with Anya and if the sound design is anything to go by, was panicked and preoccupied going to confront Jimmy. I mean, the flash of the warning signs before he runs back are identical to the dissociative episode of sort he has when going to talk to Jimmy to do his Psyc eval.

There is this sort of assumption in fanon that Curly was the idealic person for the job and simply failed. None of them were the idealic people to be there, it’s Curly’s entire concern with the ladder he chose. I see more interpretations of him being purposefully ignorant where I see him as just always looking the wrong way or not in a place where he can see it. There’s something different about seeing something than being told about it in the human mind. It may just be the psych student in me but Curly def has some sort of cognitive dissonance just like Jimmy but when it comes to his role as a Captain vs who he is.

They blur in his head to where if you ask him if he was acting as a Captain or a friend or himself to his crew he couldn’t answer. Not with confidence even if he did. There are many times we see that Curly himself is not in the right headspace to lead the Tulpar and that’s outside of anything with Jimmy. He’s spacey, he’s not sleeping, he’s deeply unhappy with himself and life. It’s why there’s believability he crashed the ship. Maybe the others saw it, or maybe Jimmy heard enough of it to spin it in a way that made Curly seem suicidally depressed.

So the tdlr is I think it wasn’t so much letting Jimmy go, more so not seeing the severity of what he was allowing to transpire. In his mind it’s just another one of Jimmy’s bluffs, cruel words, off words but just words. Jimmy rarely ever acts, why would he now? Maybe he’s never seen it because Jimmy hides those actions? Either way, he just never thought he’d really do it.

[brionysea]

allison and five are actually fascinating to write together. allison is the sibling for checking on people and asking in plain english if they're okay but five would literally rather bleed out than show a shred of vulnerability

[ryllen]

Please don't crucified me if this headcanon is deemed unrealistic in real life. (´；ω；`) More notes / detailed notes:

stayed & travelled with the Figs for awhile -- after being found, before finally dropped of to an institution, as the Figs think their travelling life style is not really suitable to raise a child

quickly picked up civilization as he is an intelligent child (that's why he is a ravenclaw)

exchanged letters with the travelling Figs during his time at the institution / orphanage

was a really helpful child during his time at the institution / orphanage that he is close with the staff

he thinks of befriending people is a way of learning & by helping them he gets to experience a lot of different things

a mellow temperament child in general (just like how it is ingame)

likes exploring (bcs damn! we really going places in that game)

picked the silly 'Alex Xander' name himself, maybe he heard a mother called her child with that name once and he is obsessed with that name ever since.

he always writes Xander as his 'family name' to show that he is complete even without a family

actually a bit older than his classmates, as he went through extra few years to catch up to civilization as a feral child

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#anyhow i really love our barn owl; she's so beautiful but with a face like biscuit

[eff-plays]

Idk man I have Astarion at 96 approval at the end of Act 2 and I have both been playing in-character and not doing anything morally reprehensible, and he's been in my party for the majority of that time, so idk what y'all are on about having to play a "bad playthrough" in order to romance him <3

[clownsuu]

mermaid asker here! love your art its a lot of fun to see and a huge inspo

im glad you liked my thoughts so heres octo robbie i love him

at first i was going to give him a "normal" skin color and then i was like. hey. hes NOT human. slap his regular colors on that bad boy.

hope you like it. i think robbie is great. please never stop drawing him (or do. im not in charge of you)

YOOOOOOOOOOO OCTO BB

[haggstroem]

... is this reaching you?

version with text and overseers under cut because i felt like the image would be too crowded

[confusedfeelsfangirl]

People on Twitter asked why there were accounts that shipped Laios and Mithrun together (Laiumisu /Laithrun) and some are complaining it doesn’t make sense.

Firstly, ships dont necessarily have to make sense.

But also, why wouldn’t you want the Laios/Kabru/Mithrun triangle to be complete ? They should each have two boyfriends that are boyfriends too, it’s fun.

[sewellove-deactivated9782]

MARK??????????

[themagicalghost]

Got it

[wasongo]

GetBackers headshots since I finished rewatching the anime a bit ago with a friend. Some of these men were impossible to draw!! Had to redraw Akabane 3 times and I'm still not sure if I captured him well.

[deadbeandrop]

ahem. and if i may be completely unwell about the moose and slug for a moment,

i keep thinking about a post-story scene where lumpus and slinkman's relationship is still in rocky territory, and they have like... kind of a half-arguement getting ready for bed and it doesn't really go anywhere but there's still a tension in the air, and then a moment of silence as they settle and face each other in the dark. there's a beat. and then slinkman just... reaches over to take lumpus' glasses off (he'd always been in the habit of adjusting them over the years), and he's confused for a second, and slinkman's just like "you shouldn't sleep with those on. you're going to break them" which is like, ah, yes, completely logical action, and something he's told him a million times,

but it's Also like "Oh, God. even when you don't have to anymore, and you said you'd stop doing it all the time, and you're mad at me, you're still taking care of me just because you care enough to that it's complete subconscious instinct for you to do so. i'm gonna jump off a cliff"

because, when you're in the dark, in complete silence, sharing a shoddy pull-out couch bed in the basement of your stupid hand-me-down bait-and-tackle shop with your life-long best friend, your only friend, almost a bit like you used to when you'd push your beds closer together at night the camp you loved all those years ago, well, then there's also nothing else around to distract from the fact that you appreciate that more than anything in the entire world

and so lumpus takes a second and is like ....Right. (voice crack) Of course. and turns to face the ceiling and feels like he's going to be sick <- (i love nausea being one of lumpus' gut responses to feeling things ❤️)

[sysig]

Party (group) party (celebratory)! (Patreon)