#and Victor has killed enough people to earn the Masshole achievement

[victorluvsalice]

AU Thursday: Some “Fallout of Darkness” Shitposting

Victor: [putting on a polished metal helmet, welding goggles, a scavenged raider chest piece, some leather arm armor, and one metal leg piece over his Vault 111 jumpsuit] All right! Time to show those raiders harassing Ten Pines Bluff what for! They won’t know what hit them!

Victor: [catches sight of himself in a reflective surface]

Victor: . . .alternatively they’ll take one look at me and laugh themselves to death.

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Victor: [post-taking out the Raiders and reporting back to Preston] I’d be happy to join the Minutemen! Makes me feel good, making a little difference in this new world.

Preston: Great! Welcome aboard! And don’t worry, I’ll be right beside you all the way -- General.

Victor: [laughing at what he thinks is a silly nickname] You’re calling me “General” now?

Preston: Well, the leader of the Minutemen has always held the rank of “General.”

Victor: [suddenly realizing he’s serious] Wait, what? I thought -- don’t you --

Preston: That's not who I am. I can get my men through a firefight. I can defend a perimeter against all odds. We need someone who can bring the whole Commonwealth together in a common cause. And I think you've got it in you to be that leader. 

Victor: . . .

Victor: [with CHARISMA: 2 practically flashing above his head in neon] Y-you’re sure about that?

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Piper: [pen and pad out, approaching Alice] So, Fangs --

Alice: [blinking] What?

Piper: You know, because you’re -- [mimes fangs with her fingers]

Alice: [raising an eyebrow] Seriously. Victor’s “Blue” because of his jumpsuit, and I’m “Fangs” because of my teeth. Piper, you are horrible with nicknames.

Piper: I am not.

Preston: What’s going on?

Alice: I think Hat here was trying to get my opinion for an article.

Piper: HAT?!

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Strong: [after having defended a settlement from raiders] Strong learn new word today. Strong learn “respect.”

Victor: Respect? You -- respect me, Strong?

Strong: Yes. Strong respect human. Human fight good. Human help Strong. Super Mutants are brothers. Brothers share all. Not own things like humans. Human share like brother. Super Mutants fight. Kill not talk. Human kill not talk. Human would be good Super Mutant.

Victor: [sweating, fake smile] Why, ah, t-thank you, Strong. I -- I r-respect you too. [to himself] Oh God how many people have I killed around just him damn it Victor --

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Bullet: [seeing Victor and Alice traveling with Billy Peabody] Hey. Nice ghoul kid. He for sale?

Victor: . . .what?

Alice: How dare you?!

Bullet: Hey, a ghoul kid like him is worth a fair --

Victor: [shoots Bullet without a second thought]

Affinity message: [Alice loves you]

Affinity message, five seconds later, as Alice furiously blushes despite being technically dead: [THAT. Alice loved THAT.]

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Victor: [having a small breakdown post-having it out with Father after Bunker Hill in the Railroad HQ] He said he wanted to name me his successor! Director of the Institute! I -- I am General of the Minutemen, Overseer of Vault 88, I was Overboss of fucking Nuka-World -- despite the guy who set me up for the position knowing I was with the Minutemen -- and now this! Why do people keep wanting to shove me into positions of power?

Deacon: Because you’re just so gosh-darn lovable!

Victor: Fuck you, Deacon.

Deacon: You can’t, I’m not romanceable.

Victor: I’m not in the mood for fourth wall breaks Deacon

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Victor: [in the middle of Nuka-World] You ready Alice? [in response to her nod] Here we go!

Victor + Alice: [driving out of Nuka-World in the vintage Corvega from Bradburton’s hidden chamber, wearing novelty Nuka-Cola sunglasses, “Boss Ass Bitch” playing on the radio]

Alice: [looking out the window, lifting her sunglasses] Is that the remains of a drive-through Slocum Joe’s?

Victor: [looks as well with a smile]

Victor + Alice: [drive and song continues as they sip drinks -- Victor’s what is clearly a homemade “latte” probably made with mutfruit or something, Alice’s just straight up blood]

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Random Settler: Wait, both of you are from before the bombs fell?

Victor: Yup -- cryonic freezing in my case, thanks to Vault-Tec.

Alice: Staked and left under a pile of rubble for over two centuries, somehow.

Random Settler: Wow. I haven’t gotten a chance to really talk to any pre-War ghouls, so -- what was the world like? Before?

Victor + Alice: [in unison] Shit.