#courier six x porter gage

[newworldriot]

because I'm in a mood™, here's overboss!courier six/porter gage romance shit

Six becoming the Overboss is often played off as an accident because the aim was to pull the Sole Survivor into the job. Really, Nuka World had no idea what they were getting in to.

Gage gets agitated by the nervousness, constantly pushing Six forward with no break. (He changes his tune after he learns why they're anxious often)

Six doesn't understand his violent tendencies and manipulation - at first. Once they meet all of the gang leaders and sees how vile they all can be, Six begins to sway on their opinions. Gage slowly understands why violence in their wasteland can be unnecessary, and pities the courier who just wants everyone to live as peacefully as possible with each other.

At the end of the day, they both learn some new skills from each other and it all balances out. Six learns to throw hands when necessary (especially to keep up appearances) and Gage learns how to hold better conversations and negotiate more like his partner

Six hates the bomb collars the wastelanders are forced to wear, so after they bring power back to the parks, Gage helps them slowly undo all of them over a few days (just to make sure it's hard to notice until it's too late for the raiders). When Six explains why to Gage in the days beforehand, he feels a lot of guilt over helping with that - especially because now he understands what hell it is to wear those things.

I headcanon Gage being roughly 6 foot, so he takes great pleasure in being that much taller than his 5'2 Overboss.

What he won't admit is how sweet he thinks it is that Six snuggles into his chest while sitting in his lap. They just fit together really well height-wise, and Gage revels in being able to hold Six close like that.

If the day ever comes that they make it to the Commonwealth proper and end up face-to-face with Maxson, you bet your ass Gage is gonna stand behind Six to make sure Maxson remembers who he's talking to.

Though, Six's holorifle digging into Maxson's stomach while they threaten him is sign enough (and a huge turn-on for Gage).

Does this mean Six is gonna kill Maxson? Is there some silent agreement that a fight's about to break out? Unsurprisingly, no. Six and Maxson end up having a good laugh over the whole thing before taking up conversation in a more private setting.

Gage is confused by the friendly relationship between the courier and the high elder, but Six and Maxson work together to explain how they met previously and Maxson's horror at finding out what happened to the Overboss. Both kinda mutually agree that they're gonna remain on civil and even good terms until one makes a wrong move. Gage isn't a fan.

He voices his thoughts and Six shrugs it off before they take their leave, raider boyfriend in tow.

Once they get home, they explain that befriending whoever you can creates a support system - essentially, building an army. They like having the friends they do, and they're close to everyone they've made bonds with, but when it comes time for the war to reach its peak, Six will be more than ready - especially with damn near the entire Commonwealth backing them up.

Now he gets why they try so hard to maintain steady relationships with so many people. If the whole affair falls apart, the courier is left without backup.

"Genius as always, boss."

Gage's note to self: Let Six handle the planning in full from now on.

He appreciates their brilliance far more.

He just appreciates them.

And they appreciate him.

if I think of any more shit, I'll update this

[0nce-in-a-bluem00n]

Gage and Georgia, because who doesn’t love a Wild Card?

[chaosintheavenue]

Fallout Opinion Survey- Results!

Thank you so much to all those who took part! We had 421 usable responses in total :D

One quick note- the nature of the data this time around means that most of the auto-generated charts are usable as they are, which does mean this post will be very image-heavy. I’d be very appreciative if someone who knows how to write image descriptions for charts could add them on!

Without further ado, let’s get into the results...

The Basics:

Favourite DLC:

Dead Money- 115 (...nice) Old World Blues- 94 Far Harbor- 76 Lonesome Road- 53 Nuka World- 27 Point Lookout- 17 Honest Hearts- 11 The Pitt- 9 Mothership Zeta- 7 Automatron- 3 Operation Anchorage- 3 Broken Steel- 2 Vault-Tec Workshop- 1

Favourite faction:

Followers of the Apocalypse- 146 Railroad- 62 Minutemen- 45 NCR- 23 Kings- 22 Brotherhood of Steel (all chapters combined)- 20 Yes Man/Wildcard Courier- 18 Great Khans- 14 Enclave- 10 Caesar's Legion- 8 Raiders (76, Nuka World and general combined)- 8 Institute- 6 Chairmen- 5 Unity- 4 Atom Cats- 3 Mr House- 3 Boomers- 3 Freeside- 2 Responders- 2 Children of Atom- 2 Ghoul settlements in general- 2 Hubologists- 2 Tunnel Snakes- 2 And the list of those with one vote each: The Family, Think Tank, Reaver Movement, Ciphers, Broken Hills, Powder Gangers, Reilly's Rangers, Acadia, Goodneighbor, Underworld, White Glove Society, Omertas, Jacobstown, post-Legion Ulysses, Cult of the Mothman, 80s, and talking Deathclaws from Fallout 2

Favourite companion:

Arcade Gannon- 75 Nick Valentine- 53 Hancock- 39 Veronica- 38 Deacon- 30 ED-E- 26 Raul- 23 Boone- 22 MacCready- 13 Christine Royce- 12 Dogmeat (all)- 11 Fawkes- 10 Preston Garvey- 10 Charon- 9 Rex- 9 Butch Deloria- 8 Goris- 8 Cait- 7 Danse- 7 Piper- 7 Lily- 6 Marcus- 6 Rose of Sharon Cassidy- 6 Curie- 5 Porter Gage- 4 Dean Domino- 4 X6-88- 3 Strong- 3 Ulysses- 3 RL-3- 3 Ian- 2 Dog/God- 2 Codsworth- 2 Joshua Graham- 2 Old Longfellow- 2 Lenny- 2 Ada- 2 And the 'list of ones': Tycho, Katja, Follows-Chalk, Sydney

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The Lore:

(other titles specifically mentioned in the final question: Metro and Doom)

Characters headcanoned as synths: The Sole Survivor (by far the most common theory), Sturges, Deacon, Preston Garvey, the Lone Wanderer in Broken Steel, James/Dad, Dogmeat, Three Dog, Parker Quinn, Charon, Courier Six, Tinker Tom, Zeke, Arthur Maxson, Father/older Shaun, Piper, Travis Miles, Mysterious Stranger, Caesar ('cause funny'), Joshua Graham, most Children of Atom, Desdemona, Myrna, Marcy Long, Mr Burke, Vault 76 Overseer, Trashcan Carla, Cricket, many BoS and Enclave members, Reaver Movement members, Redeye, Moira Brown, Dr Zimmer, Ranger Ghost, most birds, Arcade Gannon, Elijah, Lizzie Wyatt, Kellogg, Mama Murphy, Nat Wright, and Sierra Petrovita

(please note I'm not all that familiar with Fallout 4 lore, if any of the FO4 peeps here are canon synths then I didn't know about it lol)

Fan theories/headcanons from the final question that cropped up repeatedly (in approximate order of popularity):

Vault-Tec started the Great War

Alien involvement with the pre-war US government and/or the Great War

Horses are still around

Talking Deathclaws are still around

Occult/eldritch influence (e.g. the Dunwich building) is widespread

Charon is a survivor of Vault 92

Deacon is a founder of the Railroad and his 'real' backstory was another lie

Veronica and Christine reunite

Sarah Lyons is alive

Gen 3 synths and ghouls still need to eat, drink, sleep and so on

Ghouls only turn feral in specific circumstances (suggestions include prolonged isolation and relying too heavily on radiation instead of food as a source of energy) and it is not inevitable

International travel and immigration continues

Danse and Harkness were sent to the Capital Wasteland by the Railroad together

X person is actually multiple people- suggested for Deacon, Legate Lanius and Vulpes Inculta

The US is the either the only place that was nuked or the only place that hasn't rebuilt and recovered, and the rest of the world is just ignoring them and carrying on as normal

Cass is the Chosen One's daughter

Mama Murphy is the Chosen One

No-Bark Noonan is the Chosen One (lots of Chosen One theories popping up lol)

All subsequent Dogmeats in the series are named after the legend of the original Dogmeat

Father is not really Shaun

MacCready is lying about Duncan being ill (or one person even suggested Duncan existing)

Yes Man overthrows the Courier after being upgraded

The real Lone Wanderer died at the end of the vanilla game even if Broken Steel is installed, and the Broken Steel LW is a synth

Deacon once worked for the Institute

Deacon deliberately leads people to theorise that he is the Lone Wanderer to throw them off

Deacon is or was once a ghoul (also plenty of Deacon theories)

The Mysterious Stranger is a time traveller who protects the various PCs to maintain the timeline

Appalachia was turned into a barren wasteland by the nuclear trigger-happiness of the Vault 76 Dwellers (possibly interesting aside: my brother, who buys into this one, has gone as far as to theorise that the original Great War used very low-yield weapons and wasn't that severe on the environmental level (as far as literal nuclear war goes, that is), and it was the Vault 76ers nuking the hell out of Appalachia that triggered a continent-wide nuclear winter and sent the ecology of the wasteland into the state it's in in all subsequent games)

Glory is not a synth

The (in-game) reason for lore clashes and retcons is that the plot of each game is a retelling  of the story as it's passed around in the wasteland, so some details have been embellished or mixed up

I’ll be coming back to the theories from the final question at some point, but aside from that, that's a wrap! There isn't really much potential for me to play around with the data here like with the OC surveys, so this was more just me presenting the data as it came in without commentary. Still, I hope this is somehow interesting/insightful!