#don't think too hard into this it's like half Brotherhood and half what actually happened in NoN

[nonbinarylesbianskout]

Yeah, having a bit of a moment over here.

[onceandfutureoshainspector]

Danse: If you have the time to talk now, I'd still like to know what you think about Scribe Haylen. Cat: Is something wrong? Danse: No, not at all. Haylen's doing well. I simply wanted to talk to you about her, but I wanted to know what you thought of her first. Cat: She's as dedicated as they come. A real team player. Danse: I couldn't agree more. But I wasn't looking for an evaluation of her performance as a scribe, I wanted to know what you thought of Haylen... as a person.

- oh. ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh! i see what this is ;3

---- honestly? my thoughts on Haylen are mostly positive at this point, i don't think they'd make the worst couple.

-------- note to self: see if i can convince her to join the Railroad...

Cat: This isn't like you, Danse. Are you going to tell me what this is all about? Danse: I suppose I'm beating around the bush because I don't normally find these discussions easy to handle. I'll try and get right to the point. The truth is, I'm worried about her. Since you and I are getting along so well, I felt like I could confide in you about it... to get your honest opinion. Cat: She seems to be able to handle herself. Why are you worried? Danse: Haylen is a model scribe. This has nothing to do with her capabilities in the field. A few months before you found us, one of my men was shot multiple times by Raiders. Haylen stayed by that Knight's side for two days straight without sleep fighting to keep him alive... but he was on a slow decline. I decided that his suffering needed to end and ordered Haylen to administer an overdose of painkillers so he could die with dignity. Even though I'm certain she wanted to continue fighting for that Knight's life, she injected him without question. Cat: Are you asking me whether or not I approve? Danse: Of course not. I stand by every order I've ever given. That soldier was gravely wounded. Even if by some miracle he happened to survive, he would have been paralyzed for life. But the decision whether or not to ease that soldier's suffering isn't the point here. The point is what happened later that same evening. After what felt like an eternity, she collapsed into my arms, crying. I... didn't know what to do, so I just held her for a while. A few minutes later, she stopped, kissed me on the cheek, and simply said "Thank you", before heading back into the police station. Right then it hit me... maybe I pushed her too hard. I ordered her to ignore her instincts. To do something her medical training told her was wrong. That's why I'm worried about her... and for that matter, everyone under my command.

- yeah, these two would both benefit from getting the fuck away from the Brotherhood. like, tough decisions for tough situations, but ideally you don't send people into those situations, or at least without the resources and personell necessary to make it back.

Cat: Haylen will be fine. It's you that I'm worried about. Danse: Me? Look, four soldiers... over half of my team, are gone. Each one of them died because of decisions that I made. I understand the risks that come with the job, we all do. But how can anyone have confidence in me anymore? Hell, how can I have confidence in myself? Cat: Would it make you feel better if I told you that I believed in you? Danse: Actually, it does. Well, it looks like things have taken a turn. I signed up to be your sponser so I could teach you everything that I know, but it looks like I'm the one that needed the lesson today. All joking aside, I'm pleased that we had this discussion, and even with all the problems you're facing, you still took the time to listen. It's comforting to know that I can speak to you as more than just your commanding officer. Cat: I'm here anytime you need me, Danse. Danse: Anyway, thanks for letting me get that off my shoulders. I think it's been weighing on me more than I realized. I'm only sorry you had to see me at my worst instead of at my best.

- QUEST ADDED: convince Scribe Haylen to leave the Brotherhood of Steel.

[fuzzydreamin]

2, 10, 19, & 20 for the fallout asks?

2: Which enemy creeps you out the most? 

Back in 3 it was feral ghouls. I really didn't like the whole 'undead' thing, they creeped me out in skyrim too. I'd actually get pretty shakey, but I had more issues with anxiety back then anyway.

For 4 I don't think any enemy really creeps me out, I guess ferals still get me sometimes. Also I don't like bloodbugs and stingwings. They are just so hard to hit.

10: What was your least favourite quest?

The first quest Preston gives you to go help Tenpines Bluff which then sends you all the way down to Corvega.

It just makes no sense.

You're fresh out of the vault and the Corvega raiders are one of the toughest gangs in the Commonwealth - hell, they're the gang that chased Preston and his group into the Museum of Freedom and killed the rest of his Minutemen. And you're meant to just go fight them alone (alright, you do have Codsworth) right off the bat? These guys killed half of Danse's group too btw. He lost two men to them. Trained soldiers with power armour.

It also makes no sense that Tenpines sends you there when the raiders at Olivia are so much closer and would realistically be more of a problem than the guys who probably have to camp overnight everytime they would head up to Tenpines. And for what? Some tatos?

Overall, the quest is super weird narratively, and it's annoying being sent halfway down to the city just to turn back and report back in to Tenpines and Preston. Especially since this is all meant to be part of your 'tutorial' of the game mechanics still. Just send the player to Olivia.

I can forgive the early game deathclaw, it was skinny and weak, but not this. Not this.

19: Which NPCs would you like to make companions? 

Hmm, I think we get enough companions honestly. We get 16 of the buggers after all. But what I would have liked is more temporary companions.

Playing into my desire to also have multiple at a time, I think this could have been really fun or interesting. Imagine going through something like the Arc-jet quest with Rhys and Haylen present too?

Honestly I think a lot of complaints about the companions we have stem from how unscripted a lot of events are, meaning important events happen at weird times and their behaviour bugs out. You don't get that so much with temporary companions since you only have them for a set quest with more scripting to keep them in place. Bethesda's NPCs just work better when they stick to story rails.

20: Which is your favourite faction? Why?

The Minutemen! Overall they are the best faction. They're just genuinely trying to help people live better, safer lives, and they aren't trying to force those people to live them any sort of way in return. The people decide what they want with their lives, and so long as they aren't hurting others the Minutemen will defend and provide for them!

I'm also of the opinion that they are the choice to go for when facing off against the Institute because they are so focused on helping the people, all of the people, and without any specific cause in mind otherwise. They are also the only faction that could possibly negotiate some sort of alliance between the other factions. The Railroad and Brotherhood would never work together on their own, but with the Minutemen as peacekeepers it could work. That's an ending option I would have liked to see, rather than choosing one and either ignoring the others or destroying them all.

[truessences]

Some of my fave anime ships

No one asked but I'ma share some of my favorite anime ships. I have't watched every anime or anything but I have some that I just can't give up. I've never been the hugest shipper but there are some that just find their way into my heart.

Nalu (Natsu x Lucy: Fairy Tail)- currently rewatching so they're fresh in my mind. They have such a good friendship and they're so loyal to each other. Natsu is also incredibly sweet when he wants to be when it comes to her and she trusts him without hesitation. She jumped out of a window and knew he would catch her in time. Like... what??

Edward and Winry (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood)- this is my favorite anime and I will rewatch it but I love that they've been friends since they were kids. They may not have liked each other from the beginning (romantically) but grew into it. The fact that she was his mechanic and he didn't let anyone else fit him for automail, or let anyone work on it... not to mention, I loved their arguments lol and I loved the scene where he tells her basically he loves her in his own way lol. "Equivalent exchange! I'll give you HALF of me if you give me HALF of you!"

NejiTen (Neji x TenTen: Naruto)- Obviously this won't really be a thing since Neji is dead 😭 but I feel like if he wasn't killed, they would have been together. Tenten was the only one Neji seemed to fully respect and trust on his team. They understood each other and I feel like he might have been open about his family with her. I also feel like because Tenten was an orphan and lived on her own, that she felt comfortable around Neji. Plus, Guy and Lee were so over the top that they had to lean on each other.

Inuyasha x Kagome (Inuyasha)- So I know these two get a lot of flack and I think the road to their romance was complicated but I really and truly believe that Inuyasha loves her. Sure, he might have had a hard time in the beginning because of Kikyo but if he didn't care about Kagome he wouldn't have tried to save her as much as he did. Plus, she was always to break him out of his demon spells. I love them lol. I was never a huge Koga fan so I would never support that ship lol. I'm not caught up with Yashahime so don't spoil me!

Atem x Tea (YuGiOh)- So this is an old old ship from when I was young but I always thought that while Yugi was one of Tea's best friends, she liked Atem/Yami Yugi. I really felt like they flirted lol. I rewatched it not too long ago and still stand by that lol. She was always super emotional when it came to stuff with him lol. She was emotional period but super emotional lol.

Senku x Kohaku (Dr. Stone)- I'm not caught up on the manga so no spoilers but I really love the anime and I'm down for this. Now, if it doesn't happen, I'm cool with that because they both seem so... uninterested in romance but they have a trust between them and I think she definitely likes him as of S2. He's so narrow minded on what he's trying to do that he won't notice his feelings for her and hers for him for a while but when he does, I think he'll do everything he can to ignore it. I think that tracks for him.

Kirito x Asuna (SAO)- Obviously they're together and nothing will come between them lol. I'm watching the current season of Alicitization and when Asuna and Alice kind of got into it over him lol had me cracking up. Kirito also has a harem but Asuna is the only one he actually has eyes for... though if it wasn't for her, I think Sinon would have a chance lol. But I love their relationship. They love each other so much that they will literally move heaven and hell to find each other... love them.

Marinette x Adrien (Miraculous Ladybug)- Not quite an anime... I want them to get their shit together honestly. I love this show lol. Their romance square is hilarious but this is what I want. I want the tables to switch, where Ladybug starts to look at Cat Noir differently, as well as her to apologize for how she treats him. Cat Noir deserves much better than what he is given. But also, I think the superior part of their square is Marinette x Cat Noir, since this is the only part of the square where their feelings don't get in the way lol.

That's all I got at this moment lol

[imo-chan-imagines]

『 Haikyuu!! Week 2020 | Day 7 』

· Oct. 1st → Fly! ·

Characters: (teams) Karasuno, Nekoma, Fukurodani, Aoba Johsai, Shiratorizawa, (indiv.) Miya Atsumu, Miya Osamu, Aone Takanobu

Prompts: A. free choice!

Tags/warnings: Haikyuu!! (anime), Among Us (video game), PG, fluff, crack, video games, video game violence/death, headcanons, HaikyuuWeek2020

A/N: Among Us is a bit of a hot meme at the moment (great game. Go and play it/watch other people play it if you can. Get a feel for the game if you somehow haven't already.) So I thought, 'Hey, why not?' I mean, I do need to heal my heart after my Day 6 post, so...

What an amazing week it's been! Well done, everyone! All of my Haikyuu Week 2020 posts are SFW, but there's a little treasure trove of NSFW on my blog, too. Please peruse to your heart's content. Thanks for reading! Please enjoy! ♡

Haikyuu boys / playing Among Us

☆ Karasuno ☆

Literally the loudest games you'll ever witness

You know that grainy, electronic crackle that happens when everybody yells on Discord at the same time? Yeah. That

Kageyama can't lie for shit. It's so obvious when he's lying that it's a genuine miracle if he doesn't immediately get ejected

And he stands in all the wrong places when he's faking doing his tasks 😭😭

But he sounds super suspicious when he's telling the truth, too 😅

Noya and Tanaka buddy up no matter what, and go around trying to clear or murder people together

They also end up fuelling each other's incorrect assumptions

Asahi is way too timid to murder anyone right away, so if nobody dies in the first two rounds, you know it's him or someone trying to frame him...

Daichi is the host and tries to keep order in the lobby...tries someone help him

Hinata: Guys, please stop swearing! Natsu is watching me play!! waahhh 🙈 so cute 😇

Hinata always has to be orange. Don't touch his orange

Ennoshita is the king of self-reporting and getting away with it it just be like that

Kageyama goes around called 'Milk' 🥛

Tsukki tries to big-brain the shit out of it 🤣

He's also hella manipulative as an imposter and refuses to kill Yamaguchi 😭

Suga likes to take out the oxygen/recator and lie in wait for the people who come to fix it he will giggle adorably when it ends up working, which sounds kinda pshyco, ngl 😂

But totally screams at his screen when someone he suspected sneaks up on him and kills him

Yamaguchi low-key prefers the mini games to the actual game 😭😭

And Yachi loves being pink and wearing the little flower in her hair ngl, she nearly fainted the first time she got killed

She doesn't play with them often because it's so loud 😬

☆ Nekoma ☆

Kenma streams the gaming sessions on Twitch, and now they kind of have a cult following 🤷‍♀️

These fans be thirsting hard, too like us

Check out my smut headcanons, y'all 🙌

Kuroo is the closest to a genius player you're ever going to see

He does his tasks fairly efficiently, he's good at remembering layouts and people's movements, he calculates the timings of his kills with terrifying accuracy, defends himself pretty well, whether he's lying or not, can gaslight the entire lobby into sussing an innocent person, and pieces together other people's lies with surprising ease

Do not cross Kuroo. He's scary at this game. He's not the Scheming Captain for nothing, y'all

Lev is the kind of person to vent right in front of someone by accident, which is so awkward, but so funny 😂

The entire team must wear the bear ears hat. Yes, that is a rule

It's the closest to cat ears they have right now....

Kenma is pretty quiet when he's playing. He doesn't normally play online games, but his streams took off on Twitch, sooo~

Kenma also has radar ears and can somehow detect when people are lying, but waits until he has proof to accuse them he smart 🤓

☆ Fukurodani ☆

'Whoever Talks the Loudest is Right' mentality 😂

And Bokuto will defend himself at the volume of an air raid siren

Akaashi stays as quiet as possible so he doesn't give anything away

When Bokuto starts sussing people, it turns into something out of Ace Attorney like, chill tf out, man 😂

But his guesses are normally completely wrong

Akaashi sets good parameters for the games, because he's sensible

If Bokuto is given the chance to host the lobby....he will set one task each, put everyone at 4x speed, give the imposter zero cooldown time, and sit back and watch the chaos

Whenever somebody doesn't have an absolutely airtight alibi–

Bokuto: That's hella sus, bro

Lots of childish nicknames, because...well, they're all mentally six years old

Except Akaashi, who has a higher mental age than all of them combined

Let me just say that when Bokuto and Kuroo play together, shit gets so funny

When one of them is an imposter, they will literally vent in front of the other one and trust them not to out them 😂😂

☆ Aoba Johsai ☆

Iwa-chan can always tell when Oikawa is lying, and constantly calls him out on it

Iwa: That's his lying voice. Shitty-kawa is lying. He's the imposter. Vote him off

Oikawa: IWAAA-CHAAAN D:<

Because Iwa's right about Oikawa when he is the imposter, it makes it easy to frame him when it's actually Iwa who's the imposter

And no-one believes Tooru 😭😭

Kyoutani has no chill as an imposter

He just murders everyone on sight, right in front of people, too

Kindaichi tends to accuse people with very little evidence, but his instincts are weirdly accurate

Oikawa gets killed almost immediately every game, so if he isn't dead two emergency meetings in, he's 100% an imposter 😭😭

He then goes around as a salty ghost when he's killed off, mumbling to himself about injustice as he refuses to do his tasks and watches the people who voted him off get murdered one by one

Not that anyone's holding a grudge 🙄😂

Oikawa refuses to be purple and always kills whoever is purple first because it reminds him of Ushijima 😭😭

☆ Shiratorizawa ☆

Ushijima refuses to play if he can't be purple give it back. N O W

And it takes him a long time to get used to the game and the rules

'Why are the lights off? What are these tasks? Why is that one flashing at me? Where is med bay? Why can I use this vent? What's this big, red button for?' etc.

You get the idea. Toshi = big noob

He doesn't really understand the concept of lying, either...

He keeps forgetting to mute himself and ends up saying some very incriminating stuff over the mic which has everyone in literal tears from laughter

Tendou is a sneaky S.O.B, using those vents like a pro and gaslighting perfectly innocent people he's a little bloodthirsty, too 🤫

And his initial guesses about who's the imposter are almost always 100% correct Guess Monster, y'all

Goshiki goes around trying to clear people by watching them doing their tasks, especially Ushijima

But then he gets called suspicious for hanging around people too much

The first time an emergency meeting was ever called, Ushijima literally asked "Why is my name in red?" much to everyone's amusement

Everyone's scared of Ushijima when he follows them, but it normally turns out that he just doesn't know where he's going

Shirabu tends to lose his shit when people start accusing him and he's innocent, and will never EVER trust a word that comes out of Goshiki's mouth

Speaking of, Goshiki and Shirabu – boy, do they bicker like eight year-olds, wasting entire voting rounds just arguing with each other 🙄😭

So everyone else decides to vote off one, and then the other at the next meeting 😭😭

Misc.

☆ The Miya twins ☆

Atsumu puts 100% trust in Osamu not to kill him, even if he is the imposter

How could he? He's his brother. His twin. His other half. They share a unique bond–

And then he screams in betrayal when Osamu slaughters him mercilessly 😂😂

Osamu is unaffected by the sudden outburst from his brother's room

Put them together as an imposter duo, though, and you're in for some trouble

They often win by executing a perfect double kill

And they're both pretty good at lying, but Osamu will not hesitate to throw Atsumu under the bus and vote him off if he's being too suspicious or the lobby has turned against him 😂

Ah, the bond of brotherhood 😂

☆ Aone Takanobu ☆

Aone doesn't talk very much

But when he does, his voice is so low and even that nobody ever suspects he's the imposter

I'm thinking like Corpse Husband, if you've seen him playing with Pewds and the gang

It doesn't really occur to people that he could be lying. He seems so trustworthy and honest

Finds it very hard to blame anyone else, though

Is fairly decent as doing his tasks as a crewmate, but it takes him a long time to remember the layouts of the ships

Almost never gets voted off the ship

© imo-chan-imagines 2020

[captainfangirlll]

SHOW ARYA STARK VS BOOK ARYA STARK

Book Arya: She is frequently compared with Lyanna Stark, Ned said Arya in first book that she rides horses as a northern lady, like Lyanna used to do and that she looks like her and acts like her.

Show Arya: Lyanna and Arya resemblances is never mentioned but the actress who played Lyanna looks like Maisie a Lot

Show: Arya was in love with Gendry in S2-S3 (according to Maisie Williams) but they didn’t show us signs of this, just the scene when Gendry is shirtless in Harrenhal.

Book: We don’t know if Arya is in love with Gendry in books but she is confused about he feelings for him because she is too young to understand it, but we can read in books how she looks at Gendry in that way:

"She climbed to the roof and peeked down. Gendry was beating out a breastplate. When he worked, nothing existed for him but metal, bellows, fire. The hammer was like part of his arm. She watched the play of muscles in his chest and listened to the steel music he made. He’s strong, she thought.”

And she is jealous about Gendry:

Then maybe I’ll go find that black-haired girl and ring her bell for her.”

“But…”

“I said, go away. M’lady.”

Arya whirled and left him there. A stupid bullheaded bastard boy, that’s all he is. He could ring all the bells he wanted, it was nothing to her.

And later in another chapter he remember him about that:

"My father had honor," she said angrily. "And we weren’t talking to you anyway. Why don't you go back to Stoney Sept and ring that girl's stupid bells?"

Yep she thinked about that a lot apparently

She also thinks in a romantic way about Gendry. She said in a chapter think about Gendry like that is something Sansa would dream in her songs wich are romantic songs:

..she could ride with Gendry and be an outlaw, like Wenda the White Fawn in the songs. But that was just stupid, like something Sansa might dream

Show: Arya loves Jon Snow more than anyone but we can only see that in season 1, 5 (when she didn’t throw needle to the water) and little season 8

Book: Arya thinks in Jon every time, he is the one she looks for After her father’s death:

Jon wouldn’t care who I killed or whether I brushed my hair . . . “Jon looks like me, even though he’s bastard-born. He used to muss my hair and call me ‘little sister.’” Arya missed Jon most of all. Just saying his name made her sad.

She would have given anything if Jon had been here to call her “little sister” and muss her hair.

She yearned to see her mother again, and Robb and Bran and Rickon . . . but it was Jon Snow she thought of most. She wished somehow they could come to the Wall before Winterfell, so Jon might muss up her hair and call her “little sister.” She’d tell him, “I missed you,” and he’d say it too at the very same moment, the way they always used to say things together.

She even compare Gendry to him and that’s why she trust Gendry immediately

“NO!” Arya and Gendry both said, at the exact same instant. Hot Pie quailed a little. Arya gave Gendry a sideways look. He said it with me, like Jon used to do, back in Winterfell. She missed Jon Snow the most of all her brothers.

Show: Arya serves as a cupbearer to Tywin Lannister after he saves her and Gendry, wich is a great change actually in show.

Book: Boltons mens take Harrenhal from Lannister, Lord Roose Bolton arrives to take charge of the castle. Arya, now calls herself "Nymeria", or "Nan" for short, and is named Roose's cupbearer for her role in the freeing of the prisoners. She inadvertently meets Elmar Frey, the squire she would have to marry under Robb's agreement with the Freys, though they remain unknown to each other.

Show: The Brotherhood finds Arya, Gendry and Hotpie and their plan is let her immediately with her mother and brother.

Book: In books TB takes more time before takes Arya with her family, they even stop in hostals and brothels, and they make Arya wear a dress that’s why Gendry mess with Arya saying her she looks like propped girl and a lady.

Show: In tv show Melissandre captured Gendry first and then The Hound kidnnaped Arya.

Books: In books Arya have a little fight with Gendry and then she runs away from him in that moment The Hound captures Arya and the last thing she heard is Gendry screaming her name.

Show: Arya never saw Catelyn’s body after red wedding, only Robbs.

Book: Arya sees her mom and Robbs bodies after red wedding, but Catelyn’s no as her own, Arya is a warg in books like Brann and she wargs into Nymeria to take out of the river Catelyns body, then Beric Dondarrion finds Catelyn and resurrected her with a kiss.

Show: In books Arya meets Brienne of Tarth and she have a fight with The Hound for Arya.

Books: Arya never meets Brienne in books.

Show: Arya reunites with Jaquen in the House of black and white

Book: Arya never see Jaqen again, she trains with other faceless man in braavos known as Kindly Man and the Waif, who accept her in.

Show: Arya kills Ser Meryn Trant in braavos, she also pass herself as an oyster saleswoman and trains hard with the waif.

Book: Arya learns to lie from the waif, she also pass her self as “Cat of the canals” a street urchin, to learn secrets and report them to the kindly man. She also begins learning the art of lying from the waif. During this time, she kills a deserter from the Night's Watch named Dareon, and she briefly meets Samwell Tarly, a friend of her half brother Jon Snow, though they do not introduce themselves to each other. After these incidents, she accepts milk meant for "Arya". When she wakes the next morning, she is blind.

Show: Arya gets blind and stay in the street as a homeless girl, she also trains with the waif and is repeatedly abbused and punched by her, she receives her sigth again after she drinks waters from the water well Jaqen gives her.

Book: Arya remains blind and in the service of the House of Black and White in Braavos. The blindness is induced by the milk she drinks every night. She continues to dream through the eyes of her direwolf, Nymeria, but speaks of it to no one. She still struggles with leaving her identity as Arya Stark behind. While she is blind, Arya wears the guise of "Beth", a beggar girl. She wanders the streets of Braavos, begging for money and listening for bits and pieces of information. She becomes better at lying and detecting the lies of others.

Arya receives her sight again after she is able to identify the kindly man and hit him with a stick when he sneaks up on her. It is implied, however, that she does not simply sense his presence (as he assumes) but sees him through the eyes of a cat hiding in the rafters.

Show: We don’t know what Arya does in her freetime in braavos we only see her training and training.

Books: In books we can know more about Arya, she pass her time warging cats also with the company of braavos courtesans the most seductive woman in Essos, so Arya learns a lot from them, the last chapter we read about her she seduced a man so we start to see Arya’s grow.

Show: Sansa is the one who marries Ramsay Bolton.

Books: In books is Jeyne Poole the one who marriea Ramsay, but they said all the north the girl is Arya Stark, that’s why Jon is murdered in booka because he break his votes to rescue “Arya”.

SO

Arya is gonna comeback to Westeros like in the books, the last we know from her is that she killed a man who was not ordered by the god of death so is possible we would see same as the show, the waif trying to kill her, she kills the waif and come back to Westeros.

Arya is very different in books than show, I think we are gonna see an Arya really different than the girl she used to be but not as cold as the show, Arya in books is still a social girl, she also learns a lot with braavos people and talks braavosi.

Theories:

She is gonna meet again Lady Stonehert because she is the one who help in her resurrection, I think at first she is gonna team up with her to kill the freys and also meet Gendry again (bc he is with LS) but then she will have to kill her, because she’s gonna realize she is cruel and only live for revenge (that’s gonna help in her arc about revenge and how bad it is) so she’s gonna save her mom from that misery.

Shes gonna go to north with the brotherhood and Gendry to look for Jon, after she heard “Arya Stark married Ramsay Bolton”

And I don’t know guys the history in books is so different idk what’s gonna happen, im very sure we are gonna see a romance between Arya and Gendry, a reunion with Lady Stoneheart and she fighting in the long night, I don’t think she kills the Knight King theres also no NK in books, so we are all Jon Snow, we don’t know nothing.

[lumi-klovstad-games]

We’re also never informed what kind of lawyer the female Sole Survivor was. If she was a JAG officer, she’s still military and conceivably would have gone through regular training like any other soldier.

We also don’t know what she was before she was a lawyer (and her degree is heavily implied to be recent), so it’s possible she’s done years of military service and is now moving out of that into a more civilian field (a lot of people sign on for the free college irl, after all).

With either of these possibilities, it’s also easy to imagine she first met Nathan while in the service.

She could have also been National Guard due to the lower levels of commitment, which would have left her relatively free to pursue her law studies while also giving her grounding in military training.

America also has a BIG gun culture and in the 1950′s (which Fallout is heavily based on) had a very prevalent and well established Civilian Marksmanship Program.

There’s lots of reasons a female Sole Survivor could be realistically wicked good with guns that don’t call for her being a synth.

Okay. So now for Part II (in which we return the conversation to that of Father’s character as a human being):

People also seem very keen to take the Director of the freaking Institute at his word that he’s actually Shaun at all for some reason.

This is a man with all the motive and opportunity to lie about that in the world.

At no point does he actually offer any sort of hard evidence, and his attempts at “affection” are cold, distant, and unconvincing. While his remarks about “until today, I have had no love to share” could plausibly explain that, his interactions with the Sole Survivor are overwhelmingly manipulative and he definitely sees you more as an asset (and possible successor) than as family; his behavior in general is detached and similar to a high functioning sociopath, which also as a bonus explains why he treats Synths the way he does. To some extent, genuine humans are no different to him than Synths: everything and everyone is merely an asset to secure the Institute’s future dominance in the Commonwealth. He says what he needs to say to provoke the reaction he wants out of people and doesn’t necessarily stand behind a word of it. Result: I don't think Father is actually Shaun. Of course he can claim this all he wants, but the Sole Survivor has no way of independently verifying this: Father has a vested interest in remaining an unreliable narrator, and also literally controls all paths to the truth that don't involve going to the Brotherhood of Steel (who likewise can’t be trusted to give an honest answer if that honestly has potential to interfere with their mission). 

From what we see of the Commonwealth, paternity tests are VERY DIFFICULT to pull off. Likely, the Brotherhood could do one. The Institute sure as hell could do one, but Father's goal is manipulating the Sole Survivor into replacing Kellogg, and eventually, himself. It'd be like asking Stalin to conduct an ethics investigation on himself. OF COURSE HE'S GONNA SAY WHAT HE'S GONNA SAY.

But consider the actual evidence. What happens in this lead up to meeting Father at all? 

Why, quite a lot, and if Father's "plan" as described was actually a plan, he'd have to be a goddamn prophet.

He'd have to know that you wouldn't get mauled to death by Yao Guais and Deathclaws, eaten by Feral Ghouls, killed by raiders, or any of the other fun and exciting means of death that the Wasteland has on offer, and then meet EXACTLY the right people who point you in EXACTLY the right direction about a half dozen times, that you'd somehow kill Kellogg (who has a well earned reputation as a One Man Army the mere mention of which makes some of the most hardened mercs in the Commonwealth shit themselves with fear) and THEN have access to the tech to use his brain as a film reel to poke through his memories to find out that the Institute uses teleportation to get in and out. 

He also has absolutely no guarantee that you wouldn’t just mini-nuke Kelogg in the fight and that there’d be anything left to salvage. 

Then he has to be able to predict that you can track down Virgil, kill a Courser, DECRYPT THE COURSER’S BRAINCHIP SOMEHOW, build a fucking teleporter INTERCEPTOR out of scraps, and come meet him in the first place.

How could ANYONE have reasonably predicted all that in advance?

There are simply way WAY too many points of not even possible but MOST GODDAMN LIKELY catastrophic failure in that plan. Had even a single thing happened slightly differently, had the Sole Survivor been 0.001% less lucky, the whole thing would have been shot to hell just like America was about two minutes after the bombs fell.

Maybe the Sole Survivor takes one too many bullets. Maybe Kellog's Hippocampus doesn't survive his death. Maybe Skinny Malone decides to finally trash Nick Valentine once and for all instead of locking him up. Maybe Dogmeat gets killed by literally ANYTHING in the Commonwealth that could kill a German Shepard (which realistically means everything -- the place is somehow more hostile than all of Australia's wildlife put together). Maybe Glory errs on the side of pragmatism and blows you away with her minigun when you first meet the Railroad.

Tons of stuff could have gone wrong that nobody could have predicted, but Father acts as though you followed his plans to the letter. That all that was meant to engineer a meeting with you. There would have been a ton of ways to do that in a simpler manner with a much lower risk of failure, starting by beaming a Courser right outside Vault 111 to say "Looking for your son? Come with me. We have a bit of explaining to do, but you can see him right now if you like."

So either Father is either a future-seeing prophet with a magic mirror or something, or he’s actually even more shocked than you are that you actually made it to the Institute and is just trying to cover it up by saying “Sure yeah I’m your son and psssht yeah of course I totally meant to do all that.”

The alternative to that particular Occam's Razor is that he's simply so addicted to complexity that he'd get dizzy if you asked him to walk in a straight line.

He’s (probably) not Shaun. 

It’s just a lie he told that grew bigger and bigger with each telling as he grew convinced that the Sole Survivor was so dangerous that they had to be harnessed by the Institute instead of someone else (or worse, being allowed to remain a free agent), and, preferably, molded into his replacement.

At least, that's my read on the situation.

If he is Shaun, the game does a TERRIBLE job of convincing me, since we know that Father is a man of "rather flexible morality" depending on how he can justify things, meaning he can reasonably break any of his own rules and claim he didn't actually break those rules. 

Added to that, Doctors Sun and Crocker (independent medical authorities with no known ties to any faction) both confirm that surgery can change eye color, skin color, skeletal construction and musculature in the Fallout universe and is therefore not just a gameplay feature, meaning Father's physical resemblance to the Sole Survivor means less than nothing in and of itself as the Institute is likely to have even more advanced capacities for surgery (they literally BUILD wholesale human beings on a factory floor, I mean c’mon). Deacon also supports the notion that surgery can change literally everything about a person’s appearance, but, admittedly, he’s…. Deacon and his word isn’t worth much unless it’s confirmed by independent authorities in the field… like Crocker and Sun. 

Everything Father sets up can actually be knocked down by something else you've encountered in the lore of the game, so this leaves his ultimate parentage ambiguous at best. He might be Shaun. He might not be. It's up to the player, ultimately, to decide (at least unless Fallout 5 somehow addresses it, which would cement things in canon) whether he is or not.

And I remain unconvinced that he is. 

Fallout 4 maintains a LOT of intentional ambiguity about most of its primary characters, which is a big part of what leaves it ripe for role play and player-made OCs.

FALLOUT 4 — 2015, Bethesda Game Studios

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I know this is random, but I was wondering is you had any good episodes of FMA 03 you could suggest. (Like, episode number or title.) To make a long story short I'd like to see more episodes than I have, but I don't think I want to dive into all 50+ of them. (I considered watching the Greed episodes, but I don't want to see Ed kill anyone, so I'd have to cut out early.)

Ok anon!

Well, honestly, alot of the early episodes are good. I really like episodes one two and three. One and two are just an extended version of the liore episode, but they do Rose’s character a lot of justice and gives her more screen time that she didn’t get in brotherhood. Episode three is also great as you get to see more of little Edward and alphonse. There’s also some angst because you see trisha’s death and the transmutation, but over all its a beautiful episode.Avoid episode four like the plague, especially if you don’t want to see ed kill anyone. it’s not a good episode according to most people and me anyways and is completely filler, so you can skip it. Episode ten isn’t the best either and is skippable.Episode five is great though. On top of a train fight between Ed and a guy with tricked out automail weaponry, It’s hughes’ first appearance, and he kicks ass. Episode six is good too, but there is a lot of nina in it(no transmutation however…yet). You get to see Ed goof around with nina and alexander, celebrate his birthday, take the exam, and get to see baby Elicia. Its overall the cutest and fluffiest episode in the series. Episode seven is nina dying (plus cute moment with Hughes and baby Elicia and a slight edwin moment) and eight is ed dealing with his emotions in the aftermath plus winry and serial killer murder mystery. Episode nine “be thou for the people” is one of my favorites. Its the long version of yoki’s backstory and honestly makes his version of his back story so much more hilarious when you look back at it in brotherhood because you know exactly what really happened. Episode 11 and 12, “The other elric brothers” part one and two are amazing, honestly and you get to see Edward at his pettiest and most sneaky in the best way possible. You also get to meet the wonderful tringham brothers, who are fma 03 exclusive characters and I wish to death that they were in brotherhood too. Seriously. russell is a glorious sassy bastard and his little brother fletcher is like a second, smaller alphonse. What’s not to love?Episode 13, “Fullmetal vs. Flame” is a must watch. It’s an episode about Ed fighting Roy, something we never got to see in brotherhood and it is freeaking hilarious. This is also where half the fandom memes about Roy came from, such as “I LOVE DOGS” and “TINY MINISKIRTS” came from. Also, Hughes is at his most Hughesy in this one. Bonus: puppy hayate!I personally really like episode 14 and 15, but that’s because I’m a sucker for angst. These are the 03 episodes introducing Marcoh and Scar, as well as major armstrong. They get pretty dark because they discuss the war heavily, but there is also another amazing moment for rose in these episodes. 16 is ok, it’s pretty interesting for filler but the best parts (at least in my opinion) are the scenes where alphonse pretends to be a haunted suit of armor.17 is the reseimbool episode. More Armstrong and Winry. Enough said. I get a little fuzzy on the lab five arc, because the episodes blend together alot. The pre lab five stuff is great, more maria ross, more sheska, some hughes being hughes. The actual lab five arc gets pretty dark. I personally prefer it because it is more stretched out and darker, but it’s not for everyone. I just felt the brotherhood lab five arc ended abruptly. *shrugs* anyways, that arc has a few great moments, such as Ed’s speech to the slicer brothers, Maria ross saving Ed, An Indiana jones reference, an actual fight between ed and envy, but also a big part of it is that the homunculi try to force ed to make a stone for them. Episode 23 and 24 “Fullmetal heart” and “Bonding memories” are pretty good but are more angsty. They are an expansion on Alphonse’s whole “Did brother make me up and give me false memories” episode and he bonds with two little ishvalan boys. However, these episodes also go deeper into the abuse towards the ishvalans, and it can be hard to watch. Episode 25 is the one where hughes dies. However, i recommend watching the beginning because it has an amazing and angsty moment between roy and hughes about roy right after the war and hughes helping him with his depression. 26 is “her reason” and is Paninya’s episode. After this I start getting fuzzy again because it’s been a while since I watch them. We start getting into the greed arc and episodes start blending together again. If you want to meet 03 wrath and learn what his deal is (this wrath is not bradley), watch episodes 29, 30, and 31 I think. Greed makes an appearance in those episodes, and bido gets some screen time. Also, sheska gets some screen time and then armstrong gets his time to shine too and bonds with Sig. Theory of avarice, episode 34, is the one to avoid as that is greed’s death, but I can’t remember what happens in which episodes besides that. It’s really hard to watch the later episodes out of order because they get really plot heavy and 03’s plot is pretty damn complicated. If you aren’t going to watch the whole series, there isn’t much I can recommend besides one very important one: Episode 37, “The Flame Alchemist, The Bachelor Lieutenant, and the Mystery of Warehouse 13”. Hands down the funniest episode in the entire series. It’s an entire episode about Team Mustang and it is awesome. You will laugh until your sides hurt, I promise.There are also the ovas. They’re pretty silly and simple but do requior a basic understanding of some of the characters like the 03 homunculi and the basic plot summary of the movie that end capped the series. Those OVAs are “Kids”, “chibi wrap party”, and “alchemists vs Homunculi”. None of them are canon to fma 2003 (except “kids” maybe) but they’re short and fun.

That’s all I’ve got. It’s been a while since I watched the series, and I’ve only seen it all the way through once. Others might be able to give you better suggestions, like @calangkoh Hope that helped!