#duncan maccready

[sirmanmister]

The MacCready family deserves the literal whole entire world and nobody can convince me otherwise.

[atomicgambit]

So was MacCready a teen parent? He is canonically 22 and the way he talks about Duncan makes it seem like his son is 5-8 years old, at least.

If so, that makes me so sad to imagine him and Lucy trying to raise a kid in the apocalypse, while also still being kids themselves.

[perfectlypreservedpie]

Found a bunch of sketchbooks from around 2018-2019 I think? Plus some other art that I never posted back in the day from the same time.

[marf244]

More Mac!

[acorncoffeeformysweetheart]

Falloutober day 2 - Little fish

[stoat-party]

Sometimes a family is you, your 200-year-old mom, her sad robot boyfriend, your dead father, your other dead father who your mom says was really your brother

Your uncle/fourth dad, your cousin/brother, his dead mom

Your mom’s sad robot daughter, your mom’s other sad robot daughter (a human who dresses like a robot), her pet eyebot, and an omnicidal brain in a jar

A noir detective, his secretary, his weird brother from Maine, and your evil cyborg fifth dad who haunts his brain

The Irish pit fighter who doesn’t like you but follows your mom around like a puppy

Your lonely, salty grandpa(?), also from Maine

A French medical researcher who’s also a robot

A militiaman with clinical depression

Your weird uncle you think might be a shapeshifter

A reporter and her 12-year-old sister

A cool drug-abusing mayor with no skin and a bodyguard who might be his daughter

The sad robot boyfriend’s one (1) friend, also sad

Your mom’s estranged grandson the Terminator

A one-eyed dirt man who does crimes, also estranged

A handful of neighbors including a mechanic, a couple with lots of emotions, a former fortune teller, and the guy whose personality is “salesman for a company that no longer exists”

Your seventh parent the butler (actually a robot this time)

The dog who’s a part-time detective, the cat your mom stole off a giant airship, and the giant cannibalistic ogre who functions more like a pet than the other two.

And that’s okay.

[wassertoffatom]

Guys I NEED more MacCreadyDad content. Like maybe I’m in my fertile part of the cycle but DAMN i jist want some wholesome fluff with Mac and Duncan.

[probablylilly]

you leave your son for a few weeks and he immediately joins the worst gang in the capital wasteland

[puirell]

hi ok so duncan and maccready reunion when !

[wodania]

macweedy or whatever

ft sole survivor wilfred “billy” black and his synth son shaun wong-black

[twosides--samecoin]

his tiny knotted heart, well, I guess it never worked too good the timber tore apart and the water gorged the wood you can hear her whispered prayer for men at masts that always lean the same wind that moves her hair moves her boy through fiddler's green

[sirmanmister]

Teaching Dunky how to read w/ Grognak

I don’t care what anyone says DadCready is PEAK MEDIA TO MEEEEE

[perfectlypreservedpie]

Absolutely love the way you include Duncan and Shaun in your Fallout art!! Love maccreedy and your sole survivor as cool parents!!

this ask was so nice that I drew some more

[atombonniebaby]

Just some DadCready to give all the fuzzy feels!

[cowboywodania]

introducing my lone wanderer, josie cacho 🤍 the big sister of little lamplight

she has a very creative vault-tec approved list of family friend curses that she is sure to share with maccready. she’s known for the oversized tunnel snakes jacket she got from butch on her escape from the vault. she was supposed to work on pip-boys, but that fell flat when she ended up becoming the world renowned babysitter. lucy maclean archetype. when you see someone so hateful that it inspires you to be kind.

[stoat-party]

MacCready winds up at Little Lamplight, probably a baby, but at most young enough not to remember his parents. Maybe he grows up with a secret belief that they loved him, because they left him with three names whereas a lot of his peers didn’t get any. But they were grown-ups, so who needs them anyway.

He grows up eating fungus that thrives on human flesh. He starts drinking at six. He learns to shoot at ten — starting with monsters who used to be human, but undoubtedly graduating to humans long before he should have. Also at ten, he wins a fight against another child and takes power as mayor. Part of the job is to exile kids when they turn sixteen. Maybe some of them helped raise him. He knows Bigtown isn’t as safe as it’s made it out to be, how could he not? A lot of those teenagers are headed out there just to die. MacCready knows he won’t be one of them, because he’s tougher.

When we meet him at twelve, he’s ruthless. He admits that the out-at-sixteen rule is based on lies, and that it’s really to keep the population low enough to survive. He’s a social Darwinist who protects the kids as a population, but can’t afford the luxury of caring about them as individuals. He’s learned death is cheap, you can’t afford to help strangers, and if you don’t take what you want, someone else will.

“Around” sixteen he graduated (which makes me think he left before they could kick him out), and we know the rest of the story. The person we meet in Boston has internalized these lessons. He’s friendly and has a conscience, but the only people he cares about enough to prioritize are Duncan, a maxed-affinity Sole Survivor, and probably a few others like Daisy. And boy, does he care about that tiny group of individuals. But everyone else? Make it worth his while or go kick rocks.

Having a crazy childhood doesn’t fully explain his choices - encouraging the Survivor to kill Danse, cruelly flirting with Desdemona as the Survivor betrays and murders her, outright stating he’s willing to kill innocents if there’s a way to profit from it, and disliking giving the cure to Austin even though his son is in the exact same situation. But I think his history goes a long way toward explaining his motivations and making him likable, if not exactly justifiable.