#fallout jane

[artbyblastweave]

Frederick Sinclair is a really interesting foil to Mr. House. I mean you start digging into this and it's just parallel after parallel after parallel. Start at the high level. House sinks inordinate amounts of resources into saving the city of Las Vegas - not the people, but the city- from nuclear destruction; as long as the stage endures, he can get anyone to wear the costumes. Sinclair sets up an entirely new "community" totally off-the-grid for the sake of protecting one woman, plasters that place with her likeness. House is a visionary with a 200-year action plan to rebuild society in his image, bootstrap space exploration, and construct an interplanetary empire; Sinclair sank everything he had into building the most secure facility possible for a woman who he knew was terminally ill anyway, just to ensure that her last few years lived in the aftermath of the nuclear apocalypse would be as comfortable as possible- there's a fundamental pessimism baked into what he was doing. Both House and Sinclair relied heavily on automated defensive systems and cutting-edge, esoteric technologies to accomplish their ends, but House built his power base on proprietary robotics and computing technology, much of which he personally designed- an outgrowth of his policy of never widening his circle any more than he absolutely has to. Sinclair, in his naive techno-optimism, outsourced his utopia, grabbing flashy third-party technologies like a kid in a candy store- opening a backdoor for the Think Tank to poison his city and ultimately getting everyone at the Gala Event killed when the holograms malfunctioned and went berserk.

Their management styles are inverse. House allows countless abuses to occur under his aegis because he subscribes to a libertarian-when-convenient philosophy where he doesn't much care what the little people do as long as he gets his cut and they don't rock the boat too much- a hands-off approach that fosters resentment amongst his subordinates, lets the White Gloves and Omertas get up to untold levels of fuckery while Freeside languishes and Benny conspires against him. Sinclair, by contrast, had a sincerely-held utopian-straight-edge safety-first micromanagement approach built into the very bones of the casino, he appeared to genuinely give a shit about the safety of the construction crew on the villa, and he was well-liked by nearly everyone who had any direct contact with him- and yet untold horrors also went down under his aegis, because his myopic focus on building the vault for Vera let Dean Domino and the Think Tank run circles around him, good intentions be damned. Their respective interpersonal dispassion and obsession are on display in how they react to betrayal. House's tone never rises above exasperation when it comes time to clean house of Benny, the Omerta Leadership and the White gloves; he treats them as problems to be solved, gears that are slightly out of alignment; By contrast, when Sinclair learns that Dean and Vera have been playing him, he channels the monomaniacal energy he previously directed towards protecting Vera towards the goal of building the perfect poetic-ironic death trap for her and Dean.

There are some other parallels in their personal lives. For one thing they both trusted a pastiche of a 40s lounge singer a lot more than they should have. They both tried to digitize, immortalize their girlfriends- and the discrepancy in how they went about it is telling. House's recreation of Jane isn't terribly robust, and in terms of House's overall project she's an afterthought. She's more a sock-puppet than a person, a sanded-down copy of a woman who died forever-and-a-half ago, forever agreeable, never saying no. Convenient. Only the most superficial visual elements preserved- an illustration of her face on a robotic chassis. Sinclair was obsessive in recreating Vera, preserving her likeness. It's all over the villa, her hologram is everywhere, her voice is everywhere. The terminal in the lightwave lab in Old World Blues reveals that he was still obsessed with getting her hologram right even after the love curdled into hate. All of it a monument to the real woman, and yet in all of it the real woman is still lost, buried under the mythologized projection. He didn't respect the real person enough to let her know that she was dying. A total failure of preservation from the opposite direction. (Except in the suites, where you can hear her very authentic dying pleas.)

You find both of them in their basements. House only looks a little better than Sinclair, but he's got much more of a voice in the narrative. He took steps to make sure he'd be around to tell you what he thinks about everything, fine-tuned the voice with which he speaks to the world, the face he presents. It matters to him that he gets to tell his own story. We find out a lot about House, from House; but for the kind of figure that he is, a shocking amount of what we learn about Sinclair comes from other people, people who knew him or wrote about him. The only image of him you can find is a downplayed element of a larger mosaic. The two documents you find that're written from his perspective have been buried for 200 years, and they're yards from his corpse. And the more recent of the two is an apology. I mean admittedly at the point where he wrote that apology Sinclair was personally turbofucked regardless. If the cloud didn't get him the holograms would have, or the radiation, or, or, or. You can read some level of ego into what he did in the face of that. But however futile it was, he died in the specific way that he did because he recognized that he'd done something awful, and he was trying everything he could think of to correct it. Somehow I find it very hard to imagine House doing either of those things- admitting fault or putting skin of his own in the game to make it right.

[milkzfall]

IT IS DONE

I love you them. This isn't my proudest work but I do like it

[witchcraftannie]

the house always wins

Artist: Deimos art on Twitter

[dieselocelot]

doodling shit

[alicewav]

Faces

Color under the cut

Yes man inspired by @mushroommans_cache

[thegabberwocky]

They are very beautiful to me..!!!

[delusionaltoma]

"We don't get many guests lately; perhaps we can entertain you as well.."

[emmcarstairs]

Fallout (2024) / Jane Eyre (1847)

[biohazrat]

Yay

[europium063]

If you notice that this is a repost shhhhh... Shhhh..🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫

[madnesscombatagere]

Another round of caregiver securitron icons because im obessed with them

Robot Caregiver - Cowboy Caregiver - Punk Caregiver - Mama Caregiver - Permaregressor Caregiver

[rad-hound]

Imagine Jane seeing something in House that no one else could, being likely the only individual able to see past — or, more ideally, come to appreciate — his eccentric personality.

For example, if Mr. House were to rattle on about his job, seeing as I believe he might be a bit skittish about admitting he collects snowglobes to those he is only familiar with in a professional setting, his peers may simply only find intrigue in his fiscal income, rather than the enjoyment he garners in his work.

Jane, on the other hand, while finding Mr. House's wealth impressive, is more taken by his quirks and his idiosyncrasy. Despite likely lacking the expertise to engage in conversation with him in regards to robotics and subjects of similar ilk, I like to believe she simply liked listening to him talk so passionately about something, a characteristic typically unbecoming of a corporate suit.

Mr. House, to me, does not come across as a melevolent pervert. A pervert, sure, but not a man with malicious or dubious intentions in such a regard. I firmly believe that he ultimately left the prospects of scanning Jane's brain in her hands, lest he come across as pushy or forceful towards the only individual he'd known in a casual setting that came to appreciate and accept his innate oddity.

Aside from all the mush and angst that can be implied from this, I also find the prospects of House and Jane batting their eyelashes at one another all bashful-like akin to highschool sweethearts to be really fucking cute. 😭 Someone hold me back, please.

Broke: Mr. House hooked up with a Hollywood starlet, and was featured in multiple scandals because he, like most billionaires, has estranged perversions otherwise unfulfilled by the day-to-day normality established by his social and financial position.

Woke: Mr. House is in love with Jane, and took a scandalous bullet — risking his reputation on the global stage — all for the sake of preserving the memory of the one person to have seen and accepted him for who he is.

[gracestellaerie]

Mr. House compilation

DUDE I LOVE HIM SO MUCH......

[tiramisuman-p]

(1/5)

[theryanitecorruptionandothersins]

i live in the space between the stars and the sky

credit to @crystallizedmiracle for the song inspo, it is so him, and @adifferenttime for their headcannon of Jane being black. this style of painting does absolutely nothing for her, but hopefully i'll come up with something better in the future.

original and without text under the cut.

[ncr-psyop]

BUTCH: You know you're my favourite gal, right?

JANE: Not now, you doofus.