#fo3 Carol

[lem0nicle]

i made a new version with a lot more ghouls

i hope its okay, that this is posted as a new post, not just a thread to the previous version😅

[rockconsumer]

  Some Fallout sims I made for funzies

[stoat-party]

Things Fallout 3 did better than 4, in my opinion:

Giving every character a canon age

On that note, a game guide revealing all the flirting going on when the player character isn’t looking. (Did you know Greta has a thing with both Carol and Winthrop?)

Dialogue tree instead of wheel. (1. It lets you explore every dialogue option, 2. You can avoid triggering unwanted quest paths without ignoring a character entirely, and 3. Maybe I want Liam Neeson to tell me he’s proud of me more than once, okay?)

Weapons and armor degrading. It keeps caps tight for longer, so there are actual stakes when you forego profit to do the right thing. Also makes looting enemies more fun.

Skills.

Notes and holotapes have their own tab, aren’t in the inventory, and are sorted chronologically.

You can get Rad-X from the health status tab instead of scrolling infinitely in the aid items menu.

The Wasteland’s so empty. In 4, you can’t go very far without running into enemies. In 3, you can watch the scenery and listen to the radio for a good long while before you run into anything. (Though the city does take up less of the map.)

I get that they had to sacrifice this so the settlement building and radiant quests could operate, but I liked it better when you fought through a location, and the location stayed the way you left it, with enemies dead, locks/terminals open, and containers looted. 4 feels more like a fighting game while 3 feels like it’s about exploration.

Followers being able to die. There are benefits to being able to leave them to their own devices, but the extra stakes are more challenging and realistic. (But if followers could die in 4, you’d be able to fail every questline in the game right off the bat, so it’s understandable.)

Tell me yours if you have any!

[enukitake]

ghoul named finger : )

[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout 3: Carol

“We couldn't afford a space in one of the Vaults. I remember filing down into that shelter, my father rushing me in. He stopped to help this one family, and I looked up and called his name... there was a flash of light, brighter than anything you can imagine.”

- Carol, Fallout 3

Carol is in a relationship with Greta, and the two run Carol's Place together at Underworld. You can read more about Carol here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Carol_(Fallout_3)

[canonqueercharacters]

The canon queer character of the day is:

Carol from Fallout 3, who is a lesbian.

[thefalloutwiki]

Carol and Great deserve each other!

Carol and Greta 💕🧟‍♀️

[honourablejester]

Some of my favourite ghoul NPCs in Fallout:

My sister and I are replaying New Vegas lately, and we recently did the Come Fly With Me sidequest again, and since I’m talking about Fallout recently and this quest reminded me how much I fucking love Jason Bright and his merry band of lunatics, I figured I’d talk about some of my favourite ghoul characters in the games I’ve played (3, 4, New Vegas). Specifically non-companion characters, no offense to Raoul. I just like some of the ghouls you just run into.

First off, since we’ve already mentioned him, Jason Bright is such a nutjob, and he is the focal point for such a fantastic, batshit quest that you have to adore him. Yes, he’s a cult leader, and yes, he’s leading the ghouls under him possibly to their deaths based on ‘visions’, and yes, he is using Chris’ delusions to help get them there (and also sends us, the player, into a very annoying set of negotiations), but. How can you not adore the idea of a non-feral glowing one cult leader who is leading his flock into space, and manages to find actual functioning rocket ships to manage it? (Well, functional if you help out and don’t sabotage them, anyway). Also, given that Atom may genuinely be an actual god in this universe, I’m not going to fully rule out the visions, especially since he had a sane enough grasp of them to realise that he was seeing somewhere so irradiated that Chris wouldn’t have survived it. But just for the quest alone, just for the sight of those rocket ships taking off and presumably baffling and/or scaring the pants off half the Mojave, I just love this guy.

Second, one of the best characters in any of the games full stop, and also in one of the best and most batshit sidequests full stop, we have Desmond Lockhart from Fallout 3: Point Lookout. Because he’s a ghoulified James Bond fighting a maniacal brain in a jar supervillain in a rivalry that has been going on since the Great War. That’s just. You cannot beat that. He’s foulmouthed and bitchy and ungrateful and an arse, and he’s fantastic. I love that the mansion you find him in is his enemy’s ancestral home, the cheek on this bitchy ghoul man. I love him. He’s just spectacular.

Third, to round out our ‘best batshit sidequests focused around ghouls’, we have Kent Connolly from Fallout 4, because who wants to play a hammy 40s-style pulpy comic book hero in post-apocalyptia today? You? Excellent! The Silver Shroud is such a fun and fantastic questline, and I also just deeply adore and wish to protect Kent. He’s so sweet and sad and gently pathetic, and he’s not remotely able for the wasteland, and he’s trying to help. A pre-war ghoul clinging to the old radio shows he used to love when the world was less overtly hellish to try and help him cope, and not doing so well, and wanting to bring that hope to other people by resurrecting an old-world hero. He’s very sad and badly adapted, but he’s very sweet, and we always wait to take his quest until we have the rifle skill levelled enough to get him out of his little situation at the end of the quest alive. Because Kent is not allowed to die.

Fourth, on a continued theme of ghouls too nice for this world and who I will cheerfully murder people to protect, we have Gob from Fallout 3. Because everybody’s fucking mean to him, including the game itself, and somebody needs to fix it. GIVE ME A QUEST TO FREE THIS POOR MAN, YOU STUPID GAME. I mean, yes, we always murder Moriarty to help him anyway, which does solve the problem, but I HATE the fact that the game lets you tell his mother he’s a slave, and then doesn’t let you fix it. You just crushed her hopes for nothing, and even if you do get him free anyway later, with no quest to do so, you can’t tell her that. I want to stab FO3 so much for that. Why do you put a poor abused, incredibly nice slave man in front of me and then not let me free him? THERE SHOULD BE A GOB QUEST. If only so I don’t accidently crush poor Carol’s spirits with no hope of then telling her better news later. Because I am murdering Moriarty for the man, I’m not going to leave him enslaved. I don’t do game mods, but if there is one mod I want for 3, it’s that one. Let me free him officially and then tell Carol about it.

Ahem. Anyway. Sorry about that. Moving on (never, I will never move on, I will hold a grudge on this forever, but howandever).

Fifth, and still on the theme of the saddest goddamn ghouls in the wasteland, there is Arlen Glass from Fallout 4. Because he broke my fucking heart and I will never get over it. Giving him that tape from his family had me sobbing. A sweet gentle toymaker and family man who was never home because of work, who talked to his wife and daughter primarily over the phone, and who was still at work when the bombs dropped and never made it home to see them at the end. Who ghoulified, and was left with that grief and regret for the next 200 years. He ripped my heart fully out of my chest. Letting him hear his family’s voices again by retrieving that holotape was one of the most impactful things I’ve ever done in these games, and it was the one moment where I desperately wanted to refuse the quest reward. We fortified the Slog to hell and back to make sure Arlen was safe. Again, would die and kill for this man without a thought.

And then, in slightly less obsessive fashion, some honourable mentions:

Captain Zao, Fallout 4. Because there is something so quietly sad about his whole situation, trapped in a tiny vessel while his crew goes feral around him, keeping watch over the ruined country he helped destroy, wanting only to go home, and relying on enemies with extremely justified grudges to help him. No one won the Great War, and Zao is proof of it. We help him, every time. All he wants is to go home, after spending more than 200 years trapped wondering how much of it is left for him to find when he gets there. What the fuck would shooting him do, in the face of that? No one won the war. Let’s just let those it destroyed find what peace they can.

The Vault Tec Representative, Fallout 4. Because I just feel so sorry for the man. You never even learn his name. He was left out to die by his company, and he knows it, and after 200 years ghoulifying and rotting, out you pop, fresh as a fucking daisy from the vault he put you in, just to rub it fucking home. It’s not the Sole Survivor’s fault, but you definitely can’t blame him for being sore.

And finally, Daisy, from Fallout 4. I want to mention her because I do love her, that of all the quests you pick up from people in Goodneighbour, hers is to try and clear out the Library, because she remembers it from when she was a girl and she’d like to see it at least not overrun, if not quite restored. I love a nice bookworm, tough enough to survive Goodneighbour, and to put her caps into trying to bring a little civilisation back to the wasteland.

But Daisy also highlights a bit … There aren’t too many important female ghouls? Ones with cool quests around them. There are quite a few scattered around the various games, sure, but not too many you can really interact with like the boys above. There are a few memorable ladies around, like Keely from New Vegas, the tough as nails scientist who survives Vault 22 in New Vegas, Carol and her partner in Fallout 3, and then Beatrix Russell, also in Vegas, who has a tiny but extremely memorable part in the ‘find hookers for the casino in Freeside’ quest, just for being a (potential) ghoul cowboy dominatrix who likes to have a good time and believes that ‘good times’ are a full-contact sport. Like. She’s pretty damn memorable.

But there is, at least in the three games I’ve played, a bit of a dearth of full-questline-attached, batshit-shenanigans-ahead lady ghouls, and that’s another thing I could wish changed. Heh.

But yeah. Ghouls are some of the best characters in these games, and they definitely have some of the best quests attached to them too. And a lot of them will break your heart as well. Heh.

I do love this universe. A lot.

[super-duper-mart]

two characters who reminder me of each other r gob from fo3 n kent connolly from fo4.

they’re both so fucking adorable i just cant help but love them. they just want to be taken seriously n appreciated n i have to respect that.

i so wish gob had a quest line n i wish we could tell gob that carol from the underworld said hello:(

[radioactivism]

Characters in FO3 that i would retroactively give Confirmed Bachelor/Cherchez La Femme interactions to

Butch Deloria - this one seems obvious and that's bc it is

Amata (duh)

Lucy West

Leo Stahl

Billy Creel (megaton is full of homosexuals what can i say)

Diego (catholic guilt)

Simone Cameron (would let you into the temple of the union)

Snowflake (aging zaddy)

Michael Masters

Uncle Leo (rejects advances; gay elder)

Sierra Petrovita (oblivious to advances)

Red

Paladin Cross but i dont know if i even have to specify that

Same w/ Flak and Shrapnel and Carol and Greta. and sydney. there are more canon gays in fo3 than i remembered

[numberonemoefan]

I'd like to add two Alive Wife Gals, which I found recently;

Greta & Carol [FO3, Underworld]

Dr. Duff & Prof. Scars [FO4, Science! Center in Diamond City]

was talking to my boyfriend last night about the severe abundance of Dead Wife Guys™ in fallout, and I've come to the hypothesis that for a straight man in the fallout universe, proposing is actually an act of severe hatred. mf is decreasing her expected lifespan by at least 30 years

I was also only able to come up with two married couples where one isn't dead, [the older couple in vault 81 in fo4, and the older couple in novac in fnv] do y'all know any more?

[lem0nicle]

the fallout (ghoul) brainrot never ends

enjoy yet another one of my low effort (and quality for that matter) fallout shitposts

i tried to include some of the more known ghouls, sorry if your favourite isn't among them😅

edit: i would like to do a second part (or ill just keep updating this version), so if theres some ghouls youd like to see there, please let me know! :)

EDIT 2: a new updated version is here !! :D

[shitty-fallout-art]

Can I get headacanons for how the companions (FO4) and ghouls (FO3) will propose?

for you, of course.

Extravagate measures, only the best for the happiest moment of both of your lives. Plans months, maybe even years in advance. An entire day is spent leading up to the moment, and its that drive to commit to every little detail that shows them that you are the one for them:

-Hancock, Snowflake, Codsworth, Tulip, Greta, Deacon.

More on the casual side of bringing it up beforehand and emphasizing the trust between you two rather than the romantism in the action. Perhaps a bit more on the traditional side. Estimated to happen but still a nice surprise when it does:

-Curie, Maccready, Carol, Doc Barrows, Gob, Nick Valentine, Piper, Winthrop.

Very much a serious and preplanned discussion between you too. No just asking out of the blue for your hand in marriage, but spending a very long time talking about yourselves and your wants and your possible future together. It might sound boring on paper, but its most honest and tender you've ever been with each other, and its a conversation that builds your relationship up stronger than ever:

-Danse, Charon, X6-88, Strong, Cait, Longfellow, Preston, Willow, Crowley.

Spur of the moment. The flames are hot and they are addicted to it. They never wanted something so much and so badly, and it can be very early or very late into your relationship when they ask. Its impulsive and raw, but they aren't doing it out of foolishness. They feel something strong and want it to come to fruition as soon as possible:

-Cait, Ahzrukhal, Quinn, Patchwork, Nurse Graves.

[flappingpussylips]

your tags on the fallout post made me reinstall fo3 btw

yesss carol and her little lezzie ghoul hotel are so inspirational. literally my favorite part of the entire game. I replayed in 2022 I think and finally did the DLCs for the first time. it's rough tho because the game has so many issues on pc but after i got them fixed it was smooth sailing. I hope you enjoy your playthrough c: the history museum is such a good part of the game

[ddlockk]

it happens with other fo3 and nv ghouls too like carol 🥹

mfw i just searched fallout 3 gob and google automatically blurred pictures of his face assuming it's Not Safe Content

poor bastard

[eemamminy-art]

fallout 3 doodle page since we've been replaying it lately