#i figure he would suuuck as a dad although he would be in a better position w the dead horses

[nerdkiller]

Ughhh i want to talk about my story idea for a Legion/Malpais Legate lore extension type thing that came to me in a dream awhile ago so. Under the cut for those interested in Joshua Graham hetero divorce backstory. Baptized once in water and once in flame // divorced once gay and once straight

Basically if the Courier goes deep into Legion territory they can find a mansion/resort that is guarded with some Praetorians seemingly in the middle of nowhere and an unidentified aristocratic lady & 2 preteen/early teenaged sons who are just the worst and hate each other. And you can figure out her identity via context clues and learn that she was Joshua Graham's spouse during his time during the Legion. They've been living at this location for the last 4-5 years waiting to see what Caesar wants to do with them (maybe he's using them as bait in the future, is/was grooming the sons to be heirs, just doesn't want to sever the last connection he has to Joshua in his possession, wants to make the sons kill each other in the gladiator ring for his sadistic pleasure, idk). Either way Caesar is sick & Lanius would kill them if he could.

You can choose to rescue them and take them to New Canaan. They don't know much about it except it's Joshua's hometown and free of the Legion or the NCR. Philippa, the wife, never had much of a bond w Joshua and was also basically a lifelong slave of the Legion, but was one of the first to be born via the Legion's tribal mixing practice, to a high-ranking officer, hence why she was chosen for the Malpais by Caesar. So she was married off at 18 & is half Joshua's age, and is around 34-35 when you meet her. She doesn't have survival skills or combat experience due to her upbringing and what skills her sons have is limited so it's hard keeping them all alive on the journey

As the player character you can enable her confidence or you can just treat her like crap or refuse to let her grow her own skills bc she's difficult to keep alive. Her sons are also incredibly militaristic and kinda want to actually kill each other due to Caesar's grooming. Once they get into New Canaan your party meets Daniel who remembers you & sends a very skeptic word out to Joshua. When he arrives you can either help encourage her to stay with her sons in New Canaan and convert to their lifestyle while Josh hangs out with the Dead Horses and expertly avoids responsibility OR she can be independent/travel with a caravan under a new identity and see the world while Josh has to take the sons to Dead Horse Point and fix them somehow because they are still very brainwashed. And they negotiate some alternating custody agreement

Super secret ending is that because so many NCR ex soldiers and allies are travelling to New Canaan and gaining influence there, possibly due to having a massive role in rebuilding what little is left after the massacre: if the family is still in New Canaan by the end they get spotted and are either captured by the NCR for their association with Joshua or forced on the run again/hunted down by remnants of the Legion & Joshua is further alienated as the New Canaanites have to distance themselves for their own safety