#it was the fallout maybe

[lemongogo]

life of regret

[eupheme]

ghoul of the week

[t00thpasteface]

best friends forever

[somethingaboutmint]

Out of context "we should do heroin" hancock friday

[jingle-jangle-spurs]

Robert House watching The Courier rip all the copper wiring out the walls of the Lucky 38

[wesleysniperking]

Water 7 always needs that second watch for people to understand Usopp's side of things...and a bit of growing up.

Scrolling the Usopp tag feeling some type of way because all of us saw Usopp for what he was in water 7: desperate for someone to listen, desperate for someone to make him understand.

I won’t ever be able to put into words how much I understand why Usopp fought Luffy, why he so willingly disrespected his captain and left the crew, but I do. Ugh Usopp standing his ground was the first step to him being a stronger man, and what a step.

Ok that’s all water 7 will forever like rent free in my mind because of franky and Usopp specifically.

(Really I’m seeing a lot of the change Usopp put in during that time fr. He’s a grown ass man and I’m cryinggggggg over him at this point in dressrosa. Just ugh. Usopp is that bitch fr.)

[sakom75]

I saw FNV was trending due to the show, so ... i went a little crazy

[refinedstorage]

The Calypso Inn, ca. 2161 AD ☢

[lelelego]

eli got a new gun! and also an outfit reference update because i was getting frustrated with inconsistencies in his jacket :^D

[alanide-arts]

Felt like drawing them again 😔

[atomicowboy]

the house always wins….

[ghirahimbo]

evil time loop escape conditions where you can't get out until you've fuucked up your life in the most spectacular way possible, confident that the next night will reset the slate as usual.

instead, the next day comes.

[melodyoffire]

“you can’t ship lucy mcclean with a homicidal ghoul” may i introduce you to a little game called fallout 4

[earwig5]

it’s kind of crazy that both fallout new Vegas and fallout 4 have the same driving force for the first half of the narrative (find the guy who wronged you and make him pay) but Benny is so much more memorable and narratively interesting than Kellogg.

It’s a matter of a strong character foil versus a weak one, in my opinion.

Benny and the courier are very much alike. They are both ambitious people who are willing to do anything possible to stack the odds in their favour. Honestly, Benny and the courier are the same card, reversed.

The Sole Survivor and Kellogg are also intended to be character foils. The game tries to convince us of this with the scenes in Kellogg’s mind, where we see that he ‘isn’t so different’ from our protagonist after all. But we don’t know anything about Kellogg other than his backstory. How can he parallel the protagonist if we don’t know which traits he has? Which traits the two of them share?

(As a side note, I wish Fallout 4 had touched way more on the ‘Man/Woman Out of Time’ thing. The protagonist being frozen in the past + Kellogg being functionally immortal would’ve been really cool to explore! Especially in the context of grief!)

In the end, I think the reason Benny is a more powerful character foil is that he doesn’t disappear from the world when you kill him. The chairmen can mourn him, House will comment on it, and even NPCs across the Mojave will talk about Benny’s death!

In Kellogg’s case, the protagonist is basically the only person who knows he even existed! Once he’s dead HE’s DEAD! He disappears completely from the narrative! As soon as you leave fort Hagen, the game doesn’t bother looking back.

that’s why Benny is a more haunting force for new Vegas; particularly an independent courier. You are Benny’s legacy because you are what he leaves behind whether he likes it or not. People remember him as the couriers victim. Meanwhile, nobody remembers Kellogg at all. The memory of who Kellogg was dies with you, and you can choose to forget him.

[loneleeghost]

ok so... i have this headcanon...

[gauntletqueen]

When a non-horror game has a horror section, I often find it a little more effective or memorable than a full-on horror title's horror, in a way. I think that's because, for characters in fiction, they usually don't know they're about to experience a horror story, so they aren't mentally prepared at all. As the audience, we know that when we boot up Silent Hill, we're gonna see some scary stuff and can mentally prepare accordingly. But when some innocuous children's platformer or RPG or whatever suddenly throws genuine horror elements at me, I'm taken out of my comfort zone much more roughly since I don't expect it at all. I think that's neat :>