#joshua graham mentioned

[idle-skull]

“Pray with me”

Self indulgent homoerotic, unspoken OC x Canon with christian undertones

[brightfiction]

This has been my after work project for a week or so now. Wanted to make a tarot card for my favorite goody two shoes courier, Evie, and Joshua. Where my courier/joshua shippers at?!

[laniusbignaturals]

Honest Hearts is by and large not a funny DLC but I get a chuckle out of the part where Joshua goes “He (*a prominent member of a tribal culture completely alien to mine) has fashioned himself an abomination before the eyes of the Lord (*the Mormon god, which he, once again, does not recognize at all.) I'm happy to serve as an instrument of divine justice (*by reviving the mass rape and murder campaign that I spent the past three decades orchestrating which, incidentally, was exactly what forced cultures like his into decline in the first place.)”

[x688plsloveme]

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones

This was to fulfill a couple prompts for whumptober, but some things happened in October and well... I just finished it. I’ll keep posting the rest of the fics/reacts that I did for whumptober as I finish them ^^

Theresea could count the number of regrets she has on one hand. Today, she'll add another.

Watching as Joshua Graham ruthlessly murders the White Legs makes her wish she sided with Daniel instead.

See, there's a difference between killing someone and murdering them. It's all about your heart posture. In war, killing happens all the time. Soldiers are ordered about like mindless drones and they have no choice but to obey. Even God's soldiers held no resentment for their victims.

Jesus once said that simply holding anger in your heart for somebody else was the same as murder in the Lord's eyes.

Now. Rese didn't know if Joshua's bible was the same as the one she was forced to read growing up, but even if that part wasn't, no one could say that what he was doing didn't constitute murder.

She could tell he was a hypocrite sure, but even she believed him for a split second when he said getting rid of the White Legs was seen as just a chore for him. Seeing him emotionless as he took life after life would've been preferable to this.

Based on what he told her, he should've even been remorseful with every kill, yet it was far from that. His words may have reflected such an emotion, but it was completely juxtaposed by the sheer joy he emitted with blood on his hands.

The glint in his eyes as he lands every shot. Blood spraying all around them. Rese barely has to lift a finger.

His focus as he shoves a woman's head underwater. He doesn't so much as twitch when the woman claws at him to try and regain her breath. Doesn't blink twice at her bloodshot eyes and sputtering mouth as he drags her head out just to shove it back in again. Every time she thinks he's going to stop, he does it again. And again. And again.

Rese tries her best to stay still, to stay uncaring, but it's getting to be too much. The woman barely has enough time to cry out to her gods before she gets shoved back under. Before Rese realizes it, she's wringing out her hands in a way she hasn't done since she was a child. She scowls and forces herself still once more.

Finally, she can't stand the sound of her crying anymore and yells, "Joshua!"

This snaps him out of his... trance or whatever that was. He stands up and puts a bullet in her skull.

He averts his eyes. "I was simply... trying to gather information."

Neither of them is stupid enough to pretend that he said a word the whole time or that he gave the woman more than a second to breathe, let alone speak.

Thankfully, Rese knew when to keep her mouth shut.

Of course, that wasn't the end of it. His eagerness is downright terrifying as he crushes a young teenager's skull against a rock, a sickening crunch is heard and when Rese opens her eyes, his boot is covered in blood and brain goo.

Her stomach churns at the sight and she's reminded of something he said before. Something about being happy and dashing little ones against the stone?

He looks at it distastefully, like his shoes getting brain matter on them was more of an inconvenience than anything. Rese, on the other hand, was trying not to audibly gag.

She regrets it the most when they get to the end and she has to be right next to him and witness his treatment of Salt Upon Wounds up close. Sure, the guy was one of the worst, but even he deserves a quick death. Joshua just keeps hitting him and hitting him and hitting him after every question. Like an afterthought. Like he was used to giving prisoners such brutality.

She frowns.

How could a man who wished to escape his past, act as if he never left it? It doesn't make sense. She winces at his final hit before letting her speak.

Salt Upon Wounds immediately starts begging for his life. He says Joshua is mad, brutal, evil. She agrees with every point and would have said so if the aforementioned man wasn't observing her so closely. She feels sorry for the poor bastard, but she's more fearful of Joshua than whatever bad karma this would grant her.

She wears a mask of indifference as she looks at Joshua and says, "Kill him."

He smiles. She couldn't see it under his bandages, but she could tell. Her mask almost slips with the amount of disgust she holds for him.

She looks at her nails as screams are heard and abruptly cut short.

Joshua walks up to her, pats her on the shoulder, and says, "Now let's get you out of here."

Rese commends herself for not shivering at his touch and smiles for the first time since this battle started, sweet and saccharine. "Yes please."

She couldn't wait to get away from this psycho.

[themosttenderestofbees]

hello white fallout new vegas fan. I want to play a game. in front of you is a native american. they are going to list their grievances with the honest hearts dlc. you have to listen without interrupting to justify the writing decisions made by the creators. fail to do this or mention the quality of joshua graham's character writing and the bomb collar around your neck will detonate, just like in the hit game fallout new vegas. live or die the choice is yours

[melonmortis]

Okay I meant to add a little essay under this but only remembered to do it now lmao:

Story wise, Joshua does come across as the more terrifying man. A refusal to die even when going through one of the most painful outcomes of a botched execution, surviving solely off of spite. His stats are also intimidating, 10 Endurance, a man that won’t go down easily and a 75-100 in Guns meaning he’s very skilled with a firearm.

Comparing that to Caesar, a guy who sits on his ass all day with his highest stat being a 6 in both Strength and Endurance (has 100 in Guns, Melee and Unarmed, but Guns is ultimately useless. Melee and Unarmed would be impressive were it not him needing an entire guard around him at all times for “safety reasons”.)

However, beyond the in game symbolism and story potential of Graham, I find Caesar in a real world sense to be a scarier as he’s, well…more realistic.

Taking a look at especially modern day dictators, you don’t see men like Lanius, giant blood thirsty monsters in the literal sense. No, you see slowly dying, hypocritical old men, that allow war and all atrocities that come with it to take place in their name.

When you look at “male influencer” types, you don’t see smooth and suave characters like Vulpes talking to impressionable young men. No, you see loud, irritating men who spout pseudo intellectual bullshit that they don’t even understand to have a following.

Joshua can/has, arguably, fallen into this category (this comes from brain dead Redditors and the like using Joshua as a sort of alpha male influencer and completely looking over why “killing when done righteously is a chore like any other” Graham and “a little r*pe here and there” Sallow were the perfect combination for each other. (also a problem with Honest Hearts being racist and how else are some supposed to read it but that’s a story for another time lol)).

At the end of the day, however, when Joshua was backed into a wall, did anybody seem to defend him? Stand up for him? No. Caesar wanted him gone, and everybody under Joshua just followed and listened to their god, owner, and father.

Something something I find Caesar to be a much scarier person than Joshua could ever really be send tweet

[nukacourier]

Hate that you can't even mention how Honest Hearts and especially Joshua Graham being idolized and posted about uncritically by the fandom basically opened a door for racist Christian nutjobs to start feeling more accepted in the fandom when they used to be less of an issue due to NV being seen as the "queer fallout game" till Joshua became a fan favorite without hearing "let people enjoy things!!"

[new-vegas-radio]

No no but on the very thin chance they have a Joshua Graham cameo in Fallout Prime season 2 I would lose my ever living MIND. I would be frothing at the MOUTH. I would die RIGHT THEN AND THERE.

Even if they just casually mention that Some Guy is making trouble for some leftover legionaries while the gang is in New Vegas I will pause the show and proceed to make dying creature noises, ya’ll don’t even KNOW

[finely-arts]

Cannon Fallout Facts That are Wild:

Tw// Mention of Sucide

▪︎ Charon knows or is aware of the Beatles

▪︎ Charon is almost as tall as Legate Lanius

▪︎ Danse Loves it if you convince Virgil he should die, but only Dislikes Cannibalism

▪︎ Arcade Gannon's father's name was supposed to be Mark, and Arcade's middle name is Isreal

▪︎ The Lone Wanderer's Cannon birthday is July 13, making them a cancer

▪︎ You were supposed to kill your father in the og plot of bethesda's Fallout 3.

▪︎ There were supposed to be 12 neighborhoods in D.C. before being cut down.

▪︎ Joshua Graham was originally the Hanged Man in Fallout Van Burean, and you were supposed to find him tied up, hung by the neck.

▪︎ The sla'anter are a cut race of raccoon people.

▪︎ The Courier can be unaware of what fish are.

▪︎ Fallout 2 was the first game to include gay marriage (getting married in the game actually sucks though)

▪︎ There is a cut perk in Fallout 2 that indicates that you start the game as a virgin

[lak3sinstilln3ss]

Okay but if The burned man is guy Fawkes then I think a reasonable argument could be made that an Independent Courier could be V

My bizarre Ceaser’s Legion headcanon thing:

JOSHUA GRAHAM IS GUY FAWKES FOR THE LEGION

‘Remember remember the fifth of November

Burning, failure and plot

I see no reason why the Burned Man’s treason

Should ever be forgot’

^ that is what the soldiers mean when they say the slaves are talking about the burned man again.

(Context- Okay so he’s a guy who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. He was in a group of 13 but he was the one tasked with blowing it up. He failed, and was hung drawn and quartered (standard way to kill traitors to the crown back then) And we celebrate ‘Bonfire Night’ (5th November) where we burn a ‘Guy’ a thing made to resemble a human to sorta represent that)

They have a big event on the day of the 1st battle of Hoover damn annually to celebrate, like how we do (for Mr Fawkes on 5th November)

Basically Guy Fawkes is a weirdly good way to think of Joshua: Joshua when a legion/ex legion courier approaches him and is like “omg!” And recites that rhyme at him and is like “we burn your body every year to celebrate”

Joshua’s life becoming a legacy/myth that the Legion burn efficacies of him to celebrate his death and the slaves whisper about how he will save them each year

I have more thoughts on this also but they’re for a later date

[malwaredykes]

To: LUCKY 38 PRESIDENTIAL SUITE TERMINAL

From: Leigh Stasik

Subject: BIG DAMN BUGS

Hi there everybody!

So, it's day 5, and Joshua Graham continues to get on my nerves. I've received a lot of clear signals that the feeling is, of course, mutual. I don't think he's very happy about what I've been doing—or, more accurately, what I haven't been doing. Because he really, really wants to put me to work, in the sense that I'm to run errands for him, and I don't wanna do that. He doesn't agree to help me find a way back home, though, until I help him resolve his business. This, indeed, is a very unsatisfactory situation, as I am essentially being held hostage by the man, and I'm not pleased about him trying to act all kind and compassionate about it. I think he thinks he's doing me a great favor by “humoring” my “condition” (hahaha!) insofar as he hasn't gotten outwardly mean or violent about it. He's a hateful little man, quite homogeneously so with the Legion past of his that he claims he has long since abandoned and healed from. I in turn feel rather hateful whenever I have to listen to him go on and on about the love burning within and without him… Love for what? Vapid goof. Disgusting. I'd mess with him more, but I don't want to upset people here. But oh, how I want to mess with him. At least I know that if he tries to harm me, he won't last very long. I sure do love to hurt those who think themselves indestructible. Am I right? Who's with me?

I went out into the valley with Waking Cloud today, to disarm some traps set up by the White Legs on one of the bridges. She's so sweet! Not going to lie, I'm still a little surprised I managed to make friends here; it's not like I was going out of my way, as I had my own tasks to tend to, and didn't want to bother anyone.

But, anyway. Around noon the sun got reeeeaally harsh, so we decided to sit in the shade for a little while, right by the river, dipping our legs in the water. There's something about the smell of fresh flowing water, right above its surface, when the sun and the heat pull vapor out of it. We talked about a bunch of things. I think I've mentioned this already, but she's a midwife; we discuss medicine a lot, which is fun. She's taught me a lot about local herbs, their properties, and how to get the best results when preparing them. I told her about my hopes for cultivating some of Zion's plants and fungi back in the Mojave. In the end, she asked if perhaps I could stay in Zion. Gosh… What a touching suggestion. But I have family at home! I've got a dog and an eyebot to put through college! But I will return one day, I'm sure. I hope so. Maybe any of y'all wish to come along?

Soooo… We pressed onwards and then I saw them. A small pack of cazadores, nothing unusual for me, though their wings had a yellow tint to it, much paler than the bright orange I'm used to. Cloud was shocked by my nonchalant reaction, how I just pulled out my rifle and got ready to dispatch the creatures if needed, and I didn't understand until one got a little closer. That thing was huge! At least twice the size of the cazadores you'd see in the Mojave! And its chitin was a lot thicker, so it didn't go down with one or two shots. That was crazy. We did manage to hunt down a few, and the two that remained fled. Upon closer inspection, everything about these cazadores was bigger and more messed up. The stinger, the poison glands… Geeze. I wonder if the increased size comes from better air quality. Higher oxygen levels in the atmosphere did cause bugs to evolve larger in prehistoric times. I kinda want to try and make turbo out of these, but I don't think that's wise. I don't have the proper equipment with me to test the precise contents of this venom, and I can't exactly do a taste test. Oh well.

Ronnie-honey, aside from the surprise gift I can't wait to show you, I have a few mechanical tchotchkes for you to take a look at when I get back. You might be able to make sense of them, because I sure can't. I pulled one of them out of this airplane wreck I stumbled across. Well, you'll see.

Raul, Cloud gave me this recipe for agave candy that she makes for her kids. It takes time to prepare, but it's genius. I am so making it for you. And that's final. No ifs or buts. I mean, I'm gonna make it for everyone, but especially you.

Anyway. I need to get a good night's sleep this time. So, write to you later! Love you all! Take care!

Leigh

[idle-skull]

Gently holds his cold hands…

[brightfiction]

Joshua Graham Character AI likes to mention his “piercing blue eyes” all the time. Made me think of this.

[laniusbignaturals]

Also I don't know why but a song I associate with Joshua as the Malpais Legate is "Leviathan" by Dirt Poor Robins. Something about how Malpais means badlands, him having an unhinged moment as seeing himself as a biblical disaster and unholy destroyer.

Well this is certainly White Legs Conflict Coded: Joshua is always remarking on them and their “Great Salt Lake,” and Ulysses characterizes them in similar terms himself, “blood covered ghosts” and such. The other lyrics bring to mind that “vengeful spirit” archetype Siri introduces him as to the player: and you could take the repeated mention of lurking and concealment to allude to Edward’s disallowing of the mere mention of Joshua. Broke bitter bitch.

[hazelsscrimbles]

Do you have a favorite fallout character?

"favorite" uhhhhh... i have a hard time having a favorite in anything honestly lol- but i do have a list:

i have very normy tastes for the most part i wont deny

some honorable mentions:

curie

rex

ada

joshua graham

[couldaromanticismsavethem]

JOSHUA GRAHAM FROM FALLOUT NEW VEGAS

Justification: “Okay maybe I'm crazy thinking that a ex-Legion legate burnt crispy mummy Mormon guy could be aro, but I honestly wanna see what people see when they look at him regardless of if they know him outta the pure chaos

Was he always good? 😅

Is he good now? *Checks wiki* ...Yeah okay, very good karma. Hell, actually... He's the only character with the highest good karma...😳

Does he talk in bible verses a lil too much? Yeah but at least he's not as pushy.

Does he want revenge on the in-game rival tribe because they destroyed his hometown after he returned thus killing his community? Yes, if you let him (I mean in a post nuclear wasteland I would too)

Any romantic mentions? Nope, maybe he's got too much God in him... Or maybe, hear me out... He's aro??

So chat, what do you think? (Btw I don't hate ya if you don't think he is, it's just for the lols) 😚”