#my problem with the 'Sole is laughing soldier from the F01 intro' is mostly because it was presented as this like. fu. fact | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

media-illiterate · 9 months ago

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Remember! In the fallout timeline, the UN stopped existing in the 2050s, and whatever semblance of "international law" existed went with them.

my last conversation before getting banned from nukapedia was getting screamed out of the room for saying i just assumed the Sole Survivor was a war criminal because he was an american soldier

#like. the US barely pays lip service to the geneva conventions RIGHT NOW. do you really think they'd give a fuck without anyone to get mad?#its a safe assumption that the average soldier did some things that would brand them a war criminal in todays world #even if they were just keeping their heads down and doing the bare minimum to survive #my problem with the 'Sole is laughing soldier from the F01 intro' is mostly because it was presented as this like. fu. fact #the tone was very very wrong for the subject matter. he thought it was a fun cool thing that the main character was a war criminal #oh also my source for the UN ceasing to exist is the fallout world bible. its at least INTENDED to be canon.#or like. the basis canon was built off of #anyway i do not trust bethesda to write a nuanced portrayal of any of this subject matter so...

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