#nick diamond

[archerygun]

A really old drawing (excuse it being absolutely shite) I did of Nick Diamond and Alex Rider after reading the first couple of Alex Rider books in school (grew up with Diamond Brothers, had only just started Alex Rider when I drew this. Don’t ask me why man I really don’t know).

The treatment of Alex and Nick by the British secret service is just fucking hilarious to me. With Alex they’re like “Oh… he’s 14. This has to be immoral… but it’s the only choice!” and meanwhile they straight up use Nick (who might even be 13 in this incident because I don’t remember where he ages up lmao) as bait for one of the world’s most dangerous assassins with an established kill streak after abandoning him and his brother in the Netherlands.

It’s also so funny going into Alex Rider after the Diamond Brothers because Alex is actually capable of fighting back. Like he’s actually fit. He can run. And fight. Nick Diamond could never. Poor boy only gets fed properly like three times a week, he’s malnourished. (Although he’s also kinda batshit unhinged so he does have that going for him).

I think they’d have an epic partnership though if Nick ever gets entangled in MI6 bullshit again (quite likely).

Maybe I should redraw this ngl.

[j-allen-art-design]

"Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing."

A little late for Fallout Day but I fancied making a Nick Valentine artwork, embracing the Noir style for the synth detective. Enjoy!

[undergroundrockpress]

Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks in 1977.

Photograph: Rick Diamond

[artbyblastweave]

Another thing I found odd about Fallout 4's writing is that when you first encounter Nick Valentine, you meet him in the middle of a showdown with Skinny Malone, a gangster who's written as a habitual opponent of his, someone who he's been playing cops-and-robbers with for years. This is most likely an attempt to shore up the impression of Nick as the Quintessential Noir Detective- you've blundered into the middle of an episode of the Nick Valentine Show, he does stuff like this all the time. But the thing is that Fallout- and east-coast Fallout in particular- is a setting that has a hard time plausibly giving rise to a friendly-enemy cops-and-robbers dynamic, for basically the same reason that Marvel has always had a hard time establishing a persistent rogues gallery for Frank Castle.

[weeewooobitsfallout]

remember how Dina casually drops that there is a 70% chance you are a synth?

AND THEN NO ONE EVER MENTIONED IT AGAIN?????

[constablequodo]

I keep seeing the trope of "Hancock met Nick as a teenager" in Valencock fics which....huh???

We don't know when Hancock moved to Diamond City , he wasn't born there and theres a big chance he moved there well into his 20s. If we're going off of the fandoms general idea that hes in his 30s-40s, he could have been any age between 18-40 depending on how long you think he was there for before his brotjer became mayor.

I like Valencock, I really do, but why did yall find a way to make it weird???

[kamiyae]

this has nothing to do with my blog but i felt inspired to share pictures of Nick Valentine sitting in places/doing things he really shouldn’t be.

[randomraytrash]

[musicandoldmovies]

Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks by Rick Diamond

[sevenheven7011]

Nick is complicated cause he doesn't fall under acab to me because while he has prewar cop Nick's memories he chose a completely different path by being a private eye

But on the other hand there's copaganda in his writing with how he views prewar nick and his morals

Bethesda could've made a interesting thing by having nick slowly come out of this idealization of the police force and realize how corrupt that system and by extension diamond city security is

And that could've served as a way to further differentiate him from prewar Nick

Also they could've made the eddie winter thing about actually revenge instead of turning around and going justice✨️

[haischaper]

Unfortunately didn’t finish this around TDOV but I still wanted to post it! So happy (very late) TDOV!

[onemorecupofcoffee]

[tilbageidanmark]

[stoat-party]

A post-Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing mayoral election would be so funny, and I think the best outcome is that Piper runs Nick’s entire campaign without his agreement and he wins.

[weeewooobitsfallout]

[xxadvictoriamxx]

Nick: stay safe out there. hopefully I’ll see you come back with your kid

Nick, a month later: WHERE WERE YOU? WHAT WERE YOU DOING? WHERE’S YOUR KID??

Sole: huh? Oh yeah right— I have Kellogg’s brain— I think. I’m not sure. I fought a Deathclaw in a hospital, joined some super secret spies, toured a blimp… oh yeah! I’m married!