#oc: tiberius sallow

[decennia]

THE SALLOW–MCLAGGENS

chris evans & sean bean as tiberius mclaggen (né sallow)

elizabeth gillies & angelina jolie as adolpha mclaggen

dacre montgomery as caden mclaggen

hunter schafer as ives mclaggen

[meatcrimes]

so i finally finished The Frontier. here’s my final thoughts:

new vegas runs so much faster and smoother since uninstalling the frontier and all related hotfixes

i will say one positive thing about this mod and it’s the sheer variety of different items in the world. not just the guns, but the consumables, workbench & campfire recipes, combining consumables to make healing items that are on par with the wasteland omelette or fiend stew.

i know this mod was being developed before fallout 4 was released but this would have been so much better, from a technical standpoint and from a story standpoint, if this were a fallout 4 mod. if this was essentially a Where Are They Now mod that explored what the ncr/legion/bos did following the second battle of hoover dam, this would have been a better story. for example, legate valerius becoming the next Caesar after the deaths of Edward Sallow and Legate Lanius and how the changes he implemented made the legion almost unrecognizable

speaking of legion, i played the legion quest line and most of the crusaders quest line so these are all opinions from that perspective

the de-fanging of the legion was disappointing. i wanted to play with the villain faction, or at least a morally gray faction who is no better than the other choices. the legion could still be evil even with the “liberal” valerius in charge. the ending where the northern legion abolished slavery, gave women equal rights and power, and allowed modern technology was disappointing because they were clearly trying to remove a lot of what made the legion evil in the first place. a “liberal” legion that, for example, uses slavery as a punishment for crimes that you’re freed from when your sentence is up, is still evil and still villainous

or a legion that allowed women to have limited roles as priestesses, doctors and frumentaria (which i hc that the mainland legion is already doing but wtvr). that could have been what the “liberal” new caesar has done while still maintaining the legion’s misogyny

SPEAKING OF WHICH. legate valerius had an epiphany and supported women’s equality when his daughters were born which is unintentionally hilarious because that’s how a lot of real life men start caring about women’s issues

the mission where you have to kill a slaver and when you get to her you find she’s already been captured by other slavers. and how that was the end of the quest. and you lost karma for killing her or setting her free. there’s a lot to unpack here but let’s just set the whole suitcase on fire

also the indigenous coded tribe that was wiped out by an STD. yeah. not over that

and the Followers doctor who knowingly gave the courier a blood transfusion from someone with syphilis

the other followers doctor, Welick, who blamed all of his problems in life on arcade gannon

(from subtext we can gather that Arcade exposed illegal/unethical things Welick was doing and the reason everyone “had arcade fever” was just them acknowledging that Welick was wrong. and the reason he “left” the followers is that he was actually kicked out. welick is an unreliable narrator but i’m willing to bet 35 bottle caps and a wrinkly $5 NCR bill that most of the players did not pick up on that)

scrapz my beloved ❤️

seriously scrapz was the highlight of this mod. you know that post that’s like “when you know you can do a canon character better so you just steal them and make them your oc”? that’s what i wanna do with scrapz. he deserved a better mod

also… the fact that we can flirt with scrapz with a black widow check (and i think confirmed bachelor too but i am not replaying this mod in order to see) and he openly admits to being horny on main for humans (paraphrased, but honestly tell me that doesn’t sound like a real line from this mod) and yet we can’t have sex with him!??

he clearly has advanced enough AI to give him the ability to consent, since he leaves the player if you get too far in the crusaders quest line (and i assume ncr too but once again. not replaying to check). we can fuck the chem-obsessed Argonian queen. we can fuck a deathclaw. but we can’t fuck a robot despite being able to have sex with FISTO in the base game

the entire Dr Voss quest. i’m still not sure what that was. it’s just a blur of blood sewers, finding keys, and increasingly incomprehensible notes

when callidus revealed AJ was his sister and he didn’t want you to kill her but capture her and reunite them. and then i killed her anyway because it’s what she would have wanted, between death and the legion

“you prevented silus from being interrogated” x103

the weird romance-but-not between legate valerius and the courier. like he lets you sleep in his bed for a well rested bonus, his personal quest is called I Was Made For Loving You, his weird protectiveness of the courier, and of course that unintentionally erotic interrogation scene. and near the beginning i swear there was dialogue with him that was like “you were out cold for days, but I never left your side. it looked like you weren’t going to pull through, but I ordered my men to spare no expense to ensure you recovered. i tended to most of your wounds myself, working late into the night to set your broken bones and repair your torn ligaments” etc etc you get the point

the NCR commander named Tiberius Rancor who no one suspected was a legion plant

the radioactive super mutants that had a melee weapon called Kitchen Sink and it literally was a whole entire kitchen sink ripped from a building. and the courier couldn’t use it

the repair tool for the cars in the game but when you used it, it kept giving you the achievement for knocking down enemies so it was basically a source of infinite xp

the fucking space enclave. the enclave, in space. they never were defeated by the chosen one or the lone wanderer, they just fled to outer fucking space for some reason

the cannibal ice ghouls with 3500 hit points. you know what i mean. the fact that this mod was set way too far south to be seeing them, and basically did nothing accurate to the mythology at all except that they were cannibals, and didn’t even pluralize the word correctly. i understand this was probably inspired by fallout 76 but 76 should not have had those creatures either

in conclusion: i was determined to finish this mod and i’m glad i can say i did, but was it worth it? was it really worth it? no

[decennia]

The Mulciber–Macdonald Incident of 1975

Mary wished she’d never said it. Maybe then, Cassius Mulciber wouldn’t have found her, wouldn’t have come for her with all the vehemence of his blood prejudices.

It was stupid; they’d been in Defence Against the Dark Arts, and of course, James has started running his mouth again. Saying how much he couldn’t wait to graduate, get out there, take on You-Know-Who with his bare hands. He was young and arrogant – he hadn’t yet tasted war. He didn’t know yet of the prices he’d have to pay, of the losses he’d mourn.

Mary, of course, had grown sick of the war talk. That was to be expected. She was muggleborn; it was people like her that were being hunted. And it was all well and noble of Potter to want to fight back, but Mary was done with it.

She hadn’t been expecting anyone else to have heard her; but two had: Cassius Mulciber and Bellatrix Black. Two of the people it unwittingly and unknowingly concerned, two of the people she wished to never see again after it had happened.

Mulciber was unapologetic. For in the words of Emperor Caligula – let them hate; as long as they fear.

[decennia]

socorro sallow rosier + family

The world is a dangerous place.

She returned home, dressed in blood. Stiff. Cold. Colder than she'd ever been. Ichabod got what he wanted. The monster he'd created had no kindness in her anymore. And five days later, she was wed to Evan Rosier and his pureblood beliefs. Cora Sallow was dead, and Socorro Rosier had taken her place. When she knelt to the Dark Lord, she knew it was wrong. She knew she was wrong, had become something wrong. It didn't stop her from sinking to her knees and allowing that cursed oath – signing away her fickle allegiance and what remained of her soul to the darkest wizard of all time – to slip from her tongue.

Yes, the world is a dangerous place. And Socorro Grace Sallow Rosier is one of the reasons why.

a/n: under the cut is the entire blurb on socorro's family history. however, it does deal with quite mature and triggering themes, so please read at your own discretion.

tw: assault

The world is a dangerous place.

Rosalind Sallow learned this on one summer evening, when she was alone, in the Sallow Manor upon the hill in Falmouth, West Country. Her parents had already passed, and she was in the care of her brother, Ichabod – who had been away for business, his date of return unspecified.

Rosalind had always been a rather unfortunate, frail, sickly creature, in tandem with being a squib – and could not defend herself against the muggle who entered her home, cruel intentions rattling around in his skull. Nine months later – when business was concluded and Lavinia Avery was finally Lavinia Sallow – Ichabod returned home to find his dear sister, a squalling half-blood babe in her arms. She was on the verge of death, a name on her lips – Socorro – before she grew still, dead before her time.

Cora had been a mistake; Ichabod and Lavinia never failed to remind her of it. Raised in his house under the guise of his illegitimate daughter, Ichabod's favour always rested with her "brother": his pureblood son, Tiberius, who bore the proud name of an emperor, testament to Ichabod's adoration. The name Socorro tasted bitter on her tongue in comparison.

She never hated muggles and muggleborns like her family did. She was uncommonly kind for a Sallow – an enduring ghost of Rosalind, one that Ichabod simply could not suffer any longer – and her family sought to tear it from her. The world could not only be dangerous, but cruel, too.

The truth broke her – her whole world and life having been built on a lie. And Rosalind Sallow's vengeance came in the form of Socorro.

He had begged for his life, of course. But her father – her real father, the cowering pathetic scum he was – was granted the same mercy her mother was. Simply put; he was granted none. She tore him apart, and found herself unflinching.

She returned home, dressed in blood. Stiff. Cold. Colder than she'd ever been. Ichabod got what he wanted. The monster he'd created had no kindness in her anymore. And five days later, she was wed to Evan Rosier and his pureblood beliefs. When she knelt to the Dark Lord, she knew it was wrong. She knew she was wrong, had become something wrong. It didn't stop her from sinking to her knees and allowing that cursed oath to slip from her tongue.

Yes, the world is a dangerous place. And Socorro Grace Sallow Rosier is one of the reasons why.