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Please tell us about your fallout ocs

This is like my dream ask and I am sitting here asking myself if I should show restraint or if today is finally the day I make my extensive and bullshit fallout oc lore everyone’s problem.

And the answer is you asked for this so I’m about to make it everyone’s problem! (I will do a cut because my god this is going to be VERY long)

For starters as much as I love fallout my favorite thing to do is push the boundaries of “under the right circumstances would this be something that could work in the universe” and I run with it, so if something most things I say sound like they might be a lil out of bounds, I most likely saw something that was barely given any attention and went I can work with this.

BECCA

Let’s start with my main girl, Becca, formerly Rebecca Riley. She was made in a lab using her parents DNA and they were the lead scientists in a program that planned to essentially make super humans to take back the world after the inevitable nuclear war that would wipe the whole planet. They were meant to be hardy to radiation, have a higher strength and intellect and be immune to a variety of diseases. Becca was the first, but before they could study her at length the bombs fell and she was instead chosen to be shipped off to vault 76 while her parents went to a different government vault that was meant to protect some of the most kept secret politicians and scientists of pre war world and allow them to continue to run things in secret. Anyways, Becca was only 3 months old when she entered the vault and kept in a more secluded area of the vault where she could be monitored and influenced to serve the US government and their goals when she would finally exit. Unfortunately for them, Becca wound up being a bit of a trouble maker and very independent, often sneaking off to just hang around and do whatever and go play with other kids and people in the vault and also hang out with the Overseer who she really liked being around. When the vault finally opened and the residents went out into Appalachia, her guardians also leaving her to go do their own thing after dealing her chaotic ass for years, she finally got her first taste of true freedom! And went a lil too crazy with it. After a few months of running around and doing whatever she pleased and trying to find a place to set her camp, she started to notice some changes with her body. Her super human abilities were triggered by the background radiation and her skin started to burn and melt in some areas, and she found herself having random blackouts and waking up in places surrounded by bodies and covered in blood and realizing oh shit, I’m blacking out and eating people. It is important to note that while she is part ghoul, she is not entirely a ghoul, but she was on the verge of going feral when she meets her friends (aka my friends who played the game with me!). Months pass and a good almost half of her face is sliding off but she’s joined a group that although is disgusted that she has to eat people sometimes to stay sane and will gag and give her a hard time in disgust every time she does, they still care for her and stick around for a while and they get to work exploring Appalachia together and trying to find something to help Becca and her bizarre cravings, every now and again splitting off for a few days to do their own thing. Becca eventually meets her brother who was her parents natural born son and not built like she was, and he’s apparently gifted at medicine and food and desperately wants to help her with her problem. He starts with removing her teeth since at this point she wears a gas mask to keep her face covered and her teeth are mostly all falling out and at her request he installs a set of permanent metal sharpened teeth (which made it extra fun for her when she eats firecracker berries). Becca continues to do adventuring with her friends and soon people start entering back into Appalachia as the Scorched are dealt with and her abilities enhance with the help of the mutations introduced into the world from the enclave. Eventually a small government faction shows up and she’s forced into it for a bit, wing told it was because of orders by her mother (who she has never met), and while she is there and constantly trying to escape she meets a guy a year younger then her named Keagan. Keagan gets up to shenanigans with her and they cause a hard time for what is essentially their captors, and eventually they’re like hey, let’s mess around and have sex, Becca was told that she wasn’t fertile so they weren’t worried. A few days later Keagan also confesses that he’s actually just like her, another superhuman who was let out into the world to reclaim it from the normal humans and that he wants to get rid of all of them so they can be the dominant species.

Becca is pretty repulsed by that way of thinking and pushes him very hard on trying to move away from it, saying that between the vault and the time that had passed since she got out and what she’s been through she doesn’t necessarily think there’s anything wrong with normal humans and tries to live as normally ash she can among them and enjoys the world for what it is, both good and bad. She tells Keagan that when they finally get away from the base they’re stuck at he should visit her at her home which is literally a giant house floating between two mountain peaks (yes this is actually based off my 76 camp which sits between the mountain peaks it fucking rocks). Some time passes and Keagan is slowly getting controlling and abusive, and Becca who can’t just go outside and gorge on bodies like she used to, is starting to slip into extreme irritation and aggression, and despite what she was told and what her and Keagan should not have been able to accomplish, she was in fact pregnant, and it was beginning to show. They get into a massive argument, her hunger and emotions finally at their limits, and the fight gets physical. Keagan doesn’t notice at first but the normal humans in the room start to get ill, and then they start to melt. Suddenly Becca’s bones are glowing blue under her skin, her eyes going black with glowing blue dots, and a thick blue mist fills the room coming from her. The Geiger counters are going so crazy they aren’t even clicking, just a constant high pitched scream. Keagan begins to do the same, glowing red and trying to fight her back, but Becca easily overwhelms him, and after a huge blast from her palm he flees. The radiation dies down and her body droops, but it’s taken its toll, more of her is burned and melting. Having killed everyone in the base by radiation alone, tired and hungry she eats them, and trudges home. Her friends came to check on her, surprised to find out she’s pregnant, even more surprised to find out that she is more pregnant then she should be and that they have got to find someone very fast to come help with the delivery, which is now made more complicated because when she is too emotional or under duress she starts to just emit large amounts of radiation. After some talking they decide her brother, a hazmat suit, and a shit ton of Rad-X and rad away would have to do, but until then they’re just gonna keep doing what they have been. When the day finally did come, quite early, her house was a glowing blue beacon on the mountain while her brother fought through countless waves of radiation to deliver Becca’s baby safely. And that is how Ezra, who only ever calls herself Vex, came to be. It wasn’t hard to guess that she shared the same abilities as her parents, not being at all bothered by the mass amounts of rads around her, the already faint burn scar across the side of her face and emitting a faint green glow in her lil bones. Becca was worried at first since she knew strong emotions would trigger Vexs abilities, but Vex was surprisingly a very calm baby, and was comfortable to be bundled up in Becca’s heavily armored backpack when they traveled. A few months passed and Vex was surrounded by people who loved her, she was a bright and happy baby, maybe she would have been a bright and happy person, if Becca did not seriously fuck up.

During a particularly intense battle with some scorch beasts, Becca felt the safest thing to do was hide Vex somewhere until the battle had ended, she checked on her in her backpack, gave her a little kiss on the head, zipped her up, and tossed her in a trash can. That was the last time Becca ever saw Vex, who was snatched away by raiders while the fight was happening. Becca would not see Vex until hundreds of years later outside of Nuka World, standing over her grave, and once at a glance before then. Though their paths overlapped often and they heard of each other, they never knew their relation to each other because Vex had stopped going by Ezra.

She spent the rest of her years in Appalachia searching for Vex, and even reached a breakthrough with her brother and was able to phase out her cannibalistic urges and stop her mind from going feral. The only time she caught a glimpse of Vex was when she had raided a Blood Eagle camp to rescue one of her friends (who had been captured years ago and was taking care of Vex and raising her) and through the lens of her gas mask she caught a glimpse of a kid with snow white hair and glowing green eyes with a burn across her face, but never again did she see her. When Becca finally left, she traveled north as far as she could, saying the cold felt very good on her body and slowed the radiation down from completely melting her body away. She spent many years in radiated winters running her little farm and helping some locals. She would later come to find out that extreme cold slowed her body down enough that she could actually heal some of the burns just a bit (almost like if she sat in cryo for a couple years her body could like, heal itself, wonder if that comes into play at all).

One day Becca wakes up in vault 111 with weird memories of a pre war life and family and nothing else. Her mother was at it again with a new found passion and like every other person with power in the fallout universe she was put into a computer and is determined to get Becca under her thumb, but she also has NO IDEA Vex exists. Her hope was that if they could erase Becca’s memories and give her new ones then maybe she would bend more easily to their ideals, but while altering her memories they noticed a strong maternal… something in her brain that was unwavering and would not go away, so rather then trying to remove it they just replaced it with shaun, who was informed of everything and knew the whole time (my personal take on why he seems so detached from your character anyways) and was trying to help Becca’s mother control her.

So Becca wakes up in vault 111, finds a mirror, freaks the fuck out because her body has almost entirely put itself back together after half of it was practically falling off and her jaw was starting to expose, and now she looks normal with some slight scarring. She can’t point out why but she is freaked out. She ALSO has her metal teeth still, she cant regrow her teeth, why they left them there she never learns. So at this point she goes out to try to figure her life out and why she feels so off. Her mutations are gone having been healed away while in cryo, she has nothing.

And it is at this point that she really just turns into a wanderer for a bit. In terms of FO4 story she’s not actually that involved, I just ran with what I could. I can tell you her powers were inspired by Oswald in Kiddie Kingdom at Nuka World (I also paid someone to get me a mod of his eyes dyed blue so I could really bring her to life lmao) and that I know her powers are kind of a push and that obviously these things weren’t actually happening, I just wanted to mess around. Anyway, around let’s say, few years post FO4 main story, she’s got her powers back, she’s got her memories back she got her beloved scorch crystal plugs for her ears back in, she’s back to traveling and looking for Vex (if it’s not obvious by this point Becca doesn’t age normally, she looks somewhere in her 20s-early 30s she just agrees with whatever number people throw at her, so she’s going off the assumption that Vex is the same way and also because she’s been hearing about her) but first she gets sidelined by Keagan, who is back and a bigger douchebag then ever. He wants a rematch, saying if he wins then she has to stay with him, telling her that he was specifically made to be her mate even if they can’t have kids (he says it in a funny way, like he’s not really sure, he assumes the baby died during birth or their last fight from radiation) and continues to go on this rant about how he was made by her dad using his friend and his friends wife’s DNA and they might share a liiiiiiittle bit from her dad but what does it matter, to which she’s like hm hope Vex is doing well (she’s not) and that he wants her back at his side where she belongs. Becca, who at this point is aro ace anyway she doesn’t really care, is like you can eat my entire ass, and after some squabbling and several days of travel, they have their showdown in Ohio, which was so intense it turned almost the entirety of Ohio into a massive uninhabitable zone of radiation and craters, with Becca emerging from the blue radiated haze glowing, covered in blood, and holding Keagan’s head. After giving it a good kick into some bushes, she heads back to Boston and chill in cryo for a few more years because the fight just about killed her. When she does finally come out many many years later (not fully healed but enough that she doesn’t really care, she also takes a bunch of notes and starts working to make a home with her own cryo pod in it so she doesn’t have to keep coming back to the vault and hopefully can return to Appalachia one day) she hears about this crazy bitch in Nuka World who glows green and emits radiation and has been a major pain for the common wealth when she does decide to show her face. 2 days before Becca decides to set off to Nuka World, she sees a massive green explosion over the mountains in that direction, and is overcome with a pit of anxiety in her stomach. When she arrives, the raiders tell her that explosion was in fact Vex self destructing her body in order to protect her nephew from something that attacked them.

And so the story goes into my own personal thing from there, from her perspective at least, but for the most part she find out Vex has two nieces and a nephew from a family that adopted her and Becca decides to stay and help them for a few years before setting off back to Appalachia where she remains for mostly the rest of her life, occasionally getting a wild hair up her ass and traveling to go say hi to old friends who are still around. In the end Becca was just a rebellious kid who wanted freedom in a life that was constantly trying to chain her down, all she wanted was to see her daughter and know that she was ok and doing good after making a huge mistake, only to find out that her daughter was actually really shitty and did a lot of fucked up stuff but tried to do the right thing in her final moments to protect her family. So she just keeps moving forward taking it day by day.

VEX

Vex is a character that all of my friends love and I love her too but I fucking hate her because she’s awful because I made her that way because I wanted to. I love her.

She had a great start to life, surrounded by love and a mother who didn’t know what the fuck she was doing but was trying very hard and loved her very much and didn’t grow up with parents so she didn’t exactly have anyone to tell her how to take care of a baby, especially not a radiated one. When Vex was taken by the Blood Eagles they had crammed so many chems in her that her powers essentially when dormant and other then not being very effected by radiation, she was pretty human for a while. By all accounts though, Vexs abilities were way beyond that of Keagan and Becca’s, the ways she was able to work with her radiation were almost supernatural and inhuman. So you can imagine when one day a large camp of Children of Atom are all hanging out and this white hair rad resistant little girl walks on in like it’s nothing, that’s like Jesus walking into church and having a seat in the congregation. Except no one knew it was him. They had no idea of her powers because they were dormant, but they saw the way radiation moved around her and the way it swirled and would come to pin points and lines and of course they all just start to freak out. So Vex spends a few years with the COA until she’s uuuhhh an adult, let’s just say 19 yeah, and she goes off to do her own thing, not really taking their beliefs but their knowledge with her. She ends up in a small town on the edge of a giant radiated crater (essentially like the edge of the glowing sea but even bigger) and decides to hang around and do some work. Her teeth also start to fall out and what does she decide? She would be so badass with a pair of sharp metal teeth (I really wanted a like mother like daughter moment with that, on her gravestone they put her teeth in it and Becca laughs about it), so she gets that done while she’s there. And suddenly she starts having these urges. The urge to eat people. Her powers may be dormant but it’s still slowly taking its toll on her mind and body. One day 2 families roll into town with a ton of life saving medical knowledge and they decide they’re going to stay and help they town out for a year or two, and they decide to adopt Vex. She loves her new family and once again it really seems like she’s on the right path to a happy chill life, until they suddenly have to leave, and the night they did Vex had been going for a walk and finally snapped and killed and ate someone and got caught. When she got home she found a hidden note from her sister saying they were in danger and had to flee and that she was taking a huge risk leaving something behind to let her know where they were going but that she didn’t want to lose her and it was worth the risk. The family had no idea about Vexs crimes having fled before anyone came to tell them. Vex was thrown in jail and sentenced to death, but in this down how they did the death penalty for particularly bad people was they lined them up all chained together and sent them into the crater to die slowly by radiation. Vex didn’t fight it and went in willingly, making crude jokes the whole time but not saying that it basically wouldn’t do anything to her, and her tiny self trudged along in with three other giant dudes and they walked and walked until one died, and then the other and finally the last one. At that point Vex shrugged and figured there was no one around to judge her for it and just slowly at them over the next few days and then continued to walk through the crater until she found another group of COA and hung out with them. Thanks to the crater being even more irradiated then most places and the amount of time that had past since her kidnapping with the blood eagles, all of the radiation basically supercharged her and reawakened her abilities, and thanks to her time with the COA she almost immediately had a fine turned grip on how to use it in ways Becca and Keagan never considered possible. After a few months she slowly walked back into the town and leveled it before heading to new Vegas (yeah I am pulling all of these together what about it)

The only thing she did was go to the sierra madre while she was out there. Because she was stuck there for many many years. She went from this powerhouse who couldn’t be stopped by anything and was practically immortal to a collared dog and the red fog ate up her radiation no matter how hard she tried to use it. When she did eventually reach the point where she could just leave it behind she couldn’t let go. Not because of the gold or anything of importance there, but because it was the first time in her life she was actually terrified and felt mortal. She didn’t know how to handle it, so she lived there until she finally got the nerve to push through the fear. By that point she assumed that anyone who would have held a grudge against her was already dead and gone or too old to do anything so she headed back and on her way she heard about this woman with abilities like hers but she glowed blue, and of a man who did the same but was red. She shrugged and kept going. She Rand back into her sister who had married the boy who was her best friend and son of the family who came into town with them and they had 3 kids together, Kris, Clarke and Asher. Vex didn’t hang around for long and instead would constantly come and go for long or short periods at a time until eventually they landed in Boston and she ran off and became overboss of Nuka World. But because she was so infrequent with her time there, they would put someone else in charge short term while she was away. Eventually her sister died and Vex buried her on her private island that she found while exploring, away from where anyone would disturb the remains and sat there in grief for a few days before running off and doing whatever the fuck she wanted for realsies because now she does have to worry if her sister will hear about it. She proceeded to have 2 kids with random men that she kept on that island in secret but they were well taken care of and eventually came home one day and they were gone she accepted that pretty quickly because she was well aware she was a shit person and a worse mother beyond being able provide food shelter water and protection. Her kids, Nix and Gavin, do not have powers but are pretty hardy and aren’t affected by rads or poisons or diseases and such. They both go off and do their own thing, both eventually coming to nuka world after hearing about Vexs death giving everyone especially Becca a massive heart attack because how on earth did that bitch have kids and no one knew.

While she was overboss her nieces and nephew arrived at her door begging for help after the death of their parents and finally finding Vex and clearly having been through some shit. You could say this was the start of an attempted redemption arc for her, she did care about them a lot and prioritized their safety and started personally training Asher saying that if there was a way then her powers would be his someday, citing something she learned from the children of atom. And when she died he did indeed get a fraction of her power, and unfortunately he also got her voice in his head and she talks to him sometimes but he decides it’s best not to tell anyone about it.

There’s a lot more that goes into her and other characters but at that point we’re taking an already hard to keep within what could be considered possible and REALLY pushing it into more fallout inspired territory which this is already enough of, so I’m not going to get into it also I’ve been writing this for like a few hours at this point lmao so for now we just get Vex and Becca and their complicated backstories that I still adjust here and there sometimes. This is stupidly long and I know the dates of things are all over, I used to have like accurate dates for things but I’ve also been chipping away at these characters since I got the game years ago so. I know it’s a lot, I know it’s not entirely lore accurate to the fallout universe, I know it’s really off the rails, but these are my babies and I love them a lot lol. Thank you for coming to my long ass oc talk and thank you for asking me to talk about them lmao.

Have Becca at the start of her fight with Keagan when he says he found out about Vex and was going to take her

#oc lore #fallout oc #fallout #LONG POST #LIKE REALLY LONG #thank you so much for sending me my dream ask tho i love talking about these two #i do not want to spend more hours typing out stuff about other characters who honestly are not as fleshed out #maybe another day #again i know this is all over and really reaches into like #more fallout inspired then accurate anything especially with Vex #Becca was actually my 76 character tho so hers is the most fleshed out because I had #MY WONDERFUL AMAZING FRIENDS to encourage me to be completely off the rails with my lore #it is also thanks to them that Becca and Vex are as fleshed out as they are #anyways I’ve rambled long enough 🩵💚

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