#the khans

[agathas-megacoven]

The Khan’s are just PHENOMENAL. They’re so warm and vibrant and hysterical in all the best ways. The MCU is absent/shitty/dead/evil-parent-and-complicated-family central, theres too much familial feuding at times, whether that family is blood or adopted or found, so I am LIVING for and LOVING how the Khan’s are just so normal and ordinary and wonderful. It’s no wonder Kamala has such a can-do, confident, positive attitude. It’s no wonder she’s such a dreamer and proudly herself and so damn funny when she’s surrounded by so much love and encouragement. Kamala Khan and the fam need to be in more Marvel movies, their dynamic is just joyous and healing and I will NOT tolerate another Aunt May incident. I WILL NOT. I swear if anything happens to ANY of them-

[noodle8]

May I request Gwen from fo1 Khans >:) !!

I definitely had fun with this one!! Must be wild working for garl with his... Opinions

[w98pops]

heres another pair of lovebirds before the february ends (feat. little nicodemus amber as well)

ive been pondering them for awhile and finally came up with names!! the bigger one is jack, the smaller one is mika. mika was kidnapped by the new khans at a very young age and got under the wing of a very tough guy called gunnar whos very daugher fell in love with mika. gunnar joined darion's gang because he had a history with the ncr and this was the only way to fight them (at the time) but was not so sure about the whole uhm. terrorising random civillians thing. he of course was killed for this, mika and jack were practically saved by the vault 15 wipeout and joined the remnants of khans to build something better :)

the fancy amulet/necklace/charm goes way way back to gunnar's and his daugher home tribe. probably some ancestor of their found it cool looking and kept it. it is, in fact, a pre-war bottle opener.

[dykedvonte]

The Khans - My Introspective

I don't like the Military and I don't support a lot of the actions the NCR does to the Mojave in New Vegas but in terms of the Khans I feel like the fandom infantilizes or diminishes the fact that they are or at least one of the most violent raider groups in the Mojave.

What happened at Bitter Springs was a tragedy, innocent lives were lost and the fact that the NCR swept it under the rug and continued to hunt down Khans that are truly trying to back down and resettle is horrendous, but there is a history to the NCR's aggression towards them.

The Khans first appear in Fallout 1, the main faction of raiders in the game besides the mentioned Vipers (who don't actually appear if I remember correctly). They came from Vault 15 along with the members that would form rival groups; The Vipers, The Jackals, and Shady Sands. They are a very large and foreboding raiding party, known for burning towns and encampments they attack and taking survivors as their slaves or slaves to sell. They are a big reason why the Jackals and Vipers are actually so small in New Vegas, they wiped them out.

Their main targets where Shady Sands and Junker town, the former of the two would be what became The New California Republic. This explains a big part of their animosity towards the Khans, only furthered by the fact the Khans kidnapped Tandi as a young girl, the girl that would go to offically found the NCR out of Shady Sands. When the dweller saved her and killed much of the Khans, this allowed the NCR to develop into what it currently is as they no longer needed to focus on fighting off constant raids.

When the Khans became the New Khans in Fallout 2, they barely resembled the Khans as they were led by Darion, Garl Death-Hand's son (former leader of the Khans). They were smaller and refortified vault 15, still planning to take down the NCR (at this time nowhere near as imperialist as they are in FNV) as mostly a revenge/power ploy. They manipulate The Squat, a group of y'know squatters, that lived in the upper levels, promising and lying about repairing the vault and offering them ransacked caravan resources if they kept the NCR away. Being their only life line The Squat had no choice. Still the chosen one got rid of them and they left New California for the untapped Mojave.

The Great Khans, the most current iteration, continued in the path as the original Khans, regrouping and gaining information from the Followers who hoped they'd use their new medical knowledge to heal themselves. They gained more members and a substantial part of Vegas territory before they were run out by the three families. They were pushed to Bitter Springs where they first and foremost continued to pick off and attack NCR settlements, most of which consisted of caravans, towns, and camps as they saw them as easy like in their old days. It was the killing of four influential Republic members (non-military) that brought on Bitter Springs.

Bitter Springs was the result of years of hatred and animosity and likely the goal to send a final message to the Khans. It does not excuse the fact that innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered with few survivors. It does not excuse the fact that the NCR has yet to make amends for this and continues to try and persecute the Khans even in moments of surrender.

This post is not to defend what happened but to give a quick rundown of the Khan's history and their history with the NCR. It's to remind people that the NCR is not just their military power but an actual group/settlement of people that were also attacked indiscriminately by the Khans. It's to point out that the Khans were not a band of indigenous people (no matter the comparisons) driven from their homes but raiders who fed into the brutal cultures of the west coast wasteland and were in turn treated to the same things.

My frustration comes from the fact that FNV has so many comparisons to indigenous struggles but the groups it chooses are not comparable at all. Their oppression hinges on not being familiar with their past, which explains why they have the reputation they do in canon. The "tribes" are often not even groups of minorities or have goals/desires out of acquisitions of power and I feel like it is important to both acknowledge that this is bad indigenous rep because it is not supposed to be. It is supposed to be a comparison of the in-game groups and how they all do the same things and justify it in their own fucked up ways, some better at it than others.

FNV of all the Fallout games (in light of it being heavily Western based) distastefully uses indigenous imagery and theming for groups that are sad mimicries of American indigenous cultures at best and outright offensive at worst.

[lost-in-interwebs]

Was anyone gonna tell me that Garl Death-Hand's top two advisors are both women or was I just supposed to figure that out for myself? He owns female slaves and will ask you to kill them in order to join the khans but like.... wow.

Also the Khans are openly amicable to all other Wasteland settlements in SoCal and do trade with them except Shady Sands. It's so funny. Vault 15 dwellers fucking hate each other so much.

[agentem]

I want to talk about Aamir Khan leaping over a couch while Kree attack for an hour. It's only in the background of a hero shot of Carol but it's very important to me.

I want to see the Khans fuck up some aliens.

[the-chosen-none]

Tandi took being captured by the Khans for presumably unsavory reasons and having to watch the carnage on display as the VD and co. canonically bathed their camp in blood very well for a formerly sheltered teenager, I gotta say. She’s all like “Wow that was so cool how we slaughtered all those people with few survivors” and meanwhile my VD is feeling guilt over accidentally shooting one of the captives on our way out. Maybe Tandi’s flippant attitude was unintentional foreshadowing for some of her actions in the NCR. The aftermath of the sidequest in FO1 feels like this:

[sayruq]

Palestinians are trying to rebuild their lives in Northern and Central Gaza as the occupation focuses its genocidal war machine on the South, particularly Rafah

[ninalinovna]

bruce's worst nightmare is them getting along 💀

[stuckinapril]

Incredibly alarming that talks of “peace” in Gaza seem to extend no further than a ceasefire. How do you think they’re gonna start off where they left off themselves? Their houses are destroyed, so many have lost mothers and fathers and brothers and children, they still have no clean water and no food. Any area Israel withdraws out of is an area it already knows has been rendered inhospitable. There was even a direct quote by some IOF soldier gleefully stating how he “wasn’t sure Palestinians could go back to their homes.” So what happens when the US ��succeeds at negotiating a ceasefire”? Who will be responsible for helping the Palestinians rebuild all that they’ve lost?

[claraoswalds]

Oh, is that who I am now? Well, it was never that far from the surface, mate.

[cavalierzee]

THIS DIDN’T START OCTOBER 7th!!!

[frownyalfred]

my random hc of the day is that Damian inherited Bruce’s nose but no one ever recognizes it because only like two people (Talia and Alfred, maybe Minkhoa) knew what Bruce’s real nose looked like before he proceeded to break it no less than four times in a row during training, was forced to get a reconstructive rhinoplasty when he came back to Gotham, and called version 5.4 of his nose “close enough”

[browsethestacks]

Arthouse Muppets

Art by Bruce McCorkindale

[imsoglitter]

Biggest downgrade in cinematic history. Every other aspect of the j'jambramsverse could be perfect and I'd still hate him for this alone. Turning the sexiest evil big tiddy space eugenicist into some uwu softboi in a windbreaker. Banging my head against the wall. He doesn't have any swag. Where's the cunt???????????

[fedzzzart]

COMPANIONS

aaaaaah looking at them all together is so satisfying!! and i’m so proud of actually finishing this🥰