#trans fallout

[calibratedgallow]

happy portal/team fortress 2/my little pony friendship is magic/ fallout day

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

Obligatory ping at @degenerate-mystery-inc-whore for her appearance in this comic. The DS2 story is one of her favorites.

Honorable mention to Skyrim as well. I installed a Mod in my PC version that let me access a cave with custom items. One of them was a ring that changed your main character's sex. I would make a new file, head immediately to the cave, and then get the ring and wear it for the remainder of the game.

This led to a fascinating experience wherein I found a letter that an NPC was carrying that referred to me with female pronouns. I re-read that note a few dozen times. It made me feel something.

Anyways. I cracked 5 years later.

[aboredgremlin]

Did Fallout casually drop a non-binary character out of the blue like that? I love them, very gender. But I did not expect that from the Brotherhood?!?!

[takemyteawithformaldehyde]

i can't sleep so have this updated version i did of the games/lgbtq+ identities chart

og version:

[dammarchy211]

Happy New Vegas day those who celebrate

[queam]

Fallout dump

[harrowedknight]

Replaying fallout 4 rn and i have many gay thoughts about the raspy voiced drug addict

[tsundereace]

Gender and the Mojave Wasteland or why i think New Vegas is so popular amongst trans women

In summary someone's gender (including the player's character) does matter to greater or lesser extents amongst the various societies and some characters that they can encounter which is likely to prompt someone to think more about gender, and or will have the game recognise and affirm theirs depending on the individual anyway

I have to assume other RPG's from a similar time and or quality presumably also did this to some extent but not as prominently as NV due to it typically being singled out in this regard

There's a few re occurring elements that do add to this such as the perks that allow you to flirt with them to be more cooperative largely only working on people of a compatible orintation, and Ceasers Legion's frequent misogyny but since thats more about gender as a whole withen the game here's a few things that would have resonated with trans women specifically

First is an unmarked companion quest where you are tasked to find Veronica a dress

(For the record her default outfit is baggy with a hood make your own jokes)

"I just like 'em, you know? They make you feel like a woman. Those ladies before the War, they knew what they were doing."

Even if you forget about this she will make a remark upon placing one in her inventtory but due to how the game is coded will not actualy put it on herself

next is from the in game Radio New Vegas where between the songs one of the presenters lines is

"The women of New Vegas ask me a lot if there's a Mrs. New Vegas. Of course there is. You're her. And you're still as perfect as the day we met."

and last but not least in the player's house within the Old World Blues DLC comes with an AI assistant who is hardcoded to call the player sir but will apologise when that is misgendering

"Sir? You are aware that I'm a woman, right?" "Indubitably, sir, but it is with a great lugubriousness that I must disclose that my programmers installed only the masculine honorific, sir. Moreover they neglected to enclose a parameter by which said honorific might be omitted altogether - over my most strenuous of remonstrances, sir."

all of these factors together would have likely catalysed some thoughts and new vegas being a very replayable game would have remained in discussion long enough for said thoughts to take shape

or maybe trans women just have better taste in video games ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[mysteriousbogbody]

Art vs artist 2024 traditional vs digital

[thecreedsmaxim]

idk thought this was funny

[jesawyer]

How do you feel about Fallout: New Vegas's reputation for "cracking eggs"?

I don't think the game itself does it (or at least I haven't seen a compelling argument for why this RPG, specifically, would do it), but there are clearly a lot of trans people within the F:NV community who had pivotal experiences re: their gender identity around the time they played the game or started interacting with the community. I think it's more likely that trans people within the F:NV community created a welcoming space for other people who felt more comfortable being themselves.

I don't think I can take any credit for it, but I'm glad for it.

[coolantbottle]

Sending a broadcast of love to all the other trans couriers, lone wanderers, and sole survivors venturing out into the wastes.

[stormywormy]

fallout new Vegas made me trans: a video essay

(500 notes and I'll actually make this)

[tohkaphobia]

[yeehawknight]

Country boy, I love youuuuuuu 👅❤️

To think I wouldn't have been able to do something like this one year ago. I'll probably find an infinite number of things to fix as time goes on but that's how it works :')

[psycherubs]

when your doctor boyfriend gets sunburned :( when your doctor boyfriend takes a nice nap :)