#tsil the second theres need for conflict
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this-should-do · 2 years ago
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no dog fr, preston is my main man quite honestly, hes my fav companion and youre 100% correct about how much he got acrewed over, like there is just, So Much gojng on with the two black companions that its really just like jesus christ, like if x6 were not
a) Literally a black man written to be a slave who Supports the poeple enslaving him
b) is assigned to a sole survivor who by default is white to be a traveling companion and obviously receives no actual pay for thos job (because it is a job)
c) is not only a black slave but os also a black man in a role about being big, i timidating, and violent, one of The Big stereotypes aroumd black maleness (and not only that but it is almost certainly a thought process behind it all because until chase in far habor, ever courser we see is a man of color)
d) he also were he to have a companion quest to do with helping him escape the j stitute, it would unless written very specifically, would just come off as white savior questing by default due to the defauly nate ans nora settings who are almost certainly going to be in mind when writing
then i woukd 100% have chosen preston, like not at all to say that preston is anyless shafted by todd (and quite a large portion of the fandom mind you) but for me i have to hand the title to x6
oh more black characters you can add to thr list is father clemmens in diamond city, the nameless black woman in the i troduction with her possible girlfriend?,
and on a list of almost were black you can add momma murphey, which 100% would hit so many yikes boxes, the main ones being magical black person and the drug addiction as written also feels yuck and hits on stereotypes,
like in general todd really did a horrible job writing and representing black people in his game and i am less familiar with fallout 3 and 76 (though i have played both) but i doubt its any better in those games
#like ive talkeb about this before but theres a lot of ways that you could take x6#like alot of meta you see about ho. involves him keeping his feelings and desires hidden so as to not get in trouble amd be wiped#and like yeah valid#and very likely#but theres also the alternative thought if you were to take his support for the insititute at face value where you could interview#black conservatism and the brain washing (literal not fictional) that comes from being raised in a culture that tells you you are lesser#and in which rebelling means lu ishment where agreeing and j ternalizing that is a defense mechanism#but we can very much go for a more desireable path wjere you can help x6 and the preferred manner in which gives him autonomy and#possibly reduces white savior elements is by having a possible event trigger if you say enough things that show you support synths#if hes not currently following you would be found workjng with other synths to help them escape#this is not skmething that happens becuz the player said things but is only something you see explicitely if you show support#otherwise there are clues you could find outside that that could tell you about him and his doings outside your n fluence#and if you wamted to be 'evil' as todd codes the institute you could use this to punish x6 howbever i would not put this in the gsme knowin#thst there are 100 percent a lot of pekple that would do this and enjoy it so i woudltn givepekpel thechance#but yeah i would add a quest to help x6 with his personal mission to use his ststus and upside privledges to help other synths escape#which would also releive some of the white savior feels of the railroad and patriot howveer realistic patriot being a moderate and turning#tsil the second theres need for conflict#and give more autonomy to x6 i sucha quest#tho this only ckmes from a standpoint of x6 already being convinced that the institute are wrong which may not be the place skme people#may not eant him to start frkm#but its just summin i came up with off the top of my head#tho it would require a seperate meter than what todd has coded so he would never cuz ideally to ho or the original i tent x6 would#still remain 'loyal' to thr player and show positive notifs when the llayer does the regular axtions he likes for pro institute actions#to feed into his act that the player wouldnt be able to see past#and would stay even if the player becomes the head of the inst so that he could co tinue to help other synths escape#but he would secretly keep a seperate set of affinity points to trigger his wuest and should you find this out his affinity would switch#to thebnew affinity count to reflect his newly revealed opinjons#i dunno lol#just spitballing lol#reblog
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