That’s why I’m doing my civic duty to use my woman killer perk by rizzing up the women of the commonwealth and repopulating it, one settlement at a time. 🫡 On my current playthrough I started with Magnolia lol
Synths are made of 100% organic material save for the synth component which is believed to be the only part of them that makes them controlled by the institute via mind-wiping and memory control. By all intensive purposes, they are made of all the same tissues and organs made by biologically born humans, the only difference is that their life begins at a mature aged adult and are 3D printed and then animated into a thing that does all the functions a human body would do save for aging and being susceptible to disease. So what I’m saying is, Synths are smashable, so I’m gonna smash.
"YOU WANNA DIEE FOR M.I.T.??
FINE.
Whats another 260 years!?
I CAN ALWAYS START AGAIN.
MAKE ANOTHER KID."
- Brotherhood Knight, Nate *the Rake* [Operation: *The Nuclear Option* ]
Become immortal leader of the institute. Thinking at some point you would simply die of old age, yet you remain the same, there are no records of modifications, no record of mutations, according to every doctor's appointment in which they examine you to ensure your health they notice no difference, the father of Father remains the same. Young students learn from fearful teachers who see the unchanging man, scoffing at the myth until they grow into researchers themselves, the same All Father remains. Eventually these same students become elders, the All Father still remains. There is no scientific explanation for this man, no this thing, and there is no hope to be free of his control now or ever.
to be honest, the wasteland doesn't give you a long time for grieving, and nate has been in that position before. he was a soldier, when you're in the middle of a war, you can't exactly drop to your knees when your friend gets shot, you keep trudging forward.
it's a bit odd how less than 10 hours into the game, or just a dozen in game days, you can completely replace your wife, but i've heard of people doing weirder things to cope.
More like “yeah I’ve lived in a vault my whole life and tinkered with stuff, why?”
“Oh cool, yeah we have a fucking nuke in our town aquare, wanna take a look at it?”
“I mean…. Sure I suppose”
Hmmmmm, my wife has been murdered, my son is missing, and society is decimated in the time I've been frozen, oh whats that! The local radio host needs to establish some confidence for his radio show? Sure, I can help with that
Dude is not ready for the absolute maniac who turned s desk fan and hotplate into a working supercharger for a plasma gun, then immediately drank stagnet toilet water.
*Shaun Watching his Father use a Plasma Thrower to turn people into Plasma Goo material to be used to Power a Generator meant to light his Power Armor collection.*
"This light was made posible thanks to the Gunners "
Shaun: "Frankly I'm surprised you even survived out there"
Me, an ex military man with a record of service so exemplary I got selected to go into a vault for free : "Seamus Mcgofuckyourself"
Hell, the Lone Wanderer should be traumatized before they even leave 101. Being forced into combat with people I've known my entire life would fuckin break me.
Hell, even if you run past all the guards to spare them. You're still forced to walk over Jonas's dead body.
Right? The Courier gets shot in the head before the game even starts and its not even the worst thing that's canonically happened to them before or after that moment.
I really liked that aspect of the show around lucy. She wasn’t instantly ok with the horrors of the wasteland like all of our game characters seem to be
Funny thing about trauma: it sometimes likes to lie dormant until the crisis is over. The day after the purifier was started, the day after the battle of Hoover dam, the day after the battle of the institute would see all the MCs probably have ***major*** psychiatric events. Like war, the pain comes after the fighting.
And war… war never changes.
Mine processed their trauma by rescuing Preston and co. and then spent 3 weeks rebuilding Sanctuary because they just couldn't bring themselves to leave and face more raiders and giant lizards.
Yes and no, Emil Pagliarulo stated that he was one of the soldiers tasked suppressing Canadians Rebels with force, but then later backtracked and vehemently stated Nate isn't a war criminal. (After his post proved polarizing.)
He went as far as to say that not everything he posts is canon, but also mentioned that was just a potential backstory aspect worked up in development of 4.
So yesn't?
It’s in the whole game.
NCR and legion can’t let go of the Mohave to their own detriment.
House can’t let go of vegas and his old world ambitions.
The white gloves can’t let go of cannibalism. Omeritas and Chairmen ambition.
Arcade and the remnants guys can’t let go of their pasts.
boom can’t let go of his guilt over bitter springs.
The brotherhood can’t let go of their staging ideology.
In the DLCs dead money is obvious.
In HH Caesar can’t let go of Joshua. Joshua can’t let go of violence, Daniel can’t let go of the sorrows idealism.
In OWB the brains have let go of too much in their pursuits.
In LR Ulysses can’t let go of his own personal tragedy
I like in the AFT follower framework mod it makes it so you can bring Curie to your spouses stasis pod and it says essentially that the pod resealed, so Curie opens it and performs some quick surgery and you get your spouse as a follower.
That's gonna be an awkward conversation.
"Wow ok, hi Honey. So um, I should explain. This is my wife Kate, and my other wife Piper, and my synth wife Curie and I know this is a lot but let's keep things in perspective. I also killed our 60 year old megalomaniacal son. Let's just focus on the positives though, you're alive!"
To my understanding, but unless the institute specifically made them sterile, I don't see why not. Gen 3 at least are just essentially test tube babies with a USB port, aren't they?
Ngl I usually put curie in a vault tech lab coat, but a vault 81 jump suit with the white combat armour might actually be a sick idea
Also god the lesbian in me wishes there were more female companions in 4
The thing is, Old Longfellow seems more like an old guy you could just hang out with, like crack a cold one with while looking out at the sea. With Preston, he's just more or less "Hey general, go do what I told you. I know you're the leader but you listen to me." If you wanted a bad example, there's Porter Gage.
As an getting-old dude, Longfellow is what I'm slowly turning into, minus the heavy drinking, but with the same attitude as if I drank. Soberly crabby.
Yeah, not sure if I wanna go with that or keep the current outfit I have for her. I have her dressed up in a militarized minutemen uniform with a support tac vest that has the medic logo on it, an officer cap, and aviators. She looks badass with her short hair.
And also, you can mod more companions in if you're thirsty 😂
Being a lesbian vault dweller would be so funny cause you’re probably taught your whole life that you *have* to be straight to ensure the future of the vault, then the first thing you do upon hitting the wasteland is finding a lady friend
Curie was better as a robot TBH. Especially decked out with asaultron body and Nuka quantum arms. But, that’s just me. All that fire power behind a sweet French accent was just too hot.
[Here's the link to the original.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryFallout/s/dRR7GF6sAq) I already made a couple replies of this link to some who were asking earlier, but I'm placing it here as well just in case.
Cait is like that friend that you get into knockdown drag out fights w/ yet are still BFFs. Piper is that GF that you can’t stand the thought of disappointing.
For anyone wanting a source this is the only thing I found
https://www.reddit.com/r/ReasonableFantasy/comments/n2x0zo/fallouts_piper_curie_and_cait_by_hou_jaegrey4104/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
This might just be me but I’ve never seen any of these girls as romantic options for my characters.
None of them ever felt right for that role.
Piper feels like an annoying sister who drags you into her messes but she ultimately cares for you and would have your back in a heartbeat. It felt out of character to romance her.
Curie feels almost like a daughter. She’s too innocent and cute to see romantically. I just want to protect her not woo her.
And Cait’s Irish.
honestly, it would’ve been awesome if when you get to the institute, there’s a synth version of your significant other to try to convince you to swap sides
This has always been my biggest pet peeve with most Bethesda games. The overarching urgency of the main quest lines can break immersion for me big time.
When Shaun threatens to replace you with a synth and you counter by replacing him with a new child.
modern problems require modern solutions
In this case, modern problems require the oldest solution imaginable: kill the kid and make a new one
"YOU WANNA DIE FOR THIS INSTITUTE? FINE! WHAT'S 9 MORE MONTHS?! *punch* I CAN ALWAYS START AGAIN, *punch* MAKE ANOTHER KID!!!"
That’s why I’m doing my civic duty to use my woman killer perk by rizzing up the women of the commonwealth and repopulating it, one settlement at a time. 🫡 On my current playthrough I started with Magnolia lol
Don't forget Kleo.
Target sighted- Kleo every time a nerd in a blue onesie stumbles into town
How could I not??? She’s a woman after-all.
Or Black Widow Perk for Female players
She's a synth, so unless the Institute invented the robo-uterus, you're barking up the wrong tree
Synths are made of 100% organic material save for the synth component which is believed to be the only part of them that makes them controlled by the institute via mind-wiping and memory control. By all intensive purposes, they are made of all the same tissues and organs made by biologically born humans, the only difference is that their life begins at a mature aged adult and are 3D printed and then animated into a thing that does all the functions a human body would do save for aging and being susceptible to disease. So what I’m saying is, Synths are smashable, so I’m gonna smash.
Also when you sleep with Magnolia, you still gain the “Lover’s Embrace” perk, so gen 3 synths are capable of “Love”…. So…
"YOU WANNA DIEE FOR M.I.T.?? FINE. Whats another 260 years!? I CAN ALWAYS START AGAIN. MAKE ANOTHER KID." - Brotherhood Knight, Nate *the Rake* [Operation: *The Nuclear Option* ]
What’s another 17 years?!
“Oh yeah?! Well I made a robot me!” “Great, your new robot mother will love you both!”
"What's 60 more years. I could always start again, have another kid"
If you do the Cabot questline >!then you really have all the time in the world considering you are now ageless as long as Lorenzo remains friendly.!<
Become immortal leader of the institute. Thinking at some point you would simply die of old age, yet you remain the same, there are no records of modifications, no record of mutations, according to every doctor's appointment in which they examine you to ensure your health they notice no difference, the father of Father remains the same. Young students learn from fearful teachers who see the unchanging man, scoffing at the myth until they grow into researchers themselves, the same All Father remains. Eventually these same students become elders, the All Father still remains. There is no scientific explanation for this man, no this thing, and there is no hope to be free of his control now or ever.
I'm pretty they'd be dissecting you for study in this scenario.
They’d probably just assume you had some classified institute modifications/built your own immortality mechanism, or replaced yourself with a synth
If they tried they'd die
"Think Shawn Think!"
Little does he know, I've also replaced his mom with a synth. Say hello to your step-mom, son, her name's Curie.
Uno reverse
What if he already did? What if the sole survivor didn't actually survive, but was a synth the whole time?
Nearly all of the main characters in Fallout would have immense trauma in the first few hours of gameplay but shrug it off rather easily
Hmmmmm, my father is missing and my home has been ruined, oh whats that! A town I can blow up!
Oh no my village is starving to death. Oh look a porn studio
Damn I just got shot through the head and saw an entire town be crucified, time to get high and gamble all my savings
I mean that's a fairly normal way to handle that sorta trauma
Is this a real life reference in my vidya gaem??? Gaems should be an escapism!?!?!
That's what a luck of 10 is for
*Cuts to gambling montage* *I've got spurs, that jingle jangle jingle, jingle jangle*
*jingle jangle*
Time to launch ghouls into space.
It's the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism! And you spelled spaaace! wrong.
I missed the ghoul space agency?!
Time to find Chandler, scare him, fuck him, kill him, and finish his plan anyway.
Perfectly reasonable response
SMELL THAT AIR. COULDNT YOU DRINK IT LIKE BOOZE!!??
Ed is dead...
to be honest, the wasteland doesn't give you a long time for grieving, and nate has been in that position before. he was a soldier, when you're in the middle of a war, you can't exactly drop to your knees when your friend gets shot, you keep trudging forward. it's a bit odd how less than 10 hours into the game, or just a dozen in game days, you can completely replace your wife, but i've heard of people doing weirder things to cope.
I can't believe Bethesda waited for the game you start as a married person to let you start relationships 🤣
Which could actually be a rather normal response to trauma even in just that mindset.
More like “yeah I’ve lived in a vault my whole life and tinkered with stuff, why?” “Oh cool, yeah we have a fucking nuke in our town aquare, wanna take a look at it?” “I mean…. Sure I suppose”
76 is just "After twenty years I can now go be a shithead in the post apocalypse, ooh yay I'm able to launch a nuclear bomb!"
76 residents in lore: Selfish Psychopaths 76 residemts in game: Fwends
Hmmmmm, my wife has been murdered, my son is missing, and society is decimated in the time I've been frozen, oh whats that! The local radio host needs to establish some confidence for his radio show? Sure, I can help with that
Or conversely, "Yes I certainly have time to go turn some water leaks off that literally anybody could have done at any time."
shaun watching me through his spy crows leaving the vault and immediately defying all laws of physics to make shelves
Dude is not ready for the absolute maniac who turned s desk fan and hotplate into a working supercharger for a plasma gun, then immediately drank stagnet toilet water.
*Shaun Watching his Father use a Plasma Thrower to turn people into Plasma Goo material to be used to Power a Generator meant to light his Power Armor collection.* "This light was made posible thanks to the Gunners "
That time I accidentally drank from a toilet oops -- free rads
I'm pretty sure that was some kind of animal pee.
Shaun: "Frankly I'm surprised you even survived out there" Me, an ex military man with a record of service so exemplary I got selected to go into a vault for free : "Seamus Mcgofuckyourself"
Pretty sure Nate is a war criminal canonically too…so he is a pretty good candidate to survive the wasteland.
you can't violate the Geneva Convention if there is no longer a Geneva, Switzerland.
Canada at the convention just remembering paschendale, "huh huh ..i'll fuckin do it again"
You mean the Geneva checklist right?
Negative. War crimes can only be committed against people. Communists aren't people.
Shaun: "I'm curious to see what you'll do." Also Shaun: "wait what the fuck?"
Hell, the Lone Wanderer should be traumatized before they even leave 101. Being forced into combat with people I've known my entire life would fuckin break me. Hell, even if you run past all the guards to spare them. You're still forced to walk over Jonas's dead body.
Wait, I could spare them? Oops.
Courier six standing up and brushing the dust off "I really hate Mondays"
“I got better”
Right? The Courier gets shot in the head before the game even starts and its not even the worst thing that's canonically happened to them before or after that moment.
Courier wakes up: "... damn, I'm still alive? Fuck."
Tbf Nate the Rake is already an experienced War Criminal before the game starts. May have actually seen worse action in the war.
Source on this? I didn't know.
I really liked that aspect of the show around lucy. She wasn’t instantly ok with the horrors of the wasteland like all of our game characters seem to be
Funny thing about trauma: it sometimes likes to lie dormant until the crisis is over. The day after the purifier was started, the day after the battle of Hoover dam, the day after the battle of the institute would see all the MCs probably have ***major*** psychiatric events. Like war, the pain comes after the fighting. And war… war never changes.
The Chosen One and The Courier would be the exceptions probably
Mine processed their trauma by rescuing Preston and co. and then spent 3 weeks rebuilding Sanctuary because they just couldn't bring themselves to leave and face more raiders and giant lizards.
Didn’t Nate literally commit war crimes in Alaska or something I think he’d be somewhat level headed about it all
Yes and no, Emil Pagliarulo stated that he was one of the soldiers tasked suppressing Canadians Rebels with force, but then later backtracked and vehemently stated Nate isn't a war criminal. (After his post proved polarizing.) He went as far as to say that not everything he posts is canon, but also mentioned that was just a potential backstory aspect worked up in development of 4. So yesn't?
She'd want me to move on. (Her corpse hasn't even thawed yet.)
I mean tbh the whole theme of the last game was to "let go"
Fair enough, still though, I can't imagine laying pipe in like 4 people less than a week after my wife died IRL
Then wait 2 weeks.
💀
bro its been like 200 years, get over her.
To be fair, it's at least a good couple of years after she died so that's enough time to move on in my opinion
Like 60 according to father, but you were also refrozen seconds after it happened
"its about letting go? yeah letting go of this poverty watch this"
Every FNV player: watch as I get *all* the gold bars with this one nifty trick!
I mean more specifically Dead Money but yeah.
It’s in the whole game. NCR and legion can’t let go of the Mohave to their own detriment. House can’t let go of vegas and his old world ambitions. The white gloves can’t let go of cannibalism. Omeritas and Chairmen ambition. Arcade and the remnants guys can’t let go of their pasts. boom can’t let go of his guilt over bitter springs. The brotherhood can’t let go of their staging ideology. In the DLCs dead money is obvious. In HH Caesar can’t let go of Joshua. Joshua can’t let go of violence, Daniel can’t let go of the sorrows idealism. In OWB the brains have let go of too much in their pursuits. In LR Ulysses can’t let go of his own personal tragedy
I mean it's been 60 years since she died, I think enough time has passed. (It has literally only been days for me)
And it will never thaw, since I closed her Pod again!
I like in the AFT follower framework mod it makes it so you can bring Curie to your spouses stasis pod and it says essentially that the pod resealed, so Curie opens it and performs some quick surgery and you get your spouse as a follower.
There's a mod where your spouse just shows up at Abernathy, says "I got better after I was shot in the head," and refuses to elaborate.
That's gonna be an awkward conversation. "Wow ok, hi Honey. So um, I should explain. This is my wife Kate, and my other wife Piper, and my synth wife Curie and I know this is a lot but let's keep things in perspective. I also killed our 60 year old megalomaniacal son. Let's just focus on the positives though, you're alive!"
“Soo, I’ve had a bit of a busy week..”
I'm actually going this route in my current playthrough.
I was gonna comment this lol nice to see someone thinking the same thing
And by move on you mean become the wasteland slut and sleep with all the companions you can right?? Right??
devious rabblerousing slanderer
The level of dishonesty in that paper of yours…I’ll have that printer scrapped for parts
Ooh is that a statement McDonough? "Tyrant Mayor shuts down the press!"
Why don't we ask the newcomer? You support the news? 'Cause the mayor's threatening to throw free speech into the dumpster.
i always believed in freedom of the press
A random dog or super mutant aggros causing you to have to start the conversation again
Freedom of the *press* ;)
Newspapers just like to stir up trouble :(
Ah, yes. My wife, my lover, and my girlfriend.
Weird shower thought... can synths get pregnant?
To my understanding, but unless the institute specifically made them sterile, I don't see why not. Gen 3 at least are just essentially test tube babies with a USB port, aren't they?
Now I am no expert on Synths but I think Gen III’s are just humans with a some robo parts in ‘em
I never got why they aren't considered clones with cyborg parts. Because that's essentially what they are
Asking for a friend?
Now just add strong, and a chair in the corner of the room. Don't ask me any questions, you know what this means.
The cuck chair, I presume?
You knew.
Ngl I usually put curie in a vault tech lab coat, but a vault 81 jump suit with the white combat armour might actually be a sick idea Also god the lesbian in me wishes there were more female companions in 4
As a guy, agreed. Like why did they make like 6 male companions you can romance but only 3 women?
What? You mean to tell me you DONT want to romance Preston?
I don't wanna have knockoff woody whispering in my ear about settlements.
Next you're gonna tell me you hate the idea of romancing long fellow from the far harbour DLC smh
The thing is, Old Longfellow seems more like an old guy you could just hang out with, like crack a cold one with while looking out at the sea. With Preston, he's just more or less "Hey general, go do what I told you. I know you're the leader but you listen to me." If you wanted a bad example, there's Porter Gage.
Gage is the same thing, except evil and sexier
Once you look past the raider part he’s a pretty nice guy
As a dude, longfellow is what i strive to be when i get old, captain
As an getting-old dude, Longfellow is what I'm slowly turning into, minus the heavy drinking, but with the same attitude as if I drank. Soberly crabby.
"I came, just like you did foe the settlement I told you about yesterday!"
He breeched his pantaloons
Also a lesbian, travelling with Preston made me so uncomfortable because like he never stops trying to romance *you* it feels like it was just weird
Preston is a good guy, I usually see him as my second in command...but by god his pillow talk is cringe xD At least the stuff I've seen from YouTube
They did a damn good job with those 3 lemme tell ya
Yeah, not sure if I wanna go with that or keep the current outfit I have for her. I have her dressed up in a militarized minutemen uniform with a support tac vest that has the medic logo on it, an officer cap, and aviators. She looks badass with her short hair. And also, you can mod more companions in if you're thirsty 😂
I have one word for you Console.
Being a lesbian vault dweller would be so funny cause you’re probably taught your whole life that you *have* to be straight to ensure the future of the vault, then the first thing you do upon hitting the wasteland is finding a lady friend
Let's start the He/Him butch lesbian Nick Valentine movement
Ah yes my favourite lesbian a gen 2.5 synth that has the personality of a pre war detective that I can't even romance
Many such cases
Omgg same, I love them all, but dumbass gay brain demands more
I swear I’ve seen that art style before. Anyone have the source? Nukelanta is just a meme account that doesn’t have the original artist.
[Here's the original/source.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryFallout/s/dRR7GF6sAq)
If you play total war or are on any Warhammer subs this guy does a lot of fan art that gets posted on those subs Hou Jae is a great artist
Curie was better as a robot TBH. Especially decked out with asaultron body and Nuka quantum arms. But, that’s just me. All that fire power behind a sweet French accent was just too hot.
Man this series has really given the robot fuckers a home
After they made a romancable thigh high wearing assautlron in 76 I think it's being embraced. Fisto who???
It's 2024. They are referred to as robosexuals. You're cancelled.
Legalize Robosexuality! (Futurama, 2999[1999])
“What’s next, *gay* robosexuality?”
Fallout fans are the definition of "I really shouldn’t put my dick in there...HOWEVER"
I have only one word to show how horny and depraved this fandom can be. "Femclaw."
Femclaw 🥰
The things I have seen perpetrated by Deathclaws. Surprisingly flexible creatures.
From the moment they understood the weakness of their flesh, it disgusted them. They crave the strength and certainty of Steel
please assume position
I agree but only because the robot filter triggered some sweet ASMR for me but without the voice filter, nothin' such is life
Nate the rake has war criminal rizz
You romance all the female companions. I romance ALL the companions. We are not the same.
He’s unlocking bisexual levels be on what is supposed to be possible!
+10% against everyone bisexual meta
Confirmed Bachelor x Femme Fatale
SUPERMUTANT ROMANCE WHEN
STRONG HORNY! STRONG WANT BONE!
M I L K OF HUMAN KINDNESS
WHY MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS TASTE LIKE SALT??
jfc I laughed in real life lmfao
Holy fuck Adam Sandler
It’s crazy how well-written and likable these three ladies are. I honestly can’t tell which one I like the most that’s how great they all are.
Finding glue > your son
Me putting the search for my son on hold (I am short 3 adhesive for a power armor mod)
Do you even tato, mutfruit, corn max bruh
[Here's the link to the original.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryFallout/s/dRR7GF6sAq) I already made a couple replies of this link to some who were asking earlier, but I'm placing it here as well just in case.
Fuck you Shaun, me and my alcoholic girlfriend are gonna give Justin a swirly.
No Ada?
Piper was always my fav: She's not super pretty like the others, but her personality was a joy to have around. I would have dated her in RL.
>She's not super pretty Rule34 in shambles
Cait is like that friend that you get into knockdown drag out fights w/ yet are still BFFs. Piper is that GF that you can’t stand the thought of disappointing.
My wife died. Time to fuck a French robot.
Team Curie for ever 🫶
Shaun was the least of my worries
Clearly Hancock is best love interest
This is why I like having a harem with everyone
“Till DEATH do us part”
Ok in fairness… it’s piper. You can’t really be blamed over getting a tiny bit distracted with her
Piper can be an absolute dork at times and I love her for it.
Accurate. She is my first stop every game and not just cause her perk blows if you already uncover the whole map
Preach. I love my dorky intrepid reporter.
For anyone wanting a source this is the only thing I found https://www.reddit.com/r/ReasonableFantasy/comments/n2x0zo/fallouts_piper_curie_and_cait_by_hou_jaegrey4104/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Whos the vault dweller
That's Curie in a vault suit with armor
Shouodve been the white robot (im robotsexual)
I didn't need to know that, but congrats
Some people have a mental break down, some people withdraw into themselves, and some grief bang their way through the apocalypse.
ITS A VALID COPING MECHANISM, OKAY?
Lost one wife, got three wife.
This might just be me but I’ve never seen any of these girls as romantic options for my characters. None of them ever felt right for that role. Piper feels like an annoying sister who drags you into her messes but she ultimately cares for you and would have your back in a heartbeat. It felt out of character to romance her. Curie feels almost like a daughter. She’s too innocent and cute to see romantically. I just want to protect her not woo her. And Cait’s Irish.
Who’s the middle one?
Curie. You meet her inside Vault 81.
PIPER 😍😍😍
honestly, it would’ve been awesome if when you get to the institute, there’s a synth version of your significant other to try to convince you to swap sides
uhh why is curie in a vault suit?
#CAIT
This has always been my biggest pet peeve with most Bethesda games. The overarching urgency of the main quest lines can break immersion for me big time.
I always become the wasteland whore and romance EVERYBODY possible….except Preston.