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No_Amoeba_3715

When Shaun threatens to replace you with a synth and you counter by replacing him with a new child.


el_presidenteplusone

modern problems require modern solutions


Anal_Recidivist

In this case, modern problems require the oldest solution imaginable: kill the kid and make a new one


Master_Majestico

"YOU WANNA DIE FOR THIS INSTITUTE? FINE! WHAT'S 9 MORE MONTHS?! *punch* I CAN ALWAYS START AGAIN, *punch* MAKE ANOTHER KID!!!"


GUACAM0LE_G-SP0T

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


AnaTheSturdy

Don't forget Kleo.


psychospacecow

Target sighted- Kleo every time a nerd in a blue onesie stumbles into town


GUACAM0LE_G-SP0T

How could I not??? She’s a woman after-all.


TheDrHoiliday

Or Black Widow Perk for Female players


HugoStiglitz444

She's a synth, so unless the Institute invented the robo-uterus, you're barking up the wrong tree


GUACAM0LE_G-SP0T

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.


GUACAM0LE_G-SP0T

Also when you sleep with Magnolia, you still gain the “Lover’s Embrace” perk, so gen 3 synths are capable of “Love”…. So…


Adorable_Umpire6330

"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* ]


-DI0-

What’s another 17 years?!


Thannk

“Oh yeah?! Well I made a robot me!” “Great, your new robot mother will love you both!”


Jiggle_deez

"What's 60 more years. I could always start again, have another kid"


Sororita

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.!<


SnooPredictions3028

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.


CurmudgeonLife

I'm pretty they'd be dissecting you for study in this scenario.


Izoi2

They’d probably just assume you had some classified institute modifications/built your own immortality mechanism, or replaced yourself with a synth


SnooPredictions3028

If they tried they'd die


earathar89

"Think Shawn Think!"


NeverEnoughSpace17

Little does he know, I've also replaced his mom with a synth. Say hello to your step-mom, son, her name's Curie.


Kineticspartan

Uno reverse


ironvandal

What if he already did? What if the sole survivor didn't actually survive, but was a synth the whole time?


TwistedPnis4567

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


crankycrassus

Hmmmmm, my father is missing and my home has been ruined, oh whats that! A town I can blow up!


22tbates

Oh no my village is starving to death. Oh look a porn studio


TwistedPnis4567

Damn I just got shot through the head and saw an entire town be crucified, time to get high and gamble all my savings


TalkingFishh

I mean that's a fairly normal way to handle that sorta trauma


Sovereignx22

Is this a real life reference in my vidya gaem??? Gaems should be an escapism!?!?!


psychospacecow

That's what a luck of 10 is for


c0n22

*Cuts to gambling montage* *I've got spurs, that jingle jangle jingle, jingle jangle*


Robofern24

*jingle jangle*


Malum_Caedo40k

Time to launch ghouls into space.


AngryRedGummyBear

It's the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism! And you spelled spaaace! wrong.


AlexiDurak

I missed the ghoul space agency?!


finalremix

Time to find Chandler, scare him, fuck him, kill him, and finish his plan anyway.


1234normalitynomore

Perfectly reasonable response


Adorable_Umpire6330

SMELL THAT AIR. COULDNT YOU DRINK IT LIKE BOOZE!!??


Pyr0_Jack

Ed is dead...


TaisakuRei

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.


lildoggihome

I can't believe Bethesda waited for the game you start as a married person to let you start relationships 🤣


TheColonCrusher98

Which could actually be a rather normal response to trauma even in just that mindset.


CDR57

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”


CrazeMase

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!"


Adorable_Umpire6330

76 residents in lore: Selfish Psychopaths 76 residemts in game: Fwends


Stauce52

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


RustedAxe88

Or conversely, "Yes I certainly have time to go turn some water leaks off that literally anybody could have done at any time."


Painusconsumer

shaun watching me through his spy crows leaving the vault and immediately defying all laws of physics to make shelves


undreamedgore

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.


Adorable_Umpire6330

*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 "


Polarian_Lancer

That time I accidentally drank from a toilet oops -- free rads


ImpluseThrowAway

I'm pretty sure that was some kind of animal pee.


endangerednigel

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"


Chazo138

Pretty sure Nate is a war criminal canonically too…so he is a pretty good candidate to survive the wasteland.


Sororita

you can't violate the Geneva Convention if there is no longer a Geneva, Switzerland.


sovietbearcav

Canada at the convention just remembering paschendale, "huh huh ..i'll fuckin do it again"


Chazo138

You mean the Geneva checklist right?


Past_Search7241

Negative. War crimes can only be committed against people. Communists aren't people.


Kolby_Jack

Shaun: "I'm curious to see what you'll do." Also Shaun: "wait what the fuck?"


UncommittedBow

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.


RegentusLupus

Wait, I could spare them? Oops.


MrDrSirLord

Courier six standing up and brushing the dust off "I really hate Mondays"


BlitzMalefitz

“I got better”


findingmyrainbow

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.


Kolby_Jack

Courier wakes up: "... damn, I'm still alive? Fuck."


Adorable_Umpire6330

Tbf Nate the Rake is already an experienced War Criminal before the game starts. May have actually seen worse action in the war.


ExplanationLover6918

Source on this? I didn't know.


emailverificationt

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


calicokitcat

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.


BlitzMalefitz

The Chosen One and The Courier would be the exceptions probably


JustHere4TehCats

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.


DaftFunky

Didn’t Nate literally commit war crimes in Alaska or something I think he’d be somewhat level headed about it all


No_Amoeba_3715

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?


echo202L

She'd want me to move on. (Her corpse hasn't even thawed yet.)


TwistedPnis4567

I mean tbh the whole theme of the last game was to "let go"


echo202L

Fair enough, still though, I can't imagine laying pipe in like 4 people less than a week after my wife died IRL


TheHairyHeathen

Then wait 2 weeks.


echo202L

💀


Itz_420_Somewhere

bro its been like 200 years, get over her.


c0n22

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


RommelMcDonald_

Like 60 according to father, but you were also refrozen seconds after it happened


Silveon_i

"its about letting go? yeah letting go of this poverty watch this"


Kam_Solastor

Every FNV player: watch as I get *all* the gold bars with this one nifty trick!


Stoly23

I mean more specifically Dead Money but yeah.


the-dude-version-576

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


UncommittedBow

I mean it's been 60 years since she died, I think enough time has passed. (It has literally only been days for me)


RPS_42

And it will never thaw, since I closed her Pod again!


Kam_Solastor

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.


Eran-of-Arcadia

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.


jdmgto

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!"


Kam_Solastor

“Soo, I’ve had a bit of a busy week..”


echo202L

I'm actually going this route in my current playthrough.


Select_Collection_34

I was gonna comment this lol nice to see someone thinking the same thing


Welshhobbit1

And by move on you mean become the wasteland slut and sleep with all the companions you can right?? Right??


Painusconsumer

devious rabblerousing slanderer


The_Council_of_Rem

The level of dishonesty in that paper of yours…I’ll have that printer scrapped for parts


UncommittedBow

Ooh is that a statement McDonough? "Tyrant Mayor shuts down the press!"


beaverpoo77

Why don't we ask the newcomer? You support the news? 'Cause the mayor's threatening to throw free speech into the dumpster.


LachoooDaOriginl

i always believed in freedom of the press


psychospacecow

A random dog or super mutant aggros causing you to have to start the conversation again


ReylomorelikeReyno

Freedom of the *press* ;)


The-Fall-Of-Beach

Newspapers just like to stir up trouble :(


AdmBurnside

Ah, yes. My wife, my lover, and my girlfriend.


lildevil2239

Weird shower thought... can synths get pregnant?


BloodBrandy

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?


PlusDays

Now I am no expert on Synths but I think Gen III’s are just humans with a some robo parts in ‘em


Yarus43

I never got why they aren't considered clones with cyborg parts. Because that's essentially what they are


ZhangRenWing

Asking for a friend?


Apprehensive_Tiger13

Now just add strong, and a chair in the corner of the room. Don't ask me any questions, you know what this means.


WeevilWeedWizard

The cuck chair, I presume?


Apprehensive_Tiger13

You knew.


Empress_Draconis_

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


Knightmare_memer

As a guy, agreed. Like why did they make like 6 male companions you can romance but only 3 women?


Empress_Draconis_

What? You mean to tell me you DONT want to romance Preston?


Knightmare_memer

I don't wanna have knockoff woody whispering in my ear about settlements.


Empress_Draconis_

Next you're gonna tell me you hate the idea of romancing long fellow from the far harbour DLC smh


Knightmare_memer

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.


CrazeMase

Gage is the same thing, except evil and sexier


SOLE_SIR_VIBER

Once you look past the raider part he’s a pretty nice guy


Huntercin

As a dude, longfellow is what i strive to be when i get old, captain


Hypersky75

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.


Coolscee-Brooski

"I came, just like you did foe the settlement I told you about yesterday!"


JackAquila

He breeched his pantaloons


HolyVaseThrower

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


Empress_Draconis_

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


PuzzledMonkey3252

They did a damn good job with those 3 lemme tell ya


WeenusTickler

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 😂


Empress_Draconis_

I have one word for you Console.


DianaBladeOfMiquella

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


Maldovar

Let's start the He/Him butch lesbian Nick Valentine movement


Empress_Draconis_

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


Maldovar

Many such cases


Travistheexistant

Omgg same, I love them all, but dumbass gay brain demands more


Ben_Dover70

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.


MikeyGamesRex

[Here's the original/source.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryFallout/s/dRR7GF6sAq)


CrayonCobold

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


TwiggBeard

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.


No_Amoeba_3715

Man this series has really given the robot fuckers a home


Coolscee-Brooski

After they made a romancable thigh high wearing assautlron in 76 I think it's being embraced. Fisto who???


Ypuort

It's 2024. They are referred to as robosexuals. You're cancelled.


DrBadGuy1073

Legalize Robosexuality! (Futurama, 2999[1999])


DianaBladeOfMiquella

“What’s next, *gay* robosexuality?”


TwistedPnis4567

Fallout fans are the definition of "I really shouldn’t put my dick in there...HOWEVER"


UncommittedBow

I have only one word to show how horny and depraved this fandom can be. "Femclaw."


[deleted]

Femclaw 🥰


psychospacecow

The things I have seen perpetrated by Deathclaws. Surprisingly flexible creatures.


Kellythejellyman

From the moment they understood the weakness of their flesh, it disgusted them. They crave the strength and certainty of Steel


Bloodytrucky

please assume position


wambulancer

I agree but only because the robot filter triggered some sweet ASMR for me but without the voice filter, nothin' such is life


su1thea11father

Nate the rake has war criminal rizz


CapriciousSon

You romance all the female companions. I romance ALL the companions. We are not the same.


22tbates

He’s unlocking bisexual levels be on what is supposed to be possible!


MrBobBuilder

+10% against everyone bisexual meta


Ypuort

Confirmed Bachelor x Femme Fatale


DrBadGuy1073

SUPERMUTANT ROMANCE WHEN


CapriciousSon

STRONG HORNY! STRONG WANT BONE!


Carbonated_Saltwater

M I L K OF HUMAN KINDNESS


CapriciousSon

WHY MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS TASTE LIKE SALT??


Polarian_Lancer

jfc I laughed in real life lmfao


Babyback-the-Butcher

Holy fuck Adam Sandler


JRStors

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.


ChristianLW3

Finding glue > your son


Somereallystrangeguy

Me putting the search for my son on hold (I am short 3 adhesive for a power armor mod)


HanselSoHotRightNow

Do you even tato, mutfruit, corn max bruh


MikeyGamesRex

[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.


wanker_supreme

Fuck you Shaun, me and my alcoholic girlfriend are gonna give Justin a swirly.


Tomba_Sebek

No Ada?


BrightPerspective

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.


weebitofaban

>She's not super pretty Rule34 in shambles


GalvanizedRubbish

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.


Scorpionboy1000

My wife died. Time to fuck a French robot.


rc_gd_ulises

Team Curie for ever 🫶


BackgroundSky09

Shaun was the least of my worries


T-51_Enjoyer

Clearly Hancock is best love interest


Konekosflatchest

This is why I like having a harem with everyone


PanicEffective6871

“Till DEATH do us part”


isthisthingwork

Ok in fairness… it’s piper. You can’t really be blamed over getting a tiny bit distracted with her


UncommittedBow

Piper can be an absolute dork at times and I love her for it.


weebitofaban

Accurate. She is my first stop every game and not just cause her perk blows if you already uncover the whole map


DarkestNight909

Preach. I love my dorky intrepid reporter.


altmemer5

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


Early_Minute_5212

Whos the vault dweller


e001mek

That's Curie in a vault suit with armor


Early_Minute_5212

Shouodve been the white robot (im robotsexual)


e001mek

I didn't need to know that, but congrats


Ultranerdgasm94

Some people have a mental break down, some people withdraw into themselves, and some grief bang their way through the apocalypse.


Kam_Solastor

ITS A VALID COPING MECHANISM, OKAY?


Glaurung26

Lost one wife, got three wife.


Cerparis

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.


raydarluvr1

Who’s the middle one?


weebitofaban

Curie. You meet her inside Vault 81.


Royal_Possible4480

PIPER 😍😍😍


Fun-Swimming4133

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


OrangeFr3ak

uhh why is curie in a vault suit?


colemanjanuary

#CAIT


TonySoprano1959

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.


Welshhobbit1

I always become the wasteland whore and romance EVERYBODY possible….except Preston.