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Thor

Legion

Good

Trans man & confirmed bachelor

Main companions with Arcade and Vulpes

Trained in power armor

Canon courier

Anti-material rifle enjoyer

Wears breathing mask full time

Has extensive chest burns and no nipples from wasteland top surgery

From a farm in rural NCR

Atom

House

Neutral

Cis confirmed bachelor

No main companion, recruited everyone

Considers himself only an employee

Never heard of having strong morals

Has a weird gay thing going on with Mr. House

Guatemalan by birth and a second gen courier supported by his parents

Birth name is Stephen, goes by Atom exclusively in the Mojave

Lion

NCR

Very Evil

Cis bisexual

Companion killer- none besides EDE lasted long

Cannibal

Only courier with major brain damage

Yao Guai gauntlet enjoyer

Dated Ulysses pre-Divide and reconnected post-Lonesome road

From a Japanese speaking tribe in California

Birth name is Yoen but he renamed himself "The NCR's Lion" after the benny moment

Vegas

Yes-Man

Good

Trans Cherches la femme

Arcade, Vulpes, and Joshua main companions

Vaguely allied with the brotherhood

Power armor enjoyer

Prewar ghoul

Changes her name to the area's name every time she moves to a new city.

Originally from North Carolina

Has a weird lesbian thing going on with Veronica

Aurelia

Legion

Evil

Cis bisexual

Vulpes and Achilles (From Caesar's new regime) main companions

Coexists with Thor

Enslaved Arcade

One of Joshua's many bastard children, raised in Flagstaff

Ripper enjoyer

Ncoy

House

Neutral

Trans Cherches la femme

Veronica and Achilles main companions

On loan from my original manuscript

Ex-Praetorian

Gifted to Caesar as a child from her tribe to be his guard

Ballistic fist enjoyer

Tall as fuck

Cyrus- Vault Dweller

No faction

Good

Cis confirmed bachelor

Katja enjoyer (she somehow was the last one standing)

Design is still in process- short and stout, longish hair, and face always hidden by a veil.

Descendant of Canadian-Iranians

Quiet and reserved, but friendly. He struggled with harming mutants and ghouls

Hid his vaultie identity almost as soon as he hit Shady Sands

Settled down with Ian after defeating the Master

Koura- Prisoner

tribal-aligned (though has a complicated relationship with tribal identity) occasionally legion-friendly, always hates NCR and Presper

Evil

Cis (ish) het

Hanged Man main companion

Melee and unarmed enjoyer

From a Māori-speaking group descended from stranded tourists. NCR incorrectly considers them a low tech hunter-gatherer group due to friendly relations with local tribal groups.

Has the most fucked up romantic relationship with the Hanged Man.

Quick to anger, impulsive, and perennially confident

Mathaius- Lone Wanderer

Railroad

Very evil

Cishet

Dogmeat only

No major weapons specialization

James couldn't spell Matthaeus- Mathaius Regularly fought other vault kids over the spelling

Had a tendency to push his luck with others in the vault, which got Out Of Control on the surface

Relentlessly hates his vault, but has a soft spot for synths.

Cannibal

Wiped Danse and pointed him to the Brotherhood

For MacCready, it's on sight (he threatened most of the Lamplight kids with his shotgun + Dogmeat)

(He's very redheaded- the lighting in the New California mod washes him out. My 100% Todd-Approved FO3 copy doesn't allow any screenshots at all)

Jax-Sole Survivor

Minutemen

Good

Cis confirmed bachelor

Danse primarily- close to everyone but Piper and Cait

Archer

Mixed Cuban/Chinese- occasionally an issue prewar

Had a happy lavender marriage with Nora (who was a lesbian & his best friend)

Joined the Coast Guard in 2074- was friendly-fired in the leg by accident during an Alaska deployment in 2076

He retired quietly (with a large pension) to save face

Deals with chronic pain, abuses alcohol and Med-X to make it through the Shaun hunt, then retires with Danse and uses mobility aids full-time afterwards

Brought home synth Shaun

Extreme soft spot for synths

Ncoy- Electric Boogaloo

Institute

Evil

Still trans Cherches la femme

Cait enjoyer (in every sense)

Still powerfist enjoyer

Guilty for opposing the Legion, she hitches a caravan east

Coincidentally looks like Nora, fools the institute

Uses the Institute and Minutemen to build her own Eastern Legion

Continues to wear NCR Ranger & Praetorian gear

• Collects old US Army patches and keeps them in his coat pocket. Doesn’t exactly know what every one is for but he has made an effort to find out.

• Knows how to braid. He picked it up early in his service with the Minutemen while watching another recruit do it. Likes to braid grass and other things when he’s bored because the repetitive motion is nice.

•After the Castle is retaken he makes a conscious effort to do daily reflections and talk to the General more when he’s feeling down. He knows he’s prone to depression but he’s got a good support system at this point.

thank you. more than one friend has reached out on tumblr to ask, so i thought i should set aside the time to say something about it. it's been enormously meaningful and humbling to see coworkers, friends, and people i consider mentors praising my writing and advocating for reasons to hire me. reading dozens of tributes to your work and exemplary character gives the impression of watching the slideshow at your own funeral.

i alluded to this in a linkedin (ugh) post: it's hard to lose any job. it's especially hard to lose a job at the studio that i had hoped to write for since i was nineteen years old. the conventional gamedev wisdom is not to get attached to a "dream studio," and to prioritize the people and projects you want to work with instead. but i do love the people. they understood me creatively, they believed i had potential, they gave me community, they got me out of my shell. even when the harsh realities of project stress set in - every game gets chaotic at some point, even the good ones - my desire to do good work and do right by my teammates saw me through.

to their credit, i don't believe anyone in obsidian leadership wanted this to happen. on the contrary: i imagine they fought like hell to prevent it. that does not change the material reality that i now live in limbo, looking for another job, hoping to return someday. i have those surreal experiences i imagine all newly-laid-off people have. i should be in a meeting right now. i shouldn't buy that. i still had my job the last time i wore this shirt. i devoted so much effort to my last obsidian project that i have no idea what personal writing i should work on to fill the void. even if i had something, the thought of what it would take to finish it exhausts me, and i would have no idea how to get it published. in some ways, i no longer know who i am.

If this cruel experiment from Microsoft fails, it may be lights out for id, Obsidian, and maybe even and Bethesda within the next ten years.

God fucking dammit Microsoft, yes we want Fallout and TES games to come out faster but not at the cost of thousands of people's jobs and their financial safety and well being.

The issue of course is Microsoft/Xbox will 110% be breathing down the necks of Obsidian in the absolute worst way.

Its very likely Obsidian's future/continued existance will determined by the potential success of this game and that is far too much pressure to place that team under. Not saying they cant handle it, they are professionals after all, but is that fair? Fuck no

Let them develop their game on a healthy timeline and treat it like any other game that company could be making. I pray to god that im wrong but every instinct I have tells me that Obsidian will be under ungodly pressure from Microsoft during the development of this game

I just had probably one of the deepest moments of introspection I've had in a while where I kind of understood what it's like to live as a transgender person, and it's all because of Fallout 3.

I've been in a very Fallout mood lately for literally no reason, and after turning Vegas into an anarchist state and literally throwing a guy off of Hoover Dam I decided to have some fun in Maryland of all places, so I downloaded Tale of Two Wastelands and have been modding Fallout 3 into Stalker basically.

Because I've pretty much always played Fallout games as a man, I decided to switch things up a bit and play as a woman for once, so I've been going around imagining my character, the avatar that represents me in the game world, as a woman.

And EVERYONE keeps misgendering me.

So many NPCs have what feels like male-centric dialogue, like one of Reilly's Rangers saying I had a "tough guy" thing going on, slavers using profanity directed towards me that only really works with a man, and people in Operation: Anchorage literally refer to me as sir.

Every time they do, I'm immediately overcome with this feeling of either being the most clueless person in the room or the smartest, cause it's like "why are people so blatantly missing the fact that I'm literally not that gender."

And then when I was like scavenging or whatever it suddenly hit me that THIS is what transgender people put up with on a regular basis. I felt like Danny Devito in that one scene from It's Always Sunny where he's like "oh my god, I get it."

So in order to keep getting the full evil karma experience, every time I do something convenient or utilitarian that raises my karma I go back to Moriarty’s Saloon and just open his terminal over and over again.

God Bless the Enclave, and God Bless America!!