#fo4 synth

Finally get to share my synth OC, X5-51! You can just call him X5, though. He’s part of an AU with my friend @cumbernuggets, where the Sole Survivor actually dies in the vault but her consciousness is transferred to a synth replica by Father, who doesn’t inform her of her true identity.

Here’s a bit of lore for X5: The Institute was working on manufacturing synths specifically for Courser work rather than extracting from the pool of general Synths. X5-51 was supposed to be one such Courser, but somewhere in the creation process he ended up not exactly being Courser material: he's timid, shy, clumsy, and incredibly bad when it comes to any sort of combat situation. The Institute definitely tried to figure out where it went wrong, but ultimately after multiple resets and tests concluded that this particular unit in the Courser project failed. X5 was relegated to electrical and janitorial work, until some red tape could be cut through to proceed with termination and extraction of his Courser Chip.

However, X5 eventually met my friend @/cumbernuggets’s OC Mariana, the synth of the Sole Survivor, who had recently discovered that she was not the original Mariana… and finding out this weak synth actually had a courser chip was exactly what she needed to help her and her synth son Shaun to escape.

At first Mariana was attempting to get close to X5 to use him and his courser chip, but very quickly found a lot of maternal affection for him. It didn’t take long for Mariana to secretly get X5 on board with her escape plans, and the family of three synths were able to teleport out of the Institute to try and find a life away from the organization. The threat of the Institute being after them hangs over their heads, but to X5 having a new family makes it all worth it to him.

Some assorted notes about X5:

X5 was initially inspired by Connor from Detroit: Become Human, but also gained a lot of inspo from Waterboy from Dispatch lmfao.

He can't really be diagnosed in the wasteland, but X5 is absolutely autistic.

Related to his autism, X5 has a lot of sensory issues surrounding clothes- really the only things he can wear directly on his skin are institute clothing and vault suits. This can make blending in as a regular Wastelander difficult.

X5 has refused both a memory wipe and any changes to his name.

X5 has a stutter.

Where X5 lacks in combat and social skills he more than makes up for in his skills with terminals, other electronics, and mechanics. He is great at hacking terminals and building gadgets.

There's terminal entries in the Institute that say they torture the humans, in the case of the Warwick family, which would result in them dying and bodies dumped. But this obviously isn't the case with Art.

Both human and synth are free and out and about. So what if the Institute doesn't need to kidnap to make synth replacements? What if they just need a bit of their DNA, a bit of hair or saliva or skin swab? With all their tech, they must have the technology to break these down and use them. What if some agents sneak in, grab some DNA samples while they're sleeping, and just create the synth that way? Then the synth replacement takes on the deed of killing the victim, or possibly they end up fleeing the Institute and go as a free synth.

Also, what if some synths genetic codes are completely random? Like, not even any DNA from someone kidnapped or being replaced at all. Full synthetic DNA all on their own. The Institute could be doing this for various of reasons, mainly for the experimentation of it, but also maybe for easier synthetic spies since the Commonwealth is already paranoid of them. I feel like this could explain the synths that the Railroad end up finding the most. Deacon has all the Intel for the railroad. He's in the know. If let's say a synth is a replacement and they fled, there might be some indication that he or someone else would know. Now, I don't think they'd let the family or friends know, Deacon lies, and the Railroad would rather get synths a new face, name, and persona.

What was meant to be a shit post,,,, is now on it’s way to becoming an actual fic.. SIGH

On god though, it has it’s potential,,,

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SuperMutant(Gut): Why Robot touch, Gut?

Synth(S6-32): I have observed humans doing this. It appears to demonstrate togetherness in a pairing.

SuperMutant(Gut): ok.

Synth(S6-32): Your hands are abnormally large.

SuperMutant(Gut): big hands good for punching.

So I’m a percussionist IRL and we have these electronic pianos we call synths. And I’ve only heard about fallout from my older brother and I knew absolutely nothing about the lovely robotic synths in fallout. So let me tell you how confused I was when I got to Diamond City and people were saying they were terrified of synths. Legit though everyone was terrified of electronic pianos. Which is completely understandable they’re pretty scary