#fo4 synths

sneak peak of my synth study, I’d be honoured if anyone used my specs to draw their synths more accurately (be aware clearly seeing what exactly is happening in these guys is hard, so I’m making a few educated guesses) enjoy!

EDIT: as of recently this drawing is inaccurate! I was using JUST concept art as references! In game synths are noticeably different, I am drawing step by step how they are constructed, it will take more time but here’s a sneak peek

Not to be a nag about it but the Institute is very much like the synth equivalent of Tennpenny Tower for ghouls. A lot of the information they have is warped to make them seem less horrible about creating a type of human purely to enslave. To find out if a person is a synth is literally impossible with out prior knowledge or death of the synth. Synths regularly enough “gain consciousness” or yknow realize there is more out there beyond the Institute that it’s hard to say they don’t have sentience. Its fear, brainwashing and the very real fact that if they for a moment step out of line they (as they know themself) will be erased or straight up killed.

Even the robots in fallout have a sort of sentience. They may not be able to disobey their primary functions in certain cases but they have opinions on things and can get very opinionated about it. Prominent examples are Cogsworth, Curie, Yes-Man and Ada. I know the difference is one is distinctly believed to be masquerading as human but that’s literally their only “crime” if you can call it that.

It’s such easy bullshit to debunk with canon and a lot of the confusion comes from a lack of second thoughts. The Institute created synths for hyper specific and inhumane purposes. Why in Earth would they propagate information that says:

“Yeah these things are basically people that we made hella strong and forced in to subsigation through threats of death and mind wipe to the point they’d rather escape and have their memories of this place cleaned rather than live and remember their horrible treatment. But not they don’t have sentience or like human needs… I think.”

One way to find out.

EDIT: I thought this was obvious but people keep mentioning it, we're talking gen 3 synths. Obviously gen 1 and 2 can't.

Oh my god bruh

The emotion in the other raiders voice is so...

Okay so like, it's when you use the recoll code, or when X6 does....

Anyway.

The raider is like "Gabriel???" Like so worriedly. What if they were lovers.... what if they fell in love and he watches his boyfriend suddenly fent lean after a weird ohrase like a damn sleeper agent...

Maybe I'm too emotional for smaller groups bruh. I love you under analyzed moments in quests... I love you....

Arthur Maxson has internalized homophobia even though he’s probably bi. Defo has a crush on Danse like seriously.

Sturges absolutely has a crush on Preston Garvey.

Sarah Lyons did not die, she faked her death bcs pressure.

Cait needs a haircut 💇‍♀️.

After leaving the brotherhood Danse joins the minutemen.

Mina (My sole) has convinced several people that the minutemen’s actual slogan is “The Minutemen; we’ll take anybody, or anything.”

Synths that have the same letter designation are siblings

(Sort of an add on to the previous) Sturges’ synth designation is M1-69 (yes childish) so he and Danse (M7-97, yes I have that memorized) are brothers

Three Dog and Travis Miles would get along.

Binary Domain had (spoilers, heads in drawers etc) so much story potential, and could've totally topped Detroit bh 6 or more years before it's release. The designs are fantastic, characters are good but SEGAGames how do you fuck up what could be a turning point where these robots didn't know they were people and the hybrids are accepted instead turns into the US "not giving into racial" and going genocidal on sentient beings and leaving the charismatic possibly character opinion changing French robot to just disappear.

Maybe it's a comment on the USA, but such cool gameplay and style felt wasted. Even the mass effect companion thing didn't change or even do anything.

Btw if you're beating up a robot for not protecting your mom from your dad because it probably had a no attack protocol, why don't you take the bat to your blackout drunk dad who can barely get up?