#vault101

Anna: “Butch, why is Daddy never happy with what I do?”

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I have some headcanons about Vault 101 and how it affected their childhood. Sit down, a lot of text is coming!

With Alphonse Almodovar becoming the new Vault 101 Overseer, the rules of containment and isolation became increasingly strict and a lot of people or entire families who wanted to leave the vault to the outside world were treated unfairly and often using force to contain any claim.

The Deloria family was one of the families that visited the outside world, coming back with new ideas and proving that the outside world was livable, that it would be beneficial for the Vault to receive more foreigners and open up for trade. This ended up messing with the administrative structures and the experiments the Vault had to conduct. A small group of residents agreed with Deloria's ideas and started a pro-opening movement.

Using Butch's father as an example of how the administration would bring up this type of issue, Alphonse ordered him to be executed forcing Ellen Deloria, who was pregnant at the time, to never mention the subject again ,repressing the movements even more until reducing them to dreams of foolish young people. This tragedy affected Ellen, leaving her alone with a child to raise, developing alcoholism and later neglecting Butch's education, causing the family to reassure the reputation of "troublesome and inconvenient".

It was common for the Deloria’s to receive less food stamps, less support when a problem occurred, it was usually their fault.For Butch, who was growing up, his clothes were always bigger than his size  to avoid being changed mostly well worn out, was given less attention during schooling and group games as well. Butch as a child did not always understand what was going on with his family, but as everyone in the Vault was used to saying he deserved it and his mother was never sober enough for him to ask about it, he came to accept that condition, but throughout childhood this feeling became disgust and, finally, he was angered by any authority.

Upon being accepted into the Vault as the new doctor, James Campbell, wanting to avoid as much as possible any disagreements and earn the trust of the administration, started to abide by all the rules and proved to be an exemplary resident. Over time, the good doctor won a prestigious place, both in the administrative leadership and with the local population. Some perks also came, like bigger  accommodations, unlimited food and drink vouchers, the best changes of clothes and shoes, unlimited access to Vault's facilities, among other small favors. With a prominent position James always walked with clothes and aligned postures and guided his daughter Anna to follow the same steps.

Anna started to grow and her father soon showed the desire for her daughter to follow in her footsteps, because in that way she would remain safe in the Vault, he always kept her well groomed (with her red satin ribbon, a gift from her late wife and which became the most important item for Anna), the VaultSuit clean and with all the accessories. He was strict with her grades and strongly encouraged Anna to befriend the Overseer's daughter, the son of the general store named Brian and other important figures.

Even with the guidance of all adults to Anna and Amata stay away from children who caused problems ... Butch and Anna ended up starting a friendship already in kindergarten, when Butch got into a fight to defend the girl and lies saying that he started the fight, but Anna tells the teacher the truth and in the end the two end up being punished together, with one blaming the other for being in this situation. Over time the two children grew up and it was common to see them together through the vault, always arguing and laughing because of games, schoolwork and children's day-to-day problems( such as the scratch that Anna left on Butch's face because the boy wouldn't let her read his edition of Grognark.). They were good friends and neither of them seemed to care about the distinction society made of them.

Amata started to feel rejected with her friend giving so much attention to someone that she shouldn't even be friends with and started complaining to her father, Lady Palmer and anyone who asked. Just as Paul and Willy started mocking Butch by calling him Anna's puppy and spreading it to everyone in the vault that the two were dating.

The news reached James, about his beloved daughter's involvement with the Deloria's son. As she was simply ignoring her father's recommendations, James starts lying to Anna about Butch and his family, in addition to all the ways to keep them away, either forbidding to see each other, or telling Butch that Anna never wanted to play with him again or wouldn't do schoolwork anymore. With Ellen feeling once again wronged about what they said about her son, she tried to convince Butch that it was a bad idea to get involved with the Campbells, as they were management’s boot-lickers and would step on him at some point

With the two more “poisoned” each day against each other, the fights became more personal and both began to avoid each other. Until, at the age of nine, Anna got into a serious fight, breaking a friendship of years and becoming mortal enemies.

Basement Corner: Thoughts on Vault 101′s Funeral Expenses and Restitution (F.E.A.R.) Program

Welcome to the Basement Corner! Basically a little sector of this blog where, as Faerie, I talk about writing! It’ll mainly have to do with my fanfictions or fanfiction-related content in writing, since this is a fanfiction-driven blog after all, but once in a while I’ll make posts about writing in general.

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Interested in reading my work? You can find my main fanfiction with my Lone Wanderer, an inventor by the name of Winona Parker, and everyone’s favorite Vault 101 hoodlum, Butch DeLoria, here; AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/12490448/chapters/28433148 FF.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12694845/1/Inventor-s-Absolution 

============================================================ The Funeral Expenses and Restitution (F.E.A.R.) Program is not written into the above mentioned fanfiction, but it is something I consider to be ‘head canon’ that hasn’t been properly addressed in the story. This is completely fan-made as Fallout lore of my own creation because I have too much time on my hands, apparently (LOL). I’ve had some nagging thoughts about how Vault 101 goes about funerals and wanted to get such thoughts down on paper; figured while I’m at it I’d share it here so readers can get insight into more of my work behind the scenes!

What is it: As the title may suggest, it’s a program initiated by Vault 101 that prepares the proper arrangements for vault residents who have passed for their remaining family. This includes handling of the deceased, funeral preparations, and arrangements for dividing the deceased one's belongings.

Concerning dividing such personal possessions, dwellers can—of course—write a will for how they wish for their belongings to be passed around to their family members, but a good portion of such 'belongings' are seen as owned by Vault 101 itself and not the actual dweller. Things like clothes (jumpsuits) and furniture can't be distributed because of this, and no one owns property in the vault; residents are supplied with apartments expense free, so there's no leaving your living quarters to your remaining family as an extra living space when you pass. Having a living space is considered to be a basic right that extends to any/all residents, and to ensure that every single person is properly sheltered is one of the many duties the Overseer has. The only thing that can be passed on to loved ones through a will are more sentimental items that can be traced back through the family tree from when a household first entered the vault; things like family photos (of course), childhood toys, family heirlooms, etc.. Belongings can also be claimed by the vault and the Overseer if it's considered an absolutely necessary resource (like sports equipment or books as meager examples), and these items are considered as donations to the welfare of the vault.

The 'welfare of the vault' is terminology you'll be hearing a lot in the F.E.A.R. Program.

In funeral preparations, which also somewhat ties into handling the body, are taken care of by the appropriate workers in the maintenance track. A standard Vault 101 funeral has the entirety of the vault in attendance, even residents not considered close to the family, and it's not a casket service. Various dwellers are welcomed to speak about the deceased person in the service, and afterward the surviving family (if there's any to speak of) are given an urn that's more decorative than functional, depending on how they requested for the body to be taken care of. The funeral service is also set up by maintenance workers.

Now onto handling of the body; if a deceased resident has surviving family they have a choice between cremating the body in the incinerator or to donate them for the welfare of the vault. The deceased can outline in their will how they wish to be handled in death, of course, but in a situation where such an outline isn't identified, or there isn't remaining family to speak on their behalf, the body will only have the option of being donated. 'Donate' is a loosely used term by residents as the matter can be considered unsettling to some while an honor to others. To donate one's body means that it will be turned into fertilizer for the crops in Vault 101's greenhouses (which is another head canon of mine) to ensure the soil used doesn't go stagnant. If a body is incinerated it's collected into the aforementioned urn and given to the family after the funeral is over. If the body was donated, an empty 'decorative' urn is given to the family to symbolize the loved one's body.

Funeral urns are a responsibility given to the surviving family, and so they're expected to treat the urn with utmost care of they decide to keep it—so to this day, 200 years later, many families might still possess the funeral urns of their ancestors who entered Vault 101 so long ago. Unclaimed or unwanted urns (in the event of no remaining household, or family members don't wish to take it) are taken in by the vault and inducted into their 'graveyard'. It's simply a room with restricted access only to funeral maintenance workers, and the Overseer; this room has cubby holes and shelves for the urns that are sectioned off to depict individual family trees.

In the case of James and Winona (my Lone Wanderer), she was told that Catherine's body was incinerated and the urn was relinquished to the 'graveyard' because James was too distraught to keep it with them. Despite no urn for Catherine existing, a section for the 'Parker' household was created when they were allowed into the vault but it currently stands empty (obviously).

Whew, that was one hell of a post! I hope it wasn't boring for anyone who bothered to read it, and if you did, I thank you kindly for humoring the machinations of my too active imagination~ I think I wrote down all of my thoughts on the F.E.A.R. Program as well as the various processes of it, but if you have a question about anything I discussed (or didn't) feel free to mention it so it may be addressed!

Side note: Coming up with the title came to me pretty easily. I wanted something that sounded foreboding because it deals with death and funerals, but I can't say it'd be a name that Vault-Tec would've approved of ;)

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Concerning the future of Basement Corner

There will now be a link under the profile header where you can see topics I want to talk about in the future! You can also make suggestions for future topics, and if I like them or think they could make for an interesting discussion, they'll be added to the list! That way everyone can see what's in the future and tell me which one they'd much rather prefer me to write about in the future.

(lastly, photo created by me through Google stock images)

The two children were hiding after stealing a packet of chips from the cafeteria.

Butch: “Hey, Nosebleed, look what I can do! I doubt you can speak my name like that. ”

Anna: “This is easy! I want to see you say mine. ”

Butch: “Together! One... Two..Three!

Anna: “Putch Peporia!”

Butch: “Annia Paria Pampbell!”

The laughter followed in sequence, along with more words. It's never been so cool to eat a packet of snacks.

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