ROXIE HART AND VELMA KELLY ARE THE OG TOXIC YURI GFS

Shipping update: Your parcel has been torn asunder by ravenous hogs

Maximus is SUCH an incredibly interesting and VERY well written character. He very consistently falls outside of tropes, which is why he can seem a bit "neither here or there" and hard to pin down, especially in the first season.

But this "tropelessness" does not come from a lack of morals or a weak character. After his whole world was annihilated, he could never wholeheartedly buy the talking points of any powerful entity promising to explain how to exist. Despite admiring the brotherhood, he doesn't use brotherhood talking points to explain the wasteland to Lucy.

It is no coincidence that he is the character who is most able to see the world from a meta, outside perspective: Everyone wants to save the world, they just disagree on how. With much less knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes, he echoes Mr. House: you back a million bodies into a corner at the same time... )

I love his character especially in conjunction with Lucy and Cooper, who are a walking bag of tropes each. And not because of bad writing either, we are given in-world explanations for it. Most of the time, Cooper is playing a character and even though it might have become muscle memory at this point he IS aware of this. Lucy was literally raised in the Trope Vault, which is why her actions are always super consistent with each other BUT these only work reliably in a simplified laboratory environment such as Vault 33. And then there's Maximus who DOES long for something so tangible to hold onto, but knows deep in his gut that it is never as simple.

I can't wait for the three of them to be in a scene together again ❤️

my beautiful wife shes so nasty.

The Wasteland Golden Rule - courtesy of Cooper Howard

Fallout (2024) + Onion headlines

Shipping The Ghoul and Lucy when both characters have black love interests feels very… hmm

I really like how it feels like each character represents different player styles. Or specs.

Lucy feels like the player that just ~can't~ be mean to the npcs. Tries to talk down violent npcs. Maxed charisma.

Norm is the player who'd read all the computer entries and flavor text. Lore is really important to him. Perception and intelligence are maxed so he can hack and lockpick anything.

Max is a bit of a bro who thinks they want a BoS playthrough because military hoorah, but ends up really really liking a companion that dislikes half of your choices that align with the BoS. Would probably force close the game if he saw [Lucy disliked that.] To try again. Also maxed luck.

Coop clearly wants to be a badass that shoots first and asks questions later, but ends up being a lovable rouge who begrudgingly helps the npcs. Maxed agility.

Learning to draw the mean old man

fallout tv series + ao3, 100% nuclear detonation resistant!

fallout tv series + text posts, what could go wrong?

fallout tv series + onion headlines, okey dokey?

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