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Nick Valentine is two different people. Nick the synth, and Valentine the detective.
Nick wants Ellie. Valentine wants Miss Perkins. It's complicated.
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After an old friend shows up out of the blue to ask for Nick Valentine’s help in locating his missing daughter, the synth detective finds himself on a remote island off the coast of Maine, wrapped up in more mysteries than he could really care for. Giant radioactive prawns, fog gods, haunted memories - it’s a dramatic change of pace from retirement, but with a former partner along, maybe it won’t be all bad.
Act II of Weary Exile, Bright Heart.
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- Part 3 of Weary Exile, Bright Heart
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Nora had always been a peculiar girl, but what begins as a harmless fetish becomes something much deeper, and a certain synth detective becomes more than just an obsession.
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"Making synths in our image, making them suffer, making them hurt. Because what kind of gods would they be if their creations couldn't scream?"
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Silhouetted against the flaming roil of the sunset, a massive airship glided by, its appearance like a divine harbinger for a deity with conquest on its mind. The design, a streamlined cobbling of prewar tech and salvage, its tail divided into four sections by fins and propellers of a plane. Spotlights mounted on its framework underside swept over the Commonwealth like the eyes of God, judging and condemning all it touched. Prewar Vertibirds descended from docking arms like war angels, their dark forms showing no signs of age or neglect. Their rotary hum brought back that autumn day, Shaun crying in Nate's arms, their breathless waiting on the vault elevator platform, the blinding plume of the first nuclear explosion — her neighbor, Mister Able, stupidly holding his thumb up and choking back a cry when the cloud swallowed it whole.From the airship, the booming voice of God himself:
"People of the Commonwealth, do not interfere. Our intentions are peaceful. We are…the Brotherhood of Steel."
Then Nick's voice, troubled and low."Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing…"
When anyone quoted Poe, it was never out of joy. On his face, a distant gaze, seeing something beyond the ship, something that made the sprocket of his jaw turn and set. He looked at her with eyes of palest topaz, his brows knitted into a tight knot under his crosshatch scar. In the time she'd known him, Nick had taunted a mob boss and his goons, taken on a legion of synths without a thought, attacked a century-old mercenary without hesitation. But this Brotherhood airship had that metal hand at his side trembling…trembling.
Nick Valentine was afraid.
Already she hated them for that.
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"Alright, I'm just gonna say it. I haven't been honest about who I am. I'm Nick Valentine, but…I'm not Nick Valentine.""Uh…okay?" She set down her dufflebag. The thing weighed a ton anyway. The warm breeze of evening lifted the back of her hair and carried the faint scent of decay and stagnant lake water. "This is about all those hints isn't it? The prewar details you keep mentioning and pretending you didn't say."
"So you did catch those. Was starting to wonder if you were just thick in the head, or ignoring me. And I know you're not thick."
"I wasn't ignoring you. Waiting, yes." He had a way of making her squirm without even trying. "But I wasn't going to be baited."
His smile, fleeting and fragile. "Will you let me reel ya in now?"
"Only if you promise not to eat me."
His smile became a laugh, short and humorless, then it faded under the gloom of his melancholy. The flickering flames of a candle in his eyes, his face cast in silvery blue from the luminescent mushrooms climbing the telephone pole beside him. "Don't worry, doll, was never one for sea food, not that it's an option now.(...)"
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After Far Harbor offers the choice of exile or death, DiMA and Faraday find themselves adrift in their new home in the Commonwealth.
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Awwwwwww I love dima x Faraday they are the gay people ever
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never give all the heart (for love) by what_on_io
Fandom: Fallout (Video Games), Fallout 4
24 Jun 2021
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eight fucking collections i think that says enough
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Dead Woman Walking by rad-roche (maximum_overboner)
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Fallout - Fandom
20 Dec 2023
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Two years after throwing in with a prewar hothead with an axe to grind, Nick Valentine works another routine missing persons—an overbearing father, a resigned mother and a daughter who just can’t take it anymore. Dime a dozen; up until she declares herself a synth, hops on a boat and flees three hundred miles north to Far Harbor, where Fog lays thick and hopes run slim. But between the dogged harbormen, the radioactive death cult, the machine claiming to be his brother, and his own hard-headed partner, something has to give.
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- Part 4 of The Unmade Man
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Ch 13
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oh ym gof
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The Unmade Man by rad-roche (maximum_overboner)
Fandom: Fallout (Video Games), Fallout - Fandom, Fallout 4
14 Jun 2025
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My beloved. My light in this life. My first soulmate. This fic means everything to me. I’ve recommended it to peers. To co-workers. To my professors. It’s a disease I am grateful to bear. I think i huave cofvid. Auoaaaghh
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rad-roche’s fics that go along with their amazing art! A really good reread! (very angsty, fair warning)
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Nate had achieved everything. He had avenged his wife and found his son, even if it wasn’t in the way he had hoped for. He brought peace to the Commonwealth and built a thriving community for his friends and family in Sanctuary.
But the memory of what this home once had been never ceased to linger in his head - until he decided to make the impossible possible by building a time machine. He wanted to go back in time and relive the life that was taken from him. His companions? Friends and lover? They wanted to save Nate from a fate none of them could possibly comprehend.
Science and fate have their way and the companions stumble upon Nathan, a young man who turned out to be Nate's past self in a world before the Great War. Feelings of hope, despair, love and jealousy rise, as their time to find Nate runs low…-
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if there's a place for me that love has kept protected by what_on_io
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Fallout (Video Games)
13 Oct 2020
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"John, you're- No, look at me. You're everything. There’s so much about you that I love, John Hancock. Your kindness, even when people don’t deserve it. How gentle you can be when you put your mind to it, and how fierce you can be when you don’t. How you won’t take any shit, and you won’t let the people you care for take it either."
A faint part of Hancock can’t believe that it’s Paladin Danse, standing here saying this to him. It all still feels like a fever dream.
“If you were anyone else, I’d take you upstairs and undress you so slowly you’d hardly notice it was happening,” Danse says. "But you're not anyone else. So how about you take me upstairs and have your wicked way with me, instead?”
Nick meets his brother, Hancock Feels Things™ and Danse is just trying to stay afloat.
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- Part 6 of never give all the heart (for love)
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when i die i want your hands on my eyes by what_on_io
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Fallout (Video Games)
24 Jun 2021
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“Or maybe you like your men served a lil’ more irradiated,” Hancock snarls. He crowds the soldier, so their chests are pressed together and he can feel the human heat through his shirt. From this angle, the big man has to tilt his head down to look him in the face. “Is that it, soldier?”
“Fuck you.”
“You want to?”
A little ficlet collection that I apparently couldn't stop myself from starting, based in my never give all the heart (for love) universe.
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- Part 7 of never give all the heart (for love)
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A synth doesn’t need to eat. To sleep. To ponder, to wonder, to look at the stars and see beauty. A synth doesn’t need to bathe, drink, feel things for others. A synth doesn’t need to be kind, or mean, or barter weapons with Arturo, or flicker your gaze to a guard that doesn’t feel right.
A synth doesn’t need to love, but in a way, you wished you could.
And while a synth doesn’t need to, somewhere in the digital heart you had created from the basic 1’s and 0’s, you found the capacity to want to.
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A courser arrives at Acadia, unarmed and unaccompanied.
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- Part 30 of Whumptober 2020
- Part 4 of Don't They Know It's the End
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Synthetic Uncertainty by The_Epitome_of_Pretense
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Fallout (Video Games)
20 Mar 2019
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Disaster strikes when Nick and Sole explore the Harbor Grand Hotel.
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- Part 26 of The Sole Saga
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How Life Goes On, The Way It Does by Maculategiraffe
Fandom: Fallout (Video Games), Fallout 4
21 Jun 2021
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the one where the sole survivor is a mother to the synths and also incredible
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The story of Tess Vanderbilt, the sole survivor of Vault 111.
She has just woken up from her cryopod. Her husband is dead. Her baby is gone. No one is alive. She must escape the vault and take her chances outside, into the unknown. Adjusting to an altered world, she happens upon the handsome and kindly Jake Evans. What the future holds now is unclear, but with new friends and a purpose, she will do what she must to find her son and help the people of the Commonwealth along the way.
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Valentine & Vimes by Aleaiactaest, Slyjinks
Fandom: Discworld - Terry Pratchett, Fallout (Video Games), Fallout 1, Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, Hellblazer, The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
15 Jan 2022
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DiMA gets revenge on the Institute, and all that entails.
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Shaun goes to Acadia. Hijinks ensue.
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- Part 1 of Short Stories
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During the years they'd spent together, Faraday had learned to read a myriad of emotions in those stony eyes.
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Valentine & Vimes: Going Nuclear by Aleaiactaest, Slyjinks
Fandoms: Discworld - Terry Pratchett, Fallout 4, Fallout (Video Games)
27 Jun 2020
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When the strange goggles attached to the Wizard-created "icono-game" were slammed down in front of Commander Sam Vimes' eyes, he didn't know what to expect. When the frost cleared, the first thing he saw was Sybil murdered and young Sam kidnapped, and because there's no world where Sam Vimes could allow that to stand, he gave chase into a world like no world he'd ever seen, where he knew no one and no one recognized him. He'd have to find new allies to help him deal with dangers that, while new, still felt sickeningly familiar. Because some things never change.
Note: A few individual chapters are explicit, and are clearly marked. The fic as a whole is Mature.
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- Part 1 of Valentine & Vimes