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Fallout 4 gives The Institute a pretty half-assed ideology. I don’t think Institute scientists spring out of bed every day, eager to produce more creepy things in their creepy things factory. What actually drives the people living below ground, and why do certain people above ground act as informants for The Institute? I refuse to believe Father released the Sole Survivor for “funsies” and with no Institute guidance and manipulation. How was The Institute involved behind the scenes, and how would that affect the Sole Survivor’s path? In trying to come up with answers, I ended up asking another question: after sixty years of third gens, why hadn’t The Institute come up with a fourth-generation synth? This prompted the creation of my original character, Hob, and the necessity of starting a few weeks before SoSu leaves the vault.
This work is also trying to fix the countless Bethesda “yeah-that’s-good-enough” throwaway explanations for dialogue, terminal entries, chronology, etc. I felt like Dr. Frankenstein trying to resurrect various Fallout 4 body parts into a living, breathing creature. But despite my criticism, make no mistake – I love the crap out of this game.
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Nora and Nick are partners, best friends, and anyone can see they'd both like there to be more. Yet Nick has never made a move and Nora never pushed it. She knows he's self conscious about his limitations as a Gen 2 synth, and wouldn't want to make him uncomfortable by pressing the matter. All that changes when Nick gets the sudden urge, some time after diving into Kellogg's mind to find Shaun, to get a touch up and repair his broken exterior. He gets more than he bargains for however when a simple show and tell turns into a nightmare for both of them. Can their relationship survive a vengeful soul bent on using Nick's body to make Nora suffer, or are some things too unforgivable for even love to overcome?
~This work contains spoilers for the Fallout 4 main quest and some side quests!~
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“Unrequited love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such by the beloved,” she crouched down before him, her thumb grazing his cheekbone, “is that what I have done to you, my love?”
----------------------------------------------------------------------------She knows what it means, she doesn’t even need to look at the tiny rose for any longer than a second.
“Dee,” she croaks, those beautiful eyes full of tears. This was the last thing he wanted.
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After their first meeting, they go their separate ways. Alyssa remembers the words Mama Murphy spoke to her. Maxson remembers Alyssa.
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With the Commonwealth on the brink of war as the ever growing Brotherhood of Steel threat looms on the horizon, Nora must somehow reform the Institute’s ways from the inside as their new Director. Negotiations, charisma, and tact will be just as useful in the upcoming battle as guns, ammo, and soldiers. But Nora will learn that being the leader means that she’ll have to make some tough choices which could put her friends and loved ones in danger. Can Nora unite the Commonwealth together or will everything crumble into ashes and mark the ruins of another civilization?
Sequel to Remember How We Forgot and The Dark I Know So Well
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- Part 5 of A Woman Out of Time
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We Had Become Them by MelanisticMoon
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
04 Nov 2020
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Nathan Hersch was a Controller. Had been since the war. But unlike most hosts, his infestation was entirely voluntary. Waking up in the future the Railroad becomes the closest place to home, and with his morphing ability, he is invaluable to the cause. He must only hide from them that he, like the boogeymen of the Institute, is a Controller.
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A Liar's Liar, and a Relic by thexonexwhoxwanders
Fandoms: Fallout (Video Games), Fallout 4
20 Oct 2020
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He thought he knew everything about her, but she's hard to figure out. And he realizes, in their search for her missing brother, that maybe she's figuring him out instead. AU Deacon/F!SS
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AU: The Nate/Shaun story line doesn't exist and the Sole Survivor is your average pre-war girl awaking from cryostasis- discovered by MacCready. The Great War happened in a nuclear powered version of modern times, and she wakes to a world she wasn't made for. With the help of her new friends, she hopes she can piece together the mystery of her past and learn to survive a world gone mad- not to mention some very powerful enemies.
Slow burn MacCready/F Sole Survivor. Other minor relationships, smut and feels here and there.
**I love and appreciate feedback!**
**A collection of one shots surrounding this also available.**
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- Part 1 of There You Are: The Series
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It's night-time when he stops. He doesn't recognize himself anymore, but he does recognize the bodies.
The lies aren't for funsies, like Deacon would like everyone around him to believe. No, there's a real reason behind each placed word, every change of his face, every person he pushes away.
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Something's gone off in Blackstone Gorge's Vault 82. Their food dispensers have worked fine for decades, but the consistency's off. Galen Miner, now above ground, has set to determine if the goo is what's made his people ill, or if there's something more sinister afoot.
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- Part 1 of The Purkinje Effect
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The idea behind signing up for the Vault program was to be prepared for the end of the world. Quite frankly, Nora expected to live out her life and die in that Vault of old age. Going to sleep and waking up to find her husband dead and her son missing was the exact opposite of everything she thought would happen after the bomb. Now Nora must return to the world she and the other Vault Dwellers abandoned in the hope of being reunited with her kidnapped son, and be thrust into the middle of post-War history as the War for the Commonwealth simmers and boils to an explosive finish.
Is the kidnapping the whole story, or is this just the beginning of something far more sinister?
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There are some major canon-divergences as the story goes on. One companion outright dies. Everyone's more concerned about the fact that Nora has a missing child than in the game. I try and remain canon-friendly where I can, but I'm taking liberties with personalities where it doesn't conflict with the original lore. TRIGGER WARNING: Nora's mental health gets a bit questionable. Then again, wouldn't anyone's?Story is COMPLETE: You may notice some changes while I clean up typos though.
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- Part 1 of Sole Survivor: Nora Mulyer
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In the wake of the Brotherhood's decimation of Sanctuary, Danse is left badly injured and Nora has an incredibly difficult decision to make. They're going to need the support of everyone they know if they're going to have any chance of standing against Maxson's fanatical tyranny, and the time is long past for Danse to decide whether or not he's going to act against everything he once believed.
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- Part 2 of Ad Meliora
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Kayla had a rough life before the bombs fell.
It was absolutely NOT how she imagined it, not the fairytale she wanted...
But all changed when the bombs fell.How will she adapt to the new life she's been given?
Will she ever recover from the physical and psychological pain from her past?
Will there be somone she can trust, or even love?
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Shaking her head, she ran her fingers through her messy hair. “It’s more interesting than it sounds.” She confessed, head tilting when her smile warmed up with an emotion he couldn’t place. “Thank you.”
“For?” John pressed, confused. “Just doin’ what everyone should and bein’ nice to ya?”
Nora nodded, her smile falling when she looked down at the couch cushions, fingers fiddling with the torn holes brandishing them here and there.
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A journey of reflection, doubts, new bonds and old faces that leads to the downfall of the Institute. It starts with Operation Red Glare, the mission that will lead to the downfall of the Institute, the boogeyman of the Commonwealth.
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As evil as Deacon knows the Institute can be, it's unlikely they planted a cryogenically frozen version of his dead wife in a pre-war Vault. So he's accidentally stumbled across the woman they modeled Barbara to look like. Plus her dead, also frozen, husband. All he wants to do is file it away with his other lifelong trauma and forget that she exists, but when Nora bursts into the Commonwealth a few years later that isn't an option anymore.
A shameless short-fic idea that wouldn't go away. Based on the Hozier song 'Almost' and the desire to create an even more emotionally tortured Deacon by having Barbara originally as a rejected mother-figure synth for a younger Shaun, modeled to look like the Sole Survivor.
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Annie Simeone-Johannes does not like Deacon.
He's too cocksure of himself, too foolhardy and aloof, and he lies through his teeth 98.7% of the time, and the remaining 1.3% he's trying to impart some great 'lesson of wisdom' on her (the first time he bullshitted her, she believed it - now she’s smart enough to recognize his tells, recognize that at every lie’s center there’s a grain of truth that holds it all together).
He's too loud, a liar and a sleaze… in short, he's everything Ritchie was when they first met; her a budding actress and him a well known actor-producer combination. A recipe for disaster, more like (at least with Deacon, she knows he’s not fucking her costars in their bed.) She has to remind herself, too often for her to feel truly comfortable, that they are two different people, too different to be the same, and yet -
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Exactly 210 years after the bombs fell the vault opened. Deacon could appreciate the irony. Now he has a new agent to break in, bright-eyed and foul-mouthed.
Everyone in the 'Wealth has something to hide, but as they grow closer Deacon's lies may just cost him the one friend he's got. The only question is—between the assistant D.A. and professional liar, which one will the truth hurt more? -
Now you see me by Crawlin_out_through_the_fallout
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Fallout (Video Games)
11 Apr 2020
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The Railroad was now on it's last legs- Deacon knew that the end was near.
But a new variable had now entered the game, and Deacon wanted to see where the game was heading.
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Rose Halloran is the sole survivor of Vault 111.
Before the bombs fell, she was an accomplished lawyer, a new mother, and wife to a loving husband. After waking up from a horrible cryo-sleep experiment, she finds that she's been stripped of all of these titles. Widowed, alone, and afraid, she sets out to find the man who has kidnapped her son, the need for vengeance festering in her heart every step of the way.Suspended indefinitely.