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that's 👏 what 👏 i'm 👏 talking 👏 about 👏

#illium x shadowheart #🫦 #anyone goes after his girl he will crush them like a grape #shadowheart is supposed to be between 5' 6“ - 5' 8” #and because it's my gameplay and fic #i picture her like 5' 7“ or so. 5' 8” sometimes if i want her to be taller #Illium is 6' 5“ feet tall or 6' 7” if i want him reallly tall 🥰😘

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Minthara: "I expect so. If the world were to end, I think my mother would survive to rule over the ruins."

same, Minthara, same 😔✊

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"She's a formidable woman, my Aylin, but no one could escape such horrors unscathed. She's in my hands, now, and I intend to help her through whatever's to come."

I love how Isobel sees to the heart of Aylin, what no one else sees, or acknowledges. Yes, Aylin is daughter to a goddess and has incredible powers, but she hurts and has feelings just like anyone else. Isobel sees that and wants to protect Aylin and her heart. 🥺

#bg3 #dame aylin #isobel thorm

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me: i like this character a normal amount

racists: he's boring!

me, ripping my shirt to another shirt underneath which says Maximus Defender Squad: i love this character. I will fight for you

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like i don't worry or care about bookmarks?

me, reading smut fics: oo this one was good! (save)

some other smut reading weirdo who reads the same shit i do: ooo she has good taste! thanks!

like who cares

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reblog for bigger sample size

#ao3 #i just bookmark shit i like and don't care if it's public #who the fuck is digging around bookmarks #not me #go enjoy the fics i saved whatever idc

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I love love love how Lucy has shown Maximus that he can feel safe and loved and find a home to feel happiness for once in all his lifetime and the fact Maximus is holding that with all his might to have that hope to have that happiness and safety with Lucy

#fallout prime #maximus x lucy

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You guys know that we have a third main character, right?

#fallout prime #maximus

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"Not a perfect soldier, but a good man"

#fallout prime #maximus

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Characters that deserve better

+ companions

Amazon's original Fallout Tv Show

#fallout prime #lucy maclean #maximus #the ghoul #cooper howard #gifs // #fallout spoilers

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Regardless of my feelings about the BoS as a whole in the Fallout series, Maximus as a character exceeded all my expectations.

Maximus, honestly, to me, was the most nuanced and best acted character in the series. His situations were fantastical and yet the way he reacted to it all was so grounded. He was like a prestige drama character in a series full of cartoons. Don't get me wrong, I like the cartoons. Fallout leans heavily into parody and it's totally on brand. But Maximus' entire emotional arc was so understated and I really appreciated it.

He isn't a very vocal OR excessively emotive character because he knows being vulnerable hurts him. He shapes himself to that idealized memory of the knight in the armor even as he doesn't seem to really understand or care for the beliefs behind the armor. He's failing his classes as an aspirant. When talking of the BoS beliefs, he throws in a "or whatever". That part of it doesn't matter to him. The armor IS his belief system.

His whole story is about the cycle of violence and toxicity. The bullies who beat him. The abuse he endures. He wants power so that he can escape it but once he gets that chance he's doomed to perpetuate it, because that power is coming from the system. It's tainted. Deep down he doesn't want revenge, he doesn't even want power for power's sake, he wants safety. And he wants to be the hero from his memory, he wants the strength to save himself from this cycle.

And yet, he just keeps making he wrong choices. Over and over and over. He can't get out of it.

And then Lucy throws him a lifeline. And it takes someone from outside of the cycle to break through. And then he makes the choice to do the right thing even though it means making himself weaker, making himself less safe. He chooses to do the right thing for the first time in the show. And it means finally letting go of his dream, the armor.

And he sees a light at the end of the tunnel. He thinks his reward is going to be Vault 33, he's going to be safe and happy with someone who cares about him and makes him feel like a real, good person.

And by the end of the series, he's trapped in the cycle again.

There is just something so delicious about someone getting everything they wanted at the start and being miserable about it. There's something so REAL about wanting to be something but every instinct makes you sabotage yourself every step of the way.

And the thing is, he had all of these little moments of genuineness, selfishness, pettiness, virtue, I genuinely didn't know what he was going to do for most of the show. I thought he might turn on Lucy at some point. I honestly, truly thought he had sabotaged Dane even though Dane was his only friend. He is so morally hard to pin down because he's so full of life's little hypocrisies. His ideals and his feelings are in conflict so much and he doesn't have to look anguished for you to understand that. You just see it in his resigned stares, in his hesitance and his ultimate actions.

I just... I really loved Maximus. Bravo to Aaron Moten.

#fallout prime #maximus #fallout spoilers

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no!! but the way Maximus grew as a person because of Lucy!!

He was lost and full of hate and bitterness and was losing himself to the darkness of the worst of the Brotherhood of Steel because he thought that he belonged with them, for better or for worse. he still wanted to help people, but the BoS would have never allowed him to be that person and would have only fed his darker emotions

but when he met Lucy and connected with her, he was given the freedom to become a better version of himself, to see that there's a world beyond the BoS, beyond his pain

he found his purpose in just being with Lucy

he was able to smile, laugh, and dream of something more with Lucy

he found his home with her and he felt safe with her

#fallout prime #maximus x lucy #fallout maximus

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Lucy Maclean and Maximus in Season 1 of FALLOUT

#fallout prime #fallout spoilers #maximus x lucy

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All three fallout characters are interesting and fun to watch so seeing some of y'all call maximus boring just shows me y'all do not pay attention to characters you personally don't like. No way mfs find him boring when its clear he has depth. Tf are y'all doing? Skipping every part with him in it?

#fallout prime #maximus

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Lucy and max relationship is on my mind again

I'll never get over the fact that Lucy's family is the reason his life turned traumatic and his life the way it is but he didn't hate her he instead protected Lucy from her father despite knowing that about her

#fallout prime #fallout spoilers #maximus #lucy maclean

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Hot take for what seems like a fandom that is 99% 'the ghoul is the best character' (and I agree he's cool, he's specifically made to be tortured and mysterious and cool) but I think Max is the most complex of the three mains.

He lost everything and put his faith into an extremely broken violent hierarchy based military group. He can't stand up for himself, he can't hack it the way others can, always coming up short when he just wants to belong. He wants that power to inflict revenge on the ones who took his life away.

I think he's often conflicted and confused by his own emotions, especially having grown up in the brotherhood. His naivety, inexperience, inability to depend on anything around him is such a pivotal part of why he's interesting. He often falls victim to his base desires. It's funny in moments like vault 4 but in the end, even after seeing the truth about a lot of things, I think being respected, the favorite of the leader, all that power will still be an incredible lure even if he believes there is some sort of better life with Lucy because of said hindered development. His growth is going to be painful but necessary and I can't wait to see it/wanna hug him so bad.

#fallout prime #maximus