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Fallout (2024) I 1.03 The Head

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Normally when I play RPGs I prefer romanceable characters to be player-sexual so I have as many options open as possible, BUT I really appreciate the dynamic in Fallout New Vegas where Arcade Gannon is a snobby nerd that makes you pass a speech check before agreeing to be a companion UNLESS you 1. Are playing a man, 2. Have unlocked the Confirmed Bachelor perk, and 3. Decide to flirt with him a little, in which case he immediately abandons all of his academic standards and joins you just because he's gay and horny. Excellent story and gameplay integration there.

Edit:lot of people in the tags pointing out that Arcade will also join you if you have really low intelligence out of "pity" which is absolutely true and not helping him beat the morosexual allegations

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fnv doodles

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the arcade fnv cutout i made for a fallout show watch party which may now be a conduit for spirits in my flat

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if no one will care about him I will

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Finding out Walton Goggins absolutely scared the shit out of himself after waking up from a nap in his trailer and seeing his reflection in ghoul makeup is the funniest fucking thing I ever heard

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Ella Purnell as Lucy MacLean in Fallout (2024 -) Season 1 | Episode 5 "The Past"

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Music in Fallout (2024) Episode 7 - The Radio & Episode 8 - The Beginning

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the show:

Lucy

Max

Cooper/The Ghoul

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Classic Hiddles Moments: That one time Tom tried really, REALLY hard not to giggle on set.

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"Homeless radioactive cowboy with no nose" : The Ghoul 🤠 - F A L L O U T ( 2024 )

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Cooper Howard | Sitting like a wh*re

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there’s something so brilliant in cooper howard’s costume design - it’s so much more than just a simple blue and gold cowboy fit.

at the beginning of the show, before the bombs dropped, cooper howard was a good person - always kind to others despite the circumstances or how he was feeling in the moment.

you could say… he was exemplifying the golden rule.

this is evident in his costuming - cooper is decked out in gold even when the bombs dropped. the golden rule is still so close to his heart - i mean come on - look at how tight that bandana is around his neck.

even in certain lighting, his hat looks gold.

cooper howard being a good person and living by the golden rule is what barb probably fell in love with (she has her own interesting character analysis and thought process which i would love to discuss later). because this trait is so admired by her and those around cooper, she probably saw him as who she would hope future generations would become as they grow up in the vaults. people like him are the better future she envisions - so it’s no coincidence that the vault suit is in his colors.

what does the blue symbolize?

well, to me, i think it’s the corporate presence in the world. there’s more blue in the suit than there is gold - hinting at vaultech’s corporate greed, capitalism, and evil machinations. (there was also blue in his old cowboy costume - i.e. the presence of the studio and how they use cooper to push a mccarthyism narrative. kinda in the same way vaultech will use him)

the blue in the suit - symbolizing vaultech’s overwhelming presence and the reason for such a bleak and cruel world - does not swallow up the gold - the small semblance of humanity’s capacity to do and be good. it’s the small hint at barb’s intentions (analogous to the road to hell being paved with good intentions).

yet the man who was an inspiration for vaultech’s workers - the man who they all wished they could be like, the man who symbolized all the “do good” ideas they pass down to their children but in the end have no intention of following them (wink wink, looking at you, hank) - was in the end stripped of all his humanity by the world vaultech created (wow, would you look at that? another analogy for capitalism!)

this man, once rich in morals now robbed of them all, wanders the wasteland a ghoul. everything has been taken from him - symbolized being devoid of layers of skin.

now, he’s nothing but the ghost of the man he once was - haunted by what has been done. everything he wears as the ghoul is frayed, tattered, and dark - symbolizing that cooper howard, that kind and caring man before the bombs is dead.

but wait - is that…

you don’t see it? Ok, i’ll zoom in some more

GOLD? (perhaps even the same shirt he was wearing during the bomb drop??)

perhaps the golden rule, those values that he once held so dearly, are still there just dormant - waiting to be awaken again.

maybe cooper howard can come back… that just maybe there’s still hope for the good in humanity…

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Nuka-Galaxy!

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5 Years Since The Best Superhero Movie Team Up Premiered in Theaters

April 25, 2019 - April 25, 2024

*It came out in theaters early on the 25th than the 26th

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Cooper Howard/The Ghoul | Figure