#The poor and downtrodden isnt because its expected of them in fact the OPPOSITE is especially in fnv where theyre formerly associated with

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speaking of new vegas i dont think everyone talks about the followers of the apocalypse enough because they are literally the best and most interesting faction to me the arbiter of new vegas

#I think people are too harsh on....idk 'good guy' factions in fallout like the minutemen get this treatment as well #Like i think its a consequence of the way rpgs tend to give players choices? Like you can side with caesars legion you can do the #Genocide run in undertale you can kill everyone in morrowind but its not gonna give you the right experience like being a good guy would so #It becomes okay first playthrough ill be good and boring and then on replays ill be evil and chaotic so being good is just...kind of the #Default with the 'fun' evil stuff saved for a second playthrough #I mean undertale makes it deliberately unfun because thats kind of the point so thats kind of a bad example #But the followers are interesting to me because kindness ISNT the default because its the post apocalypse!!! The followers being helpful to #The poor and downtrodden isnt because its expected of them in fact the OPPOSITE is especially in fnv where theyre formerly associated with #The ncr who are currently trying to annex the damn mojave but you know they do it because they do believe its the best way to help the #Societies formed post apocalypse!!! Theyre just genuinely nice in a world where everyone else considers murder nbd!!!! And they have flaws #Like any other faction like god sorry explodes