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Thinking about the morbid, brain-related hilarity that is making a Lone Wanderer character end up also being the Courier somehow or another. Because back in the Capital Wasteland, you get part of your brain scooped out for Point Lookout, and you can keep the jar that your scooped out brain bit is in.

And then, many years later, MF gets shot in the head, is implied to have possible been dead due to Doc Mitchell's line of "You've been out cold for a couple of days now', & no later before you leave, it is confirmed you were dead by saying "But try not to get killed anymore." before you exit dialogue before leaving his house.

And then, of course, in Old World Blues, you just lose your brain entirely. And also have Tesla Coils in place of your brain. I can't remember if any funky brain stuff happens in Fallout 3's base game, as I haven't played in awhile, but I highly doubt it.

All in all, a LW Turned Courier just has their brain put through the ringer.

*releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free

I think the vault dwellers of vault 101 should have been more fearful of the lone wanderer, especially upon their return to the vault. Particularly Butch. Like, here's this kid Butch has bullied and pushed around for the grand majority of both of their lives, said bullied child grows up and leaves the vault in a violent spray, only to come back later, and definitely, definitely not be the same person as when they exited. Butch is arrogant and cocky, he would never admit fear, but I do think it bothers him to see lone in this way, because it is scary. They are *not* the same person, the wasteland has changed them.

"This stupid robot won't leave, so I am spraying him with dirty brown water"

[Insert angry E-DE noises]

Love that in New Vegas you can like personally and permanently fuck over your human companions:

You can destroy the Brotherhood of Steel which Veronica still considers her family despite their differences. On top of that you can kill Elijah and Christine, the latter not being necessary or beneficial to you at all.

You can set up Cass and take her to the Silver Rush to be killed by Jean-Baptiste. Which is extra cruel cause you can literally only do it by first getting her to sell out to the people who tried to kill her in the first place.

You can put more innocent blood on Boone’s hands and fuck with his head more by having him kill his former best friend who is the last person he is implied to have any sort of relationship with outside the Courier.

You can literally sell Arcade into slavery to the Legion in where his hatred for every single one of them is so strong he literally disembowels himself as a final fuck you and so he doesn’t have to spend one more second there.

Not to mention how you can just ignore ED-E, Lily, Rex and Raul’s issues leading them to live their relatively immortal lives full of hardships, unhappiness or inevitable slow deaths. Like it’s not cool but it’s really cool that the game lets you be really awful along with really good.