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It’s on goingggg and I love them🩷🩷🩷
Just finished watching the fallout show. The ghoul and Lucy found family, my beloved. I know it's not going to happen, but I would love to see Norm interact with the ghoul.
Norm: Who? *points at Ghoul*
Lucy: This is our new dad.
Dude dude dude someone has to do an edit of lucy and the ghoul to the hozier song "from eden" RIGHT NOW. PLEASE
"Honey you're familiar like my mirror years ago"
Hello???? People please it's the perfect line!! And the extra symbolism given the fact that that song is from the perspective of the devil?? And Cooper is not the devil but he's a big mean guy??? The good man turned bad???
Tuning into some interesting frequencies...
I loveeee spinning the idea of them travelling together and getting that fucked up horse around in my brain :-)
chapter four - friends?
[ the ghoul x lucy maclean ]
Trying her best to ignore the smell she turned back to the screen. Cooper’s character was also smoking, taking long seductive drags as he flirted with the love interest in the film. The way he did it was exactly the way the Ghoul just had. As Lucy turned back to look at the Ghoul she realized both he and Cooper were holding their cigarettes in the same way. Taking puffs at the same time. And when Cooper reached for his beer, the Ghoul took a sip of his Cola. They were in sync, their reactions and mannerisms were the same. And when she compared his face to the one on the screen, even with all its burns and scars, and ugliness, she had a horrifying realization. They were the same person.
One more test and then hopefully regular updates
chapter three - moonshine
[ the ghoul x lucy maclean ]
“God! Why are you bringing that up? Do you think I don’t feel terrible about all of that? I feel like in some way everyone who died, everything that happened, is my fault. I haven’t gotten a second of sleep since we left the observatory! When I close my eyes I see the bombs, I see my father, and I feel Monty’s hands against my throat. I carry the burden of my father's sins because he has no humanity to do it himself. I don’t need you to pile whatever two hundred years’ worth of hate you have onto me too”
I swear I'll come up with an update schedule soon
chapter one - the atomic rule
[the ghoul x lucy maclean]
She stood in front, admiring the flower, “I don’t get it. Why roses?" "Well, sugar, if you're so dead set on knowin', you're gonna have to rustle up the answers yourself. If you're half as sharp as you like to think you are, you'll figure it out. Cause I've got a couple of centuries of memories and such stored up here, so the nitty-gritty details? They tend to fade like paint in the sun.”
Now on Ao3! "Cherries and Nuka Cola" is my first published fanfic and is slow-burn multi-chapter fanfic for Lucy Mclean x The Ghoul.
cherries and nuka cola
a slow-burn vaultghoul fanfic on ao3
Picking up right after the events of the season one finale, Lucy and the Ghoul begin their journey to New Vegas. The constant company of one another is starting to change who they are. Plus with all that time the unusual pair spend together, everyone but them can see how their relationship is developing into something strange…
Norm is absolutely one of my favourite characters in the Fallout universe. The fact he loves his family and wants what's best for them being what drives him to look for the truth of what has happened to them and why is fantastic. The ultimate difference between him and Chet, too, is a great show of his character. It began with him choosing to help his sister find their father and ends with him coming to the same realisation as she has – their father was not the man he said he was and much of their life has been a lie. Watching him decide to take the hunt for the truth into his own hands, even when it could be the end of him, is incredibly compelling.
What makes Norm so enjoyable to watch, too, is just how human he is. All of the characters in the show are that way, which is part of what makes it great (yes, even the ghouls as they were at one time human). The distress he feels at seeing what happened to Vault 32 being swept under the rug, and the anger he feels towards Betty and the others for doing it seemingly out of a desire for control and power more than anything else is tangible. The fact it drives him to take the risk of sneaking into Vault 31 shows his bold and couregous side, and also that it's driven by not only his own curiosities but his desire for the truth. It’s a great parallel trait he shares with Lucy and, as she comes to find out, their mother. The anger he feels towards his father and also the desperation he feels to survive are a great contrast of his truth seeking and his baser humanity.
All things considered, Norm's competing feelings of a desire for truth, a desire for safety, curiosity, and a love for his family are what make him a great character. The fact he shares those traits with Lucy but expresses them in different ways creates a strong parallel narrative for their characters, and also does a great job showing the two sides of courage. The fact neither he or Lucy are impervious or shy away from moments of weakness and subsiming emotion latch onto the naivety from their upbringing and also their humanity. With them both now having to reckon with the truth about their father, a reunion between them will I'm sure be great and also remind them that not all of their family members are bad. Reckoning with the truth about their mother and Lucy's love for her being what compelled her to end her suffering before breaking down at the gravity of it is another layer of complexity to their family dynamics that both of them will need time to sit with. The contrasting feelings of how they knew their father versus what they've come to learn about him serve well to separate them from others like Chet; where he, their cousin, chooses to remain wilfully ignorant, they chose to put aside their fears and look for a truth they knew was out there.
Chet is a coward because he chooses to ignore the truth he has seen with his own eyes.
Lucy is brave because she is willing to go to any and all lengths to find her father and is then willing to end the suffering her mother is under because of him; she is openly emotional and driven by that and the love she feels for her family and is horrified and shattered by her father being a different man than the one she had always known.
Norm is brave because he is willing to do anything for his sister and father and, when faced with the choice to stay in blissful ignorance, because he chooses to seek out the truth even when it could hurt him; he, too, doesn't shy away from the pain the truth about his father causes him and, like Lucy, has to learn to live with the competing memories of their father and the reality of who and what he is.
Hank is a coward because, while he goes to the extremes to attempt to preserve himself and his family, he refuses to accept the fact his actions have consequences for the way his children (and, previously, their mother) had seen him and instead tries to force things to go back to the way they were before his children could learn of his ability to be selfish.
And Rose was brave because she loved her children so much that she would and did do everything for them, even when she had to put her love for their father aside and risk herself so that she and her children could have a chance to live in truth rather than lies. Her children share that with her, even though they didn't know it, just as much as they share her love, empathy, and desire for the truth even when living in wilful ignorance could have been easier.
Tl;dr – the entire MacLean family being driven by love for each other but expressing it in different ways that ultimately drive them apart is not only great at showcasing the different sides of courage and cowardice but showing the way Lucy and Norm are so similar and are driven by their love for their family just as much as their desire for the truth and that neither Lucy or Norm shy away from their emotional and impulsive reactions to it presents them as not only fully human but two sides of the same coin; they are both couregous even though they take two different paths to the truth.
just had SO much fun with the fallout tv show... i love you missus okey dokey
I finished both fallout and arcane within a 4 days of each other and I don’t think I should’ve done that in such a short span of time because my mental heath took a blow from both.
I was already having a hard time with the end of Arcane and then I just had to subject myself to Fallout (which was amazing) and I at least had someone to talk to about arcane but I don’t have anyone to talk to about fallout and I don’t know what to do.
But I got to know two amazing, beautiful sweet, deranged women along the way so it was worth it I have to say.
Still traumatized though lol.

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Lucy Maclean and Maximus in Season 1 of FALLOUT
Day 12 (uhh 3 days late) of my Women’s History Month art challenge!
Lucy MacLean! I LOVED the first season of Fallout, really looking forward to the second! Lucy is a fantastic protagonist, it’s awesome seeing her grow as a person and learn how to survive outside of the vault while still holding on to her optimism and kindness. I love characters like that :]
@hearts-are-connected I can see that too! Casey=Grumpy/Chill x Saga=Sweet/Chaotic
I love the chill but chaotic vibes of these two.
Then we'd all agree and clap
and if I said they simply just need to fuck it out..
Lucy: *accidentally kills someone* Oh geez.
Lucy: *Kills a cockroach* Holy moly!
Lucy: *escapes a near death experience* Okie Dokie that was intense.
The Ghoul: Just say “fuck” for the love of god.
Lucy:
Lucy: Fudge.
I can`t be stopped
Okay, listen...
Cooper and Lucy as WOF dragons
WE GETTING FALLOUT SEASON 2 THIS DECEMBER🔥
THEYVE FINISHED FILMING SEASON 2 OF FALLOUT
OH MY GOF OH MYD GOS
THEYVE FINISHED FILMING SEASON 2 OF FALLOUT
OH MY GOF OH MYD GOS
I don't think this is that niche