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Title: Something's Gotta Give
Rating: G
AO3: Link
Series: Fallout: New Vegas (Courier Six, Dean Domino)
Wordcount: 315
Summary: Hard times and slow resentments in the Sierra Madre.
Remarks: There is just something uniquely maddening about desperately scrounging in every trash can for enough cigarettes to trade in for stimpaks so you can continue dragging your small frame, low END ass through a toxic hellpit in hardcore mode, only to turn around and see your companion having a casual smoke. Sir. C'mon.

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( the ghoul sat and smoked Larkin's survival )

Throwing up some 'sketch page' style noodling in the absence of any completed fics of late - a couple of incomplete drabblets featuring my Fallout: New Vegas characters and their borrowed best beaus. One of FNV's strengths is the complex web of power and politics it builds around the Mojave, and it's always interesting to dip into different characters' takes on the factions and their personal histories with them and the region.

Larkin & Vivian (

killyhawk)

( under the boot )

Avery & Wyn (

weirderwest)

( two mojaves )

Apparently it being 2023 means it's 10 years since I first played Fallout: New Vegas! Honestly startling to think about, both because this was such a distinct moment in my life and also because it does not feel like it was nearly long enough ago for a decade to have passed between. What a game! What a ride. I still wistfully dream of a remaster that won't crash on me every 15 minutes.

With FNV freshly on my mind, I found myself mocking together a rough timeline of key events for my small collective of Fallout characters, which has been lacking until now. Just a quick and easy project - until I started fleshing out some of the gaps, adding in important canon events, figuring out where things linked together...

The end result is still not a wholly complete timeline, but it's certainly the most comprehensive I've put together in 10 years and, for the first time, documents the story of my Courier 6 from innocuous start to brutal end. If I were a different sort of person, there would be a 100k fanfic in here somewhere. As it is, at least the cliffnotes are finally on paper!

( war. war never changes. and neither do my player character choices. )

Cross-posting / lightly updating some old Avery materials that remain relevant, mostly for centralised storage, and partly to make up for his lack of a convenient liveblog narrative.

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( a general summary )

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( character arc )

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( avery and smoking )

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( building a home )

Title: Blind Spot
Rating: G
Series: Fallout: New Vegas (original characters)
Wordcount: 664
Summary: Larkin/Vivian, whumptober prompt - friendly fire

( larkin likes the sawn-off )

I picked up Fallout: New Vegas back in 2013, and proceeded to have the time of my life working my way through my very first truly open sandbox RPG I'd ever played. It also marked the first time my player character turned out to be a villain! Larkin has since been used (usually in fic) in less troubling forms as well, but her game story remains near and dear to my heart as a most unexpected ride.

This post is collated from a few old Tumblr posts written during and after the game, making up a streamlined 'liveblog' narration of my Courier 6 Larkin's rise to power in the Mojave Wasteland.

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( the road to vegas )

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( working with house )

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( lost loyalty )

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( the coup, the climax, and the fallout )

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( larkin, veronica, and the aftermath )

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( dead money as a prologue )

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( return to the sierra madre )

Title: Like a Thief in the Night
Rating: PG
Series: Fallout: New Vegas (original characters)
Wordcount: 1922
Summary: In at least one 'verse, Larkin and Vivian don't start off on the best of footings.
Remarks: What the devil I cannot stop writing lately, and also when will I be any good at action. Viv is still Kris'.

( larkin woke without knowing why )

Title: Snapshot
Rating: G
Series: Fallout: New Vegas (original characters)
Wordcount: 635
Summary: Larkin is a slightly less terrible date - but still a difficult partner for someone with long-term inclinations.
Remarks: Vivian continues to belong to Kris.

( only threat to be found was in vivian's satisfied smile )

Title: Treading Water
Rating: G
Series: Fallout: New Vegas (original characters)
Wordcount: 851
Summary: Larkin's just a terrible date sometimes tbh.
Remarks: Kris wrote me a thing (and then a bunch more things, good lord why are my friends all so prolific) so naturally I had to write silly little a thing in return. It's my vain hope that it's not glaringly obvious when I started running out of time and hastily flung an ending at it.

( and if a horde of cazadores is on your tail? )

Title: Rest Uneasy
Rating: PG
Series: Fallout: New Vegas (original characters)
Wordcount:
Summary: Avery's sometimes not okay. There used to be people who noticed.
Remarks: An attempt to capture some of Avery's history. (The surprise was puppies.)

( the tent flaps were pinned back )

Title: Mad Cow (Incomplete)
Rating: G
Series: Fallout: New Vegas (original characters)
Wordcount: 595
Summary: It was said a charging brahmin bull could hit seventeen miles an hour at full stride. By Larkin’s estimation, that rumour came in a few miles short of the truth.
Remarks: Silly misadventures - technically a pre-adventure to All's Unfair. The other characters referenced belong to friends.

( don't mess with cows )

Title: In Small Packages
Rating: G
Series: Fallout New Vegas ('courier faction' original characters)
Wordcount: 1039
Summary: Baby twins get up to mischief.
Remarks: A birthday gift for Gray, to whom Ryker belongs.

( the dirty face of a small girl )

Title: The Spare
Rating: PG
Series: Fallout New Vegas ('courier faction' original characters)
Wordcount: 1128
Remarks: This was mostly an exercise in getting a handle on a new character (back in '14), for which I borrowed Wyn and Bryn from other members of the writing group. First impressions are so important.

( one more figure in drab army fatigues )

Title: All's Unfair
Rating: PG
Series: Fallout New Vegas ('courier faction' original characters)
Wordcount: 2800
Remarks: From the same little 'verse as Any Port in the Storm. EG and his powerfist belong to another member. I had a lot of fun when I wrote this one back in 2013.

( i'm telling you we gotta run )

Title: Moving In, Moving On

Rating: PG

Series: Fallout: New Vegas (original characters)

Wordcount: 1,814

Summary: Only a few weeks after Avery has left the army to return to the Mojave - return to Wyn - things are still hesitantly settling into a new normal.

Remarks: Wyn belongs to

weirderwest!

( eight days into the experience of home ownership )

Title: Fever Dream
Rating: PG
Series: Fallout: New Vegas (original characters)
Wordcount: 1,940
Summary: “Hush,” she said, and then, “You really didn’t bring any water up here with you, did you? I’d kick your ass if you weren’t so good at doing it to yourself.”
Remarks: Entirely self-indulgent sappy sogginess. Wyn belongs to

weirderwest!

( the harsh jangle of the bell rattled up the ladder )

Title: Trousers On
Rating: PG
Series: Fallout: New Vegas (original characters)
Wordcount: 659
Summary: Avery's trying to get through his morning routine. Wyn has a different idea of what that routine could entail.
Remarks: Wyn belongs to

weirderwest.

( the piercing wolf whistle )

Title: Five Times It Works (And One Time It Doesn't)
Rating: M
Series: Fallout New Vegas ('courier faction' original characters)
Wordcount: 1073
Summary: Wyn and Avery across universes.
Remarks: A birthday present for Emma, who owns Wyn. Six universes: New Vegas, modern college, zombie apocalypse, Halo, Dishonored, and sportsball.

( one two three four five (six) )

Title: Persuasion
Rating: PG
Series: Fallout: New Vegas (Larkin, Avery)
Wordcount: 220
Summary: Larkin asks for a favour.
Remarks: A short scene spawned from the simple premise of "hm, I wonder how these two characters would get on" (the answer is 'badly').

( they're not known for their patience, geckos )

Title: Any Port In A Storm
Rating: G
Series: Fallout New Vegas ('courier faction' original characters)
Wordcount: 1385
Remarks: Context - a number of us from a tumblr fandom group ended up playing Fallout: New Vegas around the same time and liveblogging the experience. One day, I posited the idea of our couriers all meeting in some alternate universe, another individual said the words "courier faction", and things proceeded to spiral out of control in all the best ways. As such, the only character I own in any way is Larkin; the rest belong to the other assorted participants. (I will note that the reason Larkin has a twin is another individual and I started playing the game independently within a fortnight of each other, and on top of that managed to choose very similar designs. We decided this was the next logical step.) It's terribly dorky but also a lot of fun.

( the wind raising a howl that grates against the ears )

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Entries tagged with video game: fallout new vegas

something's gotta give

under the boot | two mojaves

fnv timeline

avery sad state of affairs

blind spot

having a larkin

like a thief in the night

snapshot

treading water

rest uneasy (incomplete)

mad cow (incomplete)

in small packages

the spare (incomplete)

all's unfair

moving in, moving on

fever dream

trousers on (incomplete)

five times it works (and one time it doesn't)

Persuasion

any port in a storm