getting second hand embarrassment on the dash tonight

i CANNOT handle this gif of norm.. i need to look away or i'll sob!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brother and sister finding out two truths about their dad at the same time in completely different places and feeling completely and utterly lie to and alone, give it to me fallout!

i just finished watching the fallout series, now where the FUCK are my norm maclean lovers

idk if anyone has said this yet but wouldn’t it be funny if an older version of Janey was in the pods and Norm woke her up and they started a friendship/alliance while Lucy and Cooper are tearing it up in New Vegas

Ok but Lucy and Norman are THEEE characters ever like oh my god. Teeny little dark haired bitches running around and uncovering corruption that’s been hidden for over 200 years in TWO FUCKING WEEKS. Name a better duo, I fucking dare you.

For every bit of Lucy’s naïveté and innocence (at least at the beginning), Norm is cunning and sly. For every bit of her brother’s wit and intelligence, Lucy is incredibly dangerous and fully capable of violence. They are two halves of the most dangerous weapon in the fucking wasteland. And they BOTH inherited their mother’s incredible mind!

Imagine what they could do it they were working together? They did all that shit separately and they still managed to figure it all out. They couldn’t even communicate with each other!! Put them together and they’ll’ve taken over the whole wasteland and set up a new fucking city in like a week.

love how norm is like "i dont give a shit about anything + im a coward" and yet hes the first person to go snooping about vault 32 even before anyone else suspects anything. babe i think i found the one thing youre not unmotivated about and thats being a nosy bastard

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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.

Moisés Arias as Norman “Norm” MacLean Fallout | 1.01 · The End

Norman Maclean & Lucy Maclean in Fallout: Eps. 1

their sibling bond is so personal and precious to me ♡♡♡

*the quality is so bad oops*

gifset of norm looking 3 apples tall

He is an interesting critter bro

Ella Purnell and Moisés Arias as Lucy and Norman “Norm” MacLean in Fallout — Season One

spiders have got to figure out contracting I need to be able to call my local spiders union and be like "hey can you send a guy out for a few days the fruit flies are back" and then pay it in spider currency. I'll learn the conversion rates. I'll be generous with my rounding. please.