You know why these boys brought you in? 'Cause I fucked up a poor, defenseless gang-affiliated organ dealership? Yep. Mm.

I hope for everyone's sake in season two that Maximus doesn't mistakenly believe that Lucy got kidnapped by the Ghoul.

lol, can u imagine if that happens? he'd be so worried 🥺 i love maximus he is the bestest babygirl out there.

but i wonder if daximus' yaoi undertones are intentional and if they become more protruded in s2, will that add to maximus' internal conflict? he is already struggling to reconcile his ambitions with his nobility, so wanting to bang your comrade brother while your babe is kidnapped by the big bad ghoul would create the internal angst like no other.

The Lucy and Cooper/Ghoul being mirroring foils parallel arcs go crazy.

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"oh my god, lucy....your boyfriend was knocked unconscious?? so he can't come with us on our quest across the wasteland? so it's just going to be the two of us? damn, that sucks. it really, really sucks your boyfriend can't come with us. yeah, we have to leave him here. because he's knocked out. oh well..."

you know what makes norman saying that lucy would marry a tumorus cannibal even more prophetic than lucy forming an alliance with the ghoul at the end? the fact that the finger exchange can be read as a ring exchange...

they might not go there explicitly but i can see them playing with the metaphors and subtext.

can you believe that it's not something that was written in a dead dove enemies to lovers fic, it's actually canon?

she bit his finger off and he cut hers off and called it an honest exchange.

then he sewed her finger onto his hand...

i'm dizzy.

hey, i hope you don't mind but i kinda need to vent a little bit 😅

as a poc it's making really sad to see that "shipping vaultghoul is racist and erases maximus and barb" is such a prominent anti argument. i don't interact with these posts or these people (because i really don't want to waste my time) but it's like they don't hear themselves. maximus is a protagonist in his own right and has so much shit going on tat has nothing to do with lucy and while barb is a minor character, she's an activate member of a corporation that seeks to end the world for profit (and we get to see her own conflicts towards this) and not just cooper's wife. they're so much more than love interests but they need "special treatment" because their s/o are white 🙄

plus what is this narrow minded type of thinking where once you start to ship a couple all the other relationships become invalid? it's fiction ffs. no one is better than anyone and there's no such thing as a 'supreme ship'

i think the worst thing that came out of fallout shipping discourse is reducing maximus to a love interest of lucy when he is much, much more than that and as you said, a protagonist in his own right! like, can we stop only talking about him in the context of romance with lucy and hype him up as he deserves?! he is so complex and refreshing, he deserves more than being a talking point in a shipping discourse.

and while i mainly ship lucy x cooper, i'm fine with lucy x max and the majority of vaultghoul shippers are too. not to mention that max is like my ideal type of a dude, lol. i crushed on this man so hard while watching the show. so, those of us who ship vaultghoul do not dislike max or think he is boring (there is a difference between finding a character boring and finding his relationship with the other character a bit bland).

tbh, i hope max gets even more development and important storyline points in s2 so that maybe ppl will stop acting like he is just lucy's boyfriend.

and i think it's also weird to dismiss the possibility of max x dane when the representation this relationship could offer is very important. and as an enby myself it would be so validating for me to see the enby character paired up with the main dude (that again, i have a massive crush on).

also, i love barb and her relationship with cooper. she is a cool villain and her & cooper were a hot classy couple. tbh, it's just that ppl rarely get too shippy when it comes to the exes, especially when one is a very minor character. but i'm excited for whatever we get with her in the future.

in the end of the day, i hope the discourse (whether it is about cooper vs max for lucy, the age gap or the human x ghoul thing) won't get too heavy in this fandom bc it will ruin it and make our experiences here full of frustration instead of fun.

i'm personally all for multishipping lucy, the ghoul and maximus with everyone in this series.

you know what makes norman saying that lucy would marry a tumorus cannibal even more prophetic than lucy forming an alliance with the ghoul at the end? the fact that the finger exchange can be read as a ring exchange...

they might not go there explicitly but i can see them playing with the metaphors and subtext.

uh oh necromancy gone wrong

You coming?