Oh contraire Tumblr user @slush-posting I think he changed a LOT. Sorry again for the weird formatting idk how to fix it but HEAR ME OUT on fo4 Mac.
So with fo3 MacCready I LOVE HIM!!! God he’s so cool and funny my favorite little guy I always have to take the Kid at Heart perk to get him to like me. His dialogue is amazing and I LOVE all of the dynamics with the kids at Little Lamplight it’s just great. Fo3 MacCready looks so stupid with his dumb weird scarf and I love him and wish there were like 20 more quests with his character.
With fo4 MacCready, I do really like him (and I think his character design is AWESOME!!!) but I was very disappointed with where they took his character. I get his whole back story with his son and that’s why he curses less and I also get the trauma and how that made him grow up prematurely while still being petulant but idk I feel like they just took MacCready and made a whole new character out of him. There are obvious similarities but I feel like Bethesda saw an opportunity of a beloved child character that they could bring over and age up and they took it.
I also really hate how his personal quest ended!!! It’s so ridiculous that he wouldn’t go back to the Capital Wasteland for Duncan or that Duncan wouldn’t come to the Commonwealth!! It doesn’t make any sense. Duncan could’ve grown up alongside Shawn and had the same sort of diolougue and stuff and I think it would’ve been great!! It also doesn’t make any sense at all in the first place that McCready would not bring Duncan with him. I guess you could make the argument that he was too sick to move but then wouldn’t MacCready just do jobs in the Capital Wastes??? Why travel all the way to the Commonwealth even if you thought there was more work there it just seems like it would not be smart with his son having no other parent and being so sick.
I think it would’ve been a really cool idea that could explain away why MacCready is in the Commonwealth and why Duncan is not with him if Bethesda had made it so that MacCready, having become a father too young, was not happy about his situation and resented his son for the death of his wife or something similar. He is obviously a very loving father in the canon though which is sweet. In general I really like his personal quest I just wish it had a better ending and less plot holes lol.
Another thing that Bethesda totally wasted was Deacon and Mac’s relationship!!!! They obviously know each other more than the other companions and given Deacon has definitely frequently been in the Capital Wasteland I think they totally could’ve done something more with the two knowing each other!!! I also have a personal unpopular opinion which is that I don’t think Deacon/Mac is a good ship. MacCready is so young and Deacon is so old it just creeps me out. I think their relationship reads a lot more like one that the Lone Wanderer and kid MacCready would have had. Now there is mutual respect and disrespect at the same time in different ways. Deacon still sees Mac as a petulant kid despite his accomplishments and Mac is angry at how Deacon has changed for the worst throughout the years when he respected and really liked him before. At least that’s my read.
i think it's about time we had a sexyman poll for the fallout side of tumblr. above is a list of all the fallout sexymen i could think of; if you think i missed anyone, i probably did want to add them, but polls only have ten answer slots. i may make a part 2 if there are enough characters left over, then pit the winners against each other in a final poll.
Madison Li gets screwed over so many times in the fallout universe, and for it she deserves financial compensation as well as more privacy in her laboratory
MacCready has been through hell and worries all the time for his son now he's a mungo himself
Maxson becomes Lyons' worst fear for him...if you read Lyons' terminal entries in the Citadel, you know
I headcanon that MacCready is terrified of thunderstorms.
He grew up in a cave, deep and far from the surface when it stormed. He might’ve heard faint rumbles, or saw little flashes, or heard Lone complain about the rain when they came in, but he never spent time in it. Whenever he left the cave (rarely) it was sunny and hot.
So, when he left at sixteen, enduring a horrifying new world full of things that wanted to kill him, he was already probably terrified. And to top it all off, it’s raining so hard he can’t see, the thunder is so loud it’s shaking the ground under him and the lightning in blinding and making his hair stand up from the static.
I can see him, even six years later with the Sole survivor, trembling, holding a little too tight to his sniper when the thunder rumbles. Flinching where he sits when the lightning blinds them, trying to play it off cool when he’s actually terrified. Trying to regulate his breaths that are going just a little too fast, trying to keep sole from seeing him during a storm because he feels weak but he just can’t stop being afraid of them. it was storming the night lucy died, too. he knows he’s never going to get over his fear of storms, because the worst days of his life happened during them.