vault dweller 13 elvis costello, aka “iguana,” before and after ghoulification.

he ghoulifies somewhere in his 30s-40s due to the amount of radiation he received from the glow through his expeditions there. while he first got to the glow when he was 24, his ghoulification process was slow as it was sudden, hence his sudden and unexplained departure of arroyo even if it hurt to leave, especially when the elder of arroyo had already disappeared himself leaving him and the rest of the village in distress. but, as his health got worse, he had to leave and hide. hence he started going by the name iguana, basically remained mia to everyone in arroyo.

eventually everyone who once knew him died, and he was no longer remembered outside of the vault dweller from vault 13 legends. he was fine with that. all his companions eventually died, and he kept trinkets to remember them by: namely dogmeat’s collar, who he wears around his wrist as a bracelet.

in the present day, 2287, he still wanders the wasteland doing odd jobs here and there; mostly a mechanic, but he’s good with mercenary and caravan guard jobs. basically a jack of all trades.

he’s still pretty much the same as he was before; more mellowed out, but things like him being whiny and snappy still remain part of him. but he is helpful, knows how to carry himself around.

good news everyone: after 3 hours I saved Dogmeat

can’t send dogmeat away in fallout 1 therefore he continues to die over and over again in the same spot in the most terrible way possible and I’ve never been more upset in my life

I’m gonna have to put down dogmeat down myself , ,, i don’t want him to continue dying by super mutants in an already difficult level of the game :(

trying to look for a way to save him and every Redditor is like “it’s canon anyway why does it matter” IT MATTERS TO ME. I DON’T CARE ABOUT WHAT THEY MADE CANON !! I’M MAKING MY OWN CANON ANYWAY

can’t send dogmeat away in fallout 1 therefore he continues to die over and over again in the same spot in the most terrible way possible and I’ve never been more upset in my life

can’t send dogmeat away in fallout 1 therefore he continues to die over and over again in the same spot in the most terrible way possible and I’ve never been more upset in my life

Dumbass stepped on a landmine and is looking at me like it's my fault

a man and his dog,,,

I have work in a few days but I’m very strongly considering quitting and just going back to college. my new manager took me off the schedule for THREE WEEKS then had the audacity to ask me if i still wanted to work with the company ( bc i was off the schedule. which she and another manager DID. ) and demanded i make one of my weekends available. like what is wrong with managers.

fallout tv show spoilers

if new vegas / the strip IS destroyed according to the ending slide of the last episode of s1, I’m not gonna write that into my lore for quinn and my ocs in general BUT the idea is interesting bc yes man did imply to some sort of, albeit economical, downfall of the strip.

quinn is smart enough to keep the strip going but not from eventually falling to ruins. but he’s safe i won’t torture him with the show’s canon since i consider the show’s canon an entirely different timeline

HIIII 💕

hey moots… mwuah ( or hug )

hey moots… mwuah ( or hug )

wtf. gay ass courier

cover them up slut

reposting from my twitter and rambles to my bf bc I’m cooking up my own vault dweller lore rather than fallout 1 and 2’a canonical vault dweller lore bc personally i don’t like it when games force my character into extremely specific lore without gaps for me to fill in:

i think elvis’ friends that join him in the wasteland after he’s exiled are the three pre made characters ( albert, max and natalia ) the game gives you the option to play as. elvis helps them survive in the wasteland and all four of them build the community of arroyo. idk who becomes the elder of arroyo but it isn’t elvis— it’s either max or albert, or hell, even natalia! but elvis does not take up that position but he does assume a godfather role OR a fatherly role ( in the case that the elder does die and leaves pat every single elder responsibility, thus she’d need a babysitter to look after her kid ). regardless of either choice, elvis never really finds anyone. he’s a gay man though closeted early on in his non-ghoulified life, and never fathers any children in the first place. he’s just sort of a lone wolf ig?? but despite that lone wolf, somewhat distant status, he is still a part of the arroyo community until one day he just leaves out of nowhere in the middle of the night. the reason for that is bc he started to ghoulify, and he was like, uh oh. and had no idea how arroyo would react. so, he left, ghoulified somewhere in his mid 30s/early 40s. and now present day he wanders the wasteland.

and that’s about it, but!! additionally!! i think albert is the one who ends up becoming the elder of arroyo. albert married and had his daughter, and elvis was his best friend and elvis had a crush on him. but he never did anything about it bc he was a closeted gay man back then. anyway, eventually albert isn’t around anymore and he babysits pat for albert’s wife as she takes up every single responsibility of elder. and, as mentioned, then years later he leaves because he starts to turn into a ghoul and he has no idea how the village of arroyo will think of that. so he leaves, and he doesn’t wanna be found, nor does he want to return no matter how sad it is. he starts going more by iguana as an alias, an old nickname ian and other people started calling him bc he never introduced himself properly. I’m not sure where he goes but he doesn’t go to necropolis, nor any major town or village, he just sort of keeps and lives to and by himself. after all, back then people were less kind to ghouls. and he did not want to risk being shot on sight or make ppl think he’s spreading some disease.

anyway, eventually enough time passes where everyone who knew him was long gone, and california had shifted just so enough where he was not worried about being murdered right on the spot.

hundred years or so later he’s still traveling around, minding his business, mingling with people and still the same whiny mf he was back in 2162.

also:

not once was he involved with the events of fallout 2, by that time homie was still hidden away, probably working as a mercenary for someone under like 20 layers of clothes covering his face.

i am happy to announce that elvis saved vault 13 but now he has to deal with the master

ian has shot me a total of 5 times .

fallout 1’s dead and empty ambience that makes me hope to god nothing knows i exist in this vast empty wasteland unsettles me greatly but my vault dweller remains silly and lucky

fallout 1’s dead and empty ambience that makes me hope to god nothing knows i exist in this vast empty wasteland unsettles me greatly but my vault dweller remains silly and lucky