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okey_dokey) wrote2024-05-03 06:06 pm
okey_dokey) wrote2024-05-03 06:06 pm
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OOC: We're doing infoposts? Okey-dokey.
Meet Lucy, who spent her whole life underground until about two weeks ago.
Probably should've stayed there, tbh.
So yeah, Sam already summed this up better than I can (just ask the admins, my app was way too long), but Fallout the TV show is based on a series of post-apocalyptic RPG/action video games, all of which derive their name from their broader setting -- the late 21st, 22nd and 23rd centuries, after nuclear war has completely destroyed the United States. Major cities and population centers were heavily bombed, which left few options -- die, get hit with the blast and don't die (again, see Sam's infopost for more information on that kind of thing), or retreat to one of the 120 secure, underground vaults that had been constructed in the years leading up to this conflict.
Lucy is from one of those vaults! She's spent her whole life in Vault 33, which has been basically a utopia, give or take a totally normal famine year here and there. Every member of the vault contributes to the whole hive working properly, and yeah, a beehive or an ant colony is not actually a terribly bad comparison here. They all wear matching blue-and-yellow outfits, everyone understands that their purpose is bigger than themselves and they belong to a community, and for the most part, most vault dwellers thrive under this polite, cheerful, slightly-oblivious rule.
Unfortunately for Lucy and the inhabitants of Vault 33 -- this is television, and we need a plot. That comes in the form of our girl Lucy here needing to find herself a husband! It's about time, she's of childbearing age, and honestly, she can only entertain herself with her cousin for sport for so long, you know? (They're pretty inbred, in the vaults.) So the governing council of Vault 33 arranges a marriage -- they'll be opening their door to adjoining Vault 32, who will be providing the groom, and yes, the whole thing feels very feudal/state marriages/etc.
The wedding goes off, Lucy's new hubster is a hottie, and everyone's having a great time until the violence starts -- whoops-a-daisy, guys! Those aren't Vault 32 inhabitants -- they're raiders from the surface, and they're here to raid 33 just like they did 32. (Supposedly.)
The end result of all of this is a bunch of Vault 33 dwellers are dead or maimed, and Lucy's father -- the Overseer -- has been taken hostage. Clearly, someone's gotta go out and get him, right?
And who could be better prepared to do so than a woman who, until yesterday, had never met a person in her life who actually wanted to hurt her?
To be fair, she did tranq the guy in charge of keeping the door locked.
Onto Lucy, and this will be in bulletpoints!
Cheerful, helpful, and trusting to a fault -- though definitely less so than she was when she first left her vault -- Lucy is a model vault dweller. She has a strong sense of community and family, and even after a couple weeks out in the wasteland, she lives her life by the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have done unto you.
Back in the vault, Lucy was a history teacher, along with being a member of the Pipefitters' Association, Fencing Team C, and attending riflery practice. She's naive, but actually a pretty damn good shot and legitimately handy, and while she would love to work out conflicts by using her words and avoid getting a weapon out at all, she's learning that that's not always possible.
You know who taught her that really well? The guy who tied her up, used her as bait, then cut off her finger (to be fair, she did bite his off first), and then made her make ass jerky out of a dead guy, and then tried to sell her for drugs.
Pals!
If all of that I just said didn't tip you off, this canon is both really violent, and a little bit silly, usually in a gross way. Just say, "Ass jerky," out loud, it's fun.
Also, on that note, Lucy's right index finger is visibly dead, because it is someone else's finger that got Frankenstein'd onto her hand after the Ghoul cut it off. Other physical characteristics: she's about 5'5" and slender, with shoulder-length brown hair, bangs, and fucking gigantic Gollum eyes.
She also has a Pip-Boy, which is a device with a screen (think bigger than a phone, smaller than a Switch) that affixes to her wrist. It detects radiation, picks up radio (useful here in Fandom!), and provides navigation. It also displays your inventory in the games and is your whole mechanic for, like, all things menu.
She's from a video game universe, so guess who has a perk loadout?
She also has a catchphrase. Guess what, it's her username.
I'm honestly glad I didn't, like, sprain something in my hurry to snag the username once I realized I wanted to app.
You know what, guys, I was going to find more gifs but it's honestly really hard to find anything Sherlock on the internet these days (good riddance, tbh), and Erin Moriarty's face work bums me out.
So anyway, gif-lessly -- hi, it's Erin! I also play Irene Adler and Annie January Hargreeves, who don't really have any updates since their last infoposts, except that Annie is now a mother to twin six month-olds. (Nbd.)
As for me, my availability is all over the place, especially now that it's summer. My husband and I own a small arcade here in Michigan, which means I'm on Eastern time and I also don't really have set work hours. I tend to ping during the daytime more than in evenings, as I am old and tired and cranky once the sun goes down, but I'm also always down for SP if you have something particular in mind! I'm also slowly trying to dip my toe into being back on the Discord, so even if it says I'm not there, I might well be lurking/have my phone on me, at least!
Anyway. Questions? Comments? Jello cake?
Probably should've stayed there, tbh.
So yeah, Sam already summed this up better than I can (just ask the admins, my app was way too long), but Fallout the TV show is based on a series of post-apocalyptic RPG/action video games, all of which derive their name from their broader setting -- the late 21st, 22nd and 23rd centuries, after nuclear war has completely destroyed the United States. Major cities and population centers were heavily bombed, which left few options -- die, get hit with the blast and don't die (again, see Sam's infopost for more information on that kind of thing), or retreat to one of the 120 secure, underground vaults that had been constructed in the years leading up to this conflict.
Lucy is from one of those vaults! She's spent her whole life in Vault 33, which has been basically a utopia, give or take a totally normal famine year here and there. Every member of the vault contributes to the whole hive working properly, and yeah, a beehive or an ant colony is not actually a terribly bad comparison here. They all wear matching blue-and-yellow outfits, everyone understands that their purpose is bigger than themselves and they belong to a community, and for the most part, most vault dwellers thrive under this polite, cheerful, slightly-oblivious rule.
Unfortunately for Lucy and the inhabitants of Vault 33 -- this is television, and we need a plot. That comes in the form of our girl Lucy here needing to find herself a husband! It's about time, she's of childbearing age, and honestly, she can only entertain herself with her cousin for sport for so long, you know? (They're pretty inbred, in the vaults.) So the governing council of Vault 33 arranges a marriage -- they'll be opening their door to adjoining Vault 32, who will be providing the groom, and yes, the whole thing feels very feudal/state marriages/etc.
The wedding goes off, Lucy's new hubster is a hottie, and everyone's having a great time until the violence starts -- whoops-a-daisy, guys! Those aren't Vault 32 inhabitants -- they're raiders from the surface, and they're here to raid 33 just like they did 32. (Supposedly.)
The end result of all of this is a bunch of Vault 33 dwellers are dead or maimed, and Lucy's father -- the Overseer -- has been taken hostage. Clearly, someone's gotta go out and get him, right?
And who could be better prepared to do so than a woman who, until yesterday, had never met a person in her life who actually wanted to hurt her?
To be fair, she did tranq the guy in charge of keeping the door locked.
Onto Lucy, and this will be in bulletpoints!
Pals!
I'm honestly glad I didn't, like, sprain something in my hurry to snag the username once I realized I wanted to app.
You know what, guys, I was going to find more gifs but it's honestly really hard to find anything Sherlock on the internet these days (good riddance, tbh), and Erin Moriarty's face work bums me out.
So anyway, gif-lessly -- hi, it's Erin! I also play Irene Adler and Annie January Hargreeves, who don't really have any updates since their last infoposts, except that Annie is now a mother to twin six month-olds. (Nbd.)
As for me, my availability is all over the place, especially now that it's summer. My husband and I own a small arcade here in Michigan, which means I'm on Eastern time and I also don't really have set work hours. I tend to ping during the daytime more than in evenings, as I am old and tired and cranky once the sun goes down, but I'm also always down for SP if you have something particular in mind! I'm also slowly trying to dip my toe into being back on the Discord, so even if it says I'm not there, I might well be lurking/have my phone on me, at least!
Anyway. Questions? Comments? Jello cake?
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I did check and
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But did you die tho?
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