The Ghoul💀

Holly

I’ve watched the entire series again today in a hungover state and I CAN’T DEAL with all the parallels.

I mean, when Lucy finds out about her Dad’s true actions and origins - her whole world falls apart. She saw the vaults as safety - she looked up to her Dad more than anyone else in the world. She learns that he’s lied about who he is as a man and as her father, but also she must realise that the vault’s are hiding their own dirty secrets (especially after her experience at vault 4) and that her Dad is a part of that too. She even says to Max, after leaving vault 4, that if she destroyed a whole community to save him, he would be heartbroken: when that’s exactly what he did on an even grander and more terrible scale. Lucy’s life wasn’t even in direct danger to warrant that reaction - he’s just an insecure selfish arsehole.

At the very same time we see the flashback scene of Coop hearing Barb suggest that they drop the bombs on America. This woman that he loves and trusts and has made a family with - who he said he fell in love with because she always tries to do the right thing. Their reactions at the point of realisation - shock, inability to speak, almost dissociation - are both extremely similar. Him having gone through that betrayal before (and likely plenty of times since) is EXACTLY why he talks to Lucy how he does. He’s preparing her for the eventual heartbreak - because he has the experience that nothing could ever be as perfect as she states her life is. When he’s making ass jerky from Frank, he even tells her: there’s what people say they do and what they really do.

When you look at all of that, really, in the scheme of things, Coop - the man that she’s seen as this inhuman, cruel, murderous monster - he’s the good guy. He too thought his wife’s business with vault tec was abhorrent. Yes, he’s been warped and twisted by the wasteland and by his own trauma - but he does see this brightness in Lucy. He thought she was just naive and full of bullshit (especially being a vault dweller. Something which I’m sure triggered him considering his past with vault tec and the links to his wife) but when she proved herself by giving him the vials instead of letting him die, he’s probably amazed that there’s someone left in the world who isn’t just a liar and a terrible person. He’s so used to betrayal and violence by this point. She’s a good person - a trait that he literally said he was in love with his wife because of. She softens him.

But she also proves herself in another way - by shooting her feralled mother - showing that she’s also grown and learnt that not everything is black and white. It’s not just “good and bad” in this world. And although Coop has questionable morals, he’s honest, like her. He tells things how it is. Plus, after her Dad’s huge life changing betrayal and her time in the wasteland, she understands a little more why Coop has done all the things that she’s seen him do - I mean he did meet her pretty much day one out of the vault initially - hence why she goes with him. He has hardened her up to protect her in the wasteland.

Wilzig even says “will you still want the same things when you’re an entirely different animal together.”

My god. It’s just genius. Absolutely genius.

“You comin’?”

Edit: Can we also talk about her Coop is basically the inspiration for the vault boy - who Lucy basically looks to (physically a few times throughout the series) for inspiration to do the right thing. AND the fact that her Dad was obviously a bit obsessed with Coop and probably still was when Lucy was born, seeing as he’d been in a pod and had only just woken up retaining recent memories. So Lucy likely watched all of his films and her Dad maybe even saw him as a bit of a role model (or at least his in film characters). AND the obvious exchange of index fingers. Yup. Honestly if this relationship doesn’t become cannon, I will start dropping bombs too.

ANOTHER EDIT: Sorry one last thing but, I just want to add: nothing that post-war Coop does is personal. It’s either: to get a job done, survival, because he’s been trigger by something (understandable after what’s he been through) or, in Lucy’s case, to teach a (admittedly often harsh) lesson. He doesn’t just mindlessly kill - or particularly enjoy killing - he just has no issue with it, it’s all just means to an end. He even still remembers to pay for his tomatoes in Filly ffs haha… I imagine he’s extremely numb and devoid of all feeling - except for when it comes to his wife and little girl. That’s the only time we see more visceral reactions in either actions or dialogue from him. He’s such an intricate character and Walton did an amazing job of portraying him.

First drawing of the year! I love this ship lmao and I just had to redraw the titanic scene with them.

Also, I will NEVER draw them as related to each other,- they are NOT siblings! I will never view the sibling timeline as canon, because it ruins Halloween 1978 completely in my opinion and I WILL throw tomatoes at anyone who argues otherwise!! The Halloween 1978 and 2018 timeline is superior!!!

Realized I never uploaded this!

Michael in negan‘s clothes came up, and that gave me rockabilly vibes!

Enjoy!

I feel VERY normal about how he waited for the perfect moment to come charging out at her from the shadows all sexy like a bat out of hell so he could effortlessly steal control of the gun and use it to pin her against the wall seductively.

I feel EXTREMELY normal about how they struggle for control of the knife but it’s futile because he’s just too strong and instead of stabbing her with intent to kill (which he could do in a heartbeat and with absolute ease) he only wounds her to calm her tf down so he can be intimate.

(DOES NOT PAY RENT IN MY HEAD ⬇️⬇️⬇️)

I feel ACHINGLY normal about how they are not equal in power at all, it only seems that way because he’s barely even trying here (he could have killed her outright in two seconds flat if he really wanted to) because he’s in love with her and would rather have her and that’s why she ultimately succeeds in burning him alive in the cellar, slitting his throat, and crushing him into tiny hamburger bits in the grinder.

Because he didn’t kill her way back when he had the chance because he’s been in love and obsessed with her for forty plus years. 😩

He could’ve tried harder in their final fight in Ends too but he was more concerned with giving them matching scars. 

Lovers’ Scars. 😩

(Getting her fingers sliced off by the garbage disposal probably would have killed her eventually but if he really meant business then he could have just sliced her throat or something quick like that but instead this lovebird chose to stand behind her erotically and give couple scars and that just gave her the chance to get an upper hand on him like..)

She really is more powerful than him, after all…

THE GHOUL in FALLOUT: Season 1 Episode 6 “The Trap”

timebomb doodles <33 (inspired by the artbook)

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