I Love How Porter Gage Is One Of The Ones That Didn't Change. He's Already Woke'd

never posted anything here, but i thought i should just share it with you guys. gage is such a babygirl i can't...

Wow this is old and could look a lot better. Okay.

Scenario in which Gages old boss “The Harvester” makes it through the gauntlet at Nuka-World and kills Overboss Colter. Gage hasn’t seen Harvest since he betrayed him so many years ago and presumed him dead, but unfortunately for him Connor tracked him down and is ready to resume his position as his boss.

Connor was only mentioned like… once… in Gages dialogue, but me and @porcelllio have taken that and run with it. Expect lots of art of him.

Gages pov, him and McCoy had a long night.

Creepy asshole smiling gif

Animating on procreate is a real pain in the ass, you know that? Trying to get used to it though.

—————— Pretentious rambling below here 🔻

One of my favorite things about Harvests design is his smile. He's a sick individual with a complete lack of morals, arguably one of the worst raiders out in the wastes. The suffering of others is just a byproduct of his existence and often just a result of his impulse rather than actual malice.

He’s perverse, manipulative, overly indulgent on plenty worse things than chems (though he loves to shoot up psycho) and I like to think his smile is representative of that. It’s over the top, too wide, too straight for a raider, sickening even. It would look unnatural or uncanny on most other people but it suits him fine even in situations where smiling is inappropriate (even for a raider) because there’s something distinctly inhuman about him. He’s unpredictable.

He could be smiling because he likes you, sure. It’s nice to imagine he approves of you in some sense so maybe he won’t kill you- but more likely than not he doesn’t really care about you one way or the other. (He doesn’t think about most people that hard) He’s just smiling to make you feel something, to make you think something, because it’s simply entertaining to control someone like that. To put thoughts in their head. Or, he could be thinking about skinning you alive. You never really know. His smile doesn’t actually tell you anything because he’s almost always wearing it, or at the very least willing to put it on without much reason. It’s just what he does.

I could talk about this jackass forever if you can’t tell. To be cringe is to be free.

I cannot deal with the white-ification of Porter. I CANNOT. He's lightskin, sure, but some people look like they're drawing some guy named Parker Gabe instead of Porter Gage 😭 You see the tan skin, flatter nose, and those DENSE ASS CURLS ON HIS HEAD and think "yeah hes a paper plate" FUCK man oh my god. It makes me so sad when people erase those features off of him or bleach him. He's not a white guy covered in dirt holy shit. You cannot wash off that mans melanin.

The eyepatch thing makes me more disappointed than angry. Once again, yes his in-game model doesn't have anything under there- but what other characters have defining features like that?? Almost all of the other companions models are made with the regular character customisation options and just have unique outfits. (and not all of them even have that) The only companions with somewhat unique body models is Nick and maybe Hancock but idk if thats just the normal face sculpting with the ghoul skin over it. Everyone else is just the normal human, super mutant, or robot models. They don't get unique scars or anything.

The reason Gage has nothing under his eyepatch has nothing to do with him trying to "look tough" because hes trying to prove himself or something. Its because Bethesda is LAZY. Fallout 4 is particular is extremely lacking in unique character design features compared to the other games.

All of the main factions are exclusively human aside from the institute- and the synths are humanoid already and half of them are indistinguishable from regular people on top of that. The railroad has an assaultron that doesn't even look unique compared to other assaultrons other than the text on her chest. The only really unique designs we get is DiMA, Swan (boat arm), the drinking buddy (?), and maybe a few others. Not even important story characters like Kellogg get distinctive scars or other features that aren't available to the player. EVERYONE JUST GETS FUNKY CLOTHES. GAGE IS THE ONLY ONE WITH AN EYEPATCH. WHY WOULD THEY GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO GIVE HIM AN EYEPATCH IF HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY NEED IT.😭😭😭😭

i started ranting about porter gage again sorry guys

this is not directed at anyone because i see this all the time (i use “you” as a general thing) but it is SO annoying seeing people call gage ugly all of the time, in fanart and posts and whatnot. i love that he’s a grimy little raider as much as the next person but that man is not ugly! unconventionally attractive sure but who isn’t in the apocalypse. and it’s fine if you think he IS ugly because people are sometimes and there’s nothing wrong with it, but why is that the only thing you can call him..

seeing people bash on him for being unattractive mixed with how often people draw him without any of his defining features also feels so GROSS and not in the “i should block and move on way”. you find the black raider character and decide actually he’s a white man with a straight, more “attractive” haircut with a beard, he doesn’t have his big downturned nose, and decide that’s how you’ve “cleaned” him up and then talk about how gross he is in game. does this feel weird to you?

even if we ignore the possible racist undertones because it really does feel like no one realizes that… that is not a white man. it’s still so frustrating. why don’t we talk about the things we like about the character we like!! no im not liking your fanart when the caption is calling him a ugly fucking freak. i don’t even wanna talk about how ppl just assume that because his ingame model doesn’t have a unique texture under his eyepatch means that. his eye is just fine under there? where is your creativity or just draw the eye patch because its CUTEE and yes its “stupid” yes his outfit/armor is “stupid” because he’s a FUCKING RAIDER!!! you choose to just ignore the things he wears because they’re unconventional instead of thinking about how he went through the effort to paint them a bright yellow because maybe that’s his favorite color. maybe he wears that big cage because it’s convenient to hang things off of when he’s working on colter’s power armor or other mechanics. maybe he keeps his hair in that short little mohawk because he doesn’t wanna go through the effort of dealing with his curls.

where is your fucking whimsy people. call gage a nasty raider because he’s an asshole and doesn’t shower but leave all the fun about him alone. that right there is a big beautiful dorito-shaped southern man and obviously no one knows how to behave around one of those so i will be keeping him in my house

Tell us more about McCoy 👀

HI I'm SO sorry it took me so long to answer this. (It's been literal months and i've had this drafted for a second ouf...) I dissappear off the internet for months at a time pretty frequently.

I tried to write out some stuff about her without making it too long… this is just going to be a really bare-bones timeline of her story.

A decent bit of her lore aligns with Nora's canon lore. She's still a lawyer (particularly a criminal prosecutor) and her husband was still in the army. However, Shaun is her adopted nephew rather than her son. She's also a trans woman and takes estrogen.

Personality wise she wasn't exactly the “norm” pre-war. She was quiet and standoffish, and a bit bitchy; so much so that she didn't feel like she entirely fit in within the bubbling extroverted personality of Sanctuary Hills. Her distant personality led to people frequently pushing her boundaries when interacting with her.

Post-war, she gets dragged into leading the minutemen for the first year or so despite only really wanting to find her nephew. She quickly grows to detest the group, since they kept piling on more people for her to help- rather than helping her find Shaun as they promised. (Though she's still relatively nice to the settlers she assists.)

Upon entering the institute and discovering the status of her nephew, she pretty much immediately loses her composure and kills him. She manages to escape the institute without being detected, and promptly flees the commonwealth entirely- following the instructions from the Nuka-Cola family radio broadcast.

Although nearly dying in the Gauntlet, she quickly thrives as Overboss. The freedom being a raider provides her makes the more callous side of her personality blossom, and her connections with the commonwealth settlements make it easy for her to enslave and exploit the people there. The Pack and The Operators receive the most of her grace, leading to the eventual riddance of The Disciples (although she keeps Savoy alive for Gage) ((I have something going on between them a little bit its complicated))

I don't want to go too in depth here since I'm planning a whole post (and a painfully long fanfiction but who knows if I'll actually finish that) of her personality and story. All this also completely leaves out the stuff with her and Gage which is what I have ironed out the most ironically enough. I'm so happy to have someone ask stuff about her!

+sketch for a wip as extra compensation

oh no..

Živa knocks out her tooth ft Maccready followup

So about Harvest…

He’s always been very “bull centric” if that makes sense. He’s a brute and a fucking asshole- amongst other things. He also has a tattoo of bull horns on his pelvis so this fits. Beastkin AU in which he’s a longhorn bull.