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Giddy up partner ⭐️

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GHOUCLYWeek Day 1: Partners in Crime

GHOUCLYWeek Day 3: Dreams and Nightmares

Not in a yeehaw mood💀

these parallells are driving me insane so i had to share. clarice and lucy being equally driven young women who has a savior complex, and then they both get their whole world turned around by meeting a fkn cannibal that makes them start questioning everything they know.

and don’t get me started on the fingers! when clarice touches hannibal for the first time and their eyes meet vs cooper cutting off lucy’s finger and telling her that that’s the most honest exchange they’ve had so far. UGH

GHOULCY + Ship Tropes

do not separate them!!

something peaceful

Everyone loves enemies to lovers until there is actual enemy actives being preformed

“He sold her for her organs” yeah he was dying (turning feral which might as well be dying) and desperate and she was just some girl he just met who he had just ‘fought’ for a bounty

The "Ghoulcy" Songs of Fallout 2/4

“I Can Dream, Can’t I?

I admit this song both excites and puts a shadow over my ghoulcy shipping heart. But OH– how it pulls deliciously on my poor heart strings.

This song may well speak to how Ghoulcy ends. If Lucy cannot/does not break through to him, everything may well end as “a dream” which is never fulfilled. 

This scene, part of which I already did an analysis on, is just so heartbreaking with the addition of this melody crooning in the background.

I can see, no matter how near you’ll be

You’ll never belong to me

But I can dream, can’t I?

Can’t I pretend I’m locked in the bend of your embrace?

For dreams are just like wine

And I am drunk on mine.

Intentional or not, the word play here is perfect: he’s literally going on a bender and drinking himself stupid because sure a ghoul + a load of drugs= no brainer. But it’s more than that here. Lucy’s just thrown him for a loop by sticking to her Golden Rule when she could have taken her revenge. She proved tough enough to survive and still show mercy when given the opportunity to “do unto him” as he had done unto her.

And uh-oh– because the ghoul has survived his own trauma for the last 200 years on the principle that things like that–people like that– didn’t really exist in this world.

And now she's gone and challenged this, he chooses to try to lose himself to old habits and poor coping skills. Except it backfires. He just can't escape so easily from his demons.

I’m aware, my heart’s a sad affair

There’s much disillusion there

But I can dream, can’t I?

Everything he thought Barb was (but ended up not being) is superimposing in his mind over everything Lucy embodied when she laid down those vials and spared him. In that moment she had the power of his life and death in her hands and she made the choice Barb, his wife and lover, did not.

And I think that sort of terrifies him. I think he is almost as afraid of her proving him right about the world as he is her proving him wrong. 

Can’t I adore you, although we are oceans apart?

I can’t make you open your heart

But I can dream, can’t I?

They’ve gone their separate ways…for now. And Cooper’s left alone to dwell on all of it.

I know they said for season 2 they were going to be playing with the idea of how far Lucy could be pushed while holding on to her “golden center” and I think how that plays out will be vital in how things go for Ghoulcy. If she can manage to hold on to at least some semblance of herself despite having to harden somewhat, I think that will be the key to opening up the Ghoul’s heart again.

And yet.

I think the Ghoul is marked for tragedy. I fear he may even be marked for death.

But I can dream, can’t I?

The "Ghoulcy" Songs of Fallout (4/4)

Ok, so if you’ve read the previous posts, at this point you’re wondering “Ok, so those are the 'obvious' ones” what was the extra one?

Well I’m so glad you asked because this is the one I’m most excited to share. Something about how they slipped a Ghoulcy reference in all sly and smooth made it feel spicy to discover.

And the reason it’s so easy to miss is it plays during (or more accurately AFTER) a Lucy/Maximus scene. In fact, it plays at the very end of the only episode in which the ghoul doesn't get any screen time...or does he?

Yup, that's right. I firmly believe there’s a song foreshadowing Lucy’s decision to leave Maximus (and her sweet but naive dream with him) in favor of following the Ghoul in pursuit of finding her truth waaaaay back in episode 5 (which is during Lucy/Max’s solo stint).

Remember with me for a moment how absolutely intentional every song choice has been. And how so many have reflected the Ghoul’s point of view? Well, he may not be in the scene but his attitude sure is.

Because in the final scene for the episode, after they fall down into Vault 4, Maximus asks Lucy where they are and she turns to him full of blind faith and confidence, telling him they’re in the “best place in the world.”

This ends the scene and as the credits roll this lovely little number starts crooning—

“It’s Just a Matter of Time”

Someday, some way, you'll realize that you've been blind

Yes, darling, you're going to need me again

It's Just A Matter Of Time

Go on, go on, until you reach the end of the line

But I know you'll pass my way again

It's Just A Matter Of Time

The song references two people who are *currently* apart but destined to meet again. In this moment, Maximus is with her so it can’t be referring to him. The song also talks of naivete (“you’ll realize you’ve been blind”) right after the scene where she makes the comment about a vault being the best place in the world (very ghoulish sounding snark if you ask me).

So who is this mysterious absent figure with an attitude, who seems to delight in calling out naiveté, someone whom she will “need again” when she “reaches the end of the line” and “passes his way again”?

Oh, I think you know.

And maybe this is just the craziest of coincidences but as the song crescendos on it’s final line the screen settles on Walton Goggins name before fading to black. 

And in case you are curious, though it is a short song it has two more stanzas that weren’t used.

____________________

After I gave you everything I had

You laughed and called me a clown

Remember, in your search for fortune and fame

What goes up must come down

I know, I know

That one day, you'll wake up and find

That my love was a true love

It's just a matter of time

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You're welcome. Now go have some sweet Ghoulcy dreams, sugars.

Now That's What I Call Fallout Textposts: Special Ghoulcy Edition

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