Disco Elysium inspired portrait

[fallout spice of life] it’s time for sharing my piece for @newvegasguidezine !!!  I had so much fun doing these as this is one of a few times I’m doing full illustrations. Thanks for the mods at New Vegas Zine for organising such a wonderful project!!

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PHEW i can finally post this bad boy!! this is my piece for "From Necropolis With Love"! ive always loved and adored the entire bright followers sidequest in new vegas so this was kind of my love letter to it

in case you missed your opportunity to get one, therell be some extra zines and merch for sale after march 14th, see @falloutghoulzine for updates and info! working on this zine was super fun and theres lots of cool people involved if you wanna check it out <3

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hey guys, i thought it’d be fun to celebrate everyone’s favorite mailman by doing a ulysses week!! on november 23 to 28, let’s appreciate one of the most complex and underrated characters in fallout new vegas by making fic, art, meta, playlists, moodboards, or just whatever you want to make! everything is welcome!!

here are some prompts - feel free to interpret them however you like :)

i’ll be tracking #ulyssesweek2021 so don’t forget to tag your works with that! have fun!!

I’m just thinking about how the stealth suit in fnv can sometimes be heard desperately trying pump the courier with stimpacks as they die

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Ulysses loves the Legion, not Caesar.

Though perhaps a better title would be “Ulysses loves a strong nation, no matter what they may do”.

The Vault Wiki says that Ulysses is “formerly” Legion, the quote they cite isn’t so transparent:

This caused me to wonder how distant Ulysses is from the Legion’s ideals.

A few resourceful fans ( @veronicaroyce @dragonie @wildwildwasteland ) recently found that it seems Ulysses is conscious of the historical Rome, and that Caesar is not the first Caesar to exist. 

Yet, of course, Ulysses still calls Legion his brothers, and still favors them in comparison to the NCR.

Moreover, Ulysses is furious with the White Legs for attempting to honor him and not the Legion.

Note how Ulysses hates the idea that he would be honored, and not the Legion as a nation.

When asked why Ulysses didn’t just kill the Courier in Primm, Ulysses replies:

Since the encounter Ulysses had at Primm was likely just months or maybe one or two years before Lonesome Road, this indicates that Ulysses was recently respectful of Caesar’s orders, and Caesar’s rule.

But this doesn’t mean, necessarily, that Ulysses loves Caesar. (Ulysses actually never uses the word love.) What this means is that Ulysses loves the concept of a powerful nation that operates with the Legion’s same sort of strength and authority.

Ulysses calls Legion his brothers. Perhaps, to Ulysses, the question of Caesar’s authority is just a sidenote to the loyalty shared amongst people.

Ulysses is the sort of person who would prioritize a nation before a people. He’s done this before. Participated in spying and violent acts for a strong nation because he believes that a strong nation is virtuous.

That’s why The Divide being destroyed angered him so. It was the destruction of a nation that he had some faith in.

So the conclusion I believe can be drawn is that Ulysses is aware that Caesar is basing a nation off of the historical Roman Empire, yet this doesn’t matter to him. He’s aware that Caesar may fall and that the Legion is misguided, but still aligns himself more closely with them. (He respects a Legion courier more easily.)

It’s not that Ulysses is Legion-aligned or not. Even if he is not specifically working under Caesar’s orders, his personal political philosophy is in alignment with the Legion, and with a strong nation. He is willing to commit great crimes against humanity (such as nuking the NCR’s main supply line to starve them to death) if it means that a strong nation will be formed.

Mm, I would have to disagree on that point. Note that although Ulysses calls the Legion his “brothers,” he also calls them “misguided”; when I played through Lonesome Road, I got the impression that, while Ulysses still maintained some attachment to the Legion as his old comrades-in-arms (and including former Twisted Hairs), he didn’t think the Legion itself has much future in it. If you face him as a Legion courier, he in fact acknowledges that his split, and states an intent to bomb Dry Wells as well, with the knowledge that the Legion will eventually die out on its own.

“It will fall as any culture bred on war, on forward momentum”… doesn’t exactly seem like a ringing endorsement of Legion ideals. In another line, he says that even if Legion succeeds in the Mojave, they can’t last; their own philosophy guarantees it.

We know that he loved the Divide and saw it as a nation he could call home, unlike the Legion; indeed, he seems to like it because it is so different from Legion or NCR.

With the White Legs section, I always thought his disgust was because their attempts to honour him personally were actually so offensive to him (basically culturally appropriating his tribe’s hairstyle) rather than him being angry that they were directed at him instead of the Legion.

Basically I think that, while Ulysses obviously still has some lingering attachments to the Legion from his time in their service, he’s disillusioned not only with Caesar but with their philosophy in general.