easing back into comics and while i won't show you the thumbnail for the whole thing i WILL promise you. there are some powerful gloria faces in this
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Suuuper curious about Gloria’s SPECIAL stats + main perks
sure thing!
i've found various bobbleheads around, so that INT should be at 9. and her most pertinent perks: science!, scrapper, unstoppable. she's smart, she's crafty, and she takes a lot of punishment. and close to metal, of course
bonus picture!
the forbidden gloria
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nick and gloria are banned from participating in poker games at the dugout because gloria has a really, really good grip of poker math and is a sore winner, and because during a game nick unplugged the nerves of his face and slapped them down on the table and it freaked people the hell out, and any game with the both of them is a total shitshow because they want to beat other people but they really want to beat each other
this is such a recurring element of their relationship that even when gloria is on the verge of dying in a hospital bed from radiation poisoning and they're playing chess to pass the time nick is like this is the worst possible thing that could ever happen and would shatter me forever. however i do need to lock the fuck in
Anonymous asked:
Suuuper curious about Gloria’s SPECIAL stats + main perks
sure thing!
i've found various bobbleheads around, so that INT should be at 9. and her most pertinent perks: science!, scrapper, unstoppable. she's smart, she's crafty, and she takes a lot of punishment. and close to metal, of course
bonus picture!
nick and gloria are banned from participating in poker games at the dugout because gloria has a really, really good grip of poker math and is a sore winner, and because during a game nick unplugged the nerves of his face and slapped them down on the table and it freaked people the hell out, and any game with the both of them is a total shitshow because they want to beat other people but they really want to beat each other
oh fun dead woman walking fact for the rereads
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gloria: navigating an obscenely complex military computer from memory after successfully posing as an institute scientist after a two week crash course
nick:
it always makes my day when i see people interacting with dead man talking, dead woman walking, or the comics, and getting it. like really clicking with it and the point i'm making. it's so gratifying. it's a niche within a niche within a niche, so i put both out there with the expectation that it wouldn't be read at all and that'd be fine, it's for me, but it's still really satisfying to see people understand that despite the horrific way it ends, it doesn't make the funny or sweet things in it obsolete, it just makes them more meaningful when they do happen. it's just the curse of being alive. you can go out in a bad way, or a good way, but you're still going out, and there isn't a thing in the world that can change that. so if over the past couple of years you've taken the time to reach out about it, thank you, i read and appreciate all of them
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love the idea that the actual 'nick valentine' brainscan file is both 14kb in size and also so gigantic for the time period that it shunts out other functions in whatever synth OS those things are running. nick can't run the absolutely colossal calculations DiMA can because the available memory is taken up by the questions like 'how many hoagies can a 39-year-old man consume in a single sitting' and a great working knowledge of guns people no longer use
there's a part in dead woman walking where gloria finds out how much data DiMA can handle at any given time and nick gets petty and sullen about it
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It's Valentine's day! You there, browsing the tag. Have you ever thought 'I like Nick Valentine, but I wish he starred in two novels lovingly written in the prose style of a detective noir from 1943, and so help me God, I don't want to pay a cent for it?' No! Nobody has! What an unusually specific dream!
More than that, I've filled them with art, too.
If this sounds like something you'd like, you can find the full series (the two books and two small side stories) here.
#self-reblog#dead man talking#dead woman walking#gloria roche#nick valentine#it's friday! how about fucking up your whole weekend beyond repair#if you're new and wondering who is this gloria she keeps posting about. this is that gloria that i keep posting about#the posting will continue until morale plummets
haunted and vexed by the idea of gloria, as a prewar relic, knowing recipes for various godawful jello salads and unironically enjoying them. and ending up with the only man. the ONLY man in the commonwealth. who would genuinely, honest to god, love to eat one.
#dead man talking#dead woman walking#gloria roche#nick valentine#the ghouls took the long way they've got enough distance to recognise there are better things#meanwhile nick 'never had a meal in his life' valentine is dying inside because he can't eat cottage cheese in a jello#matching each other's freak (awful salads)
nick and gloria have both had pretty rough rides to get to where they are in dead man talking (brain transplant from a guy who'd go on to shoot himself + waking up in the junk and missing his) (the nuclear apocalypse killing her whole family + dooming her to a protracted death on account of the lack of suitable medical care) which means they have pitch black bits only they find funny and horrify everybody else. a recurring one is if either gets mildly, i mean MILDLY injured they do a dying swan act. nick has a single wire fray in his wrist and says gloria....... look...... if anything ever happens to me, please....... for christ's sakes never move on. and they both start cracking the fuck up
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you never really see how nick's friend group sees gloria in the books but you have to understand how what happens comes across to, say, ellie or piper. her long-time friend ups and vanishes for six months and when he finally shows up again he's wandering around with a very troubled hot woman who's like a third his age and nick has just signed over half the business and gets really cagey about their whole thing whenever it's brought up because he is now covering for a double-murder and is uneasy about that. by the time he lands back in diamond city piper goes ohhhh god he's having a midlife crisis
gloria and piper actually get along pretty well in that they're both very headstrong and stubborn but just different enough that they don't butt heads all the time. the only thing keeping them from being friends is gloria's refusal to talk about herself, up until she casually drops that she's 231 years old when they're getting lunch once and piper's journalism brain turns to soup and starts melting out her ears
you never really see how nick's friend group sees gloria in the books but you have to understand how what happens comes across to, say, ellie or piper. her long-time friend ups and vanishes for six months and when he finally shows up again he's wandering around with a very troubled hot woman who's like a third his age and nick has just signed over half the business and gets really cagey about their whole thing whenever it's brought up because he is now covering for a double-murder and is uneasy about that. by the time he lands back in diamond city piper goes ohhhh god he's having a midlife crisis
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i bought shadows of doubt way back in early access before they ever added achievements, so my steam page honest to god looks like 130 HOURS INGAME - 1/40 ACHIEVEMENTS. i look like i haven't solved shit for dick. i look like a dipshit out here
finally some representation around here
my little ingame detective's name is, of course, gloria roche. however the actual deduction relies on my problem solving skills which presents an issue because gloria is extremely intelligent and i am not. she's a very capable detective. her cases were easy to solve because she was usually the murderer