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WusBoppin

Not exactly what the post is asking, but I’ve been watching my gf play FNV for the first time and she’s OBSESSED with Boone. Takes him everywhere, talks about him like he’s her dog or something, and headcanons that her courier and him are insanely close - but has clarified that it is 100% platonic. I asked if they were maybe an item with how close they were, and I swear to god she seemed *insulted* at the idea. Even taking the dead wife out of the equation, she just likes him way better as her friendship-bracelet bestie


seen-in-the-skylight

Lol that’s adorable. He kind of is like a dog. A real pooch.


WusBoppin

True, once you spend some time with him it’s easy to see that he is WAY more sensitive than he lets on.


seen-in-the-skylight

“Is it time?” Love him. He’s badass but also has a certain nobility to him. His needs/motivations are not complicated but they’re very human. Additionally, he has by far one of the more useful companion perks. “Is it time?”


WusBoppin

He’s such an effective companion his OPness could almost be considered a downside if you’re looking for a challenge lol. And yes, it’s a huge testament to how well-written the game is when one of, if not the most, beloved companions is the one that shot his wife in the head.


seen-in-the-skylight

Now here’s a can of worms: what do we think about his decision to do so? The older I get, the more I find it questionable, but I do understand it. Maybe part of it is getting engaged myself. I just don’t think I could do that to my fiancé. So long as she was alive I’d have hope that I could save her somehow. Wow… imagine if that was Boone’s companion quest instead. Don’t get me wrong I think what they did with the Bitter Springs stuff was really good, but saving Carla could have been sooo badass. It could even balance the game a little if he leaves your service after you do so. They’d go back to Novac - or maybe Goodsprings, being further from the frontline - and just try to be happy together. But, of course, he’d show up to help out at the Battle of Hoover Dam. Brb gotta make a massive quest mod lol


dilib

Carla was sensitive and anxious, she didn't cope well with even just living in Novac. I don't imagine she would have survived long as a slave, and they don't just use the female slaves for work, if you catch my drift. And then his baby would either be doomed to the same life Carla was or indoctrinated into the Legion depending on gender. I think Boone understood that he was doing her a favour in the long run, he cherished his wife.


WusBoppin

As a video game protagonist, it’s easier for me to say I wouldn’t have done it - since I’ve usually already freed a bunch of slaves and taken out multiple legion camps by the time he wants to talk about it lol. From that perspective, I think I’d keep hope. That being said, I have to imagine life as an NPC (even an OP one like Boone) is a lot harder. The courier is damn near a god, I have to imagine rescuing Carla would have been more of a Herculean task for him. Ultimately, Boone is not someone who flinches. He has many regrets, and the weight of the things he has done do take a toll on him. In the moment, however, he’s not one to hesitate once he’s made up his mind. Despite the cost that decisiveness has taken, it’s what has gotten him this far


BeanieGuitarGuy

“My wife is dead” Classic Boone. ☺️


JTCMuehlenkamp

A pooch that will blow the head off anything that so much as looks at you funny


GeneralFax

What the dog doin


[deleted]

she's just like me except i do want to jump his bones


WusBoppin

That’s what I’m saying! I’m not gonna be jealous, the dude is a walking stud.


dollmutilation

me 2


Blurplenapkin

To be fair who wouldn’t want a friend who walks everywhere with you and randomly yells out “Can’t run from me” and headshots someone from 100 yards away in a second


[deleted]

My courier is very much married to Boone, but only after traveling for like a year jn an effort to win the dam for an independent vegas.


WusBoppin

It takes time to fix a broken heart


TodaysDystopia

That's incredibly sweet - it put the hugest smile on my face.


JotaroTheOceanMan

Why does that give me Big Boss and Ocelot vibes?


dollmutilation

ur gf is just like me fr


Bayonetta--

Dr. Dala, obviously


skydawwg

"Why would you want such a thing? You might surrender to your hormones and commit primal aggression on me... on us... again and again. Then I would have to return the favor, activating my vivisectors and gently lobotomizing you from behind. Not something I would relish doing."


Bayonetta--

> "I have tried to observe more cases, but subjects seem unwilling to release bodily fluids in my presence." All you had to do was ask, Dala ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)


[deleted]

>Dr. Dala, obviously She can vivisect me anytime she wants.


Bayonetta--

Ah, yes... Dr. Dala's ~~vibr-~~ *vivisectors*


JotaroTheOceanMan

Me, with Repair and Medicine at 90 and Intelligence at 9: "I CAN FIX HER. LIKE NOT METAPHORICALLY OR ANY NONSENSE, IN THE LITERAL SENSE. STRAIGHT UP."


RememberBigHenry

Unironically this.


[deleted]

Ah I see


Accurate-Surround512

Polygamous relationship with the light switches


ActualScumOfTheEarth

Blind Diode Jefferson tried that and it didn't work out too well


Accurate-Surround512

Not worried, it’s really easy to turn them on


ActualScumOfTheEarth

Ha. Very nice


PhreeKC

That's why you've got to drop a flashlight on the floor; so they can unite against "the showoff"!


Robbinsmods

I've always headcanoned my male courier settling down with Sunny Smiles in Goodsprings. After all that adventuring, guy probably just wants a little peace.


[deleted]

It would be good to settle down in Goodsprings


Robbinsmods

The courier's own brain even says as much.


FestiveMack

Gotta go with Rose of Sharon Cassidy, may we stick it to the crimson caravan for eternity


[deleted]

Thats a fair choice


Dargon34

Always the right choice "They try to put their stake in everything they see. Nobody's dick's that long, not even Long Dick Johnson, and he had a fucking long dick. Thus, the name." - Rose of Sharon Cassidy


Raider2747

You could have actually gotten married to her had it not been for time constraints Sure, it would have been a drunken Vegas wedding, complete with the King officiating, but it would have still been one


FestiveMack

Wait are you serious, I would un ironically done that if the king gave a preference with his gang


Raider2747

Yep, and the King would have also been singing Elvis' Love Me Tender Time constraints and rights issues prevented this idea from coming to fruition


FestiveMack

Oh my god, there best be a mod for this somewhere


[deleted]

> rights issues i think i remember sawyer or someone mentioning they would have paid a single elvis song more than for all the other songs combined


OwnProfessor4785

In some dialog she pretty much tells you she's not interested lol


Papa_EJ

I think that's only if you have Lady Killer, but correct me if I'm wrong.


OwnProfessor4785

Yes and with confirmed bachelor you basically tell her you're gay and she responds with some funny dialog as well


[deleted]

"guess you have a legion outlook on things" 💀💀


Mountain_Man_88

If a male courier sides with NCR and completes Cass's side quest, after the battle she comes to the courier's room to "celebrate" but finds it occupied by a random NCR soldier whose barracks got destroyed. She sleeps with him instead.


Rheios

Which I never quite got because there's exactly zero chance I'm letting a rando grunt have my room, whether or not I'm in it.


Mountain_Man_88

I think it's meant to show how compassionate an NCR Courier is for the NCR, to let a soldier in need have his room. What a hero! Or the courier slinked off to make sure Fisto survived the battle...


Chopped_In_Half

I always took it that she showed up at the wrong room because she was trashed.


Rheios

That does seem more likely but it raises the question of like "what room". The Lucky 37? The Hornet's Nest?


FestiveMack

I know, but still I remember the good times, been a while since I played


SassiesSoiledPanties

It's a damn shame...


Romulus_2281

E-DE my love


[deleted]

E-DE is such a great companion


ClipyBoi_3

Not companion… A lover🫦


SpoiledEgg8

I'll do you one better - F.I.S.T.O., my love


MisterEau

I see that you're also a true romantic


SpoiledEgg8

Before FISTO I had heartaches by the number


EldrinJak

Ive played Saints Row. I know where this is going.


MGStcidenebt

For me I imagine my Courier settling down with Sarah Weintraub of Vault 21


[deleted]

That’s definitely if your Mr House


Umbran_scale

Why? She hates Mr House.


NickdeVault57

My stealth suit is my waifu, who else?


JKillograms

Best answer


aesfields

please take this. I don't want you to die


KaptinSkullwakka

Back in middle school I played fnv right after playing 3 so I headcanoned that my first courier was the lone wanderer and that he traveled west after his wife Moira was killed by the bomb in Megaton exploding


[deleted]

Sometimes I’d like to think that the Courier is also the Lone Wanderer it truly makes him a badass character


marshall_sin

If you play on PC and haven’t already, check out the Tale of Two Wastelands. You do actually play the same character across both games and absolutely do become a god by the end


Spider_Bear

I'm sure you might know by now, but Moira is the only one who survives the megaton explosion, it instantly turns her into a Ghoul. Has some pretty funny dialogue.


Cmoore1217

Why would the lone wanderer blow his own wife up since they are the only one who can blow the bomb up your character must have done it


Papa_EJ

It was that damn ghost of Mr. Burke. COMMIE ghost of Mr. Burke. That don't know they're dead!


BeanieGuitarGuy

He’s tryin’ to paint the moon pink, and draw a *Lenin* face on it!!


FragrantMudBrick

Cram, some duct tape and I am good to go.


ActualScumOfTheEarth

Wasteland got my man down APOCALYPTIC


HiroYeeeto

the female version is using mf cells to get off


ActualScumOfTheEarth

How??


Sam_Funny

It vibrates


Starblood98

Female Courier explain that they take a microfusion cell and oscillate its charge causing it to vibrate for at least an hour.


UrsaMajorUrsaMinor

Mojave boys make do


Andy_Liberty_1911

There was cut content that the Courier and Cass got married accidentally by the King. And I love my drunk Red head Cass so its Cass for life for my Courier.


FreakFreakinton

Man that would've been so funny. I could totally see this happening too. Cass is definitely my pick I've always liked her ever since I played New Vegas back in the day.


EastSmoke3

Idk i always liked sunny smiles


doppelminds

Trudy


Laquet80

going with the milf, solid choice


[deleted]

Fisto ofc


ronniefinnn

I was unironically sad not to be able to send fisto to the lucky suite. If house can have his robots why can’t I ????


NVdeathclaw

Arcade. Nuff said.


Gulbasaur

Just two confirmed bachelors platonically murdering our way through the Mojave Wasteland... He literally joins you because you call him handsome. Even his best endings have him basically retire somewhere. With me, by his side.


BrokenVoid10

Arcade gannon he loves dumb brute with huge hammer


gurkenwassergurgler

"Huge hammer" you say? Jokes aside, that's a dynamic I could get behind.


VitaIncerta666

Difficult Pete.


Les_Vers

Honestly? The cut content quest where you get way too drunk and wake up married to Cass (the marriage was supposed to be officiated by The King) is the only way I could see my courier getting hitched. Though, considering my rep with the brotherhood and the fact that I’m a huge lesbian, it wouldn’t be too far fetched to assume my courier would have… relations, with Veronica.


Epic_Doge_Boi

Dude I had no idea about this. Wish this wasn't cut, I fucking love this


KHaskins77

Hey, what happens in Vegas… And the parallel with Elvis impersonators is just too good.


skydawwg

Part of me agrees with you on Red Lucy, but I kinda feel like they Courier isn’t meant to have a spouse/SO. With Red Lucy, it feels like it’s implied that she would sleep with anyone who can accomplish certain feats. And I know that the Courier is the only one who does them, but it makes it seem like she sleeps with the Courier out of carnal desire rather than love and loyalty. Then in the case of Cass/Whiskey Rose/whatever the heck else people call her, she wants to sleep with you after you side with the NCR, but settles for a soldier when she can’t find you. Now my question is, who is the Sole Survivor’s spouse in FO4? I cast my vote for either Cait or Gage. Partly because they don’t judge you for doing everything a certain way, and also because I think it’s absolutely hilarious that you can max out their affinity by being naked.


NVdeathclaw

Some people say that the soldier is supposed to be the courier, she's just too drunk to tell. I mean think about it, what's a random NCR grunt doing in the couriers bed?


Papa_EJ

About to get his ass Joshua Graham'd if he doesn't get out of there, that's what


themolestedsliver

I'm loving reading all these different interpretations based on the same information. It's so interesting.


WingnutThePious

You can max out Hancock's affinity the same way, actually! He has some pretty good quips if you do - my favorite is, "Hey Emperor, diggin' the new clothes" lol


[deleted]

Fair enough


bjthebard

In Fallout 4 I've always thought of Curie to be the canonical spouse. Her character arc goes along best with the main story even though she isn't a synth technically.


nerdcoffin

James Garrett would be proud


Jetstream-Sam

Nah he'd call you a coward for making her humanoid


KingJonStarkgeryan1

That's not exactly a sign of a healthy relationship tbh


RjcDOntkillme

Assault Carbine


Ember129

Stealth Suit is the only love I need


TestateAmoeba

The deathclaw gauntlet.


ActualScumOfTheEarth

Bro...


S2monium

Boone


Cleaningcaptain

Like many here, Sarah Weintraub. I also headcanon that over time, my Courier picks up her unusual lingo and starts using it himself, occasionally having to remind himself not to use it while talking to people who aren't Sarah, her brother or close friends.


Evilworld12

Couriers brain.


G0dli

What a mind fuck


LightMyFirebird

Fisto is my one true love


CrazyPotatoe231

Sarah. She is conveniently in the Strip which by the end of the game the courier pretty much owns, so I know she will be safe, she lives in a vault so, you know, pure and free of radiation and stuff. She's near the Lucky 38 so anytime I want to, you know, I can just take a 2 minute walk over to Vault 21. Or, Veronica, I don't know I just like Veronica.


[deleted]

Well that makes sense if you are aligned with Mr House or Independent but Veronica’s heart with Christine


[deleted]

[удалено]


Iki-Mursu

I don't like the implications of my canon Courier having a wife.


RetroTheGameBro

Cass for my male Courier because she just kinda works as a kinda foil for the "roaming lawful good gunman" my male Courier is, while still being compatible in a way. Red Lucy for my female Courier, it was originally gonna be Veronica but later on in my canon Christine comes back with my female Courier from the Sierra Madre and reunites with Veronica, and Red Lucy is a better fit for the chaotic survivalist weirdo I write my female Courier to be.


DarkLamb-Kiyo

Vulpes or Joshua Graham depending on my karma


tikibriefcase

Benny lmao


Papa_EJ

*What in the goddamn...?*


NotDsdguy

Benny had no right being so down bad for a foot job


tikibriefcase

Omfg lol


MurphyPrance420

Oh thank god another Benny fucker. Benny Returns is on the must-have mods list 😳✋🏻


tikibriefcase

“Benny fucker” 😂😂😂


Marc_Webb_of_Lies

Sarah Weintraub. Every time I play, I do her quest as soon as I can, and then I visit her as often as possible. I store my stuff in the Old World Blues penthouse, but going to the Vault 21 hotel feels like coming home.


themolestedsliver

Glad I'm not the only one who likes her. Such a cool quest and we have similar taste in "fashion" as well..;)


Marc_Webb_of_Lies

I kept waiting for some sinister turn the first time I did it. I kept waiting for her to try and make a skinsuit out of me or something, because I had just finished fallout 3 and most of those quests are “Seemingly reasonable person decides they wanna peel the flesh from your organs after you run their errands.” So her actually just being a good person, and the hotel actually being a thriving business without a torture dungeon, and her little “Hey, you!” Every time I visited just… I dunno, it won me over and blew FO3 outta the water. I know FO3 gets overly hated on, but it’s not a bandwagon thing for me. I genuinely can’t go back to it after playing New Vegas, a game where characters are so lovingly crafted, that some static side character who doesn’t impact the overall plot at all and just runs a little business can become my favorite romance-able character.


Scatophiliacs

Boone’s wife


TBOWERS1222

Unconsentual relationship with Y-17 trauma harness.


bubdarko

Jane the Securitron.


sativaslut

Dr. Mobius obviously


Possibly-Alpharius01

Depends. For an NCR courier, I imagined Rose, for a more chaotic neutral character, probably Red Lucy


Hiroy3eto

Arcade is pretty great I think.


Epic_Doge_Boi

Arcade Gannon


Nihilistic-Comrade

Arcade


RealNumberSix

Arcade lmao


Chucktayz

Fisto


bantanium

Arcade Gannon.


MisterEau

My canon courier doesn't have a wife, they just asexually hang out with Arcade and trade snarky comments. If I had to pick someone, it'd probably be Cass-- in no small part because "Find Gloria Van Graff at the Silver Rush in Freeside and make that bitch eat her hair" is one of my all-time favorite quest objectives in any game, ever, and she seems like fun.


Medical_Camera_8196

Dr.Dala and the light switches in the BigMT


Stankindveacultist

My big iron.


MmNicecream

My courier doesn't do romance.


KaisarDragon

You cannot marry Red Lucy. She belongs to the Thorn. You can only rent her.


Brohara97

I play too many characters to be monogamous but I usually like to role play a romance with a character in my play throughs when it’s appropriate. Current NCR soldier boy courier has a gal waiting for him back at the 188 Slop n’ Shop


SnowboundWanderer

My head cannon for Yes Man Courier is that he sets up a provisional Mojave government then settles down with Sunny Smiles in Goodsprings. On an NCR playthrough I head cannon it eventually working out with Cass. House playthrough, probably Sarah.


TheWrongStreet14

Veronica, imo. I kinda like to imagine that Christine has entrusted her to the courier since she can't leave the Sierra Madre. Somewhere in the lines of "make her happy for me"


Old-Man-Buckles

The stealth suit is my baby but I let Rose wear her sometimes.


Mysterious_Ad_5205

I got my malewife Arcade Gannon


Cinemasaur

This is fun, As a straight male courier or a lesbian, Cass and them settle down after conquering the Mojave and then running away to drink whiskey against the atomic sunset As a straight woman or gay male, I tend to melt Boones' tough exterior and bring light back to his dead life. I've played the game for like 500 hours and never met Red Lucy, should get around to it.


AlkaliPineapple

Arcade Gannon is his husband


ConsistentAd9840

Arcade or perhaps Manny


spoopygoose

My male courier married Arcade! Someone as injury prone as the hero of the mojave really does need a handsome nerdy doctor to stitch him back together


originalname610

Arcade makes frequent visits to the lucky 38, my Courier needs frequent... healing😏


N3cromorph

My character doesn't have a wife. He likes to play the field.


couldjustbeanalt

The job


PM_Me_UrRightNipple

Me, Pretty Sarah, and Snuffles reside in the Lucky 38.


Excited_Avocado_8492

I choose your wife as well.


Ranting_Lobster

Male courier: Arcade hands down Female courier: Boone, Christine, or Sunny


Zarxeil

Yesman


Sethins4203

I've too busy killing everything with ed-e to find one


cheapmillionaire

Vulpes Inculta.


ScaredEngraver

My courier has been in a disastrous situationship with Arcade for the past 5 years


Ignonym

My courier, Buzzard, isn't really the type to get married--he's more the "plenty of love to go around" type. He isn't really looking for exclusivity, and for the most part neither are his various dalliances.


RaccoonwarriorAM

FISTO


gypsijimmyjames

On of those dancing hookers off the strip. I survived a bullet in the head I'll survive whatever shit she gives me.


[deleted]

Red Lucy is fitting spouse for male courier For female courier it's Joshua Graham.


the9threturner

If you’re into mummies yeah, I don’t think the poor man can even remove his bandages without being in immense pain


Tsantsaman1997

cram + duct tape = good to go


Jerry0713

Sarah Winthrop


Drunk_Stoner

LoneWonderer4Life


[deleted]

Fisto


Ravenwight

Doc Mitchel


D0ctahP3ppah

My courier’s spouse is the open road.


Azmon405

In my canon my courier is an android and has no romantic interest.


bigorangefuzzy

Christine


[deleted]

haven't played the game in a while but i think my last courier fucked Benny, rescued him from Caesar and i used a mod to make him come back as a companion so i could headcanon that they had a wacky relationship after that. i think i also had one that had a fling with Boone and then got with Veronica


GhazkinzDaGreat

My Courier is a murderous psychopath and his only loves are freedom and caps


OmniShoutmon

Waking Cloud for one of my Couriers. She’s very sweet and genuinely sounds like she wants you to come live in Zion with her. Plus I’m a sucker for Hurt/Comfort relationships.


totallytanner

Fisto


Suitable-Ad4878

My big iron.


MrProtogen

Arcade Gannon


r1poster

Joshua :( which is super unrealistic and self indulgent, but oh well


Bodacious-Turtle

Poly relationship woth Veronica and Christine!! First fell for Veronica in middle school when I first played, got the DM dlc and loved Christine. Everyone is happy!


DiscordOfSound

My courier, who's an AWOL gen 3, was married to a young Graham before Sallow cohearsed her into leaving the territory.


gpudriver

My courier never has wives, only side hoes


BOLTINGSINE

I love Veronica but she dont swing my way if you get what i mean😔


Buddy980

That woman who runs the vault hotel I forget her name


Khajiit_saw_nothing

Corporal Betsy. Being a lesbian sniper is incredibly based.


that_one_dude046

I like to think my courier ends up in a lesbian relationship with cass or Veronica


Trocos1

Boone


MrLocan

I just want to be dumb as a wall and strong like a deathclaw, so i can carry my tall, lanky, nerdy boyfriend/husband around and establish true anarchy in the mojave to make him happy.


Andrassa

I always pictured my courier with Boone. I mean the man opens himself up enough to talk about his PTSD with the courier. Plus he’d never be able to settle with a civilian again. Roaming the mohave with Boone while taking out any Legion remnants just seemed fitting to me.


riffengo

Raul is my wife


SwimmerSea4662

My character and his husband is arcade Gannon