@@hggs4466 nah Benny is a character in the game which is like the guy who shot you, the courier, that hole is where the shot went but he survived the shot, and is now hunting Benny down.
My legion character cut people up with a chainsaw and would eat their flesh while running around in a hockey mask on buffout and psycho, can’t imagine being a ranger at the dam watching your squad mates get eaten
"I'd let you crawl back to your Legion to tell them of your failure, but they despise weakness. So I'll just go there myself and do it for you." -Lord Death of Murder Mountain
@@MrNoot39449 I mean, who the he'll would pick two guys wearing elite riot gears from the divide, one with an M1 grand and one with an anti-material rifle. And somehow that thug thought "hmm good target" and attacks you with a butter knife.
That was one of the few parts that bothered me; the stupid thugs who target you in Freeside regardless of what gear you're wearing or what level you are. Thugs don't get by by targeting people indiscriminately. The ones who are alive know what a guy who has trekked across half the Mojave without dying looks like.
Courier Six got shot through the head, saw an entire town be wiped out, walked in a forgotten city filled with toxic gas, fought man made horrors beyond his comprehension, dwelled into the most hazardous places on Earth and got stuck inside a conflict he wasn't even part of. Out of the all of the Fallout main characters, the Courier is probably the most brutal one, barely clinging on to his humanity or lacking it completely. He was literally just a regular guy who just so happened to carry the wrong thing at the wrong place and at the wrong time.
This is absolutely nothing compared to what the chosen one goes through, you can literally make that guy do pretty much everything youve just described and make them do things like eat 37 brahmin testicles, all while everyone he loved is slowly dying
I love how that's actually Joshua as The Courier making these extremely brick shittingly intimidating threats because If it were The ACTUAL Courier, he would have taken out the Legionnaire's entire squad (including the Legionnaire himself) by using explosives with VATS at close range while on Psycho and Buffout Withdrawl
Which is terrifying in its own way. Imagine a psycho drug addict with heavy weaponry entering your camp and brutally murdering everyone, probably not blinking even once
@@redrum47 depends on how you play the Courier, though. A drugged up to teh gills Courier is just as valid as a Terrifying Presence Gun Wielding shoot them up.
Always loved how you can become a walking apocalyptic wasteland of a human being killing all who stand in your wake. A rare option in most games but a well explored concept in the fallout series. To me it makes the true hero plays throughs mean something more, knowing you’re not on rails means the good you’re doing is of your own intention. It’s not something that’s forced
what if your off the rails but also a hero. "we need you to intercept and stop this legi-" *bolts out door, a bunch of blood and screaming, returns with 20 legion heads* "WHAT THE FUCK we only needed you to stop em" "Nothing stops em more then being tortured to death :)"
@@cupcakecomrade2378 I think what they meant is that the game wasn't making you do it, and that you were doing good without the game telling you to, hence 'off the rails'.
Terrifying Presence be like: Seriously, only in this game can you feel like an actual force of nature if you feel like being utterly unhinged and merciless. This is the kind of shit that makes me pray for a Nuclear Winter, instead of having to deal with the Courier.
I remember my first complete playthrough of Fallout new Vegas and insane character development my Currier had. He went from "I will be a decent person and help people of New Vegas" to "I will completely eradicate Powder Gangers because they attacked me ONCE and their existence doesn't fit into my vision of this wasteland, im above law, Legion still exist because i allowed them to, but i still left them leaderless and broken, their lands burned to ash by nuclear fire. Do not question my actions, you couldn't comprehend things that i saw on this God forsaken plane".
I'm going through a really good character arc with my courier. He's NCR black ops. Sent from place to place across the mojave as a lowly courier to turn things around in the NCR's favor. He's usually cold and calculated but not all-in-all a complete psychopath. He more-or-less has this 'for the greater good' mentality and bears the burdens of his actions even when they weigh heavy on him. His final breaking point was when he blew up the brotherhood base and had to kill Veronica, someone he got close to and genuinely considered his friend. After that, he wandered the Mojave in a daze until he finally came across the entrance to the Divide. Having to walk through the valley of his greatest sin, (which in my canon was NOT an accident on the Courier's part) he meets Ulysses who enlightens him to his philosophy, displaying the hard flaws of both major factions. He also expresses his remorse at having destroyed a burgeoning new superpower in the wasteland, something he could have settled down in and called his home. He leaves the Divide having befriended Ulysses and, instead chooses the Wild Card ending. Having weakened both the Legion and the NCR in the region, he establishes his Independent Vegas.
For me my courier went from a sweet bisexual pretty boy himbo to a cold and ruthless cybernetic enhanced killer who saw the legion and ncr as two sides of the same Coin so he established himself as the only ruler of the Mojave. He does still have that innocences(I don't know if you can call it that) to him but it's under a very tough almost uncaring exterior. In other words: probably the scariest bisexual himbo XD
I've always found it interesting that if you deliver enough shock and awe, some of the kill squad members will actually try to run away and hide from you. I'm not actually entirely sure what triggers it, but it's always amused me
I think it depends on how much damage they do, ive got a mega high perception with ED-E's enhanced perk and i see the Ranger squads coming a mile away, whip my trail carbine and pop heads with crits before they get close. The last has turned around and entered the cowering animation a couple times for me, so try getting no damage see if that works
The courier next to joshua graham is the scariest character in the fallout series. Albeit all the main protags are scary but the courier alone encounters some of the most dangerous and fearsom animals in the known fallout universe and slaughters them like lambs and can proceed to just absolutely obliterate everything. One of my playthroughs I pretty much killed everyone in new vegas or on the map that I could find. Leaving that level of absolute destruction in your wake is unparalled
My first play through of Fallout 4 went similarly. It was at first “I have morals” to more or less “Geneva Convention? I thought it was the Geneva Suggestion”
Everyone brings up the chosen one but I'd say the courier would win but very close like all drugs gone and ammo run dry but killed by the khan trick crit that gets everyone in the end
The courier was shot before finding that gear canonically, Which means this courier is so deranged that he took that helmet off lined up at 9 mm and fired into that helmet just to write that.
Canonically. In my head canon he found NCR ranger armor from some junk yard when he was 18, then when he was shot, it was forever marked. When he reached the Divide he found the elite riot gear, he took the armor and wore it except for the helmet because he saw a major significance in his old helmet, so he took the elite riot gear helmet's upgrades and applied them to his NCR ranger helmet, painted it to match the rest of the armor's camouflage and scratched the words "Benny was here" by the bullet hole, and as the years and battles came more and more engravings on the helmet appeared.
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- It's actually... Makes sense? Like it's more possible to survive two 9mm with helmet than without one, lol. And the elite gear moment, even though it seems that it was heavily modified, helmet itself isn't that unique, and I think for all riot gears they're kinda interchangable. It would make sense at least, there's no reason to make it heavier or something like that, because it would still serve same purpose. So your headcanon is quite canon actually
Woman. :) I dearly love playing a female Courier and laying waste to Caesar and his crew. I love it so much I make sure to do a save first and reload it two or three times. Did I mention that I dismember them as I kill them? Yeah, that's how much I hate the damn Legion. And, I laugh the whole time because I know the fact that it's a *woman* beating them up and cutting them into meat clods for their dogs is the last humiliation they take with them into cold, cold death. ...yeah, I hate the Legion.
@@eyeblech2001 Or if you go back to Joshua, recruit him for a temporary mission on the attack on the fort. I wish there was a genuine lore friendly mod for that using AI voice overs.
Amazing image, and dear God the flesh around his eyes is low key horrifying to me, it looks like this courier spent a long enough time in the divide that he’s lost the skin from at least that stretch of his face like a marked man.
The wounded legionnaires stares at the courier, and with his last bit of energy he attempts to throw his spear when suddenly time stops. The bullets stops, the melee attacks stops, the spear he was raising stops. The legionnaire looks around for the source, one minute the courier is 10 feet away, a second later he’s a foot away from him. Staring into the legionnaire’s eyes, the courier removes the visor and the legionnaire looks into the couriers broken eyes. This man hasn’t slept in weeks, his skin is dry and leathery from the baking hot sun and his eyes are bloodshot but the thing that scares the legionnaire most is when the courier speaks: don't believe you understand how grave of a mistake you have just made. let me make this clear. You will be allowed to leave ( the courier grabs the spear from the legionnaires hands and breaks it one handed) but one day *Somewhere I will find you. you will never sleep again. Never go without looking behind you on a dark road. And when you least expect it, I will show you Hell on Earth, I will break every bone in vour body in full view of everyone* (the courier stare gets more intense and the legionnaire somehow sees the many souls this man has killed for revenge, love and star bottlecaps) now *LEAVE*
Nobody care edgelord you larp as strong in videogame because you will never be physically strong Weakest legion recruit stronger than strongest NCR edgelord
One of the things I like most about New Vegas is that the Courier is less a person and more a force of nature given physical form. As terrifying and destructive as the bombs that scorched the world. And not only that but the characters around you actually acknowledge that fact. One of the things that still sticks with me is when you meet Caesar and ask him why he wanted you of all people and his response is that you're not normal. Most people in the Courier's situation, shot in the head and left in the desert to die, would have just been grateful for a second chance at life and wiped their hands clean of the situation. But you? You walked across one of the most hostile environments on the planet and showed up at the front door of the man who shot you demanding answers. And he's totally right. Because the Courier is controlled by the player so they're not driven by logic, compassion or self preservation like other people. They have nothing but an unbreakable will and burning ambition to change the world.
For those wanting curious, there's an armor mod that was created by Quicksilver500 which adds a customizable Ranger Armor that looks like this called "Courier Ranger Armor - Customisable In Game"
What are the contents? Can you actually like customize each part and that it's not just a premade remake of the armour? Because if so that is awesome, something I've been waiting for, for a long time now, gee thanks man.
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- The customization aspect of the armour is sadly rather limited. 'Though it would be nice, being able to change every single individual thing would be quite difficult to create, this mod is an exceptional alternative. The mod adds a custom Ranger Armour that's basically a mash-up between the Courier Duster, Elite Riot Gear, the NCR Combat Armour & Joshua Graham's Armour. The customization aspect, though limited, allows you to either remove/re-add the sleeves; change the decal that's on the back of the armour; add extra plating for extra protection; strap either a Pack of Cigarettes or a Clip of .308 Ammo to the helmet; scratch "Benny Was Here" on said helmet; and the ability to break/repair the visor. It's been quite some time since I've played F:NV, so I don't recall for certain, but I think there's a patch for it.
Those soulless eyes makes it all too unsettling lol Great job on the Elite Riot Gear, looks like someone that's half way to becoming a general if he was serving :) Edit: Thanks for the Likes, fwends :))
most of the time he just blantantly kills them, but sometimes he leaves out one gravely wounded legionnaire hitman. Embarrassing him and making him live in fear and humiliation for the rest of his short days, and one day. The Courier will return to the Caeser's camp, then he will once again see the blank eyes of the Courier.
this implies you secretly were joshua graham, just playing as the good person he wishes he was from the beginning, and the joshua graham you meet in game is the real joshua, and you(as in him) recognize hes a good man now and either leave the white leg remnants to their fate in the waste or rightfully give them a merciful death. no i dont actually mean this but it gives me an excuse to write about joshua g himself
Now this gives off an interesting playthrough for FNV; the Good Soul Graham/Pure (As Heavenly Light) Graham one, trying to achieve the dreams of a pure man, doing the rightful thing and righting the mistakes that Graham once fell in, not falling into the same paths that made him who he is today The question is, would he go NCR or Yesman? I'd argue NCR, as according to the wiki, he views the NCR as redeemable, and who else but Pure Graham should try to redeem the corrupt soul of the NCR? (I'm sure theres a way better descriptive for Pure Graham, but I just can't think of a better descriptive)
As much as I want courier or Joshua put a bullet in Salt-Upon-Wounds thick skull, letting him live is the best outcome since in the closing narration he's becoming a broken shell of himself who is losing his will to live and led his savage murderous clan into their inevitable ruin. A fate worse than death which he tottaly deserved.
My head cannon is after several weeks or months that the Courier was in Zion, Joshua Graham taught him of the Bible, morality, kindness and evil. Impacting the Courier and changing what he percieves the world, being a lot like Joshua himself as his character develops throughout the games, and every few years, he revisits Zion to Joshua Graham to learn more and seek guidance.
indeed, for me it's the main armor of the courier, being one of a kind compared to the more common NCR combat armor. For me it is the Courier's symbol even though the lonesome road DLC shows it is the Courier duster, for me it's the Elite riot gear, it's just so unique.
*A POV Story:* You are a veteran Legionnaire. You've risen up from the pitiful dregs of what was once your tribe, to the elite among the elite. The fires of your clan's old huts, with the screams of the unworthy steels you're resolve--they were weak, and you've demonstrated that you are not. You are a warrior true to Caesar. You first see this profligate in a passing glance, after your righteous work at Nipton. An unassuming little man--save for the curious scar on his forehead. Clearly a careless fool, but Vulpes sees enough in him to not burn him with the other whores. Has him spread our the word of the work done here--your fine handiwork to reach the profligates. You overhear reports among the NCR, that the message went through. Seems he listened to his rightful betters. The next time, you glance him entering The Fort. The profligate was given the Mark of Caesar, and summoned before him! No profligate deserves such an honor, nor anything even close to it! Still, after meeting with him, he did Caesar's bidding. The banging & crashing noise from far below had to be proof of that. But any righteous warrior could have done that, given access to the complex! Still, he seemed true to Caesar. Up until speaking with him again, and be it through insolence or another one of Caesar's 'headaches,' he irritably sent him off to slay the arch-fiend, House. He purchases some slaves, on the way out. And then he seemed to vanish. Without completing his mission! Impudence! Still, the profligate is protected by the mark of Caesar. You hear odd rumors of the Burned Man. Something about how he spared the chieftain of an aspiring tribe. Pathetic and weak. But you knew that already, when he was thrown into the canyon. You saw him fall into that darkness, that night. The next you hear of the Profligate, or "Courier," as he seems to be called, he seems to be currying the favor of the bears, and scum of the city! Degenerate Wretch! Thankfully, as his name sinks into the mire, you climb up. With the Frumentarii, you massacre a station of their Rangers! Booby trapping the dead, stripping their bodies, and leaving your message for good measure. You even manage to capture one of the women...eventually. They are so much more fun to break than the men. She will produce many healthy little slaves, perhaps even legionaries. You return to Cottonwood Cove, and then The Fort, in what feels like a triumph close to Nipton! The next day, you find reports at Cottonwood have gone strangely silent. You are sent to investigate...and find the entire camp is dead! No signs of a struggle, nor a battle, nor even the alarm being raised. But the holes in their heads are all telling. More peculiarly, you find all of the legionnaires, decanus, and even centurion Aurelius of Phoenix...all placed on their bedrolls. Clearly they weren't killed in their sleep. Nothing capable of this much damage could have done so, without waking the others. Clearly, this was some mockery of the soft & cowardly profligates. No stomach for true war, and thinking they can coddle us to death. Pathetic! Weeks pass, and the latest you hear of the Courier, he's been out traveling from the Mojave. On some meaningless errands, no doubt, or just milling about to amuse himself. As the days go by, news seem to get worse. The Khans break off their alliance. The Omertas' plan is dismantled. Nelson is lost, without even managing to kill our hostages! You don't have proof, but in your heart, you know it's that degenerate courier! No loyalty, and no honor! Next time you see him, you'll challenge him to a proper duel, and bury a machete in the notch in his head! But you don't get that chance. Not before tragedy strikes. While you were on patrol, The Fort was attacked. Vulpes, Lucius, and even Caesar were k...no. No, that cannot be true. Maybe for mortal men, but Caesar could not be slain by lowly profligates! Clearly...he rose up to join Mars! To better lead the Legion with his divine will & being! One of the slaves with enough sense not to desert their responsibilities told of who it was: that Degenerate Courier. You and your men will find him, and nail him to a cross. Takes days to track him, but manage to catch him far west. An old man tries to ward you off with dynamite, but falls easily. Another old runs down from atop the hill, pleading to be allowed to heal him. A doctor steps before us, and even holding something as innocuous as a medical bag, he still has a defiant glint in his eye. Your friend Verro laughs, and lands a spear in his leg. The weakling yelps in pain, as a siren to the rest of this town of cowards. You ready yourself for another pleasant evening of butchery, and draw your gladius... The next thing you hear is a gunshot, and a chunk of Verro's body splatter's against you. The courier reveals himself! Battle is joined! Huron takes aim, and nearly gets a shot, before taking one in the eye. Fabian charges him with sledge held high... his swing is stopped with a glowing metal fist, that crushes his hand, before his head is knocked off! Alessio dashes to cover, and with another shot, his leg flies right off! What is happening!? He's but one man, against the elite of the Legion! A glint of silver issues out from his wound. And then...you feel a sharp pain in your abdomen. You've been hit. You raise your gun, but another shot shatters the trigger mechanism--along with your hand! Justin of Two Sun unpins a grenade, and throws it his way...and it detonates barely a foot away from him. The elite warrior is now screaming, as his arm is completely gone. Then you realize...this is not a battle. This is a massacre. This profligate. This degenerate. Is tearing through your group, like unarmed slaves. A scene more grizzly than any of the stories of the Burned Man. You glance to him once again, and he's kneeling over the doctor...trying to heal him? He insults you, by showing his back! You grip for your pistol, and manage to get two shots off in his direction, before another answers back at you. A hole is put through your other hand. You look at the wound and see...fragments of denarii!? He was shooting you with shells made from your own currency!? He mocks the Legion still! You try to swipe at him, as he approaches, but your machete slips from your hands with your own blood. You are face to face with the Courier. And in the most ear-splittingly calm voice, he speaks to you. He says these words, and lets you leave. Everything the Legion has ever taught you, screams for you to stand up, and fight to the end...but every fiber of your being screams even louder. Worse than the burning of your tribe, worse than the first battle for the dam, worse that the Burned Man could ever be...is the fact that every word of the Courier was true. Whenever you lay down in a camp, you see the corpses of your comrades beside you. Whenever you look at the asphalt of the road, you see the vast darkness of the Grand Canyon, eager to swallow you, as it did Graham. Whenever you touch a Denarius, your whole body & soul will remember that day when the Courier broke you. You can't return to the Legion. You can't stay in Goodsprings. Maybe not even in the Mojave, for that matter! All you can do, is run and wait... It's inevitable. He's coming. He's coming.
This legionnaire had seen many horrors, survived many battles, hell he even managed to escape the battle of hoover dam, but out of all his luck he never figured how determined this lone nameless courier could be, dressed in NCR Ranger garb this person, this entity, this MONSTER of the Mojave stood in the blood bath of his squad, remains of the legion determined to hunt and kill the very man that slaughtered them by the tens, maybe hundreds. His flesh dry and cracked by the brutal sun of the wasteland, his eyes bloodshot and narrowed, the courier stood still while his boots soaked in the blood of his enemy, no, his prey. This man was a hunter of man and refused to sleep until his hunt was done at this point, but he wanted fun for the words he spoke to this lone Legionnaire would haunt him for the next few years.
Given the fact he's traveled all over the southwest, fought the deadliest creatures of the wasteland, survived being shot in the head buried alive, lobotomized and put back together again, the courier is surprisingly sane.
Courier Ruby: I have a bunch of scars, from a gecko attack from when I was 14, when Benny shot me in the head, from when the Think Tank removed my Brain, Heart, and Spine, one around my neck from the collar, and one from the boss fight I had with Rawr. Trooper Finn: Holy sweet mother of the Sierra Madre!
That Courier unnerves me. Man or machine, over a long enough timeline everything hits terminal fatigue: mental, or metal. This guy's hit both. A shot-out barrel, a double-fed cartridge stuck in the rifle of a dead conscript. Just look at his eyes - no time left on the clock. He walks, he might talk, he follows mission directives better than all of these cut-rate conscripts that NCR loves shitting out so much, but I'm telling you: there's no driver at the wheel. Send him back to the mail service. When this guy detonates, nobody is going to want to be around to witness it. For all the burnt fuses we are handing out cartridges and cash to, that says everything.
The Legionary runs but is then shot in the back. Courier: Never turn your back on a foe. The Legionary closes his eyes after receiving his last piece of advice.
No he definitely did not. EDIT: he literally drew over a different image in something like MS Paint and stole the audio and eyes from a different channel (Search Joshua Graham gives you a warning for the original).
@@epicebones7329 Yep, I took it from joshua graham but saw the possibility of making something new out of it, but it looks ok doesnt it? but I digress, this was just a gag nothing serious. This used to be some anonymous funny drawing of joshua graham from some subreddit, but I drew my version of the courier (elite riot gear) over it and put the audio. Credits to the original artist, I dont quite remember his name but I think it was NERVA, credits to him. I do not wish to take any form of content from anyone, this is my own variation of it but not a copy. I hope you understand. I wish you people a good day. I am very sorry for forgetting to add the description, it seems it wasnt uploaded properly, then again youtube isnt really my thing so this isnt really that important. Although I dont think "stole" is the correct term? I dont know, we live in a democracy and you are free so say whatever you want to say. But I say this to you, can you make your own variation of this image? (The helmet's my own design of what the elite riot gear helmet should look like, might make a mod out of it for NV.)
@@OperatorMax1993 well if you get slain by either or both of them then it's been written by god so....guess there salvation is in another life....but then ...there legion so doubt there's salvation for them lol
This is worse for me since I play Tale of Two Wastelands. That Courier is also the Lone Wonderer, which has gone through the hell that is the Capital Wasteland, killed hundreds of super mutants, destroyed the Enclave, smashed countless raiders and saved the Capital Wasteland only to move to the Mojave Wasteland in the hopes of living a quiet life as a courier. Instead, he gets shot in the head and is pulled into a war he wanted no part of and must go back to killing hundreds in order to find some damn quiet once again. That "Forgive Me Father" hits even worse since he might legit be asking James for forgiveness with all the bloodshed he has caused. Man cannot catch a break.
No joke this is also my Headcanon for the Courier, I'd like to imagine him/her (him in my case) to also be Lone Wanderer, now a 23 year old (since LW is 19 years old in F3 and FNV takes place 4 years later) courier working for the Mojave Express looking to live in peace after the whole Capital Wasteland... happened, suffering from PTSD of having to witness his father dying in front of him, on top of having to deal with the events in F3's DLCs, which only worsened his mental and emotional health, after all, he just had to deal with aliens, WW3 simulations, Point Lookout (and especially the Blackhall sidequest...) and of course, *_the Pitt,_* he has frequent nightmares from these events, and usually tends to his (Mojave) companions for comfort, especially Lilly, she's like a grandma he never had. I'd like to imagine Albert (my headcanon name for LW/Courier) I this video just... *_verbally_* snapping at a legionnaire after failing to save some poor elderly wastelander armed with nothing but a tire iron after being beaten horribly by the Legion scouts, giving flashbacks of James' death and thus feeling like fate itself is mocking him/his father's death, after slaughtering the entire squad and then realizing that one is still crawling, he gives this speech in the video, putting his Terrifying Presence to good use.
@turricanrocks1552 There is a hint that the courier is actually around 35 or 36. Lady killer option when talking to the dude with the mysterious magnum. Very unique and interesting.
This is how I would imagine the courier's interaction with benny : "A long time ago, before the age of decadence, there was once an ancient people called the Hebrews... They used to tell stories of dead men who sought out vengeance, they were called the "Dybbuk". "The dybbuk was a human soul that cared for only one thing... Retribution." "When you pointed that gun up to my head and pulled the trigger... I was a dead man, that was when I died, and what you see now is the Dybbuk of that dead man." "You know what I seek, you know what I have done to get here, I have killed hundreds, if not thousands of poor fools who tried to get in my way." "There's no point of resisting Benny... Death is staring you in the eye and the worst decision you can make is fight back." "Death comes to everyone eventually, and death has come for you Benny, it has arrived in the form of your sins, the countless dead that lay in the sands of the Mojave because of you." "When you meet the man upstairs, pray that he forgives you, but I will never forgive you, none of the victims of your crimes will ever forgive you."
Nice, everyone in this comment section are so talented at writing lol, I thought I was the only one who liked writing continuations of existent pieces of work.
If a man has written "Forgive me father" on his helmet in an apocalypse type era, the things he has done are grave enough that only God can forgive him.
The Mc is always the scariest person to seek mercy from because depending on the time of day they are either too tired to continue talking to you or too bored to to listen to anything you have to say.
he left him to live so that he could live in fear and embarrassment once he returned to the camp, eventually getting killed by the courier in the camp by the end of his journey.
Anyone who has a social life of some kind cares. The legionnaires can be made to fear and care because they were brought in line using fear in the first place. Caesar made them fear first.
To be honest i never really picked sides in fallout games, as i prefer just to be a sort of nomad type character who occasionally turns the tide of a battle just for the caps. Don't get me wrong, picking sides is useful every now and then, but it's better to be your own boss.
Honestly the image makes it so much worse. I can’t imagine Courier-6 having a fully functioning mental state after what he’s been through but the image shows his armor, bedazzled with things you’d find on the most crazed soldier from Nam, but from the only bit of his armor where you can see his skin-his visor-it makes him seem like he’s transformed both mentally and physically from a man to something…else. Like he’s not quite human as once before, and I have no doubt he’s trapped in his own mind more than anything, reliving every moment of his life and forced by circumstance into doing more deeds, repeating the cycle endlessly.
In my opinion here's the personalities of each main character: Fallout 1: The green and inexperienced guy trying to find a solution to his vault's problems, soon to become a major mark in the wasteland in his T-51 power armor. Fallout 2: The young guy trying to find his worthiness in the wasteland, again in a suit of T-51 power armor or maybe X-01. Fallout 3: Again a young guy plummeting straight into the unknown on a mission to find his father to try and fix his vault's problems, marking the wasteland in his suit of T-45 power armor. Cleansing the capital wasteland in the span of many years and destroying several hostile factions and becoming a war hero for the eastern wing of the BoS, fighting in the battle for DC and Adam's Air Force Base, and possibly even destroyed an entire mothership of aliens. Fallout New Vegas: A wanderer in the deserts of the American south-west, maintaining in a rugged, dusty and dry lifestyle, soon to be stuck in a major pool of problems, struggled and battles in the Nevada all because of one formerly thought insignificant chip. Cleansing the Nevada and destroying several hostile and bloodthirsty factions in the wild west, becoming a major hand in the dissolution of the Khan's, powder gangers, fiends and the Legion, putting an end to their tyranny. And even solved the problems of big MT, Zion and the mysterious Sierra Madre. Fallout 4: An older guy, veteran of the great war, frozen 210 years into the future post-apocalyptic wasteland, sworn to find and kill the people who murdered his wife and kidnapped his son, became a soldier again of the BoS, playing a major role to destroy the Institute and other hostile factions in Boston. Fallout 76: I don't know, you tell me.
Fallout 76: There are two types here. The vault-born reclamators who have never known life beyond a vault and are best described as "insanity in a can" and their parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents and older siblings, all of whom are worn a little thin from having to deal with them for 25 years and being unable to put any reasonable distance between them
It would be cool if he would dress up as people there's a mod where he hunts you but just seeing his burnt face and voice and them being the only hint would be terrifying
me on my first playthrough,bearly understanding the controls,armed with a vermint rifle and a dream,bearly limping to nipton alive only to see it razed to the ground and everyone in it killed in the most disgusting manner,deciding that whatever my goal was comes second to having the legion GONE
Terrifying Presence and Wild Wasteland are canonical IMO lol. After being shot in the head plus everything our courier goes through, they would deranged lol.
I think it’s just lore at this point that the courier didn’t actually escape totally unharmed by Benny’s bullet. Definitely hit the “regular human emotions” center or something.
As someone who wears a welding mask, put a bunch of points in strength, uses a ripper, and has the terrifying presence perk/skill thing, i like to say that i am argueably the most scary bisexual in this game
i start every play through with the mindset of “i will do no wrong” right up until i die a few times to a specific group. do no wrong quickly turns into “the sands of the mojave will be soaked with legion blood. my armor will run red with the misfortunes of the ncr. anybody else in my wake will watch their companions fall to my arsenal. i do not fear the wastes, the wastes fear me. my name will be painted on the hoover dam with the blood that is shed as i walk along. courier six lives.”
I didn't kill Daniel so I could let him live the rest of his pathetic days. My guy was willing to let his tribe die just because he didn't want to kill any misguided "innocent" cannibals.
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- my character in that playthrough was an absolutle psychotic canibal, and Let's say Daniel really pushed his luck, but that actually made one of my most unique moments in NV because Joshua managed to cheat death twice by scaping me after i killed Daniel.
@@heisendurden7467 in my ending when I sided with joshua, killing all the whitelegs, then daniel lives with that moment of failing to convince you haunting him for the rest of his days, bro really did care a lot about whitelegs.
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- tbh, Daniel may did the better choice as a God fearing Christians. His only goal was to preserve the last bit of innocence in the Wasteland. A society that never had to fight other society, the potential to be something greater than NCR or the Legion. Thats Daniel's gamble on innocence. Joshua Graham used religion and angry Dead Horses to wage war against the White Legs, and eventually Caesar. Its his goal, unless you talk him out of violence. Which damages the Sorrows forever, they wont be pure anymore and would eventually just be yet another dangerous tribe.
How haunting would it be for that legionnare to see The Courier in the distance, stalking, watching, waiting. At almost every moment he thinks they are there. Half of the time, they actually aren't. Just paranoia hitting them. But times when they actually see them, they think they are imagining it. Somewhere around the corner, The Courier is waiting for the right time to do their job. To deliver package with the legionnare's name on it. And it will send them somewhere where they can't comeback from.
I respect the legions beliefs in being allowed to exterminate those you believe lesser than you. Unfortunately. I consider *Every legionnaire to be lesser than me.*
Man I love this idea of Joshua as the courier. I can imagine Mr. House hearing about what Benny did and when he hears you're up and moving about he goes, "Great, now I have to hire someone to replace Benny..."
I love how everyone decided that canonically Courier Six was an insane person. Like he *could* have been a subservient nice guy, however not a soul thinks of him like that
A far more gentle way then I played. When a legionnaire kill squad came after me, they didn't ask "should we send another one after him with guns this time?" They asked, "Where did the bodies go..."
my local post office has a guy who is known for delivering mail in a vehicle loaded with enough guns and ammo to go toe-to-toe with a platoon of special forces soldiers. when asked why he does this, his answer was "fuck around and find out."
First playthrough: I’m going to save the Mojave and be the good guy!
The guy with 500 hours:
I still play as the good guy, but I play by logic and cold calculating, as for it is the greater good of mankind.
12 year old me: rebar club goes brrr
What's so sad is this is legit me
You don’t want to see what you become after 1800 hours 😂
“Just because you are good guy does not mean you are good guy.”
"Benny was here" lmfao thatd be terrifying to see on an enemy's helmet
I know it mean a bullet entry hole but my degenerate part of me think it was something else.
@patrick callaghan perhaps that was his name before getting that bullet but it hit something that changed him "benny was here"
@@w_ldan ayo what? 🤨
@@hggs4466 nah Benny is a character in the game which is like the guy who shot you, the courier, that hole is where the shot went but he survived the shot, and is now hunting Benny down.
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- that's a cool detail
The most sane courier Six be like
We've all had a courier that *might* of been more insane than your average fiend
Every play through I show no mercy on those who threatens the ones I fight for, the ones I care for, and the ones I protect.
My legion character cut people up with a chainsaw and would eat their flesh while running around in a hockey mask on buffout and psycho, can’t imagine being a ranger at the dam watching your squad mates get eaten
@@ezrabraman6437 Bro we really are insane. I bet the character's name is Lycaon hence the god of cannibalism
@@coyotejag7427 when he dies the tribes will turn him into legend, he’ll probably be made into a bogey man
"I'd let you crawl back to your Legion to tell them of your failure, but they despise weakness. So I'll just go there myself and do it for you." -Lord Death of Murder Mountain
badger?
@grooveman1352 the "Lord Death of Murder Mountain" part, yeah. Thought it sounded pretty fitting for the Courier
Lord Death of the Big Death Mountain, the LAER only left ash within the armor of the great Aurelius of Phoenix
*FUCK THE NCR, ANNDDD FUCKKK YOUUUUU!*
- RussianBadger's Courier
his ass has 1 charisma he ain't sayin that shit
Dont you feel silly?
Dont you feel stupid?
Dont you feel, a little ashamed?
bro imagine seeing this said to you by the courier as he stares down onto you like in the video I made, that'd be horrifyingly embarrassing.
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- Me to the legless legion hitsquad member crawling away
@@noofatchiks with so many hitsquads never coming back home, I'm pretty sure The Courier has wiped out at least a cuarter of their fighting force.
@noofatchiks "I'd let you crawl back to your Legion, but they despise weakness. So I'll just go there, myself." -Lord Death of Murder Mountain.
Lol 😂
How I look at the freeside thug that was just trying not to starve
Running at you with a butter knife and boom! His head turned into a red mist infront of his friend.
They really should learn how to pick their targets
@@MrNoot39449 I mean, who the he'll would pick two guys wearing elite riot gears from the divide, one with an M1 grand and one with an anti-material rifle. And somehow that thug thought "hmm good target" and attacks you with a butter knife.
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- mad lad gotta try to shiv you in the neck.
That was one of the few parts that bothered me; the stupid thugs who target you in Freeside regardless of what gear you're wearing or what level you are. Thugs don't get by by targeting people indiscriminately. The ones who are alive know what a guy who has trekked across half the Mojave without dying looks like.
Courier Six got shot through the head, saw an entire town be wiped out, walked in a forgotten city filled with toxic gas, fought man made horrors beyond his comprehension, dwelled into the most hazardous places on Earth and got stuck inside a conflict he wasn't even part of.
Out of the all of the Fallout main characters, the Courier is probably the most brutal one, barely clinging on to his humanity or lacking it completely. He was literally just a regular guy who just so happened to carry the wrong thing at the wrong place and at the wrong time.
The courier is what we make of him or her.
They stress that couriers are insane and some of the most hardened people in the waste land
Not once, BUT TWICE! If we got on ulysess revenge path against the courier
This is absolutely nothing compared to what the chosen one goes through, you can literally make that guy do pretty much everything youve just described and make them do things like eat 37 brahmin testicles, all while everyone he loved is slowly dying
Want are you talking about the was rigged from the start
I love how that's actually Joshua as The Courier making these extremely brick shittingly intimidating threats because If it were The ACTUAL Courier, he would have taken out the Legionnaire's entire squad (including the Legionnaire himself) by using explosives with VATS at close range while on Psycho and Buffout Withdrawl
terrifying presence was the best .
Joshua offers redemption through fire and brimstone
The Courier offers inevitable destruction through getting high as fuck
Which is terrifying in its own way. Imagine a psycho drug addict with heavy weaponry entering your camp and brutally murdering everyone, probably not blinking even once
@@redrum47 depends on how you play the Courier, though.
A drugged up to teh gills Courier is just as valid as a Terrifying Presence Gun Wielding shoot them up.
@Chiefarino wait does 3 day say that ive never played a ton of fallout 3 (need too go back get dlcs)
Always loved how you can become a walking apocalyptic wasteland of a human being killing all who stand in your wake. A rare option in most games but a well explored concept in the fallout series. To me it makes the true hero plays throughs mean something more, knowing you’re not on rails means the good you’re doing is of your own intention. It’s not something that’s forced
Yeah, I like it when a game has a lot of freedom, it makes the player think more on his decisions.
New Vegas let’s you be more than just that. Anyone can kill, as evident by the fiends. No, this game lets you be truly evil.
what if your off the rails but also a hero.
"we need you to intercept and stop this legi-"
*bolts out door, a bunch of blood and screaming, returns with 20 legion heads*
"WHAT THE FUCK we only needed you to stop em"
"Nothing stops em more then being tortured to death :)"
@@cupcakecomrade2378 I think what they meant is that the game wasn't making you do it, and that you were doing good without the game telling you to, hence 'off the rails'.
REAL fallout games
bethesda can't make fallout worth a damn
Terrifying Presence be like:
Seriously, only in this game can you feel like an actual force of nature if you feel like being utterly unhinged and merciless. This is the kind of shit that makes me pray for a Nuclear Winter, instead of having to deal with the Courier.
I think it should have been a feature that the weakest enemies could have a heart attack
@@eyeblech2001 Or would just piss themselves.
I remember my first complete playthrough of Fallout new Vegas and insane character development my Currier had. He went from "I will be a decent person and help people of New Vegas" to "I will completely eradicate Powder Gangers because they attacked me ONCE and their existence doesn't fit into my vision of this wasteland, im above law, Legion still exist because i allowed them to, but i still left them leaderless and broken, their lands burned to ash by nuclear fire. Do not question my actions, you couldn't comprehend things that i saw on this God forsaken plane".
Same
Or "I did what I had to do." if you're into brevity.
I'm going through a really good character arc with my courier. He's NCR black ops. Sent from place to place across the mojave as a lowly courier to turn things around in the NCR's favor. He's usually cold and calculated but not all-in-all a complete psychopath. He more-or-less has this 'for the greater good' mentality and bears the burdens of his actions even when they weigh heavy on him. His final breaking point was when he blew up the brotherhood base and had to kill Veronica, someone he got close to and genuinely considered his friend. After that, he wandered the Mojave in a daze until he finally came across the entrance to the Divide. Having to walk through the valley of his greatest sin, (which in my canon was NOT an accident on the Courier's part) he meets Ulysses who enlightens him to his philosophy, displaying the hard flaws of both major factions. He also expresses his remorse at having destroyed a burgeoning new superpower in the wasteland, something he could have settled down in and called his home. He leaves the Divide having befriended Ulysses and, instead chooses the Wild Card ending. Having weakened both the Legion and the NCR in the region, he establishes his Independent Vegas.
My first playthrough was a courrier who never used drugs, but always got in problem with NCR and Legion. I was going for House ending.
For me my courier went from a sweet bisexual pretty boy himbo to a cold and ruthless cybernetic enhanced killer who saw the legion and ncr as two sides of the same Coin so he established himself as the only ruler of the Mojave. He does still have that innocences(I don't know if you can call it that) to him but it's under a very tough almost uncaring exterior.
In other words: probably the scariest bisexual himbo XD
I've always found it interesting that if you deliver enough shock and awe, some of the kill squad members will actually try to run away and hide from you. I'm not actually entirely sure what triggers it, but it's always amused me
It happens to me once there's like only one or two left.
It's always the vexilliarus or the female ranger depending on who is after me.
the last vexilarius cowered in fear, probably because I just killed a centurion and I took his super sledge
I think it depends on how much damage they do, ive got a mega high perception with ED-E's enhanced perk and i see the Ranger squads coming a mile away, whip my trail carbine and pop heads with crits before they get close. The last has turned around and entered the cowering animation a couple times for me, so try getting no damage see if that works
It’s fun chasing the cowards.
The courier next to joshua graham is the scariest character in the fallout series. Albeit all the main protags are scary but the courier alone encounters some of the most dangerous and fearsom animals in the known fallout universe and slaughters them like lambs and can proceed to just absolutely obliterate everything. One of my playthroughs I pretty much killed everyone in new vegas or on the map that I could find. Leaving that level of absolute destruction in your wake is unparalled
Joshua gay Anita scary at all first time I saw him I squished him like the worm he is
My first play through of Fallout 4 went similarly. It was at first “I have morals” to more or less “Geneva Convention? I thought it was the Geneva Suggestion”
also in the extended lore the Courier tammed a FUCKING DEATHCLAW!
Everyone brings up the chosen one but I'd say the courier would win but very close like all drugs gone and ammo run dry but killed by the khan trick crit that gets everyone in the end
@@ReficulDrakuldepending on what might be seen as canon
You can infer the rest of that front
The courier was shot before finding that gear canonically, Which means this courier is so deranged that he took that helmet off lined up at 9 mm and fired into that helmet just to write that.
no he shot himself in the head.
if he can survive it without a helmet, he can survive it with one
@@empereurnico6048If it doesn’t kill your it makes you stronger!
It was the last shot benny got off on him.
Canonically. In my head canon he found NCR ranger armor from some junk yard when he was 18, then when he was shot, it was forever marked.
When he reached the Divide he found the elite riot gear, he took the armor and wore it except for the helmet because he saw a major significance in his old helmet, so he took the elite riot gear helmet's upgrades and applied them to his NCR ranger helmet, painted it to match the rest of the armor's camouflage and scratched the words "Benny was here" by the bullet hole, and as the years and battles came more and more engravings on the helmet appeared.
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- It's actually...
Makes sense?
Like it's more possible to survive two 9mm with helmet than without one, lol. And the elite gear moment, even though it seems that it was heavily modified, helmet itself isn't that unique, and I think for all riot gears they're kinda interchangable. It would make sense at least, there's no reason to make it heavier or something like that, because it would still serve same purpose. So your headcanon is quite canon actually
Me with 20 min of gameplay : Oh boy!! I can't wait to save the Mojave as a cool cowboy!!!
Me with 400 hrs of gameplay addicted to Psycho and whiskey :
I always repeat but never speed run, I savour the game for every taste.
I don’t take drugs because my mom told me drugs are bad
The Rose of Sharon Cassidy would approve.
The Courier is the only man in the wasteland who could make Caesar shit his pants as much as when he hears the name of Joshua Graham.
He would have a heart attack if you came in in joshua grahams clothing and his 1911. With the entire fort sent right next to Judas
@@eyeblech2001damn, now I kinda want to replay new Vegas, do honest hearts, and then kill Caesar while using graham’s pistol and wearing his armor
Woman. :) I dearly love playing a female Courier and laying waste to Caesar and his crew. I love it so much I make sure to do a save first and reload it two or three times. Did I mention that I dismember them as I kill them? Yeah, that's how much I hate the damn Legion. And, I laugh the whole time because I know the fact that it's a *woman* beating them up and cutting them into meat clods for their dogs is the last humiliation they take with them into cold, cold death.
...yeah, I hate the Legion.
@@eyeblech2001 Or if you go back to Joshua, recruit him for a temporary mission on the attack on the fort. I wish there was a genuine lore friendly mod for that using AI voice overs.
@@garrettcooper58Mr. Sallow? Joshua Graham sends his regards...
I always loved the trope of a horrifying hero - scaring Vulpes is still one of the best feelings I had in gaming.
The courier is no hero he's a force of pure destruction.
@@dudupintarolas5214courier 6 is as inevitable as the coming night
That's the face you see when you trade with that guy who plays for hours before letting the character sleep
I literally never sleep to be honest.
He wakes up after a 24 hour sleep and he's back to being a normal dude
Me lol
Me playing New Vegas for 9 hours straight before letting the character sleep and exiting the game
Amazing image, and dear God the flesh around his eyes is low key horrifying to me, it looks like this courier spent a long enough time in the divide that he’s lost the skin from at least that stretch of his face like a marked man.
Remember to always were you helmet kids when exploring hell
The divide changes people
Also his eyes look like they're about to burst.
So courier 6 is either high or they're fking minds, on enough caffeine to kill an elephant, *OR BOTH*
Pretty sure the courier ends up turning into a ghoul
@@TheSantach You telling me their biologically immortal now??
One of the helmet graffiti quotes should be "I left my heart in the Sierra Madre"
Damn! That could have been such a nice detail :((
And my other body parts are still somewhere in Big Mountain.
The wounded legionnaires stares at the courier, and with his last bit of energy he attempts to throw his spear when suddenly time stops. The bullets stops, the melee attacks stops, the spear he was raising stops. The legionnaire looks around for the source, one minute the courier is 10 feet away, a second later he’s a foot away from him. Staring into the legionnaire’s eyes, the courier removes the visor and the legionnaire looks into the couriers broken eyes. This man hasn’t slept in weeks, his skin is dry and leathery from the baking hot sun and his eyes are bloodshot but the thing that scares the legionnaire most is when the courier speaks: don't believe you understand how grave of a mistake you have just made. let me make this clear. You will be allowed to leave ( the courier grabs the spear from the legionnaires hands and breaks it one handed) but one day *Somewhere I will find you. you will never sleep again. Never go without looking behind you on a dark road. And when you least expect it, I will show you Hell on Earth, I will break every bone in vour body in full view of everyone* (the courier stare gets more intense and the legionnaire somehow sees the many souls this man has killed for revenge, love and star bottlecaps) now *LEAVE*
Nice story telling, I like story telling myself not gonna lie. I've written a few about post-nuclear wars, stalker, fallout, etc. Kinda cool
Reminds me of that one puss n boots meme
Nobody care edgelord you larp as strong in videogame because you will never be physically strong
Weakest legion recruit stronger than strongest NCR edgelord
Mega Cringe
"and star bottlecaps" mainly, yes
One of the things I like most about New Vegas is that the Courier is less a person and more a force of nature given physical form. As terrifying and destructive as the bombs that scorched the world. And not only that but the characters around you actually acknowledge that fact.
One of the things that still sticks with me is when you meet Caesar and ask him why he wanted you of all people and his response is that you're not normal. Most people in the Courier's situation, shot in the head and left in the desert to die, would have just been grateful for a second chance at life and wiped their hands clean of the situation. But you? You walked across one of the most hostile environments on the planet and showed up at the front door of the man who shot you demanding answers.
And he's totally right. Because the Courier is controlled by the player so they're not driven by logic, compassion or self preservation like other people. They have nothing but an unbreakable will and burning ambition to change the world.
For those wanting curious, there's an armor mod that was created by Quicksilver500 which adds a customizable Ranger Armor that looks like this called "Courier Ranger Armor - Customisable In Game"
I love you
Thanks
What are the contents? Can you actually like customize each part and that it's not just a premade remake of the armour? Because if so that is awesome, something I've been waiting for, for a long time now, gee thanks man.
Also is it compatible with the adam reborn mod?
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- The customization aspect of the armour is sadly rather limited. 'Though it would be nice, being able to change every single individual thing would be quite difficult to create, this mod is an exceptional alternative. The mod adds a custom Ranger Armour that's basically a mash-up between the Courier Duster, Elite Riot Gear, the NCR Combat Armour & Joshua Graham's Armour. The customization aspect, though limited, allows you to either remove/re-add the sleeves; change the decal that's on the back of the armour; add extra plating for extra protection; strap either a Pack of Cigarettes or a Clip of .308 Ammo to the helmet; scratch "Benny Was Here" on said helmet; and the ability to break/repair the visor.
It's been quite some time since I've played F:NV, so I don't recall for certain, but I think there's a patch for it.
Those soulless eyes makes it all too unsettling lol
Great job on the Elite Riot Gear, looks like someone that's half way to becoming a general if he was serving :)
Edit: Thanks for the Likes, fwends :))
Those are the eyes of a man who seen too much shit for one lifetime.
The real courier would have just killed them all without uttering a single noise
Except for Big Iron blaring from the Courier's Pip-Boy lol
most of the time he just blantantly kills them, but sometimes he leaves out one gravely wounded legionnaire hitman. Embarrassing him and making him live in fear and humiliation for the rest of his short days, and one day. The Courier will return to the Caeser's camp, then he will once again see the blank eyes of the Courier.
Other NCR Rangers describe him as the nuclear winter people kind of wish for when patrolling the Mojave.
this implies you secretly were joshua graham, just playing as the good person he wishes he was from the beginning, and the joshua graham you meet in game is the real joshua, and you(as in him) recognize hes a good man now and either leave the white leg remnants to their fate in the waste or rightfully give them a merciful death. no i dont actually mean this but it gives me an excuse to write about joshua g himself
deep
Now this gives off an interesting playthrough for FNV; the Good Soul Graham/Pure (As Heavenly Light) Graham one, trying to achieve the dreams of a pure man, doing the rightful thing and righting the mistakes that Graham once fell in, not falling into the same paths that made him who he is today
The question is, would he go NCR or Yesman?
I'd argue NCR, as according to the wiki, he views the NCR as redeemable, and who else but Pure Graham should try to redeem the corrupt soul of the NCR?
(I'm sure theres a way better descriptive for Pure Graham, but I just can't think of a better descriptive)
As much as I want courier or Joshua put a bullet in Salt-Upon-Wounds thick skull, letting him live is the best outcome since in the closing narration he's becoming a broken shell of himself who is losing his will to live and led his savage murderous clan into their inevitable ruin. A fate worse than death which he tottaly deserved.
@@ninjafighterblue9413 If Joshua were the main character he'd go his own way, to God's light.
Damn
Let's see terrifying presence mixed with monthly lessons from Joshua Graham equals fucking scary as hell!
My head cannon is after several weeks or months that the Courier was in Zion, Joshua Graham taught him of the Bible, morality, kindness and evil. Impacting the Courier and changing what he percieves the world, being a lot like Joshua himself as his character develops throughout the games, and every few years, he revisits Zion to Joshua Graham to learn more and seek guidance.
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- oooooooo I like this one.
bottomless capacity for violence+boundless malice+religious rage+time paradox: death reversal+time paradox: V.A.T.S= the being that ends the world
i am so glad everyone knows of the courier riot armor
indeed, for me it's the main armor of the courier, being one of a kind compared to the more common NCR combat armor. For me it is the Courier's symbol even though the lonesome road DLC shows it is the Courier duster, for me it's the Elite riot gear, it's just so unique.
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- yes exactly i love it
That drip almost made me forgive the NCR for being Californian. It is an unquestionable fit.
I read that as "The courier wipes out the entire Legion's home and threatens a single legionnaire left surviving to run"
*A POV Story:*
You are a veteran Legionnaire. You've risen up from the pitiful dregs of what was once your tribe, to the elite among the elite. The fires of your clan's old huts, with the screams of the unworthy steels you're resolve--they were weak, and you've demonstrated that you are not. You are a warrior true to Caesar.
You first see this profligate in a passing glance, after your righteous work at Nipton. An unassuming little man--save for the curious scar on his forehead. Clearly a careless fool, but Vulpes sees enough in him to not burn him with the other whores. Has him spread our the word of the work done here--your fine handiwork to reach the profligates. You overhear reports among the NCR, that the message went through. Seems he listened to his rightful betters.
The next time, you glance him entering The Fort. The profligate was given the Mark of Caesar, and summoned before him! No profligate deserves such an honor, nor anything even close to it! Still, after meeting with him, he did Caesar's bidding. The banging & crashing noise from far below had to be proof of that. But any righteous warrior could have done that, given access to the complex! Still, he seemed true to Caesar. Up until speaking with him again, and be it through insolence or another one of Caesar's 'headaches,' he irritably sent him off to slay the arch-fiend, House. He purchases some slaves, on the way out.
And then he seemed to vanish. Without completing his mission! Impudence! Still, the profligate is protected by the mark of Caesar.
You hear odd rumors of the Burned Man. Something about how he spared the chieftain of an aspiring tribe. Pathetic and weak. But you knew that already, when he was thrown into the canyon. You saw him fall into that darkness, that night.
The next you hear of the Profligate, or "Courier," as he seems to be called, he seems to be currying the favor of the bears, and scum of the city! Degenerate Wretch! Thankfully, as his name sinks into the mire, you climb up. With the Frumentarii, you massacre a station of their Rangers! Booby trapping the dead, stripping their bodies, and leaving your message for good measure. You even manage to capture one of the women...eventually. They are so much more fun to break than the men. She will produce many healthy little slaves, perhaps even legionaries.
You return to Cottonwood Cove, and then The Fort, in what feels like a triumph close to Nipton! The next day, you find reports at Cottonwood have gone strangely silent. You are sent to investigate...and find the entire camp is dead! No signs of a struggle, nor a battle, nor even the alarm being raised. But the holes in their heads are all telling. More peculiarly, you find all of the legionnaires, decanus, and even centurion Aurelius of Phoenix...all placed on their bedrolls. Clearly they weren't killed in their sleep. Nothing capable of this much damage could have done so, without waking the others. Clearly, this was some mockery of the soft & cowardly profligates. No stomach for true war, and thinking they can coddle us to death. Pathetic!
Weeks pass, and the latest you hear of the Courier, he's been out traveling from the Mojave. On some meaningless errands, no doubt, or just milling about to amuse himself.
As the days go by, news seem to get worse. The Khans break off their alliance. The Omertas' plan is dismantled. Nelson is lost, without even managing to kill our hostages! You don't have proof, but in your heart, you know it's that degenerate courier! No loyalty, and no honor! Next time you see him, you'll challenge him to a proper duel, and bury a machete in the notch in his head!
But you don't get that chance. Not before tragedy strikes. While you were on patrol, The Fort was attacked. Vulpes, Lucius, and even Caesar were k...no. No, that cannot be true. Maybe for mortal men, but Caesar could not be slain by lowly profligates! Clearly...he rose up to join Mars! To better lead the Legion with his divine will & being! One of the slaves with enough sense not to desert their responsibilities told of who it was: that Degenerate Courier. You and your men will find him, and nail him to a cross.
Takes days to track him, but manage to catch him far west. An old man tries to ward you off with dynamite, but falls easily. Another old runs down from atop the hill, pleading to be allowed to heal him. A doctor steps before us, and even holding something as innocuous as a medical bag, he still has a defiant glint in his eye. Your friend Verro laughs, and lands a spear in his leg. The weakling yelps in pain, as a siren to the rest of this town of cowards. You ready yourself for another pleasant evening of butchery, and draw your gladius...
The next thing you hear is a gunshot, and a chunk of Verro's body splatter's against you. The courier reveals himself! Battle is joined! Huron takes aim, and nearly gets a shot, before taking one in the eye. Fabian charges him with sledge held high... his swing is stopped with a glowing metal fist, that crushes his hand, before his head is knocked off! Alessio dashes to cover, and with another shot, his leg flies right off! What is happening!? He's but one man, against the elite of the Legion! A glint of silver issues out from his wound. And then...you feel a sharp pain in your abdomen. You've been hit. You raise your gun, but another shot shatters the trigger mechanism--along with your hand! Justin of Two Sun unpins a grenade, and throws it his way...and it detonates barely a foot away from him. The elite warrior is now screaming, as his arm is completely gone.
Then you realize...this is not a battle. This is a massacre. This profligate. This degenerate. Is tearing through your group, like unarmed slaves. A scene more grizzly than any of the stories of the Burned Man. You glance to him once again, and he's kneeling over the doctor...trying to heal him? He insults you, by showing his back! You grip for your pistol, and manage to get two shots off in his direction, before another answers back at you. A hole is put through your other hand. You look at the wound and see...fragments of denarii!? He was shooting you with shells made from your own currency!? He mocks the Legion still! You try to swipe at him, as he approaches, but your machete slips from your hands with your own blood.
You are face to face with the Courier. And in the most ear-splittingly calm voice, he speaks to you. He says these words, and lets you leave. Everything the Legion has ever taught you, screams for you to stand up, and fight to the end...but every fiber of your being screams even louder. Worse than the burning of your tribe, worse than the first battle for the dam, worse that the Burned Man could ever be...is the fact that every word of the Courier was true.
Whenever you lay down in a camp, you see the corpses of your comrades beside you. Whenever you look at the asphalt of the road, you see the vast darkness of the Grand Canyon, eager to swallow you, as it did Graham. Whenever you touch a Denarius, your whole body & soul will remember that day when the Courier broke you. You can't return to the Legion. You can't stay in Goodsprings. Maybe not even in the Mojave, for that matter! All you can do, is run and wait... It's inevitable.
He's coming.
He's coming.
My guy you are fucking top notch and described him perfectly
@@davidnaude1087 D'aww, thank ya!
*Be an author lmao*
@@mannie3477 Lol. Maybe I'll post this on reddit.
This is amazing
This legionnaire had seen many horrors, survived many battles, hell he even managed to escape the battle of hoover dam, but out of all his luck he never figured how determined this lone nameless courier could be, dressed in NCR Ranger garb this person, this entity, this MONSTER of the Mojave stood in the blood bath of his squad, remains of the legion determined to hunt and kill the very man that slaughtered them by the tens, maybe hundreds. His flesh dry and cracked by the brutal sun of the wasteland, his eyes bloodshot and narrowed, the courier stood still while his boots soaked in the blood of his enemy, no, his prey. This man was a hunter of man and refused to sleep until his hunt was done at this point, but he wanted fun for the words he spoke to this lone Legionnaire would haunt him for the next few years.
The legionary starts running... Only to hear the whistle of a mini nuke closing in...
Or a cluster of them from.
Given the fact he's traveled all over the southwest, fought the deadliest creatures of the wasteland, survived being shot in the head buried alive, lobotomized and put back together again, the courier is surprisingly sane.
YOUR Courier is surprisingly sane, I just do my own thing and the game labels me evil.
Courier Ruby: I have a bunch of scars, from a gecko attack from when I was 14, when Benny shot me in the head, from when the Think Tank removed my Brain, Heart, and Spine, one around my neck from the collar, and one from the boss fight I had with Rawr.
Trooper Finn: Holy sweet mother of the Sierra Madre!
Me when I'm in a hardcore playthrough and a random legion squad kills best girl Veronica:
“We just wanted to gift you a unique item bro…”
That Courier unnerves me. Man or machine, over a long enough timeline everything hits terminal fatigue: mental, or metal. This guy's hit both. A shot-out barrel, a double-fed cartridge stuck in the rifle of a dead conscript. Just look at his eyes - no time left on the clock.
He walks, he might talk, he follows mission directives better than all of these cut-rate conscripts that NCR loves shitting out so much, but I'm telling you: there's no driver at the wheel. Send him back to the mail service. When this guy detonates, nobody is going to want to be around to witness it.
For all the burnt fuses we are handing out cartridges and cash to, that says everything.
The Legionary runs but is then shot in the back.
Courier: Never turn your back on a foe.
The Legionary closes his eyes after receiving his last piece of advice.
Did you draw that? It looks fucking amazing.
No he definitely did not.
EDIT: he literally drew over a different image in something like MS Paint and stole the audio and eyes from a different channel (Search Joshua Graham gives you a warning for the original).
yeah
@@epicebones7329 h8
@@epicebones7329 Yep, I took it from joshua graham but saw the possibility of making something new out of it, but it looks ok doesnt it? but I digress, this was just a gag nothing serious. This used to be some anonymous funny drawing of joshua graham from some subreddit, but I drew my version of the courier (elite riot gear) over it and put the audio. Credits to the original artist, I dont quite remember his name but I think it was NERVA, credits to him. I do not wish to take any form of content from anyone, this is my own variation of it but not a copy. I hope you understand. I wish you people a good day. I am very sorry for forgetting to add the description, it seems it wasnt uploaded properly, then again youtube isnt really my thing so this isnt really that important. Although I dont think "stole" is the correct term? I dont know, we live in a democracy and you are free so say whatever you want to say. But I say this to you, can you make your own variation of this image? (The helmet's my own design of what the elite riot gear helmet should look like, might make a mod out of it for NV.)
thanks dude
Honestly, Courier 6, regardless of playstyle, is one of the most terrifying and intimidating characters in the Fallout franchise.
Therapist: Ranger Graham doesn't, he can't hurt you
The Ranger Graham: 0:00
Didn't really make him as Joshua but imagined this is why he would have sounded like but younger.
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- and also atheist, no god can save you from Courier/Graham...
@@OperatorMax1993 well if you get slain by either or both of them then it's been written by god so....guess there salvation is in another life....but then ...there legion so doubt there's salvation for them lol
This is worse for me since I play Tale of Two Wastelands. That Courier is also the Lone Wonderer, which has gone through the hell that is the Capital Wasteland, killed hundreds of super mutants, destroyed the Enclave, smashed countless raiders and saved the Capital Wasteland only to move to the Mojave Wasteland in the hopes of living a quiet life as a courier. Instead, he gets shot in the head and is pulled into a war he wanted no part of and must go back to killing hundreds in order to find some damn quiet once again. That "Forgive Me Father" hits even worse since he might legit be asking James for forgiveness with all the bloodshed he has caused. Man cannot catch a break.
No joke this is also my Headcanon for the Courier, I'd like to imagine him/her (him in my case) to also be Lone Wanderer, now a 23 year old (since LW is 19 years old in F3 and FNV takes place 4 years later) courier working for the Mojave Express looking to live in peace after the whole Capital Wasteland... happened, suffering from PTSD of having to witness his father dying in front of him, on top of having to deal with the events in F3's DLCs, which only worsened his mental and emotional health, after all, he just had to deal with aliens, WW3 simulations, Point Lookout (and especially the Blackhall sidequest...) and of course, *_the Pitt,_* he has frequent nightmares from these events, and usually tends to his (Mojave) companions for comfort, especially Lilly, she's like a grandma he never had.
I'd like to imagine Albert (my headcanon name for LW/Courier) I this video just... *_verbally_* snapping at a legionnaire after failing to save some poor elderly wastelander armed with nothing but a tire iron after being beaten horribly by the Legion scouts, giving flashbacks of James' death and thus feeling like fate itself is mocking him/his father's death, after slaughtering the entire squad and then realizing that one is still crawling, he gives this speech in the video, putting his Terrifying Presence to good use.
@turricanrocks1552 There is a hint that the courier is actually around 35 or 36. Lady killer option when talking to the dude with the mysterious magnum. Very unique and interesting.
The scratch marks on his helmet aren't just kills made
they're the number of screaming people he's beaten to death with that helmet
Screaming because they're about to die or screaming because of what's under the helmet
@@-Soulsound- Why not both?
This is how I would imagine the courier's interaction with benny :
"A long time ago, before the age of decadence, there was once an ancient people called the Hebrews... They used to tell stories of dead men who sought out vengeance, they were called the "Dybbuk".
"The dybbuk was a human soul that cared for only one thing... Retribution."
"When you pointed that gun up to my head and pulled the trigger... I was a dead man, that was when I died, and what you see now is the Dybbuk of that dead man."
"You know what I seek, you know what I have done to get here, I have killed hundreds, if not thousands of poor fools who tried to get in my way."
"There's no point of resisting Benny... Death is staring you in the eye and the worst decision you can make is fight back."
"Death comes to everyone eventually, and death has come for you Benny, it has arrived in the form of your sins, the countless dead that lay in the sands of the Mojave because of you."
"When you meet the man upstairs, pray that he forgives you, but I will never forgive you, none of the victims of your crimes will ever forgive you."
Benny:What in the Godda-*strangling noices.
Metal as hell
Nice, everyone in this comment section are so talented at writing lol, I thought I was the only one who liked writing continuations of existent pieces of work.
"Fuck the legion, all of my homies love hunting iliterate tribsman"
If a man has written "Forgive me father" on his helmet in an apocalypse type era, the things he has done are grave enough that only God can forgive him.
The Mc is always the scariest person to seek mercy from because depending on the time of day they are either too tired to continue talking to you or too bored to to listen to anything you have to say.
The irony here is, you can't actually threaten a legionaire. They're just too sadistic to care.
he left him to live so that he could live in fear and embarrassment once he returned to the camp, eventually getting killed by the courier in the camp by the end of his journey.
No one is exempt from Terrifying presence.
@@maestreiluminati87 Vulpus was kinda indifferent to it, but obliged in the end due to low troop numbers.
Anyone who has a social life of some kind cares. The legionnaires can be made to fear and care because they were brought in line using fear in the first place. Caesar made them fear first.
You actually can though. Terrifying Presence works wonders.
My courier being high on every substance known to man and not having slept for 100 days.
To be honest i never really picked sides in fallout games, as i prefer just to be a sort of nomad type character who occasionally turns the tide of a battle just for the caps. Don't get me wrong, picking sides is useful every now and then, but it's better to be your own boss.
I mean, being the leader of new Vegas is pretty close
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- Fair.
The Courier set off nukes *before* you ever played as him, and survived as a mailman in the most dangerous time in history. Dude was a badass.
Bro was staring into my soul after I accidentally stole a bent tin can 💀
Makes me wish there where more RPGs with varied responses to your character’s skills and exploits.
The face of a man who's killed hundreds of people, dozens of deathclaws, and countless abominations unknown to most.
Honestly the image makes it so much worse. I can’t imagine Courier-6 having a fully functioning mental state after what he’s been through but the image shows his armor, bedazzled with things you’d find on the most crazed soldier from Nam, but from the only bit of his armor where you can see his skin-his visor-it makes him seem like he’s transformed both mentally and physically from a man to something…else. Like he’s not quite human as once before, and I have no doubt he’s trapped in his own mind more than anything, reliving every moment of his life and forced by circumstance into doing more deeds, repeating the cycle endlessly.
The Courier could achieve the Fallout equivalent of CHIM.
In my opinion here's the personalities of each main character:
Fallout 1: The green and inexperienced guy trying to find a solution to his vault's problems, soon to become a major mark in the wasteland in his T-51 power armor.
Fallout 2: The young guy trying to find his worthiness in the wasteland, again in a suit of T-51 power armor or maybe X-01.
Fallout 3: Again a young guy plummeting straight into the unknown on a mission to find his father to try and fix his vault's problems, marking the wasteland in his suit of T-45 power armor. Cleansing the capital wasteland in the span of many years and destroying several hostile factions and becoming a war hero for the eastern wing of the BoS, fighting in the battle for DC and Adam's Air Force Base, and possibly even destroyed an entire mothership of aliens.
Fallout New Vegas: A wanderer in the deserts of the American south-west, maintaining in a rugged, dusty and dry lifestyle, soon to be stuck in a major pool of problems, struggled and battles in the Nevada all because of one formerly thought insignificant chip. Cleansing the Nevada and destroying several hostile and bloodthirsty factions in the wild west, becoming a major hand in the dissolution of the Khan's, powder gangers, fiends and the Legion, putting an end to their tyranny. And even solved the problems of big MT, Zion and the mysterious Sierra Madre.
Fallout 4: An older guy, veteran of the great war, frozen 210 years into the future post-apocalyptic wasteland, sworn to find and kill the people who murdered his wife and kidnapped his son, became a soldier again of the BoS, playing a major role to destroy the Institute and other hostile factions in Boston.
Fallout 76: I don't know, you tell me.
hell yeah
Fallout 76: There are two types here. The vault-born reclamators who have never known life beyond a vault and are best described as "insanity in a can" and their parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents and older siblings, all of whom are worn a little thin from having to deal with them for 25 years and being unable to put any reasonable distance between them
Autum *My Sole Survivor*: I got a hyper-realistic prostatic arm that I lost in Yangtze and knew Randall Clarke from New Vegas.
It would be cool if he would dress up as people there's a mod where he hunts you but just seeing his burnt face and voice and them being the only hint would be terrifying
me on my first playthrough,bearly understanding the controls,armed with a vermint rifle and a dream,bearly limping to nipton alive only to see it razed to the ground and everyone in it killed in the most disgusting manner,deciding that whatever my goal was comes second to having the legion GONE
Terrifying Presence and Wild Wasteland are canonical IMO lol. After being shot in the head plus everything our courier goes through, they would deranged lol.
I think it’s just lore at this point that the courier didn’t actually escape totally unharmed by Benny’s bullet. Definitely hit the “regular human emotions” center or something.
Love this, I wish terrifying presence had this type of energy
As someone who wears a welding mask, put a bunch of points in strength, uses a ripper, and has the terrifying presence perk/skill thing, i like to say that i am argueably the most scary bisexual in this game
No, that’s someone else.
@@acewmd.Who? Red lucy?
@@giovannicervantes2053 The Courier
@@vicenterodriguez4604 eh same difference if you download the frontier
(don't)
i start every play through with the mindset of “i will do no wrong” right up until i die a few times to a specific group. do no wrong quickly turns into “the sands of the mojave will be soaked with legion blood. my armor will run red with the misfortunes of the ncr. anybody else in my wake will watch their companions fall to my arsenal. i do not fear the wastes, the wastes fear me. my name will be painted on the hoover dam with the blood that is shed as i walk along. courier six lives.”
How i be talking to the white legs before also killing Daniel:
I didn't kill Daniel so I could let him live the rest of his pathetic days. My guy was willing to let his tribe die just because he didn't want to kill any misguided "innocent" cannibals.
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- my character in that playthrough was an absolutle psychotic canibal, and Let's say Daniel really pushed his luck, but that actually made one of my most unique moments in NV because Joshua managed to cheat death twice by scaping me after i killed Daniel.
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- Daniel didn't really give a fuck whether the White Legs were killed or not, he just didn't want the Sorrows to be a part of it.
@@heisendurden7467 in my ending when I sided with joshua, killing all the whitelegs, then daniel lives with that moment of failing to convince you haunting him for the rest of his days, bro really did care a lot about whitelegs.
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- tbh, Daniel may did the better choice as a God fearing Christians. His only goal was to preserve the last bit of innocence in the Wasteland. A society that never had to fight other society, the potential to be something greater than NCR or the Legion. Thats Daniel's gamble on innocence.
Joshua Graham used religion and angry Dead Horses to wage war against the White Legs, and eventually Caesar. Its his goal, unless you talk him out of violence. Which damages the Sorrows forever, they wont be pure anymore and would eventually just be yet another dangerous tribe.
“I’d send you back to Caesar to let you tell him of your failure. But you should know I am a Courier. I’ll just deliver your head to him.”
I could have sworn he blinked right at the end
Nate seeing a Canadian citizen
The same legionnaire that killed me watching me comeback as lvl 47: 💀
Head canon: Joshua killed 6 after he killed Daniel took his armor and now hunts down whoever wrongs the weak
Speech 100 and terrifying presence:
Love that you added a nod to Randall Clark's armor by putting forgive me father on the front.
*I am Pale Death. Come to bear you to Perdition.*
How haunting would it be for that legionnare to see The Courier in the distance, stalking, watching, waiting. At almost every moment he thinks they are there. Half of the time, they actually aren't. Just paranoia hitting them. But times when they actually see them, they think they are imagining it. Somewhere around the corner, The Courier is waiting for the right time to do their job. To deliver package with the legionnare's name on it. And it will send them somewhere where they can't comeback from.
I respect the legions beliefs in being allowed to exterminate those you believe lesser than you. Unfortunately. I consider *Every legionnaire to be lesser than me.*
Impressive, very nice...
get out of here gramfel, you flooded my discord with questionable images last time.
Bro what the fuck
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- lol
Now let's see Paul Allen's threatening glare
I cant believe haiwlex prefers paul allens detheaning glare over mine
Probably a more accurate look for “Lord death of murder mountain”
The Courier watching you start a new game for the 4738th time
Man I love this idea of Joshua as the courier. I can imagine Mr. House hearing about what Benny did and when he hears you're up and moving about he goes, "Great, now I have to hire someone to replace Benny..."
I love how everyone decided that canonically Courier Six was an insane person. Like he *could* have been a subservient nice guy, however not a soul thinks of him like that
"ill let you live so you can get fatter, youre barely worth killing"
-my cannibalistic capitalist courier who wants to rebuild the economy.
I like to believe this is what the terrifying presence perk is like for NPC's
Screw the Caesar's Legion. All of my homies hate the Caesar's Legion.
same bro 🗿
@@-Ryan_Gasoline-
What is with the Maoi Emoji symbol? Why did you post it?
@@TurtleShroom3 It's a sign of agreement among men my friend.
@@-Ryan_Gasoline-
It is?
@@TurtleShroom3 yep
"I am on... _literally_ all of the drugs and am carrying enough weapons to arm a sizable town. Are you sure you want to fuck with me today?"
POV. You Courier Six from "Dust" mod:
Context
@@Nombrenooriginal "Dust" is the extra hardcore mod showing that if it were total fucked up in Mojave.
@@texnikozero4934 sheesh no wonder he looks so damn unhinged
This is what id imagine a 10 str 10 end melee blitz build to be like
woulda been coolif it was just the orange speech GUI and the courier selects the "Terrifying presence" option
Ahhh shit!!! Could have been so fun :(( but yeah lol
A reminder that in all playthroughs but Legion, the Courier walked into the Legates camp alone, and left with his helmet
Fyi this is the same guy that got fisted by a protectron
I like the creativity to the desert ranger mask
Me to the NCR ranger that tried to make me pay taxes
Six: "...wow, he really pissed and shat his skirt off *laughs*. And this is not even my worst yet...not sure I should be proud of it though."
A far more gentle way then I played. When a legionnaire kill squad came after me, they didn't ask "should we send another one after him with guns this time?" They asked, "Where did the bodies go..."
The courier’s message to Todd Howard after the Fallout show premier
I wish games had a mechanic where if you let one survivor live in a confrontation you get way more infamy among the enemy.
I like the idea of the Courier wearing the NCR Ranger outfit, but not being in the NCR, wearing it just to taunt the NCR about what they can't have
What two days in the divide does to a courier
what one minute in dead money does to a courier
my local post office has a guy who is known for delivering mail in a vehicle loaded with enough guns and ammo to go toe-to-toe with a platoon of special forces soldiers. when asked why he does this, his answer was "fuck around and find out."
Me when someone says The Legion should win. Pop pop watching discount Romans drop.
Five 45'70 Gov't rounds, an entire kill squad of legionnaire assasins drop with no heads.
@@-Ryan_Gasoline- Medicine Stick is a good antidote against brain poison.
Pop pop watching heathens drop
Honestly, the NCR has more in common with the Romans by far. The Legion are basically ISIS cosplaying as the Romans.
Legionnaires are all hardcore, flechettes nail em to the desert floor, throw them psyops out the door.
Damn. Now I want a helmet re-texture matching this.