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Published: 2016-05-11 12:03:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 57213; Favourites: 1651; Downloads: 0
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Inspired by Fallout 4.For anyone who hasn't played any Fallout games, feral ghouls are humans who were horribly irradiated in the nuclear war.
The radiation caused their brains to deteriorate, they are violent and have no ability to reason.
But sometimes after killing one, you might find that they were carrying with them a baby rattle or some keepsake from their lives before.
I always wonder if they get glimpses of loved ones and memories from their old lives. And if they retain any part of themselves from before.
Maybe sheβs remembering someone.
There's some close up crops on my tumblr: joelkilpatrick.tumblr.com/postβ¦
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Y'know for a brief moment I thought this was a "Frankenstein" (novel, not film) reference, but after reading the description that comparison is still not far off the mark.
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This is haunting, but also beautifully sad.Β
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Sometimes they're carrying something, like money, a teddy bear, a book...
Other times they have something like molerat teeth or a pencil in their inventory. Presumably from something that tried to fight the ghoul and lost, and the item is literally pulled out of their skin when you loot them.
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This is incredible. Well-drawn and emotional, I love it.
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The pure amount of detail in this image. It really tells a story. I like it!
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I'm sorry, but I've been seeing this video that says, something like, "who's the real mother, only fbi agents can figure it out" and that's all I could think of.
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There a bunch of ferals that hang around a drive-in theater they never attacked so I didn't attack I thought maybe that drive was the only thread of humanity they had leftΒ Β
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what a great mod idea: A feral ghoul that isn't 100% feral and occasionally helps those in need by bringing medicines it finds in very irradiated areas.Β Worse part it knows it is slowly loosing itself but still tries to maintain its humanity for as long as it can.
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not only is this beautifully drawn, but the point behind it is very saddening.
also look at how the other woman (i'm not sure if she's the little girl's new adopted mom or older sister) is reaching for her gun. This could be the very last moment that mother can see her child.
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Hit me right in the feelz why don't ya? ;w; Beautiful.
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DAMN this is so touching and so fucking good!!
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I feel that all the time.
My first thought is "they are zombies" but, before seem the items.....
I remember in new vegas a Ghoul who is afraid to be feralΒ Β in Camp Searchlight cause all his friends became
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My god, this is just an absolutely fantastic piece! I hardly know even where to begin! If the series at large tried to be more cinematic and included things like this scattered amid the game instead of just having them as mob enemies, the immersion and just heartache of seeing feral ghouls would just be astronomical! The sorrow on the ghoul's face is subtle, the kind I've seen on a grandparent's face when they look back at old family photos and know they know something about the photo but they can't quite remember, or they recall that the person with them is no longer living. It's a feeling of tragedy as an onlooker that just lets one stupefied!! The memory is there, but only as an echo. The smile of the child breaks up the mood of the picture's serious and mourning tone as the poor thing is lost in dreamland, unaware of the danger above her or her new role as catalyst for the hardwired response of maternity within this poor withered creature. That in contrast once more to the actual mother, who is at this moment being threatened with the loss of her child should this mentally unsound creature's reflection and brief recollection give way to irrational rage or impulse. These are the moments we imagine when we go into the wasteland, this is the feeling of Fallout as a whole; not just 3 or 4, this sums up so many feelings into a piece that is so beautiful yet so wholly tragic and heartbreaking that it leaves my mouth agape and my mind wanting more! I want to see how it plays out, I want to see more, I find that I'd want a story or video to go with it. There's so little here but yet so much story in the picture! I find myself having nothing but sympathy for the ghoul woman, for the child, for the mother! It evokes compassion without a single word! Part of me wants to imagine that this little moment of beauty would go on, that perhaps the ghoul would say something even if a simple single broken word to the mother or to the daughter in a whisper or leave, or that the mother would somehow know she's dangerous now and retreat back into the night, or when the two awoke there'd be some old supplies sat next to them from an unlikely guardian angel. You are a fantastic artist and I considered myself blessed to have stumbled across this image! A dirge for her in that humanity long lost to nuclear hellfire, choices made outside her control.
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holy crap dude i see where your coming from and your right....you kind of said it all,and yes every ghoul would have had there story of sorrow and loss which will never be told.
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Oh! Why hello! lol sorry for taking so long to get back with you! And thank you very much! I feel that's where Fallout 4 went wrong, it was too fast paced and too focused on instant reward and giving the player total control over the wasteland. They didn't treat the wasteland like a character itself, which it SHOULD be! The first staple of any Fallout game should be immersion, followed by atmosphere. The more stories, notes, and audio they can fit into the cram detailing the struggles of the other wastelanders and creating an air of hopelessness the better! This lack of understandingΒ is most present in the Nuka-World DLC where you find the logs of a lady ghoul going feral, where the concept and execution is streamlined and glossed over to the point where it sounds more like a possession where she's "Fighting and resisting it!!" instead of the slow degradation into feral insanity with broken english and an ever warping understanding of things. Ten times out of ten this picture is in every way superior to FO4 with just this one moment beautifully and artistically captured. The Artist of this really has my admiration!
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Take little billy Peabody the Kidd in the fridge I had expected to go through a fare bit of shit to get him where he needed to be but no I just gat the raider and take him home to ghoul mom n dad lol perfect,what would have been good is finally get him home to find mom or dad but just one where's the other why.....he/she chained up in the basement after a long struggle going slowly feral the other just couldn't part with partner and kept it in the bleak hope of it one day laying it's unknowing eyes on billy....leaving the morale choice up to you will you allow billy to see that parent knowing one day that's his future or just the fact of how dangerous it could become or take that choice away kill the feral and hope billy understands lol but hey I got dogmeat a attack dog buddy and make them stay at sanctuary out of harm's way...I may just be looking to far into it ππ
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No no! I feel you pain with that! I hated that mission so much because it was SO contrived! Any opportunity they had for emotional depth or story telling they set up in the mission, they'd immediately ignore just to create an utterly forgettable mission. Not only are we supposed believe that the boy's been in a fridge TRAPPED for 200 years with no other emotional reaction other than "hey thanks" when he get's out (without any signs of trauma for literally being imprisoned in a small space for centuries), but then he also CLEARLY remembers where he lives, BOTH his mom and dad became ghouls, remained in their old family house WHICH SOMEHOW ALSO SURVIVED, and none of them have changed at all personally so things will go back to being exactly how they were when he was not a ghoul. It has to be the hardest slap in the face to FO4 players in that hack-job of a game!! There's zero emotional depth or investment in it!! In Fallout 3, they kid would be clingy and emotionally disturbed; not wanting to be alone after his experience. We'd encounter the slaver and a band of his thugs right off the rip wanting to either pay us off, or trying to kill us to take him which he'd have to valiantly fight off. We'd go looking for his family home only to find it in ruins and as a child he wouldn't understand why it happened. He'd ask to come live with us in sadness and we could either tell him no and send him off into the Wasteland or give him an uncertain "Uh... okay but... I really don't know how to look after a kid. I'm on a very important mission so I'm not going to be around much." to which they'd reply with a sort of timid plucky optimism as you're the only person there who'd given them any time. You'd be able to send them to your house in Tenpenny Tower (sneaking them in) or sending them back to your house in Megaton where they'd do various things and explore around. In your travels either to the ghoul base outside of Tenpenny Tower with Roy Philips or in the Ghoul city near Rivet City, you'd hear ghouls mention about how they miss their lives before or bemoaning how they can't have children of their own due to ghouls being infertile, eventually giving you the option to play matchmaker and eventually send the boy to live with them, who, while nervous at first and not wanting to leave you, would ultimately be much happier when you see him later with his new family giving you a bittersweet little victory in the crushing despair of the wastelands, something you helped accomplish. And if it was Roy Philips and the Ghoul girl who likes him, maybe it might settle him down a little and force him to abandon his plans on attacking Tenpenny tower offering you an option of peaceful conflict resolution instead of having to kill him or simply leave the quest unfinished; because it would give him something more important to live for.
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Ah man. Ghouls (feral or not) are my favorite thing in Fallout. I always hate having to kill them.
I never attack them first. They're not always hostile!
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since there are sentient glowing one, it wont surprise me if there's sentient feral ghouls....
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Oh man. I know what you mean. I always feel bad when I find a dead ghoul or kill one and they've got a teddy bear in their inventory.
And looks like mom sleeps with one eye open. Not a strange practice in the Wasteland.
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You really did capture the contemplation and sadness in the ghoul's face. Makes me want to cry 
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You can tell that she's trying to go for the rifle.
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