Am I doing the right thing?
                                                                  I just don’t know.

[most information taken from wiki
 Further rp expanded information concerning Arcade and/or his past can be found
 here, here, here, and  here.]

Name; Arcade Israel Gannon
Age: 35
Gender; Male
Faction; Followers of the Apocalypse [currently]
                 Courier [verse dependent]
                 Legion; slave [verse dependent]
                 Enclave [formerly, by birth]

base SPECIAL;
6 ST, 6 PE, 4 EN, 6 CH, 10 IN, 6 AG, 4 LK

Arcade Gannon is the son of an Enclave officer, born in Navarro in 2246, four years after the destruction of the Poseidon Oil Rig. His father died while Arcade was still an infant, killed in combat on an away mission. To this day, the specifics of his father’s death are unknown to him. As he grew up, he bonded closely with his mother and his de facto family, the Enclave remnants, a group that had formerly served in the same unit as his father. In the wake of the NCR’s capture of Navarro, the group fled the area and attempted to integrate into civilian life, but this was short-lived. Between the Republic and the Brotherhood of Steel, both launching aggressive campaigns to track down all personnel that hadn’t already been killed or detained during the siege, the Remnants were forced to retreat further into the eastern territories.

They eventually settled in the Mojave Wasteland and started new lives, their past associations kept secret for fear of further reprisals and persecution. Gannon joined the Followers of the Apocalypse to find a peaceful application for his skills in medicine and began working in Freeside. Though he’s attempted to put the past behind him, he continues to dwell on the shared experiences of his family and his father’s old unit, hoping that some day he can repay the Remnants for their unwavering loyalty to both him and his mother. Arcade trained as a doctor with the Followers in the NCR. He prefers research to healing because he’s “not good with people.” In his spare time he enjoys reading “pre-War books about failed socioeconomic theories.” Gannon speaks fluent Latin, although he is quick to assure the Courier that it was not a skill he picked up from Caesar’s Legion, whom he detests.

Arcade is highly intelligent, personable, and quick-witted. He sports a strong self-deprecating sense of humor, which he frequently uses to deflect questions of a personal nature. However, a Courier with the Confirmed Bachelor perk can flirt with him to discover that he’s attracted to men.

He shares the idealism of the Followers, but he also tries to be more pragmatic than some of his colleagues. He understands the post-apocalyptic world is one in which, sometimes, people just have to be shot in the head.

He has a deep-seated desire to affect society on a broad spectrum, but he is only too familiar with what can happen when ideals become more important than the needs of individuals. This has led him to take a more balanced approach to the troubles of the post-war landscape, taking up the Followers’ cause to help those around him achieve independence, assisting in the effort to make the less fortunate communities become more self-reliant. Though he may concede that the NCR’s motives are in some ways similar, it’s likely that he sees their ‘clean up’ efforts as distressingly corollary to what he offhandedly describes as the ‘fascist’ tactics of the Enclave.

Despite doing a great deal of good for people in Freeside, he still worries about whether or not the path he’s taken is one his father could be proud of.

Arcade’s conflict is about his identity. He is torn between a sense of loyalty and tradition to his father and adoptive family and a desire to be independent, self-made. He feels caught between generations and cultures and isn’t sure who he should be or how, if at all, to use the “legacy” (material and otherwise) left to him by his father.

Arcade’s endings are intended to reflect that no one is damaged more by reality than the idealist. He does his best to be practical and rational, but there is a strong idealist streak in him/the Followers in general. In some of Arcade’s “best” endings (meaning, the circumstances he thought he wanted), he is still somewhat disappointed by how things turned out. In his “worst” endings, he can wind up bitterly disillusioned, brutally murdered, crucified, casually executed and discarded in a ditch, or even defiantly suicidal.

Arguably the worst ending is the one in which Arcade is given to Caesar as an enslaved doctor. The existence is so unbearable to him that he does what the historical Cato the Younger did at Utica: rather than give Caesar satisfaction, he disembowels himself. Like Cato, Arcade cannot live in a world where everything he tried to resist has come to pass.

About

Selective and mutual only roleplay blog for Fallout: New Vegas canon character Arcade Gannon. Any other timelines can, and will, be played on here but requires prior discussion and plotting between muns.

Blog established Feb 28, 2013.
Rules updated January 19, 2017.

General

✘ Prefacing that this blog is solely run off of a queue. My health is exceedingly poor and I cannot viably keep up with tumblr on a basis otherwise, as some days with the disease are much worse than others. If this bothers you this is probably not the blog for you to follow.
✘ Secondly mentioning that I am quite frequently on mobile and have been hit on and off with probably 90% of the bugs that its broken arse has caused. This is including but not limited to: random follows, random unfollows, posts deleted, devoured asks/messages and more. I apologize for any inconvenience this causes, and fix things whenever I make it off mobile.
✘ Selective. I will only accept threads from mutuals currently. Asks can come from anyone, and anon is permanently off. I generally do not do crack threads.
✘ No tolerance policy for hate, anon or otherwise. Please take your passive-aggressive bullshit along with you and don’t let the metaphorical door hit you on the way out, thank you. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
✘ English is not my first language. I will do my best when it comes to things but typos and grammar mistakes are very likely to happen. Please forgive them when they do; I don’t mind when they’re pointed out politely to me so I can fix them!
✘ No godmoding. No metagaming. No powerplaying in fights. Please follow at the very least basic roleplay etiquette.
✘ Crossover, AU, and OC friendly!
✘ I will immediately unfollow for pedophilia and bestiality, tagged or otherwise.

Triggers

Triggers are tagged as ‘trigger’ tw.
I tag the following triggers: blood, gore, graphic violence, torture, mental torture, dubcon/noncon/rape [ unlikely to ever appear anyway beyond mention ], abuse, mental abuse, child abuse, child neglect, animal abuse, animal death, cannibalism, body horror, teeth, eye horror, pregnancy, medical, needles, alcohol.
I ask for the following triggers to please be tagged if we’re mutuals: bats, maggots

Due to the graphic nature of Fallout please keep in mind this is a mature themed blog. I will do what I can to make my followers comfortable but I am only one person.

Shipping

Exceedingly selective exclusive fewship.

“Well Lloyd, what does that mean?”
Selective means that I’m just that - selective when it comes to ships. While I enjoy ships just like most other people Arcade is canonly difficult to get to open up and trust, and I wholly prefer chemistry and things to develop icly.
Exclusive means I will only ship with one of a character, especially when it comes to other canon characters. I absolutely do expect this courtesy in return.
Fewship means there will likely never be more than a handful of active ships on this blog at any point in time. While some people make it work with many more than that - and hey, more the power to you! - I personally prefer a few I’m able to focus on and work with developing.

That said shipping is 10000% NOT a priority on this blog. Smut can happen but it’s rather unlikely to happen as I’m not wholly comfortable rping such a thing on a platform where minors can witness it. If it does happen it will be tagged appropriately [ nsfw, nsfw- ] and placed beneath a readmore.

I apologize if it’s seen as not fair but I will neither ship nor rp any sexual situations with minors. Here, that’s anyone beneath the age of eighteen. You will be immediately unfollowed and blocked from complete contact if I catch you lying concerning this to me for shipping purposes.

Arcade is canonly homosexual and I refuse to erase this.

Art

PSA link can be found here.

IF you** have received art of an original character from me and have wronged me in some way, or if you have received art of an original character and it was under false pretenses, if we come to a point where we are not in contact because of it you are not permitted to use the art in any way, shape, or form. I will not use it myself; it will be as if the art does not exist. If you use it you will have a DMCA takedown notice filed against you.

IF you have received art of a canon character from me and have wronged me in some way, or if you have received art of a canon character and it was under false pretenses, if we come to a point where we are not in contact because of it you are not permitted to use the art in any way, shape, or form. However as it is of a canon character you have no hold or ownership over it, and I will permit people to use it on a case by case basis. Never take, always ask. If you use it you will have a DMCA takedown notice filed against you.

There is an addition that if you are on my ignore list or blocked in any way, shape, or form you are not permitted to reblog or use any art I have purchased by any means. Show a little dignity, courtesy, and respect. You will be shown it in return.

   * I have had numerous people try to befriend me to obtain art from me. This will no longer be tolerated.
   ** General you is used throughout this entire section.

TLDR; If we have problems with one another do not take and/or use any art I have purchased, whether it is art for you or otherwise.

Any of the art I have commissioned for my own use on this blog is not free use. If you are interested in using it for your own purpose please contact both me and the artist - you need both of our permissions for it to be allowed. Other rp blogs are not permitted to use any of this art at all.

Giveaways

I frequently hold giveaways on this blog for art and video games, whether they are because of a holiday, milestone, and just flash because I felt like it. These are only open and available for followers at the given time they are posted, with some limited exceptions, and because of people abusing it in the past I do track to make certain to avoid people winning the giveaway and unfollowing after they’ve received their prize.

Giveaway blogs are never permitted.

Mun

Hello yes hello there! My name is Lloyd and thank you so much for finally reaching this point! There’s no secret password or anything for you to send in, but I sincerely appreciate you reaching this point in the rules!

A little about me: I’m a massive dork and the fandom’s resident potato, and probably considerably older than most would likely expect [ eighteen was well over ten years ago for me, just to give an idea ]. Aside from the physical disease that makes day to day life miserable I also suffer from BPD, major depressive disorder, and severe anxiety so I apologize if some days I’m a little more standoffish than normal and don’t reply to ooc things swiftly! It’s not you, I promise! I am married and have three wonderful daughters - because of this and my illness tumblr rp is honestly a[n albeit well loved ] hobby, and is not a priority to me.

Not straight and not cis.

I have battlenet, skype, and steam and am absolutely happy to share should you give me a poke for them! I’m sorry for not posting them publicly, but this is to avoid people who would abuse them from getting their hands on them.

[ Also if you play Overwatch on pc hmu we should totally game together sometime! ]

Aside from this blog my other most active blogs are Aerius, Hal, and Manny Vargas! You can also find me at my personal nevergonnatakeme! I also have [ currently inactive ] rp blogs within the Resident Evil and Mad Max fandoms.

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