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* GutturalGrowler: Alex normally speaks like this, when he actually bothers to talk.
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Summary by the author: He had been captured; Alex Mercer knew that much was obvious. But if that was the case, why had his captors just left him there without security? How had he ended up in a bunker buried in some kind of giant desert? Where was everyone? And since when did bottlecaps become currency?
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* OddFriendship: A sentient viral superweapon, a wasteland wandering woman with a penchant for crazy plans and a snarky doctor. TheyFightCrime It doesn't get much odder than that.

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* OddFriendship: A sentient viral superweapon, a wasteland wandering woman with a penchant for crazy plans and a snarky doctor. TheyFightCrime They fight crime It doesn't get much odder than that.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: In the "Beyond the Beef" sidequest of the original game, Mortimer is still a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]], but he is polite to the Courier and he didn't really care who he ate as long as they were healthy (in fact, he's livid if he learns his intended meal is Ted Gunderson). This version of Mortimer is snotty and condescending, and he had Ted Gunderson kidnapped specifically because he wanted to dine on the wealthiest person he could.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: Downplayed. Alex, being a virus, does not do well when exposed to alcohol, [[RealityEnsues which kills viruses on contact.]] He also is not a fan of water, because even though it doesn't cause lasting harm, it apparently hurts. A lot. He also takes a great deal more pain from the Cloud than a human, Super Mutant, or ghoul would due to the fact that he doesn't technically have skin.

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* WeaksauceWeakness: Downplayed. Alex, being a virus, does not do well when exposed to alcohol, [[RealityEnsues which kills viruses on contact.]] contact. He also is not a fan of water, because even though it doesn't cause lasting harm, it apparently hurts. A lot. He also takes a great deal more pain from the Cloud than a human, Super Mutant, or ghoul would due to the fact that he doesn't technically have skin.

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* FreudianTrio: Alex Mercer, Cain, and Arcade Gannon. Alex is the Id, Arcade is the Super-Ego, Cain is the Ego.



* PowerTrio: Alex Mercer, Cain, and Arcade Gannon.
** FreudianTrio: Alex is the Id, Arcade is the Super-Ego, Cain is the Ego.
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* AbsurdlySharpClaws: These are Alex's weapon of choice. And they work marvelously.

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* AbsurdlySharpClaws: These are Alex's weapon of choice. And they work marvelously. Even more so when he incorporates Deathclaw DNA into them.
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* CurbStompBattle: Anyone or anything that goes up against Alex is already dead.

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* CurbStompBattle: Anyone or anything that goes up against Alex is already dead. The only enemy that poses a genuine threat to him is Father Elijah, and that’s because Alex has no idea where he is and the Cloud is eating away at his biomass very quickly. [[spoiler: Once Elijah actually enters the Vault, he lasts all of a few seconds.]]
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* {{Adorkable}}: Arcade, even during his snarky moments.
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* BadFuture: Laluzi crossed ''[PROTOTYPE]'' with ''Fallout'' in via this trope; TheWarOnTerror never ended, so the ongoing ultranationalist trend of military spending at the cost of domestic investment, seizure of foreign resources instead of developing alternative energy sources, dehumanization of foreigners, invasive government, and erosion of rights ''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15091477/ resulted]]'' in TheThemeParkVersion of America the player saw on newsreels, followed by a nuclear war. Alex just slept through the worst parts of it.

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* BadFuture: Laluzi crossed ''[PROTOTYPE]'' with ''Fallout'' in via this trope; TheWarOnTerror UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror never ended, so the ongoing ultranationalist trend of military spending at the cost of domestic investment, seizure of foreign resources instead of developing alternative energy sources, dehumanization of foreigners, invasive government, and erosion of rights ''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15091477/ resulted]]'' in TheThemeParkVersion of America the player saw on newsreels, followed by a nuclear war. Alex just slept through the worst parts of it.
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* BiTheWay: Cain is apparently this, as when Veronica mentioned that she wasn't into men, Cain responds with "why choose?".
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* GoodThingYouCanHeal: While Alex is obscenely tough, he's also been horrifically injured ''because'' he's so durable, taking hits for his squishier human companions. He's been shot, gotten radiation poisoning, been chewed on by a night stalker (whose venom cost him an arm), burned by a fuel-air explosion, suffered exposure to the thoroughly toxic Cloud, dueled a deathclaw, [[spoiler:and gotten cut in half by a force field]]. Aside from radiation, the most dangerous aspect of these incidents is the loss of biomass--and that's mostly because it triggers Alex's [[HorrorHunger cravings]].
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Vault 20 has no apparent social experiment, and urges the suicidal to seek help. Still, it's heavily implied that the people are being raised as chattel for Alex, and needs as many lives as possible.

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** Well Alex, you wished numerous times that [[MotorMouth Cain]] would stop talking so much. [[spoiler:After a harsh round of BreakTheCutie that concerns and pisses you off to no end, she has. Now you ''want'' her to go back to normal.]]

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** Well Alex, you wished numerous times that [[MotorMouth Cain]] would stop talking so much. [[spoiler:After After a harsh round of BreakTheCutie that concerns and pisses you off to no end, she has. Now you ''want'' her to go back to normal.]]



* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Being trapped in the Sierra Madre]] is not good on poor Cain. [[spoiler:In the span of a few hours, she goes through so much emotional, physical, and psychological torment that she's become a withdrawn, twitchy, and quiet version of herself when Alex finds her.]]
* BrokenBird: Much of Cain's past is still left in the shadows, but [[spoiler:her sheer surprise that Alex came back for her, as well as dwelling on how no one else has done that before, says a lot. And that's not taking into account the CommitmentIssues and [[ThatManIsDead name change]].]]

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* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Being Being trapped in the Sierra Madre]] Madre is not good on poor Cain. [[spoiler:In Cain.In the span of a few hours, she goes through so much emotional, physical, and psychological torment that she's become a withdrawn, twitchy, and quiet version of herself when Alex finds her.]]
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* BrokenBird: Much of Cain's past is still left in the shadows, but [[spoiler:her her sheer surprise that Alex came back for her, as well as dwelling on how no one else has done that before, says a lot. And that's not taking into account the CommitmentIssues and [[ThatManIsDead name change]].]]



* CommitmentIssues: Chapter 35 reveals Cain has these, both in terms of friendship and romance. [[spoiler:While she's happy and touched Alex came looking for her, it also scares her. He came because he cared, and she's realized she cares, and that's something she can't get rid of if she needs to.]]

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* CommitmentIssues: Chapter 35 reveals Cain has these, both in terms of friendship and romance. [[spoiler:While While she's happy and touched Alex came looking for her, it also scares her. He came because he cared, and she's realized she cares, and that's something she can't get rid of if she needs to.]]



* TheDreaded: Vulpes Inculta is one of Caesar's best men, and definitely his most insidious. While others are more overt in dealing with obstacles, Vulpes is so subtle that most don't realize they've been had until it's too late.

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* TheDreaded: TheDreaded:
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Vulpes Inculta is one of Caesar's best men, and definitely his most insidious. While others are more overt in dealing with obstacles, Vulpes is so subtle that most don't realize they've been had until it's too late.



* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Elijah slices Alex in half with a well-timed force field in Chapter 42. Sadly for Elijah, even in Alex's weakened state, that's not enough to kill him, though it certainly gives Cain a moment of panic.]]



** [[spoiler:God and Dean Domino, to Cain's frustration. One introduces himself by insulting her, the other by sitting her on a landmine and being a general sleaze. It actually makes her think that Alex is a gentleman in comparison.]]

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** [[spoiler:God God and Dean Domino, to Cain's frustration. One introduces himself by insulting her, the other by sitting her on a landmine and being a general sleaze. It actually makes her think that Alex is a gentleman in comparison.]]



-->'''Alex:''' I thought I told you to stay put.\\

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-->'''Alex:''' --->'''Alex:''' I thought I told you to stay put.\\



** [[spoiler:Later, eating a Ghost Person results in much the same kind of decision, because the gas-mask freaks are loaded to the brim with Cloud. Between losing so much mass initially and having still more burned off by the Sierra Madre's nigh-omnipresent laser security holograms, Alex's hunger starts rapidly slipping out of his control.]]

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** [[spoiler:Later, eating Later, [[spoiler:eating a Ghost Person results in much the same kind of decision, because the gas-mask freaks are loaded to the brim with Cloud. Between losing so much mass initially and having still more burned off by the Sierra Madre's nigh-omnipresent laser security holograms, Alex's hunger starts rapidly slipping out of his control.]]



* NoodleIncident: Several incidents from Cain's past are mentioned in passing, often humorously.

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* NoodleIncident: NoodleIncident:
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Several incidents from Cain's past are mentioned in passing, often humorously.



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Alex starts to get hungry, his standoffishness and curt demeanor are amplified because his HorrorHunger insists that his human companions are food. He tries to keep them away from him for both their sakes, but notes that it stops being controllable the worse it gets. His companions, at first, think he's just being more of an asshole until he shoves Cain away hard enough to leave a handprint.
** [[spoiler:Cain's nerves are shot to hell during the events of the Dead Money DLC, resulting in her losing most of her confident trickster persona as the stress of trying to survive in the hostile-to-all-life Sierra Madre gets to her. Alex immediately notices the shift in Cain's behavior when he arrives, starting with her being actually ''openly glad to see him''.]]
** [[spoiler:After experiencing the Sierra Madre's hazards for himself, including a ''very'' unsuccessful attempt to eat a Ghost Person and running into FEV's incompatibility with Blacklight (via testing Nightkin blood), Alex's hunger is amplified past the point of tolerance, and ''everyone'' has very good reason to be wary of him. Cain has to go so far as to talk Christine out of confronting Elijah in the hopes that Alex can finally get someone to eat. Which, it must be noted, was not something she would have contemplated (except regarding [[KarmicDeath Mortimer]]) before this adventure kicked off.]]
* OutOfGenreExperience: [[spoiler:Cain and Alex get sent to take out Elijah, kicking off the events of Dead Money in a different fashion than the canon game has. For Cain, things have suddenly switched from the future Western she's used to, to a survival horror film. Things get a little better when Alex shows up.]]

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
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When Alex starts to get hungry, his standoffishness and curt demeanor are amplified because his HorrorHunger insists that his human companions are food. He tries to keep them away from him for both their sakes, but notes that it stops being controllable the worse it gets. His companions, at first, think he's just being more of an asshole until he shoves Cain away hard enough to leave a handprint.
** [[spoiler:Cain's Cain's nerves are shot to hell during the events of the Dead Money DLC, resulting in her losing most of her confident trickster persona as the stress of trying to survive in the hostile-to-all-life Sierra Madre gets to her. Alex immediately notices the shift in Cain's behavior when he arrives, starting with her being actually ''openly glad to see him''.]]
** [[spoiler:After After experiencing the Sierra Madre's hazards for himself, including a [[spoiler:a ''very'' unsuccessful attempt to eat a Ghost Person and running into FEV's incompatibility with Blacklight (via testing Nightkin blood), Alex's hunger is amplified past the point of tolerance, and ''everyone'' has very good reason to be wary of him. Cain has to go so far as to talk Christine out of confronting Elijah in the hopes that Alex can finally get someone to eat. Which, it must be noted, was not something she would have contemplated (except regarding [[KarmicDeath Mortimer]]) before this adventure kicked off.]]
* OutOfGenreExperience: [[spoiler:Cain Cain and Alex get sent to take out Elijah, kicking off the events of Dead Money in a different fashion than the canon game has. For Cain, things have suddenly switched from the future Western she's used to, to a survival horror film. Things get a little better when Alex shows up.]]



* PercussivePickpocket: Cain steals a key from Cachino this way.



* PsychoForHire: While he's technically not getting paid, Alex is still recruited by Cain to provide some extra muscle, and boy does he fulfill his role.
** [[spoiler: Clanden, a bombmaker for the Omertas, is a serial killer who gratifies himself by torturing women to death. Said women are the employees of the Omertas, and count as his ''payment''.]]

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* PsychoForHire: PsychoForHire:
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While he's technically not getting paid, Alex is still recruited by Cain to provide some extra muscle, and boy does he fulfill his role.
** [[spoiler: Clanden, a bombmaker for the Omertas, is a serial killer who gratifies himself by torturing women to death. Said women are the employees of the Omertas, and count as his ''payment''.]]



* SanitySlippage: A pretty terrifying version. [[spoiler:The toll the Sierra Madre and the Cloud take on Alex slowly drive him mad with hunger, and because he's one of the narrators, we're treated to a first-person view of it. By the time he actually gets to eat Elijah, he's little more than an incoherent mess clinging to the thoughts "don't kill Cain" and "just a little longer".]]



** PercussivePickpocket: [[spoiler:Cain steals a key from Cachino this way.]]



* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Cain's FatalFlaw. ''She'' needs to be the one to beat Benny, and twice over, puts herself at needless risk to do so. In the Sierra Madre arc, even after [[spoiler:almost dying and]] being badly wounded, she refuses to wait for Alex because she can't stand the thought of someone else getting to Elijah before she does.

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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Cain's FatalFlaw. ''She'' needs to be the one to beat Benny, and twice over, puts herself at needless risk to do so. In the Sierra Madre arc, even after [[spoiler:almost dying and]] being badly wounded, she refuses to wait for Alex because she can't stand the thought of someone else getting to Elijah before she does. [[spoiler:In fact, this what she needs to "let go", and she does when she realizes she's not even disappointed Alex got to kill and eat Elijah, because it's not important--what ''is'', is that her friend is alive.]]



** [[spoiler:In Chapter 38, Veronica has to flee the Brotherhood forever after two of its members get fed up with her rule-breaking and try to kill her.]]

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** [[spoiler:In In Chapter 38, Veronica [[spoiler:Veronica has to flee the Brotherhood forever after two of its members get fed up with her rule-breaking and try to kill her.]]
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** Alex and Cain have [[PsychoForHire clashing]] [[TheCharmer personalities]], which makes them squabble a lot, but over the course of the fic they come to care for each other.

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** Alex and Cain have [[PsychoForHire [[NoSocialSkills clashing]] [[TheCharmer personalities]], which makes them squabble a lot, but over the course of the fic they come to care for each other.

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