rad-roche

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Unmade Man

A Fallout 4 duology—written in the style of a 40s detective noir!

1. Dead Man Talking

There are three Nick Valentines; the brilliant detective, the fractured snapshot of a grieving man and the aging Synth in Diamond City. But when a prewar woman with an impossible case demands his help, Nick is forced to confront everything he’s borrowed and everything he owes.

In the Commonwealth, a debt is one hell of a thing to forgive.

“The Institute, for whatever reason, put Nick Valentine in here. Then I wake up in a garbage dump and head out into the world. I go from odd job to odd job and finally end up playing detective. You shut your coffee maker off for a hundred years. When you turn it on, it goes back to making coffee. You want to know how I’m sure there aren’t a hundred Valentines? We’d all set up agencies.”

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2. Dead Woman Walking

Two years after throwing in with the prewar hothead with an axe to grind, Nick Valentine works another routine missing persons—an overbearing father, a resigned mother and a daughter who just can’t take it anymore. Dime a dozen; up until she declares herself a synth, hops on a boat and flees three hundred miles north to Far Harbor, where Fog lays thick and hopes run slim. But between the dogged harbormen, the radioactive death cult, the machine claiming to be his brother, and his own hard-headed partner, something has to give.

It took five hundred million years to make Acadia. The sign was a landmark, a dull green figure with gold etching. Gloria caught her breath and Longfellow fiddled with his gun. They’d leave soon, but Nick had time to kill. And Nick had to make way for the… He squinted. Three million visitors per year. The sound he made got Gloria’s attention. She read the sign, mouthing as she went. She made about the same sound. Five hundred million. Half a billion. Numbers shouldn’t go that high. A figure like that gets full of itself. The arrow on the sign pointed forward, reminding him to pay the fee. Just ahead was one of the most beautiful locations in all of North America. It was an incredible place not to see a lick of. Longfellow beckoned them after the radstag moved on. Nick took one last look at the faded landscapes on the sign and committed them to memory. Five hundred million years to make Acadia. Two hours to fuck it up forever.

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#Fallout #Fallout 4 #Nick Valentine #Sole Survivor #Gloria Roche #Nick Valentine/Gloria Roche #content warnings in links #both are rated E and for very good reason #rochedotpng #dead man talking #dead woman walking

oh yeah, here's something i do to make drawing faces easier! especially for something that has to be quick, like a comic panel

initial thumbnail. what goes where, very rough. i have a very, very hard time placing features well on close-ups like these.... so i don't! i sketch the whole head, very small, then size it up and draw over that

easy guidelines!

#text post #the answer is of course to do more head studies but. look. sometimes the panel just needs to be done #nick valentine #fo4 #fallout 4 #long time coming #for those of you keeping track at home he's currently in 'bargaining'

watched treasure of sierra madre yesterday also. fantastic movie but i totally forgot howard does that fuckin prospector jig. we cheered like we were watching football

#text post #crazy humphrey bogart gets decapitated in that movie

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Born Natural

she tries to get him to crack on the job and it works maybe 1/20 times

#fallout 4 #nick valentine #fo4 #dead man talking #dead woman walking #gloria roche #fallout #self-reblog #he's not immune to skeleton sex joke

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here's some fun character design trivia about gloria. she, like nick, has some pretty prominent, exaggerated cheekbones, but their shape isn't as extreme since she's still young (29). you can't really see them on her right side...

but her scarred side has it, where the skin has been pulled really, really tight by her burn. that portion of her face gets the same exaggeration nick's does, that long line to show the curving plane of her cheekbone

he is literally her other half

#text post #fallout 4 #nick valentine #fo4 #dead man talking #dead woman walking #gloria roche #it's been one of those days........... pass the noir!!!!#glorentine #self-reblog

watching pluto with the gang is all well and good up until i start crying so hard i can't see at the slightest provocation because i know what's about to happen and they don't

#text post #row of stone faced people and me fully inconsolable looking at a static png of gesicht

Anonymous asked:

Re: your super wrinkle doodles

Do you make Nick and Gloria faces while you draw them? Like do you catch yourself peering like a jaded robot detective?

not usually! i've heard pulling faces is a pretty common practice, but i don't do it so much as i draw. what i will do is, if i'm having trouble with an expression, is get up and do the face in the mirror, then try and recall it as i draw. lots of minutes spent looking at myself and going >:/ and :{| and even >:O

#text post #i think because i draw around people a lot and don't necessarily want the attention that comes from being in a cafe or the like #and pulling a face like my fiancée has just died #some people take pictures of their faces as reference which works great but i don't want to be too beholden to it #i want it to look like how it feels. does that make sense

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all my thumbnails are very quick and scribbly up until there's a nick closeup and the years of wrinkle training kick in and this happens

goal of this is to make the audience, say it if you know it, 'cry so hard they throw up' (children jubilantly cheering)

#text post #self-reblog #the baseball bat to the sternum school of art #long time coming #fo4 #fallout 4 #nick valentine

all my thumbnails are very quick and scribbly up until there's a nick closeup and the years of wrinkle training kick in and this happens

#text post #fallout 4 #nick valentine #fo4 #long time coming #next update will be 5 pages! part 4 is the winter confrontation #i think this'll have 6/7 parts. we'll see

when it's done (or close to done) i'm gonna start crossposting long time coming to comicsfury. i need to get an account going anyways and a true archive that isn't a socmed site is never a bad idea

#text post #dunno how webtoon or tapas or the like do with fan comics but i don't think they'd care for the upcoming violence #they certainly won't care for biomasse

now that my Lore has dropped i can publicly lament this. codsworth has neither gloria nor irene in his name list. two times i went in and twice i was disappointed. codsworth do we have a problem

#codsworth do we have beef #text post #with mine i was curious so i was like okay fine whatever. with gloria i was like oh come ON that's not an out there name!#watch morag be the one that lands

very very funny i've been at this comic for months and we still have not seen eddie winter. this is the preamble. long time coming. yeah it sure is

#text post #fo4 #fallout 4 #long time coming #time to engage in one of the lengthiest and most difficult storytelling mediums. how long could that take like five minutes #yet we ball

i'm doomed to love any character with a strange, non-standard head situation. you know this i know this. i got atlas karst

VITAL and NECESSARY stat check

damn atlas........ got the cake of the world on those boulders

#text post #warframe #i love my huge ugly boy #the new patch has made him beyond broken. like. things two rooms away are dying #which is normal for warframe but not normal for atlas!#i got temple also but they need their own pictures. i'm just luxuriating in my boy

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Anonymous asked:

sorry if this has been asked before but i was curious if something like ghoulification was ever in the cards for gloria? its been a little bit since ive reread dmt and dww so i apologize if it was mentioned there and i forgot

rad-roche answered:

oh don't apologise at all! i figured no, the story only works if gloria is at a real risk of dying. turning into a ghoul kind of takes the sting out of 'the ambient radiation in the air is a death sentence'. just in universe, though it never came up, my thought on how ghouls work is it's a genetic thing: it's something you either have capacity to do or you don't. with all that said, a few years back i did do a little ghoul design for her for fun! it's really old and outdated, so i took another stab at it

her hair is clinging on for dear life but she's not giving it up

bonus:

#text post #fallout 4 #nick valentine #fo4 #fallout #gloria roche #sole survivor #ghoulia #glorentine #dead man talking #dead woman walking #she is the woman of all time to me #self-reblog

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Confined to the post-death state of the Gutter, Gabriel Hartnett is stuck eking out a living in its run-off, a killer for hire in a job he loathes. Unable to remember his life, his face, or even his real name, Gabby bounces from gig to gig until he stumbles across somebody else’s murder. Faced with the criminal underworld, a jilted ex-girlfriend, an increasingly monstrous body, and a parade of investors eager to sell him chunk by screaming chunk, Gabby is made to confront what he is and what he ought to be. Conditions are bad, and they're getting worse. The only way out is through him.

BIOMASSE is a neo-noir black comedy, and work in progress. Please stay tuned for updates!

new pinned for my comic! it's still in the planning stages, but come check it out

#BIOMASSE #gabriel hartnett #gabby hartnett #morven gall #self-reblog #cans oot for murder

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Confined to the post-death state of the Gutter, Gabriel Hartnett is stuck eking out a living in its run-off, a killer for hire in a job he loathes. Unable to remember his life, his face, or even his real name, Gabby bounces from gig to gig until he stumbles across somebody else’s murder. Faced with the criminal underworld, a jilted ex-girlfriend, an increasingly monstrous body, and a parade of investors eager to sell him chunk by screaming chunk, Gabby is made to confront what he is and what he ought to be. Conditions are bad, and they're getting worse. The only way out is through him.

BIOMASSE is a neo-noir black comedy, and work in progress. Please stay tuned for updates!

new pinned for my comic! it's still in the planning stages, but come check it out

#BIOMASSE #gabriel hartnett #gabby hartnett #morven gall #rochedotpng #told you i'd use my name! rad-roche patch note #the goth he fumbled by 'having morals'. this kills him. this KILLS him

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i know most of you don't play warframe but you're my captive audience. you're locked in here with me etc. anyway the newest big update just dropped which comes with brand new ephemeras, which are cosmetics you apply on top of your frame. cool effects, auras. now which one you get of the new batch is a dice roll tied when your boss spawns. anyways somebody passed me by with the brand spanking new grotesque ass worm ephemera and i was so startled i dry heaved. i've only seen one person use it

i NEEEEEEEED this fucking thing

everybody i have truly incredible news. sit down. sit down with me

i have worms!

#text post #warframe #body horror cw #self-reblog #i'm having worms!#the chance of this happening statistically is pretty small!! yaayyyyy

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