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But as much as I've love to see Mona find someone to dance with again, I can't think of anyone who could have influenced Mona to get on top of the bar and start dancing in front of all those people - I remember back in the old days when Mona felt awkward about hugs. Rose really brought her out of her shell in a way that I'm not sure many people [if anyone] could.
...and of course there's bubbles coming up, though most of it was shot before I had bubble technology, it's definitely taken advantage of towards the end.
Good memories... I wonder what Mona's mom used to turn an Enclave research facility into a smoldering crater, it sounds awesome.
Congratulations on being all caught up again!
Wow - that was intense. Very vivid - but also poetic. A difficult act of balance but you manage it very well here. Went straight to my heart. Framing the show inbetween her mother's recordings puts it all in perpective. Heading out to the supporters.
Of course it didn't last, but Fallout is a cruel, unforgiving world that dispenses joy grudgingly. I'm still wondering if Mona expects to survive, or if she's just waiting for the divide to consume her.
Rose knows she has a congenital heart defect and wakes up every morning wondering if it will be her last. That tends to suppress or outright bypass the reservations that hamper ordinary folks. She believes that passing on the opportunity to do something means she may never do it and one of her secret fears is missing out on what life has to offer. When life put Ramona in front of her she grabbed hold of her with both hands because she knew she'd never meet anyone like her again and didn't want to spend the rest of her life, however long that may be, wondering what could have been.
Ramona is almost at the other end of the spectrum; she starts the New Vegas story at 25 years old and has literally really just begun to live. She has the body of an adult [at the beginning of its sexual peak, no less!] and the emotional maturity of a child; Rose is the grownup taking her through the candy store for the first time and making sure they try everything twice.
Mona really has no idea what to expect from life. She's beginning to feel more and more like a tool or implement whose purpose is self defeating. I'm wondering if I wasn't more influenced by the end of the movie Blade Runner than I realized. At any rate, she's willed herself to die and failed in making it happen. She doesn't think about "survival" as much as accomplishing each progressive objective she sets for herself. The real question is what happens to her when she runs out of objectives?
Brilliant.