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Or perhaps they see a senile old ghoul and tell them to continue living in their fantasy. Something that would link him to the founding father. The player now has a choice, do they tell Hancock to move on? Acknowledge they’re not the person they thought they were?I played with the idea of hancock actually being a museum worker or a reenactor in his preghoul life. It can come to a conclusion with visiting Hancock’s grave, actually located in Boston. The player can then travel with Hancock to different historical sites and museums, showing him more and more about the actual John Hancock. He can’t help but notice he’s seeing all these mentions of his friends and fellow statesmen in the past tense, as if they’re gone. He’s been seeing so much more of the city outside of goodneighbor. After traveling with the Sole Survivor and building up the friendship meter, John Hancock confides in them. So what about Hancock’s arc? Well, now that we’ve actually given him a decent background and character, we can play more with his future. Qualities fallout 4′s writing severely lacked. All the while he loudly cheers the player for using weapons like the laser musket, wearing tricorn hats, and seeing americana and patriotic decorations. Aiding farmers and commoners, even moreso if it’s for charity. Hancock likes when the player supports revolutionary ideals Standing against authoritarian regimes in pursuit of what’s right.
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Now, let’s move on to Hancock’s behavior as a companion. He wants everyone to seek their own life, liberty, and happiness. Sure, he acts a little weird but he’s actually a really great leader just like he is now in-game, my hancock believes in a government of the people by the people. Asking around town reveals that that’s Hancock, Goodneighbor’s mayor. In strides a ghoul wearing a fine revolutionary coat and uniform, proud and boisterous. “HOLD NOW GOOD SIR, We need not antagonize visitors to our fair neighborhood!” Things look like they’re about to escalate, but the player hears from off screen: The player walks into goodneighbor and is bullied by the same tough guy at the entrance. What if Hancock genuinely believed he was the real deal? As a ghoul gets older, they get more and more prone to becoming feral, and at the very least become forgetful, unfocused, and a bit loopy in the noggin. Unfortunately, it doesn’t mean their minds are perfect. Hancock is a pre-war ghoul who thinks he’s the actual Statesman John Hancock So what would I do to fix Hancock? It’s really simple. There is no reasoning or explanation for this character’s existence. So, again, Hancock just put on John Hancock’s clothes and decided to call himself Hancock. I smashed the case, put them on, and started a new life. I might’ve still been high, but those clothes spoke to me, told me what I needed to do. Right in front of the clothes of John Hancock. “When I finally came to, I was on the floor of the Old State House. Okay, so why does he dress the way he does? But aside from that, Hancock is a ghoul for seemingly no reason besides there wasn’t a ghoul companion. So let’s just gloss over that there was a radiation drug (does it cure rads? Does it infuse the user with a ton of rads? Why?) that this guy just… found (where?) and somehow made him a ghoul instead of killing him. Yeah, I’m living with the side effects, but hey, what’s not to love about immortality?” Only one of its kind left, and only one hit. “Finally found this experimental radiation drug. When asked when he became a ghoul, he gives a very odd background
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He heavily uses drugs and leaves his position because he’s bored. His introduction is stabbing a man in the stomach for being rude. Hancock is the ghoul mayor of the rough and tumble town of Goodneighbor. So, I’ve been thinking about how I, a goon with no writing experience, would fix John Hancock.įirst, let’s look at Hancock as he is now. I just think he’s a very bland character without a ton of depth. I like the idea of a super laissez faire “fuck it life is short” character. And I will say this, I don’t HATE the character of Hancock as he is now. I want to be his pal.īut then we got to meet Hancock in Fallout 4. When Fallout 4 was first teased at Bethesda’s E3 conference, a lot of people immediately noticed and latched on to a piece of concept art of a ghoul in a revolutionary war outfitĪnd with good reason. I’ve jotted down my thoughts on “fixing” the writing of characters like Strong and Preston Garvey in Fallout 4, but I think the character with the most wasted potential is everyone’s favorite drug loving ghoul, Hancock.