Were we supposed to like Maximus? *minor Spoilers*

Fits in with what youd expect from someone in the Brotherhood tbh.

Also Im only in episode 6 but I would say it definitely comes across like we arent supposed to like him. Im still convinced he did put the blade in his friends boot.

For a second I thought you were referring to Gladiator.

Fits in with what youd expect from someone in the Brotherhood tbh.

Also Im only in episode 6 but I would say it definitely comes across like we arent supposed to like him. Im still convinced he did put the blade in his friends boot.

You are not supposed to like anybody. It's Fallout, so the entire point is that everybody is terrible and everything sucks (tvtropes://CrapSackWorld). Even the idyllic past sucks. But that's why we like it.

I like Lucy

I uh...

I guess we're not talking about Gladiator.

But she threw acid in an innocent man's face !

But she threw acid in an innocent man's face

Also, what up with him constantly being hit in the nose? Seems like every episode he's getting it busted at least once.

I do genuinely wonder if he's written to be autistic. I don't mean that in an insulting way, he's just socially stunted in a way that no one else in the Brotherhood is.

My fav character is Norm.

INT: 10
PER: 8

80 in hacking skill

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I do genuinely wonder if he's written to be autistic.

I think it's from being sheltered while in the BoS. The small part where he talks about how it gets hard and pops out white stuff like a pimple is a lack of education/miseducation, not someone having a disability. That's how I see it anyways.

I think it's from being sheltered while in the BoS. The small part where he talks about how it gets hard and pops out white stuff like a pimple is a lack of education/miseducation, not someone having a disability. That's how I see it anyways.

That might be part of it, but like a previous poster pointed out, no other character in the Brotherhood is like that. You even see a quick shot of an aspirant masturbating in his bunk.

There's also the fact that so many of his problems are self-inflicted simply because he can't explain himself properly. Why couldn't he bring himself to simply explain that a Yao Guai killed Knight Titus? It could be a mix of guilt and 'idiot-driven plot' contrivance, but I think there's some credence to the notion that he might be deliberately written as neurodivergent. When the show started I would've more easily written it off as sloppy writing, but the show got considerably better as it went on and the writers proved their chops, so it's easier now to see Maximus' dialogue choices as deliberate.

We're supposed to empathize with him. I don't like Maximus, but I understand why his character is the way he is and think the actor portraying him did a great job.

Same with The Ghoul.

No we are not. He's suppose to show us how bad the upbringing of the Brotherhood is. How at best you end up being a well intended moron while most of the time you end up being a self entitled jerk. He jumps between both on a dime.

Of the three characters the Ghoul is the most fleshed out, pun intended, because he's the one who understands the world of the wasteland the best. Lucy and Max were both sheltered and stunted in different ways.

There's also the fact that so many of his problems are self-inflicted simply because he can't explain himself properly. Why couldn't he bring himself to simply explain that a Yao Guai killed Knight Titus? It could be a mix of guilt and 'idiot-driven plot' contrivance, but I think there's some credence to the notion that he might be deliberately written as neurodivergent. When the show started I would've more easily written it off as sloppy writing, but the show got considerably better as it went on and the writers proved their chops, so it's easier now to see Maximus' dialogue choices as deliberate.