It’s what stands out about them so much so that they’ve become a staple of the series on par with Vault-Tec and the Brotherhood of Steel. There’s no doubting that their hideous, zombie-like aesthetic is appreciated. At first glance, they’re hideous, but there’s an existential dread and a philosophical quandary that stems from their very existence that has equally as horrifying ramifications. They look like if you left your thumb in the bath for a couple of hours and it resurfaced with googly eyes and a faint slither of a mouth. “Gah, what the fuck are you?” My thoughts exactly. I remember my first time meeting one in the exposed rust bucket of a bar looking over the city of Megaton in the third game. Fallout’s ghouls are a gruesome lot, but what’s really gruesome is how little recognition the horror behind them gets.
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