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Rose MacLean made it out of Shady Sands alive, and is working with Moldaver to get her cold fusion research back. When a certain ghoul comes searching for his family, they offer him a trade: Rose's family for his.
Or: The one where Cooper is the breeder from Vault 32, and Lucy takes her marriage vows very seriously.
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16 Jan 2026
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Lucy had grown up dreaming about Cooper Howard.
She hadn’t thought it unusual. His movies made up the soundtrack to her life. The scenes playing out in black and white. Sheriff. Gunslinger. Detective. They had watched them all, time and again.
And at night, those images bloom into color.
She’s not sure why. How her mind can piece things together. Little snippets that feel real, flickering in the swirl of ordinary dreams. | soulmate!au
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22 Dec 2025
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The one where the Creature enters Elizabeth's room on the wedding night first, instead of Victor's.
“Take me with you,” Elizabeth pleaded. There was a growing commotion approaching, even as her maid fled the room. “Don’t leave me.”
Don’t leave me behind, she thought. Not here, not with the hollow men and sycophants who surrounded her. Elizabeth had prayed for a sign all that time ago whether she was making the right choice, and here he was in front of her, looking as though he couldn’t believe she was real.
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12 Nov 2025
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It’s tradition in Alina's little part of the world for girls her age to have their first sexual experience with someone chosen by their parents.
Or: sun, flowers, a scraped knee, an ice lolly and the scratch of a beard.
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25 Jul 2025
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“When I first met you, you were…intimidating, to say the least. But I liked the way you smiled at me,” she admit like she was shy, her doe–eyes trained on the dirt floor.
“You like my yellow–ass teeth?” he bared his teeth in a mocking smile as wide as he could, deciding it’d be funny watching her try to come up with something nice to say.
“I like your yellow–ass teeth!” She echoed unflinchingly with a small smile and eyes glittering, befitting some kind of cartoon princess. Like Snow–fuckin’–White.
“Huh. Will wonders ever cease,” he huffed in amusement. “What else you like, princess?”
Five things the Ghoul doesn't understand about Lucy Maclean, and one thing he does for certain.
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28 Jun 2025
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—“You’re giving up your pretty ‘future of America’ for a monst—”
—She grasped him at the back of the neck, nails biting in with warning. “We’re in the new world, and this is how I want to walk in it. With you.”
—In the growing heat, with the rads churning around them and through Lucy’s blood, Cooper bent to the imagined taste of chems on her tongue.
After all is said and done with their families and with Vault-Tec, Lucy chooses to ghoulify herself to be with Cooper. For 40 years, they work their way through the wasteland, as civilization blooms again. A job gone wrong lands them in an abandoned vault with no escape. As their vials run out and they skid toward feral, Lucy, ever determined, won’t take the last one.
A vault was the refuge Cooper was denied, and a vault was where Lucy was to spend her entire life. They chose the surface together, but this vault will be their mausoleum—a last choice made hand-in-hand.
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23 Nov 2024
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"The world is, and always has been, all piranhas and vipers." He lets Dom Pedro do it. Underground is where a corpse belongs.
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23 Nov 2024
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Cooper is doing his best to adjust to life on the road with Lucy MacLean tagging along when they run into a little trouble in a bar.
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- Part 4 of Ghoulcy Bingo
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23 Nov 2024
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He wonders if she can still see color, or if her world faded back to black and white once he became… this. Course then again, he don’t really want to know. He ain’t sure which of the answers available would be worse.
“What's so funny?”
“Ain’t nothin’ funny no more, sweetheart.”
Other than soulmates. That shits fuckin’ hilarious. So damn funny he could just about shoot himself.
If Lucy’s world ain’t black and white already, that’d be sure to do it.
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Cooper Howard had a soulmate before the war, but when the bombs fell she was ripped away from him along with everything else.
His dog, his daughter, his morality.
Two hundred years later they meet again in some backwater little bullshit town on opposite ends of an altercation. And she fucking shoots him.
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16 Nov 2024
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Will the Real Cooper Howard Please Stand Up? by Metatron
Fandoms: Fallout (TV 2024), Fallout (Video Games)
27 Apr 2024
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"You know," Lucy said with a sheepish expression, like she was admitting something shameful, "Out of all the people I ever knew in the Vault, I always thought someone honorable like Cooper Howard would have been who the world really needed when we went out to restart civilization."
"I also had a huge, raging crush on him," she added, after a moment.
The Ghoul formerly known as Cooper Howard wasn't really sure how he felt about all that.
AKA: Lucy Maclean learns it's all fine and good to have a thing for a long-dead prewar movie star, up until said movie star isn't actually long-dead and turns out to be your asshole radioactive gunslinger travelling partner.
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09 Sep 2024
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The day they both realized she was probably pregnant was the day she unzipped her jumpsuit and palmed her breasts with a sigh and told him they were aching slightly from all the biting.
Cooper tilted his hat. The teeth marks had faded. He hadn’t bitten her in a couple of days at least.
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09 Sep 2024
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What do you do, when you find yourself unable to go home again?
You build a new one, of course.
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09 Sep 2024
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You save a Vault dweller from some raiders, not realizing who you've saved, or who she's traveling with.
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09 Sep 2024
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“What did you just say?” It’s snarled out. Not too far from the sounds of the ghouls he just cleared.
“I said you were no Cooper-”
“No Cooper Howard. That’s what I thought,” He snarls, finishing for her - voice as deadly as a bullet, “And what the fuck do you know about him?”
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09 Sep 2024
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It’s Just a Little Crush (It’s Not Like I Faint Everytime We Touch) by demonic_ant
Fandoms: Fallout (TV 2024)
27 May 2024
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“There’s nothing like a Cooper Howard movie. It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve seen his movies, they never get old or boring. Of course, it helps that he was attractive- I had the biggest crush on him for years.”
That caught his attention.
“That right?” he asked slowly.
A simple comment leads to an unexpected turn for Cooper and Lucy that neither of them see coming.
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- Part 1 of A Dustland Fairytale
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09 Sep 2024
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Lucy MacLean is a professional makeup artist, thank you very much and she is not going to be intimidated or embarrassed by the man in her makeup chair
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09 Sep 2024
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1930, Nebraska. In the thick of Prohibition and the Great Depression. Lucy tolerates the bruises her husband gives her because what other choice does she have?
Monty hires on a farmhand -- one Cooper Howard, a stranger, a mystery.
Good Christian women shouldn't have thoughts like these.
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09 Sep 2024
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Lucy follows the Ghoul from the ruins of her life and into the unknown. Along the way, she starts to embrace becoming someone she’s never been before.
And the Ghoul is reminded of being someone he never thought he’d be again.
Beta'd by Iron_Angel.
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- Part 1 of A Vessel For Light
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09 Sep 2024
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Cooper lets himself get taken, so Lucy can escape. Lucy hatches a plan to get him back. Chaos ensues.
Beta'd by Iron_Angel.
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- Part 2 of A Vessel For Light
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09 Sep 2024
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the world was on fire by Persephatta for Her_Madjesty
Fandoms: Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
05 Jan 2022
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"Why have you come, mortal?"
She pushes back her hood, revealing rose cheeks and doe eyes and a pink-lipped smile that stalls his breath. He knows this beauty and she is no mortal.
"My Lord, I beg you grant me shelter."
He leans forward, gripping the stone arms of his throne. "What do you seek shelter from?"
"The Sun, my Lord."
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Hades and Persephone AU, retold as Hero and Don John
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04 Jul 2024