Working On A Tiny Comic For Gage And Harvest And Holy Shit I Forgot How Hard It Is To Draw The Same Characters

Haven't decided if i like this but my friend said it was ok so im posting it ough eugh augh be nice i dont paint or draw people or backgrounds or

Wow this is old and could look a lot better. Okay.

Scenario in which Gages old boss “The Harvester” makes it through the gauntlet at Nuka-World and kills Overboss Colter. Gage hasn’t seen Harvest since he betrayed him so many years ago and presumed him dead, but unfortunately for him Connor tracked him down and is ready to resume his position as his boss.

Connor was only mentioned like… once… in Gages dialogue, but me and @porcelllio have taken that and run with it. Expect lots of art of him.

i don’t know why i keep getting attached to characters mentioned once, anyways have gage and connor “the harvester”. i love you gage fallout 4 nuka world dlc

never posted anything here, but i thought i should just share it with you guys. gage is such a babygirl i can't...

Wish I had more drawings of Harvest that I was more confident in and wouldn’t get deleted off here 😔

This is so old euuuuugghhh

This was the first full piece I ever did of Gage, back in like…. 2020? I think? Can’t remember. Definitely isn’t awful I just think I would have done it differently now!

Also, I AM alive. But remembering to post is a big responsibility I cannot be trusted with.

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just a fanart to my childhood fandom <3

Gage headcanons

I have these all written down in a google doc (plus way more) so I figured I might as well throw some here now that I'm getting more comfortable using tumblr lol. I'm very open to discussion about these! I might post more in the future if someone finds it interesting.

CW for: Minor mentions of addiction and some general trauma stuff. Nothing too bad I don't think but don't hold me to that.

A lot of these mention The Harvester by the way, sorry. Lore makes my brain itch.

● While he is a part of a minority of raiders who can actually read and write‐ (as evidenced by him leaving messages to Colter on his terminal) -he is dyslexic. It takes him a while to write things out coherently, and reading anything more than a few short sentences is often frustrating.

● ^ because of this, he prefers / genuinely enjoys comic books. They're light on reading and he can usually tell whats going on even without dialogue. He had a small collection of comic books back when he lived with The Harvester, and still gets kind of pissed he never got those back.

• Regarding comics, his least favorite character is the Silver Shroud. He just pisses him off.

● His eyepatch being so large is actually functional! (Somewhat) I like to think he lost his eye by getting shot in the face with a plasma round, which corroded and destroyed a large area of skin around his eye and down his cheek. So the large metal plating on his eyepatch covers the large scar.

● He actually lost his eye when he first joined The Harvesters gang when he was younger. One of Harvests gang members pulled the trigger on him when he initially approached them, thinking he had ill intentions. It sucked- but hey, at least they let him in.

● He made his own cage armor and designed it particularly around his needs rather than protection. He uses the cage to hold tools, parts, a rag, etc. while he works on things like Colters power armor or other mechanical things he fiddled with. Definitely doesn't make him very bulletproof, but following the boss around keeps him away from most combat situations anyway.

● Colter had a tendency to use Gages armor like a big handle to drag him around a lot, which he didn't particularly enjoy.

● His favorite colour is yellow, which is why his cage armor is the colour it is. He painted it himself :')

● Has the most horrific trust issues in all of mankind. (Thanks for betraying him Harvest, he will absolutely not recover from that.) He won't eat anything he doesn't see prepared himself, won't set down his drink unless he's alone, he can't sleep around other people, etc. When Colter dies and the new Overboss takes over, he doesn't even tell them where he sleeps until he trusts them entirely. He'll just dissappear at night unless you call out for him.

● These trust issues leak into his behaviors during relationships also. Down to the more simple things. He prefers to hug his partner from behind or be big spoon, he prepares food for them both, takes the night guard when camping, etc. Anything that puts him in the more advantageous position, even if its subconscious.

● The Harvester haunts him. He still sees and hears him in the shadows or corners after however many years its been. Has nightmares of him coming back and finally finishing the job, killing him. Feels the cold metal of a scythe against his throat when it isn't there... its endless. Even something as common as the sounds of distant gunfire make him paranoid, since it reminds him of the betrayal. Absolutely ruined him.

● Has tattoos inspired by / centered around The Harvesters. Covers them with his armor though. Hes got some trauma to unpack man, idk. (Should I do a tattoo tour for him?)

● One of the reasons he hates chems is from a previous addiction. He doesn't like to talk about it, but he made a few of his worst life decisions on chems and it just put a bad taste in his mouth. He'd prefer it if his Overboss / partner was in a rational state of mind, thank you.

● He is surprisingly good with animals for the most part. Particularly cats. Does the old man / dad thing where he says he doesn't like them or calls them mean names while secretly petting them or letting them hop in his lap when he's alone.

● Not usually a big fan of the more "exotic" wasteland animals though. Totally got jumpy one day and shot a Pack molerat on accident.

Thats probably enough for now. I'm happy to answer questions or expand on these more if asked, and I'll probably share more in the future. (Maybe some 18+ ones too? We'll see.)

I cannot deal with the white-ification of Porter. I CANNOT. He's lightskin, sure, but some people look like they're drawing some guy named Parker Gabe instead of Porter Gage 😭 You see the tan skin, flatter nose, and those DENSE ASS CURLS ON HIS HEAD and think "yeah hes a paper plate" FUCK man oh my god. It makes me so sad when people erase those features off of him or bleach him. He's not a white guy covered in dirt holy shit. You cannot wash off that mans melanin.

The eyepatch thing makes me more disappointed than angry. Once again, yes his in-game model doesn't have anything under there- but what other characters have defining features like that?? Almost all of the other companions models are made with the regular character customisation options and just have unique outfits. (and not all of them even have that) The only companions with somewhat unique body models is Nick and maybe Hancock but idk if thats just the normal face sculpting with the ghoul skin over it. Everyone else is just the normal human, super mutant, or robot models. They don't get unique scars or anything.

The reason Gage has nothing under his eyepatch has nothing to do with him trying to "look tough" because hes trying to prove himself or something. Its because Bethesda is LAZY. Fallout 4 is particular is extremely lacking in unique character design features compared to the other games.

All of the main factions are exclusively human aside from the institute- and the synths are humanoid already and half of them are indistinguishable from regular people on top of that. The railroad has an assaultron that doesn't even look unique compared to other assaultrons other than the text on her chest. The only really unique designs we get is DiMA, Swan (boat arm), the drinking buddy (?), and maybe a few others. Not even important story characters like Kellogg get distinctive scars or other features that aren't available to the player. EVERYONE JUST GETS FUNKY CLOTHES. GAGE IS THE ONLY ONE WITH AN EYEPATCH. WHY WOULD THEY GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO GIVE HIM AN EYEPATCH IF HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY NEED IT.😭😭😭😭

i started ranting about porter gage again sorry guys

this is not directed at anyone because i see this all the time (i use “you” as a general thing) but it is SO annoying seeing people call gage ugly all of the time, in fanart and posts and whatnot. i love that he’s a grimy little raider as much as the next person but that man is not ugly! unconventionally attractive sure but who isn’t in the apocalypse. and it’s fine if you think he IS ugly because people are sometimes and there’s nothing wrong with it, but why is that the only thing you can call him..

seeing people bash on him for being unattractive mixed with how often people draw him without any of his defining features also feels so GROSS and not in the “i should block and move on way”. you find the black raider character and decide actually he’s a white man with a straight, more “attractive” haircut with a beard, he doesn’t have his big downturned nose, and decide that’s how you’ve “cleaned” him up and then talk about how gross he is in game. does this feel weird to you?

even if we ignore the possible racist undertones because it really does feel like no one realizes that… that is not a white man. it’s still so frustrating. why don’t we talk about the things we like about the character we like!! no im not liking your fanart when the caption is calling him a ugly fucking freak. i don’t even wanna talk about how ppl just assume that because his ingame model doesn’t have a unique texture under his eyepatch means that. his eye is just fine under there? where is your creativity or just draw the eye patch because its CUTEE and yes its “stupid” yes his outfit/armor is “stupid” because he’s a FUCKING RAIDER!!! you choose to just ignore the things he wears because they’re unconventional instead of thinking about how he went through the effort to paint them a bright yellow because maybe that’s his favorite color. maybe he wears that big cage because it’s convenient to hang things off of when he’s working on colter’s power armor or other mechanics. maybe he keeps his hair in that short little mohawk because he doesn’t wanna go through the effort of dealing with his curls.

where is your fucking whimsy people. call gage a nasty raider because he’s an asshole and doesn’t shower but leave all the fun about him alone. that right there is a big beautiful dorito-shaped southern man and obviously no one knows how to behave around one of those so i will be keeping him in my house