The Black Rose
First time out of the vault

Bethesda made sure to drop many clues throughout the game, but what is the truth?
Bethesda made sure to drop many clues throughout the game, but what is the truth?
Nah man, I agree with what @Canaris said, it would've been an awful plot twist if that were the case!It would have been cool though.
Awful? Compared to what was in the game already? Nah.Nah man, I agree with what @Canaris said, it would've been an awful plot twist if that were the case!
Exactly what I was thinking! When it comes to people giving Bethesda a pass for any of their mediocre( >>> trash) writing, it makes Bethesda think what they're doing is a good thing, so that inevitably makes their future titles even more crappy than before. And people wonder how and why it got to this, a vicious cycle!Its not the question of "would it be good or bad", its a theory born purely out of a mechanism typical for bethdrones - they always take something that is a Bethesda fuck up or something they simply didnt care enough and turn it into 2deep4u 6d chess deep lore zomg fridge brilliance.
In this case Bethesda simply didnt gave a single flying fuck about making cohesive and compeling pre war segment. They just glued together something appealing to their ADHD audience and clueless gaming journos - lots of empty feels about muh family plus lots of running, shouting and explosions. Then someone took that obvious case of Bethesda being lazy cunts and fucking turned that into some "hurr durr SS is a synth because look how brief the pre war moment is almost like its fake and artificial" dumbass theory.
They did the same with Enclave/SM presence in DC, Jet looking like Myron creation despite being on the opposite coast and often locked in a pre war safe, entirety of Railroad ( including the fucking password shit which i will never fucking stop ranting about ), stilted SS voice ( instead of VA doing shit job and bethsda not correcting him/her - muh ptsd ) and lots of other things.
They did it in Skyrim and F3 - every Bethesda fuck up is simply a fuel to launch some braindead essays where people try to dig up a ten meter deep fallout shelter in a god damned shallow sandbox for kids to excuse developers simply being lazy shits.
I don't think anything can feasibly explain why an entire Vault of pre-war Vault Dwellers were left to die while Shaun and the PC were left alive. It's one drop in the ocean of unexplainable contrivances in this game.
However I did like the idea of the main character being a synth before that went absolutely nowhere.
I actually did hear a semi-reasonable argument for this: They wanted to preserve someone with DNA similar to their main subject (Shaun). If all of the Vault's resources are split between all of the cryopods, there's a greater chance of system failure, whereas if you devote all of the Vault's resources to one cryopod there's a better chance that they'll persist.I don't think anything can feasibly explain why an entire Vault of pre-war Vault Dwellers were left to die while Shaun and the PC were left alive. It's one drop in the ocean of unexplainable contrivances in this game.
It's what happens when a high-tech faction filled with (supposedly) highly intelligent humans is written by someone far from being one.The Institute gives me a headache man.
This is a good point too: The Institute does occupy several locations of technological interest throughout the Commonwealth, I don't see why Vault 111 couldn't be among those.I have to wonder why they didn't just make an outpost out of Vault 111 then and maintain the facility holding numerous fresh subjects and just teleport them as needed for their experiments.
That sentence alone is contradictory as the Vault held some of the best pool of intact pre-war fresh DNA you'll ever find in the wastes.
I think the point of the theory is that all those memories are fake.As far as I know the issue arises from the fact that before even getting a pip boy you can use the spav/vats.
However I think I read around that the 3rd generation synths were produced only after (many years after) that Shaun is kidnapped. Also the main character has a son, so in my opinion there is no way that it is a synth. The only thing is that it was replaced at some point, maybe the real character died during the war but as I said above, it doesn't seem to me that 200 years before there were already apparently human synths, maybe there weren't even the 2nd generation ones yet.