Oppen >>
You're probably right about 2nd generation super-mutants, but they are indeed considered as a kind of its own. You not need to be from another race to suffer from racism. You just need that the racist think you are from a different race. More on this later.
Before the phone ringed, I intended to write about nightkin as i see more their superiority complex as a consequence of their overuse of stealth boys.
They were considered as the elite soldiers of a being all true super-mutants considered as a god. So they were chosen by a god.
They performed tasks that others super-mutants didn't. Being invisible, they were aware of things other super-mutants weren't. (they were hidden amongs human for decades when regular super-mutants only stayed with other super-mutants)
When the unity collapsed and their kind was hunted, they refused to accept the change and mix with "civilians", as nightkin became their identity.
Then they suffered schyzophrenia, replaced their master by an invisible being that guided them and knew what was right for them (anthler, Rhonda, wathever). They also allowed them to keep using stealthboy.
Of course, this new being was themselves who told them what they want to hear instead of what they should hear.
The regular mutants would tell them to adapt, to change, in order to survive and coexist. If it would be for their benefit in the long run, it would be so much pain for them to change and accept to move on, from the unity and their (very) old habits. It would be like the Master dying again. It was also a great pain for them to refuse to use stealthboy anymore, as they develloped an addiction to it.
So not only they prefer listening to their own invisible voice (as it also is much more convincing, being themselve) but they use the superiority complex as an excuse to disregard regular super-mutants, to consider them wrong and feel legitimate by refusing the change. It help them to shut down the tiniest doubt that they would have about being possibly wrong themselve. So i see that superiority complex more as a defence mechanism to justify their behavior than a real racism. But a tiny doubt remain, as the pain of the addiction...
Then again, for the second generation super-mutants, the one who consider them as the most inferior is... a nightkin... who use her superiority complex, as an excuse to refuse the change, to refuse the reasonable super-mutants. So, it negate her radio speech about 2nd generation of super-mutants being inferior. Except Tabitha, no super-mutant seems to criticize those second generations super-mutants.
On an unrelated note, this storyline is incredible.
I agree that super-mutants have a lesser role in FoNV, but they got their best storyline since Fo1. (and Marcus/Broken Hills)
They were super-mutants in FOT, FOBOS, FO3, but they were just militaries. Now they were written as human, with a complex mind and a complex history, that reflect in their personnalities, and how they deal with their own conflicted feelings. More on this please ! ! !
About non-hostiles feral ghouls that i remember :
- The cult in springval (need Broken Steel) that gather regular ghouls, radiated normal humans, ferals ghouls and feral glowing ones.
- In Red Racer Factory, there is a feral glowing one named Stefan that would become hostile only if you kill the human scientist near him. (but the scientist is hostile)
- The feral Ghouls in Repconn cease to be hostile and leave the planet if you help Bright.
- I am not certain, but if you help Roy Philips to get to the Tempenny Tower, all ghouls move to the tower, not just the three that are not feral.
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Bigboss >>
I had saw the video. It is a nice concept but i think those videos lack of real intel. But it is in line with the narrator POV who isn't supposed to know everything as the master remains a shadow figure, which is true. Beside the vault dweller and a few children of Cathedral, no normies has ever seen the master.
Also, i won't deal about East Coast super-mutants (Fawkers, Leo etc...) as they come from a different kind of FEV. Not only different, but spread on a different way. It is told ingame.
About the intelligence of west coast super-mutants, it is stated ingame that the more intelligent one come from people that were the least exposed to the outside world. The Master think that it is related by the fact those people are least contaminated by the (regular) radiation. His second-in-command, the Lieutenant, think that there is a leak of FEV in the air. That leak is not enough to change people into super-mutant, but give them a semi-immunity, that prevent the individual to become a real (translate as intelligent) super-mutant, when dipped into the vat. Whatever who is right, they both agree that the most successfull super-mutants are those the least exposed to the outside vault. So people from vaults are the more likely to remain intelligent after being dipped into the vats. That's why the Master and his Lieutenants torture the vault dweller to know where is vault 13. That's why Lily Bowen was captured from her vault and dipped into the vats (and remained intelligent). That's why Frank Horrigan remained intelligent, as the Enclave kept themselves away from the outside world and radiation. That's also why even during Fallout 1, when the master was still alive, they were more dumb super-mutants than intelligent super-mutants. It is far easier to capture traders from caravans (what they did during decades, while keeping a low profile) that getting access to a vault, and being able to enter them. Luckily for the master, there are other people that left their vault on their own and were captured by the master army, or just stumbled accross mariposa on random. (as the first perfect super-mutant that the master met) Now i you check the background of all super-mutant characters (except east coast) each that are known to come from a vault or an enclave-like area remained intelligents. Other have an unknown background. That's it. No matter when you became super-mutant, the only relevant aspect is who you are. Were you born in the wasteland, or were you born in a vault or another radiation free, and self-sufficiant area ?
The nightkin were chosen amongs intelligent super-mutant, because their tasks were more subtle. They were supposed to spy human and gather valuable informations about potential next target, a mission that can't be done by a dumb one. But not every intelligent super-mutant became spies/nightkin, as other were needed in their bases of operations (L.A Vault, Mariposa etc...) to coordinates the troops, analyze new informations, or operates any machine that the master's army could use. Zaius, Neill, Marcus or the Lieutenant are good exemple of non nightkin intelligent super-mutants. It's only after many years of overuse of stealthboy that their skin changed color and that they became schyzophreniac.
