Well written story by an author who knows their Fallout universe lore. (Some artistic license taken.) The story had me captivated until Volume II where a major change in story resulted in me losing interest and probably shelving the story until more John-focused chapters are written, so that I can fully appriciate the "multiple-protagonist" dynamic. I fully acknowledge that much is opinion/matter-of-taste and I may be misunderstanding some elements (I've only sampled a small fraction of Vol. II).

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The poInt-of-view completely changes to a "new" female character who is portrayed as much more talented than the original protagonist (who apparently was ignorant regarding how much learning and advancement his longtime friend and girlfriend of ~6 years, had achieved during their 15 years of association, while he worked swinging his hammer 12 hours/day; she kept secrets). The revelation that the moral, loyal, and self-sacrificing first protagonist was a ignorant everyman who botched everything up during his hasty escape was more than a bit disappointing. I did skim far ahead well into Volume II and John appears to be out of the picture for the long-haul. Until Vol. 2, Ch. 34.

Again, a fair amount of personal taste applies to views and thoughts expressed in the spoiler.

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The plot and characters are well developed and behave consistently with their apparent values, in a logical fashion. Nobody has shown to have superhuman abilities (Fallout characters are roughly balanced, with very slight advantage going to a handful of heroic characters, often companions, including protagonist vault-dweller archetypes who benefit from the "pipboy" super-tech tool.) While John did do the G.O.A.T. and there is combat bullet-time, no numeric stats or LitRPG are apparent.

I'd say this is a good Fallout fanfic worth reading. One exception to this being readers who project into characters and might find long long point-of-view switches unsatisfying. The story does have the multiple-protagonist tag... you are forewarned. I might skip ahead to see John is back in action and hopefully not treated as a dullard side-character. The mystery of Vault X will probably be worth reading.

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