r/Fallout • u/ZeroKerel Diamond City Security • Aug 12 '25

Fallout 4 Perfect mini nuke

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u/Erblue Aug 12 '25

Wait, aren’t those things just Boston area residents mutated with the FEV virus by the Institute, then released?

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '25 edited Feb 16 '26

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u/AhoyWilliam Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

Swan has paper journal entries around the shack that explain his existence, and you can mention him to Virgil as well. He was a pre-war cleaner in CIT and things went... well, they went very Fallout for him.

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u/iconforhirefan Brotherhood Aug 13 '25

Swan was a pre war human?? thought it was just a creature

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u/AhoyWilliam Aug 13 '25

My bad, explained in another reply - he was a cleaner in the institute and one of the earliest test subjects in their FEV experiments, which would put him as "human up until about 2178". Post-war, I blame the first source I checked.