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• Tranquility Is a Lie by Blissyblah

  Fandoms: Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout (TV 2024)  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  02 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Nick Valentine/Original Female Character(s)
  • Cooper Howard | The Ghoul/Original Female Character(s)
  • Lily Bowen & Original Female Character(s)
  • Robert Joseph MacCready & Original Female Character(s)
  • Lone Wanderer (Fallout)
  • James (Fallout 3)
  • Stanislaus Braun (Fallout 3)
  • Betty (Fallout 3)
  • Nick Valentine
  • Courier (Fallout: New Vegas)
  • Canon divergence starting in Vault 112
  • Betty-centric POV
  • Heavy Themes
  • Multi-chapter AU
  • Fallout Video Game References
  • Tranquility Lane (Fallout)
  • Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence
  • Original Fallout Character(s) - Freeform
  • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
  • Identity Crisis
  • Possession
  • Loss of Agency
  • Mind Control
  • Mind Control Aftermath & Recovery
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Survivor Guilt
  • Vault-Tec is Evil
  • Simulation Horror
  • Graphic Violence
  • Child Abuse
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Non-consensual body control
  • psychological abuse
  • Graphic depictions of violence - Freeform
  • Angst
  • slow healing
  • Not a Happy Fic (At First)
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Romance Later in the Fic
  • Capital Wasteland (Fallout)
  • Post-Fallout: New Vegas
  • Little Lamplight (Fallout)

  Summary

  In a Fallout 3 AU where Betty was never just an avatar, she escapes Tranquility Lane as a real person scarred by two hundred years of Stanislaus Braun’s cruelty. Thrust into the wasteland, she struggles to survive while fighting the lingering voice of the man who once wore her skin.

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  Language:

  English

  Words:

  9,236

  Chapters:

  6/6

  Comments:

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  Kudos:

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