Special Critical for Fat Man / Radiation Weapons (Shadows?)

[FearlessFelix]

PLEASE, be aware that this is somewhat triggering as the idea is based on real life and so for anyone that ... connects more viscerally with the attacks on Hiroshima & Nagasaki, I may need to adjust my language. Just let me know.

 

I was watching Gopher's Let's Play of Fallout 4 and as I'm watching him lay waste with the various energy weapons, it occurred to me that while I've seen enemies get turned into Ash Piles & piles of plasma "goo," there's otherwise a shortage of death-animations-on-crit, isn't there? Like, you can shatter the enemies in a sense with the bloody mess perk, dismembering them beyond belief, but what about a new animation? It's been noted that in the two nuclear strikes against civilian populations, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, there were instances where human shadows were left behind. To quote Wikipedia (reference external link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_explosions#Thermal_radiation), "One famous, anonymous Hiroshima victim, sitting on stone steps 260 metres (850 ft) from the hypocenter, left only a shadow, having absorbed the fireball heat that permanently bleached the surrounding stone." I was fairly certain there were other instances as well, where there might have been a man and woman sitting on a park bench or leaning against a wall or something and a burnt ashen shadow would be left behind from the blast.

 

I was just thinking that a mod where on a death critical with the Fat Man or other Radiation-centric weaons, the victims were left as semi-permanent (darker?) shadows on the landscape (probably subject to the same object / animation fade as other effects after cell loading or whatnot), that might be pretty interesting. Very reminiscent also of the Metro series in some regards, but probably without the eerie haunting sounds, voices, and other (supernatural) phenomena of that series.

 

Anyway, just thought I'd throw it out there.