Mod Idea - Resurrect Your Spouse (Possible Newbie Spoiler)

[Calzien]

This will have to wait until the CK releases I imagine but I came across this idea thinking about the Automatron DLC. Spoilers (Not really needed.) for anyone YET to play Fallout 4 and reading this.

 

As it's known your spouse is killed at the start of the game. Now I don't actually KNOW the lore of Fallout but if I'm correct Robobrains use human brains wired up to robots, almost like synths but according to Ada they are MUCH different. Robobrains can only accept commands given to them, or something. Not sure what it was... Anyway it had me thinking if a mod might be created that would allow the Sole Survivor to salvage the brain of their dead spouse to transfer it INTO a Robobrain system. The technology is there already with the Memory Den and their spouse IS cryogenically frozen still even if they are dead, thus preserving the body still.

 

I'm also sure there's probably enough dialogue in there to make "companion" reactions to quests and the Sole Survivor's choices. Again it's too soon to do anything with yet until we get the Creation Kit but it's an idea for those who think they'd like to play mad scientist.

[LordElfa]

You have a robot turned sexy sexbot at your command and you want your dead wife back? Wait, I thought the pods stopped working?

[corne223]

the pods of the spouse and sole survivor didn't stop working, but the other pods did, even when you return to vault 111 the pod of your spouse still functions (but he/she is just dead)

I like this idea

you could even make quests for it, like what if instead of transfering your spouse into a synth, you use the same concept of what the institute did with kellog, switching parts of the body with mechanical parts. like you would have to hunt down special synths or something like that for the parts.

and then the Memory Den could "restart" the brain of your spouse or something like that

[Fenryr3001]

So you'd rather have a sex-bot than having your loving wife,that you had a kid with,whose death is one of the two main reasons you went on a killing spree through the entire wasteland?Interesting.

 

 

I don't know where your spouse was shot.If it's the head,chances are you wouldn't be able to get her brain intact (you could still excuse it as you taking some parts of her brain,which you then use to upload some memories on a Synth brain,and she is just a copy),but if she was shot in chest it make "sense" for you to use her brain in a Synth.And because the spouse is one of the possible protagonists,you'd have enough lines to splice dialogue with.

[Jeffman12]

I think an important part of the game's plot is dealing with loss.

 

That being said, the rest of the game seems to ignore that loss, so why not be able resuscitate your perfectly preserved popsicle?

 

I have some ideas on how it could unfold, a sort of mental screenplay, if you will.

[Calzien]

The game pretty much makes the main story take a back seat as soon as you leave the vault. Your spouse is dead, son kidnapped, a killer is on the loose, and you're building yourself a fort or starting a romance with someone you just met like 30 minutes ago. Not this is a bad thing but there's nothing saying the Sole Survivor can't use the technology of the current day to try and attempt to resurrect their spouse from the dead.

 

Even at the end the credits mention they try to make their family whole again. So it wouldn't be far fetched if they tried/did resurrect their spouse as a synth/robot.

[Wunderbot]

A Robobrain seems like a very creepy solution. I can see this making a lot more sense as an option if you (SPOILER) choose the Institute and become Director. You have a synth created with their appearance and their memories transferred into the synth body the Curie way. Or their personality replicated as closely as possible, because while her body might still be frozen, she did get shot so I'm not entirely sure it'd work the same way as being alive and frozen. I wouldn't use it for my character at all, but it'd be a nice touch and seems fitting for a character that chose to side with Shaun. It's the type of character that wants to reunite their family more than anything, so it doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to go from child synth Shaun to synth spouse. A nice story of failing to move on and letting go and instead doing morally questionable things to keep things from changing.

[Calzien]

I never said it wasn't morally questionable, quite likely it wouldn't be exactly your spouse anyway. Robobrains are designed I think according to Jezebel to never lie and follow their master's command without question. Would the Sole Survivor really want a spouse that acted that way? Ideally the suggestion is just to GIVE the player that option, morals are up to them at that point. The game doesn't even give you an option to do anything with their remains well after clearing the game. Your spouse along with the entire neighborhood sit on ice never having a proper burial. Overall it just seems like an idea for those that want to play mad scientist. It gives your spouse a second (sort of) chance at life, and the acting is already there for a fully voiced companion mod.

[Jeffman12]

A Robobrain seems like a very creepy solution. I can see this making a lot more sense as an option if you (SPOILER) choose the Institute and become Director. You have a synth created with their appearance and their memories transferred into the synth body the Curie way. Or their personality replicated as closely as possible, because while her body might still be frozen, she did get shot so I'm not entirely sure it'd work the same way as being alive and frozen. I wouldn't use it for my character at all, but it'd be a nice touch and seems fitting for a character that chose to side with Shaun. It's the type of character that wants to reunite their family more than anything, so it doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to go from child synth Shaun to synth spouse. A nice story of failing to move on and letting go and instead doing morally questionable things to keep things from changing.

See, funny thing about death science, we still haven't exactly nailed down what constitutes death, we just have a best guess sort of system in place. In conjunction with sci-fi suspended animation tech, who knows what's possible. One thing's for sure, though, her brain is preserved... I mean, unless you take a crowbar to it after waking up. I think fabricating a Synth is the most likely course of action, at least for the Institute. It's pretty clear Brainbots aren't even a shadow of the person they used to be, and they are primitive compared to Institute designs.

 

I think that latter bit is part of the whole point of Fallout, you decide how your character copes. I mean, your actions are all the same, but are you fixating on the hopelessness due to your dead wife? Striving to find your, as far as you know, hopefully still breathing son? Or track down the man who did this, and his employers, and make them pay?

 

But yeah, it all ends up being pretty tertiary to the factions and side-quests.