The Anatomy of Melancholy
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First Instar: Lexington Concordance by ketherphorbia
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Fallout - Fandom, Fallout 3: Operation: Anchorage
11 May 2019
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Extending him a military contract to facilitate the war effort, the U.S. Army nationalized a Russian chemist as Alan Carey. Carey's martial contributions afforded him a place in Sanctuary Hills's Vault 111, but when the threat of Total Atomic Annihilation™ shepherds the vault into use, he wakes to find he's the only one of its inhabitants who survived the freeze to which none of them consented--if he can even call it surviving. With the end of the world already so far behind in civilization's past, he struggles to find his place again.
A/N: As of 2021.03.16, I have separated out Second Instar into its own work, and moving forward will be posting Anatomy as a series of Instar-books rather than one massive wall of fic. Thanks for sticking with me these past four years. (And as of 2022.06.18 I have both uploaded a new cover art and renamed the First Instar.)
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- Part 1 of The Anatomy of Melancholy
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Second Instar: By the Waters of the Merrimack by ketherphorbia
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Fallout - Fandom, Fallout 3: Operation: Anchorage
19 May 2021
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Following the vague dread of one of Mama Murphy's visions, Melancholy makes a trip to Lowell to investigate the fate of the Deenwood Compound: the military base where General Constantine Chase contracted the development and manufacture of Psycho, the potent narcotic which tipped the scales of the Battle of Anchorage so the States could finally drive the Chinese out of Alaska. But upon arriving, every calculation falls together... and apart.
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- Part 2 of The Anatomy of Melancholy
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Third Instar: Manchester Impasse by ketherphorbia
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Fallout - Fandom, Fallout 3: Operation: Anchorage
15 Jul 2024
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In pursuit of medical provisions, Melancholy pushes North into the Hinter, to Nashua, NH. Conditions sweep into a perfect storm of psychosis and local tensions, and only his chem-sutured partnership with Sticks can push either of them through the worst cabin fever of their lives.
As always, comments, kudos, etc. are all greatly, greatly appreciated.
Updated 2022 May 02 with cover art.
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- Part 3 of The Anatomy of Melancholy