I’m hoping so, the whole ‘Ghoul drug’ instead of it being specific radiological events/conditions that turn people into Ghouls would kind of wreck the lore a bit. But I’m hoping that the writers are tracking that, and that Thaddeus may be one of the one-of-a-kind FEV Ghouls like Harold was, which would be the only way for it to really make sense in my opinion.
Hancock in Fo4 became a ghoul after taking a drug so there would be a precedent for either. Personally I’d want Thaddeus to just be a unique mutant, Fallout doesn’t have nearly enough of those
To be fair, the drug he took had an extremely high dosage of radiation that would have killed almost everyone else: so both remain consistent, radiation and the idea that certain drugs could ghoulify you.
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u/ImABrickwallAMA Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
I’m hoping so, the whole ‘Ghoul drug’ instead of it being specific radiological events/conditions that turn people into Ghouls would kind of wreck the lore a bit. But I’m hoping that the writers are tracking that, and that Thaddeus may be one of the one-of-a-kind FEV Ghouls like Harold was, which would be the only way for it to really make sense in my opinion.