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2026-02-24
Updated:
2026-02-24
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1/?
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(Don't Be) Cruel

Summary:

After escaping the vault with the tunnel snakes by her side, Ash will stop at nothing to find her father. But with every tragedy in the merciless wasteland, the line between survival and cruelty begins to blur.

or Ash deals with loss by giving into dark impulses and both Butch and Freddie become concerned in their own ways.

Notes:

I have (basically) already started this fanfic in the past, but I decided to start over/edit it (and change the title). The updates will probably be very slow and I am still figuring out chapter length (I am thinking roughly 7000-8000 words per chapter, but it depends how everything flows). This first chapter isn't technically part of the story, but a STATS and visual page for the characters. I have been making a lot of edits and visual content for this fanfic, but I get so caught up in it that I neglect writing the actual story. I really love making edits for this fanfic though and I would like to post more visual content for it here once the story is complete.

Chapter 1: STATS

Chapter Text


♫ Don't be cruel to a heart that's true
I don't want no other love
Baby, it's just you I'm thinking of

Baby, if I made you mad
For something I might have said
Please, let's forget my past
The future looks bright ahead

Don't be cruel to a heart that's true
Why should we be apart?
I really love you, baby, cross my heart ♫

 

・ ．━━━━━━━ † ━━━━━━━ ．・

ASH STATS:

AGE: 18
HAIR: grey
EYES: grey
SKILLS: lockpicking, sneaking, minimal medical skills
WEAPON OF CHOICE: combat knife, silencer

S trength: 4
P erception: 8
E ndurance: 6
C harisma: 4
I ntelligence: 7
A gility: 9
L uck: 2

S trength: 3P erception: 8E ndurance: 6C harisma: 5I ntelligence: 7A gility: 9L uck: 2

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BUTCH DELORIA STATS:

AGE: 19
HAIR: raven black
EYES: green
SKILLS: strength, bartering/charming, (eventually) aiming and shooting,
WEAPON OF CHOICE: 10mm, fist, switchblade, anything

S trength: 7
P erception: 6
E ndurance: 7
C harisma: 8
I ntelligence: 4
A gility: 5
L uck: 3

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FREDDIE GOMEZ STATS:

AGE: 18
HAIR: brown
EYES: brown
SKILLS: good memory, athletic, technology/hacking
WEAPON OF CHOICE: baseball bat

S trength: 5
P erception: 6
E ndurance: 5
C harisma: 5
I ntelligence: 7
A gility: 7
L uck: 5

・ ．━━━━━━━ † ━━━━━━━ ．・

JONAS PALMER STATS:

AGE: 26
HAIR: brown
EYES: blue
SKILLS: listening, intelligence, history and science, medical skills
WEAPON OF CHOICE: brain

S trength: 4
P erception: 8
E ndurance: 4
C harisma: 7
I ntelligence: 9
A gility: 5
L uck: 1

・ ．━━━━━━━ † ━━━━━━━ ．・

JAMES STATS:

AGE: 52
HAIR: grey
EYES: grey
SKILLS: intelligence, medical and science skills, reasoning with others
WEAPON OF CHOICE: hunting rifle

S trength: 6
P erception: 7
E ndurance: 6
C harisma: 6
I ntelligence: 10
A gility: 3
L uck: 2

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AMATA ALMODOVAR STATS:

AGE: 18
HAIR: red
EYES: blue
SKILLS: math and science, athletic, status
WEAPON OF CHOICE: 10mm, fist

S trength: 3
P erception: 5
E ndurance: 4
C harisma: 6
I ntelligence: 7
A gility: 6
L uck: 9

・ ．━━━━━━━ † ━━━━━━━ ．・

SUSIE MACK STATS:

AGE: 17
HAIR: blonde
EYES: brown
SKILLS: bartering/charming, socializing, observing
WEAPON OF CHOICE: whatever is closest

S trength: 2
P erception: 7
E ndurance: 4
C harisma: 8
I ntelligence: 6
A gility: 6
L uck: 7

・ ．━━━━━━━ † ━━━━━━━ ．・

WALLY MACK STATS:

AGE: 19
HAIR: brown
EYES: brown
SKILLS: bullshitting, lighting things on fire, blowing things up
WEAPON OF CHOICE: gerenades, big guns, fist

S trength: 6
P erception: 5
E ndurance: 6
C harisma: 6
I ntelligence: 2
A gility: 7
L uck: 7

・ ．━━━━━━━ † ━━━━━━━ ．・

PAUL HANNON STATS:

AGE: 18
HAIR: brown
EYES: brown
SKILLS: observing, lying
WEAPON OF CHOICE: brass knuckles, father's revolver

S trength: 4
P erception: 8
E ndurance: 7
C harisma: 4
I ntelligence: 3
A gility: 7
L uck: 7