What happened to all Fallout Protagonists?

They all started bakeries, judging by the thumbnail.

why are all of them caked tf up 😭

The weirdest thing is, out of anyone in Fallout 4, MacCready doesn't say anything at all about the Lone Wanderer and he would 100% have memories of them from Little Lamplight

I think the proper title for the Vault 76 protagonists are The Reclaimers. It was “Reclamation Day,” after all.

"James and his child live in peace for 19 years" shows footage of people beating each other up

You forgot the main reason the Mr House ending is canon - It's because the House always wins.

The Courier actually does have some confirmed backstory based on what Ulysses tells you in Lonesome Road. There are also several smaller tidbits that the player can choose to add to their backstory in dialogue options, such as potentially being a deadbeat dad or having never heard of Chicago

A meta reason for the sole survivor using the minutemen ending is they are the only faction that allows the player to finish the game no matter what the player does. The other factions can become hostile enough to stop letting the player progress through their faction missions.

My personal cannon is the broadsider, but that’s just me

The canonical reason we don’t hear anything about Appalachia is because the whole area got turned into a giant inferno. the Nuclear Winter game mode takes place 5 years after the main quest line and basically stated in the terminals that the players dropped so many nukes in the region it fucked with the atmosphere heavily, causing firestorms and forcing everyone to take refuge in vault 51. So ironically the very vault dwellers who were tasked to rebuild Appalachia ended up making the whole region uninhabitable.

Did I just realize that "Squire Maxson" from FO3 and "Elder Maxson" from FO4 are the same person, despite investing 100s of hours into both titles?....maybe.

Nate showing up as some armored level 286 god of war would be wild, only before the Lone Wanderer appears.

And the Overseer in Fallout 1 didn't not trust the Vault Dweller, he didn't trust the rest of the Vault to not get inspired by his actions and try to go explore the wastes as well

Dude you missed a huge section on the couriers back story. They played a major hand in what happened to The Divide and Hopeville.

I was too busy looking at the lineup of Vault Cake in the thumbnail to read the title

Your whole theory with The Lone Wanderer being Deacon has a massive plot hole that basically debunks the whole thing. Desdemona joined the railroad some time before September 2276 and Deacon was in the railroad before Desdemona having joined some point before 2273. This means that it is impossible for the Lone Wanderer to be Deacon since they would have been in the vault at this point since fallout 3 takes place in 2277. It just doesn't match up with the timeline at all.

The issue with Deacin being the Lone Wanderer is that Deacon has been mentioned extremely far back in Railroad history, talking 70+ years

Given the state of the Fallout TV show, my bet is Independent new Vegas eventually collapsed when the NCR (its primary customer) started to lose power. Meanwhile the Sole Survivor went with the Brotherhood and Minuteman ending, with the Minuteman acting as the ‘police’ to the Brotherhood’s Army and is the Elder of the Commonwealth Chapter - and I bet some Minuteman groups have been brought down to DC too and across Brotherhood Territory so they dont need to bother with anything outside of Tech retrival

I do agree. Bethesda needs to go take a page from Bioware with their canon. Theres the player canon and then there is company canon. Company canon is their canon for those who haven't played the previous games.

“James and his son live in peace” > Son boxing everyone