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“I think [queerness] embedded into the DNA of the franchise from the beginning and hopefully the show,” Nolan tells PRIDE. “I think it’s one of the things that I found so exciting about the games when I played them. My first experience with the franchise, Fallout 3, was the fact that [the games] felt alive, subversive, and satirical, that you had a real sense, that there was nothing safe or restrained about these things, that they felt that they had the texture of the world with them. We’ve endeavored to try to bring all of that feeling, all of that tone with us into the series.”

It was also front of mind for Wagner, who said there were discussions on how to incorporate queerness into the show. “We talked about a lot of topical stuff [in the writer’s room] like where’s racism in this world? Where’s queerness in this world?” he recalls to PRIDE. Wagner admits he had concerns about doing the storylines justice. “I struggled with it a bit as a straight white dude… we’re in this great moment where there is finally money to tell queer stories. It’s not my money. Those are stories for queer storytellers to tell. I sometimes feel a little gun-shy about tackling those issues, because I know that there is a market for that, it belongs to my fellow writers who are from that demographic, and who can do a better job of it than me. But maybe that’s a cowardly approach. I’m not sure… it’s part of their conversation in the room every day,” he admits.

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