Goodneighbor Headcanons. Because I Think Canon Goodneighbor Is Kinda...idk Underwhelming?

Goodneighbor headcanons. Because I think canon Goodneighbor is kinda...idk underwhelming?

- the Third Rail has an entire band down there, with a rotating set of acts. Magnolia is the most famous and most prominent, but there are others, the aforementioned jazz band (who also serve as Mag's backing band), a comedy duo, and the WRVR acting trio (before Rex gets kidnapped rip)

- the city's residents live in the apartments that are being taken over by the Triggermen. The reason Hancock asks you to clean em out is because they caused a housing crisis in the city, and there isn't enough room in the Rexford and Old Statehouse to accommodate them

- the food and water Daisy sells are supplied on caravans from the Slog. In exchange, Hancock sends some Neighborhood Watch members down that way to keep an eye on things, especially with the Forged moving into the iron works and quarry nearby

- Kent Connolly was an EMT prewar and serves as the very anxious and reserved doctor of Goodneighbor. Fred Allen is his "pharmacist" (more like harmacist heyo). PTSD from the bomb and following 200 years of radiation make him less than optimal at his duties

- while there are some kids in Goodneighbor, Hancock doesn't like it, and tries to steer them towards DC if they're human, and towards the Slog if they're ghouls or god forbid supermutants

- related to the above, Daisy was a school teacher before the bombs dropped and houses kids in the apartment above her store. Whenever she can, she takes orphaned human children to DC, specifically to Edna and Zwicky, and ghoul children on caravans back to the Slog

- synths and supermutants are allowed in Goodneighbor, but there is animosity. Mostly anti institute animosity. Even a synth like Nick or Glory, people who are very clearly not spies, are treated with hostility. Spies, or suspected spies are shot on sight. And Supermutants are basically treated like the synths' bastard siblings, being a biproduct of the institute's kidnapping experiments. Even if a kidnapped person survives and comes back as a supermutant, they aren't treated like a brother coming home, but as a shadow of their former selves

- Goodneighbor is a safe haven for railroad members, as in the Neighborhood Watch won't kill them, but the "stealth and secrets" style of Deacon and some of the others puts Hancock on edge. He wants them to get their business done quickly and leave

- there are tunnels leading from the Third Rail and the Memory Den to Bunker Hill, the Old North Church, and the Switchboard, but the Switchboard tunnel was destroyed when the Institute attacked. After the Institute is destroyed, the railroad tries to put that tunnel back into use and use it as essentially a refugee highway

- Whitechappel Charlie was originally the waiter at the Colonial Taphouse but left when the ghouls were kicked out. He had his voice physically changed from the standard Mr Handy British accent to a Cockney accent as protest