Lemming42
Arcane
He refers to the Elvis impersonation school as a "religious institution" and implies that he doesn't know who Elvis is, which is the part that sticks in my craw. If they were just a gang co-opting some bit of pop culture hauntology and repurposing it as a new thing (eg the Blades in Fo1 naming themselves after a faded billboard) then it wouldn't be so weird, but The King's dialogue seems to imply there's some kind of misinterpretation going on on his end - the building is thought to be religious in nature, they believe "The King" himself built it, and apparently they have so little information that they don't even know Elvis' name. But The King somehow also knows enough about him to mimic his accent and dialect, and namedrop several of his songs.
The whole thing is based on them not knowing who Elvis is and inadvertently viewing him as a quasi-religious figure, but simultaneously knowing enough about him to become a group of crap Elvis impersonators, and all this time there's someone in eyeshot of their door who could tell them outright who Elvis Presley is. And then Mr New Vegas keeps referring to Dean Martin and Bing Crosby in ways that imply that those figures are common knowledge to listeners, which makes it even more insane that Elvis, of all people, apparently has no surviving documentation. EDIT: I read the dialogue just now on the wiki and see that they initially had holotapes of Elvis' music, that then went missing when Obsidian couldn't fork over the budget for Elvis songs
I'm kind of getting in too deep here because I don't actually have any strong feelings on The Kings, they just always seemed kind of flimsily-justified, the result of one of the writers just coming up with the thought "building of elvis impersonators" and working backwards from there.
The whole thing is based on them not knowing who Elvis is and inadvertently viewing him as a quasi-religious figure, but simultaneously knowing enough about him to become a group of crap Elvis impersonators, and all this time there's someone in eyeshot of their door who could tell them outright who Elvis Presley is. And then Mr New Vegas keeps referring to Dean Martin and Bing Crosby in ways that imply that those figures are common knowledge to listeners, which makes it even more insane that Elvis, of all people, apparently has no surviving documentation. EDIT: I read the dialogue just now on the wiki and see that they initially had holotapes of Elvis' music, that then went missing when Obsidian couldn't fork over the budget for Elvis songs
I'm kind of getting in too deep here because I don't actually have any strong feelings on The Kings, they just always seemed kind of flimsily-justified, the result of one of the writers just coming up with the thought "building of elvis impersonators" and working backwards from there.
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