Is the Sole Survivor a Synth? A Fan Conspiracy Theory

There is a mod that turns you into a synth you make your character in the institute and spawn in the vault there are different story voice lines and your goal is to gain the trust of all factions

It's really cool

I have a point that proves the sole survivor is a synth. In Vault 111 there is a terminal that describes gen 3 having augmented combat vision (Vats) Wich we are capable of doing BEFORE obtaining the pipboy. That alone, is hard truth we are a synth. Also right outside the vault there is a small railroad shack. Meaning they were monitoring something..... or someone.

Almost explains the lack of traits, like ‘Small Frame’ giving weaker limbs for agility; we don’t get to decide if SS has weaker limbs or other debuffs not related to surviving or damage (I know survival was mentioned, I feel like this sort of branches off of that). Our flesh can technically be exceptional if you want to consider the ghoulish perk, and even these features can be explained by being part synth since we were supposed to be being sought by the institute for having clean, pre-war DNA. A few of the perks that I remember relate to the pip-boy being the source of the perk improvement, so who really knows. Could have recognized our body as exceptional and offered flesh enhancements.

People keep mentioning other synths saying we’re human, but how could they recognize a new-gen synth that was made to be more human-like?

What if father wasn't actually Shaun and the real Shaun died after Kellogg showed him the real world in diamond city and father thought (crap there goes my plans for a successor) so father decided to release us because technically we are the last pure human left. So to get us on bored and run the institute he decided to pretend to be Shaun is entire time 🤔🤯

No if you were a synth you would have a synth component in your inventory like all the others and since you do not you're not a synth case closed

The reason this couldn't be possible is why would shaun assign Nate as the successor of the institute knowing very well you were a synth yourself or even less call you his own father also somebody else would know if the sole survivor was a synth Im very sure father cant do it alone

Goofy conspiracy

He woke up from a deep freezer that is made for humans so I doubt a synth can freez himself same way as humans .

If the sole survivor is a synth. Wouldn't he/she be found out when the brotherhood gets the information about paladin dance being a synth in the institutes data?

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This is my headcanon. It explains too much to be ignored. Two things always bothered me: the duality of Nick Valentine and the Institute's motto "Humanity: Redefined". If the SS is a synth, Nick Valentine's struggle indicates that the Institute was having a hard time separating out baseline human function and common skillset while not creating a custom, albeit blank, personality that will exist alongside the memories of the implanted donor. Clearly the RR figured this out, but they would not be on terms good enough to share knowledge. As for "Humanity: Redefined", the first thought might be that the Institute view synths as the inheritors of the future. But their disdain for the synth's apparent sentience shows that's not quite right. What might make sense is the FEV research, the cybernetic research (culminating in Kellogg's setup; and the jealousy it engendered) and the synth research were all ways to extend the "life" (as the Institute cares to define it) of Institute scientists and people of note. When a scientist gets old, they can have an engram made of their memories and then those can be implanted on a synth body. The process has been so streamlined, that the synth is not aware they are not the original human. Synth Sean is implanted with Sean's memories, backdated to a particular point in time. This may explain his peace with the whole matter, and his apparent change of tack in regards to the humanity of synth Sean.

I don't know if you need far harbor DLC to activate but we can find a sole survivor's body (a copy of your current character with the vault suit) on a pharmacy in Lexington, but the body has no " synth component ". But, if your character were the actualy a synth copy, wouldn't the institute have records of that? they have Danse's, so I think is just Bethesda's lazy work on " I'm gonna blow your mind " kinda plot to give your on choice of character's background.

I don’t think so cuz you can explain tell the baseball guy the rules of baseball in arc jet they say hostile synth and human detected referring to Danse I feel coursiers would give you your code if it was obvious if you weren’t joining the institute why would they let you also how would they know about your past vault Tec rep coming that day you can see those neighbors outside as ghouls how would they know they were there I don’t think I don’t know why they would have a synth take over? Either

Don't forget the mysterious stranger can time-travel 😮 the one who is in a file from Nick Valentine

Nope......not a synth.

3 big clues

1. Most important, Gen 3 synths weren't created until Shaun was stolen by Kellogg.

2. The Vault Tec Rep recognizes you in Goodneighbor, there's no way the Institute would have known you met him just before the bombs dropped.

3. If you become enemies with the Institute, the smart thing to do would be for someone to say your recall code. Shaun on his deathbed would have still been able to shut you down.

I think it's very unlikely that the sole surviver is a synth. There's holotapes and terminal logs of people thinking Shawn is weird for creating a child synth of himself. There would be similar evidence if Shawn wanted a synth copy of his dead parent. And, why not copy both? When it comes to Deena, he's just a manipulative bastard. I let the Far Harbor people execute him. He had poor what's her name thinking she might be a synth when she's not.

BUUUT That's just a theory AAAA Oxhorn Theory

According to my theory, the protagonist of Fallout 4 could be a synth, based on the fact that a terminal in the Institute describes a synthetic "prototype" with enhanced perception and the ability to slow down time. This could explain the protagonist's ability to use VATS to slow down time and target specific parts of enemies.

Doctor Carrington says that "it's a wonder YOU and glory don't set off any metal detectors" wtf is up with that ?

I find it odd they didn't remove genetic materials from nate and Nora for test tune babies, surely a brother or sister of "father" wouldve been better than nate/ Nora?
I have no doubts about nate/Nora being human.

I'm surprised he never mentioned how in one of the terminals at the Institute it states how the synths have the capability to change their perception of time allowing them to better target specific areas or limbs of hostiles which is obviously what VATS does and the Sole Survivor is equipped with.

Of course you can argue this is more because of the Pipboy but it is worth mentioning since the game has it in there in the first place. Also the Pipboy previously stopped time whereas synths slow time and in Fallout 4 using VATS does not stop time it slows it down.

It only makes sense the longer I play is that the player is a synth. Or hear me out something else. Like Roy from Rick and Morty. A game within a game but controlled from real life.

I always wondered.... why a robot repair kit would work on yourself? 😮

Yes he is one

It is also possible that they got pre war DNA and killed Shaun after all from piper the institute takes children parents and kill them after and in Kellogg's memory's the last time we see Shaun is the last time Kellogg had a fresh memory so that's my conspiracy theory so it makes sense to replace the backup/The Sole Survivor I had suspicions that the sole survivor was a synth from the far harbor DLC.

It's impossible as the sole survivor had a child

It is good theary, but can be easily dismetled... if a sole survivor is killed you can see blood, bones and the rest.

Father didn't release the Sole Survivor as an experiment. That's just how he rationalized an irrational decision. He did it out of Hope. He did it for the little boy he used to be, who laid up many nights wondering who his mom and dad were. A thought he pushed to the back of his head. To the depths of his subconscious. But he never shook 100% free of it. And then one day it spurred him to an action that he...as a man of science...could only rationalize to himself as an "experiment". Rather than accept the truth: It was his inability to continue ignoring that sad, lonely boy he tried to bury inside himself.

It's actually what made it harder for me to destroy the Institute when the time came.

I mean ss didn’t fail the safe test at covenant so I doubt he’s a synth

Not just a synth, but an experimental model developed with FEV, which would explain why there are so many perks that are super-human traits and look like the result of mutation via gradual rad exposure.

Yes Now I beleive he is a synth , and it was probably a private experiments , the lone wanderer was a unique synth , he didnt have a Reset Code , and other synths could not detect he is a synth , because Shawn hismelf game this features to his father's synth . it is basically a more advanced synth . or just a synth without an identification chip .

I like to think that we the player are a synth and there attempt at the perfect synth so perfect that they are unable to tell the difference between synth and human it explains the ability of our character and why synths and people in the institute can't tell we are a synth

i still think the fact that you can use VATS without a pipboy at the very start is the smoking gun.

I lean towards the Sole Survivor is not a synth as do you @Oxhorn. However I did come across an interesting quote from the Sandy Coves Convalescent Home after the scripted synths arrive at the entrance. It's hard to catch with all the fighting but they do say, and I quote "fellow synth verified." I just thought you would find that interesting as it's the first time I have ever heard that (and I've done a lot of play through). There's a lot of the evidence points to the SS being human but I thought I'd add that little bit of evidence gong the other way.

This makes me think of something;

Father: Creates Synth of parent and waits for them to arrive.

SS: Shows up at Institute. And blows Father's brains out the moment they see him.

Father: (Shocked Pikachu face.)

I hate that dialogue with Dima. Because the answers we can give are answers WE THE PLAYER would give. Because that’s the farthest WE know about. But not the character.. the character had mentioned remembering watching the silver shroud, remembers who bradberton is, etc. why would we be allowed to say those things, but not when dima asks. It’s stupid.

This fan conspiracy theory is just like saying the pyramids are made by aliens

Yeah 100% my SS is a synth. She's not telling DiMA that. Why TF Shaun decided to have his mom pork with everyone that's a romancable campanion, no idea maybe he's just into that category.

But DiMA? That mofo is getting strung up, Avery is getting strung up too, the nucleus is getting blown, and finally the Institute is being informed of the synth refuge.

Now if the Sole Survivor is played regardless of Nate or Nora with the FW (Fallout Dr. Who) there's no way in creation Nate or Nora could be a Snyth.

Is there even a point to creating synths for the Wasteland that are fatally susceptible to radiation damage? Because SS sure is!!

I always have to think it's good that synths exist in this post apocalyptic world, cause there are plenty of decimal test we can do that would detect a synth, maybe an MRI, which would give 3d scans of people's brains, that the synth components would show up in, if the component doesn't have any magnetic metals in them, which would cause the MRI machine to just rip the component out pretty violently with magnets. It's really funny hearing the people of the Commonwealth talk about having advanced tech, when they got nuked back to the 1700s with some relics they say are theirs, cause the laser weapons are all prewar, the power armor is all prewar, the buildings and medicine is all prewar, the institute are the only one to have been able to continue scientific progress, and they don't have that much trouble identifying synths, so the SAFE test lady is always hilarious to me cause she has little to no grounding for her research, she's basically pulling at straws when the tech to detect synths is in every hospital in Boston, she just needs to get one working

You pass the safe test tho

Too Bad MRIs isn't in The Fallout universe, then People can be examined to see if They are synths or not.

Ok 6 year old, but i can say now that Bethesda had no idea of what to do with the main story or probably considered multiple possibilities until finally picking one, Kellogg for example definately reffers to Father as the "old man", and it was the "old man" idea to kidnap Shaun and it also was "the old man" idea to wait with "Synth Shaun" in Diamond City, it is clear those two are the same "old man", besides think about Kellogg age. I think the original idea was that the Institute are all Synths, they lied to you making you to belive that Father is Shaun but the real Shaun may be (if hes is not dead) the one that they told you is a Synth recreation. They are trying to create better synths to slowy infiltrate the humans and etc, thats why the kidnappings and replacing, thats why they create synths whiout any apparent reason...
They probably realised that was Battlestar Galactica Cylons with extra steps and changed it to what we have now to make more open to interpretation and some stuff were left behind.

Couldn’t father just make his self a synth if he knows he was dying ?

in order to create a synth, with his parents memories, they would have had to interrogate the original parent. meaning take him or her out of the cryo chamber. torture them and then dispose of them. same as countless of other people of the common wealth. That makes it even more diabolical. The only thing odd is that there is no record at all of any of this.

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If his remaining parent was also disposed of by the previous director, he might still be able to clone him. However the brain would be useless for memory retrieval at that point.

I always role play as a synth.

In 3 and vagus you can only use vats when you have a pipboy yet 4 you can use it without one. I watch a video saying synths has built in vats