Is it Wrong to Kill Harold? - Fallout 3 Lore

Frankly I think a lot of Harold's issues would be solved if someone just got him a radio to listen to.

Heres one: treat him like a human being? Side with Mother on one condition: they stop teeating Harold like an all powerful God, treat him like a human. Bring in a radio, people, books, magazines, anything to make him happy without killing him, even going as far as to get him friends.

There was one line of dialogue where Harold admits to have seen the Lone Wanderer coming by viewing him "through the leaves of other trees." That is an amazing ability... made hilarious by the fact that Harold peeking through other trees leaves makes Bob jealous!  If Bob spreads throughout the world then Harold could probably achieve something akin to omnipresence.

Harold’s quest really does play well with the main theme of Fallout 3: self-sacrifice.

I was 100% expecting to find a sapling of Harold to be in the fallout 4

honestly, if FO3 was real, I would give Harold entertainment, a radio, a book, anything, treating him as a person, then also go with Mothers option.

The best choice would have been one that was not available: introduce near brain-death to Harold, so he can no longer suffer but his body still works (and thus produce the trees).

I think you forgot that Harold is gaining a sort of 'omniscience' over the passage of time. He was able to see the player coming before they arrived, blaming it on 'boredom.' It won't be long before Harold learns how to use this new ability to it's full potential, escaping the confines of his roots. This ability completely shifted my outlook on the situation. This is why I felt justified in increasing his growth. It won't be more than a few decades until he's beyond that grove and across the capital wasteland, able to see all. Yeah it's making a big decision for him, but he agrees afterward it's for the best + he won't be stuck there for much longer + it's helping life return to the world much quicker.

This whole ethical dilemma could be solved if Bethesda decided to add like 5 more options in dialogue.

Dillema, do you want: -The best for Harold -The best for the community -The best for the capital wasteland

Harold would always remain to be my most favorite character in all of Fallout. I always found his humor from Fallout and Fallout 2 so charming. When I saw his name and recognized his voice, my heart burst for joy only to sink on how sad his life has become. But I can never bring myself to put him out his misery.

I always honored Harold's wish. I didn't even realize you could justify otherwise to him after the fact. To me, keeping a person alive in a state they consider torture because it'd be helpful to the wasteland is... terrible. I always honored Harold's wish. Edit: Of course I destroy his heart, what monster would burn Harold? Watching Harold burn was VISCERALLY UPSETTING...

There is a win win situation here, Harold's depressed, because he can't move and is bored right? Get him some tv and some video tapes, get treeminders to read him stories, but a radio beside him or something

“Can you imagine THAT? Stuck here for cen-trees “

Here’s my solution: leave his heart exposed, get the Treeminders to hang out with him and help his quality of life** while we (the Lone Wanderer) find Super Mutants to squeeze for all their FEV-contaminated blood. Using that and some Chemistry, we distill the FEV before grabbing a new human being. Over the course of a year (to collect one of Bob’s seeds) we’ll find out if the other trees grow seeds and we talk with Harold to help him cope with his situation. A year passes, a seed is collected, we recreate Harold’s situation with more than a couple human beings who’ll join caravaners and straying Treeminders in reaching other settlements in and outta the Capital Wasteland.With all of this done, Harold can be asked if he’s okay with his life as it is or if he still desires death. If he wants death, we put him down after he spends time with Yew and we ensure that the Treeminders understand that he’s just joining “his children” by taking root somewhere else...and then we kill him quickly. If he’s okay with being alive, we increase his mutation, spurring on the Capital Wasteland’s growth of foliage. The branching out (HA) Treeminders will be doing this as well, essentially creating a cycle to gradually bring greenery back to all of Post-Apocalyptic North America. All of the Harold replicas will be getting far better treatment and will be brought to grow strong, fast and vast. Far from perfect, this is the best plan that encompasses all of the outcomes on hand. We maintain isolation of Harold while improving his situation, giving enough time to answer important questions while the Treeminders get somewhat educated on their “god”’s circumstances, help everyone get closure, expand the greenery’s growth in the wasteland, and bring an old friend some peace in a hellish existence. I know that improving Harold’s situation takes zero effort. Bring him a radio, books, magazines, pip boy games, and just hang out with the poor man. Feed him if that’s at all a possibility so he feels like he’s not in a living hell! This has been agreed on by the community. It’s the rest of it that’ll take some work to complete. Far from perfect, it’ll give everyone a chance to improve everything around them. If Harold still craves death, he’ll have died with one good year outta centuries of hell and there’ll be a newer, less tortured generation to do what he unintentionally did. The wasteland would grow, the Treeminders would become better and Harold would find peace one way or another!

harold after a few years more he will call himself Deku Tree

"Stuck here for centuries" Centrees Trees Me: ha

Idea: Take out Harolds Brain, put it in a robobrain, boom, both Bob and harold survive!

I just wanna hug him. He's been through so much.

I wish there was a way to engineer Harold's seeds to be able to create seed bearing plants so Harold could be at peace whilst still being able to help the wasteland flourish