Fallout Stars Tease Lucy and the Ghoul Romance: Will They or Won’t They?

Fallout fans have been busy matchmaking, and the cast noticed. Right after Season 2 premiered, the internet started shipping Lucy and the Ghoul. Yes, that Lucy and that Ghoul. The trio at the center of the show got asked about it, and the reactions ranged from amused to a hard nope.

Quick refresher: Prime Video launched Fallout back in April 2024, it blew up fast, and it is based on the game franchise. The main trio here is Walton Goggins (the Ghoul), Ella Purnell (Lucy), and Aaron Moten (Maximus).

Entertainment Tonight posted the cast clip on December 18, 2025, and the question was simple: what do you think about fans pairing Lucy and the Ghoul? That led to some very human responses:

• Aaron Moten: He literally face-palmed, repeated the question to make sure he heard it right, and then said it was the first he had heard of the ship — and he kind of loved the idea. When the interviewer said Purnell already knew about the chatter, he joked that of course Ella would be on top of something like that.
• Walton Goggins: He said he had no clue it was a thing until Ella brought it up to him. Then he paused and shut the door on the fantasy. He has also heard that some viewers think the Ghoul — and his whole look — is sexy, which he finds pretty hard to wrap his head around.
• Ella Purnell: She was aware the ship was making the rounds, but she does not see it herself. Still, her attitude was very much a whatever floats your boat.

"That is never going to happen."

That line, from Goggins, is about as definitive as it gets. Moten, for his part, ended up landing on something kind of sweet in a Fallout sort of way: the idea might be broken and twisted, but there is a weird beauty to it — very on brand for this world.

If the pairing sounds wild to you, you are not alone. But it is also the exact kind of fan-fictiony swirl that tends to spring up around shows like this, especially when the characters are polar opposites by design.

This interview snippet came via Entertainment Tonight; the story was first written up by Ishita Verma for SuperHeroHype and later ran at ComingSoon.