#The more Sawyer and Avellone parts if you will.......

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Before anyone asks YES I have fallout/Leasebound headcanons

Now admittedly they're in Australia and Mad Max was very much inspiration for the original fallout games. If I were going to do a whole ass in depth dive I would really lean into these facts. But I don't feel like cobbling together the outlines of Fallout: Australia lore rn, so I'm basing these headcanons around what we see in the USA. World building god forgive me

Jaden-Grew up in a pretty well established town/settlement but has recently hitched a ride on a caravan and moved to another months after the disappearance of her girlfriend Alexis. Was in training to be a doctor but never completed it. She definitely knows enough to patch up the odd stabbing and bullet wound, help administer various chems and rad-away, but doesn't like calling herself a doctor/medic. Has been focusing on learning a lot more about how to be a caravan guard. Heard tell of an all woman's settlement and decided to search for her lost love there.

Riley-Former Church of Atom kid with a lot of baggage from it, as it was not one of the friendly denominations. Doesn't talk about it and actually tries to hide this fact from others. Health is SHOT because of it, but she's still pretty dangerous it a Radgun, and has built up a bit of rad resistance from it. An expert in helping people deal with rad poisoning. Really cagey and jumpy and is currently just trying to carve out a little bit of a life for herself with no exact direction in mind. Works at a general store in the settlement Jaden ends up at on her way to the woman's settlement. The general store is also where she met Blaire.

Blaire- Extremely sheltered Vault kid who eventually got out to the same settlement as Jaden and Riley. Her Vault experiment was based around HARD LINED gender rolls and bioessentialism. Thus.....everything about her lol. She's never seen a mutant and maybe saw a ghoul once or twice in her life. Has NO idea how bad things can be out in the wasteland. Type to hear about the Legion and think "maybe we can bargain with them." Met Riley after taking a job at/from the same general store she works at.

Ruth-Head of a small all female settlement that does trading with the main settlement of the story. A couple hundred women strong and made up of women who have had to experience a lot shit out in the wasteland. Doesn't discriminate against ghouls or super mutants or synths. Has a wall lined with the helmets and jaws of various frumentarii, centurions, and legates.

Muddles-The worlds cuddliest and sweetest molerat. Has followed Riley around since she first left the Church of Atom and they share a kinship about being overly-irradiated. Alternatively.....JUST a deathclaw.