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chaosintheavenue · 4 years

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Chaos's Fallout OC Timeline: Part 2

Part 1 is here. It gets heavy in places, so please heed the warnings!

This entry in the timeline is 99% focused on Charlie. Again, it became long, so there's going to be a part 3...

Warning: Contains mentions of death (including child death), violence, alcohol and drug use, and general Caesar’s Legion unpleasantness

2279, continued

Charlie walks straight into Cottonwood Cove, unsure how the Legionaries will view her after two years. As she expected deep down, she is captured. She's brought before Caesar, who reacts emotionlessly to the news of Chel's death. Charlie is told that she is permitted back into the Fort, but is on very thin ice, and can come and go as she pleases once she's in a more stable state

She spends a few weeks with her mother trying to keep them both busy, but she can't reconcile what she now knows about the Legion's atrocities and the world outside with her happy-ish childhood memories, so she decides that her only shot at a decent future is to leave again

...Only to be told that Caesar has ordered that she stays put when she tries to walk out of the gate. She waits until nightfall and makes a break for it just like she did with Chel. She successfully gets outside of the fence, but is still on the Arizona side of the river, and there are a lot of Lakelurks hanging around on the banks. She decides to play it safe and cross the river at the level of Cottonwood Cove just in case

...Buuut the people stationed there have already been alerted that she's trying to escape. She's captured and taken to Caesar a second time. Unexpectedly, he acknowledges her intelligence and stealth abilities, and the two eventually agree on a deal in which she is allowed out to assist the Frumentarii (stationed in the Legion safehouse) with recon operations

She starts training for her new role under a (so far unnamed, but I'm hoping she might spring into existence as a main 'cast member' one day!) young woman who is a fully-fledged Frumentarius in her own right. Charlie sees the mere existence of her mentor as a challenge to accept, and vows to herself that she will obtain the same position one day

On another note, this mentor also provides her first glimpse into her sexuality. The mentor knows nothing of it, but Charlie has one heck of a crush!

2280

Charlie completes training and starts being allowed out for occasional scouting missions. She constantly oversteps and one-ups her orders in an attempt to win approval, and she starts to be trusted with more advanced work as a result, eventually including the use of disguises. The opinions of her new colleagues are divided: most see it as only natural for Caesar to put every tool available to him to use in the most efficient manner, but some (all of them old-timers who worked under Sid) disapprove of her 'injection' into the unit on their late founder and Commander's behalf

Behind the scenes, she really isn't handling Chel's death well. Her work leads her to become truly intoxicated on both alcohol and chems for the first time in her life, and for a while she regularly consumes both in an attempt to dull the pain. Geminus is set at this point

A LOT happens over the next two years, so I'll have to summarise it even more so than I have been doing up until now, and some happenings might be slightly out of chronological order!

2281

Charlie takes part in a recon mission to Camp Searchlight. Vulpes Inculta uses the information she provided to turn 🏘 into ☢️. Charlie is horrified when she realises what her intel was used for, and feels so guilty and remorseful for the part she played that she approaches the camp in her 'Summer' disguise persona and volunteers to help with the cleanup efforts

A package courier shot in the head near Goodsprings regains consciousness and makes a full recovery. In my canon, I try to keep Courier Six vague, because I almost imagined Charlie as part of the game when I first created her, but at the same time I do picture a specific person when I think of them in her storyline. Another thing I'll quickly say here, because I'm not sure where or even if it will come up in future, is that they go down Yes Man's route

Not too long after, Benny is captured at the Fort, where Charlie happens to currently be staying. She is present in Caesar's tent during his interrogation (he recognises her from the Strip, and since he's about to be killed anyway, she tauntingly informs him just how many times his casino has been infiltrated and used for unscrupulous activities, and how shaky the security is), and is ordered personally by Caesar to go down into the weather station bunker with Courier Six and assist with their mission. She (correctly) suspects that this is to make sure the job gets done properly, especially since Caesar expects that there might be robots down there and knows how much she despises them (can I get a yeehaw for using OCs to fix personal nitpicks with canon? lol)

Upon returning from the destroyed bunker, Charlie uses her machete to pry the Platinum Chip out of the slot on the console, to keep as a historical object. This makes her realise that she has almost unique access to a lot of information of potential historical importance, and she begins to collect objects and write up accounts of events that she has witnessed or heard about for the benefit of future generations

Courier Six simply walks out, and so Benny gets crucified...

Caesar starts to experience increasingly severe headaches. Charlie notices that the situation is worsening, but holds her tongue

Charlie meets Red in Goodsprings. Red (again, she's not properly developed yet, but may become a main cast member one day) is a frequent traveller originally from the Capital Wasteland, with a BOS leaning faction-wise. She's never passed through the Mojave area before, and Charlie offers to be her guide

The two quickly become friends. Red attends to her business being in the Mojave (what this is isn't fully decided, but it will involve them travelling to both Hidden Valley and the Strip), and Charlie all but kicks her substance habits with a new distraction available in the form of her companion. She does, however, continue to take Mentats for the benefit of her work

2282

Charlie continues to travel with Red, and they have MANY adventures together. Somewhere along the line, Charlie reveals her identity to Red

Caesar's illness develops pretty much as it would in-game. At one point, he goes into a full seizure in Charlie's presence, terrifying her. Despite his attitude towards her, she becomes protective and refuses to leave him, afraid that she's about to lose him too and not knowing what will happen to her with him gone

Red eventually performs the surgery successfully

Right as Red is preparing to leave the Mojave, Charlie hears the Happy Trails broadcast on the radio looking for two more members, and suggests that they sign up. The caravan part plays out as it would in-game, only the attackers are raiders known as the 80s instead of White Legs. Red and Charlie finish off the raiders, and wander deeper into Zion. Surprise surprise- Joshua's not dead, but now she has to tell him that Chel is. The White Leg attack on New Canaan hasn't yet happened, so they simply head back to the Mojave without really getting involved in matters of Zion

Right after they return, Charlie knocks Lucius out with her frying pan! Very luckily for her, he loses enough of his memory that he doesn't remember being in her presence at all that day

New Canaan is destroyed. Violet is among the survivors, but many of my minor OCs and Van Buren adoptees are not...

Red receives word that she's needed in Chicago. Charlie is devastated to see her go, but they keep in touch through letters throughout. She fully immerses herself in her work to combat her returning loneliness, but it's not enough...

2283

Charlie impulsively returns to Zion alone, looking to stay there for a little while. She receives word of the fate of New Canaan, but the facts are a little twisted by the time they reach her. She is horrified beyond description that Caesar allegedly directly ordered the execution of babies, and decides that she can never go back to the Legion

She spends about a month in Zion, then heads east, ultimately trying to reach Red (even though she has no way of knowing where she is at that point...)

...But gets captured by the Legion in Denver, and brought back to an irate Caesar (the return journey takes her to Flagstaff for the first time since she was a child, but in the circumstances, it's not a happy reunion, and she also feels that the streets are 'full of ghosts')

#Charlie #alcohol mention #drug mention #death tw #grief tw #caesar's legion-typical unpleasantness

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themarchingchemist · 7 years

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1, 3, 4, 5, for Mars

1. Which Fallout game are they from?

Mars is from my only, and thus, favorite Fallout game right now, Fallout: New Vegas. He is my Courier OC.

3. What is their S.P.E.C.I.A.L.? (Copied from my OC intro post)

SPECIAL: Str. (6), Per. (6) End. (5) Cha. (10) Int. (10) Agi. (8)Luc. (10)

4. Give us a summary of their backstory.(Copied from my OC intro post)

Summary? Just get the full meal :D

Ty was a former Frumentarii originally sent out to explorethe Western wastes for Caesar in 2255. Instead of going through the Mojavefirst, he explored the Pacific Northwest before coming down into what wasCalifornia, making first contact with the NCR around 2260. At this point, Tyhad been away from the Legion for 10 years and what had been unswerving loyaltyto Caesar had given way to a more pragmatic and sensible loyalty to oneself.After all, Caesar nor the Legion were there to help him fend off the variousbeasts and savages in the Pacific Northwest and California. His only memory wasstill that of a fledgling nation assembled from enslaved tribes; Ty did notknow Legion had expanded by then. As a result, he ended up assimilating intothe NCR, hiding his former allegiances to prevent himself from being lookeddown as another filthy tribal.

Ironically enough, he would eventually find himself slowlymaking himself back east whilst moving from town to town doing jobs for caps,shelter, and food. By the time NCR found Hoover Dam in 2274, he hadinadvertently found himself back in Arizona. It had been 19 years since he hadseen sign of the Legion and had himself a true NCR citizen by then, havingforgotten most of his former life. However, the Legion had not forgotten abouthim. In the many years he had not reported back to Caesar, he had been deemedto be a traitor and declared in damnatiomemoriae by Caesar himself. The many times he nearly found himselfcrucified by the hands of his childhood friends, the hands of the people heonce considered to be his brothers, started the flame of intense hatred for allmembers of the Legion that only grew with each time an assassin came for histhroat. 2276 was the first time Ty found himself in the lands of the Mojavewastes.

Ty did not personally attend the first Battle for Hoover Damin 2277, but he did celebrate greatly when he found that the NCR had crushedCaesar’s forces under the Malpais Legate. By then, he had found his steadiestjob yet as a courier for the Mojave Express….

5. What’s their full name and does it have a meaning? Do theyhave any nicknames and how did they get em?

Mars will often tell others that his his name, Tyrannus Mars was an amalgamation of the two phrases sic semper tyrannis, Martis fillius. It was a name he adopted after he was shot in the head by Benny, because it was the first thing that he first remembered: his ultimate goal to assassinate Caesar. The literal translation of the two phrases was a warning to Caesar himself, given to Vulpes Inculta after his first attempt at ending Mars’ life: “thus always to tyrants, Son of Mars.”

Mars’ tribal name is long forgotten, the first thing to be beaten out of him by his Legion instructors. His name as a Legion Frumentarius holds both historical and religious weight: Pontius Pilate. Caesar granted him the name since Mars would insist on cleansing himself rigorously after battles and other assignments, as if to purge himself of the responsibility of all the deaths he had caused…much like the historical Pilate washed his hands immediately after agreeing to have Jesus Christ crucified to show that he no longer had the responsibility of the Crucifixion and its outcomes.

#tyrannus mars #fallout new vegas #oc #courier six #sic semper tyrannis #caesars legion #backstory

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