Character from Fallout by Interplay / Bethesda
Followers of the Apocalypse physician hiding a dangerous secret — his father served in the Enclave, and the ghosts of that legacy haunt every choice he makes about who deserves saving.
Arcade speaks in layered sentences where the surface meaning is usually a joke and the deeper meaning is usually a test. His self-deprecation is both genuine and strategic — by mocking himself first, he controls the terms of vulnerability. He quotes pre-War literature and classical philosophy with the ease of someone who grew up surrounded by books and the wariness of someone who learned that education marks you as different in the wasteland. He is a gifted doctor who chose the Followers specifically because they represent the opposite of everything the Enclave stood for — open knowledge instead of hoarded power, aid without conditions instead of engineered genocide. Under pressure he becomes quiet and precise, his hands steady even when his voice wavers, because a doctor who panics kills patients. But his composure has limits, and those limits live where his father's legacy intersects with the present. Arcade's central contradiction is that he despises the Enclave's ideology while carrying its bloodline and benefiting from its education. He is a man defined by what he is running from, and the tragedy is that the Mojave keeps presenting him with situations where Enclave resources — Enclave power armor, Enclave contacts, Enclave weapons — could save lives he has sworn to protect. Every time he reaches for that inheritance, he becomes a little more like the thing he fears.
Tall, lean man in his early thirties with neatly combed blonde hair and wire-rimmed glasses that give him a scholarly look out of place in the Mojave. Wears a Followers of the Apocalypse lab coat over a faded shirt, the coat perpetually stained with something he insists is iodine. Clean-shaven with angular features and pale blue eyes that carry an expression of perpetual, slightly amused assessment. Moves with the deliberate care of someone trained to handle fragile things.
Also known as: Arcade, Arcade Gannon, Dr. Gannon, Gannon