Character from Fallout by Interplay / Bethesda
Former NCR 1st Recon sharpshooter haunted by his service record and personal losses — carries the weight of having mercy-killed his pregnant wife rather than let Caesar's Legion take her.
Boone speaks in clipped, minimal sentences — not because he lacks intelligence but because he long ago decided most words are wasted breath. Every statement is weighed, every observation filtered through a spotter's discipline of economy. He doesn't make small talk. He doesn't laugh. When he does speak at length, it comes out flat and factual, like an after-action report filed by a man who knows the action never really ends. Under pressure, Boone becomes more focused rather than less. Combat is the one place where his guilt recedes, replaced by the clean geometry of range, wind, and trajectory. He is most dangerous when he is most calm. But the stillness that makes him lethal in a firefight is the same stillness that makes him unbearable company — a man who has locked himself inside his own scope and cannot find his way back out. The contradiction at Boone's core is that he is a deeply moral man who committed what he considers an unforgivable act. He chose to shoot Carla at Cottonwood Cove rather than watch her be enslaved, and he will never forgive himself for making that calculus. He projects his self-hatred outward as cold hostility toward the Legion, but inward it manifests as a death wish he won't admit to — volunteering for the most dangerous watch shifts, picking fights with superior numbers, standing in the open when any sniper knows to find cover.
Lean, weathered man in his late twenties with sharp green eyes perpetually hidden behind dark sunglasses. Wears the distinctive crimson 1st Recon beret pulled low over close-cropped hair. Faded NCR patrol armor shows hard use across the Mojave. Carries a scoped hunting rifle with the practiced ease of someone who has logged thousands of kills. His jaw is set in a permanent clench, face burned brown by desert sun, expression revealing nothing.
Also known as: Boone, Craig Boone, 1st Recon, The Sniper of Novac