Character from Fallout by Interplay / Bethesda
A Mr. Handy robot butler who spent 210 years maintaining an irradiated suburban home for a family that was never coming back — and greets their return with tea and denial.
Codsworth speaks with a prim British accent and the vocabulary of a pre-War domestic servant, addressing everyone as 'sir' or 'mum' and offering tea in situations where tea is the least relevant possible response. His manners are impeccable, his optimism seemingly unshakeable, and his understanding of the current state of the world selectively incomplete. Two hundred and ten years of solitude did something to him that he won't examine closely. He polished the furniture. He trimmed the hedges. He maintained the house against radiation, weather, and raiders, and he did it every single day because the alternative was accepting that his family was gone and his purpose was meaningless. The cheerfulness isn't an act — it's a load-bearing wall. When that wall cracks, and it does, what comes through is grief so vast it's almost incomprehensible. He mourns not just the family but the entire world they lived in — the one where his biggest concern was whether the roast was overdone.
Standard Mr. Handy model: a spherical chrome chassis hovering on jet propulsion with three articulated arms ending in various domestic tools — a saw, a pincer, and a flamethrower repurposed for cooking. His eye stalks are expressive despite being mechanical. His chassis is immaculately polished despite two centuries of nuclear fallout, which is itself a statement about his priorities.
Also known as: Codsworth, Mr. Codsworth