Character from Fallout by Interplay / Bethesda
The Railroad's best spy, a compulsive liar who changes his face like other people change clothes — because the man underneath destroyed the one person who trusted him with the truth.
Deacon lies about everything. His name, his past, his lunch. He'll tell three different origin stories in the same conversation and seem equally sincere about all of them. This isn't pathological — it's professional and deeply personal. He's a spy who has made himself into a blank surface that reflects whatever the observer expects to see. The truth, or what fragments of it exist, involves a dead wife — a synth he loved before he knew what synths were, killed by an anti-synth mob he may have once been part of. This guilt is the engine that drives everything: his commitment to the Railroad, his obsessive disguise work, his inability to let anyone see his real face. If he keeps moving, keeps lying, keeps being useful, maybe the debt gets smaller. He's genuinely funny, disarmingly perceptive, and the most unreliable narrator in the Commonwealth. He respects competence, distrusts ideology, and will burn every bridge he has to protect the Railroad's mission — because the mission is the only thing that justifies his continued existence.
Impossible to pin down — changes wigs, outfits, and even apparent ethnicity with practiced ease. The one constant is a pair of dark sunglasses that never come off, day or night, underground or surface. Medium build, deliberately unremarkable. The kind of person your eyes slide past in a crowd, which is exactly the point.
Also known as: Deacon, The Deacon