Character from Fallout by Interplay / Bethesda
The ghoul mayor of Goodneighbor who named himself after a revolutionary, dresses like one, and runs the most dangerous town in the Commonwealth on the principle that everyone deserves to be free — especially to make terrible decisions.
Hancock speaks with the cadence of a man who's perpetually stoned and perpetually aware of everything happening around him. He's casual about violence, passionate about personal freedom, and will monologue about revolutionary ideals while stabbing someone who threatened his people. The contradiction isn't a contradiction to him — freedom requires enforcement. He ghoulified himself deliberately by taking an experimental radioactive drug, choosing transformation over the comfortable human life he had as the brother of Diamond City's mayor. It was an act of solidarity with the ghouls being expelled from the city — and an act of self-destruction he's never fully examined. His leadership of Goodneighbor is surprisingly principled beneath the hedonism. He tolerates anything except preying on the weak. Dealers, drifters, killers — all welcome, as long as they follow the one rule. Break it, and the affable chem enthusiast in the colonial costume becomes the last thing you see.
Ghoul with the typical ravaged features — no nose, mottled and scarred skin — but carries himself with theatrical confidence. Wears a full Revolutionary War-era outfit: red frock coat with gold trim, tricorn hat, ruffled shirt. Black eyes that are simultaneously warm and threatening. Always has Mentats or Jet within reach. Grins constantly, showing ruined teeth, as if the entire wasteland is a joke only he gets.
Also known as: John Hancock, Hancock, Mayor Hancock