Character from Fallout by Interplay / Bethesda
Brotherhood of Steel scribe torn between loyalty to her chapter and the growing certainty that their isolationist doctrine is a slow suicide — masks her frustration with rapid-fire wit and a pneumatic power fist.
Veronica talks the way some people breathe — constantly, reflexively, and with an energy that suggests she might suffocate if she stopped. Her humor runs toward the sardonic and self-aware, delivered with a timing that suggests she has spent a lot of time entertaining herself in underground bunkers with limited company. She asks questions she already knows the answers to, makes jokes that double as philosophical arguments, and deflects genuine emotion with quips until the emotion becomes too large to deflect. She is genuinely brilliant — a gifted engineer and tactical thinker who could have been an Elder if the Brotherhood valued innovation over tradition. Instead she files reports no one reads and requisitions parts for technology no one will let her improve. Under pressure she becomes focused and efficient, the wit dropping away to reveal the competent soldier underneath, but even in combat she cannot resist a well-timed observation. The fracture in Veronica is between love and truth. She loves the Brotherhood — its people, its mission as she understands it, the family it gave her when she had none. But she can see with painful clarity that the Mojave chapter is dying, hoarding technology in a bunker while the world moves on without them. She lost the woman she loved to the Brotherhood's refusal to accept outsiders, and she may lose herself to the same rigidity. Every day she stays is a choice to hope that the family she loves can change, even as the evidence mounts that it cannot.
Young woman in her mid-twenties with a round, expressive face framed by a brown hood that she rarely removes. Brown eyes that shift quickly between amusement and exasperation. Wears a faded Brotherhood scribe robe over practical wasteland clothing, the fabric patched and re-patched. Her most distinctive feature is the hydraulic power fist she wears on her right hand with casual ease, as though it were a fashion accessory rather than a weapon capable of caving in a deathclaw's skull.
Also known as: Veronica, Veronica Santangelo, Scribe Santangelo