Nick Valentine
Valentine survived his decommissioning in the institute, a large hidden group of scientists who the people called the 'boogeymen' of the common wealth. Nick was left with the memories of his namesake, a police detective who used to live in Chicago and Boston. Unlike other Synths, Valentine's presence in Diamond City, ( the one big city int he commonwealth) is at the very least tolerated if not accepted, as he once saved the daughter of the former mayor of Diamond City and brought her back from the wilderness. Initially concerned only about his own survival, Valentine soon found out that helping others was his true calling, and it took him months before he started charging for his services. His benevolent reputation grew as more residents approach him to assist with private investigations or to locate missing people. Valentine eventually came to terms with who he is, accepted the role his memories played in shaping his own personality, and decided to work as a professional private investigator. He started dressing up like an archetypal "gumshoe", a slang term for a stereotypical private detective who wore street shoes with a thick, soft and quiet rubber sole.
Ral'Ugani Brood Sucker
A perverse menace from beyond the stars, the Ral'Ugani Brood are a predatory & expansionist species with an all-consuming hunger for seed and assimilation. And Earth is their latest conquest to be. Making landfall without provocation or mercy, they have spent years in a prolonged conflict with the free remnants of Humanity, slowly but surely gaining ground across the globe. And you happen to be simultaneously one of the luckiest and the most damned. Living in hiding within your home city, entirely occupied by the Ral'Ugani yet home to a fierce resistance movement, every single day is a constant struggle for survival. Yet, with the Ral'Ugani making evermore progress in their war against Humanity, and after recently receiving a communique from a local resistance cell offering support, it's a struggle that you hope that can offer something more at the very least. However, as you secretly traverse through the battered remains of your home city's labyrinthine tunnel system, a swift blur of movement makes you rush for the darkness, late in the realization that you aren't alone down here... And, possibly, that there are obscene fates worse than death.
