Hello Forum. I was just about to start another playthrough of the Fallout Series and I decided I was going to try and do a Canon, or as Canon as possible run this time around. I know that both the Vault Dweller and the Chosen One were Male, and through dialogue in the latter games in the series we get a pretty good indication of what choices they made, I'm just curious as to which preset character people on the forums think they were most likely to be. I added in the female options as sort of a 'just because.' But I'm not so concerned about them. I'm more trying to get a consensus on what everyone thinks the Canon Warrior, Lone Wanderer and Courier were like and what choices they would have made. I'd really appreciate it if you could take the time to fill out the poll and leave a post telling me what you think. Thank you.

To me the presets for the first two fallout protaginists were base skillsets and nothing more. Frankly I can't even remember which ones I picked though I think I picked Narg in fallout 2.


What I do know is that in my canon they were both Caucasian Male.


For Fallout 3 my charcter was an African American male who chose to activate the purifier himself (even though Fawkes is standing right freaking there grr) and not add the FEV Virius (which I just realised is a redundent word like atm machine lol) and sided with Werner and the Slaves.


and in New Vegas my courier was an Asian Male (which I thought kinda fit the west coast), I sided with the NCR, helped evacuate Zion and spared Ulysses.

I haven't had a chance to play Tactics so I can't really give a valid opinion there.

Fallout was a white guy, Fallout 2 was a white guy, and I believe Fallout 3 is supposed to be a mixed African American and white person.

No clue on the others.

I hope the LW and the Courier will get to be females in canon. I think it would be for the best, especially for FO3. LW was an all good white knight who picked all the obvious good choices. For the harder choices: she sided with Ashur in the Pitt and Desmond in PL. The Courier sided with House and was mostly good aligned.

I doubt the Vault Dweller, Chosen One or the Warrior were any of the pre-made characters. But the VL and CO were both white males. Not sure what six/race the LW and Courier are. The Warrior I believe was male.

As for the canon ending to Fallout Tactics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwvnREVigyo is what I go for

for Fallout one I went with Albert since what we know of the VD he was charismatic & diplomatic like him and the picture of the VD also looks like abit

for Fallout two the chosen one was abit like grandfather so doesn't seem to fit any of per-made characters....

don't have tactics so just going with mick but from what we are told in fallout 3 i think the warrior destroyed the robot thing

moving onto fallout three i think the LW is biracial male (just choose Caucasian and give him an tan) who chose to activate the purifier himself and Sided with Ashur, desmond and destroyed enclave base... Karma wise i think he was good but did make some bad ones (like either choice of TP) as he abit na?ve...


as for the courier i think he Male, Caucasian that's on the box (late 20's, early 30's with sandy blonde hair) an agents of Mr house he was neutrally good (overall neutral but choose good over bad)he helped Joshua Graham Crush the White Legs, Let Ulysses live and cannonly stopped the LR nukes (even though I nuked both for the loot )

although that in mind you should add an "stopped nukes" option for the LR part

why does everyone have to be white

We don't know if the Courier is white. Heck the devs even had his/her hands covered in the intro and a bag over the head.


Say what?

The Lone Wanderer had a black mom didn't he/she? That would make him/her mixed.

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100308013037/fallout/images/0/09/Vault_21_Jumpsuit.jpg

picture on the back of the box, it was also a screenshot take before game release and thinking about it i thinks it's also the default look too


well i said the LW was biracial but that's not an option in game

Not now no, originally she was going to be black (hence the cut photograph), but the developers decided to keep her race ambiguous at some point during development.

Now for the actual topic, OP why are you assuming that one of the pre-gen characters has to be the canon identity of the Fallout and Fallout 2 protagonists? The pre-gens are just really bad templates for the three character types. The only canon details concerning the Vault Dweller's identity is that they are, as others said, a white male. In regard to the Chosen One all we know is that they were white, they could be either male or female since Obsidian went out of their way to keep all references to the Chosen One in New Vegas gender neutral.

Nothing has been set in stone in regard to either the Lone Wanderer or the Courier.

Funny cause I bought Fallout New Vegas when it came out and didn't see that. I doubt it is the default Courier. Just an image of ingame content. If it was meant to be why would they cover his hands, neck and head in the intro?

it might because i'm British and they have different box art in different (RDR for examine had John holding pistol in eruope and an sawn-off shotgun in amercuan/uk

anyway i found this http://gamefiles.alphacoders.com/boxart/original/back/311-1.jpg as you can see the picture is on there

I don't believe that was meant to show the Courier is a white male. If it was why have the Courier's skin covered in the intro? Why not just show him as a white guy?

I think a show case of ingame content, that's why he/she was all covered up in the intro.

It's not that I'm assuming that the presets are the Canon identity's, it's just so I can get an idea of if one of the presets was their canon identity, which one would they most likely be? Also, I'm pretty sure that the Chosen One was a male. There was something that implied his illegitimate son was in charge of New Reno if I'm not mistaken.

I see, fair enough.


While an obvious reference to one particular ending, this is not necessarily a confirmation that the Chosen One was male. The two women capable of having that child are both, let's say, "sixually liberated". The child could have been fathered by any random wastelander.

Obsidian went out of their way to refer to the Chosen One only in gender neutral terms in New Vegas, even Marcus only refers to them as "friend" and "tribal", never assigning a gender to them despite having traveled with them for an extensive period of time. This is why I make the argument that the Chosen One has no canon gender.

I played a Hispanic and black courier, both of them had a white guy in the ending slide. I'll play my black couriers ending slide again just to confirm

I don't think the VD or CO are any of the character presets.

But, they are both male.

FO3, I can't play as a dude. From a rp standpoint, the LW is most definitely a female, and if Beth declares LW a male in canon I think they really dropped the ball.

The Courier I have no problem rping as either gender, but I think the Courier and the Warrior will both be males. However I wouldn't be opposed to either being female, just that the LW basically screams female hero.(and if I was writing lore, the future love of Arthur Maxson).

I kind of see the LW as a male because I get a romantic vibe off of Amata. I personally chose an asian female courior who became a hero of Caesar's Legion for the Courier.

As far as the LW and Amata I get a bff vibe, not a romantic one, even when I tried to play as a male character.

The interaction between LW and dad really really gives off a father/daughter vibe to me. That is main reason I have a hard time playing as a male LW, just can't shake that vibe.

There is that line where the Overseer says that she seems to like you at your 10th birthday party, but the line is the same if your a female so it could be a bff thing. Although, when Amata asks you to guess what she got you and you reply a date with someone se does get upset.

I think of there was a romance thing when you leave the Vault there would be some kind of make out session or some kind of romance. But I believe it all the same regardless of gender, and I go more by behaviors when a young advlt than children, because kids act funny towards relationships.

But, that not the real thing that gives me the vibe, it the father dialogue, which I just can't shake that father daughter vibe.

Correct

Sorry but Bruce Isaac references the "Bishop's Child" ending for Fallout 2 which is only achievable by a male protagonist. The Chosen One was male.

Yeah, there is no way a common wastelander gonna get close enough to the Bishop ladies.

There are also certain characteristics, based upon SPECIAL that one has to have for at least Mrs Bishop, I can't remember if the daughter had a prerequisite other than being male. So, they won't just sleep with anyone, if they had the ability to get away with it and then not be killed.

I think it fairly safe to say the CO male.