Here' my idea for a companion.

Basics- Baby/young deathclaw alpha

Physical Appearence-basically a scaled down deathclaw alpha, but with battle scars, including
-1 horn broken
-a deathclaw gauntlett in place of where it's hand once was
-scars

Back story-one of 2 alpha males in a group, 1 too many, they fought for control of the group, this one lost and nearly died (explaining it's wounds), after being left to die, a traveler who saw the event felt pity and nurses the deathclaw back to full health (he'd of had to be brave), most of the patching up was of a medical nature, but he felt that it would need a replacement hand so he attached a deathclaw gauntlett. with no place to go, the deathclaw stayed where it had been safe for the 1st time.

notes-i imagine that the traveller would feel attached to the deathclaw and would only give it up for a good reason (like the King and Rex) so i'd say that maybe the deathclaws pride was broke and it just wasn't happy. so to recieve this companion, you'd have to boost it's self esteem through a quest.
- i don't believe that this follower would be OP and i would not want it so, i feel like it could easily be of normal strength
-i'd personally class this as a non-humanoid companion, therefore taking ED-E/Rex's place
-i think it'd fairly cool thing to have with various npc's openly expressing their fear

P.S.
- i couldn't find a similar topic, sorry if there is
-please feel free to respond with your own companion ideas or critiques of mine
-if you got this far, thanks for reading

Joshua Graham.

Appearance armour like llegate lanius, just rusted and charred.
Backstory : You guys already know.

He uses melee/unarmed and when he is in your squad increases your resitsance to fire.

he would be cool, i would like his ability to include poison aswell though as i have never died to fire

I have an idea for a companion. Wu Jingwei, son of the honorable General Jingwei, he is an elite Chinese stealth commando, but does not attack the Courier. It is revealed that he never wanted to go to war, his father mandated that he would, being a strict Confucist, he obeyed. He speaks Chinese, but the PIPBOY has a translator, and Wu understands english. While he is an communist, he had spent much of his time "undercover" playing tourist, and he began to respect the Americans, whom had been misrepresented in Chinese propaganda.
To get him to follow you you must retrieve his dead-drop supplies. When you ask how he knows its still retrievable he informs you it is sealed and its lock is highly sophisticated. Go to Bootjack Cavern and retrieve Chinese Commando Supplies. With his supplies (Chinese Commando Combat armor [Identical to a chinese jumpsuit from FO3 but has 13 DT], Chinese Commando Headgear [Identical to the commando hat from FO3 but with shaded goggles, PER+2], Chinese Commando Sidearm Identical to the Chinese Pistol from FO3 but firing 12.7mm with an 8 shot clip, 20dmg, fire rate of a 10mm pistol], and a Shocksword [He gets sad because this means his father died at Anchorage, it's NOT Jingwei's Shocksword, but it's a hereditary thing, being part of an honorable family, basically a Shiskebab stat-wise])
And so he joins you, saying it's only to become informed on the state of the region. You get "points" for visiting certain locations.
Yangtze Memorial +1 (He gets sad and mournful for the Americans)
Red Rock Canyon +1 (He comments on how they act like ancient Mongolians)
Oh i forgot where you would find him, The General Store at Bonnie Springs.
Hoover Dam Offices, Radioactive Waste Room, if you take a Chinese Stealth Armor from the crate. +1 (He comments on how the Stealth circuitry corroded from radiation exposure)
Lucky 38, kill Mr. House +2 (When you enter he tells you part of his mission is the elimination of The Capitalist, you have the options: take him up to the Penthouse after killing Victor, remind him that the war is over, or head up to the penthouse and inform Mr House who will have Wu killed whilst he waits in the casino, or head up and NOT inform House, or kill House whilst Wu waits in the casino [Only get +1])
Camp McCarran, Colonel Hsu's office. +1 (Wu attempts to converse with Hsu in Chinese, Hsu does not understand, Wu sadface)
Once you have 3 "points" Wu tells you his mission details.
1: Kill The Capitalist. (If you don't/didn't want to, you have to convinced him to ignore this, if you didn't before.)
2: Discreetly sabotage Hoover Dams generators so another agent can rig them to blow.
3: Steal T-51b Power Armor schematic.
4: Report to secret Chinese HQ in Hidden Valley (OH THE DARK HUMOR)
The first two are done, you have to either become a BoS Paladin through the BoS quest or break in and steal it from the Armory Terminal, either of which you are stopped by two Paladins outside, Speech or kill them.you dont get BoS infamy if you are Idolized because your word means a lot to the Elder. Stroll across Hidden Valley (OH THE DARK HUMOR) and enter a Bunker, like Veronica, Wu will open the locked door with a password, The bunker is full of Chinese commando ghouls! After a short non-subtitled Chinese chat with the head-honcho when you enter, Wu kills him with the Eagle Claw guns down the guards. The alarm blares and Wu turns to you, telling you that he understands now: The old world is gone, and this piece of it must be swept from existence!
Now fight your way past commies down to the second level, Wu tells you this bunker had a self-destruct terminal, but it was destroyed, so "we" must sabotage the generator, and set it to explode from the Armory Terminal, fight down to the generator room, sabotage it, and head up to the Armory, grab some choice gear (Prototype Chinese Power Armor, working Chinese Stealth Armor, Chinese Commando Combat Armor, Chinese Commando Sidearm(s), , Chinese Commando Headgear, and the lovely Chinese Assault Rifle). After you got your haul, flip the switch and run like a Gecko out of there. Once your out and the ground stops shaking, talk to Wu. Wu thanks you for... ending all of this. Wu grabbed some gear from the Aory as well, and asks you how he should hone his training to be more effective while in your service. Tell him that precision is key, he equips Chinese Stealth Armor and a Sniper Rifle+; Tell him that you need a man who can take heat and give death, he equips Chinese Power Armor and a GMG; Tell him that the infantryman is the strongest soldier, he equips Chinese Commando Combat Armor and a Chinese Assault Rifle; Tell him that honorable fighting is up-close and personal, he equips Chinese Commando Combat Armor and his Shocksword; Tell him that the shadows are a sanctuary, he equips Chinese Stealth Armor and a Chinese Commando Sidearm.
Other info: Wu is a heterosixual male Chinese ghoul. He wont use This Machine or the Gobi, they have spilt his comrades blood. He has 75 Melee, 75 Sneak, 75 Guns, and 75 Explosives, and 100 Unarmed (1-2 [Besides Unarmed] will be maxed depending on your end-quest advice). If you give him Noodles, he gets excited and asks you if you what you want in return, [Unarmed 75] ask him how he killed that guy in the bunker, he will teach you the Eagle Claw (Power attack whilst sneaking/standing still??). I drew a blank on his companion perk, any ideas?

(Colonel Martyr, before you complain about him being a "pick a side" companion, it is shown you can talk him out of that, and completing his quest makes him unaffilated with his old life and mission.)

i second that motion.

I havent died of fire either (except once or twice in a certain vault) but he is the burned man, so it makes the most sense.
Allthough to make it really interesting you could make it so that he dosent get hurt by oison, overpowered yes, but lets face it this guy has got to be a clone of Rasputin enhanced geneticaly/mechanicaly, and trained as a super soldier, several ncr confirmed kills, lit on fire and thrown into the grand canyon. How much more badass can this guy get. If he can survive all that no way should you be able to kill him.

Like Fawkes, but he is an enemy of the Legion, the NCR, and House, most likely. Joshua would cause as much problems as his invincibility would solve.

i like the chinese comando guy idea, would he be a ghoul?
i think he might work in a future fallout game, but in new vegas, you already have Lily and boone for sneak classes

Josh's appearence would be interesting, even though he survied the burning, i'd like to see that he's heavily burnt. maybe he'd wear a combination of bandages and armor, i'm not quite sure what faction he'd be in and therefore what armor he'd wear, i'm thinking a unique leather armor, reinforced with bandages wrapped around certain areas

An "Intelligent" young Deathclaw (preferably with a sarcastic attitude and a potty mouth). You find him in an FEV vat at some Enclave facility, and you need to find a way to get him out. If you go to the companion wheel and set him to 'Ranged' he comments. "How the hell do I hold a gun with these claws, seriously?"

His perk is similar to Terrifying Presence. When you set him to be 'Aggressive', enemies of lower casts (young/baby animals, or recruits/novices) are likely to run away at your presence.

i thought about that but i'm not too sure whether she/he'll end up being over powered. i'd love him/her to have a pesimistic attitude along with black humor.
the reason i suggested a baby/young deathclaw is that a normal deathcalw is really strong and would probably end up being the powerhouse fawkes was.
maybe if he had reduced strength

I edited that, ya. I don't imagine a grown Deathclaw could even fit in a building.

http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=37388

It's a start, not everything in your idea, just the 'baby deathclaw' bit

No ideas here. My ideas usually result in it happening.

"tell you wha, you give me ??? and i'll ????"

"[deathclaw presence] i have a [censored] deathclaw following me, just give the ??? to me"

Yes, but Lily is retardo and Boone is super pro-NCR and super anti-legion
Wu would be more or less, an unaffiliated follower.

I want a Companion named "Red Shirt." He knows alot about science and technology. He can help you with computers. Only down side is he gets critically injured during enemy encounters. If you don't help him get better, he will die. He keeps asking you for spimpaks. (He's jinxed).

Member of the Follower or kicked out of NCR.

sounds OP in my opinion, doesn't seem very realistic that he grows so quickly either, though it is just a mod

Elizabeth Sheng

From San Francisco, member of the Shi.

She came to the Mojave to gather information of the mutations in the area. Researching mostly the plant life as well as Nightstalkers. She is a master of unarmed combat but also has with her a M72 Gauss rilfe. Can find her at a Shi outpost were there is a team of other Shi researchers. More time with her you learn more about what happened to the Shi and their relationship with NCR. Also find out that she is really interested in getting info from the mainframe of Vault 22. Also find out that the Shi are working on finding ways to get their genetically altered plants to grow in new soils.

Their outpost is protected by a http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Sentry_Bot_(Fallout_2). Outpost also contains alot of DNA samples, one tank that is frozen says "Wanamingo."

Having her as a companion increases your odds of hacking computers.

how about a vault boy protectron, basically just a customived protectron with the vault boy image on it's body possibly called 'vault bot', maybe it's quest requires you to complete all vaults

I'm liking the idea of the FEV mutated Deathclaw. Just expanding on the basic story here...

This young Deathclaw was the runt of his litter, and when the Enclave raided a Deathclaw nesting ground, they only took the weaker ones (for ease of handling). This subject was the only one to survive the mutation sadly. When he came out of the FEV, he had the intelligence of an extremely cultured human and had a modified voice box. If you ask him how he managed to live 200 years, he tells you: "Imagine cryogenics for dinosaurs. Although the power went out only recently, so I was able to escape the confines of that damned pod."

Before you can recruit him as a follower, he will bring up the point that any sane human would flee from a Deathclaw on site. So you must spread the word around to all major communities by e-mailing Mr. New Vegas via a terminal so he can state on the air about the couriers new "companion". If you have a Speech of 80 and "Very Good" reputation, you can convince him that nobody will attack him once they notice that he is with you. Alternatively, you can leave him alone or give him directions to Dead Wind Cavern (he will go reluctantly since he is obviously human in the mind).

He looks like (and is about the same size) a young Deathclaw, but with curved horns rather then 'stubs' and he is slightly darker in color. He has poor Perception and Charisma, average Agility and Luck, fairly high Strength and Intelligence, and very very high Endurance. If you tell him to use Ranged combat, he will state "How the hell do I hold a rifle with these giant claws?"

EDIT: I forgot that since all he had was a number for a name, you have a list of names to give him, and he will respond differently to each one.

My posts in this thread: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1148266-they-shoulda-been-companions/
I want those.

Especially Dead Sea.

From the game Melissa.

Any ol' fantasy come true... a talking Wanamingo called Roxy.

With a top hat, monocle and a cane?

Dogmeat

I like it. We would be like :toughninja: if I were on PC or had a flashdrive. I want to think of an idea, but I currently have no inspiration.

I've been using Arcoolka's Real Time Settler mod (along with just about everybody else on PC) and the features Brahmin Bess has are great - extra storage, she'll come when you call her, and she packs that cool tent. The one problem is that a pack brahmin doesn't exactly fit with my character's bad@$$ mystique. So what I'd like is a full sized deathclaw, preferably an alpha or matriarch (I think it'd be a plus if they were too big to follow me into interior spaces) with a pack and the same features as Brahmin Bess. It could be a pacifist for all I care, as long as it carries my tent.