I guess one has to place themselves into the character鈥檚 shoes. Good, bad or indifferent I am playing as a female protagonist. Prior to the bombs falling I was a young married mother with an infant and a returning soldier for a husband. A man no doubt suffering from some sort of PTSD. As it is I put my hard earned law degree on hold to start a family. Then the bombs fell鈥?life turned upside down in an instant.
Seeking shelter in a Vault-Tec vault supposedly designed to protect remaining citizens from the on rushing harsh nuclear winter, you almost begin to feel safe with your family intact. But, once inside the vault those running it hide a secret agenda and instead of protecting you and yours, they place you in a deep freeze. Frozen in time you suddenly awaken to a grizzly scene of seeing your husband being killed and your baby kidnapped.
The question is, how does one awakened from being frozen mentally and emotionally? How does one react to finding out that you have been frozen for over two hundred and ten years: And, all that you once knew鈥ll those people you had loved are gone? How do you face your new nightmarish reality?
Do you feel angry and hopeless? Or, do you gather your wits about you, putting your emotions in check, just to survive? Hard to say how you would feel and act if it were all true. After all, this is just a game. Still, I鈥檇 like to think that I would remain the same kind of person I always was.
Thus, while I would admire Cait's self preservation her, her tenacity...her "it's all about me" demeanor stops me from a romance. Whereas, Piper, who thinks of others beyond herself is much more attractive to me: even in real life.