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The Sole Survivor/Kim Nguyen | Fallout 4 | Reserved
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Character
Name: The Sole Survivor | Kim Nguyen
Series: Fallout 4
Timeline: Post Railroad ending
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The Sole Survivor
Pre-War America
Original Character Background: CUSTOMIZABLE PROTAGONIST!
Stuff we know about Kim's past.
Kim has a law degree and was listed as a lawyer by a pre-war robot. Kim was married to a man named Nate and had a son named Shaun. They lived together with a Mr. Handy unit, until the day bombs fell and they got into a vault at the last minute.
More Details
Kim grew up in pre-war America in the years that it was truly going downhill towards the end. That meant a few things. Paranoia, food/oil/everything shortages, plague, war with China, the annexation of Canada, and a very corrupt government as well as a lot of other terrible things. Kim had a family that she was very close to and grew up in the Boston area. Kim being very close and having tight bonds to her family is shown in game as she's unwilling to give up on finding her missing son. No matter how many 'impossible' things she had to do along the way.
Kim got a law degree because she believed that she could help people. It's something she feels very strongly about. She was incorrect because the law system was so corrupt and terrible. It was pre-war america. They were putting people in camps after all. Still she tried her best and ended up leaving her job when she had a baby.
Kim hates the military, that's because she's seen its work and also because her husband almost died away at war. He came back a war veteran and hero but she knows it's just as possible that he might not have come back at all. Coming from pre-war america Kim saw all sorts of prejudices and the use of China as the boogieman in everything. She never really bought into it, especially after seeing how corrupt her own government was. This is why she's accepting of ghouls, synths and even super-mutants like Strong, that aren't trying to kill her. She collects a group of all sorts of people and makes it clear in game she's not prejudged.
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Kim has different options in the game as to how she can react. I chose to make her a sometimes sarcastic but generally decent/good person who wants peace, loves her family, and is willing to do almost anything for her friends. She proves this by helping them on their companion quests. No matter what the situation is. She always has time. She also becomes General of the Minutemen and is always willing to help them when they need her to. She also joins up with Nick and his Detective Agency because hey, might as well put that law degree to some good use. She likes to help people and if she comes across someone who needs help in the game, she'll usually lend a hand.
She honestly prefers the Commonwealth to Pre-War America and admires the people building and trying to improve their lives. She states as much in her interview with Piper.
End Game Choices and Reasoning
-Sided with the Railroad and after trying all she could to convince "Father/Shaun" that he was wrong, she helped them destroy the Institute and killed "Father" so he wouldn't have to suffer from the explosion.
Given how much family means to her, and how much she did to find her son, this was not an easy choice to make. However seeing how much terrible things the Institute did, how they treated synths as slaves and finding out that her son could have let her out of the vault whenever he wanted and only waited till he was old and curious to see how far she'd go to find him....she realized that he wasn't really her son. Her son died the day her husband died. What was left was a dying old man who she'd never known, who refused to listen to reason, who did terrible things and who seemed to think of her as more of an experiment, then a mother. No matter what he said.
-Adopted the child, synth version of her son Shaun, that 'Father' left her and took him back to Sanctuary. She loves him like her own and she views this as a new start. He's an innocent and believes she's his mother. That's enough for her. Though she does plan to tell him he is a synth at some point, because she doesn't want to lie to him.
Companions: What my Sole Survivor thinks about them. I know that anyone can app in a character and have their sole survivor act totally different towards them in their history/be a different person. This is what Kim feels towards her friends and how she acted in some of the quests. .
Codsworth: Family. Hands down. She is quick to reassure him of that and he helps her a lot in feeling like a good person because he believes in her so much.
Piper Wright: A good friend and a good person. Kim reassures her that she's not a bad sister, she just has to let Nat be her own person and that avoiding her won't help that. It helps that Kim also believes in freedom of the press.
Nick Valentine: Her partner in crime....or against crime. Nick is probably Kim's best friend. He has pre-war memories and is connected to the law with a strong sense of justice just like her. She helped him get revenge against Eddie Winter and keeps telling him that he's as much a real person as anyone is. Because he is.
Preston Garvey: One of the first people she met out of the vault and a good person. He got her to join up with the minutemen and wants what's best for the Commonwealth. She considers him a good friend and will always have his back. He managed to get her to lead a semi military organization, that's how much she trusts him, given her hatred of military things.
Deacon: A totally not shifty guy with more costumes then you can imagine. Kim likes his sense of humour and that he believed in her when joining the Railroad. They make a good team and Deacon eventually opened up to her about his past, several times lying about it, but she chose to believe the last one because despite everything, she trusts him. She also trusts him to lie 99% of the time.
MacCready: A mercenary whose a bit hard to get along with. However eventually after a while she got to know him well enough that she helped him out of a bind with a group called the Gunners and then helped him find a cure for his sick kid. After all she was on a quest to find her own kid, of course she'd help another parent.
Strong: An interesting case. Strong believes he's looking for the milk of human kindness, an actual thing that will give him power. Kim let him join her, even if she knows that's not a real thing. Along the way her ability to kill things and helpfulness on settlement quests made Strong admire her and decide she is his leader. She likes him, even though she refuses to be as violent as he'd like.
Cait: A cynical, drug using cage fighter, you'd think she and Kim wouldn't get along. And for a while they didn't really. However Kim stuck with her, and treated her like a person and didn't betray her, or demand payment or anything Cait figured would happen, to the point where Cait started to open up to her about things. Kim eventually helped Cait break her addiction and now considers the woman a friend. If still a cynical friend.
Curie: Kim helped the Miss Nanny turned scientist, robot find a new synth body and tries to help her find her way in the world that is even more new to the synth then it is to the pre-war woman. They get along well as Curie wants to help people, though through science and medicine mostly.
Hancock: Kim supports him as he wants to do right by his people. Even if his methods and style of government is kinda anarchy like. Still, 'by the people, for the people', does have a good ring to it and he has a good sense of humour. Kim likes him.
X6-88: Kim only worked with him while she was undercover. She managed to earn his respect by her logical dealings while undercover at the Institute. She felt horribly guilty about that. She has no idea if he's dead but after the destruction of the Institute, he probably is. Or if he is alive he probably wants her dead. She's not sure which one she should hope for.
Paladin Danse: Helped with the first mission to get the transmitter but turned down offer to join the Brotherhood of Steel so he was never recruited. He probably died in the explosion when they blew up the Brotherhoods blimp. Unlike X6, she has no real feelings of regret as she never got to know him.
If you want to know more about her as a customizable character that isn't in the personality segment. Ask away.
Personality:
If there's one word that describes Kim, it would have to be adaptable. Throw her in a new situation and she'll manage to survive in it. Be it growing up in pre-war America, waking up in post-war America or any of the various situations she ends up in, in game. Spy, general, undercover spy, etc. That's because she's a quick learner and she's willing to learn whatever she can to survive and find her son. Be it, learning how to shoot and take care of weapons, to figuring out how to pick locks and hack computers. As well as learning how to build settlements and cook new food made out of mutated plants, vegetables.and irradiated animals and anything else she needs to know to survive in this new world.
She had a steep learning curve and the fact that she made it as far as she did was a surprise to a lot of people when she caught up with them. The mercenary who killed her husband figured she had a 50/50 chance of even making it to Diamond City, the largest city in the Commonwealth as she was just a simple pre-war housewife. She showed up in his secret base quite far away from the city. Not only managing to track him down but also killing him and his Institute synth protection when he refused to hand over her son or tell her how to get into the place where her son was. Kim is very stubborn and refuses to give up no matter how many 'impossible tasks are put in front of her. She manages to figure out how to get through all of them.
Kim is good at talking her way out of things. Very good. She was a lawyer, pre-war and that was basically her job. Using her words to convince people of things. She doesn't like to manipulate people but she she will try to press things in a way she thinks they should go. Normally that's towards a peaceful outcome because she'd much rather talk things out then fight. It also comes in handy when she goes undercover at the Institute as a spy for the Railroad. She's given a lot of jobs there and many of them involve situations that she could use violence for or use logic and talk people down. She always goes with the logical talking option and it usually works.
Kim as stated above, is not prejudged. Well mostly not prejudged. She's very anti-military which is why she doesn't join up or support the Brotherhood of Steel and why Preston had to convince her that the Minutemen wasn't your typical army to get her to join. However aside from that she's new to the world so sees no reason not to trust ghouls or synths or treat them as anything but people. In fact she considers a Mr. Handy, a type of robot that is not humanoid at all, part of her family. Because he is. This is why she joins up with the Railroad. They believe synths are people, not slaves or things to be destroyed and she agrees with them.
As much as she prefers peace, Kim is not above revenge or violent actions. For one thing, she killed the man who killed her husband and stole her son and doesn't regret it. Even after she sees his life and she feels a sting of pity, she can't forgive him. Not fully. She helps blow up the Brotherhood of Steels blimp just as much for revenge for her friend Glory's death in their attack on the Railroad headquarters; as the fact that the Brotherhood knowing where they are means that they won't stop trying to wipe them out. So taking them out was a needed action. She knows this. The revenge was just also a large part of her motivation as well.
She also knows that the best way to free all the synths is to take out the Institute and so she does just that. With the second one, she sounds an evacuation signal and convinces "Father" to stand down some of the guards so that more people, Institute as well can survive, but when it comes down to it, she's willing to sacrifice the people of the Institute for the freedom of the synths.
Kim likes to collect comics and magazines and also gets really into character when she dresses up as the Silver Shroud, a pulp comic/radio play action hero. She has a lot of fun with it. Doing a dramatic voice and everything. Despite mostly taking things seriously, Kim does have a sense of humour. Usually with sarcasm, like when she greets Eddie Winter by introducing herself in a terrible Irish accent as "Molly McFuckyourself". Or just teasing her friends or bantering with sarcasm. She also likes to listen to pre-war songs on the radio, or the Silver Shroud radio plays as she goes through the commonwealth. Oh and she like collecting different hats.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Ditto | Deacon Jr.
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: Test Drive Thread
Victory Road Sample:
Kim wasn't sure where she was. It was.....far too green to be the Commonwealth and unless she'd managed to go back in time, it certainly wasn't pre-war America. Besides, there weren't enough propaganda posters up for that. No this was some totally new place.
With some really weird creatures and people too. There was a purple blob she'd been watching after her "mother" had kicked her out of the house she'd woken up in, before she could even say, excuse me, my mother died in an atomic blast, who the hell are you?
Probably for the best though. She didn't want to argue the fact that her mother was dead. You lost that argument either way. No, instead she focused on the weird blob thing as she sat under a real live tree, something she thought she'd never do again. The weird machine, gear or something they'd apparently switched her pip-boy out for seemed to say the creature was something called a ....
"Ditto....huh?"
The thing seemed to react to that and then looking over at her, suddenly turned into a perfect copy of a nearby rock. Kim had to grin when it turned back and looked over at her.
"Oh, I know exactly, what I'm calling you."
The creature seemed to tilt, or jiggle and she got up from where she'd been sitting.
"Come on Deacon. We're going to figure out where the hell I am. And how I can get back."
Deacon, or maybe Deacon Jr. She'd have to decide, followed her. If it had any opinion on her desire to go home, it kept it to itself. Which was good. She had a home, an irradiated home filled with creatures and raiders and things that wanted her dead but it was home. With her family and her friends and most importantly, her son. And this world would just have find out exactly how far she was willing to go to find her son when she was separated from him.
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