John Connell (Fallout)

Character No#8 (Fallout)

Name: John Connell
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Place of Birth: Vault 13, California

Character Description

Age: Early 30's
Height: 179cm (5’11”)
Eye Colour: Blue
Skin Pigmentation: Fair to Light Tan
Hair Colour: Light Brown
Hair Style: Flattop (When he first left Vault 13)
                Mullet (After his permanent exile from Vault 13 after defeating the Super Mutant army)
Distinctive Features: N/A
Character Class/ Archetype: Engineer (Water Filtration Systems Technician)
Personality Traits: Hard working, committed and honest
Deity/Religion: Agnostic

Background

Born in Vault 13 in the late 2120’s, John Connell grew up to become a water filtration systems technician in Vault 13.  He was in his early thirties when the Water Purification Chip had broken and being one of the few people in Vault 13 that was intimately knowledgeable of the functions of water filtration was sent out by Overseer Jacoren to find a replacement, though he would jokingly write in his memoirs that he had been unfortunate enough to have been sent out after drawing the short straw.

The first place he searched for a replacement water chip was the nearby Vault 15, which he would learn during his travels had been attacked by raiders by one of the Vault’s former inhabitants that he had met in the settlement known as Shady Sands that he had passed through, where he had met the two people that would found the New Californian Republic, Aradesh and Tandi, and a caravan guard that was recuperating from wounds he had taken from a raider attack called Ian that he convinced to accompany him in his search for a water chip.  After failing to find a replacement water chip in Vault 15, John Connell’s search would take him south, to settlements like Junktown, the Hub and Adytum, where he would find himself involved in numerous adventures, each decision helping shape the future of the wasteland, meeting all sorts of people, including a Desert Ranger from Nevada called Tycho and a dog called Dogmeat that would accompany him, and negotiate the Water Merchants in the Hub to supply Vault 13 with a shipment of water to extend the amount to time John Connell needed to find the replacement water chip, a decision that John would later be informed was a potentially threatening one for the people of Vault 13.

Many weeks had passed before he had heard that the settlement of Necropolis, populated by the decrepit, rotting post-humanoids commonly known as ghouls, possessed a water chip.  It was also there that John Connell and his companions first encountered the super mutants, genetically mutated muscle-bound humanoids nearly twice the size of a man and incredibly resilient that were terrorising the local ghoul population.  After eliminating the super mutants and burying Ian who had been killed by one of the super mutants and fixing the water pump that supplied Necropolis with fresh water without the need for a water chip for the ghouls, John Connell left Necropolis with the water chip in his possession, his mission accomplished.

Despite returning successfully back to Vault 13, Jacoren would shortly afterwards send him back out again with another mission, fearing that the super mutants would discover the location of Vault 13 thanks to John Connell pointing out their location to the Water Merchants, sending John out to the wasteland once more to eliminate the super mutant threat, allying with both the secretive Brotherhood of Steel and the benevolent Followers of the Apocalypse that aided him in his mission to eliminate the super mutants at the Mariposa Military Base and their allies, the Children of the Cathedral, where the leader of the super mutant army that threatened Vault 13 and the rest of the wasteland, a mutated brain known only as the Master made its lair deep underneath a cathedral, triggering a nuclear device that obliterated the cathedral after John killed the Master.

After surviving his ordeal in eliminating the super mutant threat to Vault 13, John returned home, where instead of receiving a hero’s welcome was ordered to leave by Jacoren and never to return, fearing that their fellow vault dwellers would want to leave Vault 13.  Saddened by his exile, John travelled north to Oregon, accompanied by some of his fellow vault dwellers that accompanied him in his exile, establishing the community that would be known as Arroyo, where he settled down and had a family that would play a role in shaping the future of the New Californian Republic in the 23rd century.

Relationships

Jacoren – the elderly overseer of Vault 13 that sent John Connell out into the wasteland to find a replacement Water Purification Chip for the one that was malfunctioning and later exiling him after he had destroyed the super mutant army, fearing that John Connell would jeopardise the future of Vault 13 by convincing his fellow vault dwellers to leave Vault 13

Lyle – an inhabitant of Vault 13 and a friend to John Connell

Theresa – an inhabitant of Vault 13 that later left Vault 13 and helped build the community of Arroyo

Cindy – an inhabitant of Vault 13 that followed Theresa out of Vault 13 and helped build the community of Arroyo

Aradesh – the leader of Shady Sands and founder and first president of the New Californian Republic

Tandi – Aradesh’s daughter, whom John Connell rescued from the Great Khan raiders that had abducted her that would become the second president of the New Californian Republic

Seth – the leader of the town guards in Shady Sands and the founder of the NCR Rangers

Razlo – the resident doctor of Shady Sands that was studying the venom of the radscorpions that were harassing Shady Sand’s brahmin herd

Ian – a former Crimson Caravan guard that accompanied John Connell in his mission to find the Water Purification Chip, was killed in Necropolis, burned to death by a super mutant’s flamer

Dogmeat – John Connell’s faithful canine companion that accompanied him in his adventure in the Wasteland that was killed when he ran into a force field at the Mariposa Military Base

Tycho – a survivalist and Desert Ranger that helped John in his travels

Killian Darkwater – a trader and the mayor of Junktown that John and Ian helped out in dealing with the local crime boss, Gizmo

Gizmo – an overweight and manipulative man that owned the casino in Junktown and was responsible for numerous attempts on Killian Darkwater’s life

Sinthia – a prostitute in Junktown that John Connell had saved from a crazed raider

Neal – the owner of the Skum Pitt bar that had provoked the Skulz gang after killing one of their members when the gang member had harassed one of his waitresses

Butch Harris – the owner of the Far Go Traders that blamed the recent disappearances of his caravans on the deathclaws

Rutger – the administrator and organiser of the Far Go Traders and Butch Harris’ right-hand man

Beth – a weapons dealer for the Far Go Traders and a major gossip girl

Demetre Romara – the head of the Crimson Caravan that John occasionally sought work from

Keri Lee – the proprietor and accountant for the Crimson Caravan and daughter of Demetre Romara

Martha Rastello – the manager of the Water Merchants in the Hub that John negotiated with to deliver water to Vault 13

Mrs. Stapleton – the librarian in the Hub’s Downtown merchant block that directed John to where he could find a Water Chip

Jake – a weapons dealer in the Hub that was once a member of the Union of Atomic Workers until he left the group to establish his business in the Hub

Harold – a mutant with unique mutations resembling tree-like growths who resided in the Hub that provided John with precious information on the Mariposa Military Base and the Master as well as a deathclaw that was responsible for attacking Butch Harris’ caravans

Irwin – a farmer that John had helped in killing the raiders that drove him off his farm

Jon Zimmerman – the mayor of Adytum who was killed by the Regulators that ruled the town when John had informed him of the truth of his son’s death

Razor – the female leader of the Razor gang that despised the Regulators that persecuted her people and later with John’s help liberated Adytum from the tyrannical rule of the Regulators

Talius – a fellow Vault 13 dweller that Jacoren had sent to find a Water Purification Chip that had undergone a transformation into a mutant when he had been taken captive by super mutants, later rescued by the Followers of the Apocalypse and became a member

Gabriel – a leader of the Gun Runners, a gang that became a company that manufactured weapons and provided arms to the Blades to help them destroy the Regulators

Zack – Gabriel’s dwarfish assistant and weapon dealer

John Maxson – the High Elder of the Brotherhood of Steel that had asked John Connell to investigate super mutant activity in the area where the Mariposa Military Base was situated

Rhombus – the stern, stoic Head Paladin of the Brotherhood of Steel that succeeded John Maxson after his death

Nicole – the founder and leader of the Followers of the Apocalypse that aided John Connell in taking out the Children of the Cathedral

Laura – a member of the Followers of the Apocalypse that had joined the Children of the Cathedral to spy on them and learned of their sinister plans to systematically attack towns and cities of the Californian Wasteland as part of their leader’s diabolical plans for humanity that helped John infiltrate the Cathedral

Katja – a scavenger affiliated with the Followers of the Apocalypse that aided John in tracking down the Master in his cathedral stronghold

The Master – a hideously mutated hybrid of humanoid mutants and computers that orchestrated an elaborate plan to turn every human into a super mutant through the use of the Forced Evolutionary Virus, was destroyed by John Connell

Pat – an inhabitant of Vault 13 that had left the vault after John Connell’s exile and helped build the community of Arroyo with John and the other former Vault 13 inhabitants, was later married to John Connell and had a couple children with him, died years before John wrote his memoirs

Arroyo Elder – the leader of the Arroyo community in 2241 and John Connell’s oldest child that sent the Chosen One to find the Garden of Eden Creation Kit to save the village

The Chosen One – the only grandson of John Connell from his eldest daughter that would shape the future for the New Californian Republic after being sent by his mother to find the Garden of Eden Creation Kit