Veronica Santangelo Veronica Renata Santangelo ( born 2254 ) is a Brotherhood of Steel scribe found at the 188 trading post in 2281 . Background . Veronica is a Brotherhood of Steel journeyman scribe who has been indefinitely assigned to the role of " procurement specialist , " responsible for venturing out of the Brotherhood bunker to find and acquire resources that the Brotherhood cannot create on its own , such as food . Irritated by what she sees as the Brotherhood ’ s unrealistic and uninformed views of themselves and the world , Veronica is a perpetual outsider caught between her loyalty to the Brotherhood and troubling doubts about the validity of their current course . Veronica was born and raised in the Brotherhood . Her father was a paladin , her mother a scribe . In her youth she fell in love with a woman , but Father Elijah split them up . Because the Brotherhood is not open to outsiders , many of its members felt that it was their duty to procreate and frowned upon same - sex relationships . Later in dialogue , she laments that both of her parents were killed in the same battle defending a position whose name and significance she no longer remembers , saying , " Guess it seemed important at the time . " After following the Brotherhood to the Mojave Wasteland from California , Veronica became disillusioned with their goals . The Mojave Chapter ' s Elder and her personal mentor , Elijah , had changed the direction of the Brotherhood somewhat by dispatching Scribes to recover beneficial technology instead of just weaponry , but after he abandoned the Brotherhood following their defeat at HELIOS One , his successor , Nolan McNamara , upped stakes and holed up in the Hidden Valley bunker , dispatching scouts only to assess the threat posed by the NCR . She felt that McNamara was too much of an isolationist , and by hiding away and hoarding technology instead of using it to win favor with the people of the Wasteland and attract new recruits , he was just going to " wait in a hole for everyone else to die . " Veronica felt that if the Brotherhood was to survive , things were going to have to change . She began to speak up about her beliefs , questioning the direction the Brotherhood was taking . In order to keep her out of the Brotherhood ' s hair and to stop her dissent from spreading , the Head Scribe sent her on longer and longer excursions out into the Mojave , allegedly to collect resources . It is on such an excursion that her fateful meeting with the Courier occurs . Interactions with the player character . Other interactions . Giving Veronica the following dress - type items : may complete the quest You Make Me Feel Like a Woman ( See the quest for full details and bugs ) and will make her say one of the following lines randomly : " Dead Money " . After completion of " Dead Money " , the Courier can retrieve Elijah ' s holomessage from his console in the abandoned Brotherhood of Steel bunker and give it to Veronica , but only after exhausting all of Veronica ' s dialogue options regarding Father Elijah . In the same conversation , the Courier can choose to keep the holotape ' s knowledge instead , gaining the Elijah ' s Ramblings perk . Giving Veronica the message will give her the Elijah ' s Last Words perk . Appearances . Veronica Santangelo appears only in " " .