Cedar Lark

Born the same year as the bombs fell, Cedar should've perished the same year of their birth. But as their namesake might tell you, they (and their family), were more resilient than that. 
Taking shelter in a bunker, they grew up in a rather underprivileged childhood. Their toys were pieces of paper folded up to look like animals, and their outside playtime was a small corner of the bunker painted to look like blue skies and grassy hills. Their family was quite disappointed when they emerged 15 years later to see the desolation and destruction of their family home and neighborhood. As the only child, Cedar was protected from now on.. well, for a little while, anyway. 
At age twenty, their family had settled in a town called No Name, and lived pretty productive lives. Their mother was the schoolteacher, and their father a farmer. Cedar had picked up some trade skills, including the skill of working on the infamous armor known as power armor. All was well.. until a group of raiders decided that the town was too peaceful, and they should intervene. 
Cedar tries not to think about that night, but they remember blood, bodies, and screaming. 
But as their name may tell you.. they resisted. 
They waited out the night, watching the town burn from a nearby hill. Once the smoke slowly stopped, they moved down into the town. Nothing was left.. and therefore, nothing left for Cedar. They slowly cleared the rubble of their house to retrieve their power armor frame, and left. They didn't look back. 
They spent several years on the road before finding themselves in West Virginia. By this time, things had changed. Cedar, twenty four, had now had made a regular habit of trimming sharp bone growths on her head. Even though it was obnoxious, it was a fun joke- her now girlfriend had found an astrology book while scavenging; and Cedar was a taurus, which she figured was some kind of brahmin.. which told Cedar the radiation had a weird kind of humor. 
Still, she embraced it fully- she scavenged bones- brahmin bones to decorate her power armor, and she decorated a gas mask to look like a bull. 
Since she settled in West Virginia, she's scavenged gear, and worked on creating things to sell to the nearby towns with her girlfriend Riley.