Robert Joseph MacCready

Robert Joseph "RJ" MacCready was the Mayor of Little Lamplight in 2277, and is a mercenary operating in the Commonwealth in 2287, as well as a potential companion of the Sole Survivor.
In , he was voiced by Jakob Stalnaker. In , he was voiced by , who voiced Leon S. Kennedy in onwards.
==Overview==
The former mayor of Little Lamplight, R.J. MacCready has come a long way since his days as the town's bratty gate guard. Since becoming a mungo and heading out into the wastes, he's married a woman named Lucy and had a son named Duncan. Unfortunately, for reasons he doesn't like to discuss with strangers, he's had to leave his family in the Capital Wasteland behind and head north, selling himself as a mercenary in the town of Goodneighbor. Nominally, he stands in for the Gunners faction as a companion, although MacCready has already cut all ties with them by time he meets the Sole Survivor.
He is a romance option for the Sole Survivor. His unique perk, "Killshot", gives you a 20% accuracy bonus to headshots in V.A.T.S.
==Background==
===Childhood===
Born in 2265 in the Capital Wasteland to parents he never knew, MacCready became the head of the Little Lamplight children's colony in 2274, when he was only ten years old. After Princess declared herself the new Mayor and renamed the position after herself, her rule lasted about five minutes, until MacCready punched her in the face and stated that Little Lamplight needed a leader, not a princess.
MacCready's coup resulted in him becoming mayor. The other residents respected him for his smarts, toughness and the juvenile lack of fear of anything – be it monsters, adults or using his rifle on anything that looked at him funny, not to mention the ability to maintain Little Lamplight as a viable community.
However brazen and foolhardy he might have been in his young years, MacCready was not devoid of imagination. Children are always at a disadvantage in the wasteland, so he chose a sniper rifle as his weapon of choice, teaching himself marksmanship from the ground up. According to MacCready, engaging targets at long range meant one did not take too many chances in the treacherous Capital Wasteland to stave off death for another day.
===Adulthood===
In 2281, MacCready turned sixteen and left Little Lamplight. He took to wandering the wastelands as a gun for hire. In the course of his travels, he met a woman named Lucy, and the two fell in love. Lucy always had MacCready's back and helped him through the darkest of nights in the wasteland.
With her at his side, he could press ahead no matter the horrors that faced him. He told her that he was a soldier, out of fear that he might lose her if he revealed that he was a stone-cold killer. She never learned the truth. She gave him a carved toy soldier in return, something he always kept on himself regardless of where he went.
However, the Capital Wasteland was still a treacherous place. Lucy and MacCready were nomads and their son, Duncan, was born on the road. Their happiness was bluntly interrupted by tragedy one fateful night when they set up camp in an abandoned metro station.
They were unaware that the place was infested with feral ghouls who set upon them in the darkness. Lucy was ripped apart before MacCready could get a shot off. However, her death bought enough time for him to make a fighting retreat out of the station, with Duncan in his arms. The sight of Lucy torn apart by the clawed, rotted hands would plague him for years to come.
It shifted MacCready's perspective on life and himself. Up until then, he was a killer, shooting people for a living, but now he was determined to change himself. He made a promise to Duncan to clean up his act and be a better person, starting with swearing off cursing. He settled down and built a homestead.
Everything was peaceful for a time as MacCready worked the land and Duncan grew. His almost idyllic life came to an end when his son was exposed to something in their fields and the next day developed a fever accompanied by blue boils all over his body. The disease sapped his strength, and by the time MacCready decided to hit the road and find a cure, Duncan was almost too weak to walk. He entrusted his child to the care of his friends and departed. Every doctor he talked to had never heard of the disease and was at a loss as to how to help the child.
==Personality ==
Though notoriously foul-mouthed and belligerent in his younger years, the 22-year-old MacCready is far more reserved and polite. Years of hard living turned him into a hardened warfighter, coping with adversity through liberal use of sarcasm and humor. However, he is not totally immune, as pre-War atrocities can inspire anger from him and he is not a fan of people from before the Great War, on account of them bringing the nuclear holocaust down on Earth.
On a more personal side, MacCready misses a lot of features of living in the Capital Wasteland, including Galaxy News Radio with Three Dog and the monuments of downtown D.C. He also collects old Grognak the Barbarian comic books, picking through the ruins in search of issues to complete his collection. As of 2287, the collection is almost complete, only missing the issue where Mastadonald and Skullpocalypse teamed up to fight Grognak.
==Gallery==
MacCreadyFallout3.png|Twelve-year-old R.J. with his helmet.
==Trivia==
*His name may be based on R.J. MacReady.
==Licensing==
This article contains content derived from the "MacCready" article on Nukapedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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