Jean-Baptiste Cutting

Jean-Baptiste Cutting is the head of security for the Mojave Wasteland branch of the Van Graffs weapons empire. He is Gloria Van Graff's half-brother and her right-hand man, living at the Silver Rush weapon shop in Freeside in 2281.
==Background==
Around 2281, Cutting has taken on the role of an enforcer, becoming the backbone of the Van Graff family security forces. He works in the Silver Rush alongside his half-sister, Gloria, who he refers to as "Glory" and does his part in the politics of their operations in the only way he knows how; with the barrel of his laser rifle. He has Cutting as a surname, as opposed to Van Graff because his mother liked his father so much that she wanted Jean-Baptiste to have his father's last name.The Courier: "How come your last name isn't Van Graff?"Jean-Baptiste: "Unlike most of my brothers and sisters, Mama didn't get sick of my father and get rid of him. He died right before I was born. Mama had liked him so much, she made me use his last name. Said he deserved that much at least, since he never got to meet me or nothin'."(Jean-Baptiste Cutting's dialogue)
==Interactions with the player character==
===Interactions overview===
===Quests===
* Birds of a Feather, Heartache by the Number: Jean-Baptiste wants to have a little chat with a woman called "Cassidy." The Courier will need to find her, and bring her back to the Silver Rush. This quest requires committing to either the Van Graffs or Cass as it is not possible to satisfy both parties. Jean Baptiste's death means immediate failure of the Birds of a Feather quest.
* Tend to Your Business: Jean-Baptiste will need to be killed along with all the Van Graff employees at the Silver Rush as a show of loyalty to the Brotherhood of Steel under Hardin if he becomes elder of the chapter.
==Inventory==
==Notes==
* Jean-Baptiste Cutting has high health, more than most companions, as well as an exceptionally high 117 Energy Weapons skill.
* He is taller than the Courier, similar to the heights of Sammy Wins and Cursor Lucullus.
* While armed with a laser rifle, he will usually pick up the plasma caster in the middle of the store if engaged in combat, unless it was previously stolen by the Courier.
* During Birds of a Feather, when he confronts Cass and shoots her, he might shoot the floor or ceiling and Cass will still die. This is because he is one of the only NPCs in the game that is fixed to kill another NPC by his own actions (i.e. through a quest).
==Appearances==
Jean-Baptiste Cutting appears only .
==Behind the scenes==
* Along with Arcade Gannon and Joshua Graham, Jean-Baptiste Cutting was one of the characters created by Joshua Sawyer for the Fallout tabletop game run by Chris Avellone.Question: "Are you aware of the fact that, after you revealed he was your tabletop character, Arcade has been criticized for being a Mary Sue on fansites? Do you think it's fair?"Joshua Sawyer: "Jean-Baptiste Cutting was also my character in the same campaign. Is he a Mary Sue?I think people know enough about my personality from interviews and the questions I've answered here to make that judgment on their own. The fact that I played the character in a tabletop campaign shouldn't have much bearing on it considering the variety of characters I played in that, and many other, campaigns.That said, when I design characters that I am going to personally write or play in RPGs, I try to build up around subject matter I know. As with writing, role-playing about topics with which you are familiar is generally a good approach. There are parts of my cynicism and despair in Chief Hanlon, parts of my idealism in Arcade, and parts of my struggle to be honest with myself in Joshua Graham. Of those three, Arcade is the most like me, but he is not me and was not intended to stand in for me."(Joshua Sawyer Archived formspring answers)
* Cutting is mentioned in design documents for Van Buren, the canceled Fallout 3 by Black Isle Studios.
==Bugs==
* If Jean-Baptiste is killed, his body sometimes cannot be looted. On PC, his inventory can be accessed through console by selecting the body with the mouse and entering . This will bypass the activation script on the character and force the default interaction. 
* Jean-Baptiste has been known to disappear from the game.
==Gallery==
Birds of a Feather.jpg|Jean-Baptiste and Cass (Birds of a Feather)
File:Jean Baptiste Cutting Front.png|Collector's Edition playing card
==References==
Category:Fallout: New Vegas human characters
Category:Collector's Edition playing card characters
Category:Freeside characters
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