Margaret (Fallout 4)

*"Bloody wankers shot Margaret... the fuckin' arseholes!"* **- Vic**

## Summary

Margaret Vicson was the loving - albeit starved and potentially battered - wife of Vic Vicson. They lived together in a difficult marriage before the atomic war of 2077, during which the pair of them retreated to the apparent safety of Vault 111, along with their infant child Shaun "The Pidgeon" Vicson.

She was shot and presumably killed by the breakfast man, Kellog, after being briefly awoken from the Vault's cryogenic stasis pods. During the incident, Shaun was kidnapped, and both she and Vic returned to stasis for a currently unknown length of time.

Despite continued stasis sleeps, with hopes of one day discovering a "cure for bullets" further in the future, she currently remains in a state of apparent death as of the year 2281.

## Biography

Born to a respectable family in Pembrokevicshire, England, Margaret became betrothed to the then-young and strapping Army Officer of the aristocratic Vicson Estate. In the years following Vic's tour of duty in the Middle-East in 2060, the two were married and took up residence in the now looted and delapidated Vicson Estate.

As the British and European economies became wracked by the devestating war in the Middle-East, and increasing resource shortages, the Vicson marriage became strained. Between Vic's inability to find income - even desperately selling the family estate for what little the crashed housing market could provide - and his worseing drinking, weight and anger issues, the pair became trapped in a toxic cycle of emotional and verbal abuse and disdain.

By 2070, Margaret proposed the couple emigrate to the United States, taking what little savings they had to apply for citizenship, using her own family connections in the Boston area to gain work and accommodation. As a requirement for citizenship, Vic would have to do a tour of duty with the United States military, serving in the Corps of Engineers during Operation Anchorage, servicing the American's new Power Armor suits.

Margaret, settled into the role of housewife in their new suburban neighbourhood of Sanctuary Hills, Boston, gave birth to their first - and only - child, Shaun in 2077. While more financially stable than they'd been in decades, with them able to afford a new car and "Mr. Handy" model robot butler, the cracks in their relationship never truly healed. Rather than the fresh start she might have hoped, their new life in America merely enabled Vic's selfish attitude, abusive tendancies (having allegedly put her "*in the washing machine*" on at least one occasion for talking back) and overeating (seemingly even to the point of both Margaret and Shaun's malnourishment).

On October 23rd 2077, Margaret carried Shaun to Vault 111 as the sirens alerted Sanctuary Hills to the incoming nuclear bombs. Despite Vic sprinting ahead, leaving his family behind, all three made it inside the Vault doors just as the blast wave overtook the neighbourhood. Placed in Cryogenic stasis by the Vault-Tec technicians, Margaret lay dormant, Shaun in arms, until the 2200's, when she was awoken by a mercenary named Kellog, who kidnapped her child and shot her in the chest. Her pod was put back in Cryo-stasis before she'd bleed out, but she was unconcious and presumed dead on the scene.

Upon awakening himself, Vic recovered the wedding ring from Margaret's frozen hand, and vowed vengeance - in the form of "*eating*" - the man named Kellog, further declaring that the last warm feelings he had for humanity had died with her.