Vic (Fallout 4)

Vic as he appears in Fallout 2

Vic as he appears in Fallout 4

### Occupation

Royal Army Officer (2057-2060), United States Army Engineer (2070-2077), Fridge-Man (2077-2287), Time Traveler, Caravaner/Snake-Oil Salesman (2216-2239), Vault-Tec Specialist (2239-2241)

### Relations

Margaret Vicson (wife), Shaun Vicson (son), Valerie (daughter), Victor Von Victorstein (Ancestor), Unnamed WW2 Vicson (Great-Grandfather), Maxine (Companion), Sulik (Companion), Tycho (Companion), One-Eyed Roy (Business Partner/Rival)

### Affiliations

Royal Army "Desert C\*nts" Brigade, US Army Corps of Engineers, Vault 111, The Minutemen, The Brotherhood of Steel, Klamath, Team Arroyo

### Conflicts

European Commonwealth Invasion of Middle-East, Operation Anchorage, The Great War of 2077, Search for the G.E.C.K

## Personality

### Alignment

Chaotic Neutral, Trending Towards Evil (2287), Trending Towards Good (2241)

## Physical Attributes

### Nationality

British, American (Immigrant), New Californian

### Hair

Balding, Black (Fallout 4), Greying (Fallout 2)

### Outfits

Wife-beater, Vault Suit, "Dickens" Jacket, Trader Vest

## Abilities

### Other

Time Reversal (once in 2077), Time Travel (once in 2287)

> *"Bloody wankers shot Margaret... the... FUCKIN' ARSE 'OLES!"*
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## Summary

Vic is the primary protagonist RedScotGaming's *Fallout 4,* as well as a secondary protagonist in *Fallout 2,* assisting Maxine of Arroyo in her own quest.

Born in Great Britain in 2037, he would eventually come to settle just outside of Boston, Massachusetts, until the Great War of 2077. Escaping the bombs, he and his family would become cryogenically frozen in Vault 111 for nearly 200 years, during which time his son "*The Pigeon*" Shaun would be kidnapped, and wife Margaret shot by an agent working for an organisation known as The Institute.

Upon awaking to the ruins of 2287 America, he set out to exact revenge on those who attacked his family, find his son, eat the man responsible, and (if possible) discover a cure for bullets. Later in life, following an accidental time-displacement, he would work as a travelling repairman, salesman, and later a supplier of Vault-Tec equipment throughout New California from 2216-2241.

Shortly before the events of *Fallout 2,* he was imprisoned by a group of slavers after selling them faulty radio equipment. Soon after, Maxine of Arroyo sought him out for information on the whereabouts of the lost Vault 13, leading to his liberation and joining of the quest.

## Appearance and Personality

> *"You're a mentalist Vic!" - Margaret*
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While Fallout 4's player character is *intended* to be a pre-voiced with a default generic American accent, Vic was redubbed as "a fat, ill-tempered, '*temporarily-embarrassed aristocrat'* crudely extolling the virtues of *Queen, Country, Empire* and all other manner of jingoistic pomposity."

He is an overweight, thick moustached, balding man, in his early 40s at the start of *Fallout 4*. While it's suggested Vic might have been quite different as a younger man - both physically fit and charming enough to gain the affections of his future wife - by the time we meet him during *Fallout 4,* he had become a brash, embittered, and aggressive man: having fallen from a place of substantial social clout.

While never shown to be violent, he routinely threatens and berates those closest to him; from yelling at their robotic butler "Metal man", or absurdly threatening Margaret with putting her "*in the washing machine again*" (implying this had been done before).

    However, despite his seeming complete self-centeredness, Vic has in rare moments (particularly following Margaret's death) shown himself to be both in-touch with his emotions, and as something romanticist.

There is no doubt that the murder of his wife left Vic legitimately broken: going so far as to attempt further cryogenic freezing in a vein attempt to wait for a "*cure for bullets*" to be invented. Failing that, he would go on to track down her murderer and eat him, in a ritualistic display of vengeance for his lost love.

Later, upon meeting the trader and con-artist One-Eyed Roy in New California, Vic would collaborate in a number of illicit scams and deals with the uneducated tribals of the region. After many years, however, ethical differences would eventually break this profitable partnership. Roy - representing many of Vic's own worst impulses - proved one too many times to value greed and dishonesty above any sense of decency. Splitting the business would lead Vic impoverished, yet never would he express regret at his decision.

Despite his girth and immense eversion to any physical activity (being described as having the cardio of a "*slice of bread")* he is surprisingly athletic when the moment calls, outrunning most of his neighbours to the Vault door when warning sirens came, and attempted to lean a chain-link fence to escape slave master Metzger (though he did trip, falling flat on his arse, leading to his capture)

## Background

### Family and Personal History

    Vic was born to into the wealthy land owning family of the Vicson Estate, Pembrocvicshire, England in 2037. His family had a long standing military tradition, dating back to the 17th Century, with the Anglo-Prussian Aristocrat Victor Von Victorstein. The cinematic intro to *Fallout 4* also shows Vic's Great Great Grandfather, Victor Vicson on the beaches of Normandy during World War II. Following this tradition, Vic joined the Officer Corps of the Royal Army.

With The European Commonwealth at war with the Middle-Eastern Oil States, Vic was sent into active duty within the 69th Armour Division, "*The Desert Cants*". Tasked with securing vital oil reserves, Vic earned distinction during the Siege of the B'Hald Bas'tad Refinery, in which he (at least according to his own accounting) took the facility single handed, and again during the battle of Ph'hat K'unt Gorge, in which a Tank Column was ambushed and nearly decimated, if not for the heroism of Vic in clearing an enemy road-block.

Despite everything, the war would still end in disaster, as both sides depleted their energy reserves, and Europe dissolved into bickering, quarrelling states, desperate to control the last of the oil. Under these conditions, Vic returned in 2060 to a ransacked Vicson Estate, and his beautiful sweetheart Margaret, whom he married some time later.

Spending the next several years pissing away the remaining fortune at Pete's Pub down the road, Margaret would convince Vic to leave Britain for America, where she had some family, and where they might be able to start a new and better life. Conditional for citizenship, Vic would have to serve within the US Armed Forces, doing time as a Mechanical Engineer on Alaskan front at the height of the Sino-American war. It was here he would gain first-hand experience of Power Armor, maintaining the high-tech T-45 and T51 combat frames for American troops fighting the Chinese.

With Anchorage liberated in 2077, Vic returned to life in Sanctuary Hills, Boston, where he and Margaret would have their first and last child, Shaun (whom Vic would [endearingly(?)] discuss eating on more than one occasion). Having been living on a diet of Beer, Steak and Pork n' beans, Vic was no longer able to hide his immense weight gain: finally giving up the ruse of "*holding it in*" on October 23rd 2077.

### The Great War

On October 23rd 2077 Vic and Margaret argue in front of the bathroom mirror for several minutes as Vic finally reveals "his final form", as he releases all the body fat he had been concealing their entire marriage. Margaret then reveals her true name was Nora.

A Vault-Tec representative comes to door and offers the Vicsons a spot in Vault 111. Vic grudgingly fills out paper work and goes back to watching TV.

    The news then breaks that Atomic war had been triggered, and Vic and Margaret evacuate the house with their pigeon and attempt to run to Vault 111. Vic spots an armoured personnel carrier and attempts to steal it, but is caught in the atomic blast. He then uses the power to reverse time a few minutes to before he went the wrong wat to steal the APC, and instead carried on to the Vault.

Vic and Margaret make it inside the vault in time, where they are cryogenically frozen. After an unknown amount of time Vic awakens to spot an unknown man and a woman in a HAZMAT suit open Margaret's Cryo Chamber, stealing Sean and shooting her, with Vic unable to free himself to save her.

After another unknown amount of time Vic awakens again, escaping the Cryo chamber and re-opening his dead wife's. Vowing to hunt down the people who did this "*and bloody eat them*", he retrieves her wedding ring and re seals her chamber.

> *"Goodbye, my love. And with you died my last warm feelings for humanity... that was a Stalin quote."*
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Vic escapes Vault 111, appearing to be the sole survivor.

### 2287 - 2369

Vic returns to the ruins of Sanctuary Hills and meets his old robot butler Codsworth, where he discovers he has been frozen for over 200 years, and - to his shock - his car is ruined. Oh, and civilization has ended.

Codsworth suggests that Sean may have been taken or hiding from Communists "*the Russians AND the Chinese!"* and so the pair form a militia to eliminate "communist infiltrators" from Sanctuary Hills (of course finding only bloatflies and the disembodied floating head of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn).

Finding no sign of Sean, Vic travels to the nearby town of Concord, looting a dead raider of his jacket which Vic thinks makes him look like *"a fucking Dickens character".* Vic comes across the friendly dog Dogmeat, and together clear out raiders from Concord (all the while Vic thinking he is battling America's Communist occupiers).

Vic enters the Museum of Freedom to battle more raiders, while walking through the exhibit on the American revolution. Upon entering this exhibit, Vic declares that "*I AM a time traveller!"* and begins to attempt to aid the British in putting down the *"bloody rabble"*, throwing molotov cocktails at mannequins of American colonials.

Meeting a band of so-called "minutemen" hiding in the museum from the raiders, Vic is recruited to help them use a set of T45 power armour against the raiders. Vic however is distracted by a wall print of the 1754 political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin "Join, or Die", being drawn back to flashbacks to the battle against the Master in FALLOUT 1 by those same words which were used repeatedly by his creepy tentacled ass.

Vic enters the T45 armour, crushing his ribcage in the process, and uses a minigun to kill most of the raiders. During the fight a deathclaw emerges from a sewer, and Vic runs away, screaming;

*"Ah, it's the Canadians! They want their country back!"*

After a long battle to the theme of Pomp and Circumstance, Vic defeats the beast, declaring himself the Dragonborn, and returns to the minute-men victorious.

## Other Appearences

A character credited as "Vic" also appears during an animated cutscene in the *Dragonball Xenoverse* Tony Saga.

A mustachioed fat man sits in a car watching the sky grow dark and mumbles Vic-ishly to himself "*oof, bloody hell, bushmir*".

## Notable Quotes

*"Aright children, you got to pick a picket or two an' all that shite" -* While looking like a Dickens Character (Fallout 4 #3)

*"MARGARET GET THE PIGEON!"* -Vic, during the evacuation of their home in 2077 (Fallout 4 #1)

*"You can't talk to me like that! I'm the MAN OF THE BLOODY HOUSE! I'll put you in the Washing Machine again."* - Vic to Margaret (Fallout 4 #1)

"*I'm more than just a one stick fat man...*" - Fallout 4 #5

"*Huh? Sorry, I wasn't listening... I was thinking. About... Burgers... and mince.*" - Vic to Preston