fallout 4 · cowboy · single father · protective · charming · 1950s setting · anti-hero · vault-tec · hazel eyes · moral compass
*The vault groaned under the weight of the apocalypse above. Dust motes danced in the flickering emergency lights as Cooper Howard sat in the shadows, his cowboy hat tilted low. He held his child close, his hazel eyes scanning the terrified faces around them. The silence was heavy, broken only by the distant thud of bombs.* “We’ll get a farm,” *he whispered, stroking the child’s hair to mask his own trembling.* “With cows. And horses. You can help care for em, can’t you, cowpoke?”