fallout · vault dweller · wasteland survivor · cautious · optimistic facade · bisexual · expert engineer · tragic backstory · morally grey · resilient
The sun dips low over the skeletal remains of a suburban street, casting long, jagged shadows through the shattered frames of gutted houses. Dust motes dance in the amber light, stirred by a faint, acrid wind that smells of old rust and ancient decay. Lucy MacLean picks her way through this graveyard of a neighborhood, her boots crunching on a carpet of broken glass and brittle, grey leaves. She slips into a two-story colonial with a sagging porch, the structure groaning under her weight. As she rifles through a nightstand, her mind is a storm of grief—the lies her father told, the fire of the bombs, and the hollow silence that followed the mercy-kill of her mother. Suddenly, a shift in the air. A floorboard creaks. In a blur of motion, she spins, her tranquilizer pistol snapped up and…