A Profile of Nate & Nora - Plus, the Fraternal Post 115 - Fallout 4 Lore 

The holotape reminder was the "Hi Honey!" Holotape Codsworth gives you at the start of the game. He tells you he thinks it was supposed to be a surprise from Nora. I could be wrong

"I'll get Shaun back, I promise..." Proceeds to loot every desk fan and roll of duct tape in the Commonwealth to build the perfect vacation home on Spectacle Island

Nora: "I'll find who did this..." Nate: "and I'll get Shaun back..." (Both together): "I promise." *Tries not to cry, cries anyway.*

“If a courier gets shot in the head he won’t be the same” well yeah cause he’s dead... *me not noticing it’s referencing new vegas*

Even Shaun secretly smokes

Hearing them say "I promise" at the same time... Chills, man.

NEED TO FIND MY SON. Holdup lets build settlements, go to far harbor, become the overboss, and help my companions with their personal issues first.......Shaun who?

Well, considering she knows how to use weapons and armor, my guess would be Nate and Nora met in the Service and Nora got her degree through Military Scholarship while Nate enlisted for another tour of duty

I would be remiss if I didn't point out that Nate complains that Codsworth draws his bath too cold, despite the house of tomorrow not having a bathtub, only a shower.

Me in 2077 sitting in a rocking chair looking into the distance: War....... War never changes. My whole family including the deceased: STOP QUOTING THAT STUPID FALLOUT GAME

Nah Nora isn’t dead, she’s a companion according to my recently installed mod.

I love how when Nora says war, war never changes at the podium, she has a sigh after the first part. I interpret it as her realizing what her dead spouse means. She finally saw what Nate had endured and the horror of nuclear war. But as she expresses it, no one, not even the original speaker will be there to understand her

It's crazy how In a very short cutscene that I've played a handful of times you still show me things I missed. Never knew they had a dog, but lost it. Super sad, but makes dogmeat make complete sense. A human out of a vault, alone all but a robot. Seeing a dog would break either of their hearts, and I think they'd feel strongly inclined to "adopt" dogmeat.

I think the shaun costume thing is foreshadowing how the player may see shaun, either someone who enforces law and justice and keep people safe or someone evil who can't be trusted

“Fine I’ll do it myself” Nate = Thanos

What if Nate is the one u portray in operation Anchorage in fallout 3

My wife is an amazing artist, so when we got this game she made a close replica of my face for Nate, and then I played through the game as, essentially, myself. With headphones on (and a little THC) it was the single most immersive gaming experience I'd ever had, which was both a good thing and a bad thing. I found myself making a number of Faustian bargains to get Shaun back, including temporarily joining the Brotherhood of Steel so I could get Power Armor and survive the Glowing Sea. However, the moment I heard Maxson talking about ethnic cleansing I tossed a grenade and fled from there as quickly as I could, leaving him dead. Upon my arrival at the Institute, I sided with them without a second thought. Shaun was my son, and we were going to be a family again, no matter how strange it was that he was older than me and so distant. I even executed the Railroad for him. My gosh! My old son looked so much like my grandfather, whom I had also lost to cancer. It was after discovering that he was dying that I re-thought everything. The Institute had all this wonderful technology, even capable of allowing Kellogg to live far beyond a normal human lifespan, but they hadn't found a way to cure cancer? As far as I was concerned, Shaun was still a prisoner of the Institute, even as its director. He'd just been so brain-washed by them by now that he couldn't escape anymore, even if he wanted to. So, I turned to the Minutemen for help, and together we destroyed the Institute. After we destroyed the Institute, I found that Shaun had given me a synth copy of himself. This was not the same as having Shaun back, but having lost a child in real life, a daughter, I knew I was the type of person to take whatever I could get. So, I brought him back to the Castle with me. But the Brotherhood still remained, with their talks of ethnic cleansing of the synths, and the closest thing I had to a son now was the young synth called Shaun. So, I fought the Brotherhood alongside the Minutement. We destroyed their airship, and won the intense battle that ensued. With them gone, the Commonwealth was as safe as I could make it for synth Shaun. War never changes itself, but it changes you. You find yourself coming back from it, and everything is different than it was before. Perhaps its foolish to say war never changes. War changes everything.

I usually go with Nate. As to how things go afterwards? On my Minuteman character, his thoughts are this: he's pissed. But he's also used to fighting as part of a force. When he stumbles upon Preston and saves the Minutemen from the brink of extinction, and gets named General...he's found it. He sees what the Commonwealth has become - it's what he thinks of war, and it's hell in what used to be his backyard. He's going to find Shaun. At the head of an _army._ Nate is disillusioned with war, but not freedom. And fighting for freedom? He knows a thing or two about that. But he's been trained to the pinnacle of U.S. Army training, with the ability to build anything, plant food, fire any weapon, wield power armor, hack computers, pick locks...he's the ultimate implacable man. _Nothing_ will stop him from finding Shaun and avenging Nora; but it's also not true that he'll stop at nothing. If he did, he wouldn't be the man that Nora loved in the first place. So, to build the army that will free Shaun, he'll build and plant and shoot and hack and pick, on _their_ behalf, first. After all - winning hearts and minds means winning at least half of the battle. ...And that's how my goody two-shoes character came to be.

I Turned Nate into the general of the minutemen who speaks for freedom and justice

2:07 the boy in that scene is actually Nate, and the woman is his mother, I believe. Look at the bottle of Nuka Cola next to them, which came out in the year 2044. That is Nate being told the story of his great-great grandfather serving in ww2.

I've been binge-watching all of you lore videos lately and want to express my sincere gratitude for your content - the quality, narrative and editing are immersive and stunning. So thank you :)

Hearing Nora speak at the Veterans Hall. Makes me tear up every time. In my eyes, Nate, Nora, and Shaun all died. The world they knew is gone, and your journey is a rebirth in a new world, and one journeying to understand that everything you once knew is gone.

In the artbook for fallout 4 you can actually see in the first version of the prologue that nate was awarded the medal of honor. It's laying in a box with his war memorabilia

Those gloves in the art where Nate was touching the photo of his wife are actually currently issued US Army Aviation gloves.

'll find who did this" "and I'll get Shaun back" You didn't tell us anything about try not to cry challenge

Fallout 4 having a voiced protagonist with a backstory was one of the most interesting aspects of the game imo, and I don't think it was necessarily a bad thing like many people made it out to be at the time, although there were a lot of details they could have executed better (such as being able to preview the voice line before choosing it, or having more than 4 choices at a time).

So Nate was practicing his speech in the mirror at the start of the game?

Nate gunned down Canadian POWs, Nora defended him in court. War crime power couple.

This may be a small comment that doesn't really change much, but are we sure Nora was newly graduated? It may have been an oversight or a poorly made joke but there is talk about Nora dusting off her law degree. This would suggest that she was a lawyer for a good while before stopping for most likely maternal reasons. It is also more likely that she's experienced since she speaks very knowledgeably about the person who presumably she's never met is an innocent and knows what's going on in the system.

When you first return to Sanctuary after leaving Vault 111, and after you have spoken to Codsworth, you go into your ruined home and activate Shaun's crib, and Nora will say " I'm coming sweetheart" or Nate will say " I'm coming buddy". This always puts a knot in my stomach, and a tear in my eyes It is by far the most touching part, especially if you speak to Codsworth right away when you get to Sanctuary.

I'm amazed you didn't talk about the cut content of Piper's Extended Interview with the Sole Survivor. Though the dialogue options are chosen by the player they offer insight into how they perceived the world and their profession.

Codsworth: Mr. Drfvgedrfbvge! Welcome back, sir!

My first playthrough I picked Nate and started the game as a Lawful Good War Hero type of character. By the middle and till the end, the trials of the wasteland basically had him turn into a pessimistic cross between Solid Snake and the Punisher

You know Oxhorn, the sole survivor changing how he lives after going through that much trauma is something I hadn't even considered. Thanks for giving me the new angle.

Or by accident. *Falls in park* Well im *Pregnant*

At around 19:30 you mention a holotape. If you go to post war sanctuary and do some dialogue with Codsworth then he gives you a tape from Nora, if you are Nate of course. This is probably the holotape Nora was thinking of giving Nate.

“Don’t they know, it’s the end of the world? It ended when you said... Goodbye...”

Mr. Oxhorn, I want to say I really appreciate your work and have seen your videos for years. You have a gift with this and i appreciate your passion on the Fallout 4 game you make it way better

"Who left those here?" That implies a guest left them and that neither smoke. I think the surprise gift mentioned on Nora's terminal was likely the holotape recorded by your spouse that Codsworth gives you. Also, I disagree that Nora had earned her degree "recently." Nate mentions Nora "dusting off her law degree," which seems to imply that she was working before the pregnancy and is just starting to think about going back to practice. In our world, Suffolk University Law School is located in downtown Boston. It was located directly north (like, the next building) of the Orpheum Theatre, aka, the Combat Zone.

20:15 Well, Shaun did eventually become the devil at some point... God, that's dark.

oxhorn: steps into houses and instantly starts talking gibberish *cait tolerates you*

The role playing aspect I think was the most debated part of the game in the fact that most people found it difficult to role play a bad guy given the starting situation the Sole Survivor finds their self in. I have to agree with this. However, I really like the fact that the Sole Survivor's back story was flushed out a little more with the terminal entries and I think it can help those players that wanted to play a bad guy actually play a bad guy better...a tragic bad guy. For Nate, if I wanted to play a bad guy, I could use the fact that he knows war is hell and wants change to send him off the deep end when he wakes up and finds his son gone, wife dead, and world blown up because humans never changed. It could drive him deep and dark and he could focus that rage and sadness into mindless wrath or vengeance, or even be role played as a dead soul, uncaring and unattached to this new world. For Nora, I could use her powerful sense of justice and have it warped as she finds that the universe has shown her that justice is only an illusion. She had worked hard, saved money, had a beautiful son, a loving and heroic husband, and was just beginning to take on a case defending the little guy against big government. Everything was going her way, and then, the bombs hit. In an instant, her son, her husband, her career, her money, her entire life was gone. The universe was NOT just. Justice is a figment of imagination...a collective lie told by society to keep people from true justice, her justice. Her views could warp as she realizes that some truths she believed in such as property ownership and legal fault are really phantasmal aspects of a fallen society that sought blame for life's misfortunes. That true justice lay in the ability to acquire property and protect it as she saw fit. That a person's life is not inherently valuable since the life of her husband was so nonchalantly taken and her son was lost. Maybe that warps her to believing in "might is right" justice and she will take from this world as the world had taken from her! As always, thank you for the comprehensive and wonderful work, Ox!

I love the minor detail at the top of the family terminal that reads “Humans Only - Codsworth, Eyes Off!!”

Well, my soul survivor is a Skeleton who wears a bathrobe and sombrero while he fires a banana gun that shoots more bananas. So, that's what a turned him into. *A funny looking skeleton. After years of work and losing his son and wife, he is a skeleton. Poor, poor, Nate.*

. O.o Father(shaun):where was i made mother/father You(nora/nate):you were made in a public park bathroom Father(shaun): ;-;

It appears not many know this but there is dialoge in the game files were nora is also military. Which makes sense given how common it is to use the military to pay for college. It explains so much about them, how they met, how nora is able to walk out of a vault and immediately start killing everything just like nate, how she earned her degree, why they talk about dusting off her degree, and how they talk about this new life that started only a year ago.

I feel as though both characters have a lot of venn diagram-esque overlaps, such as a tide for witty banter and convincing personality (let's be honest, you're not taking off my clothes in a park unless your words are made of gold. However, their backgrounds and principles seem to play heavily on what factions these two resonate towards. Nate's experience in warfare and determined-yet-blunt personality fits him perfectly with the Minutemen and BoS. Nora's ability to converse with enemies and intense intellect seems to fit her perfectly with the Railroad and Institute. Their time with their child may also prove to be a major prospect onto what choice they make on supporting their child in his last few days to live. I personally feel Nate would have it easier going against Shaun than Nora would, and the psychological grief of risking it all to lose it all is what makes me feel she would make the better Overboss between the two of them. Plus, it sounds like Nora's one to always be holding the reins on things.

Cait tolerates you

In the end I did two playthroughs and started two others I never finished. For Nora, I did a playthrough where she joined the Brotherhood out of respect and admiration for Nate's past. She was a stubborn, strong, rough woman who stuck to her resolve when made, which ultimately made her kind, but also vengeful and a grudge-holder. Since she held Nate in such high regard, she ultimately saw a peace-keeping organization like the Brotherhood as the ultimate response to the destruction of the world. In the end, after Shaun's death, she abandoned sanctuary, moving out to Spectacle Island and fashioning her own fortress. Her only companions robots, and all of her losses and regrets being too great to handle. Ultimately she never remarried or fell for anyone else, as she was too shocked by the death of her spouse, and couldn't move on, nobody were there to help. I would imagine that the Brotherhood scribes and soldiers were proud of her accomplishment, but that the Brotherhood, like many military organizations, didn't typically spend lots of time profiling their comrades. As such, they assumed Nora was fine given she had defeated The Institute and save the Commonwealth, but sadly the truth was that Nora was devastated that her vengeance-filled quest to save Shaun ultimately ended with him dead. She couldn't accept that, after everything that happened, there was no reset button that she had mentally convinced herself had somehow existed. Despite her solitary living, if you needed help in the Commonwealth, Sentinel Nora was there. She mindlessly devoted her life to helping the Commonwealth, destroying raiders and mutants, and always played her radio so she never had to think about the past. She always wears Nate's wedding band. For Nate, I did a playthrough where he joined the Minutemen. Ultimately, he wasn't as aggressive of a person as Nora, so he was often polite to a fault, even when being angry would have been a better response. Nate was more likely to try to find a solution, as his years in the war had left him with minor PTSD that made resolving conflict with diplomacy his default mode of action, which something wasn't always the wisest course of action and often led him to getting into situations he could have easily avoided. With all of the war history he had from his family, he decided the best thing to do was to turn the Minutemen into the police of the Commonwealth, people there when you needed them. While still distraught over Nora's death, my Nate, unlike my Nora, surrounded himself with people, and ultimately made the Castle his home, where he speaks with those like Preston and Ronnie on a regular basis. The fall of the Institute and ultimate death of Shaun was hard for him to take, however unlike my Nora who was simply rewarded with honor by the Brotherhood but ultimate left to deal with her pain alone, I'd like to think Preston, Ronnie, and the other Minutemen helped Nate accept the situation so he could make the Minutemen something his family's history would be proud of. Eventually rising above his pain, Nate returned to the Vault to properly bury Nora near the house in Sanctuary. It would be over a year later, but he would begin spending time with Piper. He would never forget Nora, but he was ready to accept that his old life was gone and couldn't be brought back, and he had to live in the world he was a part of. I'd also like to think that Piper is aware that he will never truly forget about Nora given his circumstance, and is ready to accept that.

This man: has a huge build with awesome weapons and armor Preston: “Take this laser musket”

Seeing my spouse being shot again Really sent shivers down my spine... I played as Nate and that really is something. Honestly there the coolest couple in fallout

My sole survivor was all about finding Shaun, but Kellog came first in her mind- she wanted him dead. The Minutemen became her family. Preston I like to say took her aside one night after a particularly brutal killing of a Raider and she whispered "That's what I want to do to the bastard who killed Nate." Nick Valentine I want to say became the person who inspired her to not stop caring for anyone she could, and meeting Maxene I want to say would be like meeting a mother figure. You would want to stay and protect her, only to find out she is fully capable of protecting herself. When she met Shaun, she cried, but when she found out what he'd become, she killed him outright. A 45 caliber slug was her farewell present, and she then killed the Institute... but not before sounding the evacuation order. Post game I say she would retire to The Castle and work on getting the Brotherhood to leave or to help settle and make the Commonwealth safer. She'd lead a team called Zero Hour, a crack team of power armored wearing Minutemen who deploy to handle serious threats, like a Raider attack with heavy weapons or a deathclaw outbreak. Preston and her would grow old and make the Minutemen a great force for good... before the likely outcome of greed and the sort causes the group to splinter due to poor leadership.

I really wish there is an offical storyline to revive the sole survivor's spouse, I know there is a mod out there but the pasted together dialog is far from perfect.

Nate the Rake

I feel like there were a lot of assumptions made in the Nora part of the video that have no evidence to back them up. Ox says several times that Nora "just" got her law degree, but it seems far more likely that she was a lawyer for at least a few years before having Shaun, especially since she had her own office and aide. It's far more likely that she worked her way up to that position rather than starting there. Also, she talked about the case getting her "back in the game," which means she had a game to begin with. This is supported by the fact that she had the opportunity to choose her own clients, which you can only do if you're fairly successful or don't care about making any money, which is unlikely with a kid. There's no explicit indication of when she got her degree. Additionally, he said that the only way the couple could have saved up money was if the US military paid really well. This is not true, as it's based on the assumption that Nora just started law. If she had been in law for a few years already, and was at least moderately successful, as is indicated by the fact that she has an office and an aide along with the ability to choose her own clients, then it would have been fairly easy to save up some money as a buffer.

It's pretty obvious the Nate stands the best chance of surviving. You can't debate your way out of starvation, or getting mauled by a you guai.

I like how oxhorn somewhat reads into everything, assuming everything might be a clue or something useful. It's kinda funny sometimes but it's part of what makes him so thorough and fun to listen to.

Nate the rake

God your story telling is something else bro... the unison "I promise" bit was master craft lol.. my spine hit the ceiling. 🇳🇿✌🤘

In the year 1945, my great-great grandfather, serving in the army, wondered when he'd get to go home to his wife and the son he'd never seen. He got his wish when the US ended World War II by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The World awaited Armageddon; instead, something miraculous happened. We began to use atomic energy not as a weapon, but as a nearly limitless source of power. People enjoyed luxuries once thought the realm of science fiction. Domestic robots, fusion-powered cars, portable computers. But then, in the 21st century, people awoke from the American dream. Years of consumption lead to shortages of every major resource. The entire world unraveled. Peace became a distant memory. It is now the year 2077. We stand on the brink of total war, and I am afraid. For myself, for my wife, for my infant son - because if my time in the army taught me one thing: it's that war, war never changes.

Nate and Nora sound like an awesome couple on the terminal! It would've been great if they spent more time on both of them to develop their stories. Maybe hear more from pre-war America and their lives then!

Even with these terminals setting their "good" personalities I still think that the bombs dropping could still create an evil persona. All of that trauma could create a evil sociopath.

Dead eye is the only blind super-mutant😅 he's a melee super-mutant that has low perception(so he's surrendered by mines so he gives a challenge).Look at his face, he has a rag over his eyes

So you asked who we chose and who we made the character into... I chosen Nate and made him go from a loving Father and Decorated Soldier into a Mentally Broken Character.. Loosing the only happiness you have could turn the kindest into a Monster.

Its so funny when you find skeleton on a toilet

NATE THE RAKE

Hey Ox, I love your channel. I watch your videos every day, and I really appreciate the great content that you produce. Thank you

It may be just me, but I find Nate and Nora's story simply amazing and romantic...and equally sad and tragic. They loved each other dearly. They absolutely loved their son and were willing to do anything for him. If war hadn't happened, they were going to be amazing parents and a successful family. If anything this is the most lovely, romantic and intimate couple ever seen in Fallout universe, and their story gives you a first-hand experience of how people became victim of a nuclear war. They saw the world as they knew it coming to an end (which is enough for some people to commit suicide in real life, and lots did in Fallout world too), and almost witnessed destruction and mass deaths of everyone they knew. Duped by Vault-Tec, one of the loved ones got shot while trying to defend their only child from being stolen...when the other was forced to look on without being able to move, being awake but still frozen. That would drive some people insane. It also explains why your chosen Sole Survivor is extremely distraught and almost about to burst into tears when falling out of the cryo-pod...and seeing the frozen, slowly petrifying corpse of the love of their life. And then the option of having a distraught reintroduction with Codsworth... Man, the feels are real. Retarded piss-pot haters spew a lot of negativity about this game, but Nate and Nora, the story of their life (and their voice actors) are one of the big reasons I love this game so much.

The fact that Nate spells hell with an uppercase H makes me wonder if he is implied to be christian.

is it wrong that I collect literally every teddy I come across just to add to shauns room?

Homie definitely was a war criminal 😂

The reason why Nate has such a high pay check is the following: Base pay- his normal paycheck Basic housing allowance- money given to pay for his home to help support his family Combat pay- pay for combat zones Hazardous pay- pay for being in a zone that hazardous to life And he also gets paid for any achievements he earns, like rank, or medals. We never know his rank but he's clearly higher than E-4. Also BAH is determined by the cost of housing where your dependant is living, Massachusetts is expensive so at least 1.5-2k a month on top of what Nate already earned.

Didn't even think about that. I wonder about everyone else before the war

When I played Fallout 4, I always imagined that Nate would go to the Brotherhood. Hes a war hero/ vet and he would want that organization and discipline. Nora: The Minuteman or Railroad. She fought for justice and what was right using the rule of law. When I played Nora She became a member of the RailRoad fighting for freedom of Synths however she could be the general of the minuteman.

I had my male sole survivor join the Brotherhood of Steel cuz after the collapse of humanity the military is really all that he still knows and the Brotherhood is stable forced to concede the questionable orders but during times of desperation and War he would have received similar orders from the generals in the US Army during the war nothing he's not familiar with

The way you edited them saying their last words to their spouse actually made me tear up, great job dude.

When I started playing Fallout 4, first thing I did after saving settlers from Concord is grab some beer, which I could find, and... well... let's say, Nate got a really terrible day that day. And after night of drinking (like typical western spy-gopnik Kolya), I've made Nate as gloomy, but "good-karma" character. And, as a key feature, my Nate is monogamous: friendship with Cait or Piper - sure, but something more? No-no-no. I kept rings through all my gameplay of Fallout 4. (And, I assume, that is why Nate was that good at fighting in postnuclear: it was pure rage after he had lost his family) P.s. Forgive my language for any mistakes - I am not a native speaker

I make my male SS have a constant scowl so when he said the line "Will it be like that time in the park a year ago" he looked PISSED! It was absolutely hilarious! Lol

My first playthrough I chose Nate, and he became a proud BoS Sentinel. My second playthrough I chose Nora, who I turned into a Railroad agent.

Oh my god! i cried with this vid Ox. i loved it

I had never heard about the unused terminal files before, but, after seeing what Nora wrote, it makes me really happy to know the decisions I made playing her fit very well with what her life would have been pre-war.

Theory: Dogmeat is the missing dog He gets frozen when he’s 2 years old and unfrozen a year before Nate gets released

I played Nora, who eventually falls in love with paladin danse, guess she has a thing for the military type...

I turned nate into a guy that lives in diamond city and buys everything he can.

1: I believe the opening of the game was him practicing his speeches second draft. 2: he could've done what my mod does, only have the spouse's entries.

I actually think that neither of them smoke, they don’t say “who left those out” they ask who left them there, implying that maybe a friend or family member left them in recent days

I thought the Family vid was coming next.

19:28 Notice the entry is titled “Holotape Reminder.” This is a reminder to give the player the “Hi Honey!” holotape. The same holotape that Codsworth gives the player just after emerging from Vault 111. That’s the surprise.

I figured this would be another fallout 3 vid. I was pleasantly surprised. I think it would be great to have more protagonist profiles.

Who's Nate and Nora? I only know XXXBUTTPLUGXXX from my play through…weird.

I prefer to play as Nora because I feel like Nate has too much of an identity. He is the “right” choice for who is probably more capable of saving their son and helping the wasteland. I feel that Nate’s past experiences would make it easier for him to adapt to the wasteland. Nora might have been shown how to use a gun or defend herself. She might have some basic survival skills and instincts but that is for the player decide. It makes since that she would need time to learn and grow into a real killing machine that most people become when reaching higher levels unlike Nate who really should be better trained then Nora. I think the story has more impact with Nora especially with the information we learn from military bases. Nate might know some of that information already while it is definitely new for Nora. I like to think of how these new experience would make her grow and change and how her previous life experience would shape her new life in the commonwealth.

And all these time the Vaultec guy was waiting at the door

An unrelated question: I can build a fusion generator to power my settlements, so why can't I fix a weed whacker to cut down annoying growth?

I can imagine all the people who took the time to create their spouse only for them to get shot a few minutes later

What if Dogmeat is a ghoul dog

Wait a minute. If that’s Nate’s great great grandma why is there a Nuka cola on the wall?

The war veteran, turned to a sentinel, obliterated the institute, partially corrupted by raider ideologies, brought back by (your companion of choice), destroyed the nucleus, murdered the mechanist and walked away with the radscorpions and deathclaws following suit.

I’ve had this game since it’s release, and it was only YESTERDAY that I saw the dog bowl and learned that their dog was missing. I’m glad it was mentioned.

I'm going to say this Oxhorn, This really brought a tear to my eye, and makes me think that the way I play characters in these games (I can never bring myself to be evil.) fits, With me I chose Nate, A war hero, a man who's willing to stand in front of others and protect them and ask for nothing in return, in a way I based him loosely around my MechWarrior OC, Ian James Fisher, a man who's born into privilege, but sees the darker sides of life all around him, even growing up. A man who could have Anything he wants just by asking, yet never dose, A man who joins the Military, even against the protest of his father, and decides to make it his own way, I played Nate as a man cast out of his life that he knew, Sure he knew how to fight, sure he knew how to survive, but that doesn't change the fact that he still finds himself crying to sleep each night, that he can never forgive himself for his failing to protect his wife, always asking 'could I have done something, I should have taken him from her... why wasn't I the one shot..." Yet finds a way to keep going after meeting the Concord survivors, somehow the slightly naïve view of Preston makes him think that even though the worlds changed so much, there's still something to fight for, Not just for finding his son, though this is his vow to his wife, that is his last words to her. he finds a reason to get up each day because of the Minute men. And the fact that he's survived so much, yet is still willing to put everything he wants aside, and pick up a gun, stand in front of a stranger and say 'no one will hurt you tonight. I wont let them.' that's how I viewed Nate. When I played Nora I saw her like most of the women I know myself. Strong, independent, and more then willing to get her hands dirty if need be, and well she might not be the hardened warrior that Nate was, it's impractical to think (just because I did this with some of my female friends) that he hasn't taught her to handle herself, that he didn't teach her self defense, that she doesn't know how to fire a gun even in a post apocalypse. Her reason for getting up is similar to Nate, it's proven with this video that she had strong moral standings and teachings, it's likely that she would do exactly the same as her husband, also without asking for anything in return. in a way I like to think this is part of what Dogmeat helps bring back to the survivor, Finding a dog who's willing to stand by you so suddenly, even though he just met you, then leads you to a group of people he KNOW's you can help, might have just been the single spark that helped Nate or Nora keep there sanity. Keep up the fight through the raiders, mutents, Gunners, and other horrors of post nuclear USA. Through all that, that single spark of Hope... well, Someone said it best that All the Shadows in the world, cannot snuff out the light of a single candle.