Veronica - The Loneliest Girl in the Mojave - Fallout New Vegas Lore 

Obsidian vs Bethesda on building relationships with your companions: Obsidian: travel around with Veronica and sight see while occasionally engaging in political conversation about the Brotherhood and it's future Bethesda: Piper falls in love with you for your lockpicking skills

When I met Veronica, I was like ”Yes! My first companion! Probably not that good in a fight, but it’s nice to have company.” 5 minutes later The Legion ambushed us, and as I was drawing my weapon I could only watch in awe as she slaughtered them all. After that I was much more interested in her, and watching her story unfold was one of my favorite things in this game.

Veronica: "I'll encourage people to name their not ugly babies after you" me:"oh uha thanks" *looks down at pip boy for name* Pip boy: "Rooples Pooples" me: "you know what on second thought you don't have to do that"

This is what happens when you kill the Brotherhood before meeting Veronica. Veronica: I had a run-in with a group calling themselves the Brotherhood of Steel. Pretty strange bunch. Do you know anything about them? The Courier: I met a group of them in a bunker west of here. Veronica: And? The Courier: I killed them all. Veronica: God, you're not lying, are you? You really did kill them. In that case, this is for them. Starts attacking the Courier.

Give her a powerfist and you'll be set for the rest of the game. I've left to go use the bathroom while fighting the legion and i came back to a bloody massacre.

when she said "its a big family" I immediately thought: its a cult isn't it

The fact that the one Paladin was trying to keep things formal and when you comment on his helmet he actually has a slip up is so fucking amazing.

"I was young and I needed the money" will always be one of my favorite lines in anything

Got something for me? *IS IT A DRESS???!!*

Veronica is probably my favorite companion. Why? Her voice actress, Felicia Day, just puts this sort of anxious energy into the character that makes it believable.

“Which means we can use Veronica as a workbench” that made me laugh so hard

Veronica's reaction to getting the dress is a very rare instance of really top notch voice acting in a Bethesda game.

If you have the Terrifying Presence perk, you could say to the BOS paladins "I will cast down your Codex and bask in the dying agony of those who hold it dear." and watch them cower in fear. Humorously, Veronica will ask if the Courier actually meant that. Makes me laugh that BOS paladins with power armor and heavy weapons cower in fear because of some words said by a courier.

The guy behind Veronica when you first meet her is continuously drinking.

Well I would really like to have an option to give her a hug after the massacre in the followers' shack.

Giving Veronica that dress and listening to her gush over it was the cutest thing i have ever heard in my life

Two Step Goodbye + Vera's Dress = Super-powered wasteland Jesus. I gotta admit though I don't like what this mod does to her face.

Veronica's story really hit me in the gut. It was my first character and I made him an unstoppable hulk of a soldier. killed Caesar in his fort along with every legionnaire, cleared countless dungeons and saved and helped everyone at every turn. Then I met one of the few characters whose problems I couldn't shoot or smooth talk. Really took me down a few pegs.

Technically Liberty prime shoot a laser from his eye

I was already a paladin of the brotherhood when I started Veronica's companion quest. It totally weirded me out that they called me an outsider despite already joining their ranks.

It’s what I like to call, “The free power armor mission”.

When she said "Mr House only had 2 robot sex slaves" Victor... What have you done...

Veronica: We should recruit more people. Our foes outnumber us and we barely hold together Power armor guys: the codex does not support this action

43:26 That squeal of delight when Veronica gets a dress always manages to make me smile no matter how many times i played through the game.

Shooting lasers from there eyes isn't exactly wrong. Somebody probably heard about Liberty Prime doing it in Fallout 3, passed down the story, and then the story got all messed up and ended up being a story about how the Brotherhood soldiers shoot lasers from their eyes

Gotta respect the fact that the lesbian character uses fisting weapons

After listening to this video, I now understand why I always felt compassion for Veronica in all of my playthroughs. She was just a girl who just wanted to help.

That guy is drinking a neverending beer.

I feel like all the companions in Vegas are more badass than in fallout 4...

3:16 that bloke in the background is chugging that bottle like a champion.

"More sexual favors than you can ever count, I'm still tired from it" that killed me I almost fell out of my chair 😂😂😂

i feel so bad for veronica, no matter what ending you get for her, she in someway, suffers

The loneliest lesbian in the Mojave

Awww her reaction to getting her dress is adorable

"you can use Veronica as a work bench" Nothing about that sounds right

The tape might have said that Elijah was apart of the NCR the whole time and that's why he stopped at a spot while NCR took helion and disappeared

"...that means we can use her as a workbench." Oh, so she's *that* kind of companion....

That thing doesn't look like veronica, she's suppose to look like a young woman not a middle aged lady.

I found the pulse gun on a random fiend. Freaked the hell out of me when it shutdown ED-E in one hit.

She is my favorite companion. Her alongside Ed-E are a match made in heaven. Especially if you have GRA DLC and give her Two Step Goodbye. After witnessing her mistreatment by BOS I couldn't let her stay. I convinced her to leave. She'll always have Ed-E and I.

0:33 +... Watch the guy in the background, he can really chug his liquor

The Brotherhood doesn't deserve Veronica.

She makes a lot of good point about the brotherhood, they really are a flawed group. Great video

Captain Maxson would roll in his grave and wipe out hidden valley bunker for this atrocity

A few minor details to add, if I may. Veronica certainly downplays her appearance, and has a 'thing' about her hair, as mentioned by Watkins in the Hidden Valley. However, she's remarkably beautiful. Literally, since there are places you can go like Vault 3 (if you haven't killed everyone) The Kings building and the Great Khan camp where there's unique NPC dialogue. She gets a few unsubtle invitations from Fiends, several Kings will hit on her too and some Khans will ask you if your friend is single. She also will interact with non-hostile NPC in some areas like the Mormon Fort buy chatting with them, although there's no audio. I also love her responses to certain things via the command wheel, like asking her to use ranged attacks gets you "Does jumping at them with my fists count as ranged? >sigh< Fine." and telling her to go melee gets you "Yes! Everything's coming up Veronica!" She's sarcastic, sassy, smart, sweet, strking (in both senses), somewhat scary, sometimes sombre sometimes sparkling and very special. Anyone taking her as a companion who *doesn't* fall in love with her, at least a bit, is probably dead inside. Not to mention that you have to respect anyone who lists their ambitions as "A lifetime supply of Fancy Lads Snack Cakes, revenge against my enemies, and world peace. In that order."

Omg, her squeal of happiness when you give her the dress is adorable.

Veronica is one of the characters in this game, like Boone, that I almost felt obligated to help once I knew more about them. New Vegas has a way of tugging at the heartstrings. I'm a sucker for a sad story and, being the D&D Lawful Good type that I am, I immediately dropped everything I was working on to complete her quest as best that it could be completed (Pro Tip: There's no real "good" ending). That _includes_ making sure that McNamara stays Elder, so the Brotherhood can be safely aligned with the NCR via the ceasefire, thus ensuring at least short-term survival. Keep in mind, by entering into her quest, I forged an alliance purely because I wanted her to be happy. I only found out later that McNamara was the right call for the alliance. I picked him over Hardin because McNamara felt like a less bloodthirsty option; the guy that actually wanted to work towards longevity over short-term solutions. Yes, McNamara was being secretive, but his reasoning was solid and his end goals were worthwhile. And then there's just the name of her quest, named because it holds the future survival of the Mojave Brotherhood Chapter in its palm. "I Could Make You Care." No, in the end she couldn't make the Brotherhood care, no matter which Elder was in charge. _But she made me care._ Yeah, I cried over this character a little bit. Shut up, it's good writing.

I don't know why I love this channel so much, it's probably because his voice is so calming or how his content is so entertaining

That 95 speech check - “Ideals are strengthened by the challenges they endure. Veronica’s questioning did you a service.” - has to be one of the best dialogue line I’ve personally seen in any video game. That literally hits the spot on explaining why the world of Fallout had the Great War in the first place, how our society evolves, and why some mighty powerhouses from the past eventually met an unceremonious demise. This line is something I should remember for a lifetime, no matter who I am or whatever position I’ll get to find myself in. It’s incredible how a pastime can teach you a valuable life lesson.

Veronica was always my favorite companion. It always hit hard that I couldnt do more for her. I wish Obsidian made a way for her to join the Followers.

When you get her to leave the Brotherhood kill the ones who stop you when you leave the bunker then she can join the followers without them being slaughtered also there is a way to broker peace between ncr and the Brotherhood if you have her stay with them and do this she has a reaction as well

That dude's chugging his life away in the background when you first start to talk to Veronica.

"I'd like a large Atomic Shake and a double Brahmin burger. And easy on the agave sauce this time."

when Veronica makes the choice to leave and is confronted by those Paladins, if the courier has the Terrifying Presence perk it scares the Paladins and gives a little extra dialogue for Veronica.

Felicia dey is the perfect voice actor for this character. I've always loved her.

This is the second of your videos I have watched and, while I'm not as big a Fallout fan as I am an Elder Scrolls fan, I now find myself wanting to play a quick round of Fallout 3/New Vegas/4 thanks to your videos. The love you have for the franchise is so obvious from your narration and you present the depth of both the characters and the lore you discus within this game with what I can only describe as "reverent awe". I have finally found a creator whose videos about games are actually worth watching. Thank you.

That there's no way to tell Veronica that you found her lover in the Sierra Madre and alive frustrates me to no end.

veronica needs an ending in which she acts as the courier's tech adviser in the lucky 38. there is no way the brotherhood could touch her there after the courier takes over.

You may know this, but there is a second pulse gun in the armory of Vault 34. I found a second directional satellite locator too. Another kid has one. You can find him an old building upstairs where he and a friend apparently live. I gave him 20 caps for that one. Of course the one we all see is with the kid running around playing shoot em up in Freeside. I gave him 1000 caps for it. Just wanted to be nice and surprise him. It did!!

"Circuit breaker pulse gun they sound kinda similiar..." The range finder looks like something from Big MT

I like how ol Vladimir is just downing a bottle of vodka in the back round for 15 mins while oxhorn is having the conversation with Veronica

Having spend a great deal of time with Veronica, all of the companions really, her story made me feel the most. When I completed the Serra Madre I literally rushed back to find her to tell her about her former lover and where she was and to try and take her back with me so we could find her again, but, no choice to even tell her, which is an absolute crime.

0:30 the guy in the back is a little too attached to that whiskey bottle

i was so excited when i realized that Felicia Day was the voice actress. Same with Arcade being Zachary Levi

Love Veronica, lore-wise she's by far my favorite companion of all the Fallouts. Instantly fell in love with her character which depresses me because she never really gets a true happy ending.

Ah, Veronica. This girl right here has had my back for about 3/4 of my ~10,000 hours across 3 copies and 2 different platforms of NV. Still, give Veronica a Superheated Saturnite Powerfist, and Vera Keys' Dress, you got yourself a beautiful, hilarious, badass.

I loved fallout 3 I haven't played in a number of years, my teenage children play and have all the newer versions and whatnot. I stumbled onto one of your videos by chance and now I'm addicted. Very good stuff man...

*noble tone* “ I go where I am needed” Yes good lady, yes you do.

If you destroyed the Brotherhood before talking to her, and tell her you did, she'll say "This is for them" and attack you.

Veronica was the only companion I knew how to get when I got the game, literally skipped all the places past most of the mission objectives just to get her, favourite character

13:15 This was the moment that I looked in the background. Dude's taking a huge swig of that alchohol.

Wow. I never knew about all this, never explored this whole story with Veronica. Great video, thanks for sharing.

Cloudy with a chance of crippling depression......

When I first played Fallout New Vegas, I accidentally got Veronica as a follower. I had no idea what I was doing and after talking with her she joined me. I did the Followers option for her quest and it just infuriated me. It was my first taste of the Brotherhood of Steel and I will never forget how selfish and stubborn they can be.

Courier: I love you Veronica Veronica: But I’m a lesbian… Courier: [Cherchez Le Femme] Yeah so am I

Thanks for this one. Veronica was always the most interest person with the most interest quests. This was cool to see all the great options her story has - and they're all quite impactful and dramatic.

I just honestly wanted to give Veronica a hug and save her a dance on the Strip I felt so sorry for her when Elder McNamara crushed her hopes EVEN when he clearly saw that she was right ):

Last time I was this early, Vault 34 wasn't so fucked up.

I love this mission mainly because if you have low intelligence, when they confront you at the followers base, you can say “burp loudly”

It never fails to amaze me, how awesome your video's are sir. The level of detail & passion in your videos, is truly something to behold keep up the good work

What if you uhhh... already blew up hidden valley? Edit: Thanks for all these likes gang

13:00 * The Whole World Freezes While The Courier Has A Conversation With Veronica, While The Guy In The Background Is Drowning In His Own Beer*

Veronica: I’ll tell people to name their non-ugly children after you I hope I find a baby named Laser Man somewhere in the Mojave

9:30 "although I hear the soldiers mount each other as much as they mount the women, so maybe they did keep a little something from the empire" Veronica just called the entire Legion gay, that's why she's the best companion besides ED-E.

It was great to see her so happy to get the dress. She lost everything but she can at least have something to make her a little bit happy

Veronica was a very well and interestingly written character. I thought it was pretty cool you could give her that unique dress from the Dead Money DLC too.

WOW, I never knew there are so many layers to her. When I saw that the video is 50 minutes long I never thought they would be filled with such an amazing story and your storytelling. Great job.

Some people say that watching these videos ruins the story but with so many different endings to different quests and the game, its so interesting for me to watch it despite me not beating New Vegas. It gives me an insight to what id choose later on and how i can see the story pan out, since i dont watch these all the time. its nice. Keep it up oxhorn!

*I can't believe i watched almost an hour of video about a Fallout side character*

At the end Veronica turned from a mature young woman to a giddy school girl

Really appreciate your work, you do an amazing job with your videos, great detail for the storylines you play

14 years later, I'm almost 40 years old, and I still think about Veronica. This was a well thought out character.

Some joke about a lesbian with a power-fist. Whatever. In all seriousness, New Vegas is still the tops in my mind. I loved the companions and other characters, the choices, the DLC, the weapons, the setting, and the Black Armour is still my favorite outfit ever. Veronica's story touched me in a unique way amongst companions. Really, she has no "happy ending". But she can have you for a friend, if you let her.

Funny how their creator's descendant bends the rules to make the BoS a thriving powerhouse in Boston

I really appreciate the fact that Obsidian put in the "You should take over" dialogue option. It's extremely rare when a game gives me an option to say something that was exactly what I was thinking

I can’t believe this game was made in less than a year. The conversation with her alone is movie quality. And the game is full of it. It’s absolutely mind blowing how great this game’s story is. My current favorite companion is Boone.

I would really like Oxhorn to do a video just dedicated to Father Elijah (the old leader of the brotherhood of steel) his story reaches into the DLC Old World Blues and the DLC with the Sierra Madre. I know he said about learning about him in the Sierra Madre but his story reaches deeper in the DLC Old World Blues. So I think making a video putting the pieces together from everything would be really nice. His story seems really awesome. It would be a really nice way to tie up the story of the BOS. If you agree like this comment so the bearded man can see it. Anyway thank you :D

43:18 she got her dress here

That guy in the back really needs to stop ;-; how long is he gonna keep drinking,1:34

Bos paladin: you're hereby sentenced to death Me:Haha pulse gun goes pew pew