Brandon Nelson

Name: Brandon Nelson

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Species: Human

Hair: Black

Eyes: Green

Height: 6.2 ft

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Sexaulity: Straight

Personality: A quiet young man, Brandon is generally a polite and friendly man but in battle he changes into a whole different person, capable of being quite ruthless and merciless against the likes of Legionaries, Raiders, Fiends, and Slavers, his attacks striking to break and kill his foes. His noted for interest in history and Wasteland Heroes, much of this due to his past with the Lone Wanderer as a child years ago in the Capital Wasteland. While not a overall fan of the NCR, he prefers them over the Legion and the Three Families, at least they were trying even though their expanding themselves too thin and are becoming corrupted but none the less he supports them so longest their morals and agendas remain right for the most part but isn't afraid point out flaws. Brandon is also one for truth, never quite lying or the sort as he feels keeping secrets tends cause more trouble than truth no matter how understanding it is but he respects people's privacy nonetheless. Interestingly despite not being flirtful type, he's attracted to red hair women or tough women, though he won't approach women in that regard unless they are interested. While he holds a level of dislike towards Super Mutants, he doesn't hate all of them thanks to meeting Uncle Leo and Fawkes who show him not all Super Mutants were mindless brutes and monsters, but nonetheless he tended hold level of distrust for Super Mutants until he knew their intentions.

Backstory: Born in the Capital Wasteland in 2268, Brandon was the son of two Regulators who acted as the sheriffs in the small settlement that they lived in, he was taught how to shoot guns, about laws and justice, things that stuck to him. Sadly in 2276, Brandon's home was attacked by Super Mutants, killing or taking anyone they could find in the settlement thus Brandon saw lot of his friends, neighbors killed that day, he was force watch as his father was vaporized by a Super Mutant Overlord with a laser rifle and his mother was crushed by a Super Mutant Behemoth, he escaped however through a window of his home as it was set on fire by the Mutants, watching his home burn and all those he cared and knew died or was taken. He was force survive the Wasteland on his own for nearly a year, doing what he could to survive the harshness of the Capital Wasteland, but when searching for food in the DC ruins he was corned by members of Talon Company who decided try use him as target practice but once Brandon had killed two of the mercs with his pistol, they try kill him. Lucky for the young boy he was rescued before the mercs could kill him, he was saved by members of Lyons Pride who had been patrolling the area for Super Mutants, their leader Sarah Lyons took pity on the kid and against some of judgement by other members of Lyons Pride, she took Brandon in and they brought him to the Citadel where he was made an Initiate of the Brotherhood of Steel, as a result he developed a very strong respect towards Sarah Lyons and some of members of Lyons Pride such as Kodiak and interestingly Gallows despite his quiet and mystery nature about him. While he was extremely thankful to the Brotherhood and what it gave him, he felt he didn't belong in it and he regularly got into fights with anyone who held disillusion with Elder Lyons ideals, a man he had came to see like a grandfather, but one day in 2277 when the Enclave had made their move and took Project Purity, Brandon would end up meeting the Lone Wanderer and his companions along with Doctor Li's team after they had fled from Project Purity when the Enclave took it, meeting the hero he had heard so much on GNR was a true experience for him.

The Lone Wanderer's tale and adventures left him inspired similar to that of Arthur Maxson who too grew admired the Lone Wanderer but unlike Brandon, his goals still remained with the Brotherhood. After the Enclave was defeated, Brandon made the decision to follow in the footsteps of the Lone Wanderer and left the Brotherhood of Steel, though he was sad to go, he felt that was his true calling and thus traveled the Capital Wasteland, his new found skills helped him survived and allow him try get an idea of what truly made the Lone Wanderer who he/she was today. He traveled and explored locations he learned that the Wanderer had been and came from, visiting Jefferson Memorial building where the Wanderer was born, finding Vault 101 where Wanderer grew up, Megaton where he first visited to, and many other places though some had left scars on him as the Capital Wasteland was still dangerous even when the Brotherhood of Steel was making it's hold on it. The worst one being Point Lookout where he was nearly killed by Swampfolk and creatures that had called the cursed island home but worst thing he encountered was a creature in the Blackhall Manson basement when he was checking out the place, he doesn't know what he saw in that Mansion but he could still remember it's orange eyes staring at him from the shadows of the basement.

Brandon got the hell out of there fast he could, running through the swamps of the island, but it stalked and hunted him no matter how far he ran from the Mansion, killing anything that stood in it's path, forcing anyone who wasn't killed already to leave the Island. Just when Brandon was about to escape on the boat along with few other survivors, the creature attacked him, giving him a scar on his face but was forced to retreat when the others attacked it with their guns, driving it off just enough get them chance get off the island. Ever since then, Brandon never looked back, never wanting to ever go back to that hellhole, the experience left him scarred and he could had trouble sleeping at night for a week, always seeing it's eyes in his dreams. When Brandon had heard that the Lone Wanderer had disappeared after the Enclave were defeated at Adams Air Force base, from what he had heard from Lone Wanderer's other companions and from Sarah Lyons, Wanderer didn't say where he/she went to but believed The Wanderer had gone West to find some kind of remnant of his/her father's past, thus Brandon decided he would try find her/him, wanting to find the man/woman that had made big impact in his life, saying goodbye to those he knew in the Capital Wasteland and set off to find the Lone Wanderer. Sadly he never found him/her, he ended up traveling much further to the West than he originally planned, was force go through Legion territory where he would see exactly what the Legion were and the horrids things they did, it left a mark on him when he witness some Legionaries having their way with a young woman when he was moving through Denver, he killed them and helped the woman get to safety, ever since then he decided that day he wouldn't be showing much mercy to Legionaries. But just before he was nearing the exit that would take him out of Denver, he witness the Monster of the East, Legate Lanius in action, watching him tear through Tribals and dogs apart with his massive sword and strength, it truly terrified him when he saw what he was capable of him and it gave him all more reason get out of there. Finally after weeks of traveling he made it out of Legion territory however he did left a level of damage in his wake, killed quite a few Legionaries whenever he could, even blew up a whole encampment with dynamite. Since then he's been in NCR territory, seeing one of the closest things to an civilization society but of course it also had it's problems as Brandon would see corruption and Barons bribing senators but he none the less found it much safer than the Capital Wasteland but it never stopped him from having doubts and concerns about the path the NCR was taking. It from here on that Brandon would learn of the Vault Dweller and the Chosen One, now learning that the Lone Wanderer wasn't only Wasteland Hero and it now made him truly interested in knowing what was it about these people that made him the individuals and the impacts they made on the Wasteland, personally meeting the Chosen One in New Arroyo where the two would share each other's adventures and experiences, he enjoyed his time in New Arroyo but soon left afterwards after learning everything he could from the Chosen One and what he could find on the Vault Dweller. Now he operates as a bounty hunter in the Mojave Wasteland where he hunts down Fiends and sometimes even Legionaries, he doesn't know why he has stuck around in the Mojave but he couldn't help but get a feeling something big was about to happen here and he decided he was gonna stay and find out who was gonna win Hoover Dam...

Equipment: Custom Mercenary armor with Lyons symbol on it in honor of Sarah Lyons, pip-boy 300 from Vault 101. Marksman Carbine, Zhu-Rong v418 Chinese pistol, Trench knife, Wakizashi, keeps 5 pulse grenades and 3 frag grenades.