History Characters / Fallout4CommonwealthCitizens

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Whether or not Kasumi Nakano is a synth is something of a mystery. While she doesn't drop a synth component if she is killed, there are some confirmed synths in the game to not do that as well. Furthermore, if Arcadia gets reported to the Institue, Dr. Moseley states that any synth deployment with Kasumi's identity doesn't exist, but raises the possibility that that Kasumi went through a memory wipe with a new personality.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: What one of Vault-Tec's scientists wished he could do to Ted.

* EveryoneHasStandards: The [[spoiler: "Free Lorenzo"]] ending to the questline reveals that Edward had been doubting the Cabots for a long time; in-part due to never being allowed to interact with Lorenzo himself. The Sole Survivor's testimony about Lorenzo and Jack's off-collar response to the skepticism is potentially enough for Edward to [[spoiler: turn on them]] if the right Checks are passed.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Despite his years of service, it wasn't until the end of the world that he was let in on the nature of Cabots' Mysterious Serum and even after that, he's never been allowed to talk to Lorenzo. If the player [[spoiler: frees Lorenzo]], Deegan calls Jack out on this and wants to know what Lorenzo told the player. Passing either of the following Speech checks [[spoiler: causes Edward to turn on Jack and the others and get the hell out of dodge]] at the end of the quest.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Played straight or Subverted, depending on player input. If the player finishes the questline by [[spoiler: helping Jack handle Lorenzo]], nothing noticeably changes. If the player [[spoiler: frees Lorenzo]] and returns to Cabot House however, Edward butts into Jack's scolding of you and asks what Lorenzo had to say. Passing either of the Medium Speech checks that follow will cause him to [[spoiler: doubt (and turn on) Jack when Lorenzo arrives for his revenge]], giving Edward the chance to forge his own path.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Discussed, if the player fails Edward's Speech checks after [[spoiler: freeing Lorenzo]]; berating himself for his choice of hired hands.

* VillainousBreakdown: A very subdued, but no less potent, one if the Sole Survivor [[spoiler: kills Kent themselves.]] Sinjin is a mix of terrified and confused that the person behind the Silver Shroud [[spoiler: outright murdered an innocent]], and he is at a loss for words. To put it into perspective, he thought you were just some problematic loon in what amounts to cosplay up until he meets you. Now, he realizes that you're a monstrous and truly dangerous psychopath, and it scares the shit out of his men so much they say you're "crazier than Sinjin".

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Discussed, if the player fails Edward's Speech checks after [[spoiler: freeing Lorenzo]]]; berating himself for his choice of hired hands.

* GameplayAndStorySegretaion: Deegan can encounter the Sole Survivor to begin the Cabots' questline in either of Diamond City's bars, despite the city's notorious anti-Ghoul stance.

** She also checks up on Mama Murphy in ambient dialogue.

* PetTheDog: Squint ''really'' hard, and you'll find that Marcy does care about Jun; she helps to keep him together on the way to Sanctuary, and she resents working on the settlement because she has little leisure time to spend with him.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Has something of a vitriolic relationship with Cait, and uses the deaths of his clientele to pawn her off as a "liability". Pass a speech check and he'll admit that it's because she's becoming careless in the ring, and he doesn't wanna have to give color commentary when her luck finally runs out. Cait will also ponder if Tommy purposely gave her to you in hopes that you'll help her clean up.

Bunker Hill's resident armour merchant - a portly, no-nonsense man who tours the Commonwealth's settlements with his pack brahmin, "Ol' Girl."

* DramaticIrony: He's one of the Railroad's main contacts on the surface and smuggles synths around and out of the Commonwealth for them using his various trade caravans. [[spoiler:Most of the major caravans operating out of Bunker Hill, including the three he backs, are informants for the Institute. This trope goes both ways; not only does Stockton realize that three of his employees are spies for his enemies, the three of them don't seem to know he's a Railroad operative.]]

* IronicLastWords: [[spoiler:Give her all the chems she asks for, and she'll eventually die mid-vision, while saying she didn;t predict this.]]

* StarterVillain: Gristle's the first Raider boss the player fights and leads a small army in Concord, but compared to the other raider groups and his boss, he's small potatoes even without the player getting some Power Armor and a minigun right before their fight.

* AffablyEvil: He seems genuinely grateful when the Sole Survivor saves his life, rewarding them with his personal combat knife as a gift (possessing the strongest and deadliest mods of its type upon discovery), as well as a "thank you" note, both found behind one of his grisly "paintings" made with the blood of another human being.

[[folder:Eddie Winter]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Jay Giannone

The first ghoul to be created, he was a notorious gangster back before the Great War. He's since hidden himself away in a makeshift bunker that had once been a hideout, even as his crimes slowly begin creeping up to him.

An adult man who appears to assist the player character in VATS if the player takes the Luck-tree perk of the same name. When he attacks, he will always appear from off-camera before delivering a fatal revolver shot to the player's current target and then disappearing just as quickly as he arrived. True to his name, not much is known about him other than that he has a preference for trench coats and .44 Revolvers.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-Universe. Nick, being presumably unaware of the Stranger's association with the player characters of previous games, considers his killings of apparently random and unconnected targets as evidence that he is a dangerous SerialKiller.
* AmbiguousSituation: Nick Valentine's notes on the Stranger offers a comprehensive CallBack to every previous incarnation of the character, but in the process (notably the reference to the radically different behavior of the stranger in the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness first two games]]) he raises the question of whether the stranger in each game is the same person, or several people with a similar M.O.- "he" has operated in such diverse physical locations and across nearly two hundred years of time that it seems unlikely that the Stranger is actually just one person- yet why would there be so many killers with the same dress sense and weaponry running around the post-War US?
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The stranger(s?) in earlier games wore leather armor and utilized different weapons from a list (rather than the trench coat and revolver he always uses in later games), didn't instantly disappear at the end of a combat encounter (and had dialogue if you interacted with them), and would even appear as a woman for female player characters. This is referenced in Valentine's notes on the Stranger, stating that his M.O. is consistent for 'all but the oldest sightings'.
* RaceLift: Maybe. Assuming this incarnation of the character is meant to represent the same person as ''Fallout 3'' and ''New Vegas'', his appearance has been changed from a clean-shaved Asian man to a white man with a bushy mustache.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: His can deliver a OneHitKill on anything, even bosses.
* ISeeThemToo: Nick Valentine is the only character that reacts to the Stranger's presence in any game, and in fact other than the Lonesome Drifter's existence and Valentine referencing eyewitness accounts in his notes, very little indication is given that anyone other than the player characters can see him at all.

* StealthExpert: Again, maybe. Valentine theorizes that, due to the fact he only ever uses a conventional .44, his ability to appear and disappear at will is actually just the result of expert infiltration training rather than stealth tech. It's difficult to confirm or deny this in-game due to the fact that he appears and departs exclusively during camera transitions.
* TheSpook: No known name, identity, or indeed any sign that he exists at all outside of his killings (apart from one character heavily implied to be his son in ''New Vegas''). No obvious links between himself and those he assists, nor those he kills. Appearance changes between games. His entrance and exit is not accompanied by any tell or trace other than a unique musical sting, unlike all known forms of steath and teleportation in the series (which use VisibleInvisibility and very loud and visible effects, respectively).

* VillanousBreakdown: A very subdued, but no less potent, one if the Sole Survivor kills Kent themselves. Sinjin is a mix of terrified and confused that the person behind the Silver Shroud outright murdered an innocent, and he is at a loss for words. To put it into perspective, he thought you were just some a problematic loon in what amounts to cosplay up until he meets you. Now, he realizes that you're a monstrous and truly dangerous psychopath, and it scares the shit out of his men so much they say you're "crazier than Sinjin".