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Matt
Matt
"You know what Mike, no, I didn't expect to end up in ANY situation like this!"
The witty, sarcastic, slightly unhinged ex vault dweller that acts as our protagonist. His journey starts when his father's ill-executed plan to protect him forces him to leave vault 101 in order not to die.
- A Boy and His X: A boy and his hyperintelligent snarky pipboy AI.
- The Alcoholic: descends into drinking whiskey only three months after his and Mike's argument cause them to split up.
- Bag of Spilling: His stats get reset at the beginning of season 3 despite having spent the last couple years traveling the county on his own.
- Bash Brothers: Becomes this with Mike whenever he controls Liberty Prime
- Berserk Button: Is very protective of his "godlike hair".
- The Enclave become one after they murder his father.
- Add Elder Maxson to the list as well.
- Creator Career Self-Deprecation: makes fun of Bronies a lot for someone voiced by a man with a Pony avatar.
- Despair Event Horizon: crosses one after his father is killed
- Functional Addict: His taste for whiskey didn't stop him from being a successful courier.
- Handicapped Badass: after the events of Point Lookout he is running around with a not-insignificant chunk of his brain missing.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Makes one in order to start Project Purity.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: We find out the reason he became a courier is to try to get away from the constant violence life has devolved into, it doesn't work.
- I Know Mortal Kombat: learns how to use power armor from a VR game. Granted it was a military training sim, but the point still stands.
- Noodle Incident: One that instilled a great deal of fear and respect for buckets into him.
- One-Man Army: Fully capable of ripping apart large camps of raiders, mercenaries, and the remnants of the U.S. military by himself.
- Painting the Medium: His hud exists in-universe; as does levels, stats, and fast-travel. This gets handwaved through technobabble.
- Self-Made Orphan: Was his primary goal at the start before his Character Development kicked in. not that it helped in the end
- Took a Level in Kindness: From a snarky jerk who just wanted to kill his father to a snarky hero working endlessly to fulfill his parents' dream.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Mike, they have trouble getting through a conversation without making snide remarks at each other, but they're also ready to sacrifice nearly anything for each other at a moment's notice.
Mike
Mike
"Left foot, right foot, left arm, right arm, laser eyes motherfucker"
The Equity witty and sarcastic AI inhabiting the pipboy on Matt's arm, usually the voice of reason and/or exasperation for our "Hero".- AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle: A given considering he's a text to voice program, a free one no less.
- Badass Bookworm: Hyperintelegent computer able to integrate with a massive war machine.
- Brain Uploading: Claimed to have done this with Matt's memories. Averted, he was going to do it before he realized just how much of a Jerkass Matt was at the time.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Downplayed as he's not actually much better than Matt, but he still tries.
- Creepy Monotone: A given for someone voiced by a text to speech program.
- Deadpan Snarker: Comes with putting up with Matt for years
- Humongous Mecha: Becomes one when he's controlling Liberty Prime.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: Sticks with Matt even through the worst of his Jerkass phase. Inverted in season 3 as Mike's loyalty to the Brotherhood of Steel even after Maxson became elder is what drove the two apart for several years.
