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Blue Ridge Caravan Company
Joanna Mayfield
Voiced by: Debra Cardona
The overall head of the Blue Ridge Caravan Company, currently visiting their operations in Appalachia.- Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Deliberately delayed speaking to the Brotherhood of Steel over people disappearing from her caravans because she was trying to solve the matter internally to avoid the perpetrators being tipped off and potentially fleeing.
- Family Business: Inherited a Blue Ridge Parkway trucking company from her late grandfather nearly 30 years ago (as her father was not well enough to take over the business himself). After the bombs fell, she continued the business by running Brahmin caravans along the same route.
Vinny Costa
Voiced by: Chris Ciulla
The regional manager of the Blue Ridge Caravan Company's Appalachian operations. He oversees operations at Big Bend Tunnel East and provides the Vault Dweller 7 sidequests that can be done once regarding the staff, and the Riding Shotgun event.- Fell Off the Back of a Truck: Rudy says Vinny doesn't return goods lost by his clients to them and believes he sells them himself.
Carver Timmerman
Voiced by: Ahmed Best
One of the merchants of the Blue Ridge Caravan Company. He works with Libby Wen during the Riding Shotgun event and is the step-nephew of Aries.- Delicate and Sickly: Was suffering from a terrible cough and lack of weight not long after the bombs dropped, so his mother Deborah and family friend Shelley van Lowe (Aries' sister, who would later become Deborah's wife) took Carver to a settlement in Kentucky.
- Dramatic Irony: He told Joanna Mayfield that he would prefer not to be paired up with Aries during caravan escorts, as he thinks Aries hates him and considers him a "weaking loser"; however, a discarded letter in Mayfield's office reveals that Aries is actually very fond of Carver.
- Following in Relative's Footsteps: Took his mother Deborah's place on the caravan as she came down with a severe illness that rendered her unable to continue working, and his stepmother Shelley was unable to join the caravan due to her existing work as a trapper.
- Good Stepmother: After his father Gregory disappeared in the wake of the Great War and was presumed dead when Carver was still a baby, Deborah's family friend Shelley van Lowe helped her raise Carver, and Carver grew to admire Shelley for her bravery and strength. Deborah and Shelley later fell in love and married, making Shelley Carver's stepmother (and by extension making Shelley's brother Calvin, now known as Aries, his step-uncle).
- Shrinking Violet: Is nervous and insecure, hesitates in critical situations, and has been described as fragile.
- Unknown Relative: Is initially unaware Aries is his step-uncle, though the Resident can inform Carver of their relation by giving Aries' Project Adonais holotapes to him.
Eugenie
Voiced by: Marisha Ray
One of the merchants of the Blue Ridge Caravan Company. She used to be in a ghoul compound, hiding from people who wanted to kill her for being a ghoul, but now works with Blue Ridge. She is assigned with Kieran Kennedy during the Riding Shotgun event.- Band of Brothers: Prefers guarding caravans alongside Libby Wen over any of the other guards, as things run a lot more smoothly with her in charge, due to her professional behaviour as a result of her rigid upbringing.
- Fantastic Racism: Used to live in a ghoul compound where she spent a decade hiding from people that would kill her and her kind on sight just for being who they were.
- We Used to Be Friends: Used to sell guns and gear from the ghoul community she used to live with, but no longer does so after she had a falling out with them, due to objecting to what they did with their share of the proceeds. Subverted in that she still gets letters from them from time to time despite this.
Rudy Fernandez
Voiced by: Michael DeLorenzo
One of the merchants of the Blue Ridge Caravan Company. Before the Great War, he used to cook with his grandmother, who passed away. Before Blue Ridge, he worked at his family's cannery and bakery, before his brothers wanted him to leave. He is assigned with Aries during the Riding Shotgun event.- Video Game Caring Potential: Before completing his Costa Business quest, you can taste his cooking and say it tastes good.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: The opposite can be true, you can criticize it by calling it bland, or ask him if you met Esme from the Refuge because its burnt. Or you can refuse to taste it.
Libby Wen
Voiced by: Grace Lynn Kung
One of the guards of the Blue Ridge Caravan Company. She felt her skills would be more useful escorting caravans and had both parents be part of the military. She is assigned to guard Carver Timmerman during Riding Shotgun.
- I Call It "Vera": Uses a gun that her grandfather left her, which she named "Jarvey" after the Silver Shroud's butler, Jarvey Blake (as she and her grandfather often used to listen to the Silver Shroud's radio plays together).
Kieran Kennedy
Voiced by: Michael Gough
One of the guards of the Blue Ridge Caravan Company. Mostly untalkable and moody, he tried different jobs before settling as a guard. During Riding Shotgun, he is the guard for Eugenie escorting the Brahmin.
Aries
Voiced by: Lucien Dodge (Aries), William Salyers (audio logs of Calvin Van Lowe)
Formerly Calvin van Lowe, Aries was a cryptid hunter and worked for Bysshe Company before the Great War. After the Great War, he started working in the Blue Ridge Caravan Company as a guard, and is the step-uncle of Carver Timmerman. During Riding Shotgun, he is assigned to guard Rudy Fernandez.
- Canon Character All Along: He's actually Calvin van Lowe, a cryptid hunter who in the Wild Appalachia expansion has a sidequest chain where the Resident investigates his research and eventual fate.
- Legacy Seeker: Recorded a series of holotapes named "Protocol Adonais" to serve as his own eulogy in the event of his death.
- Masking the Deformity: Permanently wears a gas mask to hide his facial scarring, as well to stabilize his injuries and help him breathe.
- Meaningful Rename: Calvin's alias, "Aries", is the Western zodiac sign of the ram (male sheep), referencing his past as a Sheepsquatch hunter.
- Mortality Phobia: As he grew up, he became fearful about the idea of dying, and particularly about dying alone, being forgotten and not having any friends to read his eulogy.
- Not Quite Dead: In the Imposter Sheepsquatch questline in Wild Appalachia, it was all but stated that he was torn apart by the titular beast after it went rogue. As it turns out, he actually survived, though not unscathed.
- Tear Off Your Face: Suffered this fate at the hands of the "Imposter Sheepsquatch" Assaultron after his reprogramming of the robot went awry.
Minerva
Voiced by: Erikka J. Veney
Minerva works as a merchant for the Blue Ridge Caravan Company, and usually travels between Foundation, Crater, Fort Atlas, and The Whitespring Refuge selling plans that require gold bullion, but is 25% cheaper than the base price.
- Photographic Memory: Claims to have one, which assists her in recreating the plans that she sells.
- The Apprentice: Served as one to a bookseller after she joined the Blue Ridge Caravan Company, even learning from him how to copy books by hand. She ended up taking over his caravan and expanding its inventory after his death.
Vera Thornberg
A merchant who runs the general store at the Middle Mountain Pitstop.
- Following in Relative's Footsteps: In both a figurative and literal sense. Her father used to own the Mountainside Bed & Breakfast and was also a trucker for the Blue Ridge Company pre-war, which inspired Vera to become a caravanner herself. She also wants to visit her father's old trucker pitstops in person one day, though isn't able to at the moment due to her work commitments.
- Missing Mom: Her mother passed away some time ago, and as a result her father has been in low spirits ever since.
- Nepotism: Joanna gave her the merchant position at the Middle Mountain Pitstop due to knowing her father pre-war.
- Recruiters Always Lie: A non-military variant:
Vera: Job hasn't turned out the way I thought it would. *Sighs* See the world they said...
Clyde
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: He's a former raider and has an intimidating appearance, but according to Vera, he's "a big softy really once he gets to know ya."
- Dramatic Ellipsis: How all of his "dialogue" is rendered.
- Drowning My Sorrows: The nature of his first customer, who was suffering from a massive case of Survivor Guilt due to deserting the Foundation Outpost after it was besieged by super mutants, and thus becoming the only survivor of the attack. Clyde fears he's only going to succeed in drowning himself.
- Facial Dialogue: Has to use facial expressions to communicate due to the loss of his tongue and voice.
- Macho Latino: Implied to be of Hispanic heritage due to his usage of Spanish slang in his terminal logs.
- Noodle Incident: How exactly Clyde lost his tongue is the subject of various rumors and theories, ranging from a run-in with raiders to a bad radscorpion stew.
- Silent Snarker: He smirks if he notices the Resident is drunk or high on chems (as he thinks they'll likely be a good customer), gives them an annoyed look if told he's "not much of a talker" (as if to say, "What do you think?"), and shrugs and glares at Vera if she asks him to carry a notepad so others can understand him.
- The Speechless: Was rendered mute due to the loss of his tongue.
- Two Shots from Behind the Bar: Had to use his shotgun to drive off a couple of raider customers when they started a drunken brawl with each other over who was going to pay the tab and one of them pulled a knife on the other.
- Work Off the Debt: He would rather be roaming the wasteland like the Resident does, but is stuck working at the pitstop due to owing a debt to Vinny Costa.
Johnny "Bills"
A vendor at the Blue Ridge Bunkhouse in the Forest.
- Ascended Extra: He appears in person in the first Expeditions: Atlantic City update Boardwalk Paradise after originally being mentioned in a note in Steel Reign as an off-duty guard on the second caravan joined by Dr. Edgar Blackburn.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Mentions he's seen vault dwellers selling goods through automated vendors at their CAMPs but is unsure how exactly said vendors work, though he assumes it's some form of Vault-Tec trade secret.
- Mock Millionaire: Tells people his nickname "Bills" comes from the fact he used to be a millionaire before the Great War but, if pressed via a 4+ Intelligence check, will confide that the nickname actually came from all the bills he owed pre-war (debts which the apocalypse conveniently wiped out).
