name: Hope gender: female age: 17? (she doesn't keep track of years) race: caucasian mixed with japanese ("she" race used as a base) combat style: stealth-heavy designated marksman specialties: mid-to-long range rifles, stealth, and punching weaknesses: bullets? likes: the road, nuka cola, not being shot at, sneaking up on people and catching them by surprise, dark places (easier to sneak) dislikes: drugs (all of them), caesar's legion (though she pronounces it the way it should be), NCR, raiders, people who don't tell her what she should know Friendly factions: Followers of the apocalypse, freeside, great khans, the strip, boomers, novac, goodsprings, primm, (non-hostile dlc factions). neutral factions: NCR (lesser evil), the three main groups on the strip, house, BOS hostile factions: everything not stated companions: boone, veronica (for obvious reasons beyond faction ties) love interests: none parents: biological are dead, a ghoul that called himself sǐ shēn (grim reaper) as a "legal guardian" early life/teen years: she was an orphan from the divide. parents died in a raider attack on a caravan to NCR territory, and she was hidden before the attack could start. She was taken in by a ghoul who had been a dragoon prior to the great war, and came about the remains of the caravan after the raiders left. The ghoul taught her every thing she knows about stealth, survival, combat, and marksman-ship, and then one day left without another word. how did she become a courier: she just kinda fell into it, one day she was wandering the wasteland and found a dead man on the side of the road with a wrapped package and a note in hand. the note, along with mention of the mojave express (a group which she had heard of prior, but never dealt with personally), stated the package was bound for a man in broken hills. after about 10 minutes on contemplating what she would do next, she picked up the package and walked to the nearest town (which happened to be New Reno) and took it to a mojave express building that was on the outskirts of the town. after a long conversation with the clerk, who was surprised to see the package again in the hands of a person who he had never even heard of. after hope finished talking, he asked her if she would deliver the package, and offered to pay her when the job was done. hope agreed after a minute of silent contemplation, and thus began her life as a courier.