Idea for a New Follower

[SashaTK]

Hello everyone,

 

So I've had this idea for a new follower floating around in my head for a while, but I have absolutely NO experience with creating ANYTHING (other than editing a few existing mods and writing compatibility patches). Therefore, I'm putting my idea out into the universe and hoping that somebody with the skills necessary will take up the cause!

 

So here's my idea: So far, I am unaware of any follower which hails from the Children of Atom faction (admittedly I haven't played Far Harbor yet, but my research tells me there isn't one). Therefore, my idea is to have a Children of Atom follower...with psychic powers!

 

Hear me out: Esperanza Martinez is a young Hispanic girl (around 17-19 years old) from the Mohave Wasteland. She was forced to leave her village after her psychic powers began to manifest and the rest of the townsfolk began to fear her. She made her way across the Wasteland and finally ended up at the Crater of Atom just outside the Commonwealth. There she was welcomed as a Prophet of Atom, a title which she despises. She is more than willing to leave with you if you ask her to.

 

Esperanza is a fully fleshed out character with a complete backstory (I've already got it worked out, just don't want to spoil anything here!). Her appearance is that of a young Hispanic girl, only that she has pale, white skin and hair due to a freak accident before she was born (basically she's an albino). She is also blind and relies on her psychic powers to "see" her way around. She is covered in body tattoos and piercings, and her hair is shaved on the sides, but long on top and pulled back into a pony tail.

 

As for her personality, Esperanza is a wise-cracking, smartass little brat with a dark sense of humor. She is wickedly sharp and very sarcastic, but the reality is that deep down she's hurting from all the loss she has experienced in her life. She is a loyal friend, but it takes a little while for her to warm up to and trust you.

 

When you first meet her, she is wearing CoAtom robes, but after you recruit her, her default outfit is a tank-top and a pair of low-rise jeans with cowboy boots. My idea is that when you recruit her, she first has to work out a few things with the elders, so she sends you to meet Virgil without her. Then when you come back, she is in her new outfit and she joins you.

 

Her powers would be similar to those of Lorenzo Cabot, though not as powerful. It would be nice if there were a way to upgrade her powers, like possibly give her a "weapon" that produces the powers' effects which could then be upgraded at a workbench, but again I don't have the first clue about coding this, so I'm not sure how to make any of that work. Also, one unique power she has is that she constantly emits low levels of radiation (we're talking <1-2 clicks, so armor with decent rad resist should negate it). She can also channel this into radiation blasts similar to the gamma gun, which she uses as her primary attack. This obviously wouldn't be effective against all enemies, so her AI would need to be such that she could recognize that an enemy is rad resistant and switch to a different power.

 

I hope this all made sense. I really want this to become a reality. If anyone wants to take this project on, I'm more than happy to help in any way I can (particularly by writing dialogue).

 

Regards,

 

Sasha