Affiliation: Railroad/Sole Survivor
[Biography] T8-50 was a ‘personal’ synth of Richard Wong, an Institute Engineer and scientist. She is very young and eccentric, referencing Pre-war things often as she was heavily educated by Richard in these areas. Richard’s reasons for altering T8-50 are still unknown, his cover/thesis was that by introducing radically different algorithms, it would allow Synths more creative cognitive and problem solving skills, thus possibly being the next step to Synth evolution.
He was a favored engineer, young and inventive, so he was allowed to proceed with his experimentation, though most of his peers were of a mind that if it wasn’t broken, don’t fix it. Richard focused on outlier behaviors and traits that he found appealing, such as her unusual eye system and involuntary hyper activity.
Her odd behavior and physical traits were of course, considered to be highly inappropriate and useless to the Institute, and Richard had to play along with the notion that he had failed and that T8-50 would be destroyed. He had never acted out before, so his intentions to help his creation escape before she was destroyed were successfully concealed until he managed to teleport T8-50 into a random location in the Commonwealth. He was killed immediately afterwards.
T8-50 was aimless and on the run, she had no living, human duplicate and no reason to live short of the fact she enjoyed doing so. So she lays low, and makes friends where she can to help with her crushing loneliness and also, to keep her two steps ahead of the Courser sent to take her back.
[Biography]W0-81 is a synth courser tasked with finding and returning T8-50 to the Institute to be destroyed or reconditioned into something that could benefit Father. He has had one encounter with her, that she initiated and managed to escape unharmed, which has vexed him greatly and despite himself, he wishes to know what the fuck’s her problem.
Name: Armando ‘Arm-y’ Rodriquez
Affiliation: Fiends/Raiders/Sole Survivor
[Biography] Armando is a weathered mutant raider from Nevada, more specifically the Big Empty. The particulars of his creation are unknown, but it is a theory of his that he was somehow spliced with a scorpion, which he doesn’t find too unusual considering the sort of assholes the scientists of MT are. He has some health issues due to his unusual anatomy, including Arthritis, allergies and some dietary restrictions. He is an obligate carnivore and is sensitive to sunlight, which made the Mojave a pain in the ass.
He was released alongside his mother, who played the part of surrogate for Armando’s altered embryo. She refused to talk about just how she landed that job, but she came out of it with enough caps to raise him. Which she did lovingly and fiercely, Armando adored his mother and continued to visit her until her death.
He of course left her when he was 19 to join up with the local Raiders known as the Fiends, he had grown an addiction to Med-X, and they were the best suppliers. He worked under Driver Nephi and was occasionally lent to Motor-Runner as his physical prowess and terrifying appearance was a good tactic against NCR and other, encroaching factions.
Arm-y survived the catalyst of the Legion and NCR clashing at Hoover Dam and the ensuing reign of The Courier. But left Nevada when his mother died, getting clean (mostly) and heading to greener (less deadly) pastures on the East Coast. He’s a mercenary now, and his skills and ferocity have earned him a tentative acceptance among Traders.
