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Wow, women are so cool. She is the executive of mortuary studies at BIGG MOUNTAIN (but she does a lot of stuff with wires; this will be important later). She’s a *personality* to say the least. She talks about dead people in the same manner as you would a new dog, she laughs way too loud at really anything morbid, she never really gets upset or shows any emotion other than unbridled happiness. The few times she does show sadness or fear it's just as strong an emotion as her joy. Very type 7 character. And this is BEFORE the war by the way, after the war. Oh boy. She's um, very adamant about her passion for sculpting dead people into bone paintings.

After the bombs fell, her mind was transferred into a tank like the other executives. But the one catch is that since they still needed someone to operate the morgue, they kinda just, locked her down there. I mean, she could leave if she needed to but A. Science is more important than socialization and B. Fracta really didn't get along the best with the rest of the Think Tank except for Borous, 8, and Mobius.

So new Fracta lore drop! She had a LOT of vocal training as a child/teen, mainly cause her parents (well her mom mainly) wanted her to become a singer, but she never really wanted it to be her career cause,, corpses are soooo appealing. But occasionally she would sing in the unofficial company band with 8 and some other researchers around Big MT. So her and 8 always had a really chill friendship, although I'm guessing that would change if he found out about her corpse hobbies.

Mobius and Fracta have very similar personality types, they're more, for a better word, fun (im not calling the rest of the tanks boring Im just saying they probably hid their true selves behind a stoic personality), Fracta and Mobius would often drink and play cards and shoot the shit. They didn't really have a lot of crossover in their work, so Mobius like 8 was kinda unaware of the horrors she was making down there. BOROUS ON THE OTHER HAND

(Cw for like everything bad you can do to a corpse except for necrophilia)

Ok ok ok so uh Fracta is definitely some sort of uh war criminal (i mean. all of them are war criminals but uh). In her free time she'd use corpses stolen from local hospitals, and she um, would play with them… Like, girl was actively out here reverse skinning people and putting wires through their orifices and making them dance to Sinatra. And she does this for FUN. It’s kinda like art to her, neglecting the human aspect. That’s where Borous comes in, she wanted to try out like a chimera in one of her “pieces” so she asked if they could try collaborating. Borous originally didn't really like Fracta that much, mainly because she's very loud and very talkative. Much like the animalologist, but it's different 'cause she's a she! Borous had never really interacted with women like this, except for that dastardly BETSY BRIGHT, who used to have her GOON RICHIE MARCUS stick burning cigarettes in his locker. That commie-COMMUNIST! So he kinda defaulted "to woman with weird personality= UNAMERICAN."

But unlike that commie, Fracta is very America. Fracta lore time again, her parents are both Italian immigrants who hid their culture away to fit in with Americans. So she was basically taught about the cuisine of her homeland, and nothing else. So she kinda didn't really acknowledge her family heritage, and bought into all the American propaganda that was being spewed (COMMUNISM) so she would have some background/nationality to call her own. But unlike the perfect American woman role that was being forced upon her by society, Fracta chose to instead not become a mother and a wife, but to get a career in the sciences to better the country. So she TRIPLE majored in Mortuary Sciences, Engineering (with a focus in both electrical and computer engineering), and sculpture (for fun). She bounced around institutions for a while (she worked with the C.I.T for a bit developing the tech that would eventually result in first generation synths, fun fact) before eventually landing the job at BIG MOUNTAIN as the head mortician.

Okay now I have to take a quick detour cause I haven’t mentioned the wires yet. I’ll get back to Borous in a second. So um. Fracta can hear wires sing. Like, not just electrical humming. Like actual real life musical songs playing just for her. This is the closest I can get to emulating what she hears (video below, love Johnathan Coulton) through the wires but it’s really different each place she goes to. Sometimes it’s more jazzy, sometimes more rock, sometimes it’s just straight up like a femtanyl song. But it's always there, comforting her whenever she is upset. They are kinda like her children and her best friends? It's complicated, her relationship with the wires has changed throughout the years since she first heard them when she was nine. She's also kept these ‘secret friends’ to herself because A. she doesn't want to be ridiculed by her peers and B. she doesn't want to be locked up in a mental hospital like her mother.

Wait, I forgot to mention her mother had a psychological break and thought she was the Virgin Mary for six years and was eventually lobotomized at a mental hospital…. This is very important for later.

Okay back to Borous. So when he and Fracta were initially working together on the chimera projects they both gained an admiration for each other due to how committed they were to both their works and heaugh America… So they continued to work together for a few years on various monstrosities, and spearheading projects Burke and Hare. Yea. the one where they stole bodies from graveyards… Fun bonding activity. Eventually Fracta had the nerve to ask him out to dinner one night, and he immediately rejected her.

Not because he didn't like her, no, quite the opposite. He was obsessed with her. And it was not in a cute way. It was in the Betsy Bright way where he would idolize her in his head as this perfect idol of American womanhood yet he would feel physically Ill when she would do anything flirty because A. he was afraid she was just playing with his heart like that commie Betsy and B. Borous to me is slightly on the Aroace spectrum and is repulsed by “regular” romance most of the time.

Fracta was also very obsessed with him. She also saw him as this perfect American man who finally understood her work. He was to her an equal partner in their love and devotion for science and their strong patriotism for the freest country in the world (ignore the screaming from Little Yangze).

Yea so um. Uhhhh ohhhhhhhh.

The next part I may change around a bit in the future but basically Fracta goes to Borouses house one night in Higgs to try and fix their relationship cause Borous hadn’t talked to her in a week after the asking-out-to-dinner incident… They get into a bit of an argument before Borous threatens her with a scalpel, causing Fracta to pull out hers. They end up chasing each other around with knives (romantically/playfully) before Fracta slices open his arm by accident… and uh.. just starts eating a bit of his flesh. That kinda awakens something in Borous, he had gained pleasure in seeing other things suffer for so long, now the tables had turned and he was the test doggie. How strange, now he is feeling quite joyful as this beauty eats his tendons like spaghetti. Hm. needs further study.

I'm being 100% serious when I say the incident makes Borous lose most of that feeling of “being physically Ill” around her whenever she shows him any affection. All you need to do to fix Borous guys is to eat a little bit of arm spaghetti. I'm still trying to think of why this is, my main solution is that he is so infatuated with the American way of life yet he can't show or process ‘regular’ affection because of trauma and stuff, so Fracta shows him this alternative way of showing affection that can then help him process love and all that other romance.

Okay so this is already to long so im just gonna sum up the years after this happened and the great war- they start dating, they get married, fracta loses her arm in the explosion that blew the top off the mountain, blah blah blah her and borous have a big fight the night before they get transferred into tanks, and then reconcile a month later but uh oh time for lobotomy and all the think tank basically forget Fracta exists in the basement. Phew, alright okay so now onto the last bit ohhh wait shit i forgot the courier and the events of owb… uh

Okay so this is Sal

she's the one and only courier six (wow). She's a bit odd, but Fracta finds her very charming. She's tall and has yellow eyes and can only communicate through writing on a chalkboard? What a beautiful creature. After Sal spares the think tank she eventually brings them all (even Mobius) on various field trips around the Mojave and even Arroyo for awhile (Sal is the niece of the chosen one its complicated im not getting into it) And eventually Fracta and the rest of the think tank reconnect yay! And then they're given synth bodies by the institute yay!

Well um…

Yay for everyone else.

Some yay for fracta but uh…

Well. the-the vision happens.

Okay so what is the vision you are possibly asking yourself????? The vision is uh. Well.

Fracta sees herself becoming one with the wires. Like, merging her brain with electricity so her consciousness can become one with the planet so she can heal the broken world…. Yea. She is going to die from the wires. Whoops.

Okay thats it for now because I dont want to make this any longer thank you for reading omg thats so kind of you :-)