Friday 2 March 2018

Army Buds

Naturally, Tyson served with many people during his army days. Here are the touch notes on notable people from those days in increasing rank order and faces approximated in Fallout 4′s character creation, because screw finding FCs.






  • She was the chef at the base Ty & Seb last served in before deserting.
  • She was always telling jokes whilst hanging out food, the life of the party.
  • She had a two-year-old son, Simon, back at home with her husband, Olan.
  • During his escape with Sebastian, Tyson clipped her arm with a bullet. Purely by accident, he had been trying to avoid hitting anyone directly.
  • Mel loved to dance, dragging anyone looking glum upon onto their feet.
  • She signed on as a field reporter and stayed out of a sense of duty.
  • She loved pasta and garlic bread, even in operational ration pack forms.
  • Emma always got a new book with her mail & was constantly sunburnt.
  • She was kinda quiet in compound, just watching everyone around her.
  • Emma was the only person killed in their escape. Unlike Tyson, Sebastian hadn’t been pulling his shots.
  • He served in Turkmenistan with Tyson, training military service dogs.
  • He was hard working, usually the first up, but also the first to take a break.
  • Hal was excellent at getting dogs through the water training sections.
  • He loved rhubarb and custard sweets, and never judged Tyson’s relationship with Kimiko.
  • Hal was killed on active service in Iraq by friendly fire: 7th of April 2009
  • He panicked and shot Tyson in the chest into his bulletproof vest during a training drill in full view of Moran. He died a few weeks later from friendly fire, that no one could prove came from Sebastian.
  • He signed up to pay for his university tuition and intended to retire as soon as possible.
  • He served as a mechanic, working to repair the various army vehicles.
  • Michael was constantly taking pictures of everything around him.
  • He was blatantly afraid of the attack dogs when they were working.
  • Tyson latched onto him like a baby duckling once he went to the front lines.
  • He had several shrapnel scars on his face and his arms were covered in tattoos.
  • He died in Tyson’s arms from enemy fire, a shot through his throat. Tyson unfairly took the blame for his death from a grieving compound, which pushed him into Moran’s waiting arms.
  • Andrew loved history. He would talk about Rome and the French Revolution with Tyson over dinner.
  • He was big on pull-ups and sit-ups as punishments.
Captain John Watson
  • John served with Tyson and Sebastian during a joint stationing between Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers and the First Bangalore Pioneers.
  • He was the only one to believe Tyson’s innocence in the shooting of General Clarkson.
  • He and Tyson are brothers-by-all-but-blood, though for the sake of appearances often pretend to be mere passing acquaintances.
  • Tyson rarely lies to John outright, but John was kept in the dark about the extent of Moran’s abuses during their service together.
  • Tyson still blames John’s two left feet for breaking his nose in compound.
  • Hannah was Sebastian’s spotter before Tyson went to the front lines and was around to show him the ropes.
  • She was incredibly fight-y. Like fight you, her own shadow, and her own reflection at the same time fight-y.
  • She hated the taste of coffee, but she was absolutely useless without caffeine in her system.
  • She retired to become a mother at the end of her deployment.
  • Hannah chain smoked every day, but insisted she’d quit once she became pregnant.
Colonel Sebastian Moran
  • Sebastian didn’t enter a relationship with Tyson to abuse him. Sebastian wanted to be with him, he loves Tyson, but Sebastian is simply an abusive person.
  • He is an alcoholic and, whilst aware of this, Sebastian has no intentions of stopping.
  • Moran’s decision to shoot General Clarkson was not tactical. It was an inevitable temper tantrum as the tension between them grew to a head.
  • Unlike Tyson, Sebastian was officially given a dishonourable discharge and continues to be a wanted man.
  • To this day, Tyson has no idea how Hannah & Sebastian’s tempers didn’t lead to them killing each other long before he arrived.
  • Tyson never met her in person, but she was the one in charge of the hunt for Sebastian & Tyson when they abandoned the army.
  • She had a ruthless, cut-throat, no-nonsense reputation as a leader.
  • When Tyson was proven innocent, she stepped down as head of that assignment and let someone else take over the hunt from Moran.
  • Legends say that she got the scar above her eye in a knife fight, and that she won without a knife.
  • The truth is that she was drunk during leave and headbutted a lamppost with a rusty edge.
  • He was a good commanding officer, if very by the books.
  • It was that by the books nature that put him at odds with Moran and caused countless arguments between the two men.
  • Sebastian shot him twice. Once in the chest and once through the stomach.
  • Though he survived Sebastian’s shots, he ended up in a coma for three years, from early 2009 until August 2012.
  • Once he was awake, he confirmed Tyson’s innocence and sent him an apology letter, alongside a gun to protect him from Moran.