Finally! A Fallout RP that actually DOESN'T look like a sure-fire failure. Been waiting for one of these ever since the last one I was in died.
Raphael "Tirade" Daniels
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Specialty/Archetype: During his many years with the Fiends, Raphael became very proficient with all manner of melee weapons, ranging from pool cues to sledgehammers. He also has had a bit of practice with energy weapons, another skill he picked up while with the Fiends. When not suffering from a chem withdraw, he can also make for a good scout as he is light and nimble.
Appearance/Gear: Raphael stands at five feet and eleven inches. Most certainly not muscular, you'd almost mistake him for a corpse from afar. On his leathery, environment-withered face is a set of beady, emerald eyes, a shaggy goatee, and several scars from fights with who knows what. A messy mop of brown hair sits on top of his head. It also doesn't take a doctor to see his chem abuse, as he has many many injection scars all over his arms, and some on his neck.
Raider Badlands Armor: While he now resents the Fiends, Raphael still wishes to keep a memento of his good, albeit twisted times with his old friends. The armor has seen many repairs, and is now a patchwork of leather, scrap steel, and cloth.
Busted Ranger Shades: One of Raphael's trophies. He got this after finishing off an NCR ranger who was seriously injured by a Legion raid party. Perhaps they saw fit to just make him suffer until his death. Maybe it was for the best that Raphael found him.
Scrap-Metal bracelet: The closest thing to a family heirloom Raphael has. This bracelet once belonged to his mother. Not that he got to know her all that much before a Fiend saw fit to kill her. Nevertheless, Raphael cherishes this dinky piece of metal deeply.
Machete: Nothing special about this blade whatsoever. It's made for one thing: killing, and Raphael does not pretend otherwise.
Recharger Rifle: Raphael is said to have once described this weapon as "a piece of shit that somehow keeps saving my ass". It's in shambles, but it works well enough.
Three Fixer kits, two mentats tablets, and one injection of Psycho: Raphael does try to keep his chem use to a minimum, but the temptation occasionally overwhelms him. He can't bring himself to just toss the chems he has and keep walking.
Personality: A rough guy by all means. He's usually the first to crack a cynical joke, usually at the expense of present company. Extremely slow to trust. He learned with the Fiends that everyone is out to kill you, some are just more crafty about it. When sober with the use of fixer, Raphael is agreeable enough if you can get past his dark sense of humor and paranoia, and if you can get him to talk, he'll tell story after story after story. Granted, most are absolute hogwash, this being the origin of his nickname, "Tirade". If, somehow, you can befriend Raphael, you'll find no better survival partner, as he has a very innate sense of camaraderie and will stick with you until the grim, grim end. He doesn't care much about material goods unless they're chems, and can live very minimally, and his attitude and comments about the people living within the walls of New Vegas shows this well.
History: Raphael "Tirade" Daniels was born the very same way almost everyone in the wasteland is born: To parents that didn't really want him and into an absolute crap environment and with an even crappier hand dealt to him. His worthless dad ditched Raphael and his mother pretty much the day Raphael was born, leaving just him and his mother. As much as she hated her situation, his mother always tried to put on a smile for her child and hide her own pains. Everything was all well and good(for wasteland standards) until a few months after Raphael's fifth birthday, when Fiends raided the small settlement they were living in and killed his mother. Why did they take Raphael instead of killing him? Why did they raid the settlement? Raphael tries to find answers to this every day when he's laying in bed, but he's never even come close to finding them. All he knows is that he spent the next thirty years as a filthy, drug-addled Fiend, who would do anything for even one shot of Jet.
Raphael did things that he'd freely admit to wanting to hang others for. He raped, killed, stole, extorted, exploited, and did so many drugs it'd make a Follower doctor have a heart attack just knowing about it. If he had five hands, Raphael wouldn't be able to count the number of one-night-stands with Fiend women, and this he is rather ashamed of. When he thinks about all of the women he slept with, his mind goes back to his dad, that worthless SOB. Raphael mentally reassures himself that he is better than his "dad", and that he was under much different circumstances. He used this mindset to keep doing the things he secretly hated himself for doing, it's what kept him relatively sane, as sane as the drugs he was taking allowed him to be. As much as he hates the Fiends now, he has to admit that he made several good...well, maybe not friends, but comrades. Allies. He had a specific gang he ran with while in the Fiends. This lasted several years, around maybe fifteen or so. The gang shrank as the others overdosed, ran off elsewhere, or were shot dead by passing NCR. Somehow Raphael survived, somehow the NCR didn't gun him down, and he views this as a curse. He's cursed to live with what he's done, whether he wants to or not.
Then came the passing of his thirty-fifth birthday. He finally had enough. He grabbed all of his chems, and traveled to outer-vegas, as close to the big neon sign he could get. He stared at it in all of its vain glory, and popped chem after chem, trying to overdose. A haze overfell him, and Raphael felt himself fall to the ground, almost as if time had completely slowed down. Then he heard voices. Two or three. NCR? No, they didn't speak whatever crap those soldier boys spoke, military jargon. They talked about getting him to a...Mormon fort? What the hell was that? When Raphael was able to open his eyes, he saw three people standing over him in white coats and really wicked hairdo's. One of them, a woman, knelt over and put her hand on Raphael's shoulder. "You're going to be fine, I promise." That's when Raphael slipped into total darkness. This was it...or so he thought. Some time later, god if Raphael knew, he woke up in a tent with that same woman sitting next to him, scribbling stuff down on a clipboard. He was...alive! Impossible! The amount of chems he took would kill a god damn super mutant! The woman took notice of Raphael at that point. "You're awake! We thought we had lost you, friend!" She had this big smile on her face, the kind his mother would always have, but more...sincere? In his short time of consciousness, Raphael said one thing alone: "Why?". Almost immediately, very matter-of-fact-like, the woman said, "Because I care." Everything faded to black again.
The next time Raphael woke up, he jump straight out of the stretcher he was in. He was still wearing his Badlands outfit, and his gear was pretty much untouched. But his chems were gone, not that he cared. He just got saved by a damn angel for all he knew. He went out of the tent and looked around, and the woman who saved him was no where to be found. Then Raphael was overcome with a revelation: He needed to do SOMETHING with this second chance, something meaningful. He walked up to one of the doctors and asked if they needed anything done. Thus began his work for the Followers of The Apocalypse, which he continues to this day.
Other: Raphael frequently associates with the Followers of The Apocalypse, as he works for them as a mercenary/errand boy, and has made regular contacts out of some of the squatters in Freeside. He is also a loyal customer of Mick and Ralph's, and gets a nice discount because of his work with the Followers. Almost all of Raphael's gear and supplies comes from Mick and Ralph.