Appearance: Finn is a young man, broad-shouldered and well-muscled thanks to his work with Brahmin, as a child of vault dweller and being partially raised in a vault he's rather pale for a wastelander and much healthier than most. A battered old pipboy three thousand tuned and even color swapped to a less painful on the eyes on light blue screen. With shaggy auburn hair and a pair of welders goggles hung around his neck, stocky built with strong legs and a charming face. Sea blue eyes that can and have made hearts melt when he turns on the charm, his face usually has some oil or grease from tinkering on something. Phineas does have a few small scars on his chest and arms from the occasional tussle. He also sports burn scars on his hands from the occasional cooking incident and his work repairing and tinkering with objects he finds.
Dressed in worn blue jeans suit worn under a thick duster jacket with the patches sewn on, a holster at his left hip carrying forty-four magnum. A heavy traveling bag crossing from his left shoulder to his right hip. A cowboy stetson sat upon his head with a old Winchester 1886 custom chambered slung across his back.
Armor and Equipment:
1× Worn BoS Combat Armor chest piece and leg pieces 1× Brown Stetson Cowboy Hat 1× Heavy Leather Duster 6× Stimpacks 1x Wasteland Mutt mostly Border Collie- Zelly 1x American Mustang Horse- War Admiral 1x Acoustic Guitar 1x Pipboy 3000 1x 20ft Rope 1x Saddlebags 1x Reins, Saddle, and Blankets 100× 45-70 rounds 60× .44 rounds 150× Caps
Weapons: Winchester 1886 in 45-70 gov't .44 Magnum revolver
Personality: Phineas is a kind soul and one whose prone to act of compassion and mercy, but he also strongly believes in justice and to get that in the wasteland you need to be willing to put a bullet in someone. As such Phineas finish while trusting is always quick on the draw, with lies and betrayal being the order of the day in the wasteland. Having grown up herding Brahmin and working the land around the vault his parents were born in he's far smarter than he seems and with manners to boot he is probably one of the last Southern gentlemen in existence. Phineas has always had a strong moral compass, more importantly, he has always stuck by it even when it's gotten it him into trouble. The first time he found people who were willing to stand up to raiders and threats of the wastes it was the Brotherhood of Steel, while many were fearful when they appeared in the Broken Banks of the Carolina's Finn stepped up. Helping the Brotherhood find places to scavenge and places to avoid he was given a place among them as a guide, hearing stories of Elder Lyons and started to believe in his vision for a better wasteland.
However, that dream would come crashing down when Maxson took the spot as Elder Finn and others who had signed up to fight under Lyons deserted. Maxson wasn't the Elder they had signed up to follow, after that. Finn made his was Westward looking for the fabled and lost Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel. Dreams of a new future in the West.
History / How they came to be part of Whitlash: Vault fifty-five located in South Lee County North Carolina was the vault of the people it accepted carpenters, engineers, small business owners, teachers, and farmers. Middle-class educators and workers, the vault also hosted an election system and all entertainment was based off the Wild West Americana. The Vault’s experiment was to see if instilling the idea of taming a wild and uncivilized world would help the populace expand and rebuild faster. Vault fifty-five opened after eighty years and began trading with the outside world, rebuilding the dairy farm with traders who were attempting to figure out why so many Brahmin lived in this area.
Born in Vault 55, Phineas did not spend his life underground instead his parents joined the vault residents who had begun living outside working the farms. His mother was part of maintenance while his father a natural born speaker joined up with the caravans that left to trade milk for caps. Phineas even as a young boy would slip away from the daycare and head right off to watch his mother work no matter what they tried the young man wanted to see how his mother took apart machines and put them back together in a way that made them work. It was as mesmerizing to watch and eventually they gave up trying to stop him. Soon each day with little Finn in tow she would teach him about what she was fixing.
Yet, Phineas, it seemed inherited his father's natural charm eventually convincing one of the caravaneers his father worked with to teach him how to shoot. With an old varmint rifle and a handful of bullets, Finn took to the guns the same way he took to other old world machines, with careful practice he learned to clean, repair, and care for rifles. His father fought to keep him away from violence but the wasteland never liked the innocent and eventually. Finn would lose his one day and his mother knew it would be better to teach him to fight than let him live without the skills to survive. Soon Finn and his mother began to practice shooting together and as the young boy grew into a teenager his father knew he would need a better rifle. Upon his next trip out Finn's old man bargained for an older model battle rifle and soon Phineas had his first real rifle and he'd need it soon.
Just after Phineas's seventeenth birthday after all of the milk caravans had left and the town was quiet, the stillness of an autumn day in the wasteland. A pack of Deathclaw's moved in, tracking a recently arrived herd of beef cattle Finn's town left to defense putting their rifles and turrets to work. Every trader, guard, and farmer poured lead into the beasts the heard was small thankfully only five 'claws but they busted through the wall near Finn's section. Finn aim true as ever took out the eyes of the beast leaving it blind and flailing enough time for several others to wheel about and open fire on it from all directions.
After these years, at nineteen, Phineas met a girl, she was young and capable she was from a small farm that worked in vegetables while profitable the land would be better suited to cattle in truth. After a year of getting to know her and her family, Finn made an offer to take his savings and combine it with their profits to start a small cattle ranch in this part of the state. Shortly before they had fully agreed, Finn asked Jessamine Blossom to be his bride. She said yes, her father agreed to convert his farm into a ranch against his brother's will. So Finn left them the money while he headed over to tell his parents the good news of his coming marriage, it wouldn't stay good news for long.
Finn returned three days later the cattle gone, horses too, along with anything valuable that had been left within the place. Behind the barn he found three shallow graves one for his beloved fiancé, one for her brother finer friend Finn never had before, and her kind pa who had given Finn his blessing to marry his daughter. With Ezrah Blossom not being among his families graves, Finn knew who was responsible for what had happened to this kind and decent family.
Phineas Holiday Cassidy was taken on as Deputy Marshal by Senior Marshal Sam Smith, who taught him much of what he would carry through his life. Adding the combat skills of a Marshal, Finn would spend nearly a year learning from Sam before Ezrah Blossom resurfaced. Finn hid the information and pursed Ezrah out of North Carolina to a mountain near Virginia. Finn went alone, believing that this was his fight and no one else's many people remember the story of the young Deputy Marshal who brought down a gang of ten alone. Finn was reprimanded after he took his vengeance, seeing Ezrah Blossom hang for his crimes. He would sell much of the goods taken from the corpses he made that day, before quitting the Marshal's, understanding that his attitude as he was would get someone killed.
Over the next few years Phineas would become bounty hunter, tracking down targets or people the Marshals or Tarheels couldn't be bothered with. He would range out into Virginia, Tennessee, and South Carolina on several occasions during one such trip he would acquire his six string which he would keep pristine for years to come. During this time, Finn drank heavily and developed his problem with alcohol even learning to brew it to make drinking cheaper. He was broken by the death of his loved ones and the loss of his entire plan for himself living just to find a place to be killed.
A Brotherhood squad arrived in North Carolina to search for tech and learn about what the locals were doing perhaps even establish an outpost here. Many were fearful of the men and women in power armor yet Phineas ever the tinkerer walked right up and began to ask about the features and what they had gotten working on the armor. Phineas himself had recovered a busted up suit of Power Armor from a Vertibird he'd stumbled across and wanted to know more about the working models before him. While the tight-lipped brothers didn’t say much at first upon discovering he hailed from a Vault that had built its own community they decided to investigate. They eventually agreed to have Finn show them the way to Creamery and around the Carolina's in general.
Bringing the Brotherhood to the Carolina Creamery built above Vault sixty-six, he introduced them around and showed them what they had managed to get working. Even demonstrating a few people tinkering with the idea of getting motorcycles or ramshackle cars built to make milk runs easier. However, according to the Knights on the mission, the greatest discovery of the entire mission was that the Vault dwellers had a working icecream maker. Watching a bunch of power armored knights and normally stuffy scribes line up to taste ice cream and groan with joy couldn’t help but make Finn smile.
After this introduction, the Brotherhood decided to set up their base with the friendly and easy to trade with locals of the dairy. Phineas became the go-to person and began to travel with the knights who opened more and more over time. Phineas heard tales of the Capital Wasteland and other places the Brotherhood had been, how they had helped people under Elder Lyons and done so much good even protecting people. When a group had to return home to join up with the others, Phineas was invited to come with them. During his time with the group, he’d proven a capable combatant and knowledgeable about old world tech and culture in ways on Vault dwellers could be. Joining as an initiate Finn would be promoted to Knight when the Enclave Brotherhood war broke out, Finn would perform admirably throughout at several combat sights. With special commendations being awarded for bravery and service during the battle of Addams Air Force Base, he was promoted to Knight Sergeant by the end of that war.
The Brotherhood then took it's new martial strength and brought it full force down on the Super Mutants, Finn and many other Knights battle hardened by the Enclave taking the fight to Vault eighty-seven. When the super mutants of the capital wastelands were finally beaten, Phineas's squad would evacuate Little Lamplight during their retreat. Saving nearly a hundred children, who were taken in by the Brotherhood. Finn would be promoted to Knight Captain for his actions in the destruction of the super mutants home turf. Finn would be rotated off combat duties and they put his talent to tech to work making him part for several salvage units and recovery squads deployed across the capital wasteland.
However after the Death of Elder Sarah Lyons and the election of several feckless and devise Elders Phineas couldn't stomach it when Maxson took charge and set undoing the legacy of the Lyon's family. Himself and many of the Wastelanders who had come into service under Sarah spoke up harshly, they were shouted down by old guard and berated by those who more recently joined. So Finn turned in his armor and his holotags saying that men like Maxson were the reason Brotherhood would die. Few had ever walked away but Knight-Captain Holiday did along seven other knights. They headed west towards the lost and fabled Midwestern BoS the reports had mentioned may still be active.
It took years, trials and tribulations to reach Chicago another six months to establish contact with the BoS Elders in the Midwest. Finn had finally gotten used to lacking the armor and the better firepower to match. Their new contacts in the Brotherhood put them to work looking for new towns and villages to put under protection. Finn volunteered to head back west, quietly sending back messages every few months or so. His current assignment is in Montana working as a ranch hand selling his labor and seeing what can learn about the region for the more expansionist Mid-western Brotherhood of Steel.
@Eviledd1984 Hiya! Please no super mutant characters at this time! Any other ideas? @Apollosarcher Approved! Please post your CS in the character sheet section.
