Derrick Williams
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Specialty/Archetype: He specialises in the use of one handed guns such as pistols and sub-machine guns, and also has extensive knowledge of electronics.
Appearance/Gear: Derrick stands at just below 6 foot tall, and is quite thin, but deceptively strong. He has an old sheriff's duster that is riddled with bullet
holes, and stained with the blood of countless creatures. The old sheriff's badge is still pinned on the right of it, still shiny thanks to his constant cleaning of it. He keeps his sleeves rolled up to make the searing heat more bearable, but this makes the marks of light chem usage visible to all. He also wears an old desperado cowboy hat to block out the sun, along with sunglasses that he also keeps shiny. He keeps a small knife hidden in his boots, which are old and worn down. He has a 9mm sub-machine gun attached to the left side of his belt, which he tends to only use in serious situations, and a .357 magnum revolver that he keeps on his right, which he uses in most scenarios. He wears a belt beneath his duster which his ammo pouches are attached to, along with pouches for all his other things. He also keeps a bandana attached to his belt which he uses to cover his face in a sand storm.
Personality: Derrick is very sociable. Whenever he meets someone new he will do his utmost to become friends with them, and will not give up until they are friends. He will do almost anything for anyone he considers a friend, regardless of whether he has known them for a day or a year, and he will gladly put his own life on the line to save a friends. Despite his social nature he is not very forgiving, and should a friend not help him in a time of need he will consider them an enemy, and, depending on the circumstances, this can be anything from not talking to a person to violence. He is reckless in his actions, preferring to do something than sit around planning, which often lands him in bad situations. Although Derrick is not addicted to chems he is not above using them occasionally, and for a few hours after he does he is dependant on the rush, and so after the effects die down he becomes very dark.
History: Derrick lived a very simple life as a child. He and his parents lived on the Strip, in the vault hotel. Most days he walked the up and down the Strip selling food his mother made, and most nights he tinkered with scrap that had been thrown out from Michael Angelo's workshop. He spent his free days practising shooting with his BB gun across the road at the NCR embassy, where a friend of his father worked. When he turned 16 he started working at Michael Angelo's workshop, where his skill with electronics developed until he became a master, and found himself capable of turning scrap electronics into a robot. Everything was going well until the Tops sign broke, and he was told to fix it. The job itself was easy, it just required some rewiring, and he had almost fixed it within ten minutes, but after leaving the sign unattended to retrieve some more wire he returned to find someone had ripped out all the wiring while he was gone. After informing the Chairmen that it would take a few days they were furious, blaming him for the problems with the sign, and for that reason kicking him out of the Strip. At that point Derrick decided to live in freeside, getting a room at the atomic wrangler. It wasn't long before he was attacked by locals, and, after beating them off with a shard of glass from the street, he decided he needed a gun. He used the remainder of his money to buy a 9mm pistol and some ammo from Mick, and then he set out to found some work. He worked for a while as a bodyguard, but after getting muscled out of business by the Kings he became the debt collector for the Atomic Wrangler. He wasn't paid well, but he got a free room and food, so he stayed there until his 27th birthday, when he was fired after being found passed out in his room with chems around him. He then decided to be a prospector, trading his pistol for a sub-machine gun and searching for pre-war technology. He hasn't found anything like he hoped for, but he still gets plenty of loot from the raiders that inhabit the places he searches, and he finds plenty of electronic scraps he can use.
Other: Derrick mostly just scavenges, but will take most work he is offered, and still does jobs for the Atomic Wrangler occasionally.