Ava Hackett

Character Name: Ava Hackett

Nickname(s): N/A

Race: Human

Sex: Female

Age: 31 – 17th July 2259

Birthplace: Diamond City



Height: 5’10

Weight: 130

Eye Color: Grey

Hair Color: Dark brown

Hair Style: Differs between work and play, in work she’ll have her hair tied up in a ponytail, whilst off work she wears her hair down, keeping it around shoulder length

Facial Hair: N/A

Skin Color: pale Caucasian

Build: Thin, but essentially healthy

Distinguishing Features: Her looks for the most part, given she’s a rather striking image in the wasteland.



Profession: Electrician/mechanic, agent for the Railroad

Skills: Rather handy with electronics and repairing, able to weld rather well. Has a decent skill with energy weapons. She also has a rather smooth tongue, which in her agent work she uses rather well.

Training: Her formal training with electronics and repairing came at the hands of her father and then later the Railroad, who gave her experience working with robots and synths, they also taught her how to fight.

Other Abilities: She can dance rather well. She has a rudimentary knowledge of how to treat wounds without stimpaks.

Apparel: Due to her relationship with the Railroad, her outfits tend to be upgraded to Ballistic weave Mk3. Whilst working she’ll often wear a dark green mechanic’s jumpsuit with welding goggles, out of work she sometimes wears a small variety of dresses, either red or black, though on missions she will opt for a black outfit with a headscarf to cover her identity.



Weaponry: Ava will often use a laser gun in combat, she has a number of well-maintained guns hidden throughout her home and safe house. She isn’t shy of using other weapons, but that is her preferred gun.

Other Equipment: She often carries a backpack with her when on a mission or going to Bunker Hill, though sometimes she’ll even carry her toolbox in the latter case. At home she has a variety of tools, her favourite being a welding torch



Affiliation: The Railroad / Bunker Hill

Religious Belief: Agnostic

Sexual Preference: Bisexual

Relationship Status: Single, but ‘occupied’.

Personality: Ava is an agent through and through. Though she is relatively optimistic about her work, she knows what she has to do to get the job done. This much is proven with her actions, one of which involved seducing a number of people in order to gain information in regards to the Institute. With her faith in the cause what had been a lacklustre and dull life became something exciting to put her mind to, which has been the main focus of her life since finding herself under the railroad’s employ. Due to her looks, and the attention she gets because of them, she is rather vain and somewhat obsessive with her appearance and how she is perceived. With this need to be perceived in such a way, Ava wears a mask, hiding her actual nature which many rarely see. In actual fact she is more aware of her imperfections, though she’d never admit it to herself. Instead she opts to distract herself with her work, her cases, or various vices she has acquired over the years. Her main vice being a habit of smoking, of which she first started to give herself something of an allure, having seen various cigarette advertisements dotted about the wasteland growing up.



When Ava’s mother found out she was pregnant with Chris Hackett’s baby, she most likely thought she had fucked up. Chris Hackett wasn’t a catch; he was a drunken mechanic who spent far too long in the bar with a Ghoul named Mickey, who’d tell Chris all about the pre-war world with most of it lies. Chris wasn’t a bad guy, he wasn’t even bad looking, and perhaps in the right light and sober conditions he might’ve been charming. Ava’s mother had been ‘lucky’ to grab him on such a day. Unfortunately a life lived in the wasteland usually proves too much for many mothers, and Ava’s mother, like many before died during childbirth. The doctors of Diamond City had no real knowledge of the child’s father, so when Chris Hackett walked in claiming the child as his own, they were more than a little suspicious. They’d been about to give the girl up for an orphanage, when Mickey and a few of Chris’ pals from the dugout inn backed his story.

From then on, Chris was a relatively changed man. Of course he was still a drunk, but he looked after Ava as much as he could. Mickey helped too when he could. Of course, he had the young girl believing all his made up stories too. As Ava grew older, she like some of the children of Diamond City ended up going to school in the night rather than in the day. Due to Chris’s work as a mechanic in the city, he was able to keep her around, which she would often be found doing, during the day. However with his drinking habits in the night, it was often better for Ava if she attended school in the late hours in the day and slept until Chris got up for work himself… usually by midday. Due to her late hours, Ava was taught primarily by Miss Edna, who arguably fascinated her more than Mister Zwicky, most likely due to Edna’s status as a robot… a seemingly sentient robot at that.

During her teen years, it soon became very apparent that Ava had not inherited her looks from her father. When it came to the talk about the birds and the bees (Mickey later informed Ava that bees had been twice the size of blood bugs before the war when asked), Chris was surprised that Ava had been more than aware, due to the stories of his antics, and the numerous women that she often saw walking out of their shack in the late hours of the morning. That wasn’t to mention the attention she had garnered from the boys (and some of the girls) in her class. Though he had been more than worried prior to the conversation, he soon realised that he hadn’t needed to worry, and that Ava found them all rather boring.

Ava’s fascination with Miss Edna continued on into her late teens, by now she was helping her father in his workshop. She often worked with him as they fixed the various security robots used by the various caravans. As she grew older, she learned about the synths and the reputation they had amongst the citizens of Diamond City. Ava could never quite believe they were all monsters, they were just tools used by another group. Maybe they were hostile, but so were robots sometimes. She found herself at odds with the paranoia, but she never quite felt at odds with the residents until Mayor McDonough kicked the ghouls out of Diamond City in 2282, Mickey included. Chris and Ava, seeing their lifelong friend kicked out into the wasteland angrily decided to get out as well, leaving Diamond City, gathering up their tools and heading elsewhere. Unfortunately for Chris and Ava, Mickey was already long gone by the time they had gotten out and settled in a workshop just north of Bunker Hill. They presumed Mickey had been killed and letters sent out to Goodneighbour were left unanswered… not that they knew where he’d gone.

Three years past, and Chris and Ava had found reliable source for jobs in the nearby Bunker Hill, helping avoid power surges, or patching up the robots own by the traders. Unfortunately, without Mickey to hold him back from drinking, and with him missing his friend, whom he had known throughout his life, Chris turned to booze hard. Soon enough the residents of Bunker Hill had dried up on good faith. Whilst in the early days they had been grateful, either letting him sleep it off in the settlement, or escorting him home, now they just let him wander home and threw caution to the wind. It was at this point the Institute chose to react. Having been watching the mechanic and his daughter for some time, they saw an opportunity to replace the man due to his connections and access, being suspicious of Bunker Hill and any probable connections to the Railroad.

Ava might not have noticed that her father had been replaced, until one day he returned home without smelling like he was drowned in alcohol, which some nights he did. The synth almost instantly knew he was busted, and as he caught her alone, decided to attack. Though she had a welding torch in her hand, she was incredibly inexperienced in combat, something the Synth knew all too well.

Luckily for Ava, the difference in Chris’s behaviour had not gone unnoticed, and had sent agents to protect the woman. It wasn’t any wonder that Ava ended up being dragged into the Railroad’s influence following the incident that left her father’s replacement on a table in the Railroad’s bunker.

With her new found career, Ava took up the chance for further training that the Railroad was willing to provide. As standard their agents were trained to use firearms, and Ava was trained in how to fix and dismantle synths if and when needed due to her previous experience working with her father. Her workshop was eventually upgraded to be a small safe house for the railroad, not that they tended to use it, given the close proximity to Bunker Hill. Occasionally it would be used, if agents did not want to be seen in Bunker Hill, as was sometimes the case. By 2287, almost all of Ava’s clothing had been replaced with ballistic weave.

With the essential all-out war with the Institute, the brotherhood and the railroad, Ava ended up in combat far often than she would have liked. If she wasn’t dealing with various Synths, and running from the Coursers, she was avoiding the Brotherhood patrols whenever they came by. Avar spent more time away from her workshop than ever before, often being sent across the commonwealth for various tasks, though mostly it was to help a new safe house get set up. Every now and then she would end up in a firefight, though with her little experience with firearms, all in all she proved ineffectual. What was rather effective however was her looks. Ava’s handlers with the Railroad soon realised that her charms opened doors and gradually pushed her to take advantage of them. Though she had in a personal capacity over the years to get herself a free drink or more money for her services than they would have paid under her father, Ava had never used it to further the Railroad’s ends. She did eventually start using her charms however, and they quickly gained her something of a reputation – one that she did not entirely mind, even if some of the words used were rather vulgar. To a point she embraced the idea of finally being useful for something other than fixing lightbulbs or turrets.

Sometime after the Prydwen went down, Ava ended up in the crossfire between the Brotherhood and the Institute synths, who had sought a chance to further weaken the Brotherhood in the Commonwealth. Ava, who at the time was returning home from fixing up one of the newer safe houses, was caught unaware, when she noticed a courser get hit. After the dust was over, she went after the courser, who was injured and left for dead, whilst the surviving Brotherhood retreated, through fear of reinforcements. After treating his wounds, Ava realised the courser was sentient and aware, and though she told him the Railroad would help him be free, he refused stating he had a loyalty to the Institute. Despite his loyalty and his slow recovery, Ava spent several nights with him. Before too long, the two ended up meeting again in the same area, and Ava would once again spend the night with him, until it became a regular thing. Ava saw an opportunity in the courser to find information regarding the institute, and the courser, either mistaking or unaware of her feelings (or lack thereof) succumbed, and eventually started feeding her a slight drain of information. Though it wasn’t enough information for the institute to be suspicious, it was enough for the railroad to start using. With Ava’s information, the Railroad were able to locate many Synths that had either been forgotten or unmonitored that had been placed in certain settlements between DC and Boston.

Now, two years later, the information is starting to drain up, Ava now as to decide whether to attempt a total mind wipe of the courser or to kill him. Until the point she is made to choose, she continues to serve the Railroad in any capacity they need of her. When they have no use for her, she can be found at her workshop just north of Bunker Hill.