Dave

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Character Name: David Julius Herlingdrome

Nickname(s): Dave

Race: Human

Sex: Male

Age: 28 (born July 18, 2254)

Birthplace: Unknown residence, The Commonwealth



Height: 6"2"

Weight: 195lbs

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: Blonde

Hair Style: Sarge Cut

Facial Hair: Goatee

Skin Color: White

Build: Naturally thin but muscle built up over the years

Distinguishing Features: Heavy surgical scarring all over body



Profession: Bounty Hunter

Skills: Craftsmanship, Firearms, Survival

Training: Building 'Scrap' robots

Other Abilities: Silver tongue

Apparel: Desperado Cowboy Hat, Bounty Hunter Duster, Sunglasses, Bandolier

Weaponry: .44 Magnum, Trail Carbine, .45 Auto Pistol, Straight Razor, Lever-Action Shotgun, Combat Knife

Other Equipment: Backpack, Food, Water, Cigarettes, Wrench, Spare robot parts, frying pan



Affiliation: None

Religious Belief: Atheist

Sexual Preference: Heterosexual

Relationship Status: Single

Personality: Laid back, friendly

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Dave was born to a Dr. Julius Herlingdrome and a Miss Joanna Brookes, in The Commonwealth. As soon as he was born, Dave was taken by Joanna's father, Dr. Silas Brookes, who was also Julius's employer. After taking the baby Dave, Silas fired Julius, and threw him out of his house, threatening to kill him if he ever returned. As Dave grew up, he was tested upon by Dr. Brookes, applying new implants into his brain, injecting his bones with a metal alloy, and other such traumatizing enhancements. He also conducted experiments on the human body toughness, leaving Dave for days in a dark, locked cellar with no food or water, or inflicting grievous pain to him, through an electric chair. His only solace in his world of torture was his mother. Whenever he actually did get to see her, she would tell him stories about his father, like his travels trough the wastes, she also named him, as Silas simply called him 'Subject 001'

This continued until Dave was 16, when he finally got the jolt needed to finally rebel. Silas started testing on his mother. He awoke from his place in the corner of the lab, to find his mother tied to a chair, with 2000 volts of electricity running through her. Dave couldn't bare to see his mother is such pain, so he did the only thing he could think of. He ran upstairs to Dr. Brookes' office, grabbed the revolver that was always kept on the desk, and ran back to the lab. When he returned, he did the only thing he could to stop his mothers pain, he put a .44 round through her head. When Silas looked up, he gave the boy a cold heartless look and said "The experiment wasn't over" Dave put a bullet through his head as well.

He turned his back on The Commonwealth that day, he wandered for 8 years. Part way through his travels, as he traversed the shattered remains of Missouri, he met a straggly Scavenger who only replied to 'Tin Man'. Following was an small army of robots, of varying size, made out all sorts of junk. An oven, a coffee machine, and even an old TV. He was half-crazed with hunger, so after Dave shared his food, and reasoned with Tim Man that he wasn't an alien, he managed to persuade him to teach Dave how to build the mad inventions that protected them. Several months went by, as Dave learned the art of building robots out of random junk.

Eventually, Dave moved on, to find a land that was somehow rebuilt, that contained laws and democracy. The NCR. He spent about a week in Shady Sands, until he learned of the Mojave occupation, he decided it would be good to finally find somewhere to live where there was no over-bearing ruler who told him what to do. He traveled through NCR territory, The Hub, Vault City, even the Boneyard. He made a living doing odd jobs for people, his teachings in scrap robots helped with other random repairs.

When he arrived in the Mojave, he found an untamed land. drug-addled raiders plagued the lands, and the NCR were too busy trying to gain a foothold at Hoover Dam and Camp McCarren, that they couldn't do anything.

In stepped Dave, at this time he was a brash 24-year-old, with a six-shooter and big dreams for the great desert. He came upon a wizened old man who claimed to be the owner of 'West and associates', a bounty hunting firm. He signed himself on and soon found himself hunting the so called 'fiends' or other such raiding gangs. He soon became a known face in several towns as he traversed the Mojave in search of his targets.

Eventually, West died, and Dave became unemployed, as he took a break he was contacted by a man named Lieutenant Dhatri, who turned out to be Wests' old contact, who got him the jobs. Dhatri suggested Dave become a freelancer, he already had a reputation as a crack shot, and as long as he wanted it, the NCR will always have people that need to disappear. Dave agreed, and continued to hunt raiders, along with the odd 'special' job he would get from a private contractor.