cbishop

Named after my mom's second ex-husband. He actually did work in casinos in Vegas for a number of years. When I needed someone manning the roulette table, I thought of him, and said, "Sure, why not?"

I needed a butler, so I named him after the best one in fiction that I know: Alfred Pennywoth. Just a loving nod to a favorite character.

On recent re-reading of this story, I actually thought he was an actual character in the Fallout-verse, but I see that I have him listed under my OC's. I don't remember why I named the ghoul Wally. Probably just random on my part.

wordplay: "ray gun." When I first came up with Raymond Gunn, I had the idea that he was smarter than the world could keep up with, and he requested that he be put into cryogenic sleep until the world had caught up to him.

Trying to get a jump on that, the Russians try to steal his cryo chamber so they can revive him, and make him develop super-technology for them. An American agent that I named Will Travel would recover his body, fighting off all enemies. I had dubbed the story "Have Gunn: Will Travel" after the Western, "Have Gun, Will Travel."

I've lost interest in that story for the most part, but I used the bare bones for Roulette's backstory. Gunn has changed so much in my notes that "Have Gunn: Will Travel" is unlikely.

When I thought of "Have Gunn: Will Travel," I knew that I wanted the Russians to be the ones trying to get Gunn's cryo chamber, but I never actually named any Russian agents. Until I got here, and needed a way for someone from the present to get to the post-apocalyptic future of Fallout. Enter: Roulette, because: "Russian roulette" - that dangerous "game" where you load a gun and take turns pulling the trigger at your head until someone dies. In-story, that's how she got the name, but her version is pointing it at someone and pulling the trigger until they tell her what she wants or do what she wants, or they die.

Nice and simple: The House is named after Fallout character Mr. House.