Relations: Alex Powell (Spouse) / Katie Powell (Daughter)Early life

Julia was born in Diamond City and developed a love of chemistry and biology through whatever books passed her hands. Not wanting to run a competing business in the marketplace, she left to join the trading caravans, working as a chemist and doctor, where her services were always valued. She loved travelling, but hated having to cross out settlements and farms off the map as they got destroyed or raided.

She eventually met Alex, and married him. While visiting his family's home and finding it razed to the ground, they found a brahmin (type of cow) calf that had wandered off unscathed. The three took shelter in a fungal cave, where Alex first proposed the idea of settling down and starting up their own farm. Julia's cogs began to turn: She knew that feeding brahmin a specific diet made them more useful in creating potent Jet (a popular drug in the Fallout universe), who was to say that the diet couldn't also help out with growing better crop? The only problem that arose was that Julia didn't share her husband's excitement for farming, but this got resolved by their decision to stay in the cave and farm the mushrooms: perfect ingredients for her experimentation and chems (word replacement for "drugs" in Fallout).

When Katie came along, they discussed setting chems aside for the sake of their daughter growing up 'right'. Julia disagreed with Alex's assessment that there was anything 'wrong' with chems or selling them, and eventually started to use excess ingredients to make chems to sell off to caravans when money got tight.

Smart and pragmatic, Julia is far colder and more suspicious of outsiders than her husband, though she hides it under a somewhat badly executed act of 'loving housewife and hostess'. The polite display comes from a somewhat poor understanding of what housewives and hostesses were like pre-war, and frequently slips back into caravan brand of cynicism. She can sometimes be very blunt and abrupt when she forgets to be polite.

Underneath that, she's often lost in thought of chemical experiments and ways to optimize her magnum opus (Nessie, her cow) further. She takes a lot of pride in Nessie's fertilizer, and secretly takes more than half of the credit for their farm's success. She believes the brahmin (type of cow) is hers first and foremost, and frequently has to correct herself to say it's the family's. She's very attached to Nessie, and would be upset if anything happened to her, though she does understand that she can figure out a way to repeat the process with a different brahmin. Incidentally, she also has a very bad sense of smell due to constantly being around strong scents.

She takes the lead on negotiating with caravans and organizing the farm itself, having a stronger personality than her husband.

Alex's request to keep chems out of their trading and away from Katie is frustrating to Julia, who believes chems are just a part of life rather than something bad or immoral. Despite frequently arguing about it, she still takes initiative to sell off chems to caravans when money is tight.

She never lost her love of travel or civilization, and living on one spot removed from crowds has been harder on her than she'd admit to anyone. She spends a lot of time wishing it was safe enough to take trips with her daughter. She wants to encourage Katie's independence and love of adventure.

In combat, she is aggressive and begins to swear almost out of control. She doesn't hesitate to use Buffout or Psycho (types of chems/drugs) when it comes to a fight, so she enjoys the violence a little more than her usual behaviour would suggest.