POWELL, Katie

11, Female, Human

• Relations: Julie Powell (Mother)  /  Alex Powell (Father) / Franklin (Friend)

• Body Type: Child

• Face: Brown eyes, brown hair

• Wears: Kid’s dress

• Voice: Energetic, lively, at times likes to mimic the Silver Shroud (Fallout superhero) voice

• Personality: Very imaginative and obsessed with comic books and radio plays, enjoys fixing things and exploring, has no interest in farming whatsoever.

• Height: 5ft

Summary:

Katie Powell was born 15th May, 2279. She has spent her entire life on the farm; infrequently going on hunting and scavenging trips with her father in recent years, and occasionally interacting with passing traders to learn more about the world beyond the horizon (and the mountains).

Katie is an independent and free-spirited child with a very devil-may-care attitude to life in the wastes. She detests the thought of hard labor, preferring to work on smaller, more delicate tasks - or if possible to not work at all.

In recent months she has taken to sneaking away to explore the nearby surroundings on her own.

Katie spent her entire life living with her parents in their fungal farm cave. Falling in love with comic books at a very young age, she eventually started scavenging outside the cave in order to trade for more comic books with the caravans, helped by her mother.

One day while looking for scrap, she bumped into Franklin. He seemed more scared of her than she was of him, so she decided to ask him if he was an alien. He played along, and the two became fast friends. They would then meet up to play or talk, and Katie started trading him some supplies from the farm for scrap and caps.

After reading about aliens abducting cows in comic book, she got the idea to bring Nessie along to play. She lost track of time, and had to run home before it was dark, leaving Nessie in Franklin's care. The plan was to sneak out bright and early and bring her back, but her parents drafted her into getting their things ready for the move to a new settlement.

Katie has a big imagination and loves comic books, but she's not lacking in common sense. She's insightful and empathetic, but smart enough to tell fiction apart from reality, and bad people apart from good ones. Likewise, her love of comic books doesn't mean she dreams of being a superhero- she thinks it would be too much pressure and danger. She wouldn't say no to being a sidekick, though.

She has a good relationship with both parents. Both Alex and Julia have a lot of patience and encouragement for her, and as a result, she's secure and happy to explore and talk to strangers. She doesn't like farming or chemistry, but loves drawing and making her own comic books.

She's rarely bratty, but has her childish moments, such as trying to get Nessie (the family's cow) back in secret instead of telling her parents the truth. She's also doing it partially to protect Franklin (an alien-like ghoul), and will own up to her lies if it starts looking like someone else will get in trouble instead of her.

She knows Franklin is a ghoul (humanoid race in Fallout) and not an alien, but it just made him happier when playing at it, so she kept up the ruse. He's her only friend outside the family due to their remote location.