Catherine (Fallout 3)

	Fallout 3/Fallout: New Vegas character Catherine
	Face shot of Catherine; not intended to be seen during normal gameplay
	Biography race Human affiliation Project Purity role Scientist, Project Purity location Jefferson Memorial family James (Husband) Lone Wanderer (child) Gameplay appearances Fallout 3 Fallout: New Vegas Statistics karma Good SPECIAL 3 ST, 6 PE, 3 EN, 4 CH, 8 IN, 6 AG, 5 LK Technical actor Karen Carbone base id 0005eddf ref id 0005ede0

 

Catherine is a resident of the ruins of Washington, DC in the Capital Wasteland in 2258. She is the wife of James and mother of the child later known to the Capital Wasteland's residents as the Lone Wanderer. Catherine is a scientist who worked on Project Purity with James. Her favorite quote from the Bible is Revelation 21:6.

Background

In the mid—2250s, as a member of the science team involved in Project Purity, Catherine befriended and fell in love with the project's chief scientist, James. In late 2257, the two lovers conceived a child. Nine months later, on July 13, 2258, Catherine gave birth to a child. After seeing her child, Catherine suffered from cardiac arrest and, despite attempts at saving her life by James, she died. Her death affected James deeply, who abandoned Project Purity soon after and traveled with his child to raise him or her in Vault 101.

Relationships

She is the mother to the Lone Wanderer and the late wife of James.

Interactions with the player character

Interactions overview

General	Services	Quests
Essential: No Enslavable: No Companion: No Bounty: No	Merchant: No Repairman: No Doctor: No Rents bed/room: No	Starts quests: No Involved in quests: No

Inventory

Apparel	Weapon	Other item	On death
Birth skirt	-	-	-

Notes

• Catherine died in the prologue of the game. She appeared during a cutscene that showed the player character's birth, but the player only saw her legs and could hear her voice. A holotape recording of James flirting with her called "better days" could be located in the Jefferson Memorial's lower levels.
• In Point Lookout, while intoxicated on the Mother Punga, you will find one of the many giant bobbleheads on a medical examination table with a skeleton marked "Mom", balloons, and a party hat. Activating the bobblehead will say "Blech. If my kid looked like that, I’d abandon it too." The skeleton is Catherine, reflecting the lack of maternal presence in the Lone Wanderer's life. Furthermore, the last bobblehead in the vision says, "Dead mother, life in a post-nuclear Wasteland and not a friend in it. Yeah, you aren't exactly blessed."

Notable quotes

• "Oh... Oh James... We did it... A son/daughter... Our beautiful son/daughter..."
• "Ohhh... Very strapping... Ha ha ha..."
• "Ohhh... Beautiful... just like their Daddy... Ha ha ha..."
• "James? James... Something's... Something's..."

Appearances

Catherine appears in Fallout 3.

Behind the scenes

Using the console commands (tfc and teofis), the player can see that Catherine's character model was an older African American with a "No Nonsense" hairstyle, and James was Caucasian with a "Smooth Wave" hairstyle, regardless of what race or tone is used. If the player enters the console command tfc without going into third person view first, they could get a good look at Catherine up close just as the first cutscene ends.

Gallery

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  Catherine (not seen during normal gameplay)

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  A closer look at Catherine (not meant to be seen during normal gameplay)

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  Photograph of the Lone Wanderer's parents in Jefferson Memorial in Fallout 3 (cut content, not seen during normal gameplay) and in Vault 21 in Fallout: New Vegas.

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