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[u][b]Name:[/b][/u] 
Chez (Chester) Nathan

[b][u]Appearance:[/u] [/b]
Chez is a scrawny Wastelander who looks younger than his 25 years, thanks to his gangling limbs and boyish face. His dark brown skin and wavy black hair suggest some kind of East Indian heritage, but like most Wastelanders, he has little idea of the specific ingredients that seeped into the irradiated melting pot which brewed him.

Chez has a slightly pinched and odd look, like a plant starved of sunlight. However, his unpocked skin, full set of teeth, thick head of hair, and decent height, suggest that his upbringing was kinder than that of many in the Mojave. He might even pass as a well nourished Vault Dweller, except under close examination. 

[b][u]Affiliation:[/u][/b] 
- Senior Member of the Followers of the Apocalypse, New Vegas Branch. 
- Well-liked in Freeside and a longstanding ally of the Kings gang.

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Clothing: 1x scientist outfit, 1x safety glasses/goggles, 1x trenchcoat, 1x stylish fedora worn at allegedly jaunty angle

Weapons: 9mm pistol, switchblade

Consumables: 4x Stimpak, 2x RadAway, 2x Purified Water, 1x Nuka Cola (usually replenished from Follower safehouses)

[b][u]Background:[/u][/b]
Chez's father, Devan, was a physician educated by the Followers. After marrying Madge, Devan moved from rough Westside to the then-peaceful mining settlement of Sloan. An anti-capitalist doctor was welcome in a poor town where crushed limbs and dust-filled lungs were common.

Chez's mother was an… eccentric woman from somewhere out of New Vegas. While physically unremarkable, she had a nervous constitution, and was prone to visions, fits of hysteria, and experiences of a paranormal and religious nature. Whether due to a history of inbreeding, radiation exposure or mutation, she passed these peculiar traits onto her son. 

Chez received a strong scientific and political education from his father, and a bizarre hodgepodge of supernatural beliefs from his mother. Chez quickly discovered that his slender frame and mental sensitivity disqualified him from the tough life of a miner. He read voraciously, and from the age of twelve, accompanied his father on working trips to Freeside or the outlying towns. 

In Freeside, Chez discovered his two great loves: the intellectually electrifying lectures of the Followers, and the romantic ambience of the stage at the King’s School of Impersonation.

Tragedy struck in Chez’s fifteenth year. Word came to Sloan that Chez’s father had been killed in Westside - according to some, in water riots between NCR settlers and the locals, while others claim it was a gang of chem-addled Fiends.

Life in Sloan became more difficult after this, as Madge’s condition deteriorated, and the locals became increasingly hostile. Chez was not as skilled a physician as his father, and he could not yet earn his keep. Meanwhile, rations were tightening as the NCR appropriated resources for its troops, and the physician’s disturbed wife became the focus of resentment. 

Three months after Chez’s father was killed, his mother disappeared. A miner claimed he saw Madge wandering off into the desert after dark, possessed by one of her visions. This was plausible, and Madge [i]had [/i]been seeing things more frequently after her husband’s death. The alternative - that one of her neighbours had made her disappear - was too painful for Chez to bear. 

Chez waited in Sloan for another half a year, wandering the desert, reading Follower literature for solace, and praying for his mother’s return. When she failed to reappear, he packed up and headed to Freeside, to make a new life with the Followers. 


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