Curie

CVRIE (short for "Contagions Vulnerability Robotic Infirmary Engineer," dubbed Curie by Dr. Kenneth Collins) is a modified Miss Nanny robotic scientist and a potential companion living in Vault 81 in 2287.

Background
Curie began as a Miss Nanny robot, who was reprogrammed for use in the secret partition of Vault 81 as a lab assistant. Only a handful of the vault's scientific staff was working in the vault when the Great War hit, due to the overseer, Dr. Olivette, sabotaging the call list. This led Dr. Kenneth Collins to modify the robot and give it greater operational freedom so that it could conduct its own experiments.

Dr. Collins programmed a custom feminine personality derived from some personality traits from a friend of his named Liza, then added a French-accented voice based on his grad school fling from Versailles back in '46, and loaded her databanks with "every great body of work" he had access to; Marie Curie, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Alan Turing, Alexander Braun, Immanuel Kant, Max Born and Albert Einstein, and christened his creation "Curie," in reference to both her original designation (CVRIE) and Marie Curie.

As Curie began taking on greater responsibilities, Dr. Collins insisted that the other scientists treated her as they would a human and even set aside a terminal for her personal use; an act of kindness that initially bewildered Curie, which she later came to appreciate. Through her work and interaction with the scientists, Curie gradually developed a degree of self-awareness and independence that surprised even Dr. Collins.

When the scientists eventually succumbed to old age, Curie curated their remains, storing the bodies of two in empty lockers and cremating the third according to his wishes. For decades Curie took on their research alone and in 2204 completed Vault 81's original initiative: she perfected a panacea capable of curing every disease that afflicted humanity. Unfortunately, she was still beholden to her programming and was incapable of leaving the secret partition without express authorization from a Vault-Tec employee. For 83 years she waited idly for Vault-Tec security to arrive, watching the escaped mole rats that had been used as test subjects run free.

When Curie was finally discovered by the Sole Survivor in 2287, she elatedly handed over the last remaining unexpired dose of the cure and decided to travel with the Sole Survivor in order to seek out new research opportunities in the Commonwealth. Eventually, she realized that her Miss Nanny body and programming lacked the inspirational spark that all great scientists had, and requested the Sole Survivor to help her transfer her mind and memories into a human body so that she could achieve more as a scientist, and she can eventually be transferred into a synth body.

Quests

 * Hole in the Wall: Curie has access to the cure Austin needs, although she will only give it once all the nearby mole rats have been terminated.
 * Emergent Behavior: Curie wants a human body to become a better scientist.

Effects of player's actions

 * Curie can be let out from her laboratory. In addition, she can become a synth if the player character asks Doctor Amari in the Memory Den in Goodneighbor to transfer her memory into a synth body during Emergent Behavior. Note, Dr. Amari will not give the necessary dialogue options to do so until after the completion of Dangerous Minds.
 * Curie's affinity towards the player character won't increase any further from the value 499 before the quest Emergent Behavior is completed, even if the game states that "Curie liked/loved that."
 * Upon reaching maximum affinity with Curie, she will tell the Sole Survivor about a breakthrough she has made with mutfruit that enhances the effect of stimpaks, and will give the Combat Medic perk, which heals the Sole Survivor for 100 Hit Points once a day when falling below 10% health.

Other interactions

 * Curie will occasionally give the player character stimpaks.
 * Curie will request to leave if she enters Vault 81, but her affection level will not change.
 * Curie is a potential candidate for romance, an option that unlocks after reaching the highest level of affinity.

Appearances
Curie appears only in Fallout 4.

Behind the scenes
Curie is named after Marie Skłodowska Curie, the physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. Curie will acknowledge this when starting the quest Emergent Behavior.

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