Christopher (Fallout)

Chris Avellone was quite an important person in the history of the Wasteland. He was a bounty hunter, a mayor and even a famous dancer.

Bounty hunter
Around 2161, he was a bounty hunter from the Boneyard. He had an abrupt attitude and was serious about his money. He did not like child killers. He had a button that reads, 'I'm Christopher and you're meat.' He claimed to be one of the most fearsome bounty hunters in the wasteland.

Mayor of Springfield
Some time after 2161, he traveled to the East, where he became the mayor of Springfield, Illinois. Around 2195, after the previous mayor disappeared under suspicious circumstances, Avellone was voted in as a puppet mayor. But he took to his new power and started causing trouble. The mayor's political stance with the ghouls angered some of Springfield's far-right, human activists who refuse to acknowledge the "sub-humans" as near equals.

In 2197, the Eastern Brotherhood of Steel sent a squad to Springfield to protect Avellone from a plot to assasinate him. The resident troublemakers were dressed as raiders, which was a clumsy attempt to frame the local bandits. After the BOS squad rescued the mayor, he became quite the puppet official and the extra resources helped fuel the Brotherhood machine. He signed the "Bill of Monster Rights" which gave some limited rights to ghouls.

New Reno dancer
Later in his life, he returned to the Core Region and became known for his dancing skills in New Reno (and the Reno women remembered him for his other skills as well). The inscription on his grave in Golgotha says "Here lies Chris Avellone, King of the Dance Floor."

Behind the scenes
The character was named for Chris Avellone. According to the Fallout Bible:


 * It's just a joke from Jess Heinig, one of the programmers. It's one of the five billion developer in-jokes in Fallout 1 and 2. The fellow [Avellone] has no past, and no future.

Appearances in games
Avellone appears in Fallout and Fallout Tactics. His gravestone appears in Fallout 2. All the characters named Avellone might not even be connected, but if they are the same person, he had quite a life.