Curie



CVRIE (short for "Contagions Vulnerability Robotic Infirmary Engineer", dubbed Curie by Dr. Kevin Collins) is a companion (as a modified model with a female personality and white paint) in Fallout 4.

Background
Curie began as a Mister Handy robot intended for use in the secret partition of Vault 81 as a lab assistant. Only a handful of the vault's scientific staff were working in the vault when the Great War hit, which led Dr. Kevin Collins to modify the Mister Handy robot and give it greater operational freedom so that it could conduct its own experiments.

Dr. Collins programmed a custom feminine personality derived from history's famed intellectuals such as Marie Skłodowska Curie, Immanuel Kant, and Albert Einstein, added a French-accented voice (based on a woman Collins had a relationship with while studying in Paris in the 2040's), and christened his creation "Curie", an acronym based on the robot's original designation. As Curie began taking on greater responsibilities, Dr. Collins insisted that the other scientists treat her as they would a human, and even set aside a terminal for her personal use, an act of kindness that initially bewildered Curie, but 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 remaining unexpired dose of the cure and decided to travel with the Survivor in order to seek out new research opportunities in the Commonwealth. Eventually, she realized that her Mister Handy body lacked the inspirational spark that all great scientists had and requested to be transferred into a new 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 are terminated.
 * Emergent Behavior: Curie wants a human body to be 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 Memory Den to transfer her memory into one of the synth bodies (quest Emergent Behavior).
 * Upon becoming idolized by Curie, she will tell about a breakthrough she has made with mutfruit, and give the Combat Medic perk, which heals the Sole Survivor for 100 Hit Points once a day when falling below 10% health.
 * 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 loved that".

Other interactions

 * Curie will occasionally give the player character stimpaks.
 * Like most other companions, she will also make comments regarding places visited or about the Commonwealth in general.
 * Curie will request to leave if she enters Vault 81, but her reputation will not change.
 * Curie is a potential candidate for romance, an option that unlocks after reaching the highest level of affinity.

Notable quotes

 * (After killing an enemy) Reference to the third book of the Hyperion series by Dan Simons, Endymion.
 * (After killing an enemy) Reference to the third book of the Hyperion series by Dan Simons, Endymion.
 * (After killing an enemy) Reference to the third book of the Hyperion series by Dan Simons, Endymion.
 * (After killing an enemy) Reference to the third book of the Hyperion series by Dan Simons, Endymion.
 * (After killing an enemy) Reference to the third book of the Hyperion series by Dan Simons, Endymion.
 * (After killing an enemy) Reference to the third book of the Hyperion series by Dan Simons, Endymion.

Appearances
Curie appears only in Fallout 4.

Behind the scenes
Curie's name is a reference to Marie Skłodowska Curie, the physicist and chemist that discovered radioactivity, as well as the first person and only woman in history to earn 2 Nobel prizes in two different categories.

Bugs

 * When inside Vault 81 it is possible for Curie to go up to a wall and use the saw blade as a blowtorch mimicking the vault dwellers repairing the vault.
 * Sometimes Curie will unequip any weapon she had and fight with her bare fists. When this happens she may loot bodies for weapons.
 * During the Emergent Behavior quest if the player character becomes addicted to any chems or alcohol while Curie's future body is still unoccupied by her consciousness the body will speak her lines about addiction in her voice as if she was inside of it.
 * Curie retains some of the robotic limitations of her previous body even as a synth. After having taken sufficient damage to be disabled in combat the player character is unable to administer a stimpak as with their other humanoid companions.
 * In settlement mode, Curie can be "assigned" to a vendor station, but will not actually take the job. Later, this will cause her dialog to get the player character's attention to enter shop mode.
 * Upon dismissal, Curie may return to her original position upon becoming a companion outside the medical chamber in Vault 81, regardless of which settlement she is directed to. Even if not dismissed Curie can dissapear never to be seen again.
 * A romanced Curie will not be upset by the Sole Survivor flirting with Preston Garvey in front of her.
 * When Curie comes across a stray suit of power armor that belongs to nobody, she might get into it.
 * Sometimes, if she is transferred into synth body, she will have a smoking animation while idle with no weapon equipped. No work-around has been identified yet. The animation maybe normal and may normally stop after she equips the weapon, but is still out of Curie character, though technically synths can smoke.
 * When Curie does pick up smoking, her attitude about chem addiction changes from dislike to indifferent.
 * Another animation that shouldn't be available for Curie regarding her character is "praying" when entering "All-religions church" in Diamond-City.
 * Curie will dislike the player character for entering Covenant for the first time, regardless of whatever the player character says during the SAFE test.
 * Curie may repeat her dialogue "The boat! It is..." And so on repeatedly when near the USS Constitution.
 * Curie becomes hostile if sending her to Sanctuary.
 * Some Miss Nannys robots have Curie voice despite her creator claimed (in his notes) it to be unique and made after the girl he liked.
 * If the player character decides to revisit Vault 81 with Curie later on, she comments that she'd rather go somewhere else, yet might also say she thinks it's a nice place and wants to stay here.

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