Tabitha (Fallout: New Vegas)

Tabitha, also referred to as Best Friend Tabitha, is the Nightkin leader of the State of Utobitha and radio host for Black Mountain Radio $$

Background
Created by the Master along with the other Nightkin, Tabitha served the Master under the Unity. In her tenure, she led a squad of Super Mutants which included Lily Bowen, who worked as a spy and an assassin in her squad. Lily states that Tabitha "wasn't very nice at all," but that she excelled at "chopping." Following the death of the Master and the destruction The Cathedral, many remnants of his army migrated north and east, including Tabitha. Tabitha led a squad of Nightkin to rescue Mean Sonofabitch, a first-generation super mutant, at The Hub.

Black Mountain
Tabitha had been traveling east with a squad of Nightkin and her Mr. Handy, Rhonda, who entered a state of disrepair exactly "6 years, 52 days, 40 minutes, and 13 seconds" ago. On their way eastward, they stumbled across Black Mountain, a peaceful community of Super Mutants, Ghouls and Humans led by Marcus, inviting them to join. After arriving, Marcus told Tabitha to keep a journal to "get [her] mind off of Rhonda." She also asked for other Super Mutants to aid in repairing Rhonda, but were unable to help.

She discovered that Black Mountain was originally a radio station, and sought to repair its broadcasting capabilities in order to transmit music across the wasteland "like Rhonda and [her] used to listen to." After the radio station was repaired, Tabitha formed a "Rhonda" identity, speaking as if Rhonda was already repaired. Within a week of staying at Black Mountain, Tabitha convinced most of the second-generation mutants, who were "easy to influence," that she was a prophet that only she could foresee threats with her "magic eyes" and that she should be broadcasting her "truth" instead of Marcus, which he was against.

Marcus, who foresaw "what was coming," smashed the radio to prevent further broadcasts, and left with Neil and a small group of mostly first-generation mutants, ghouls and humans, with most of the second-generation Mutants remaining. Tabitha had plans to start a radio show with her Rhonda identity in order to spread her message. Raul Tejada, who had been listening to her broadcasts, noticed that the signal had stopped transmitting and traveled to Black Mountain to offer his services.

After repairing the radio, Tabitha decided that Raul was "useful enough" to keep around and hoped that he could fix the physical Rhonda, before her Rhonda identity asked "why she would need fixing." In the following weeks, Tabitha progressively transformed Black Mountain into a "fortress against any and all outsiders," which she has been in control of for almost two years. She also changed Black Mountain's name into the "State of Utobitha" and ordered all humans to be killed on sight.

Black Mountain Radio
On Black Mountain Radio, Tabitha and her Rhonda identity promote the State of Utobitha, offering acceptance only to Super Mutants, with the exception of "former human servants of the Master" for Centaur feeding duties. Her Rhonda identity acts as an interviewer, while Tabitha acts as an interviewee.

The two will discuss various topics related to Super Mutants, such as: the creation of first-generation Mutants who she says are "almost as smart as Nightkin," the intelligence of second-generation Mutants who she calls "dumb-dumbs," the creation of the Nightkin by the Master who were "stronger, faster, smarter, more dangerous," reminiscing about the Master to remind other mutants of a time where they "didn't have to think for [themselves]," and talking about how "cute" Centaurs are and explaining why they eat humans.

Raul is brought into the broadcasts, where he is presented with the thread of being "executed at any time." They will mention the conflict between the New California Republic and Caesar's Legion, who she calls "two-head-bear people" and "battle cattle" respectively. They also discuss how Super Mutants in Utobitha are taught to tolerate and accept humans, as well as warning humans to stay away from Utobitha.

Appearances
Tabitha appears $$

Behind the scenes

 * According to Joshua Sawyer, both Tabitha and Lily Bowen used to be human women.
 * According to Mikey Dowling, before recording dialogue for Tabitha and Rhonda, voice actor Fred Tatasciore silently read through the entire script once before declaring that he was ready. He then read the script from top to bottom, "effortlessly" flowing in and out of both characters, which Dowling considers "one of the most incredible things to see."

Bugs
If the Courier follows the duo, they may run into an invisible Nightkin that is hostile to the Courier, causing both Rhonda and Tabitha to become hostile as well.