Courier

The Courier is the player character in Fallout: New Vegas.

Background
One of six couriers hired by the Mojave Express to deliver strange packages to the New Vegas Strip, the Courier was carrying the parcel containing The Platinum Chip from Primm. However, the courier was intercepted by Benny, who then shot the Courier in the head twice and left them for dead; buried alive in a shallow grave in the Goodsprings Cemetery. The Courier was dug out by Victor, a friendly Securitron under Mr. House's control. The player was then nursed back to health by Doc Mitchell, the resident doctor of Goodsprings.

Not much is known about the Courier's background, apart from they have some sort of a relationship with Ulysses, the original "Courier Six". For reasons unknown, Ulysses pulled out of the delivery job when he learned that the Courier's name was next on the list, seemingly convinced that the job would kill the Courier - and his assumption was almost right. Notably, Ulysses expressed shock when he learned that the Courier was still alive, implying he may have tried to kill the Courier prior to the events of Fallout: New Vegas.

When Ulysses rescued Christine Royce from the Big Empty, he encouraged her to continue her pursuit of Elijah, stating that he knew what it was like to search for someone who had such an impact on his past life.

In Lonesome Road, it is revealed that the Courier (intentionally or not) caused the storms and earthquakes in the Divide, after delivering a package containing a mysterious device, which set off many of the nuclear warheads, still contained in their missile silos.

Other background information
The player can make several suggestions about his or her past through in-game dialogue options. Since these are, as the name suggests, optional, it can be assumed that these are down to player choice and as such, do not form part of the player's background until they have been selected.

Below is a non-exhaustive list of elements of the character's past which can be explicitly expressed by players during gameplay:
 * During a conversation with Bruce Isaac in Novac, the Courier can state that he/she has been to New Reno before.
 * If the Courier is male and has the Lady Killer perk, he can jokingly suggest during a conversation with the Lonesome Drifter that he impregnated a woman in Montana in 2264, seventeen years before the game takes place.
 * It can be suggested during dialogue with Veronica Santangelo that the Courier does not know where he/she was born.
 * The Courier can tell Cass that he/she does not know what a fish is. Or, on the contrary: an intelligent Courier may test her knowledge about fish, clearly aware of their nature although they are practically non-existent in California or the Mojave Wasteland and may only be found in Lake Mead or Zion Canyon.
 * The Courier appears to be immune to the otherwise contagious spores found in Vault 22.
 * Before setting off to New Canaan, the Courier can tell Jed Masterson that he/she has not been to Utah in some time, suggesting that they have been there before.
 * Dialogue choices throughout Honest Hearts heavily imply that the Courier has never heard of Christianity.
 * One of the epilogues of Old World Blues states that the Courier knows very little about communism or high schools, though this is an infrerence from the X-13 computer system.
 * According to Ulysses the Courier has been to Circle Junction, New Reno, Vault City, and is talked about in Fort Abandon, and on Brahmin drives on the "Big Circle".
 * When the ED-E from the Divide plays the log from when a child found it, asking it where that occurred will have ED-E respond with Illinois. The Courier knows about Illinois, but doesn't know about Chicago, responding with "What's a Chicago?"

Appearances
The Courier appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

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