Nick Valentine

Nick Valentine is a synth character and potential companion appearing in Fallout 4.

Background
An unusual robotic detective, Nick Valentine operates a small agency inside of Diamond City. Complementing his detective skills, Nick is also experienced at hacking computers and both ranged and melee combat. Valentine believes himself to be a prototype between first generation Synths and the latest generation of Synths, explaining why he is not hostile towards humans. He is generally well respected throughout Diamond City.

Despite Diamond City's hate towards the institute and synths, Nick gained their respect by saving the former mayor of Diamond City's daughter, when she ran away with a caravan trader. The caravan trader and his companions were actually kidnappers that took the mayor's daughter hostage. Nick stumbled upon the kidnappers when he was wandering in the Commonwealth wasteland and scared them away by pretending he had a bomb inside of him and started to beep. When the daughter told Nick what happened he returned her to the mayor who gave him a house in Diamond City as a reward despite the locals' objections. Nick started to gain their respect as Diamond City's handyman. His detective skills were noticed when he helped to find a wife who ran away with her lover. People stopped asking Nick to fix things and he became Diamond City's detective.

Range of interests

 * Valentine approves if the player character successfully hacks a terminal or picks a lock.
 * Valentine disapproves if the player character says that he happily would have blown Kellogg's head off again if he had the chance.
 * Valentine disapproves if the player character uses threatening dialog with NPCs.
 * Valentine disapproves of the player character joining Brotherhood of Steel.
 * Valentine disapproves of the player character stealing items that belong to someone else.
 * Valentine approves of siding against the synth hating scientists in the Covenant quest.

Other interactions

 * Valentine can be used to hack terminals, except the highest tier. To do so only guide him to the nearest terminal. This will take some time, depending on the difficulty.
 * Valentine can not be romanced.
 * Valentine will not hack terminals that strictly belong to someone else.

Appearances
Nick Valentine appears only in Fallout 4.

Behind the scenes

 * Nick Valentine is similar in design to Pero, from the 2001 anime film, Metropolis.

Bugs
Nick may vanish sometimes to an unknown location. Check Piper's office in Diamond City. If your efforts to find Nick fail, you can open the console and type "player.moveto 00002f25" to instantly teleport to Nick's location; this may result in an error being displayed.

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