Bryan Wilks

 is an eight-year old boy living in Grayditch in 2277. He gives the player the quest, Those!.

Background
Bryan spent his childhood living in Grayditch with his single-parent father. Bryan often played with the teenage son of William Brandice. Together, the two boys explored all of Grayditch and learned the best places to hide from giant ants. Bryan also pestered Doctor Lesko with questions.

Quests

 * Those!: Bryan runs up to the player and initiates dialogue the first time the player approaches the vicinity of Grayditch. Bryan tasks the player with helping to save his father from an attack of fire ants. He spends much of the quest hiding in a closed Pulowski Preservation Shelter next to the diner near his home, waiting for the player to find Doctor Lesko. When Bryan comes to give you the quest, there is a speech challenge where he will either give you the key to his father's emergency supplies or lie to you about it. Having the Child at Heart perk ensures he gives you the key. Without the key, you will have to pick the Very Hard lock on the dumpster, and it contains a .32 Pistol, Laser Pistol or Scoped .44 Magnum and numerous Frag Grenades.

Effects of player actions

 * At the end of the quest, Bryan is left alone and orphaned and goes to live in his former home. The player has an option to find his Aunt Vera Weatherly in Rivet City and ask her to take him in, to find Bryan a home in Little Lamplight, to sell him to Eulogy Jones, or to leave him living alone in Grayditch. Later in the game, the player can check up on him. If he is with Vera in Rivet City, he will be very happy and grateful to the player for getting him there. If he is still in Grayditch, he will be lonely and miserable, but at least safe. If the player sells him to Eulogy, he disappears from the game permanantly.

Appearances
Bryan only appears in Fallout 3.

Behind the scenes

 * While in the shelter, Bryan will say "Now I know what a TV dinner feels like". This is a reference to Die Hard, where John McClane is crawling through a narrow ventilation shaft.

Bugs

 * If you Vera Weatherly dies after Bryan moves in with her, Bryan may appear inside of the Enclave garrison outside of the Jefferson Memorial during Take it Back! Strangely, Enclave soldiers will be friendly to Bryan while Brotherhood troops are hostile and will open fire on Bryan.
 * Bryan's spawning in certain locations may also trigger high level enemies (Giant Radscorpions, etc) to spawn with him. These enemies will instantly become hostile to Bryan, and will chase him relentlessly across the Wasteland. This may make Bryan impossible to locate, and he will not attempt to find you due to his fleeing status. Additionally, even if you find Bryan, since Bryan cannot be killed, and cannot be spoken to while fleeing, the only way to to be receive the quest Those! is to kill whatever is chasing Bryan. However, a character of a low level who may not be able to defeat a high-level enemy may be better off letting it chase him into the Wasteland. Eventually, the enemy in question may be unloaded by the game, or killed by something else, allowing Bryan to resume his search for you.
 * Bryan may spawn in an unreachable location, making it impossible to finish the quest. Try reloading or waiting out the respawn time, or see Recovering missing NPC in Fallout 3.
 * If you attack Bryan when he is living in Rivet City, he will become hostile to you and all of Rivet will relentlessly attack him
 * Bryan Wilks can sometimes be found on the bed of the river, because of this, no conversation can be started with him. A fix, although a long way of doing it, is to dive under the water and push him out. It is recommended that you start the quest so that you only have to meet him at the end of the quest. This way he will be marked exactly on the river.
 * Bryan addresses female characters as "Mr".