Doctor Borous

Doctor Borous is a scientist living in Big MT

Background
Before the Great War, Borous was bullied in American High by a classmate named Richie Marcus. He also had an unrequited crush on another student, Betsy Bright, who had turned him down for Richie and picked on him as well. His only friend was his dog, Gabe.

Later in his life, he became a part of Big MT's staff as head of the X-8 cyberdog project and began experimenting on his own dog Gabe, feeding him various drugs such as Psycho. Sometime before the Great War, Gabe was eventually transformed into a prototype model of the cyberdog. However, due to errors in programming, he was forcibly sealed in an unfinished section of X-8's test areas, as a "...precaution."

After the Great War, together with the rest of the Big MT "Think Tank" executives, the doctor became a think tank to continue his work at Big MT. Doctor Borous is the "Head of Animalogy, Beastology, and DNA-Scrambling technology" and has created both the night stalkers and cazadores. He is responsible for creating the radar fence around the crater.

Effects of player's actions

 * If the player character has shown Borous Gabe's bowl before completing Old World Blues, and the player character does not have a 100 in Science or 85 in Medicine to convince Dr. Klein, Borous will side with the player character in convincing Klein to back down.
 * After A Brain's Best Friend has been completed, once a day, the player character can ask Borous what animals he is experimented on today and he will give the player character some of their parts:
 * Three cazador poison glands and nightstalker blood jars if Dr. Borous was caused to feel guilty over the treatment of Gabe.
 * Three cazador eggs instead, if A Brain's Best Friend has been completed with passing the Speech 45 or Animal Friend check.

Appearances
Borous appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.

Behind the scenes
Chris Avellone stated that according to Brian Menze, the Think Tank members are depicted (left to right) as Dala, O, Borous, Klein, 8, and Mobius on the Old World Blues intro slide.