Sergeant Bitter-Root

Sergeant  is an NCR soldier stationed in the Mojave Wasteland in 2281.

Background
He is a sniper part of the 1st Recon at Camp McCarran. He is very unfriendly and does not like to talk. His bitterness however comes from his tragic past which he tells to the player.

As a child his parents were members of the Great Khans living in Bitter Springs. His father was a sadistic murderer with an alcohol problem who used to take Bitter Root out shooting NCR (military personnel and civilians alike) since the age of 3 and physically abused him. His mother was an insipid person whose only talent seemed to be, quoting his father, "a smokin' piece of ass". He loathed his parents and the upbringing he received.

He was "liberated" from this environment during the Bitter Springs Massacre by the NCR troops and general who took him in as his son - which is why he sometimes refers to him as his father. He claims he does not remember anything about the massacre but when pressed admits that after the battle he was covered in blood who wasn't spilled by the NCR, implying he burst out in a fit of aggression against the Khans himself (likely the only reason he was not killed by NCR along with the other children at Bitter Springs).

His name is part of an old Khan ritual; at the age of adulthood all Khan children are severely beaten in a rite of passage in which they choose they own new name. Although too young to go through the ritual himself, he chose the name Bitter-Root and feels the Khans "owe" him his name. His choice is a double entendre, referring both to his bitter roots i.e. his parents as well as to the traumatic event that he considered his rite of passage - the Bitter Springs Massacre.

Appearances
Sergeant appears in Fallout: New Vegas.