Grandma Sparkle

 is a 72-year old trader and cook at Wilhelm's Wharf in 2277.

Background
Sparkle was born 2205.

Related quests
Wilhelm's Wharf becomes the meeting place for Split Jack's gang of Bandits. Split Jack and his bandits are initially non-hostile towards Grandma Sparkle, and Split Jack's note comments that Sparkle makes good stew and doesn't ask questions. However, the bandits may turn hostile towards her and kill her if the player uses speech to convince Split Jack to leave and stop attacking the water caravans.

Other interactions
She is a merchant with a very limited inventory of items and limited caps. Most of her inventory consists of food items such as Mirelurk Meat or Mole Rat Meat.

She often comments that "her boys are out hunting 'lurks."

Effects of player actions
If you start a fight with Split Jack and his bandits, he'll usually execute Grandma Sparkle.

Appearances
Grandma Sparkle only appears in Fallout 3.

Behind the scenes
She occasionally says, "Y'all come back now, y'hear?". Every episode of The Beverly Hillbillies ended with this very phrase.

Bugs

 * Grandma Sparkle comments that some people came around asking her about "some do-gooder from one of them vaults". This is supposed to indicate that a karmically good player is being hunted by Talon Company hitmen. An alternate dialog about someone looking for "some troublemaker from one of them vaults" is supposed to be said for karmically evil characters. However, a setting in the conditionals for these dialog choices is incorrectly set, and she will only say the "do-gooder" version.
 * If Grandma Sparkle is killed, and you resurrect her after saving, exiting, and loading the game, when you/if you resurrect her with the console, she may spawn with the glitched kid`s baseballcap and glasses, which cannot be taken from her inventory and will stay there unless killed and resurrected again with the console.