Lily (Fallout: New Vegas)

Lily Bowen is a nightkin living in Jacobstown. She is a possible companion

Background
Lily lived in Vault 75, marrying and living with her grandchildren, Becky and Jimmy. The Master took over her vault when she was 75 years old, transforming her into a Nightkin and putting her to work "in an army that was going to conquer California."

In the Master's army, Tabitha was her squad leader. She served as an assassin and a spy. Lily calls the Master "a nasty man" and states that after his cathedral blew up, she decided to go back home. She uses a sword from a blade of a vertibird that crashed near Klamath.

Jacobstown
She ended up living in a settlement named Jacobstown, led and watched over by super mutant Marcus, where she tends to bighorners. Lily will accompany the Courier to seek out and kill night stalkers that have killed her bighorners.

While living at Jacobstown, she began receiving help from Doctor Henry for her schizophrenia, brought on by excessive Stealth Boy usage and manifesting itself as a voice named "Leo," with antipsychotic drugs. The side effects of the drugs are memory loss, which she wants to avoid, as memories of her grandchildren are important to her. She has a holotape of her grandchildren, that helps her remember them.

Lily speaks to a second personality named Leo, who she refers to as a "very bad man" and instructs her to take certain actions in battle. She is cooperative in Doc Henry's attempts to cure the Nightkin, despite the risks.

Other interactions

 * She has unique idle dialogue for locations around the Mojave:


 * Non-player characters make comments around Lily, such as:

Additional weapons
Additionally, Lily has a third companion weapon, a power fist variant called Lily's gauntlet. This weapon is not initially in Lily's inventory but may be given to her as part of a script that ensures all companions retain their special weapons.

Lily is limited in the weapons she can use, and can only equip weapons from the following list. Lily's default assault carbine's high DPS affects which weapons she will equip. There are only two holdout weapons which Lily is capable of using: frag grenades and plasma grenades.

Appearances
Lily Bowen appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes

 * Lily Bowen was written by Travis Stout.
 * She was featured in the Meet the Companions Playstation Blog, written by Jason Bergman. The transcript appears below.

Bugs

 * Lily's vertibird sword and assault carbine may occasionally clip into one another, causing whichever one she's using to have the other hanging from it. The sword may also be replaced entirely by the gun. She will not shoot with the gun, however; she will continue to use it as a melee weapon. Opening her companion wheel and forcing her to switch between melee and ranged attacks a couple times will fix this glitch.
 * Sometimes when going into stealth mode, Lily will say her normal line, "Oh, don't you worry about me dearie, your grandma knows how to stay quiet," but will repeat it every 20–30 seconds.
 * After killing the mercenaries that are at Jacobstown she may randomly attack the player and then fall unconscious.
 * Sometimes, when Lily is equipped with Oh, Baby! she will randomly lose the weapon. It will no longer be in her hands or in her inventory, where it would normally go if it were to break from use.
 * If Lily is asked to use ranged weapons, she may not take out her assault carbine, and instead stay with her vertibird sword, or bumper sword if it is in her inventory. Even if switched back to melee, she will still stand near the Courier, trying to use a melee weapon as a ranged weapon. This can be fixed by switching her back to ranged, then back to melee again; however, there is not a fix to make her use her assault carbine, because the next time you switch her to ranged, the bug occurs again.
 * If the player dismisses Lily to the Lucky 38 penthouse, she will not always make it there, but can instead be found in the casino section, able to be recruited again and dismissed to the penthouse without issues.
 * When the player character is sneaking, Lily may not enter sneak mode along with the player, and instead will walk along as if the player was not sneaking.
 * If the player dismisses Lily while they are sneaking, Lily will remain in stealth mode until recruited again.
 * Lily may disappear on the way to Jacobstown during Guess Who I Saw Today, if she is sent to the Lucky 38 and then asked to take Doctor Henry's test for the Stealth Boy Mark II without re-hiring her. However, it will still be possible to complete the mission regardless of whether or not she's actually there, though she may not be hireable again unless somehow found.
 * To fix this, either access the dismissal terminal and dismiss all companions, or reload a previous save. The former should bring Lily back to the Lucky 38's presidential suite.