Child

Children are the young inhabitants of the wastes. They are killable in the first two games (if they are killed you get the ChildKiller Reputation). There are also children in Fallout 3, e.g. the residents of Little Lamplight, but they are invincible. Bethesda faced a similar problem when making The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, as they considered adding children to make the game more realistic, but this was controversial -- if the children could be killed, Bethesda could be accused of making a child murder simulation. Bethesda's response was to simply make the characters invincible. This once again raised issues because the tactic would undermine the childrens whole point of being there, which was making the game more realistic. Eventually Bethesda scrapped the idea for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, but in Fallout 3 they have gone the other way, allowing children for realism, but making them invincible (with the exceptions of Harden Simms and Maggie in the explosion of Megaton, and Sticky).