Sunflower Summers

Sunflower Summers was a pre-War protester who was present in the area that later became known as the Divide.

Background
She and the others with her were protesting against the United States military's decision to place nuclear weapons in the area. She had a personal meeting with local base commanders, possibly including General Martin Retslaf from the Hopeville silo. Nevertheless, her skeleton can be found in the Cave of the Abaddon, next to her diary (in a suitcase) and Seymour. She is either highly gullible or foolishly optimistic, believing that Retslaf's ominously-worded promise that the military was preparing "something special" for them was going to be a full nuclear disarmament.

Appearances
Sunflower Summers is only mentioned in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Lonesome Road.

Behind the scenes
Sunflower is most likely based on the real-life young girl Samantha Smith, who in 1982 wrote to Yuri Andropov, who was then the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. At this time the US was in the middle of the Cold War, and rumors of aggression with nuclear arms abounded. When Smith was 10 years old, she wrote the following letter to Andropov:

Unlike with Sunflower, Samantha's letter was well-received, and she became a media darling when she was invited to visit Moscow with her family.

Smith was tragically killed in 1985, at the age of 13, when the plane Smith and her father were flying in crashed in Maine.