Mod:Fallout: The Frontier/Wrench

Wrench and Bolt are pairs of mercenaries you can hire in Portland and are possible companions. Once known as Betsy, Wrench is an ex-member of the Enclave who can repair your equipment on the fly. She has a Robo-dog Bolt. If you hire Wrench you are also hiring her dog Bolt. She can be found at the Carter Merc company HQ in the town of Promise.

Background
She was part of the Enclave and had a strict and tedious life full of exercise. Although she doesn't think mutants should be purged, she thinks an American should be in charge. She still thinks as many Enclave members do, finding pitiful that the wastelanders have had 200 years to build a stable government but all she sees are ruins and factions fighting.

Along with her partner Marcus, she was sent by the Enclave to save Sandlot in an attempt to transform it into a sort of Enclave-run embassy where they could communicate with the Scavs. Sandlot was divided into groups, one group in favor of opening itself to the public, while another group vouched for isolationism. She found both groups equally stupid and wanted to keep them in check as part of her mission. She tried to save them by keeping the peace and would do things like find missing people, arrange marriages, stopped duels, and so forth. However, ultimately she felt her efforts were pointless since they all died in the end because they turned against each other after one of the group members killed a member of the other group. Sandlot proceeded to burn. She took the blame for everything that happened in Sandlot as she did not want Marcus to get exiled as well.

She tried to still be a hero in the wasteland for months after, but ultimately kept running into Sandlot-like situations where her efforts in helping people became futile. A lot of the time, situations would only get worse after her input, turning her jaded. Having failed her mission and being viewed as a useless failure of a negotiator, she was fired from the Enclave and lost her home, family and Marcus, only having an Enclave uniform left. She has a Pip-Boy on her, but the Enclave uses it to track her and ensure she doesn't leave Portland, so she is always under their watch. She does not like it, but has gotten used to it.

Personality
Unlike Jolene Tate and America, the other female companions in The Frontier, it gradually becomes clear that Wrench is pretty brash, blunt, cynical and jaded about life, as well as helping other people. She becomes annoyed when the Courier keeps trying to get themselves involved in missions, believing they should stop getting themselves mixed in with other people's problems. She has been a mercenary for about a decade.

She is the daughter of Scavs. Wrench is good at repairing, earning her nickname. According to Kas, Wrench is an "asshole" towards ghouls. However, Wrench claims she is a misanthrope in general.

She does not like the Crusaders, finding them jerks who look down on anyone who doesn't believe in their holy book, and mentions they once tried to kill her due to her uniform.

Once she is done with Portland, she is thinking about heading north to the Canadian region in the future, wanting to try their pancakes.

Quests

 * Dear Hearts and Gentle People: This is Wrench's companion quest, although it can only be done with progression in the NCR or Legion campaign.

Other interactions

 * She wants 4000 caps to be hired if the Courier is part of Legion, but 2000 otherwise. However, this can be skipped entirely with 60 barter.
 * The Courier can lie and claim they are not part of Legion to save 2000 caps. She threatens to rip the Courier's genitals apart using Bolt if she finds out they are lying. It is unknown if lying here actually has any consequences later, but it does not seem to as she makes no comments around Ostia.
 * There is special dialogue if America is with the Courier before Wrench is recruited; America thinks Wrench should be punished.
 * If the Courier keeps doing missions, Wrench can pull them aside and talk to them about why their efforts in helping people are futile.
 * If the Courier keeps doing Crusaders missions, Wrench will confront the Courier about how she can't believe they are helping "Bible thumpers sterilize the wasteland" and will leave. None of the dialogue options will make her reconsider.

Notable quotes

 * "I'm tired. Tired of always burying the people I tried to help. Tired of seeing people throw away what I give them. TIred of just... fuck."
 * "I'm trying to be the selfish bitch who only cares about herself and her dog. I'm trying not to care, but I do. I care about people, about Portland, about what's right and all that garbage. I care about you, about what you've done for people!"
 * "No matter what I do to push this part of me down, to ignore the guilt, it just keeps coming back up."

Behind the scenes

 * She is currently unvoiced in the latest build on Nexus. She was originally voiced by Erin Nicole Lundquist.
 * Wrench was written by NazoTheDark.