Cait

Cait (born 2261) is cage fighter at the Combat Zone and a potential companion of the Sole Survivor in 2287.

Background
To say that Cait's life was unpleasant would be understatement. She was born into an abusive family, her parents routinely beating and yelling at her. She tried to run away twice, the first time she did it, they locked her in a shed outside of the house they lived in. The second time, they broke one of her legs. Cait eventually became convinced she was a mistake, due to the constant abused, but deluded herself into thinking that they loved her... Enough not to kick her out of the house. The illusion was shattered once her eighteenth birthday came: They slapped a shock collar around her neck and sold her into slavery, all without a hint of regret.

For the next five years, Cait was used as an entertainment slave, for a variety of purposes she refuses to detail. While it wrecked her emotionally and warped her personality, Cait carefully cultivated an anger inside her and eventually learned some tricks of their trade. Stealing caps from sleeping slavers, she eventually managed to buy herself out. With 23 years worth of pent-up fury, she tracked down her parents and slaughtered them in bloody vengence.

After everything was said and done, Cait took to alcohol and chems to help forget her past. She joined the Combat Zone as a gladiator and fought to provide her with the funds to buy everything she needed to forget. The point of the fighting wasn't just to provide her with funds, though. She hated everyone, herself the most, and the violence - and pain, and wounds, and the Psycho - were ways to punish herself and find death. Unfortunately, Cait proved too tough to beat, even when raiders took the joint over and it got decidedly more brutal. Those who didn't keep their head on a swivel were liable to be sucker punched and at minimum robbed. Cait herself learned that short of buying friends, she's a victim waiting to be preyed upon. The teacher was a raider named Stratton, who dumped her to be beaten up by raiders the moment she stopped having sex with him. By the time the Sole Survivor comes, Cait has been a cage fighter for three years, two of them under raider management - all with a hundred victory to her name.

She puts up a deceptively convincing tough Irish gal act, but beneath the exterior lurks a broken woman, with a lifetime of misery behind her. Yet despite her life being a seemingly unceasing march of adversity, disappoitnment, and horror (coupled with Psycho reliance and the accompanying progressive health damage ) Cait refuses to put a shotgun slug through the roof of her mouth. Despite looking at the shotgun barrels more than once, she has yet to pull the trigger. Perhaps she is praying to find a single decent scrap of humanity in her life. And, perhaps the Sole Survivor will be that scrap.

Quests

 * Benign Intervention: After coming to trust the Sole Survivor, Cait will ask them to take her to Vault 95 to cure her addiction to Psycho.

Effects of player actions

 * Earning Cait's loyalty is a fickle thing, due to the fact that she has a major personality shift after her personal quest.
 * Before Cait's personal quest, taking and becoming addicted to chems and drinking alcohol raises her affinity while donating items lowers it. After her personal quest, alcohol has no affect on her affinity, donating items now raises it, taking and becoming addicted to chems lowers it and, as such, taking Addictol raises it.

Other interactions

 * Drug Runner Revenge
 * When traversing the bars of the Commonwealth, she will converse with them all.

Appearances
Cait appears only in Fallout 4.