Childkiller

Childkiller is a reputation title in Fallout and Fallout 2.

Obtaining
As the title suggests, this reputation is earned by killing children. Although the reputation image appears in the character screen after killing one character classified as a child, in order for the effects to be registered by the game you need to kill three (Fallout) or two children (Fallout 2). For the purposes of tracking childkills, only the killing blow is taken into account. If you shoot a child, but a party member or another non-player character dispatches them, you are not affected.

It's possible to be branded a Childkiller after killing just one child in Fallout 2. Redundant scripts tally the kill once; characters affected by this are Jonny, Slags' children, and Curtis. Furthermore, some non-obvious characters are considered children by the game: Myron is one example.

Effects

 * -10 reaction in dialogue
 * Bounty hunters may be encountered on the world map. They are level-dependent, starting from leather jacket and hunting rifles and ending in power armor and minigun.

Behind the scenes

 * A new Vault Boy image for the Childkiller title was created for Fallout 2 but was never used.