When Fallout: New Vegas’ main story is over, players get an epilogue of each companion, and it reveals what becomes of them after the story and offscreen. Two decisions play a large component in what happens to these characters. The first is how the player handles their personal quest and the second is what faction the player sides with to rule New Vegas. Of course, any companion can die in-game and that will be mentioned in the epilogue. Often times though, those are not even the worst endings these companions can have.
Craig Boone And Arcade Gannon
Boone is one of the most popular companions of Fallout: New Vegas, particularly for his tragic backstory with killing his own wife and unborn child, so they would not be slaves to the Legion. His quest, One For My Baby, is one of the most unforgettable in the game. However, it is his other quest that greatly determines his fate, the quest called I Forgot to Remember to Forget. Completing that quest, players can either make Boone vengeful or make amends with his past.
What most fans agree to be the worst end to Boone is him being crucified by the Legion if he is both vengeful and the player sides with the Legion. The epilogue describes him going on a suicide mission to kill as many Legionaries as possible before being caught and put up for crucifixion.
Arcade Gannon is part of the Followers of the Apocalypse and has some medical knowledge. There are more possible endings for him, as there is an option to sell him into slavery as Caesar’s personal doctor in the Legion. If this is done and the player sides with the Legion, the epilogue says that he eventually ends his own life after years of slavery by using a scalpel to disembowel himself. Even Caesar himself was incredibly disturbed by this, as he actually grew to like Arcade as an intellectual to talk to.
Lily Bowen And Raul Tejada
Lily is a nightkin super mutant that is first-generation, originally being a grandmother in Vault 17 until the vault was raided, and she was dipped into a vat of FEV. Later, she developed schizophrenia with a voice named “Leo” in her head. There are only four possible endings for her, and they are not dependent on the politics of New Vegas but rather her unmarked quest in which the player can decide how much medication she should take. The most tragic ending is if the Courier tells Lily to completely stop taking her medication. This makes her totally lose her identity and become what the epilogue calls “little more than a ravening beast.”
Raul is a ghoul mechanic that the Courier can save from imprisonment at Black Mountain. Like Lily, he has only four possible endings. All of his endings are not very tragic, ranging from just leaving the Mojave and taking up a new name to retiring from his gun-slinging life. The closest bad ending outside of dying in-game is him is leaving the Mojave, as he does so because he is not at peace with himself.
Rose of Sharon Cassidy And Veronica Santangelo
Cassidy is the owner of Cassidy Caravans and has many possible endings, and they are pretty merciful in comparison to some other companions. Her freedom, life, and sanity remain intact no matter what decisions the Courier makes (unless, of course, if she dies in-game). Her best endings are with the NCR, and she seems the least happy about Caesar’s Legion, describing the Dam as “nothing more than a gravestone for the Mojave.”
Veronica is a Brotherhood of Steel scribe with eight different endings depending on her personal quest, either the Courier destroys the Brotherhood bunker or not, and which faction they side with. Veronica can be encouraged to either stay with the Brotherhood of Steel or to join up with the Followers of the Apocalypse. Her most tragic endings occur if the Courier destroys the Brotherhood bunker. Veronica does not perish with her old family, but endings describe the event to be devastating for her and a source of great loss.
ED-E And Rex
ED-E has seven different endings, depending on the quest ED-E My Love, either it gets repaired, whether it is an active companion in the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, and which faction got to use its information. If never repaired, ED-E is forgotten in a shop until repaired by another courier and if its personal quest is not completed while it is repaired, the robot vanishes in Navarro.
Rex is another non-humanoid companion, a cyber dog that can be given to the Courier by the King in Freeside. His epilogues depend purely on whether his personal quest is completed and which dog he gets an implant from. The saddest ending for the cyber dog is if the quest is never completed. The game describes that one quiet morning, the dog simply shuts down forever and dies.
Fallout: New Vegas is available on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
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