Character name: Domacles, or Dom for short
Character Gender: Male
Prime Motivator: Well? He was already a juvenile delinquent BEFORE the war. Post-apocalyptic world with virtually no rules? Yeah, the pitbull's off the leash, and he's got a bone to pick.

Narrative/backstory:
Maybe it was because his mother misspelled his name--it should be spelled Damocles. He was a troublesome child from the get-go, and he was an out-of-control teenager, having nearly killed a classmate in grade 11. He was given a choice: go to jail and serve an adult sentence, or join the army. Structure and discipline mellowed him out in the few years he served, gave him a chance at a normal, productive life. College, paid for by the Army, also introduced him to Amanda, his first true love. They married in 2076, just after his discharge.

The birth of Shaun in late summer of 2077 changed him again, and for a brief while, the angry, out-of-control child he'd been looked like a distant memory. He had a family, a home, and a bright future--several companies in Boston were courting him as an IT specialist thanks to his education and training in the Army.

Then, October 23, the bombs fell. In an instant, his world was turned upside-down. Frozen for two centuries, his wife murdered before his eyes, his son ripped from her still-warm body by unknowns... everyone he knew, gone--save for Codsworth, his robot servant.

His drive is anger at the world, vowing revenge against the person or persons responsible for his wife's murder, and the abduction of his child. All of the emotions and temperament he'd long suppressed have all boiled back to the surface, and with the military training he has, nothing will stand in his way. A heart turned to stone, he has little use for people, only what he can get, what he can use. Information, tools, supplies. Otherwise, they're just a walking meat sack which takes up space and consumes oxygen.

(the meeting with Kellogg wherein the SS can call him a psychopath... it would be ironic coming from Dom; takes one to know one and all the rot)

Who would he "win" with?
(The canon answer is no one, really. None of the four vanilla factions would actually work for him, if anything they would all drive him crazy with their quirks. He despises synths--by his opinion, no machine should ever have thoughts of its own... so joining a faction wanting to free them? Uh, no, never gonna happen. The BoS have too many rules, and he's turned off by the military at this point--though their hatred for synths would earn a few points of goodwill, perhaps. The Minutemen? No, not gonna happen, really. Preston's 'saving the Commonwealth' crap would also drive Dom crazy. And the Institute? They abducted his son, murdered his wife, and are the CREATORS of the synths in the first place! Nope, he'd want to see that place and everyone in it burn.)

For completion's sake, though, he has to work with someone. So I have him work for the Minutemen, albeit begrudgingly.