>>40870657
Ah, Stalker is a very good name to see, I actually played Pripyat for the first time around 2010 or so, a few years before friending Kaori. It took a while for the game to pick up on the west, yeah, because I could only find people OL that talked about it amidst the sea of CoD and Battlefield titles. She loves the collecting and selling of artifacts in game, takes her back to when she scavenged with her junior troop as a teen, and found an irradiated 8-ball that glew bright blue inside. Claims the intense abdominal pains of getting radflushed was worth the sight, and also nabbed her two days off patrol.

Yeah, the Enclave has always felt like a missed opportunity to expand the lore of the game's universe (which to be fair, I doubt Interplay expected their first game to be so popular, so they can be excused). It's like, ok, they're cartoon bad guys in the first. But then they're COBRA in the second? Bethesda did an heroic effort to bring them back, but it felt like they didn't know what to do with them philosophically given the lore they got handed, so... just kick the can, make them cartoon bad guys, but with MechaLBJ and PartyCity Adolf Hitler as their leaders instead of RoboHulk, so that was actually a good decision, truth be told.

>Van Buren
Ah, New Vegas was actually my first FO as well, 2008. Van Buren seems like it was going to be a bit more of a grim version of NV isn't it? I think she finds people like the Twin Mothers as good folks, but ripe to be abused, would probably love to trade them firearms and ammunition (while respecting their abandonment of tech, as well). She would've shot VB Joshua, mostly out of mercy, but wouldn't want to interact with him beyond that, even if he survives. She hates slavers and radioactive weapons/nukes almost as much as she hates the BoS.