AWKWARD ZOMBIE

AND THEN MY NEPHEW MADE HIM DO IT ANYWAYS

I've also noticed that there are a lot of kids in FO3.

All the better to make use of the Child at Heart perk.

I got it early on and never regretted it.

Also that really clears things up, thanks guys.

Also also I aparently take no radfs from any food because I'm so resistant.

If you were put in a vault with a controlled population, unsure of your chances of survival every passing day while Vault-Tec is working some kind of overt social experiment on you, and no one even brought Monopoly, what would you do?

It might genuinely have something to do with the time period the game is set in and the idea that "guys we should be repopulating the earth". New Vegas has way less, either because the population is already pretty massive compared to F3, or that Vegas is one of the only real "civilized" places that civilians from NCR go to and it's no place for a child to be.

I dunno why there's not any children in the smaller towns or tribes though. I think the only kid I found in my entire playthrough were in the Legion camp.

Well yeah but I didn't mean in the Vault.
I guess you could say that it's the whole repopulating thing. I'm just surprised to see that there's an entire place populated by the little shit, and one where they make up half the population.
I've never seen a child in NV though, but then again i've never gone into the legion camp.

There're several in Freeside.

suspension of disbelief my friend



There's the ones in the legion camp, the ones in freetown and the forecaster. there aren't any in honest hearts due to the ongoing conflict between the tribes.

In Lonesome Road, it's established that the courier is actually pretty badass given he was IN CONTROL of the divide. Just because he was a delivery boy doesn't mean he was one of those pissants you see in Skyrim. "Courier" was just a job title because he needed both something to do, and some sort of regular income.

So this this Deathclaw had to go, because his people needed him.
He just randomly spawned infront of me and WOOSHED into the sky.

He/she wasn't in control, persay, but he/she did essentially create the town. He/she created the trail through the Divide, as he/she passed through it repeatedly as a courier. From this trail, a town sprang up as a major trade center.

So he/she didn't own the Divide, he/she didn't even live there, but he/she was essential to it's creation.

Somehow I find that to be more badass than my original theory...

It is. He/she was so influential to trade, that when he/she created a new path, people flocked to it.

He/she then proceeded to deliver a package that blew the place to hell.

Well fuck.
That clears things up.
I had no clue what Ulysses went on about, but we became bros and I visited him every so often after I beat Lonesome Road.