Rose of Sharon Cassidy

Rose of Sharon Cassidy, also known as Cass or Whiskey Rose, is a caravaneer and owner of Cassidy Caravans, currently drinking her boredom away in the Mojave Outpost barracks.

Rose of Sharon Cassidy Fallout: New Vegas / Fallout: Wasteland Warfare character Rose of Sharon Cassidy Headwear None

Overview Stats Technical Lore Display name Cass Race Human Gender Female Nickname(s) Cass Whiskey Rose Age 37[Non-game 1] Born circa 2244[Non-game 1] Affiliation Cassidy Caravans Courier (optional) Role Water Merchant Owner of Cassidy Caravans Companion Family John Cassidy (father) Unnamed mother Dead Gameplay Location Mojave Outpost barracks Quests Birds of a Feather Heartache by the Number You Can Depend on Me Other Dialogue RoseofSharonCassidy.txt Voice actor Rachel Roswell Designer Chris Avellone Appearances Fallout: New Vegas Fallout: Wasteland Warfare “ They try to put their stake in everything they see. Nobody's dick's that long. Not even Long Dick Johnson, and he had a fucking long dick. Thus, the name. ” Rose of Sharon Cassidy, also known as Cass or Whiskey Rose,[1] is a caravaneer and owner of Cassidy Caravans, currently drinking her boredom away in the Mojave Outpost barracks. She appears in Fallout: New Vegas as a possible companion of the Courier.

Cass was born circa 2244, as the daughter of John Cassidy and an unnamed woman from one of the tribes east of the Colorado River, where John met her on his travels after parting ways with the Chosen One sometime after the destruction of the Enclave Oil Rig. John convinced his wife to settle down after a lifetime of traveling the wasteland to raise their child.

However, one day, her father decided to travel once more and left for the East. He never returned, leaving a young Cass to her mother to raise. Despite the negative impact of John's actions in leaving during her adolescence, an adult Cass expresses no hate over his decision and doesn't consider him the usual kind of family deserter, as she didn't really know him; she was too young to understand why her dad left when he did, and by the time her mother died due to an unspecified illness still hoping her husband would return, sometime between 2257 and 2261, she was an unruly teenager incapable of listening. After his departure, she kept two things as some form of a legacy: a rose pendant and her name, Rose of Sharon (a name she says John plucked from the pages of a pre-War novel). Cass originally thought the necklace was her mother's, but eventually learned that it was John who gave the pendant to her mother. She also gained other "gifts" in the form of a penchant for violence and mayhem, enjoying hurting people who deserve it and a congenital heart condition that makes her likely to suffer a heart attack if she takes illicit drugs. As a result, Cass abhors drugs of any kind and won't hesitate to snap at anyone who uses them freely.

At some point into her adult years, Cass carved out a living in the wasteland by starting a caravan bearing her family's name and getting into the water trade after realizing that someone with a good pair of traveling legs was valuable to the disparate settlements around the wasteland. It was successful, for a time. By 2281, however, worn down by years of hard luck and a recent rash of terrible misfortunes, the last Cassidy is left a despondent merchant who has every reason to get out of the caravan business, yet remains chained to it by her stubborn sense of pride. As smart, tough, and steady with a gun as she's been, Cass has learned the hard way that she is not nearly savvy enough to survive the ruthless caravan wars that have flared up in Nevada since the NCR's expansion, particularly against the biggest competitors like the Crimson Caravan and the Van Graffs.

She was on layover at the Mojave Outpost when NCR Ranger reports came through that her caravan has been attacked and "burned to ash," but despite her strong objections, Ranger Jackson refused to let her leave to handle it. Stuck with nothing to do but drink, threats along the road into New Vegas grew and problems with NCR paperwork remained still, perpetually hampering her hopes of escaping the counter of the outpost's bar. But all Cass had in mind was learning what became of her own legacy.

Personality: Cass has an aggressive and eager, sometimes even impatient attitude, often telling the Courier to hurry up or get on with it, and does not take well to insults or her time wasted. She also enjoys violence quite a bit, much like her father.

While running a caravan bestowed Cass with a knowledge of the world that is quite considerable, it is not without holes. For example, she is not aware that golf is a sport, rather than a person, while referring to Camp Golf as a monument to a man of that name and recounting soldier remarks that it used to be a minefield, with mine locations marked by numbers.

She is also very outspoken on the NCR and Caesar's Legion, mostly keen on pointing out the bureaucratic messes of the NCR and the Legion's use of women as breeding tools. She does begrudgingly concede that Legion supply lines are "safe as houses," due to their fierce reprisals against raiders, unlike NCR supply lines which are sparsely defended and subject to the Republic's hefty taxes.

Cass treats sex casually and has no qualms lying with any man that catches her interest, always leaving them an empty whiskey bottle as a token. With the right dialogue, she can reveal that when she gets especially drunk, she'll even share the sheets with another woman and, while it's not her preference, has no problem with those who make it a lifestyle choice either.