Harkness from Fallout

Description

Rivet City's hard-nosed security chief, 35-year-old Harkness has a rough but fair demeanor. He is known for his very fair treatment of Rivet City's Hangar Deck and Upper Deck citizens, something which makes him popular with the former group. However, this is a source of friction between him and his best friend and second-in-command Lana Danvers. Harkness is a prototype Generation 3 synthetic humanoid, or "synth," and the most advanced android ever created by the Institute as of 2277. He originally worked for the Institute's Synth Retention Bureau and had the duty of tracking down other escaped synths. He later escaped after he became sentient and started to sympathize with the escaped synths he was tasked to capture. The synths working at the Synth Retention Bureau are told that those who try to escape are simply malfunctioning, when in actuality their complex AI has allowed them to start thinking for themselves and become fully sentient. The synths that Harkness captured seeded ideas about self-determination and freedom within his mind, thus contributing to his decision to escape. "Self determination is NOT a malfunction," as Harkness would later say in a holotape before escaping. While he successfully escaped the Commonwealth, he was hunted by the Synth Retention Bureau like any other escapee. He needed to get facial reconstruction surgery, an altered voice, and have his memories of being a synth suppressed/replaced with those of his new Harkness persona. This was all…