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camwynReligion: Catholic and Crow spirituality (this is common; Joseph Medicine Crow, last traditional war chief of the Crow, was both a Baptist and a member of the Tobacco Society religion, and if you asked him about it he mostly just said that he preferred to speak to the First Maker in church)
I should note that the Catholic thing is still up in the air and may be changed. I will go with either Methodist or Lutheran if I don't use Catholic, since I don't know Baptist very well but have at least attended Methodist and Lutheran services and studied a little bit of their theological groundings. Mostly this has to do with the general side-eyeing that Catholics got up until JFK and for some time afterward. I haven't decided how much of that was still around in the Falloutverse and I don't need to dump extra crap on the guy.
Beliefs: Lip service belief in what's in the Apostles' Creed (Nicene Creed if I go with Catholic). Fairly strong acceptance of the communion of saints idea since it allows for the idea of spiritual protection beyond the standard run. Mentally substitutes 'First Maker' for most of the terms used for God the Father in church. Much of his theological/spiritual belief system goes up in flames when the nukes hit but then so does a lot of his belief in American society as well. Not everybody's cut out to be Dietrich Bonhoffer.
Also, names are important, but they're more important when they come from somebody else. The only thing naming yourself tells you is what the inside of your head looks like, and you already know that. Ideally a name should come from your family, but it's a sign of respect to ask someone to give you or your child a name, too, and elevates them to the level of family or close to it. (See the general set of Crow traditions surrounding names for more detail; also at least part of this persisted into the Brotherhood two hundred years later, since there's more than a few Brothers who have names that are not the names they were born with, which they may or may not be happy about in-game.)
Superstitions: Machines have a mind of their own. Not in the way that robots do, but on some level he privately believes that objects have a kind of spirit and consciousness of their own the same way that animals do and places do, and that machines perform better if you treat them with respect, the same way that a horse or a dog will serve you loyally if you treat it with respect and love. Yelling at a machine other than a robot when it fails at something is just going to make it work worse in future. (Robots vary depending on how much initiative their programming gives them; yelling may very well be something they are programmed to respond to.) Also, there are certain things you don't do because they just invite trouble. You don't pass an ambulance or a fire truck on the road. You don't ignore children selling things like lemonade or cookies. If a child's chalked out a hopscotch board or other child's game on the ground and you run across it, you either walk around it or make your way through it the same way the child would. You don't speak ill of the dead. You don't disturb old art or carvings you don't recognize. Things like that.
Diction, Accent, Etc.: Tends towards precise speech. I need to find some video of people from Montana, because that's what he sounds like. English is his first language, but he's reasonably good in Apsaalooke. Got told he had to learn a proper second language in school and sulked his way through Spanish with a passing grade, then promptly forgot as much of it as possible.
Education (highest): College
Degrees: Bachelor's in criminal justice, Macomb University (school in question does not exist in the real world)
Vocation/Occupation: Military police officer, United States Army
Employment History: Worked in his father's hardware store after school as a kid; hired to work in the local library after school and on weekends in high school; federal work-study job in the America Reads program in college; pretty much walked across the stage to pick up his diploma and then out the door to sign up with the recruiter- may have gone to college on a program that amounted to 'we'll pay for your school but then you have to serve'
Salary: A salary consistent with a military police officer (31A job on the Army web site) in internment/resettlement operations or area security operations, but adjusted for Falloutverse levels of inflation (assume 4.55% inflation per year every year from the 1960s onward- there's a lot of zeroes but they don't mean much)
Status and Money: Somewhat better money than a lot of people, given what the economy of the pre-War Falloutverse is like, but nothing amazing. Most of his social status comes from being in the military; he is not particularly socially important, but he is respected on the job (at least now that he's out from under the eye of Col. Lucas). Back on the Crow reservation he's deeply respected and appreciated, and he regularly writes to the school children there to keep them up to date on how he's doing.
Own or Rent: Have not decided about on-base vs. off-base military housing but currently I am working from the assumption that the housing at The Villages At Fort Irwin can be used as a template. So, rental.
Living space (describe): Two-bedroom, one-bathroom, first floor apartment in the Mariposa area. Around 980 square feet. Mostly browns and pinks in color. Nice furniture from a Bob's Discount Warehouse kind of place. Despite Yvonne's best efforts to make it comfortable and attractive and the robot's constant maintenance and care, the place still makes Roger faintly uncomfortable and he can't put his finger on why. The rooms may be larger than he wants to deal with and seem like too much to be a good idea.
Work space (describe): http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/West_Tek_research_facility
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Mariposa_Military_Base
… look, it's a lot easier to just work from the canon for those parts, okay?
Main mode of transportation: Has a four-door Corvega- this model- but Yvonne mostly uses it. Roger prefers to walk. Is secretly putting cash away each week for when Roger Jr. turns sixteen in anticipation of the inevitable 'but everybody my age has a car/everybody's family has a second car'.
