Ethan Ledford

Ledford, Ethan Sean

 * 5 ' 10  tall.''
 * Carries unique variants of the Hunting Rifle, Battle Rifle , and 5.56mm Pistol.
 * Appears 24 years of age.

Appearance
Ethan appears to be in his mid-twenties, and has short, ash brown hair. Often sports a pair of see-through sunglasses and a black leather button up and 70lb backpack. He has a rough beard that is rairly shaven. He often rolls the sleeves on his leather shirt up because of the drastic heat of the wastelands.

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Ethan was born in 2260 in the town of Primm, Nevada after his family fled from the scattered Legion Raid Party. He grew up in Primm, where he usually was accompanied by his brother. They hunted for mole rats for their mother to make into dinner. He made another friend since there was barely any in Primm, a scrap made robot he named "Junky". A scrap made Sentry Bot with a fission battery core. He quickly adapted to life in the Mojave Wasteland after his mother was assassinated in 2268 by Legionaries hunting for his father Sean.

From Small Town to Big City
He fled with Jacob to Goodsprings, Nevada. And lived in a man-made house him and his brother made. Ethan left his brother and his's abode in 2274 to find new life in the wasteland. In that journey he met his allies Bill the Dog, Caz the Cazador, Kolbey Horton, Tommy Johnson, Matt Gouge, and Jeremiah English. He ventured to New Vegas and made a quite wealthy living to live off of his fortune won at The Tops, and purchased multiple weapons from the Gun Runners Arsenal (GRA) including the Katana, Battle Rifle, Hunting Rifle, and 5.56mm Pistol.

The New California Republic
Ethan enlisted in the New California Republic's 27th Battalion, 6th Division in 2278. Inspired by his brother's heroic acts at the First Battle of Hoover Dam in 2277, Ethan started out as a trooper patrolling the Mojave through the settlements, attacking Legionaries, the works, he did this for 7 months before Ethan quickly through the ranks and became an NCR Patrol Ranger after his valiant defense he and his brother led at the Battle of Dayglow, on October 31st, 2280. Ethan privately paid off General Lee Oliver after The Second Battle of Hoover Dam, giving him 30,000 NCR Dollars to allow Ethan a pardon to "pursue personal research & endeavors" using NCR resources and bodies, so long as Ethan claimed it under the NCR banner.

J&E Bounties
After his deal with General Oliver, Ethan ventured to meet his brother Jacob at Ethan's Listening Post out in west Mojave on July 22nd, 2282.

Ethan proposed an idea, where he and Jacob would then agree upon said idea to found a new bounty hunting business called "J&E Bounties".

This business would not shun or be biased towards any kind of targets and "make fortunes of money off the bloodthirsty wastelanders" As Ethan put it.

The Search for Sean and the Journey to the East
One day, months later, scavenging in Jacobstown, Ethan stumbled upon Sean's old Brotherhood of Steel bunker in the wastes and found a very nice home inside, which contained documents detailing how Sean planned to travel out east to North Carolina to join the East Brotherhood Chapter. The Legion quickly discerned the whereabouts of this terminal usage and discovered the fact that Ethan and Jacob were Sean Ledford's sons. Ethan had no other choice but to flee like his father before him. Taking his crew with him (excluding Jacob) to the ravaged wasteland that is North Carolina. Ethan found a salvaged vertibird in a junk yard he used to fly the 2 day trip to the east.

The Western Carolina Republic and the Trip Home
Spending roughly 3 years in North Carolina, Ethan helped found the Western Carolina Republic (WCR) and helped make custom power armor and rifles through advanced technology found in the old pre-war factories in the Carolina Wasteland. Ethan would find his father in a Brotherhood bunker and convince him to head back home to the Mojave, taking the salvaged vertibird with him.

After some scavenging, Ethan traveled on his lonesome to the Capital Wasteland for a year and stayed in a vault for several months. He acquainted a ghoul named Gob in his travels from the town of Megaton. Gob traveled with Ethan for several months before returning to Underworld. Ethan traveled back to the Mojave on a rigged up motorcycle to join his brother and continue their Bounty Hunting business. Ethan has since made it his personal goal to reopen and run the Bison Steve Hotel & Casino, which has turned out quite well, bringing tourism back into Primm.

The Battles With Johnson
After the conclusion of the first battle with Chase Johnson at the hands of Jacob using the Time-Machine; the Enclave gathered what was left of Chase and recreated him in a mech-suit that was seemingly indestructible, after being led on a trail filled with clues and a destructive tour back to the murderous Dayglow, Ethan finally returned to his father's house, weary and exhausted from Dayglow, only to find after walking out that Johnson was waiting for him outside in the rain, in a very bloody fight and the loss of Caz the Cazador, John was finally destroyed for good(?).

Adventures in Appalachia
Ethan would boot up the Time Machine once more in April of 2286, where he & Jacob would venture back to the year 2077 and traverse to the West Virginian Appalachian Mountains, they would proceed to live here for roughly 15-16 years, Jacob moving off into the woods to find peace and quiet, and Ethan befriending two individuals, a Texan raider named Jared Carpenter, and a very powerful Brotherhood Knight known as Michael Bishop. Ethan would continue to live in Appalachia until October 2094, when he would make his trip back to April 2281, to help rewrite the mistakes caused by Johnson and allow Ethan and Jacob to recreate J&E Bounties all over again.

Notable Quotes
"A true democracy is one where the people have just as much power as the president."

"Despite someone's appearance, they can be truly different, just look at Caz!"

"A rifle is dangerous to have you say? Wait 'till you have an Irradiated Deathclaw in front of you and all you have is that, it'll become your best damn friend in 2.5 seconds."

"Son of a bitch stole my Goo Goo Bar."

"Nothing's better than having an Ice Cold Nuka-Cola after a long battle."

"Never leave me, if there is a God, he meant for us, all of us! To be together right here, right now."

"Need a reason to f_ck with me? I have multiple, a Cazador, a robot, a hybrid deathdog, and a jackass brother. That's not forgetting me."

"Man I love Buffout, I down this sh*t like candy!"

"The NCR and Legion have two things in common, neither are intelligent enough to realize the other's views on the wasteland. Brotherhood tries to look forward towards advancement. Not for silly reasons such as owning land, the wasteland's a free-for-all, you saw what forced democracy brought us, at least with my UCR you have a choice to be involved or not. Not forced into our views. We get our roots from the BOS."

"The most notable feature a person can have isn't their power to pull a trigger, but the power to stop from the gun being drawn."

"After my experience with the Enclave, I realized that America is gone, yes. But not as gone as you think. If we can bring democracy back to the most civilized parts of the United Wastelands. Examples include the Capital, Mojave, Carolina, need I go on? The point is that if we can get it back to the most popular parts we might have a nation again. It will spread on it's own, imagine the nation we could have if we had the Legion training, Brotherhood weapons, NCR numbers, UCR knowledge, Enclave Armor, we could have a nation stronger than the U.S, we could make something better than that Pre-War world we had. A world without war first and answers later, something greater.

"In the end, we'll still get back up. If nuclear fire couldn't stop us, what could?"

Trivia

 * Ethan has an extreme fear of Centaurs.
 * Ethan's meeting of Caz was a complete accident.
 * Ethan has an extreme love of Goo Goo Bars, Nuka-Cola, and Sunset Sarsparilla.
 * He often resorts to words before fighting.
 * He trained with multiple wasteland legends such as the Lone Wanderer and the Courier.
 * Ethan has more than 1,000 locations saved on his Pip-Boy 2500.
 * Ethan and Jacob bought 2 Pip-Boy 2500's off of Sarah in Vault 21 for 20,000 caps.
 * Ethan hit the jackpot in The Tops Hotel and Casino, winning 100,000 bottle caps.
 * He has went through 2 different hairstyles his whole life, clean cut and his own haircut titled "Wasteland Suave."
 * Ethan shot and crippled Moriarty from the town of Megaton to show him that he was taking Gob with him no matter what he said.
 * He was in a gang called the "Wasteland Gangers" for a short time when he was 15.
 * Ethan has had exactly 9 companions that he treated like family.
 * He actually met his father Sean in a short mini-movie called "Ethan and Jacob's Wasteland Fun-Party" and settled things with him.
 * Ethan has his grandather Clay's gun in his house called "Clay's Pride" which Clay used to shoot and kill a Nightkin Overlord with one shot. It only holds one .50 Caliber Round per shot.
 * He had a five month relationship with a hooker named "Olive" until he shot her because she told him she had an STD. He then called her a "lying bitch."
 * Ethan is actually prescribed Buffout because it keeps is skin in tact from all the bullet wounds.
 * Ethan actually dies in Fallout: The Movie because he is shot in the back of the head, but is saved when Jacob goes back in time and stops Ethan from being murdered.
 * Ethan's time machine in his Survivalist Bunker is shut down after Jacob saves Ethan. And is turned into a de-radiation chamber.