

He told her that he was a soldier, out of fear that he might lose her if he revealed that he was a stone-cold killer. With her at his side, he could press ahead no matter the horrors that faced him. Lucy always had MacCready's back and helped him through the darkest of nights in the wasteland. In the course of his travels, he met a woman named Lucy, and the two fell in love.

He took to wandering the wastelands as a gun for hire. In 2281, MacCready turned sixteen and left Little Lamplight. According to MacCready, engaging targets at long range meant one did not take too many chances in the treacherous Capital Wasteland to stave off death for another day. Children are always at a disadvantage in the wasteland, so he chose a sniper rifle as his weapon of choice, teaching himself marksmanship from the ground up. However brazen and foolhardy he might have been in his young years, MacCready was not devoid of imagination. The other residents respected him for his smarts, toughness and the juvenile lack of fear of anything – be it monsters, adults or using his rifle on anything that looked at him funny, not to mention the ability to maintain Little Lamplight as a viable community. MacCready's coup resulted in him becoming mayor. After Princess declared herself the new Mayor and renamed the position after herself, her rule lasted about five minutes, until MacCready punched her in the face and stated that Little Lamplight needed a leader, not a princess. 2 Interactions with the player characterīorn in 2265 in the Capital Wasteland to parents he never knew, MacCready became the head of the Little Lamplight children's colony in 2274, when he was only ten years old.
