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Child Shaun would grow up to be an engineer (I HC that he’s the sole 4th Gen Synth which fully replicates all human functionality similar to that previous submission), but his real passion was photography. His interest in photography stemmed from being simply amazed with haunting beauty of the outside world, and going on “journalist expeditions” with his step mother Piper who would often frame scenes with her hands and remark “Wouldn’t that’d make a great cover image?”. As an adolescent if he wasn’t repairing something, he was researching and tinkering with photograph technology restoring functionality to several cameras. In his adolescence he learned and slowly mastered the art of producing photos from film, even inventing color photography at the age of 17. The photographs he would eventually produce of Post-Great War Boston and the surrounding Commonwealth still remain in publications nearly five centuries later and still going.
In Shaun’s future I see him becoming a teacher’s assistant, after all Father probably laid some groundwork for him to be a scientist (or similar occupation).
After he becomes 18 he decides to leave and become a traveling teacher, until the minutemen bring the settlements together as the Commonwealth People’s Republic. Afterwards he becomes a head lecturer at the New C.I.T at the age of 35
He dies at age 76 survived by his wife Natalie. And his three children Jane, Nora and Robert and 6 grandkids
His funeral is attended by the many people his life touched, and he is buried in a crypt built on the bulkhead of vault 111 next to his father and mother
(I HC that synths were like build a person workshop, so they have all… functionality)
When Nat and Shaun go on a date (HC them both at 14 15 for this one) outside the walls piper has MacCready shadow them with explicit instructions.
“I know Blue raised that boy right but if he gets handsy shoot the cap off of his nuka-cola”
Piper has MacCready teach Nat how to shoot photos for Publick Occurrances, so as to be a more legitimate newspaper.
Despite being the only newspaper of worth.
