In the course of his travels, he met a woman named Lucy. He took to wandering the wastelands as a gun for hire.
In 2281, MacCready hit sixteen and left Little Lamplight. Engaging targets at long range means you don’t take too many chances and in the treacherous Capital Wasteland that meant staving 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. Her rule lasted about five minutes, until MacCready punched her in the face and stated that Little Lamplight needed a leader, not a princess.
His ascension was simple: After Princess declared herself the new Mayor and renamed the position after herself. 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.
