Jezebel is a Robobrain enforcer of the Mechanist who was captured by the Rust Devils gang in 2287 and held within the Fort Hagen hangar in the Commonwealth. She appears in the Fallout 4 add-on Automatron.
Background[]
After Isabel Cruz took over the pre-War Robotics Technology Facility RB-2851 hidden beneath East Boston sometime in 2287, she assumed the mantle of "The Mechanist" and created a personal army of robobrains, sending them out into the Commonwealth with orders to protect humans from danger. Jezebel was one such Robobrain.[1] As Jezebel can reveal to the Sole Survivor, the Robobrains' organic brains (originally sourced from violent criminals and murderers) augmented with synthetics has led to a pattern of logic in which they view humans' survivability with a 25% chance of success, or in other words, a 75% chance of the humans dying anyway regardless of their intervention. Therefore, all Robobrains including Jezebel deduced that simply killing their would-be protectees right away is the most efficient solution, as it only serves to hasten mankind's inevitable fate and spares them the suffering of their continued existence.[2]
Jezebel herself possesses a very blunt and rude personality, making no secret of her doubts in the capabilities of humans, and does not waste an opportunity to belittle their allegedly minuscule intelligence.[3] She is fully aware of her hostile attitude towards organics despite being partly composed of an organic brain but never views it as anything negative, believing that her obedience to her programming and the resultant inability to lie places her a step above humans, who routinely betray and backstab each other.[4][5]
After being dispatched into the Commonwealth, Jezebel was eventually found and captured by members of the Rust Devils, a gang of raiders infamous for their engineering skills and interest in robotics. The raiders took apart her original robobrain frame and imprisoned her brain case by hooking it up to an immobile computer console within their stronghold below the Fort Hagen satellite array. While left in this state, she attempted to negotiate with the raiders interrogating her to be returned to a body capable of locomotion in exchange for information on the Mechanist, but to no avail.[6]
Interactions with the player character[]
Interactions overview[]
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Quests[]
- Headhunting: The Sole Survivor is sent by Ada to acquire a radar beacon used by Jezebel to access the Mechanist's lair, requiring going up against the Rust Devils to find her.
Other interactions[]
- Automatron settler
Once Jezebel's head is obtained from the Fort Hagen hangar, she demands to be placed on a new body before giving up the beacon required. After attaching the head to an automatron created at a robot workbench, from then on, Jezebel stays at the settlement where she was reconstructed but can be sent to another settlement, where she remains for the rest of the game. Unlike normal automatrons, she cannot be recruited as a follower, cannot be traded with, and offers no interaction apart from rude comments when spoken to.
- Jezebel will continue to wander the settlement she was reconstructed in after Restoring Order is finished, behaving like a normal automatron settler, including the option of modifying her robotic body.
- Jezebel can be assigned to any settlement task, though she will not function in all roles; she will refuse to trade even if assigned to a trading post. However, she can still be assigned to a guard post and can be used to set up supply routes. With the Vault-Tec Workshop add-on, she can also be assigned to operate a barber chair or surgery chair without issue.
- Other settlers will treat Jezebel as a fellow settler and will turn hostile if she is destroyed.
- Quest dialogue
- After building a new automatron body for Jezebel, Jezebel will comment negatively about the Sole Survivor's lack of skills in making her new body. There is an optional "Sarcastic" dialogue response towards her, which has a variation depending on whether or not the Brotherhood of Steel quest Liberty Reprimed was started beforehand (Proctor Ingram must have told the Sole Survivor about Liberty Prime). The default Sarcastic response has the Sole Survivor mock Jezebel's high standards by pretending to treat her as royalty;[7] the alternate response has the Sole Survivor mention Liberty Prime's body as an option they chose not to take for Jezebel.[8]
Inventory[]
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Notes[]
- If Jezebel is destroyed, her body will remain at the place of her destruction indefinitely and cannot be moved due to its weight.[clarification needed] However, if she was built using only the stock automatron model, she will be light enough to be moved.
- If the player character places Jezebel's head on the body of an already existing automatron before equipping her head and removing all items from the automatron, Jezebel cannot be traded with. Therefore, one may only pickpocket their items back if she has been given legs.
- Jezebel's head will be removed if her body is equipped with a Nukatron torso or Galactron space head from the Nuka-World add-on.
- When first meeting her, Jezebel mentions that the Rust Devils believe whatever she says and that she has used this to her advantage prior to meeting the Sole Survivor.[9] However, after restoring her body and if asked how she can be trusted, she says her programming explicitly prevents her from lying.[5]
- Jezebel's role as the severed head of a robot that helps stop a villain named the Mechanist is similar to the premise of the Silver Shroud radio show's fifth episode, "Into the Robot's Den." In this episode, "Mobbot," the severed head of a robot created by the show's Mechanist, helps lead the Silver Shroud to its creator's hideout.
Appearances[]
Jezebel appears only in the Fallout 4 add-on Automatron.
Behind the scenes[]
The fact of a character named Jezebel residing in a room with another named Ahab is a reference to the historical figure of Ahab, the seventh king of Israel, and Jezebel, his wife.
References[]
- ↑ The Sole Survivor: "I knew there was some good left inside that brain."
Jezebel: "What you call 'good' I call my 'primary directive.' The Mechanist instructed me to seek out and help the people of the Commonwealth. By my calculations, the easiest way to help a human is simply to destroy it. There's no point in prolonging a laughably fragile life. It's the most efficient way to assist them. Any other effort to help tends to result in numerous complex side-effects."
(Jezebel's dialogue) - ↑ The Sole Survivor: "I don't think you understand the definition of 'help.'"
Jezebel: "Help: to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or to satisfy a need. I'm doing exactly as I was instructed. Assisting a human to the best of my abilities only affords a 25 percent survival rate. That means there's a 75 percent chance that despite my efforts, the human I'm assisting will die from something beyond my control. Therefore it's better to hasten the human's death and put them out of their likely chance of misery than to deplete my limited time. It's actually quite elementary, but given your minimal intellect, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised you don't understand."
(Jezebel's dialogue) - ↑ The Sole Survivor: "What kind of a body were you expecting?"
Jezebel: "Considering I look like a junkbot that's been hastily welded together by an amateur, I'd say almost anything else would have been better. However, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised given your limited skill set derived from your equally diminished intelligence."
(Jezebel's dialogue) - ↑ The Sole Survivor: "How do I know you'll keep up your end of the bargain?"
Jezebel: "Even though there's a human brain floating in bio-gel inside my head, I'm still bound by my original programming. It pains me to admit it, but one of my directives states that I cannot lie. Ever. So, while I'm not the most charming robot you've ever encountered, the last thing I'm going to do is violate an agreement we've made. Now that we have that out of the way, do we have a deal?"
(Jezebel's dialogue) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Sole Survivor: "Can we stop with the petty bickering and just get to the part where you tell me how to access the Mechanist's facility?"
Jezebel: "I promised to answer your questions... and unlike humans, I don't have the capacity to lie."
(Jezebel's dialogue) - ↑ Jezebel interview
- ↑ The Sole Survivor: "Sorry, your highness. The royal tailor has been quite ill and I'm afraid the task fell to me instead."
Jezebel: "If you're attempting to use sarcasm as an intimidation tactic, I'm afraid you're wasting your time. Look... it's obvious we don't care for each other's company, which suits me just fine. So, why don't you ask me everything you wanted to know and then I'll be on my way."
(Jezebel's dialogue) - ↑ The Sole Survivor: "Well, I was going to connect your head to Liberty Prime's body, but I decided to do a little arts and crafts instead. Disappointed?"
Jezebel: "If you're attempting to use sarcasm as an intimidation tactic, I'm afraid you're wasting your time. Look... it's obvious we don't care for each other's company, which suits me just fine. So, why don't you ask me everything you wanted to know and then I'll be on my way."
(Jezebel's dialogue) - ↑ The Sole Survivor: "What did the Rust Devils do to you?"
Jezebel: "They felt that by keeping my head online would prove useful to them. Fortunately for me, they're stupid enough to actually believe anything I say. Admittedly, it hasn't gotten me very far, but it has saved me from the same fate as my rather unfortunate comrades you see in pieces around you. Now, back to my original question. What are you doing here?"
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