Should it be chosen to destroy the Institute, and so long as Shaun is rescued from the destruction at Father's pleas, the synthetic Shaun will periodically ask for the Sole Survivor to bring him specific items (i.e. verification overdue, remove Interactions with the player character Interactions overview It is mentioned throughout the Institute through overheard dialogue with random Institute scientists as well as Madison Li’s terminal that Shaun is incapable of aging and thus causes them great distress as he will remain a child for all of his life. Seeing the chance to use this Shaun replicant to further his personal agenda, Father instructed Kellogg to bring the child to Diamond City shortly before remotely releasing the Sole Survivor from their cryogenic captivity, giving them a trail to follow all the way back to the Institute.īy the time that the Sole Survivor arrives at the Institute to locate the real Shaun, they come face to face with the synthetic Shaun, believing him to be the real Shaun, in which the meeting is revealed shortly after to have been a test, in which the synthetic Shaun is shown to react negatively towards unknown variables such as the Sole Survivor. Shaun was created by Father, or the real Shaun, using his own DNA as a base for the child's organic functions. 2 Interactions with the player character.
