Day 1 for Falltober. I won't be doing all of them, but I'll get what I can!
Context: Sole Survivor Ernest is my character that keeps the closest to canon- he was a pre-war soldier that excelled in Power Armor. Due to his stereotypical "All American Blondie Farm Boy" looks, he was involved in a cross promotion between the military and Vault Tec, being the Vault Boy on the recruitment posters.
This all came to a crashing end when he took an incendiary around to the helmet. It was able to break enough of the eye material to enter the helmet, and proceed to destroy the helmet and Ernest's face.
Luckily, his team was able to get the helmet off without breaking his neck (not an easy thing from how warped it ended up) and get him stabilize, but his military career was over with damage that was too costly to fix when there were ten other perfectly able soldiers to take his place.