Vic's crew never saw them coming, although they didn't have to fire a shot it turned into a massacre. When Vic's crew was good and drunk Hancock's crew burst through the windows and rooftops. Hancock's crew with their tactical positions and weaponry and Vic's crew with idleness and alcohol. The night of the struggle they all got loaded. To strike back the next time Vic's crew went on another tear. All for the sole purpose of removing Vic and his crew from power. Afterword he stopped taking chems, got organized, convinced KLEO to loan him some weaponry, gathered a gang of drifters and headed into the ruins to start training. Inspired he donned the attire and persona. First American hoodlum and defender of the People. Right in front of the clothes of John Hancock. Afterward to numb the pain he got so high that he blacked out completely, eventually coming to on the floor of the Old State House. After participating in classic bystander effect 'Hancock' felt like less than nothing. The witnesses all just stood there paralyzed with fear. One night, some drifter said something to them and they cracked him open like a can of Cram on the pavement. The entire populace was crippled with fear, including the person before he became 'Hancock.'

Only those with homes that could lock their doors would emerge relatively unscathed. Occasionally he would let them off the leash and sack the populace at large. Confiscating their property and using his gang to keep the entire community in line. Although he took a more delicate approach for those denizens with homes, he persecuted the drifters with extreme prejudice. He ran the settlement for years as his own personal fiefdom.

Prior to the rise of Hancock, the town was run by a sociopathic mayor and ganglord named Vic.

Inhabited by outcasts and other people considered to occupy the margins of society, it's a rough place where one can truly be free, so long as they have enough strength to back up their claims. Founded in 2240 by a group of criminals who were banished from Diamond City, Goodneighbor is the jewel's rougher, much less forgiving sibling.

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