Talk:Backstory

My "Professional Skeptic" was on the second part of her backstory when she got "Peacekeeper" as a perk! She was trained as a leader at the time. I have no idea where this fits into anything else.

Also, my "Seed Bomber" got fearless reclaim, when he'd taken Green Thumb and Ninja.

Scrapper
I got Scrapper as my 3rd skill on a Scavenger with the "Before the outbreak..." backstory. The previous skills were Good Cook and Hoarder. This means that Scrapper should be listed under the "Before the outbreak" backstory, right?

Answer:

Actually not. It works a little bit different. I understand players want to know backstories with the Scrapper perk, however in fact there is none. Scrapper is exclusively a skill-related perk, it has nothing to do with the backstory. The backstory perk can only be (1) a single perk (common) or (2) none (rare) or (3) multiple perks (rare) and it's always listed before the skill-related perks. As you probably noticed, the Scrapper perk is always the last one. Thus, if there is "something/scrapper" in the list, it's actually wrong (I'm gonna correct it).

Yes, some backstories can get the Scrapper perk and some of them can't. The condition always is to be a scavenger (same for e. g. MacGyver and engineer). I wasn't able to figure out, if it's a given condition of the particular backstory or not, but we can disprove the theory you need to pick the backstory related perks first, since you say you picked Good Cook, Hoarder, Scavenger, while the "true" backstory is Green Thumb, Camper, Stinky.

"Sir? I was a retired officer prior to my ..."
Given Government Agent, Team Player, and Brave as backstory options

Fearless reclaim
I am convinced that the backstory is highly relevant for getting this perk. I had a whole story playthrough where I trained characters as builders and chose builder related perks (artist, redecorator, tools expert) and never got fearless reclaim. Then during another playthrough I decided to train the characters to match the backstory (e.g. if they're a building inspector I send them to school to become a builder), and choose the backstory related perks. The moment I started doing that in the middle of this playthrough, I started getting fearless reclaim so easily.