We’ve already established in the show that Fiends are a major threat, and since S2 has the potential to double down on the darker, uglier sides of life in the wasteland (as S1 didn’t go too deep into the pure evil and completely depraved aspect of certain Fallout characters, which Cook-Cook embodies perfectly), this guy could show up as a villain once the main characters reach New Vegas.

Cook-Cook doesn’t canonically die in either of the major endings of FNV (whichever of which the showrunners decide to choose as the canon ending for the sake of the show’s timeline), as none of the side missions are canon, at least for now, and he would only be 15 years older than he is in New Vegas, so he could definitely still be alive and active.

He would make an absolutely terrifying villain for Lucy to go up against for obvious reasons (even though I really don’t want to see Cook-Cook SA her or anybody; I just think that his utter depravity and capacity for violence would be a lot for her to have to overcome). He could also cause a lot of internal conflict for The Ghoul, as Cook-Cook would case him to be faced with a grim reminder of what he could one day turn into if he keeps seeing human life as not worth fighting for and the wasteland as just an amoral, violent playground (not to say that I think The Ghoul would ever SA someone, but just that he may lose what little humanity he has left and start doing things like torturing and killing kids, like Cook-Cook does).

What do y’all think?