Veteran Child (character)

Veteran Child is a character in Saints Row 2 and Saints Row IV.^[1]

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No! I mean, it's no problem, I got this...

— Veteran Child, explaining himself to The General and Mr. Sunshine after the events of "Got Dust, Will Travel".

Overview

Saints Row 2

Veteran Child is a Sons of Samedi lieutenant, a DJ for the nightclub On Track and a "triple-platinum" DJ for 89.0 Generation X. He's also the main Samedi drug dealer and keeps Stilwater University supplied. He has a little loyalty to The General, but has a mutual hate for Mr. Sunshine. He isn't as ruthless as The General or Mr. Sunshine, and is shocked when The General orders him to cut off someone's hand.^[2]

He isn't a student but admits he visits Stilwater University "for pussy".^[3] He once had a relationship with Shaundi, and while they were high, he mentioned to her where the Samedi own a drug farm.^[4]

Veteran Child is initially unaware of the Saints taking out his drug dealers at the University. The General orders him to find out what happened and if a bagboy was skimming, to cut their hand off.^[2]

When The Protagonist wipes out the Samedi farm, The General and Mr. Sunshine confront Veteran Child and he admits having told Shaundi about it. The General tells him to kill Shaundi, or Mr. Sunshine will burn him alive.^[4] Veteran Child heads up to the Saints headquarters, and takes Shaundi hostage before escaping. He lures The Protagonist to Cocks to be ambushed by the Samedi, but The Protagonist manages to escape and confronts Veteran Child at On Track, where Veteran Child uses Shaundi as a human shield. The Protagonist uses flash bangs to daze Veteran Child, then kills him.^[5]

After his death, the Ultor Corporation buy 89.0 Generation X and rename it 89.0 Ultor FM.

Saints Row IV

A simulated version of Veteran Child is featured in Shaundi's simulation in Saints Row IV.^[6]. Here he is holding Fun Shaundi and using her as a Human Shield, reenacting the Saints Row 2 mission "Veteran Child". Using a Stun Gun, The Protagonist stuns him and Shaundi. The Protagonist then kills Veteran Child only to have Zinyak resurrect him into a new copy that creates copies of himself when killed. Kinzie Kensington then spawns a Disintegrator which allows The Protagonist to kill all of the virtual copies of Veteran Child.^[6]

He is then featured in Shaundi's loyalty mission, Psychosomatic.Template:Fact Here he sends out waves of minions after Shaundi, The Protagonist and Fun Shaundi while taunting the Shaundis. After the crowd has been completely defeated the Virtual DJ Veteran Child then sends out superpowered clones of himself to attack the group. The Protagonist defeats these clones as the two Shaundis manage to disable the shield protecting the original Virtual DJ Veteran Child. The Protagonist then attempts to finish Veteran Child off but right before he is able to do so Veteran Child splits into two copies, each with a gun to one of the Shaundis' heads. Veteran Child then attempts to make The Protagonist choose which one lives but then both Shaundis take the guns pointed at their heads and then proceed to kill both Veteran Childs.^[7]

After this mission, Veteran Child is unlocked as a reconstructed homie.

Trivia

Saints Row 2

When holding Shaundi as a Human Shield in the "Veteran Child" mission, he has 6000 hitpoints in single player, and 9000 in Co-op. In versions of the game where Human Shield is disabled, these values are 12000 and 15000, respectively.

Saints Row The Third

His name is on the cover of "Boy Toy" with the words "On Tour" under it.^[8]

Saints Row IV

Veteran Child, Roddy Piper, and CID are the only homies not to have Audio Logs.
Due to the mission Psychosomatic not being included in the Australian version, Veteran Child, Super Shaundi, and Fun Shaundi unlocked after De Plane Boss.

Quotes

Veteran Child: "You know who the fuck I am?!"
The Protagonist: "Seein' as I'm gonna kill you in a few seconds I don't really give a shit."

— "We Need To Talk" cutscene for the mission "Veteran Child"

You did us a favour killing Veteran Child.

— Male Sons of Samedi member after "Veteran Child"

Way to mess up that Veteran Child tool, guy was a total Barney