And I get your meaning here,

Yeah, and reading over my original comment, I can see where you are coming from, because I was just responding to a snippet about characters being unusual, not insane, and was kind of going off on a tangent. Not everyone who is weird is insane.

It's just specifically the insane bit that has bugged me.

Hancock is unusual, a kind of hardcore anarchist/libertarian. But he's not what I'd call insane.

Father has a worldview that has driven him to do some pretty extreme things, but he's not nuts; you can see how, from his position, what he's doing is a reasonable approach.

It's the characters where they just don't act the way that a regular person would, to the point that they'd probably be unable to function in the present-day world, much less in a post-apocalyptic one.

And while I agree that adding quirks can make a character more memorable, I don't think that making memorable characters it requires mucking with their head.

Abernathy Farm has a collection of pretty "ordinary" characters in Fallout 4, but I think that they're reasonably memorable; they have a personal tragedy and some grievances.

Whereas the Children of Atom have a lot of people who have a pretty bizarre worldview, yet most of them just blur into each other for me, aside from a few characters who stand out for other reasons.

Not Fallout 4, but in Fallout: New Vegas, I think that Veronica Santangelo was a pretty interesting character, but she was maybe one of the most "normal" people in her Brotherhood of Steel bunker.

Jake Finch running off to become a raider with the Forged at Saugus Ironworks is a storyline that I have no problem remembering, but he wasn't insane -- just an ordinary person in a pretty brutal environment.

Billy in Kid in a Fridge, where a kid gets trapped in a fridge at the time of the war, ghoulified, and then you take him back to his parents who were also ghoulified and happy to see him. Everyone there was sane, just in a weird situation.