#oddworld lilith

Lilith. A victim of multiple sadistic ‘experiments’ along with her other siblings, two of which passed away.

‘Experiments’ is a nicer way to put it, but she was basically one of the vykkers’ playthings; the vykkers would just do whatever they felt like to the five mudlings, whether it was dumping chemicals on them or injecting them with mysterious compounds, or playing with their DNA.

Only two mudlings survived this unspeakable treatment, Lilith being one. The other one is her brother which she has no contact with.

Lilith is very self conscious of her appearance and cannot see out of the eye on her forehead (she is completely blind there). Because of her three eyes and general appearance, city folk often think she’s some sort of freaky psychic or something, which she isn’t. Lilith tries to use this to her advantage and sometimes cons people into giving her money, and she’ll read their ‘fortune’. It’s uncommon for anyone to even buy it though- not many people in the city believe in that stuff.

She had to leave, and today was the day she planned to do it.

Why today, though, and not any other day in her lifetime? Lilith had always been so scared of leaving the city, but she recently just couldn’t take it.

A few weeks ago, the laboratory that she was born in and got experimented on in had found her. They wanted to test her to see how she was getting on despite her mutations, and also use her for more tests, such as breeding her and seeing if her offspring would have three eyes. Which she was extremely unhappy about and unwilling to do.

Lilith brushed some of the dirt off of her tattered dress (a lucky find from a bin) and yawned carefully so that the stitches on her cheeks wouldn’t split, then took her pitiful amount of belongings with her in a dirty backpack (another lucky find from a bin) before taking a short, yet deep breath; and running. As fast as her long legs would go. Out of the alleyway, through the streets.