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Apr. 4th, 2012 09:47 pmplayer information.
name: Linds
are you over 18?: yes
personal dw: none
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc: bettiebloodshed on all platforms
characters in abax: Erik Lehnsherr [OU]
in character information.
series: Silent Hill
name: Lisa Garland
age: 23
sex: Female
race: Human
weight: 120
height: 5'7''
[OPTIONAL] cause of death: Bullet to the head
canon point: After she realizes that she’s dead, and Harry shuts the door on her.
previous cr: N/A
history: http://silenthill.wikia.com/wiki/Lisa_Garland
personality:
At first glance, Lisa’s story appears to be the story of a victim. However, after further inspection, it is the story of a deeply flawed individual, who became caught up in a plot greater than herself—and died trying to escape.
Lisa is a woman who wanted to escape Silent Hill, to become something bigger, better than her family before her. There is a bitterness even early on, at the age of 16, at not being able to fufill this dream. She states to Travis in SH:0 that she wanted to be an actress, but her mother was a nurse, and it was what she would have to be. As a girl who was born and raised in Silent Hill, she feels that without any support, she couldn’t branch out on her own—she wasn’t strong enough.
She asks Travis to take her away—that she and him could make a go for it somewhere else. She quickly backs off and states that she is only acting—but it is clear she is serious about escaping. She simply can’t do it alone. Even seven years later, trapped in a nightmare world, she is unwilling or unable to leave—to escape her own fate. Harry asks her if she wants to join him—but she declines, stating that she has to stay there. While she may have not been physically able to leave, as she was only a construct of Alessa’s memory, it was clear that seven years had not changed her need for another person—over time she has become even more dependent on others to make decisions for her.
Lisa has also been heavily influenced by her experiences with Kaufman and the drug, PTV. As shown in scenes from SH:0, Lisa has been in a sexual relationship with Kaufman for at least some extended period of time, and is also heavily addicted to the drug PTV, which he supplies her. She is most likely high in most scenes that Travis encounters her in. While in normal situations the sexual situation with Kaufman would be considered consensual, Lisa is only sixteen. There is dubious consent; Lisa is a teenager who is sleeping with her much older boss—who can control her success at the hospital, and also controls her access to a highly addictive drug. The withdrawal symptoms are enough to show how dependent Lisa is for the substance—she states in
her journals found by Harry in SH:1 that when attempting to detox she sees blood and pus pouring from faucets, and bugs of all sorts crawling around the room and around her.
From her addiction onward, it is clear that Lisa makes very few of her own choices—her early indoctrination to a co-dependent relationship makes her an easy puppet for Kaufman and Daliah’s plans. When Alessa survives the burning, it is clear that someone needs to take care of her third degree burns—Kaufman blackmails Lisa into taking the job by threatening to withhold the PTV from her, and forces her to keep everything secret. For seven years, she never attempts to escape her fate—she seems more than willing to do as she is told, to get the drug she so desperately needs to function. She is an addict, and acts accordingly—she will do whatever she has to, to gain it. If this means sleeping with Kaufman, or being a pawn in their game to keep a poor girl alive, she was willing. Reluctant, but willing. Despite her closeness to Travis in SH:0, she never tells him what she knows—and in the seven years between SH:0 and SH:1, its clear that she has never sought out anyone to help Alessa. She selfishly chooses drugs over
helping a small girl.
Lisa spends seven years taking care of wounds that are constantly bleeding and oozing pus; she is Alessa’s sole companion in Hell. This naturally breeds resentment for Alessa herself; Lisa starts to struggle with her own sanity, questioning how a child could stay alive after such trauma. But she does the job diligently—and while she may have personally resented Alessa, it was clear that Lisa was able to be somewhat kind and gentle with her charge. Lisa knows that Alessa sees Lisa as a mother figure, going so far as to allow Lisa to live on after her death. Every other nurse within Silent Hill is a disgusting, scary creature—but Lisa herself is allowed to stay pure. [It is to be noted, though, in SH:3, Valtiel is shown to be torturing Lisa. While
Alessa forgave her, it is clear Lisa never forgave herself—so she is doomed to be tortured for eternity for her sins]
Despite all of this, her selfish acts, her resentment and bitterness, Lisa is at her core a good person. She doesn’t allow her resentment towards Alessa to ever show to the little girl as she grows. Lisa becomes the last touch of humanity that Alessa had on a daily basis, and most likely helped keep her alive. Additionally, she forms a connection with Harry. He is the first person who has been kind to her in a long time, and she takes a hold of that, and tries to help him as
much as she can, bound by her promise to Kaufman, and the ‘feeling’ that she can’t leave. Every time that Harry wakes up in the hospital, Lisa is there, the care taker, trying to give him the information she can to assist. There are sparks of a happy girl, of what she used to be in happier times, without the drug.
The Lisa Harry meets is not Lisa herself, but the ‘memory’ of Lisa—the Lisa that Alessa allowed to live on, even after she was killed by Kaufman. With Harry and Travis, she makes it clear that she hates to be alone in the madness, and reaches out to them to be saved. There is only one instance where Lisa attempts to escape on her own; eventually taking care of Alessa is too much for her, and not even her need for the drug is enough to keep her there. Lisa attempts an
escape, born of desperation—and Kaufman kills her for it. But even in death, even after the realization that she is nothing more than a puppet nurse—she still attempts to help Harry. Her drive to assist is strong, and in the Good + ending (the one considered canon), she drags herself out of the bowls of the Otherworld and takes Kaufman to Hell with her.
Hers is the story of a woman who found her strength too late, and paid dearly for it.
abilities/powers:
Skills
Nurse, specializing in burn vicitms. Certified Specialist
Practitioner (Burns and pediatrics).
Abilities
**NOTE THESE ONLY APPLY IN PUPPET NURSE FORM**
In Puppet Nurse form, Lisa is drawn to the guilty, and those who feel they deserve to be punished. She doesn't feel pain, so the only way to take her down is to kill her or fully incapacitate her (she isn't very dextarious in this form). Once she has honed in on prey, there is very little that can deter her from them. Puppet Nurses seem to have the ability teleport or 'respawn' depending on the situation and can be hard to contain.
first person sample:
[A pretty blonde is sitting on the floor of the morgue, wrapped in a white sheet. Her eyes are red, as if she's been crying, and her fingers tangle in the sheet, as if the simple grip will keep her rooted where she is.]
Hello...? I'm--I'm not quite sure where I am. I'm looking for a man,
Harry? We were just--he just—
[Her face twitches a bit, her hands tightening around the cloth
between her fingers. She looks down, lips trembling, tears threatening to fall again. She starts to shake her head, her voice coming out softer, near hysterical, now.]
I just don't understand--I did--I shouldn't be... [She buries her face in her hands]
I was good. Why did I come back? Why am I not like them?
third person sample:
Lisa couldn't get out. She was a fool to think she ever could. But still, she wandered the halls of the Hospital, waiting, watching, trying to avoid touching anything- the dirty, bleeding walls of the place. Though it didn't matter, did it? She could see her hands, her dress, covered in blood.
The one who will lead us to paradise, with blood stained hands...
That wasn't her, though! It was Alessa. Alessa, the little girl, the witch, the one who had caused all of this, who wouldn't stop, who wouldn't let her go. She could hear the little girl's cries, coming from the basement. She wasn't going to go back there, Kaufmann couldn't make her! Day in, day out, a girl who wouldn't die, a body who wouldn't live. The burns, the infection--it was like it had spread through Alessa and into Lisa's frame, burning her from the inside, poisoning her more than the PTV ever could.
She had to get out.
Breaking out in to a run, Lisa tried to pass through all the mist, the fog. What was real and what was a nightmare wasn't clear anymore--it was all the same now, wasn't it? She was a horrible, bad girl, and Alessa had trapped her here to stay a play thing. Each door she tried was locked, the moans and groans of something dying or undead behind each. She had to run faster, find a room that was open--doors--a way out. She could hear something coming after her, teasing, taunting, the 'scratch' 'slump' of a creature dragging itself towards her, demanding it's pound of flesh from the sinner.
Faster--there! Lisa could see a light, and using her last ounce of strength, she barreled through it, collapsing against the cold white linoleum floor, trying to catch her breath, to stop the burn in her lungs.
She was safe, she was--
"You should be down in the basement, sweetheart. I thought we were done with the talk of you leaving."
Before Lisa even looked up, she could see his shoes--those brown, thick, heavy soled shoes he loved to wear when he took her out, and showed her her place in the world. Her eyes drifted upward, locking with Kaufmann's--he looked deadly calm, twitchy, as he always was when most angry.
Lisa tried to speak--but nothing came out. No matter what she attempted to say, to form with her lips, it was as if she was simply mute. She knew that this couldn't be real-that it had to be all a dream, but she still couldn't wake up, couldn't stop this. And now again, she could hear the thing starting to creep up near the door, moaning, wanting to be fed.
Kaufmann made a move towards her, and she tried to scramble away--but she wasn't fast enough (she never was). Grabbing her by her blond hair, he started to drag her out the door, down the hallway to the waiting nightmare.
"Let us put you back there, where you belong. You never did know your place."
Lisa awoke screaming, tumbling out of bed in a mess of sheets and limbs, pushing herself instinctively into the corner of the room, curling around herself to protect what she could. Where was she what was--
It all started to flood back to her, and as she awoke more fully, she pressed her face against her knees, sobbing. Would they ever stop?
case no: Random is fine.
***NOTE: Given Lisa's current canon point, unless there is a 'lock' put on her, somehow, she will become a puppet nurse, with limited ability to control herself. She’ll seek out those who
need to be punished, and attempt to enact the punishments. As she is human again, as well, she is going to be suffering from PTV withdrawals. Is there any way I could work out like...something that would lock her abilities/puppet nurse shit down? (She's hard to play from any canon point but the end, but it leads to this issue.)
name: Linds
are you over 18?: yes
personal dw: none
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc: bettiebloodshed on all platforms
characters in abax: Erik Lehnsherr [OU]
in character information.
series: Silent Hill
name: Lisa Garland
age: 23
sex: Female
race: Human
weight: 120
height: 5'7''
[OPTIONAL] cause of death: Bullet to the head
canon point: After she realizes that she’s dead, and Harry shuts the door on her.
previous cr: N/A
history: http://silenthill.wikia.com/wiki/Lisa_Garland
personality:
At first glance, Lisa’s story appears to be the story of a victim. However, after further inspection, it is the story of a deeply flawed individual, who became caught up in a plot greater than herself—and died trying to escape.
Lisa is a woman who wanted to escape Silent Hill, to become something bigger, better than her family before her. There is a bitterness even early on, at the age of 16, at not being able to fufill this dream. She states to Travis in SH:0 that she wanted to be an actress, but her mother was a nurse, and it was what she would have to be. As a girl who was born and raised in Silent Hill, she feels that without any support, she couldn’t branch out on her own—she wasn’t strong enough.
She asks Travis to take her away—that she and him could make a go for it somewhere else. She quickly backs off and states that she is only acting—but it is clear she is serious about escaping. She simply can’t do it alone. Even seven years later, trapped in a nightmare world, she is unwilling or unable to leave—to escape her own fate. Harry asks her if she wants to join him—but she declines, stating that she has to stay there. While she may have not been physically able to leave, as she was only a construct of Alessa’s memory, it was clear that seven years had not changed her need for another person—over time she has become even more dependent on others to make decisions for her.
Lisa has also been heavily influenced by her experiences with Kaufman and the drug, PTV. As shown in scenes from SH:0, Lisa has been in a sexual relationship with Kaufman for at least some extended period of time, and is also heavily addicted to the drug PTV, which he supplies her. She is most likely high in most scenes that Travis encounters her in. While in normal situations the sexual situation with Kaufman would be considered consensual, Lisa is only sixteen. There is dubious consent; Lisa is a teenager who is sleeping with her much older boss—who can control her success at the hospital, and also controls her access to a highly addictive drug. The withdrawal symptoms are enough to show how dependent Lisa is for the substance—she states in
her journals found by Harry in SH:1 that when attempting to detox she sees blood and pus pouring from faucets, and bugs of all sorts crawling around the room and around her.
From her addiction onward, it is clear that Lisa makes very few of her own choices—her early indoctrination to a co-dependent relationship makes her an easy puppet for Kaufman and Daliah’s plans. When Alessa survives the burning, it is clear that someone needs to take care of her third degree burns—Kaufman blackmails Lisa into taking the job by threatening to withhold the PTV from her, and forces her to keep everything secret. For seven years, she never attempts to escape her fate—she seems more than willing to do as she is told, to get the drug she so desperately needs to function. She is an addict, and acts accordingly—she will do whatever she has to, to gain it. If this means sleeping with Kaufman, or being a pawn in their game to keep a poor girl alive, she was willing. Reluctant, but willing. Despite her closeness to Travis in SH:0, she never tells him what she knows—and in the seven years between SH:0 and SH:1, its clear that she has never sought out anyone to help Alessa. She selfishly chooses drugs over
helping a small girl.
Lisa spends seven years taking care of wounds that are constantly bleeding and oozing pus; she is Alessa’s sole companion in Hell. This naturally breeds resentment for Alessa herself; Lisa starts to struggle with her own sanity, questioning how a child could stay alive after such trauma. But she does the job diligently—and while she may have personally resented Alessa, it was clear that Lisa was able to be somewhat kind and gentle with her charge. Lisa knows that Alessa sees Lisa as a mother figure, going so far as to allow Lisa to live on after her death. Every other nurse within Silent Hill is a disgusting, scary creature—but Lisa herself is allowed to stay pure. [It is to be noted, though, in SH:3, Valtiel is shown to be torturing Lisa. While
Alessa forgave her, it is clear Lisa never forgave herself—so she is doomed to be tortured for eternity for her sins]
Despite all of this, her selfish acts, her resentment and bitterness, Lisa is at her core a good person. She doesn’t allow her resentment towards Alessa to ever show to the little girl as she grows. Lisa becomes the last touch of humanity that Alessa had on a daily basis, and most likely helped keep her alive. Additionally, she forms a connection with Harry. He is the first person who has been kind to her in a long time, and she takes a hold of that, and tries to help him as
much as she can, bound by her promise to Kaufman, and the ‘feeling’ that she can’t leave. Every time that Harry wakes up in the hospital, Lisa is there, the care taker, trying to give him the information she can to assist. There are sparks of a happy girl, of what she used to be in happier times, without the drug.
The Lisa Harry meets is not Lisa herself, but the ‘memory’ of Lisa—the Lisa that Alessa allowed to live on, even after she was killed by Kaufman. With Harry and Travis, she makes it clear that she hates to be alone in the madness, and reaches out to them to be saved. There is only one instance where Lisa attempts to escape on her own; eventually taking care of Alessa is too much for her, and not even her need for the drug is enough to keep her there. Lisa attempts an
escape, born of desperation—and Kaufman kills her for it. But even in death, even after the realization that she is nothing more than a puppet nurse—she still attempts to help Harry. Her drive to assist is strong, and in the Good + ending (the one considered canon), she drags herself out of the bowls of the Otherworld and takes Kaufman to Hell with her.
Hers is the story of a woman who found her strength too late, and paid dearly for it.
abilities/powers:
Skills
Nurse, specializing in burn vicitms. Certified Specialist
Practitioner (Burns and pediatrics).
Abilities
**NOTE THESE ONLY APPLY IN PUPPET NURSE FORM**
In Puppet Nurse form, Lisa is drawn to the guilty, and those who feel they deserve to be punished. She doesn't feel pain, so the only way to take her down is to kill her or fully incapacitate her (she isn't very dextarious in this form). Once she has honed in on prey, there is very little that can deter her from them. Puppet Nurses seem to have the ability teleport or 'respawn' depending on the situation and can be hard to contain.
first person sample:
[A pretty blonde is sitting on the floor of the morgue, wrapped in a white sheet. Her eyes are red, as if she's been crying, and her fingers tangle in the sheet, as if the simple grip will keep her rooted where she is.]
Hello...? I'm--I'm not quite sure where I am. I'm looking for a man,
Harry? We were just--he just—
[Her face twitches a bit, her hands tightening around the cloth
between her fingers. She looks down, lips trembling, tears threatening to fall again. She starts to shake her head, her voice coming out softer, near hysterical, now.]
I just don't understand--I did--I shouldn't be... [She buries her face in her hands]
I was good. Why did I come back? Why am I not like them?
third person sample:
Lisa couldn't get out. She was a fool to think she ever could. But still, she wandered the halls of the Hospital, waiting, watching, trying to avoid touching anything- the dirty, bleeding walls of the place. Though it didn't matter, did it? She could see her hands, her dress, covered in blood.
The one who will lead us to paradise, with blood stained hands...
That wasn't her, though! It was Alessa. Alessa, the little girl, the witch, the one who had caused all of this, who wouldn't stop, who wouldn't let her go. She could hear the little girl's cries, coming from the basement. She wasn't going to go back there, Kaufmann couldn't make her! Day in, day out, a girl who wouldn't die, a body who wouldn't live. The burns, the infection--it was like it had spread through Alessa and into Lisa's frame, burning her from the inside, poisoning her more than the PTV ever could.
She had to get out.
Breaking out in to a run, Lisa tried to pass through all the mist, the fog. What was real and what was a nightmare wasn't clear anymore--it was all the same now, wasn't it? She was a horrible, bad girl, and Alessa had trapped her here to stay a play thing. Each door she tried was locked, the moans and groans of something dying or undead behind each. She had to run faster, find a room that was open--doors--a way out. She could hear something coming after her, teasing, taunting, the 'scratch' 'slump' of a creature dragging itself towards her, demanding it's pound of flesh from the sinner.
Faster--there! Lisa could see a light, and using her last ounce of strength, she barreled through it, collapsing against the cold white linoleum floor, trying to catch her breath, to stop the burn in her lungs.
She was safe, she was--
"You should be down in the basement, sweetheart. I thought we were done with the talk of you leaving."
Before Lisa even looked up, she could see his shoes--those brown, thick, heavy soled shoes he loved to wear when he took her out, and showed her her place in the world. Her eyes drifted upward, locking with Kaufmann's--he looked deadly calm, twitchy, as he always was when most angry.
Lisa tried to speak--but nothing came out. No matter what she attempted to say, to form with her lips, it was as if she was simply mute. She knew that this couldn't be real-that it had to be all a dream, but she still couldn't wake up, couldn't stop this. And now again, she could hear the thing starting to creep up near the door, moaning, wanting to be fed.
Kaufmann made a move towards her, and she tried to scramble away--but she wasn't fast enough (she never was). Grabbing her by her blond hair, he started to drag her out the door, down the hallway to the waiting nightmare.
"Let us put you back there, where you belong. You never did know your place."
Lisa awoke screaming, tumbling out of bed in a mess of sheets and limbs, pushing herself instinctively into the corner of the room, curling around herself to protect what she could. Where was she what was--
It all started to flood back to her, and as she awoke more fully, she pressed her face against her knees, sobbing. Would they ever stop?
case no: Random is fine.
***NOTE: Given Lisa's current canon point, unless there is a 'lock' put on her, somehow, she will become a puppet nurse, with limited ability to control herself. She’ll seek out those who
need to be punished, and attempt to enact the punishments. As she is human again, as well, she is going to be suffering from PTV withdrawals. Is there any way I could work out like...something that would lock her abilities/puppet nurse shit down? (She's hard to play from any canon point but the end, but it leads to this issue.)
