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Had to dig deep since the release of the character pages so I’m not just repeating stuff that’s already been filed lol It’s time for my atrocity-committing, murderer-for-hire, I-support-Women’s-Wrongs babygirl with an active, vigilant bitch face that never rests! All of Night City wants to know… Who’s Lila?
🧨TEN FACTS ABOUT LILA ‘ELLSY’ HORVATH🧨
1️⃣Lila came into contact with Rourke after the successful completion of her first big Solo heist: a full-scale raid on a MiliTech warehouse in Arroyo where several Top Secret tech prototypes were being kept in Max Security mobile vaults. That much damage and theft perpetrated by a lone unknown mercenary toting a gun bigger than she is? Better to bring that kinda threat in-house where Corporate can keep an eye on her.
2️⃣ Her story is very similar to Nick’s in that on paper, she also comes from a “good family” with Megacorp-affiliated parents… but that’s where the similarities between them end. Nick’s folks were at least somewhat decent when it came to being parents; they wanted him to get off drugs and put The Incident behind him so he could keep training to be a Netwatch agent. Live the upstanding, good life they’d always planned for him. Lila’s parents never have been who they said they were, didn’t even pretend to have a life planned out for her, nor did they ever display any familial affection for their daughter, even for show. It was always understood between all three of them that Lila was never anything more than a corporate asset: a lab rat to test Gene Enhancement tech on when the experiments Dr. Horvath headed progressed into the human-testing phase of clinical trials. She’s more of a Blade Runner-style bioengineered Replicant than she is a regular person. (Though that’s not an exact comparison.)
3️⃣She was never supposed to leave the Black Site lab out in the Badlands between Night City and the LA Metroplex once her father had her moved there, but gene-splicing Lila repeatedly since conception to make a prototype blueprint for the “Human+ Project” came with drawbacks Dr. Horvath did not initially account for. Namely the fact that in 2077, she all too easily killed every last security guard and scientist on the R&D team that worked under her father, then escaped containment in the middle of the night. Once she was out of her sterile white clinical prison, she headed for the nearest nomad camp and paid off the Aldecaldos to smuggle her into Night City with a stolen cred chip taken off a dead scientist.
4️⃣ The only one that’s been deluded into thinking Lila was 100% successful in her escape attempt is Lila. BioTechnica knows exactly where their little clone is, what she’s doing, everyone she’s ever worked with and who she works for. The higher ups at the corporation have been making lemonade out of “unfortunate variable” lemons by throwing more funding and manpower at Dr. Horvath’s secret illegal Gene Tech project still running out of So-Cal; essentially letting her run free in a double blind real-world Human+ trial. Every movement, every thought, every ounce of biometric data is secretly catalogued by her cyberware and sent back to Dr. Horvath. She’s still imprisoned, she just can’t see the walls anymore.
5️⃣ While most solos in Night City deeply mourned the loss of the Queen of the Afterlife when she was killed during V’s final raid on Arasaka Tower, Lila wasn’t exactly spending 2078 slamming back drinks in Rogue Amendiares’s honor. “I didn’t like the shifty bitch the second I met her. The only thing that was ever useful about her was her contact list and I didn’t need that even when she was alive.”
6️⃣ She is a certified Kerry Eurodyne stan after consuming as much ‘normal person pop culture’ as she possibly could the instant she was settled in the city. She has posters in her apartment, she’s bought every album, she’s saving up to actually go to one of his concerts, and the only reason she does show up to the Afterlife on occasion is because the guy that owns the bar now is married to Kerry Eurodyne and she might see him there. Not that she’d try to talk to him or ask for an autograph or bother him or anything, that would be awkward and lame, but imagine being in the same room, holy shit that would be so cool.
7️⃣Lila can’t stand fully interfacing with the Net. She has enough problems with depersonalization sometimes and the idea of her consciousness being outside her body, even partially, for any length of time disturbs her. She tried to learn basic netrunning so she could truly work alone for certain jobs and not need collaborators but she gave up almost immediately, deciding to stick to meatspace and guns and things that are concrete in existence. It’s for this exact reason that she also cannot stand BrainDance tech and won’t use it. EVER.
8️⃣Speaking of things Lila hates, needless to say her stance on the Meat vs. Metal debate is a lot more complex and nuanced than just simply weighing the pros and cons of each and picking a side. Those Uncanny Valley androids that started popping up out of nowhere over the past year? Kill it with fire. It doesn’t matter that they exist concretely, they’re the opposite side of the same coin when it comes to all the mad scientist shit BioTechnica does outside the public eye and she wants nothing to do with that. She doesn’t like Delamain (The AI Taxi Service) either, he’s creepy.
9️⃣ No one else has ever been inside Lila’s apartment since the day she moved into it; not even Rourke is allowed to just show up and expect to be let inside. She is so territorial about her space that the four walls surrounding her shitty little capsule rental border on being held sacred, thus she will only use public places to meet up with contacts. When more levels of privacy and discretion are required for a job, she’ll rent out a temporary address at a local pod hotel for however long she’s working, but no one is invited into her house.
🔟Because there was a screen running constant BioTechnica propaganda films in her cell in the Badlands lab, Lila can’t sleep without looping one of their TV ads she recorded to play all night. The dark circles under her eyes aren’t just for edgy fashion, she rarely sleeps more than three hours at a time because the only thing that makes her feel regulated, grounded and relaxed enough to get some rest also makes her skin crawl.
