(a disclaimer before i go into this but i do not HATE liz as a character, i just think the lore she's trying to present us makes no sense lol)
This has been on my mind for so so long, pretty much since the update came out 9 days ago. Animal Hospital lore is pretty vague so when i heard about Liz i was pretty exited to see what she could present us with in the lore department and?? hello?? this is some BULLSHITTT 😭💔
rest under the cut i didn't want the post to appear as obnoxiously long when someone’s js scrolling for art
So, what do we know about Liz? She introduces herself and says she recently got fired because a news story she wanted to post was deemed fake by the Animal Corp (which is interesting because we know they're secretive and shi). She then gives us the quest with the pictures and all that.
during the 2nd encounter if we took the correct picture she explains why she needs the pictures, she's leading an vigilante investigation (probably illegal </3) because she thinks the anomalies are not a coincidence. SURE, fair, still somewhat fair, i can see why she'd think that!
3rd encounter: Liz tells us the patients she asks us to take pictures of have something in common, they all consistently came to the hospital (even before we as a player got hired) before in the span of weeks which could explain why she "knew" who to take pictures of- This lowkey falls apart when you think about how she acquired this data because she either illegally accessed the medical records of these people or stalked them, either way it doesn’t look good for you Liz and i am starting to think there are more reasons for you being fired rather than just "misinformation".
also generally I am kinda hating the implication of the hospital gradually causing the anomaly transformation in the span of weeks if not months. Yes it'd make sense if Animal Corporation was trying to discreetly spread anomalies (because it'd be kinda obvious if the guy who just visited the hospital 2 days ago was suddenly a skin walker-) but..? why would they do that?? what's the end goal with that I'm crying. I'll get more into why it's stupid ash in a second.
4th time we see her she straight up tells us the patients are going thru a transformation and that it's related to THIS specific hospital as it's implied through the previous encounters and this is just bullshit
The action of the game CANONICALLY takes place somewhere on the outskirts of the South Korean city Daegu (대구), like, right next to a rather big golfing field actually (throwing in a little fun fact). And if we're to assume all the countries and continents still operate the same as they do in the real world (which is a bit of a stretch seeing as all the differences between animal species would impact how the world operates but for the sake of my own mental health i will not be rewriting the entirety of history to account for all the disadvantages/advantages animal's might have over each other) this city is HUGE. It's a metropolis with more than 2 million people living in it- There is NO way a potentially city wide (if not country-wide/world-wide, we see it on the news after shift 4 but it's hard to tell if it's regional or national) infection is MANUALLY and SLOWLY spread by people going to ONE hospital that's not even in the city CENTRE (ESPECIALLY SEEING HOW MANY ANOMALIES THERE ARE IN GAME) OH MY GOD DHIUHUIDAHIUDSHI. Liz no wonder you got fired this is such a dumbass theory think about this Liz
5th and final time she comes she says she has all the evidence she needs for her story and that they fired her because what she wanted to say was true (which she doesn’t explicitly say what her story was we can only assume it has to do with the transformation and it being linked to the hospital) and- LIZ HOW DID YOU KNOW YOUR STORY WAS PUBLISH WORTHY BEFORE GETTING THE "EVIDENCE" OF IT BEING TRUE 😭😭💔 oh my god bro i am getting so mad at this. She was seriously gonna publish a life ruining, building shutting down, career ending claim with no evidence 😭💔
oh and if that's not enough we also have Big H's dialogue about her to account for:
Harlow's dialogue is pissing me off here (as much as i love this guy) because his ominous ass "oh you js don't ask questions...." implies she was at least SOMEWHAT close to the truth 😭💔 son she was spewing BS that's why she got fired. Also the hesitance before saying "i don't know the reason" lowkey implies he does know and is being a bit of a unreliable narrator
also Liz is still considered new in "town"(even tho this a metropolis but it might just be a figure of speech) and is a recent graduate according to Harlow so this implies she didn't have this news job for very long. It's a little strange that she "figured out" the link between the hospital and the anomalies (which i DO believe in don't get me wrong, it's just definitely not whatever Liz's conclusion is.) while most of the city's population is still clueless despite the anomalies likely being a thing for a while now? idk it feels pretty off to me and Liz being an ex Animal Corp worker doesn’t make this better because her clearance level was still definitely very civilian like.
Other concerns:
- How does the UV camera reveal the anomalies in a way a normal camera cannot? I don't have possible explanations but i'm just putting it out there
- That's all i can think of right now actually, i covered pretty much everything about Liz
CONCLUSION?: LIZ IS A FRAUD (nd prolly a criminal) Lisbeth? more like Fraudbeth
Lowkey let me know if any of you guys even read this to the end and if you would want me to post my thoughts about the other characters at some point
