Lily Bowen is a Fallout: New Vegas nightkin companion living in Jacobstown in 2281. She was voiced by the late David Pizzuto.
Biography[]
Born in 2078, just a year after the Great War, Lily lived a simple life in Vault 17, until the Unity raided her vault in 2153. The 75-year-old grandmother was dragged outside, where she saw the sun for the first time. She was taken to the Mariposa Military Base and dipped into the vats of Forced Evolutionary Virus.
She would emerge as a nightkin and was then on used as a spy or an assassin, with Tabitha as her squad leader. It was during this time that Lily made her sword from a blade of the Vertibird that crashed near Klamath.
It was also during this time that she developed schizophrenia, and began hearing a voice in her head named "Leo" who taught her how to craft the blade. With the fall of Unity, the destruction of the Cathedral and the death of the Master, whom she didn't like, she decided it was time to go home.
Eventually, she made it to the settlement known as Jacobstown, led and watched over by super mutant Marcus, where she now lives, tending to the bighorners. Recently, however, the local night stalkers had developed a stealth mutation, managing to hunt the domesticated bighorners as prey.
Should the Courier choose to intervene, Lily would like to become involved. While living at Jacobstown, she began receiving help from Doctor Henry for her schizophrenia, brought on by excessive Stealth Boy usage and manifesting itself as voice named "Leo," with anti-psychotics drugs. The side effects of the drugs however are most evidently memory loss. Unwilling to forget her past, in particular her grandchildren Jimmy and Becky, she chooses to take her medicine at half-doses. An act personified by listening to a holotape of the last time she visited her grandchildren.
"Leo" manifests himself as a malicious deviant and sociopathic voice she can communicate with, he will give instructions in battle and tell her to do "terrible things." He in turn doesn't like being called a voice in her head. In stark contrast is Lily's natural personality, friendly, helpful, and pleasant. Due to her nightkin training, she can help the Courier with their stealth. While she claims to not like guns that doesn't mean she is incapable of using them, just that she and "Leo" prefer to use bladed melee weapons.
When Doctor Henry began his work on developing a cure for the nightkin schizophrenia she asked his permission to help. She even still wishing to help after he informed her of the risk of permanent brain damage. Should the Courier help her and Doctor Henry with the completion of the cure, Jacobstown will prosper.
Furthermore, should the Courier help convince her that she was correct to take her medicine at half doses she will eventually leave Jacobstown to seek the remnants of her past. However, if she is convinced that she should take the entire dose every time she will forget the importance of her past and throw away her holotape. Or, if she is convinced to stop taking her medicine then she will be consumed by the Leo alter, becoming nothing more than a ravening beast.
Endings[]
| Prerequisite | Monologue |
|---|---|
| Lily dies. | "Lily's long life finally came to a close in the Mojave Wasteland. As the life faded from her, her last thoughts were of her grandchildren." |
| Encourage Lily to take her medication regularly in "Lily and Leo." | "Encouraged by the Courier to take her medication regularly, Lily's mind eventually attained a semblance of clarity. Her memories dulled by the pills, she cast aside the recording of her grandchildren, no longer remembering its significance." |
| Encourage Lily to stop taking her medication in "Lily and Leo". | "Encouraged by the Courier to stop taking her medication altogether, Lily's instabilities grew worse with each passing day. Eventually, she became little more than a ravening beast, the kindly old grandmother subsumed beneath the rage." |
| Encourage Lily to take her medicine at half-doses, or do not complete "Lily and Leo". | "Lily continued to take her medicine at half-doses, and although she remembered her grandchildren, her mind remained muddled and confused. Eventually, she parted ways with the Courier and traveled west, seeking the remnants of her past." |
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Licensing[]
This article contains content derived from the "Lily Bowen" article on Nukapedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
