Liam

**“***Where is she? She told me to meet her out here. Last time I let some bitch pick the location. How could anyone get in the mood out here?***”**
— **Liam, during his last time ever**

**Liam** is a playable character and the protagonist of the prologue of *Night at the Gates of Hell* and a minor character in *Bloodwash*.

## Description

### Appearance

Liam is not seen in-game, but his inventory profile in NatGoH shows him as an adult Caucasian man in his 20's with short dark hair with slight facial hair. He appears to be wearing a dark T-shirt.

### Personality

Depending on his alcohol levels, Liam is either a shiftless, apathatic layabout or an abrasive, foul-mouthed chauvinist. During his relationship with Sara, the mother of his child, he was known to shun going outside entirely on account of his chronic alcoholism and did not care for neither Sara's nor his own living conditions. Sara essentially provided everything to ensure the pair could eventually make a life for themselves, something that Liam neither actively impeded or facilitated. While she tries to see the good in him by acknowledging that Liam, for all his faults, was not a domestic abuser, it was clear even to bystanders such as Stan that Liam was incapable of changing his ways and, despite Sara's hopes, would never become a reliable parent.

His physical appearance in *Night at the Gates of Hell* shows Liam, outside of his drunken stupors, to be an exceedingly unpleasant, self-centered, and all around unlikable person, who appears to hold near everything that comes within his sight with disdain. Particularly expressed was his low opinion on women and church, seeing the former solely for sex and the latter as being beneath notice.

### History

Liam is the deadbeat boyfriend of Sara, a pregnant college student. The two had recently moved into an apartment complex in the ghetto of Youngstown's metropolitan area, with Sara having plans to find a job to support herself and her baby. Liam, however, hardly ever leaves his room, where he stays for most of the day drinking and sleeping, much to Sara's annoyance. Though she acknowledges Liam's neglectful nature, Sara hopes that once their child is born, Liam will finally see cause to change his ways once he becomes a father

## *Bloodwash*

Liam is not seen for the entire game, apparently still dealing with a hangover inside the bathroom in the apartment. Stan briefly brings him in a conversation with Sara, asking how he's been treating her and offering to let her stay at his sister's place if the situation with Liam were to "get bad", which she politely declines for the time being.

At the plaza, when interacting with a payphone in the laundromat, Sara will say that the only person she could call is likely still vomiting away over a toilet. In the vintage porn section of Peepaw's, she can also comment that Liam is unwilling to try anything "adventurous" in bed.

Jordan King has stated in a Tweet that shortly after the events of *Bloodwash*, Sara takes Stan's advice and dumps Liam to temporarily move in with Stan's sister, cutting him out of her and their child's life for good.

## *Night at the Gates of Hell*

### St. Mary's Cemetary

Liam appears outside of an old graveyard near his car, having driven over to meet his date, Razor. Though he complains about trusting "some bitch" to pick their rendezvous spot, Liam still enters the hedge maze leading into cemetery grounds, noticing the strange green light at the church, which he writes off as the nearby monastery having "some kind of dumb service".

He meets Razor inside when she spooks him from around the corner as he arrives, which Liam, being the gentleman that he is, belittles, saying that he "as a man" had nothing to fear from "someone like [her] - a woman". Putting Liam's turn-off of an introduction aside, Razor eagerly beckons him to the picnic blanket she set up and begins to strip naked. She stops Liam in his tracks when she sees that he doesn't have a condom on, and although he mentions that "nobody else has had a problem" with unprotected sex before, Razor tells him to return with one on, otherwise he could forget doing anything for tonight. Thoroughly displeased, Liam nonetheless heads back to his car, conveniently disregarding a large figure up ahead limping past a corner. He is able to find a spare, but when he returns, Liam witnesses as a group of Monk Zombies bite his one-night-stand's breasts off before spotting him. He is chased through the maze and has his path to the car blocked by another group of Monk Zombies. He passes through the now-opened gate to the cemetery and seeks refuge in the church, but finds that there is no other way out. Liam enters a confessional with a monstrous preacher on the other side, with a note instructing Sister Mary to confess to her sins. Having seen a coffin for a Sister Mary at the back, he heads there to find the casket turned over and empty, with a wooden cross now revealed. After giving the cross to the father, he hands over a key to open the door leading further into the church. He sees what appears to be a nun rounding a corner, finding that the corridor he entered is a dead-end, with only a pair of blinds covering something. As he opens them, Liam is attacked by a half-rotten Nun Zombie that had been hiding there, likely the recently reanimated Sister Mary.

## Trivia

* Liam can be prematurely killed by the Monk Zombies before reaching the church. This changes nothing and lets the game continue as normal.
* Liam's voice actor, Nathan Wilson, also voices Charles.
* Despite Sara mentioning in *Bloodwash* that she is saving up for a car, Liam arrives in a personal vehicle in *Night at the Gates of Hell*. He may have either bought it after Sara left him or already owned it during their relationship, but forbade his girlfriend from using it.
	+ The car itself uses the same model as the second parked car in *Bloodwash*, ironically the same one that prompts Sara to make the aforementioned comment.

## Reference

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/LeggoMyGiallo/status/1443209941876191234
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/LeggoMyGiallo/status/1541722675596369921