Lidia Salgari

> Merciful and empathetic. Helping others is her calling.
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**Lidia Salgari** is a playable character available in **episode 5**. She is Daniel's sponsor and friend.

## Episodes

* Episode 1: Non-playable (Mentioned)
* Episode 2: Non-playable (Mentioned)
* Episode 3: Non-playable (Mentioned)
* Episode 4: Non-playable
* Episode 5: Playable

## Biography

It's fair to say that Lidia didn't find her career path, but that it found her, or rather crashed into her. In her troubled youth, she lost several friends to the scourge of heroin and whenever the phone rang, she always feared it would be the police calling , asking her to come to the morgue to identify yet another loved one's body.

Lidia became a therapist to help people avoid that fate. She runs several support groups for recovering alcoholics and drug users. She met Daniel at one of those sessions , after he hit rock bottom with the bottle. Daniel considers Lidia his savior, and the two have been friends ever since.

## Background

From humble origins, Lidia became a psychologist and social therapist after losing several friends to the heroin crisis of the 70s and 80s when she committed to helping addicts to fight their condition. She met Daniel in detox therapy and after his recovery, they became lifelong friends. Daniel considers Lidia his savior, but also a tireless comrade who you can always count on.

## Story

### Episode 2: Eerily Quiet

Lidia greets Daniel when he awakens in the hospital with humor, and when he says he wants to continue searching for the Hushers she discourages him. Lidia lets Daniel stay in her home and sleep on the couch (if Sophie is dead). Later when Daniel awakens from a nightmare, she asks him if he is alright.

### Episode 5: The Horror and The Song

Lidia helps Daniel break the curse of the Music Box at the hospital.

## Personality

Lidia is shown to be both humorous, and a kind person. She helped Daniel battle his alcohol addiction, resulting in him being three years sober (as of present). When Daniel was in the hospital she waited for him to awaken, and when he did she greeted him with humor to try to lighten the mood.

She may also be cautious, as she tried to get Daniel to stay in the hospital and rest instead of immediately continuing the search for the Hushers.

## Physical description

Lidia is a small Caucasian woman dressed in a rain coat, jeans with leggings and a wool cap.

## Item

**Portable Inhaler**

> **Character guidebook** **Description:** "As an asthmatic, Lidia always carries this device with her. When worse comes to worst, it relieves her and steadies her breath."
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> **Character Selection** **Description:** "It helps me breathe during my asthma attacks and when I get anxious."
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> **In game description:** "I need it for my asthma. It helps me breathe. Using it calms me down." -Lidia
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## Quotes

### Episode 2

* "Well, well... It appears as though the prince of slumber will be granting us an audience..." [To Daniel after he awakens in the hospital]
* "How are you feeling, your highness?" [To Daniel after he awakens in the hospital]
* "Daniel, the doctor said you need complete rest. Complete." [To Daniel when he wants to leave the hospital and continue the search]
* "I'm not sure we should stick our nose into this business... after everything that's occurred..." [To Daniel when he wants to leave the hospital and continue the search]
* "Daniel, please..." [After Daniel insists he leaves and continues the search]

* "Daniel, are you alright?" [To Daniel after he wakes her while staying in her home]

### Episode 5

* "Ah, doctor Jeremy Hartwood, founder of this institution. He was one of the first psychiatrists to give a damn about patients' rights and well-being. My girlfriend told me about him." [After observing a portrait of Jeremy Hartwood in the director's office]]

## Trivia

* She bears a similar style of dress to Erica Färber, with both having a similar hairstyle, a large raincoat jacket, and jean-shorts with leggings.
* Lidia is one of the least playable characters (tied with Alina Ramos and Sebastian P. Husher) as she is only playable in one episode.
* Lidia is one the last playable character to be introduced and is the last introduced playable character for a full episode. The other of the former is Dr. Berenice Prestegard.
* Lidia is implied to be a lesbian in episode 5, as she mentions that her girlfriend once told her about Jeremy Hartwood. This makes her the first and only openly LGBT character in the game.
* Lidia is the only character to borrow "scream" voice lines from 2 other characters. Alexander, Etienne and Omar do the same, but only from Daniel. She borrows most of her screams from Sophie (the screams when failing the Door event, another scream when she fails the Darkness minigame, and the crying voice clips when her Revenant self is found by another character) and one voice clip from Erica (the scream when someone interacts with Erica's hostile revenant self ).