Nila

Nila in Andan's Run

### Quote

At this distance, don't listen to her with your mind. Listen with your soul.- Andan's Run

### First Appearance

Andan's Run

**Spoiler Warning!**

**Below contains spoilers for**
Act III

Nila is a mysterious and powerful person who is trying to help Andan Rill get back to Kepler 22B.

### Appearance

Nila has blue eyes and light brown hair that she wears up in a bun (although in some early hidden images, she has darker hair).She wears three chains around her head like a crown, with a pendant in the center of her forehead.

## Personality

Nila is a calm and mysterious presence. She speaks with a British accent. Her powers are great and not fully understood, but it is hinted that she has lived many lives and has great cosmic significance. She tries to wake Andan up so that he may fulfill his purpose in the Universes.

## History

Nila, along with Andan, has the highest concentration of OA (Original Atoms) of any living creatures. Because of this, she has existed in some form since the inception of the Universes, and Dad later says that her lives are in "the triple digits". She also claims that her and Andan's OA give them extra speed and endurance, which is why Andan (as Dad) was able to dance for four hours straight.

Nila attempts to wake Andan up throughout the series. Since she communicated on Discord using the blue orb emoji, it is theorized that she was behind the actions that the blue orb took to try to wake Andan up. If this is true, it means that she is somehow able to influence Cheryl's orb tech for her own purposes. It is also possible that Crothers, the first character to mention Nila by name in Dad's Life, may have been acting in conjunction with Nila in his attempts to wake Andan up and guide him on his quest.

## Relationships

Andan: Nila contacts Andan while he is still in his Dad state in order to try to wake him up. After he wakes up, she eventually communicates with him telepathically and tells him of his importance. Nila and Andan both have the highest concentration of OA of all living creatures. Andan seems somewhat annoyed with Nila's inability to give "straight answers".

Crothers: While Crothers and Nila never directly interact in Dad's Life, Crothers mentions her by name to both Andan and Cheryl, meaning that he likely knows about her and her cosmic significance. In Dad Feels Aevum, he tells Andan that he and Nila have the highest concentration of OA. He and Nila also seem to have similar goals of getting Andan back to Kepler 22B, meaning that they could be working in conjunction with each other.

## Trivia

* Nila is first hinted at in a Dad livestream on May 12, 2019, where an image of her flashed and she seemed to speak through Dad on the chat.
* Although Nila looks feminine and uses she/her pronouns, she may not actually be a woman or even a human, as she says in that same livestream that she is "not a who".
* On May 14, 2019, Dad talks on a Discord call about his experiences with Nila, whose name he doesn't yet know. An audio clip of a British woman saying "Hello, hello" plays at the end of the call, and this may have been Nila's voice.
* Nila revealed her name via livestream chat on June 1, 2019.
* On June 29, 2019, Dad does a Q&A livestream in which a second image of Nila periodically flashes onscreen.
* On a gaming livestream on October 15, 2019, Dad reveals that all characters fall into unknown "file categories", and Nila is in her own category.
* Nila is first mentioned in Dad's Life by Crothers in Dad Feels Aevum. She doesn't appear until Andan's Run.
* Played by Ty Davis.