The Siren

Siren in The Light Gallery

The **Siren** is a boss enemy in the late game. It is encountered in its Lair, after the elevator ride with Sotiris. The player must find and kill three Talking Brains, then fend off the siren after each brain is destroyed, eventually having to kill it in the last area. This serves as a boss fight and puzzle. It is a very big enemy, often blocking the player's path. It's fast, but can be easily outrun by the player.

All of the notes near the talking brain that summon the siren are references to ways to kill it in the given parts: e.g. the first, being electrocution; the last getting crushed.

## Description

The Siren resembles an enormous crawling humanoid creature with large hands. It lacks a nose, instead having an exposed nasal aperture. It also does not have eyes, possessing two horizontal, feminine-looking mouths permanently smiling. The Siren does not have legs, its chest ends in a large stump, so it has to crawl to be able to chase the player.

The Siren as an enemy can be extremely unpredictable. It creates visual distortions and tampers with the brightness of the lights around it, making it difficult to navigate at times. It always radiates a loud guttural noise, it's pitch changes constantly but there is no official formula it uses to fluctuate the pitch of the noises. The pitch of the sound may or may not have any correlation to the Siren's movement speed and attack. Speaking of, the Siren is especially scary because of its fluctuating speed, which can range from sluggishly slow to extremely fast. It is unknown if this is intentional or because of its choppy AI.

## Bossfight

### Area 1, The Nasty Old Man

After the player kills The Talking Brain, they see a vision of Virgil summoning The Siren from the depths. After that, it will start pursuing the player. The player must lead The Siren across the bridge towards the breaker switch, activating it as The Siren is in the water, shocking it and causing it to jump back out of the water and go back to where it came from. If the player goes back to where the Talking Brain was at the start, they will see an explorable tunnel which leads to the sight of a massive, jittering eye staring right at them.

### Area 2, The Nice Old Man

After killing the second talking brain, the player gets into what seems their dog's view, guiding the player through the first area of the game. The area where the homeless man resides becomes the flood gate's opening, And entering that area will cause the vision to distort and darken, revealing a brief glimpse of what is probably the Siren's hand. After switching back to the player's point of view, behind the flood gate there will be a loud screech heard, and at this point the player has to activate the flood gate to make the Siren go away. If the gate isn't flooded in time, the Siren will destroy the door and kill the player. The entrance which the Siren comes out of cannot be explored.

### Area 3, The Great Old Beast in the Great Old Wood

After killing The Talking Brain, The Player will be ambushed by The Siren and the path back out will be blocked. The player must defeat The Siren by shutting a large door right on it, and attacking The Siren in order to proceed.

This process can be very difficult because of the Siren's fluctuating speed and ability to corrupt the player's vision. If you open the door by pressing the button, it will open for about six seconds before shutting back down. If the player manages to trap the siren under the gate, the Siren can be killed in about 10 shots by the Damaged Handgun.

After killing the Siren, Childhood Memories will pop out of it's face, dying in only one shot. However you can leave the area without having to kill Childhood Memories.

After you leave this area if you reenter you'll be able to get a child's skull from the Siren, which is the key to the Nightmare Ending in the game.

## Trivia

* The Siren's name could be a reference to the game series, Forbidden Siren. In the first two games, photos of actor's faces are used for all of the human characters in the game. Photos are also used for the face of the Siren creature.