Martha Jennings

**Overview** Dialogue Gallery

**Martha Jennings** is a major character appearing in *Who's Lila?*. She was one of Tanya Kennedy's closest friends prior to Tanya's disappearance and is an acquaintance of William Clarke.

## Appearance

Martha is described in-game as a "plump girl", who has medium-length, wavy, blonde hair. She wears a light shirt and a dark skirt.

## Personality

Martha is friendly and has a large friend group, who seem to care for her and stick up for her whenever Lila speaks ill of her. She is apparently rather intelligent, as an award in a trophy case at school shows she attained proficiency in two or more languages before graduation. At the same time however, she is quite forgetful, and carries around a two pairs of keys for her apartment in case she loses one of them.

She is quite the gossip, as she is known to spread rumors about William and Tanya's relationship. She is also demonstrated as being quick to lie about things, as she tells Lila that she had not been at the principal's office, despite Regina and Jimmy saying otherwise.

## Backstory

William first met Martha at the party that took place at Matt's house on November 20. There, she had become very drunk and was lying down on a bed in a room upstairs. William then comforted her through her drunken ramblings about a boy that had been troubling her, Danny. She is later joined by Tanya, Ellie Cooper, and Michael Graves. A conflict between Tanya and her boyfriend Michael cause the pair, and William, to leave the room, leaving Ellie to take care of her inebriated friend for the rest of the night.

After Tanya went missing, Martha began to spread rumors that she and William had secretly been together while Tanya was still officially dating Michael, even claiming that they had sex.

## Plot

Once Lila, piloting William's body, arrives at school and talks to Regina and Jimmy, it is revealed that Martha had been spreading the aforementioned rumors around their friend group. This seemingly angers Lila and she begins to ask the pair questions on how to locate Martha. They reveal that she had been at the principal's office over the matter of Tanya's disappearance and once Lila learns this, she quickly exits the conversation.

After learning Martha's classroom number from Ellie, she enters it to learn Martha's address and take her keys from her bag. She then goes up to the school's roof to find Martha sitting and eating breakfast.

Lila initiates a conversation with Martha, which she is startled by but she attempts to play it off in a friendly manner. Lila belligerently asks Martha about what she had been up to that day, demanding to know whether she had talked to the police about Tanya's disappearance and calling her a bad friend for spreading rumors. Martha asks what Lila means and just before Lila can answer, Michael enters the conversation and begins grilling Lila himself for information about Tanya's disappearance. Martha mostly remains silent during this conversation but sometimes interjects, telling Michael to calm down or denying that she had spread rumors about William and Tanya. Eventually, regardless of the player's choices, a fight will ensue between Lila and Michael, whose outcome depends on the expressions made.

If Lila does not fall off the roof during the fight, her next task will be to enter Martha's Condo. She can accomplish this by using the keys she took from Martha's bag, and by talking her way through the confrontation with Professor Murie, which can result in him either calling the police, or returning to his apartment as normal. Afterwards, Lila enters Martha's room and hides in the closet, waiting several hours in there for Martha to return home.

Once Martha returns home, Lila exits the closet and approaches her from behind, startling her. Martha is horrified, asking what she's doing there. Depending on Lila's expression, Martha either screams for help (which alerts the police) or remains quiet. While the pair are talking, Lila temporarily flickers into her true form before changing back to her appearance as William. Martha notices this and mistakes her to be Tanya. Lila corrects her, revealing her name to Martha before murdering her via strangulation. At the end of the murder sequence, a shot of Martha's head is shown, but in a massively disfigured state that doesn't even appear human.

After this, Lila takes a bus ride back to William's apartment but is met with a crowd of police officers investigating the trash yard. She is then detained and taken to the Police Station to be interrogated.