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Guinevere 'Gwen' Boyle is a character in We Happy Few. She is the infant daughter of Sally Boyle and Anton Verloc.
Appearance[]
Gwen appears to be a 2 month old baby wrapped in a purple blanket. Only her head is visible, as her body is always in the blanket.
She's chubby, has blue-green eyes, and blonde hair.
Later in the Act, she gets measles.
Overview[]
Gwen, like all infant children, needs to be taken care of. In this case, by the player.
Throughout the entirety of Act II, when the player completes a main story quest, a timer representing one of Gwen's two needs will appear; Feeding or Changing. To take care of Gwen, the player needs to return home to Sally's Interplanetary Travel Agency and interact with Gwen. If they don't have the necessary items to take care of Gwen, they'll have to go and find the necessary items to do so.
Feeding Gwen is somewhat simple, the player needs Baby Milk or the Baby Feeder available in their inventory. Baby Milk has to be crafted using Tinned Milk and Pure Water, though the player can't rely on this method as they only get 10 boxes of Tinned Milk from Lionel Castershire. It's highly advised to buy the Baby Feeder from Lionel as early as possible for a low price so that the player won't have to run back to Gwen so often.
Changing Gwen is a lot simpler, the player needs a Nappy and Pure Water available in their inventory. Unlike the Baby Feeder, there's no device that'll change Gwen for the player, meaning they have to run back and change her every time she needs to.
It's unknown if Gwen's needs also appear after completing side quests.
Events of We Happy Few[]
Act II[]
Gwen is first heard crying upstairs after an angry client of Sally's bursts into Sally's home and knocks her out. Shocked by the discovery of the baby, Spud becomes increasingly unstable, believing that Gwen is a rat that he is hallucinating as a baby.
He raises her above his head to smash her down, only for Sally to inject him with a knockout syringe and snatching the baby from him as he falls to the floor.
From there, Gwen becomes a game mechanic, requiring to be fed at certain times throughout the act, and is a source of constant stress for Sally, fearing that Gwen will starve to death or will be discovered and experimented on or killed.
Eventually, Robert Byng enters Sally's house uninvited, where Sally plays music and seduces Byng in order to keep him from paying attention to Gwen's crying. Sally eventually passes out from a high and discovers that Byng has left the house on his own.
Later, Sally discovers that Gwen has the measles, and goes to Anton Verloc for help first, but he angrily rejects Sally. Sally becomes increasingly distressed and makes a deal with Arthur Hastings by getting him a Letter of Transit in exchange for a bottle of cod liver oil, which can treat Gwen. Sally goes to Byng for the letter, which Byng gives, but he reveals that he wrote down a note to himself reminding him that Sally has a baby.
He figures that the baby is Verloc's, to which Sally answers with a silent affirmation. The two discuss getting Sally and Gwen out of Wellington Wells. Byng is willing to get Gwen out of the city but refuses to let Sally go, leading her to angrily rejecting him.
Sally reconvenes with Arthur and tries to leave with him, even revealing Gwen's existence to him, but Arthur decides to abandon her. From there, Sally tries to escape with Gwen on her own. Eventually, Byng captures Sally in his safe house, and the two argue whether or not Sally can protect Gwen, and states that she will reveal her location to him to prevent the baby from starving.
Sally eventually escapes and makes her way back to Gwen, only to find that a Joy Doctor has broken into her house, and he hears Gwen crying. Sally then knocks him out and makes plans to smuggle Gwen out of the city via Byng's hidden motorboat.
The two escape the city, and Sally proclaims that they will be the "Two Musketeers".
Epilogue[]
Gwen is briefly seen again with Sally in the boat, approaching land.
Trivia[]
- Gwen was modeled by Tito Belgrave.
- Sally takes too many chemicals for her to be able to breastfeed Gwen.
- According to Sally, Gwen looks exactly like Elizabeth Boyle, Sally's dead younger sister.
- The textures for Gwen's hair is blonde, though it may appear to be brown or even red because of the in-game lightning.
- Gwen is one of two children encountered in the game, the other being the young Boy, who Arthur encounters in one of the endings outside of Wellington Wells.
- This does not include Margaret Worthing as she is dead and only appears as a hallucination in Act III.
- Gwen is the youngest known person in Wellington Wells, as all children born before her were sent off to Germany. It's also implied that most unborn babies, or children at- or above the age of 13, were murdered because they reminded everyone of the Very Bad Thing.
- Though Gwen's full name is never mentioned aside from one instance of Sally randomly talking to herself, she notes that Guinevere is sort of an awful name, considering what she did to Arthur. This is a reference to Guinevere from Arthurian Legend, the wife and queen of King Arthur who got in an affair with Arthur's chief knight, Lancelot, indirectly causing the death of her husband.
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