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| “ | A new varmint has entered the arena. I spotted her as she, somehow, moved through a wall. Clad in bandages that tell an untold tale of something horrid. This...nurse as it seems, brings me new angst during my lonely nights, as my mind runs amok. | „ |
| ~ Benedict Baker on The Nurse. |
Sally Smithson, better known as The Nurse, is one of the playable killers in the horror game Dead by Daylight. A housewife forced into working at the Crotus Penn Insane Asylum, however after working for two decades, she snapped, killing many patients.
She was voiced by Anais Renevey.
Biography[]
Sally Smithson originally lived with her husband, a lumberjack named Andrew. After his death on the job, Sally accepted a job doing the night shift at the Crotus Prenn Asylum. Despite this helping her stay afloat, the job only offered years of abuse carried out by the people there while also seeing nightmarish sights. Eventually, she snapped, killing fifty patients and four staff members. Having gone insane herself, she was originally planned to be transferred to a hospital, but the ambulance used as transport crashed. Everyone inside were dead, with The Nurse vanishing. She later worked for The Entity, killing Survivors for it.
The Cleansing of Crotus Prenn[]
| “ | You would criticise your fellow patients for bringing nothing to this world, yet what have you provided? | „ |
| ~ The Nurse to the Broken Woman. |
Tome 6: Divergence explains Sally's innocence fading into madness and how the beliefs of "purification" came to cloud her sanity.
Sally worked as a psychiatric nurse at Crotus Prenn Asylum, tending to patients with nothing but kindness and care as usual. One of her patients, the Broken Woman, was once a nurse like herself, but was anything but caring. The Broken Woman despised Smithson's gentle nature, claiming that patients deserve a much more "desirable form of help," revealing she murdered patients back in the day as a mean to "purify abominations." Sally's mind, after days of frequent taunts from the Broken Woman, encountering violent staff members and patients, and suffering nightmares of her husband's death, has finally been broken to the point of no return. It was the very Broken Woman's pessimism and twisted beliefs of "purification" that drove Sally to become just like her.
Smithson became void of emotion, cruel to her patients, and even began to identify them as "filthy." She began her killing spree at the asylum, starting with the murder of the Broken Woman that started it all.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Teleportation: The Nurse has the ability of Spencer's Last Breath, allowing her to pierce through the Spirit World in order to teleport (or "blink") over distances and thus ignore any of the environmental defenses Survivors have. However, the Nurse suffers great pain with every blink and will enter a brief state of fatigue after using her power.
- Bonesaw Wielding: The Bonesaw is her weapon, a rusty weapon for tearing through flesh and bone. Using it, she teleports, slashes, carries victims, and hooks them for sacrifice to The Entity.
- Nursing Skills: She didn't have any proper nursing training, but she did express a keen ability to show empathy and the desire to help her patients.
Trivia[]
- The Nurse represents the "Angel of Mercy" in horror genre. Also known as "Angels of Death" these serial killers are known for murdering patients under their care. They could have many reasons for doing this, but the Nurse is motivated by the eugenist beliefs of the Broken Woman and her personal hatred for all of the pain the patients and staff at Crotus caused her.
- The Nurse's Memento Mori has her flipping the survivor onto their back, mounting their chest and savagely strangling them to death. Once done, she tenderly strokes their face before standing up.
- According to Dave Richard, she and The Wraith have "something going on".
- Both the Nurse and Wraith have skins related to each other along with art of both of them in a romantic dance.
- The Nurse was the first DLC Killer to be released in Dead by Daylight.
- The Nurse was the first female killer to be released in Dead by Daylight.
- Judging by her lore from Tome 6: Divergence, it's heavily implied that The Nurse may have suffered from shared psychotic disorder (folie à deux), a mental illness characterized by a delusion or other mental disorder being transferred from one individual to another in a close relationship.
- The Nurse has a cosmetic item which represents her after the ambulance crash. She appears to have been killed by the multitude of metal debris which impale her head and chest. The Entity seems to have fixed this damage, as her default appears contains none of those injuries.
- Nurse's power is derived from her own breath. Everytime she blinks she steals her own breath and it's suggested to be very painful or incredibly uncomfortable. After her blinks she is heard sighing, most likely in relief.
