RØd Killian Quain

RØd Killian Quain is a character from Something in the Sea also known as Red Killian Quain or Rod Killiain Quain was Orrin Oscar Lutwidge's identity after returning to the surface from Rapture. Quain tried to get the story of Rapture out by going to Lex Harlan, editor of Visionary Wonders. Harlan substantially edits his story, which enrages Quain is sent to Tollevue Mental Hospital after an attempted assault. Wealthy heiress and longtime nemesisCeleste Roget has apparently made sure that he will never get out. After being committed, Quain tells doctors fanciful tales of an underwater city and his experiences there which they dismiss as mere delusions, however the things Quain describes are things that players of Bioshock are famillar with, including splicers, Big Daddies and ADAM.

Quain in Rapture
We learn about some of his experiences in Rapture from a notebook that is found in a tube that he gives Mark Meltzer, and from his recordings with doctors at Tollevue. Quain (then Orrin Oscar Lutwidge) arrived in Rapture in 1958. Seeking revenge on Ryan for stiffing him on some contracts, as well as not considering him one of the elite members for his secretive society, he joined up with Atlas in the civil war that broke out shortly after his arrival. He describes some of the people he meets there as "friends", a term we never hear Lutwidge apply to anyone else. From his interview with doctors with Tollevue, we know that he was a participant in the civil war and lamented the "fall of Atlas" which to him meant that "R Rapture is dead... and there are none to raise it." Quain describes Rapture in very romantic terms referring to it often as Wonderland, "I should never have gone... but in going- I never should have left!" and "In his new home, Orrin found people WONDROUS, STRANGE, of a like he had never before encountered."