Little Sisters
Little Sisters, also known as Gatherers, are a type of character that features in the game BioShock.
Background
Though appearing to be young girls of the 7-10 age group, the Little Sisters are actually geneticaly engineered as well as mentally conditioned to reclaim ADAM from the dead in the city of Rapture. To accomplish this, the Little Sisters are always accompanied into by a Big Daddy and attacks on them will incur the wraths of the bio-mechanical giants.
After the discovery of ADAM from a species of sea slugs, it was quickly learnt that the creature did not produce enough of the compound for research purposes. Bridgette Tenenbaum, however, learnt that if the sea slug was implanted within a Human hosts body then regurgitation after digesting food produced 30 times the number of ADAM. It was learnt that young female children were the only viable hosts. The implantation of the slugs within these children resulted in the creation of the Little Sisters. Attempts were made initially to keep them in a vegetative state but it was learnt that they have to be fully functional in order to produce ADAM.
Despite the implantation, the Little Sisters engaged in child-like behaviour from laughing to singing and smiling but the sea slugs within their bodies forced them to devour the dead in order to extract ADAM. The ADAM that is already within their bodies makes the Little Sisters practically invulnerable but they lack any form of combative capabilities due to their small size.
The removal of the sea slug from the host was fatal to the Little Sisterand would die eventually though a large quantity of ADAM could be extracted through the procedure. However, Tenenbaum discovered a way to employ a plasmid that was capable of removing the sea slug from the host safely though only a little ADAM was extracted in this manner.
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