Okay so this is probably just a crack pot theory but I’m just gonna put it out there. Spoiler warning!
Okay so I vaguely remember Lien saying that her like extra monstrous out of control form isn’t her actual genes but a scientist’s attempts to “fix” her.
I don’t know if she ever mentions where she was sent to who the scientist was specifically but the way I remember her talking about it, she phrased it as if the place she was sent to be “fixed” was not the same lab that Mrs Jackson is working for or at least not the lab we end up in at the end of her route.
Now baring that in mind, doesn’t her extra monstrous mouth thing form kinda remind you of the creatures Victoria’s dad made? I don’t know if it was intentional but to me they kinda look the same or at least similar, and both were mistakes made by a scientist while trying to achieve something else.
On top of all of that, I’m pretty sure Victoria mentions that it was her dad who introduced her to the monster world after she was put back together, which means that he at least knew of the monster world before then.
Even if I’m wrong about Lien being sent somewhere other than the evil underground lab, Victoria’s dad is a scientist living in Blackwood. It’s almost certain that he does/did work for the lab and/or worked with the doctor that Lien was sent to. That would explain why their works are so similar to have basically made the same mistakes.
Or maybe I’m looking too far into this lol
also while typing this I realized that Lien’s name is just alien without the a lol. I’m just imagining a line from Jaylene that goes something like, “so you’re an alien… named Lien,” had the creator kept the original alien idea