Victor's Darkest Secret
In 1994, Dorian mentions an indiscretion of which she believed Viki to be already aware: that Victor sexually abused her in childhood. As the revelation is uncovered in dialogue between Viki and Dorian, it is implied by both Dorian and Viki that the abuse went on until Viki left for college in the 1960s. Dorian asks Viki how many years the abuse went on, and Dorian comes to the conclusion that the abuse did not stop until Victor found a "suitable replacement" in her longtime friend, Irene. Dorian goes on to say that she learned of the abuse while they were married, when Victor slept-talked about molesting his daughter.
Dorian tells Viki that she confronted Victor about what she'd heard and was horrified to realize that her suspicions were correct. Dorian goes on to mention that Viki's mother Eugenia suspected that Victor had an unhealthy attachment to Viki and confronted him about it, potentially leading to Eugenia's "accidental" fatal fall down Llanfair's foyer stairs. Viki repeatedly tries to deny the truth and insists that she loves her father, and that he never made her do anything that she didn't want to do. In this same conversation, Dorian goes so far as to claim that the real reason Viki first began to hate her was because Dorian came between Viki and her close relationship with her "precious daddy". Dorian tells Viki that her father both "raped" and "seduced" her.
Viki furiously denies everything and continues to insist that Dorian murdered Victor, but Dorian won't let up. She insists on making Viki face the truth and after listening to Dorian go into awful details, a traumatized Viki again succumbs to her multiple personalities, only this time, more personalities emerged besides fun-loving "Niki Smith": the icy "Jean Randolph", vengeful "Tori", violent "Tommy", and "Princess", the little girl who was molested by her father. Gatekeeper Jean keeps Dorian a prisoner in Victor's reconstructed secret room under the Llanfair library-study. She blackmails Dorian into ending her romantic relationship with Viki's son Joey (Nathan Fillion) without divulging why as a condition of her release, and compelled an imprisoned David to divorce Tina to avoid criminal charges. Tori set out to destroy everything that Victor Lord had built in his lifetime — including Llanfair and The Banner. She set Llanfair on fire, only to discover that Viki and Clint's daughter Jessica was still inside. Momentarily turning back into Viki, she saved Jessica, but Llanfair manor house is destroyed.
A final alternative personality emerged — "Victor Lord" — and Viki resisted his urges for her to kill herself. During therapy, Viki remembers the horrible truth that she, as "Tori", had been the one who smothered Victor with a pillow all those years before. She was eventually absolved of wrongdoing due to her mental illness. Because of the revelations and the pain she had to deal with, Viki, who had once idolized and idealized her father, now has nothing but rage, hatred and contempt for him and his depraved actions. Her relationship with Dorian, while still acrimonious at times, becomes softened to where the two women become frenemies.
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