Elizabeth (BioShock)
Elizabeth is a female video game character who features in BioShock.
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Biography
Anna DeWitt was born in 1893 to Booker and Annabelle DeWitt, with Annabelle dying from childbirth. Booker, a former Pinkerton agent, had been expelled from the agency around the time of Anna's birth for his use of extreme brutality in quelling workers' strikes. Booker then descended into depression, excessive drinking, and gambling, which resulted in him building up a large amount of debt. Later that year, Booker was contacted by Robert Lutece, a representative of Father Zachary Hale Comstock, an enigmatic man who offered to pay off all of Booker's debts in exchange for ownership of Anna. On October 8th, 1893; Booker gave Anna to Robert as instructed. Feeling immediately regretful for his actions, he pursued Robert to retrieve his daughter. At an alleyway, Booker found Robert and Father Comstock with Anna at an open portal between dimensions, ready to cross over. Booker struggled with Comstock to get Anna, but his efforts were in vain as the two escaped with Anna as Rosalind Lutece closed the portal. As the tear closed, it severed Anna's pinky finger as she reached out for her father, placing her simultaneously in two different realities. Anna was taken to the floating city of Columbia, built in a parallel universe by Comstock, an alternate version of her father who converted to a radical form of Christianity and white supremacy following the Massacre at Wounded Knee - whereas her biological father refused the baptism and became a Pinkerton agent. Comstock was unable to have his own biological children due to overexposure from the Lutece Device, as he used it to see all possible futures and outcomes that gave him the title of "Prophet". Seeing that Columbia would fall without an heir, he sent Robert and Rosalind Lutece to retrieve Anna and thereby ensure the city's continued prosperity. The populace of the city was told that Anna, renamed Elizabeth Comstock, was a miracle child who grew in Lady Annabelle Comstock's womb for only seven days before her birth. Elizabeth was to be upheld as the heir to Comstock's throne who would one day "cleanse the world of the Sodom below." However, Lady Comstock believed that Elizabeth was the 'bastard child' of Rosalind Lutece and Comstock, and demanded that the child be removed from her home.
In 1912, Booker DeWitt was sent to Columbia by the Lutece twins in order to recover Elizabeth with them claiming that they will wipe away his debts with her return.
Overview
Personality and attributes
After being kidnapped by Father Comstock, she came to be considered his daughter and was given the name Elizabeth Comstock. Her abilities led to her being known as the Lamb of Columbia, the Seed of the Prophet and as the Miracle Child.
Despite her years of isolation, Elizabeth was shown to be a free-willed and almost childlike spirit. She is also somewhat mischievous, helping Booker to pick locks and liberate goods if the proper resources are available. She has a biting wit and sarcastic humor, calling Booker out on his missteps without hesitation. At the same time, she possesses an immense amount of reserve and determination, as she is able to focus on her goals and move past stressful situations relatively quickly, though they are still shown to affect her deeply. As the story progresses, however, she matures and starts to become more serious and determined to stop Comstock.
Because the only thing to keep her company in her prison were books, Elizabeth is a fountain of information, ranging from lock-picking to medical treatment. She quotes the King James Bible in Soldier's Field in reference to the area's true purpose ("Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it"), and also references the works of Victor Hugo.
Elizabeth came to have conflicting in her feelings about Songbird since he has been feeding and playing with her yet at the same time kept her captive.
Powers and abilities
She had the power to open 'tears' in the fabric of reality allowing her to view every event across all of the infinite timelines simultaneously and effortlessly open doorways to them thus allowing her to access parallel universes. Elizabeth is the only person known to be capable of controlling these Tears naturally, and can exploit them to summon objects such as weapons, ammunition, or parts of the scenery, as well as living beings. She can also use these Tears to travel through time and space and so is able to transport herself and Booker to other time periods and realities. Another use for the Tears is to merge different realities together, though doing this is stressful for her. However, her control over her powers is limited by a long-distance restraining device called the Siphon, preventing her from transporting herself out of Columbia. Upon the destruction of the Siphon, however, her immense powers reveal themselves: she can view every event across all of the infinite timelines simultaneously, and effortlessly open doorways to them, but in Burial at Sea - Episode 2, where she returns to Rapture at the same time of her predetermined death, she loses her ability to create Tears and the near omniscience she gains from them.
Notes
- Elizabeth was voiced by actor Courtnee Draper with motion capture done by Heather Gordon.
- Anna Moleva portrayed the character for facial scans and promotional content.
Appearances
- BioShock Infinite:
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