Exo Stranger
The Exo Stranger is a female video game character who features in Destiny.
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Biography
Elisabeth Bray was originally a female human born during the Golden Age of mankind where she was a child of House Bray. Her father was Clovis Bray II and she was the grandchild of Clovis Bray I with her having three siblings that were a brother Alton Bray, Wilhelmina Bray and Anatasia Bray. Similar to all members of the illustrious family she grew up to be a brilliant scientist and engineer. By age 13, she had built up a Sparrow with the help of her adopted sister Ana for reasons she could not remember with this later becoming a production model called the G-335 Anseris Overdrive.
Thus, she was offered a chance of saving herself by uploading her mind into the body of an Exo. Initially, she was reluctant to do so but submitted to the procedure that also reduced the risk of her falling to the corruption of the Vex. Elsie then came to her grandfathers rescue to save him from being tortured by a copy of Maya Sundaresh who had subverted Clovis Bray I's automated surgeon during a multi-organ transplant. Afterwards, she sent a message from her grandfather where she claimed to had constructed a paracausal weapon capable of destroying the Vex around 2082 Volantis. Clovis Bray I believed that this would compromise the future Exo development and affect the future of humanity. Thus, he confronted his granddaughter in a fit of rage killed her but kept a backup of her mind from the initial upload scan which he placed in a new exobody.
During this time, she was noted to had encountered the Warmind Rasputin who recognised her but did not understand the purpose of the Stranger. The Warmind wanted to know if he could imitate her ability to step between timelines in order to achieve his own goals. She later experienced other timelines where events had taken a dark turn such as the Traveler and Last City falling to numerous unknown enemies. During these events, she came to see alternate versions of herself that had died with these appearing occasionally. Appearances by the Stranger were eventually noticed by the people of the Last City who looked to learn more about her origins and purpose. Some speculated that sh was a member of an Exo squad that were continuing their mission from a long-forgotten war whilst others simply thought that she was a hallucination caused by Vex technology. Those rare people that had encountered her often remarked that she had saved their lives and prevented numerous catastrophic evens. The Guardian Praedyth when he was trapped in the Vault of Glass recorded that he saw the Stranger as the one constant through multiple realities where she had varying degrees of importance.
Elsie eventually hatched a plan based on all that she had learned and the technology she had gathered. Thanks to her rifle, which was unstuck in time and could thus be used as an anchor, she was able to travel briefly in time between certain points. With the knowledge that the Black Garden was responsible for corrupting Guardians, she resolved to find a way to destroy it before that occurred, depriving the dark future of one of its primary sources of Darkness. She believed that by doing so it would fundamentally alter the timeline and prevent her from having to kill Ana. At an unknown point in this timeline, Elsie encountered Rasputin, who recognized her but did not understand her purpose. He thus asked her how he could imitate her ability to step between timelines so he could achieve his own goals. Although Elsie's primary concern was the Black Garden and the Vex, the Hive infesting Earth's moon Luna caught her attention after she accidently transmatted herself to the moon and noticed their presence. She risked several more visits to Luna to observe them, once inadvertently arriving within their tunnels and being forced to fight to the surface, and deduced that although they seemed feral in many aspects, they had a keen intelligence and complex intentions. Elsie speculated that the Hive and Vex had common enemies and a connection to the Darkness. This belief was reinforced when a Fireteam of Guardians halted a Hive ritual she had planned to observe, which she learned was in fact ripping the Light away from the Traveler, similar to the Black Garden. After confirming this by traveling back to before the ritual was halted, a new figure caught her interest: a newly risen Guardian and their Ghost who helped halt the ritual and mentioned Venus. Elsie traveled back once more to watch as they discovered the re-emergence of the Hive on the Moon outside the Temple of Crota, but noted no indication of Vex presence or activity to warrant the mention of Venus. Returning to her observations of the Hive, Elsie concluded that the conflicts between the Guardians and Hive indicated the aliens were planning on an invasion of Earth. Deducing that Luna was the Hive's 'black heart' and primary breeding ground in the system, Elsie decided that they also needed to be stopped to prevent them from bringing about the same dark future the Vex were working towards. Some time later, Elsie traveled back further to observe the Ghost find the Guardian and resurrect them and their subsequent acquisition of a Jumpship in the Cosmodrome of Old Russia. She became interested in the presence of the Fallen within the region as well, wondering what they sought to find in its broken tech and landscape. With her observations complete, Elsie traveled back to when she had first observed the Guardian, only this time allowing them to notice her presence, as she believed them to be interesting and unlikely to fail where others had and wished to recruit them against the Hive, Vex, and Darkness.
Elsie made contact with the Guardian as they prepared to enter the Temple of Crota and descend into the Chamber of Night to save the Traveler from a Hive ritual. She remarked that they were interesting and had promise and admired their bravery, but commented that there were other threats which existed that they would not believe. Elsie requested that they come find her if they lived, and transmitted a set of meeting coordinates within the ruins of the Ishtar Collective on Venus. Following Elsie's coordinates, the Guardian traveled to the Ishtar Sink on Venus, where they fought through the Vex to reach the meeting coordinates in the Ishtar Academy. Once the Vex within were destroyed, Elsie revealed herself to the Guardian, but deflected their questions about who she was and why she was watching them by noting they had little time and that she could not even explain why she was unable to give more answers. As she received a transmission from an unknown party, she reassured her ally that she would do something. When the Ghost questioned what she was saying, Elsie informed him she was not talking to him and called him 'little Light', much to his annoyance. She addressed the Guardian once more and noted they succeeded where many other strong Guardians failed, but was interrupted once more by her mysterious partner and reassured them that she was with the Guardian and their Ghost. She quickly explained that the Vex were the reason she had summoned them, and the Ghost realized that she was not a Guardian. Elsie noted that while she was not reborn in the Light, she believed that working with those who were could do much good while crushing a damaged Vex beneath her boot. Elsie then informed them of the Black Garden, the birthplace of the Vex, and a powerful entity responsible for keeping the Traveler in a state of catatonia. She explains to them that the only way to heal the Traveler is to destroy the heart in the Black Garden. When they asked for aid in finding the Black Garden, Elsie sadly noted that she had a different path to walk. The Ghost suggested speaking with the Awoken instead, an idea Elsie agreed with, although she noted that they wavered between the Light and the Darkness and stated that she believed that they all must choose a side, even if is the wrong one, recalling the words she had spoken to Queen Mara Sov in her original timeline. Upon another transmission from her ally, Elsie drew her weapon and asked how many foes they were facing. Upon hearing their response, she told them to kill their engines, hold position, and avoid being found before teleporting away, leaving the Guardian and their Ghost behind to follow her clues, along with a new nickname for the Ghost, despite his irritation.
After the Guardian destroyed the Black Heart of the Garden, the Tower celebrated this great victory. Elsie traveled to the Tower and met with the Guardian within the hangar, noting that while the Speaker could give his pretty speeches, they both knew that the fight would continue out in the solar system. Handing them her rifle, she warned that there were more terrible things that she had witnessed being born out in the Darkness which drew closer every day. Gazing at the Traveler, she noted that while this was the end of one chapter of the Darkness that threatened humanity, another would begin and that their fight was far from being over. With that cryptic warning, Elsie stepped off of the ledge of the hangar, disappearing once more as she teleported away to continue her own mission and fight, hoping that the destruction of the Black Heart had changed the future. Elsie's hand in these events were of great interest to Lakshmi-2 and the Future War Cult, who began increasing their studies of the so-called 'Exo Stranger' in response and using her existence to recruit more adherents. Later, the Guardian recovered No Time To Explain, a weapon that the War Cult believed was connected to the Stranger based on its design, but multiple members of the Cult disagreed about its true origins and relationship to the Stranger. At one point during the current loop, Elsie had come across a space station registered to the Ishtar Collective en-route towards Pluto. Investigating the dilapidated platform revealed to her signs of new activity since the Collapse; Elise notice the handprint of a large unknown humanoid with traces of rippling silver and bits of a broken but familiar weapon. The Exo Stranger was then greeted to her surprise by the sudden appearance of a wayward Ghost named Tokki, whom she almost shot with her pulse rifle. Elsie noticed the same silver encompassing Tokki's shell, which the Ghost had recently found thanks to a friend they had made on the station. It would be a young, juvenile alien with iridescent fin-like wings and a set of six eyes that fondly greeted the Exo Stranger. Reaching to caress the mysterious creature, Elsie immediately recalled an early childhood memory she had with her sister Ana and remembered offering to help; which was what the little pouka needed from her.
Overview
Personality and attributes
She was known among her family by her nickname of Elsie. Operating on her own, she came to only be known as the Stranger during this time.
During the Golden Age, Elsie was a brilliant scientist who strongly opposed her grandfather Clovis Bray I's unethical research. However, the loss of her father Clovis Bray II and her own sickness drove her to stand by his side on the Exo Project until she could no longer ignore it.
Powers and abilities
Originally, she was a human being who lived during the time of the Golden Age. She came to suffer from fatal prion insomnia that was a disease she inherited from Clovis Bray II due to genetic modifications done to him by his own father Clovis Bray I.
Her body was forever altered as she was transformed into a mechanical Exo. She had the ability to appear and disappear from reality.
She was a member of the Illustrious House Bray whose head had been the founder of the Clovis Bray corporation.
Notes
- The Exo Stranger was created by Bungie where she was initially voiced by actress Lauren Cohan in Destiny and was later voiced by actress Moira Quirk in Destiny 2: Beyond Light.
Appearances
- Destiny:
- Destiny 2:
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