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.
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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