Hero of the Month - Edition N°17

For the first edition of the 2017 year, I will present a character coming from one of my favorite video games of all time, from one of my favorite franchises: She appears for the first time in Bioshock Infinite, from the saga Bioshock. She's one of my fictional loves, my steampunk lady, my trans-dimensionnal princess: Elizabeth Comstock.

Elizabeth was born in 1893, and her first name is Anna Dewitt. Her father is Booker Dewitt, a former soldier, who has become a private detective, alcoholic and crumbling under debts. One day to pay a large debt, while Anna is still a baby, Booker has no choice but to give his daughter to a man (Robert Lutece), and very soon, Booker, remorseful, tries to prevent this, without success.

Anna becomes Elizabeth and is raised by Zachary Comstock, a prophet leading a flying city, Columbia, and wants to make Eizabeth his heiress. Elizabeth grows up isolated in a huge tower of which she never goes out, with a little finger missing (which she thinks is a physical deformation of birth), and with the ability to open dimensional doors, all under the supervision of Songbird, A giant mechanical bird. But in 1912, Elizabeth is rescued by Booker, whom she did not recognize, and Booker either (having forgotten everything, but was instructed by someone to bring the girl back, to clear the debt).

During her journey with Booker in the streets of Columbia, Elizabeth will discover a little more about her past and who she really is. When she discovers that Zachary and Lady Comstock were not her real parents, Elizabeth swears to discover the truth by all means. She does nothing to prevent Booker from killing Zachary, and succeeds in mastering Songbird and pushing him to fight for her, which he does by destroying the enemy shuttles that threaten Elizabeth and Booker during a brutal final assault. Having learned that her tower was actually a giant siphon containing a great power, Elizabeth and Booker use Songbird to destroy the tower completely. Elizabeth then recovers all of her power, and her memory. She decides to reveal everything to Booker, who also had forgotten everything. In a memory, Elizabeth sees Booker trying to recover his daughter before Zachary disappears behind a dimensional door, the fight is fierce, but Zachary manages to take the girl, but the little finger of the baby is cut by the closing of the dimenssional door , Which explains the missing of her little finger, and explains the fact that Elizabeth possesses dimensional powers, because a part of herself (her finger) has remained in another temporality, making her exist in two worlds at once. Elizabeth, helped by the twins Luteces, then helps Booker remember, namely that he sold Elizabeth when she was still a baby, and that Zachary is actually another version of Booker of a parallel world, having been baptized To expiate his faults and remorse after he participated in massacres being a soldier, the Booker version having refused baptism and having grown up in depression and alcohol. 

Elizabeth knows that the only way for everything stops is that the real leader of all this madness has to die before everything happens. She and Booker go back in time, returning to the moment before Booker leaves for Columbia. Booker, knowing that he is also Zachary at the same time, let himself drowned by Elizabeth in the waters. Elizabeth thus remains alone, having fulfilled her mission, and all her versions of herself disappearing around her.

Mathias, the Killmaster

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