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Elsie-1 |
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Female |
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Black (human)[1] |
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Clovis Bray (formerly) |
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Capable of transtemporal warping |
Doctor Elisabeth "Elsie" Bray was a member of House Bray, the daughter of Clovis Bray II and Sylvie Bray, and sister of Wilhelmina, Alton, and Anastasia. She worked for her family's corporation as a starship and weapons engineer before joining her grandfather Clovis Bray I at the Eventide colony on Europa to assist on the Exo project. Elsie became one of the first Exos to prevent her death by a genetic disease introduced to her bloodline by Clovis I's experiments on her father. She later turned on her grandfather when she discovered the crimes he committed by experimenting with the Darkness and Stasis, but was defeated and rebooted by Clovis I. Elsie later regained those lost memories during the Battle of Europa when she and Clovis-1, a Exo-copy of Clovis, halted a Vex invasion and shut down the AI unit her grandfather had transferred his consciousness into.
Following the Collapse, Elsie worked alongside her half-sister Ana, who had been reborn as a Guardian, but The Last City eventually fell to an assault by the Dark Guardian Eris Morn and Savathûn, the Witch Queen. Years later, Elsie reunited with Ana to gather the scattered remnants of humanity, the Fallen, and the Cabal to locate the Traveler and reclaim the Light to defeat their foes. However, during the final battle Ana revealed herself to have become a follower of Eris and betrayed the alliance, forcing Elsie to murder her own sister. The battle ended with a massive explosion of Light and Darkness, which traps Elsie in a time-loop that begins with Cayde-6's ascension to Hunter Vanguard.
Elsie has since spent multiple loops attempting to change the future, but has been unable to prevent the corruption of Eris and Ana. As she cycles through the timelines Elsie has become a mythological figure amongst many in the Solar System, her true identity being lost to time and becoming known as the Exo Stranger. On the current loop Elsie has made progress in her goal by befriending The Guardian and destroying the Black Heart in the Black Garden before it could corrupt Guardians. Following the Arrival of the Black Fleet, Elsie recruited Eris and The Drifter into her plans but hid the full truth from them, while also entrusting the Guardian and her sister Ana with the knowledge of the potential future that awaited them in the hope that together they could finally prevent it from coming to pass.
Biography
Early Life
- "Piecing together complex systems of causalities is the puzzle that defined me."
- — Elsie Bray, reflecting on her life as a scientist[2]
Elsie was born to Clovis Bray II and Sylvie Bray as part of the powerful House Bray, which was headed by her grandfather Clovis Bray I. After the birth of her half-sister Anastasia from an extra-marital affair by Clovis II, Elsie disagreed with her mother Sylvie's decision to lie to Ana about her heritage by claiming she was adopted. Sylvie and the rest of the family saw much of Clovis I in Ana and feared she would follow her grandfather's footsteps.[3] At the age of thirteen, Elsie built her first Sparrow with the help of Ana. She did not know why she wanted to build the Sparrow so badly, only that she could focus on nothing else until she finished it. This Sparrow would later become a production model, as the G-335 Anseris Overdrive.[4]
Elsie eventually earned a doctorate and became one of humanity's greatest engineers. She designed multiple Jumpships, including the Eon-class line. Two of the most famous ships of this line were the Eon Trespass and the Shadow Trespass. She completed work on the Eon Trespass first[5] and attended the naming ceremony of the Shadow Trespass, which she designed with panels that helped it avoid detection by other ship's sensors.[6]
Along with her sisters Willa and Ana, Elsie worked at the BrayTech Futurescape in the Hellas Basin on Mars. Although she primarily worked in weapons research and development, she assisted other BrayTech scientists working on the Sn0-armor project.[2] After discovering Ana was working on a prototype line of scout rifles, Elsie looked over her work and was pleased by the progress her sister was making. She returned the rifle to Ana and told her that only she could finish the design, a sign of confidence in her sister, whom she knew struggled with her sense of identity and belonging in the family.[7]
When their father began to pass away from fatal prion insomnia, a genetic condition introduced to the Bray family bloodline by Clovis I's genetic tampering, Elsie, Willa, and Ana were all opposed to their grandfather's plan to transfer Clovis II's mind into an experimental Exo body. Clovis I believed that this was the path their family was destined to take in order to achieve immortality and become the common ancestors of all future humankind.[8] Their fears were justified, as their father's mind was unable to cope with the transfer or handle the new Exo body, which was torn apart in Clovis II's panic. The three sisters distanced themselves from Clovis I after this, blaming him for their father's disease and horrific death.[9] Elsie also clashed with her grandfather and brother Alton about their handling of the K1 project on Luna and the mysterious artifact discovered there.[10]
Joining Clovis on Europa
Elsie eventually began suffering the same symptoms as her father and discovered that she too was afflicted by what her grandfather had dubbed the "Clovis Curse". She received a message from Clovis I asking her to join him on Europa to aid him in his research, which he described as risky and in need of her expertise with outside-context problems.[11] Clovis I eventually sent her another message, revealing that he knew she was ill as well and explained that his project could save her and Clovis II, whose final memory scan was still on file within the Clovis Bray archives. The message also revealed that Clovis I was dying as well and he pleaded with her to join him so they could all be saved.[9] Elsie agreed to join him in order to limit the damage his experiments caused. She warned him that if he revealed to anyone else in the family that she was dying she would never speak to him again and refuse to let him save her from dying in agony, a prospect which Elsie hoped was still enough to trouble him.[12]
Upon arriving at the Morning Star station in orbit of Europa, Elsie received another message from Clovis explaining that the Transmat system would take her from the station to the surface and provided her with files on the ongoing projects of the Eventide colony. He also promised her that he would not take any brainscans without her express permission, vowing that he would respect her privacy while working on perfecting the Exobodies. Their priority upon her arrival would be reviewing security around a captured Vex platform which Clovis had constructing a gateway, with Elsie being placed in charge of containment and control. However, Clovis I also noted that there were several areas he was keeping off limits and for his personal authority only, warning her that he knew she would try to break into them anyway but would fail.[10]
After the Vex gateway, which they dubbed the Glassway, was finished, Clovis I decided to conduct a expedition through it. Elsie insisted on joining the research team, which would also include her grandfather via a remote operated drone. They emerged onto a statite orbiting a thirteen-billion year old type-0 hypergiant star, an impossibility the Vex had engineered by feeding the star energy to stop it from going supernova. They began exploring the region and gathered samples from the statite and Vex structures. When several Vex platforms took notice of them and fired, Elsie annihilated them with a matter laser. Her grandfather chided her for the excessive response, noting that they did not want to enter into a war with the Vex and that they needed to only scavenge and abduct, which hopefully would only result in a like response from the Vex.[13]
Personality and Traits
Trivia
Gallery
List of appearances
- Destiny (First appearance)
- The Dark Below (Mentioned only)
- The Taken King (Mentioned only)
- Destiny 2 (Mentioned only)
- Warmind (Mentioned only)
- Beyond Light
References
- ^ Bungie (2020/11/10), Destiny 2: Beyond Light - Photo of Ana and Elsie Bray
- ^ a b Bungie (2018/5/8), Destiny 2: Warmind, Activision Blizzard - BrayTech Sn0Treads
- ^ Bungie (2020/11/10), Destiny 2: Beyond Light - Quest: Born in Darkness Part 2
- ^ Bungie (2018/5/8), Destiny 2: Warmind, Activision Blizzard - G-335 Anseris Overdrive
- ^ Bungie (2014/12/9), Destiny: The Dark Below, Activision Blizzard - Item Description: Eon Trespass
- ^ Bungie (2018/5/8), Destiny 2: Warmind, Activision Blizzard - Shadow Trespass
- ^ Bungie (2018/5/8), Destiny 2: Warmind, Activision Blizzard - Polaris Lance
- ^ Bungie - Mysterious Logbook - Entry 4
- ^ a b Bungie - Myterious Logbook - MESSAGE TO BRAY, ELISABETH 2
- ^ a b Bungie - Mysterious Logbook - MESSAGE TO BRAY, ELISABETH 3
- ^ Bungie - Mysterious Logbook - MESSAGE TO BRAY, ELISABETH
- ^ Bungie - Mysterious Logbook - MESSAGE FROM BRAY, ELISABETH
- ^ Bungie - Mysterious Logbook - Entry 7