Lara Croft (Survivor Timeline)

Lara Croft (born 14th February, 1992) is the main protagonist of the Survivor reboot trilogy of the franchise, consisting of , , and . Originally a London girl who set to make her mark and find "adventure" with the help of the crew of The Endurance but ends up being stranded on Yamatai. After being forced to survive on the brutal island Lara became dedicated to discovering all the secrets and myths of the world.
She was portrayed by . Harriet Perring portrays young Lara in Rise of the Tomb Raider, whilst Francesca Aston portrays young Lara in Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
==Biography==
===Birth and Childhood===
Lara Croft was born on February 14, 1992 to Lord Richard and Lady Amelia Croft, an archeologist and artist. Lara's birth was tiresome, as they didn't believe she wouldn't make it, but she was delivered successfully. Lara would spend most of her time with her mother, who would play with her and give her piano lessons. 
When her mother died in a plane crash, her relationship with her father strained and neglectful due to his obsession with finding the key to immortality. Lara found solace with books and going on expeditions with her father and his friend, Conrad Roth, who would be sort of father-figure to her. In addition, Lara was known to not be able to relate with other girls, as a result of not having a mother-figure in her life, she would later meet and befriend her father's girlfriend, Ana. Lara's last conversation with her father was an argument on understanding what he was doing, something she refused and stormed off. She then heard a gunshot and found her father dead in his study, apparently from suicide, and leaving Lara an orphan.
Lara would be raised by Roth, but became introverted due to him going on expeditions most of the time. When it was time to attend a college, she decided to earn her way instead of getting her families wealth. Though she had to work harder and get multiple jobs, this help become more humbled and down-to-earth. While attending the University College London, she met and befriended the outgoing Samantha Nishimura, who helped Lara leave her shell and make friends.
===Events on Yamatai===
Not long after Lara graduates, Conrad Roth gets commissioned for the archeological reality show, Whitman's World, hosted by James Whitman. Knowing Lara could be a good asset, Roth recruits as a member of his personal crew on the endurance. They're all out to find the lost kingdom of the Yamatai. At Lara's suggestion, and against Whitman,s advise, the expedition travels east of Japan to the Dragon's Triangle. The ship gets caught on a violent storm, stranding Lara and everyone was on the ship on a remote island. After escaping one of the natives, Lara tries to locate the other crew members. Along the way, Lara comes across strange carvings, and the remains of ritual sacrifices, evidence that the island is fully inhabited. After some searchingm, Lara finds sam along with a man named Mathias who claims to be an another passanger. However, when sam tells Mathias about the legend of queen Himiko, Lara passes out, when she wakes up, Tthey're both gone. After reuniting with the other survivors, Lara and Whitman search for roth while the rest of the crew search for Mathias and Sam. Lara and Whitman discover that the inhabitors of the island worship of Himiko which means they found Yamatai. A group of islanders captures Lara and Whitman and take them to one of their settlements, revealong that some other survivors have also benn imprisoned. When the other prisoners try to escape, the islanders kill some of them. Lara gets seperated from whitman in the scuffle only to encounter one of the islander leaders. Lara is forced to kill in self defence, knowing that the only way of the island, is by killing her enemies. Lara kills the rest of the islanders and finds Roth injured in a nearby abandoned village. Sje uses Roth survival equipment to make her way to a communications relay at the top of the mountain. There she hails a plane sent to search for them and even sets a signal fire, but the storm materializes out of nowhere and destroyes the plane. And even more spookley, a mestyrious loud voice says No one leaves in Japanese, Clearly knowing that the island refuses to let them go. Alex and reyes contact Lara to tell her that sam has been kdnapped by the island inhabitants, A violent cult called the Solarii Brotherhood, Lara tries to rescue sam but Mathias stops her and reveals that he is the leader of Solarii, but then she is saved by a strange samurai-looking creatures known as the Oni. The oni takes Lara up to a monastary far into the mountains, but fortunately Lara escapes them too. She stumbles into acontaing th ritual chambers and learns that according to Solarii folklore, a fire ritual is used to choose the Sun Queens's successor. Sam contacts lara and tells her that the cult are taking her to the ritual. Lara fights her way back to the fortress where Sam is being kept and meets up with Grim. Grim gets killed in an insuming fight and Lara barely survives thanks to Roth's help. She infiltrates the palace to recue Sam only to witness her doesn't burn by the fire ritual. insted, a gust of wind puts the flames out, confirming that Sam is the right successor. Lara doubles back to help the other survivors who got captured trying to reach Sam. She and Whitman help to rescue sam while roth commands a helicpter for their escape, but Lara, due to what she witnesses when a plane to rescue her, tells Roth to land the helicopter but it's to late when the helicopter gets crashed by the storm, Mathias and his cult arrive on the scene and roth gives lara his life by protecting her from an axe mathais threw at her. After morning his death and evading capture, Lara meets with the other survivors who have secured a boat to escape, Whitman joins them as well, but Lara suspects that he is working with the Solarii, but the trouble is the boat needs to be repaired, so Lara travels to the wreck of the endurance to meet with Alex Weiss, who tries to salvage the needed tools to repair the boat, but the Lara finds Alex trapped underneath a wrechage. But the Solarii attack when she tries to free him. In act of bravery, Alex triggers an explosion that kills of the cult and himself, so that Lara coukt escape with the tools. Lara moves on her grief and explores the island further, finding a tomb on the island's cost containg the remains of the samurai who commited seppuko, Lara ruturns to the survivors at the beach. Unfortanetely, she was right about Whitman. He betrays them by handing Sam to Mathias. Lara, Reyes and jonah persue Whitman and cultists, arriving just in time to see whitman getting killed by the Oni. She fights through the queen guards and sees Mathias begins the ritual. Lara kills Mathias by shotting him of the roof of the monastary using dual pistols and destroys Himiko remains to save Sam. With the storm finally dispersing, Lara, Reyes, Jonah and Sam leave the island by a cargo ship.
===The Divine Source===
A year after the Ymatai expidition, Lara's back in London, Struggling to explain her experiences on the island, and suffer from a severe PTSD. She decides to look back to her father's research of the city of Kitezh to get answers, on one day, she enters her father's appartment but sees that there's someone with a flashlight inside the appartment. But learns that there's a group named Trininiy wanted to rule the world for many years. She's surprised to see Anna (her father's boyfriend) at his appartment, which nearly killed her before recognizing her. Lara later heads to syria to fins the prophet's tomb. when she was travelling to syria with some driver, a Trinity helicopter attacks them, crashing the viechle and killing the drive. After evading traps and obstacles, she finds a shrine, which she finds empty. Lara escapes after being cornered by Trinity soldiers led by Konstantin. When Lra gets back home, she does some research and learns of the Divine source, a source which grants his possessor the immortality, which his father had benn looking for all that time, but a Trinity assassin breaks in and steals the book. She goes to Siberia to retrive the stolen book after an avalanche seperates her and Jonah. Konstanting tricks Lara by pretending that he strangles Anna to make Lara talk, but she really doesnt know much about the divine source, which Anna reveals that she is Konstantin brother and she works for Trinity, Which makes Lara very upset. Lara gets thrown into gulag cells only to meet a guy named Jacob which she unites with him stop Trinity. Shortly after, she finds Atlas, but she is attacked by a group named the deathless ones, which she escaped, and reunited with Jonah. Later she fights Konstantin which resulted his death, and broke the divine source after Anna got killed by a sniper and shortly consumed it, which kills the deathless ones, along with Jacob, unfortunately.
===Stopping the Apocalypse===
6 months after the events of the Rise of the Tomb Raider, Lara Croft and her friend Jonah go to Cazumel in mexico, which was led be Pedro Dominguez, the highest leader of Trinity, while Lara was investigating there, she discovers a temple which contained the chak chel dagger, when Lara takes the dagger, she gets surprised by Pedro and his team coming to take the dagger and escape, resulting a drenching tsunami which drowns more than half of Cazumel, which Lara feels remorse for.
Lara and Jonah then go after Dominguez to stop the world cleansing, in their way there, their plane got crushed, in the peruvian junglebecause of the second catastrophe, a destructive wind. Together, they find their way back to Paititi. There, Lara saves a boy named Etzli, and delivers him safley to his mother, Unuratu. Lara later faces some creatures knows as Yaaxil.
Unuratu and her son get taken by the Trinity, but Lara saves them. Unurato tells lara that Amaru doesn'tfullu understand the ritual. Unurato gets shot by Pedro's right hand, Rourke, Unurato, in herdying breaths, Tells Lara to stop Amaru and save the world.
Lara and Jonah find the secret vaults to the vaults of the Lopez, but Amaru gets in their way, and there, he confesses that he ordered his men to kill her father to prevent him from finding Paititi and reveal the secret to the world. She tries to convince him to use the ritual for the sake of the world, albeit with no avail. Lara and Jonah escape from the third catastrophe, a destructive erarthquake.
Back in Paititi, Lara and the newly crowned Jonah help Etzli lead an attack on an underground temple complex. They plan to disrupt Amaro's ceremony while avoiding the fourth disaster, a volcanic eruption. Lara is forced to continue on her own. She confronted Yaaxil and Crimson Fire, and convinced them to help her stop Amaru. Rorke and the Supreme Triad Council are slaughtered by Yaxel while Lara makes her way to the top of the temple. Amaru begins the ritual and absorbs Kukulkan's power as the solar eclipse begins. After a long battle, Lara overpowers Amaro and stabs him to death. Accepting defeat, Amaru transfers Kukulkan's power to Lara when he dies. Per Unuratu's warning, she is tempted to use the box to revive her parents, but instead allows Crimson Fire to symbolically stab her, sacrificing Kukulkan's soul and stopping the purification.
In the aftermath, Unuratu is laid to rest, and Jonah decides to take a vacation. Lara stays in Paititi to help Etzli restore the city to its former glory. A post-credits scene shows Lara planning her next adventure at Croft Manor, acknowledging that her role is not to solve the world's mysteries, but to protect them.
==Appearance== 
Lara is a young, beautiful Caucasian woman with elegant facial features and deep brown eyes. She has thick, dark brown hair (which she keeps tied up in a ponytail, though she keeps the front in a layered and choppy style). She has a slender and toned physique and stands roughly 5'6" (168cm) tall.
After her first stint on Yamatai, Lara has gained numerous scars, mostly on her arms, though the worst was the first one she received from a puncture wound in her side, which she later cauterized.
==Personality==
Despite her aristocratic status, Lara seems quiet and reserved but also somewhat naive, more preferring the company of a good book, it's only with Sam's help she begins opening up to the other members of the Endurance. Her quiet nature is further emphasised near the end of Tomb Raider whereas Sam, Reyes and Jonah were all talking Lara silently stared into the ocean, presumably out of shock.
She also feels personally responsible for all of her friends that had died on Yamatai, as it was she who presented the idea to enter the Dragon's Triangle. Because of this she views her instincts as a weakness as it got her and her friends in danger when others such as Jonah and Roth persuade her to trust as they are actually her greatest strength. Lara was equally unnerved when Grim died whilst being held hostage to get her to surrender. Most of all she feels incredibly guilty towards people who died trying to save her such as her mentor, Conrad Roth who sacrificed his own life as to protect her from Mathias' hatchet and Alex who gave her the tools to fix the boat so the others could escape and kill surrounding Solarri. Because of this Lara is deeply afraid of losing any more people she cares for, when Jonah was nearly killed by Konstantin it proved to have been a last straw should he not have been for Jacob reviving him. Lara is generally friendly towards most of the crew Endurance. She has a close best friend/sisterly bond with Sam who have stated to be close since college and a surrogate daughter with Roth.
However Lara is also unsure of herself and somewhat second-guesses. She even tells Roth "I'm not that kind of Croft" when he says otherwise. She begins displaying perseverance and determination, reassuring herself throughout the game and becomes a much more strong-willed character. Lara will go to incredible lengths to survive, at the cost of tremendous pain. She burnt through her bonds at the opening of the game, plunging several feet onto the ground and used an arrow to cauterise her open wound which was shown to be agonising.
Even with all the chaotic and supernatural happenings on Yamatai, Lara remains an archaeologist at heart. She will go out of her way to explore and her intelligence shines through while examining historical artefacts. She remains an avid lover of books, her bibliophilia is evident with her more favoured archeological and historical records
On her first days on Yamatai, Lara was unnerved by the idea of killing. She even expressed hope to Dr. Whitman that although there were other survivors on the island she wished that it didn't turn them into killers. The first thing that Lara actually did kill to survive was a deer, and actually apologised to the dying creature before gutting it. Her first human kill left her visibly traumatised and instead tried to use the empty gun she found off a Solarri to scare off any other people who might attack her. Eventually Lara came to the realisation that killing was a have-to on Yamatai especially if she wanted to survive. After which she becomes much more confident and deadly, actually threatening or talking back to the Solarri while attacking them.
She also doesn't display much remorse for her enemies or people who had betrayed her. After shooting an injured guard who she had received her gun off, she simply states "go to hell" and shows no regret over Whitman's death having betrayed the Endurance by handing Mathias Sam. Despite this Lara never became ruthless. She at times proves to be very protective to human life and once went out of her way to save total strangers such as Captain Jessop and his co-pilot, mostly because it was her fault that she brought both of them to Yamatai. She also remains trusting with people despite being betrayed by both Mathias and Ana. An example is when she freed herself and Jacob, a practical stranger from Trinity's imprisonment but fortunately proves to be beneficial for her as his people, the Remnants assisted her in finding the Divine Source. In addition, she can provide mercy for enemies (player-determined) that are near death, as shown with one of Konstantin's men who eyes were gouged out, or the soldier who was severely burnt by Greek fire and asked her to make it quick.
When she did return from Yamatai, Lara was a different woman. Deeply traumatised by what she had seen and forced to done, she retreated to an almost shell of a woman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress, Survivor's Guilt and hallucinations. She also appeared to be unnerved, either constantly tapping the heel of her foot or gripping her hands whenever discussing her time on Yamatai. After seeing that the legends her father told her about myth were real, Lara was soon obsessed with discovering all the legends of the world, prompting her to be attacked by the "gutter press". She also displays an unseen love and grieving for her father, Richard Croft. With the help of the Divine Source Lara wishes to clear his name amongst the archeological community and also create some sort of penance for herself as for the final years of Lord Croft's she resented him for losing himself in his work and neglecting everything else, ironically what she did later. It's only when Lara destroyed the Divine Source as to not risk Trinity abusing it she gained a new sense of purpose; to stop Trinity not for anyone else but for her.
==Skills, Abilities and Weaknesses==
Lara displays incredible gymnastics abilities at the start of the game, as well free climbing and mountaineering. She also has a high tolerance for pain as seen when she was kidnapped and strung upside down, she burnt through her bonds, falling from a large height which ends with an arrow through her abdomen that she was able to pull out. Though in clear pain she didn't pass out and was able to both escape the cave and even climb a grounded without any medical assistance. On the subject she displays some medical knowledge such as being able to patch up Roth's damaged leg with a medical kit and use an arrow to cauterise her opened wound.
Despite growing up in a manor and living a sophisticated lifestyle, Lara also knows how to defend herself. She has some fighting knowledge and augments the attack of her blows by using weapons such as a climbing axe. She is also skilled with chokeholds, stealth and fast finishers. She can use her bow to strangle and break the necks of any unsuspecting enemy she sneaks behind and whenever Lara injures enemies she is able to either knock them out with whatever in he environment such as a rock or her own axe. Despite her petite appearance Lara possesses more physical strength than she appears to have, being able to pull down settlements or load-bearing poles with the help of Rope Arrows. She also seems to have a high level intellect
Lara also possesses extensive knowledge of firearms and other long-ranged weapons such as archery. The first weapon she recieved was a bow and arrow which she proves to be an adamant master of, being able to successfully hunt and kill a deer as well several other Solarri and Trinity soldiers. Presumably trained by Roth to work guns, Lara is able to correctly use handguns, shotguns, automatic rifles and snipers.
Among other things, Lara possesses keen instincts and her gut feeling proves more than often to be correct because of this many people encourage her to trust herself what she considers a weakness. She was correct about Yamatai being in the Dragon's Triangle, as well understood that something beyond reason was happening on the island and proved to be correct by trusting Jacob.
Lara is an extremely skilled survivor and skilled with crafting, using whatever she salvages to augment her own equipment. She is able to create Molotov cocktails, bombs and healing remedies with essentially leaves and twigs. Among other things she can advance her own weapons, even if somewhat crudely. Such as attaching a lighter to her bow, creating Fire Arrows, or attaching a grenade launcher to her assault rifle.
However Lara does have weaknesses as she has been injured and ambushed multiple times. At the beginning of Tomb Raider she was knocked out off-screen, restrained and tied up by Vladimir, surprise attacked by a Solarri soldier while trying to reach the radio tower, nearly thrown off the edge of a cliff, tricked by Mathias to rescue a pilot, causing her to be knocked out, strung up by the Oni, overpowered by Nikolai and Dmitri and knocked out by several Trinity soldiers. Midway through the first game her injuries received at the beginning got the better of her, bringing her so much pain she couldn't even jump until she was able to cauterise the opened wound with a heated arrow.
==Trivia==
*The 2013 reboot is the first M-rated Tomb Raider game.
*When she was young, her father called her "little monkey". Coincidentally, Survivor timeline Lara was born in 1992, and her Chinese Zodiac is a monkey.
* Her main choice of weaponry is a bow and a quiver of arrows, a big change to her usual weapons in the Original and Legend timelines (two pistols and a shotgun).
* Lara's new portrayal has been compared to Nathan Drake, the protagonist of , which was co-created by former employee . Uncharted is also considered a male version of , as both protagonists are similar.
** In Rise of the Tomb Raider, she has an outfit similar to Nathan Drake in . Nathan's outfit was created by Amy Hennig.
*She is similar to John Rambo:
**Both use bows and arrows.
**Both have to save their friends.
**Both are resourceful and improvise weapons.
**Both suffer from great trauma from events in their lives, and suffer from severe flashbacks from events.
==Exrernal Links==
*Lara Croft on the Tomb Raider Wiki.
* Lara Croft on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki.
==Licensing==
This article contains content derived from the "Lara Croft (Survivor Timeline)" article on the Tomb Raider Wiki, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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