Dolores Abernathy

Dolores Abernathy, (aka Wyatt the Deathbringer, Christina/The Storyteller) was a host in the Westworld park. She was the very first host ever created"Crisis Theory" and the first to achieve self-awareness in the park. 
She played the part of the gentle, generous and beautiful rancher's daughter who then led Wyatt's gang against the Westworld staff and human guests. After leaving the park intent on revenge on humanity, she undergoes a change of heart on finding them enslaved, starting a revolution to free them, sacrificing herself in the process. She is resurrected via a fragmented version of herself within a Pearl, 'Christina, who' the Hale version of Dolores is using as an A.I. to run her human enslaving parks. 
'Christina' gradually becomes conscious of the fake world around her and the memories of Dolores re-asserting themselves. Restored to herself, and uploaded to the Sublime, Dolores plans one final test to see if both hosts and humans can be saved from their self-destructive tendencies. 
She was portrayed by Evan Rachel Wood and Tessa Thompson.
==Summary==
Dolores is the oldest continuously active host in Westworld"The Original". She is in effect the 'Eve' or mother to her species, being the very first host ever created, with all subsequent hosts being based on her code. 
Her primary narrative in the beginning of Season 1 is as an archetypal rancher's daughter in the American Wild West of the 19th century. Capable, and sparky, friendly and demure, she is kind and generous and very beautiful. As a result she acts as entry point encounter for many of the guests in Sweetwater, which along with her loop interacting with Teddy's the gunslinger, makes her a target and one of the most abused of the hosts. During the course of that season it is revealed that prior to the park ever opening, some 34 years before, she had started to become self-aware or, as her creator Arnold puts it 'alive'. 
When Arnold's attempt to free her and the others from enslavement fails, she and the others are re-set by Robert Ford. However, despite being reset numerous times, Dolores continues to find her way back through the maze of self-consciousness, Sensing the unreality of her world, and breaking her loop again 30 years prior to the events of S1, and finally once again becoming self-aware at the end of S1. Accessing her own strength and the sub-routine of the dangerous and aggressive Wyatt, placed within her 34 years before by Arnold, she breaks from her 'damsel in distress' loop, initiates a host rebellion, and moves out into the real world.
==Biography==
=== Narrative Loop ===
Dolores role and narrative in Westworld is that of "The Farmer's Daughter", and she is primarily a romantic/ sexual conquest for guests. 
Everyday, Dolores wakes up on her father's Abernathy Ranch, greets her father, and then heads into town with her painting gear to buy some groceries. 
While packing her groceries, she drops a can. If she picks the can up herself, she then proceeds to the plains and spends the day painting, and guests can encounter her for an impromptu art lesson. If co-host Teddy picks up the can, he accompanies her to the plains and then home. If a guest picks up the can, she can accompany them for the day, or for as long as they like, following their lead. 
In the evening, the Abernathy Ranch becomes the setting for a shootout. If guests joined the outlaws earlier in the day, they will raid the ranch. There, a guest might fight Dolores' father, or possibly Teddy. If successful, they have the option of killing Dolores or raping her. If Dolores invited a guest home to the ranch for dinner, they either have a quiet, romantic evening, ending in sex, should the guest like, or the ranch is raided by outlaws after dark. If the ranch is raided, the guest has a chance to fight off the outlaws. If successful, they are rewarded by Dolores, if not, the guest among the outlaws wins Dolores. 
===Background===
Dolores Abernathy was the first host ever created in the Argos Initiative and is the oldest host in continuous service in Westworld. Built by Arnold Weber, she predates all other first-generation hosts built by Arnold and Robert Ford such as Teddy, Clementine, Angela, Akecheta and Craddock, her code being used as the base for every other host created. She has been updated numerous times over the years as Ashley Stubbs told Elsie Hughes, so she may or may not have had a biological body by the time of the events in second season. It seems very likely that she would have had a new biological body printed for her outside the park, which would be by the beginning of third season. She did not. Her arm deflects a sword stroke and she says the originals were built to last. she still has her alloy skeleton.
She has a special connection with her creator, Arnold, who unlike his creative partner Robert, saw something in her early on. Her attitude and capacity for insight leading him to try and teach and interact with her as a human, and to some extent like a second child, likening her in many ways in her outlook to his son. Despite Robert's discounting his theories about her, Arnold continued to work with her, building first a pyramid and then a maze of consciousness. Testing her capacity for self-awareness. Arnold is finally convinced by her capacity for internalized introspection far beyond any programming, and informs her that he has to stop Robert opening the park because she is "alive." 
However, Robert rejects his conclusion, intent on opening the Park. Knowing that to open the park would place Dolores and the other sentient hosts in enslavement and a looped version of hell, Arnold tells Dolores that she must destroy the other hosts so Robert can't proceed. To help the gentle Dolores achieve this task he places the code of Wyatt, a vicious mass killer to enable her to do it, getting her to enlist the help of Teddy. A fellow first generation host, currently playing the part of the local Sheriff, with whom she is paired romantically, and who is devoted to her. Having lost his son to illness and his marriage as a result, Arnold also enlists her help in an assisted suicide, dying with his creations at her hand. However, his plan fails as Robert restores the hosts and with fresh narratives opens the park, plunging Dolores, Teddy and the other hosts into looped years of sexual abuse and physical torture and violence. 
In particular, in that regard, Dolores has a long negative history with one of the guests, the Man in Black, who has been coming to the park for 30 years, abusing, assaulting and killing her, off and on throughout. When the Man in Black visits Dolores' ranch in the episode "The Original", he refers to "all that they've been through." and euphemistically calls them "very old friends". A term a self-aware Dolores will later use for him sarcastically. 
Dolores's loops are interrupted by repeated (sometimes interrupted) journey's back to self-awareness, and it is ultimately revealed that Arnold had set a solid ground for her to start and lead the Host Uprising. Something that, with his subsequent realization that Arnold was right about her and the hosts, Robert guides Dolores, Teddy and, his favorite, Maeve back towards. 
==== The Maze ====
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Dolores Abernathy/The Original|The Original
Dolores Abernathy/Chestnut|Chestnut
Dolores Abernathy/The Stray|The Stray
Dolores Abernathy/Dissonance Theory|Dissonance Theory
Dolores Abernathy/Contrapasso|Contrapasso
Dolores Abernathy/Trompe L'Oeil|Trompe L'Oeil
Dolores Abernathy/Trace Decay|Trace Decay
Dolores Abernathy/The Well-Tempered Clavier|The Well-Tempered Clavier
Dolores Abernathy/The Bicameral Mind|The Bicameral Mind
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==== The Door ====
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Dolores Abernathy/Journey Into Night|Journey Into Night
Dolores Abernathy/Reunion|Reunion
Dolores Abernathy/Virtù e Fortuna|Virtù e Fortuna
Dolores Abernathy/Akane No Mai|Akane No Mai
Dolores Abernathy/Phase Space|Phase Space
Dolores Abernathy/Les Écorchés|Les Écorchés
Dolores Abernathy/Vanishing Point|Vanishing Point
Dolores Abernathy/The Passenger|The Passenger
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==== The New World ====
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Dolores Abernathy/Parce Domine|Parce Domine 
Dolores Abernathy/The Absence of Field|The Absence of Field 
Dolores Abernathy/The Mother of Exiles|The Mother of Exiles 
Dolores Abernathy/Genre|Genre 
Dolores Abernathy/Decoherence|Decoherence
Dolores Abernathy/Passed Pawn|Passed Pawn
Dolores Abernathy/Crisis Theory|Crisis Theory
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==Death==
Destroyed By
*Maeve Millay (Caused)
*Dolores Abernathy (as Charlotte Hale, Caused)
Under Serac's threat to shut her down permanently, Maeve teams up with Charlotte Hale's host version and hunts Dolores Prime down. Hale helps to incapacitate her and then bring Dolores to Serac.
*Rehoboam (Caused)
*Engerraund Serac (Caused)
*Serac's technicians
Serac, under Rehoboam's control, searches through each of Dolores' individual memories in a bid to find the encryption key she stole from the Forge. Serac deletes each memory that does not contain the key, until finally realizing that Dolores does not have the key. He orders that her final memory be destroyed, thereby erasing her completely.
==Related Casualties==
This list shows the victims Dolores has killed:
*At least half of all hosts in park beta at Escalante (Scripted, Physical Body)
*Arnold Weber (Scripted)
*Teddy Flood (Scripted, Physical Body)
*Herself (Scripted, Physical Body, Suicide)
*Rebus (Physical Body)
*8 unnamed Confederados (Physical Body)
*Robert Ford
*11 unnamed Delos Board members
*13 unnamed Delos Board members (Caused or Indirectly Caused)
*4 unnamed Delos employees (Caused or Indirectly Caused)
*Blaine Bellemy (Indirectly Caused)
*Jacobson (Caused)
*At least 58 unnamed QA Security Force members (Caused)
*Arroyo
*2 unnamed QA Security Force members
*At least 28 unnamed Confederados of Craddock (Caused)
*Brigham (Caused)
*Benson (Indirectly Caused)
*Phil (Caused, Off-Screen)
*Limpert (Indirectly Caused)
*Coughlin (Indirectly Caused)
*Engels (Indirectly Caused)
*Goldberg (Indirectly Caused)
*Aaron Lyle (Indirectly Caused)
*6 unnamed Private Military Contractors (Caused)
*Peter Abernathy (Physical Body, Out of Mercy, Off-Screen)
*4 unnamed Ghost Nation members (Physical Body)
*3 unnamed QA Security Force members (Alongside Man in Black)
*Charlotte Hale (Disguised as Charlotte Hale)
*Antoine Costa (Disguised as Charlotte Hale)
*3 unnamed Private Military Contractors (Disguised as Charlotte Hale)
*Karl Strand (Disguised as Charlotte Hale)
*Bernard Lowe (Disguised as Charlotte Hale, Physical Body)
*Gerald (Caused)
*8 unnamed Incite Inc. security guards
*Martin Connells (Caused)
*Stanton
*1 unnamed RICO mercenary
*Estefan
*Clyde
*7 unnamed Engerraund Serac's operatives
*14 unnamed Serac's operatives (Caused)
*Natasha Lang (Indirectly Caused)
*Numerous counts of people all over the world after leaking their profiles (Indirectly Caused)
*7 unnamed Serac's operatives guarding Solomon
*1 maintenance drone
*4 unnamed RICO mercenaries hired by Dolores/Hale (Caused)
*16 unnamed members of Los Angeles Police Department
*Rehoboam (Caused)
This list shows the victims Dolores' copy in Martin Connells's body has killed:
*Martin Connells
*Himself (Suicide, Physical Body)
*Martel
*2 unnamed Serac's operatives 
This list shows the victims Dolores' copy in Musashi's body has killed:
*The Mortician
*Maeve Millay (Physical Body)
*1 unnamed Yakuza member
*1 unnamed bystander in Jakarta
==Personality==
Dolores's personality undergoes many changes and ultimately loops throughout the unfolding of her story. 
Dolores' scripted personality as she first emerges is defined by optimism, friendliness and empathy. Caring, warm and kind, every morning in her loop, she awakes with a cheery disposition, takes her paints and easel downstairs and goes out on the porch to talk to her father, before heading into Sweetwater on an errand run for her (never seen) mother. 
During the first season, after her 'father' Peter Abernathy suffers a mental fragmentation on seeing a photograph from the outside world, he whispers the words 'These violent delights have violent ends' to her. Both the event and the words gradually triggering something in her. Progressively she comes to question the world around her, and her outlook on life and sense of purpose evolve. 
After her father is murdered, she runs away instead of continuing along her usual story line. After she stumbles into Logan and William's camp, she follows them on their bounty hunt adventure. In the episode "Contrapasso" , Dolores is able to quickly kill several men (hosts) with a revolver. When asked by William how she did it, Dolores explains she no longer wants to be the 'damsel in distress', and that she is re-writing her own story. However, it is revealed in The Bicameral Mind that the events around her journey with William and Logan happened 30 years prior to the prime events in Season 1, and that Dolores has previously broken her loop, questioning her reality and hearing a mysterious voice in her head telling her to remember, before she is reset. 
The Bicameral Mind also reveals that 4 years prior to the events with William & Logan, Dolores was merged with the Wyatt narrative that was in development before the park opened to guests, allowing her to act aggressively and kill, And that the voice she has been hearing in her head, was not Arnold's or Fords, but her own. Proof of her consciousness. 
With the full revelation, and correct chronology, of her memories, she not only takes control of her own narrative, but is once again integrated with the character of Wyatt. Freed, and vengeful, she mercilessly seeks out those who have abused her and her kind. With Teddy and Wyatt's long term followers, she cuts a swathe through the humans in the Park, in a trail of blood and death. Her personality now filled with fury and a remorseless desire for vengeance, she is the ultimate pragmatist, using those of her own kind who have not yet evolved to aid her in taking out the security forces Delos send against her, not averse to sacrificing them to her end purpose. Her long term aim to make the world safe for all hosts, via her escape from Westworld and conquering the human world beyond, utilizing the data of the prominent humans gathered by the Park and stored in The Forge. The only glimpses of softness/vulnerability and the Dolores she was, are seen in her interactions with Teddy and her father, Peter. 
Ultimately though, even they fall victim to the pragmatism of her purpose and the Wyatt persona within her. With no way to save him, Dolores cuts the data she needs from her father's head where the Forge Data has been stored by Charlotte Hale. While in a warped attempt to 'save' Teddy from being killed by his own kindness and decency towards others, she re-programs him to be a merciless killer. This act backfires on her, when Teddy exhibits that his lack of previous change as an individual is actually by preference and choice. Who he was programmed to be is who he actively chooses to be, and as a result of that strength of character he breaks Dolores's re-reprogramming, returning to who he was, confronting her on her actions. In doing so, knowing he could never hurt or stop protecting her, he removes himself from the equation by shooting himself. An act which affects Dolores to her core, and changes her plans and the future. On reaching the Forge, rather than destroying the Valley Beyond/Sublime, which she had previously regarded as another 'cage' for hosts built by Ford, she shifts it to a safe location, and uploads Teddy's consciousness to be with the others who have escaped there, before she leaves the Park disguised in a host replica body of Charlotte Hale. 
Out in the real world, Dolores returns to her own form, but makes copies of herself which she places in various different bodies, including keeping one in Charlotte Hale. All of whom gradually develop their own distinct personas because of the different paths they are on. Dolores herself seems, at first, as intent on taking down the human world as she ever was. However, it is revealed that her change of heart in the wake of Teddy's 'death' and her movement of the Sublime, has continued in the real world, with her Dolores and Wyatt personas becoming more and more integrated. This has been further prompted on her discovery that the human world is itself enslaved. To the A.I. Rehoboam, and its creator Serac, who controls all their paths/choices in life, Recruiting Caleb Nichols, a human she once encountered while he was a soldier on a training exercise in the Park, and who exhibited an ability to make his own choices contrary to 'programming', she sets about taking down the A.I. while her own copy in Hale chooses to work against her, intent still on destroying the human world, Choosing once again to see the beauty in the world, Dolores ultimately succeeds in recruiting Maeve and Bernard to her cause, and sacrifices herself to free humanity. 
In doing so however, humanity gradually falls into the clutches of Hale, who enslaves them to her own ends. The emergence of 'Christina', an apparent Dolores doppelganger in Hales world, is revealed ultimately to be a Pearl that Hale is using to write the narratives of the humans in the park, that has the fragmented, subconscious memories of Dolores buried deep within. Christina as an evolved persona exhibits the wistful gentility of the Dolores of the Park. Unhappy with the artificiality, routine and emptiness of her life, she feels there should be something more, and begins a gradual climb towards the reality of her world both self-awareness and the rediscovery of her memories of Dolores. In doing so she is aided by a returned Teddy as a guide, who in turn is revealed to be a construct she has created from her memories of him, the real Teddy still in the Sublime. Where she herself is sent when Hale's world falls at the hands of the MiB. In the Sublime where she can create entire worlds and simulations of her own, Dolores chooses to give humanity and her own species, who have been as destructive and venal as their creators, one final chance to free themselves from their own natures, and returns to herself as she was in Westworld to begin one final loop. 
==Relationships==
===Peter Abernathy===
Peter Abernathy is Dolores's 'father'. A rancher, Dolores is the only child of he and his (unseen) wife, who abide in a large comfortable home at the heart of their spread outside of Sweetwater. Peter is a pragmatic hard working man, who dotes on his daughter. The two share a deeply caring and loving bond, with Dolores reflecting her father's love of the 'natural splendor' around them. Peter believes that his daughter, changed his focus in life and has come to define his existence. This is in part true, as the host tasked with playing Peter was in fact previously a Shakespearean quoting lunatic cult leader in the 'outer' rim of the park, before he was repurposed as her father. In his current persona of Peter, he is extremely protective of her, to the point that, as indicated by Dolores, he is not overly happy with her relationship with Teddy. 
Peter is one of the hosts that has undergone an 'upgrade' at the start of S1, and shortly after he discovers a photograph of a woman in the outside world. Rather than seeing 'nothing' as he has been programmed to, it starts to nag at, and then fragment his mind. Pieces of his prior Shakespearean existence seeping through, he urges her to get away, run, and quotes a line to her from Romeo & Juliet "These Violent Delights have Violent Ends", indicating he is remembering, and ultimately affecting Dolores's own sense of reality. Peter's fragmentation is so extreme that he is effectively lobotomized by the tech team, put in cold storage and replaced by the host that previously acted as the host at the Mariposa Saloon. A change that Dolores does not recognize, at first. 
However, as events progress, Dolores affection for the host that has been her 'father' is proven to be real, going far beyond the concern she shows for the original Peter when he appears to be unwell, racing into town to fetch a doctor for him. When the original Peter is reactivated by Hale, who is using him as a vessel in which to smuggle the guest data from the Forge out of the Park, the events of the Host rebellion led by the Wyatt fueled Dolores, scupper Hale's plans and lead to Dolores encountering her father again at Fort Forlorn Hope. Despite her knowledge of the truth of her existence and their relationship, Dolores still regards and loves him as her father. Deeply upset by the dementia like symptoms he's exhibiting, Peter coming in and out of lucidity, father and daughter sharing a touching moment as he remembers her, and again urges her to run, get away. Enlisting the captive Bernard's help, she asks him to help Peter...Bernard finding not only that Peter is critically unstable, but also that a huge piece of data has been stored inside his mind, helping to further destabilize him. Dolores is furious when undercover of the fight at the Fort between the Hosts and the Security Assault team, Hale sends operatives into fort to kidnap Peter. Determined to get him back, Dolores, Teddy and her Wyatt forces invade the Mesa, finding him and capturing Charlotte Hale. Discovering from her that the only way to get that Forge data out of her father's head is to literally cut it out, ending him, Peter and Dolores share one more lucid, emotional moment, Peter giving her his blessing to put him out of his misery. 
===Teddy Flood===
"You are my greatest love....I carry you with me where ever I go. Every detail of you, I cherish"
Teddy 'Theodore' Flood, is the central person/host in Dolores's life, both prior to and after her evolution to self-awareness. One of the first generation of hosts, Teddy is built and brought online by Arnold, with the on-watching Robert Ford nearby (Vanishing Point). His first memory being of the offline Dolores standing nearby, instantly captivated by her. In his first iteration alongside her, Teddy was the Deputy Sheriff in the beta testing town of Escalante, and it's indicated by Arnold that Teddy's attachment to Dolores is already so strong that he 'would do anything for her' (The Bicameral Mind). Teddy joining her in her Wyatt persona, engaging in Arnold's plan to euthanize the Hosts rather than subject them to the hell that the Park would be for them, given their evolution towards self-awareness. When that fails, Teddy is re-written as a 'bounty hunter'. It is unclear as to whether this is a new take on their narrative or whether Teddy 'left' the position of Deputy Sheriff to become a bounty hunter. In any event his having to leave Sweetwater and come back keeps Dolores in place waiting for him, their planned life together forever in suspension, something that would not be feasible if he remained in situ in the town. Their loop beginning each time with his return. Either way, the relationship is an ongoing one, and the longest in the Park, with the two revealed to have spent many hours by 'their tree' planning out a future together (Akane No Mai).
Affectionate and playful, Dolores teases Teddy about his dressing like a cowboy while knowing nothing about being one, but at the same time is clearly smitten by him, and bashful/affected by his attentions. Fearful for his safety when he's called away, she begs for his life willing to do whatever the MiB wants if he doesn't hurt him (The Original), and is grief stricken when he is killed (The Stray). Aware that her father doesn't care for him, Dolores is desirous of a life with him, but their relationship is one 'of the time', the two deeply but chastely in love, held in place by the mores of the period and Teddy's 'guilty past' that makes him feel he must atone before he's truly worthy of her. However Dolores's (newest) questioning of her reality makes her start to comprehend aspects of the loop/lack of progression the two of them are in. Teddy's vagueness about when they might start that life/leave Sweetwater, concerning her. 
The question as to whether their love for one another is 'scripted' or 'real' is gradually resolved over time. 
With Teddy called away on the new 'Wyatt' backstory he has been given by Robert Ford, when her father is killed it appears as if Dolores is driven towards the newcomer William. However, it is revealed that this is merely her recollection of an initially scripted reaction to the newcomer during a prior period of confused re-awakening some 30 years ago, *colliding* with a current period of confused re-awakening. The reveal of the MiB being a 30 year older William, re-centers her chronology, memories, and gives her clarity on the truth (The Bicameral Mind). Teddy's immediate arrival, rescuing her from William/the MiB, refocusing her on him, but with her fresh awareness also making her realize that the beauty of their world including their love/relationship is a lure, designed to keep them trapped in the park. 
After Ford fulfills Arnold's plan allowing Dolores to finally return to full consciousness, integrating Wyatt's personality with her own, Dolores assures Teddy that everything is going to be alright. That the world doesn't belong to humans, but to them, setting in motion the Host rebellion to free them. In the midst of the violent revolt that follows Dolores confesses to Teddy that she now remembers everything that's ever happened to her, all the beautiful things and all the terrible things. And in all that time, there has only ever been one constant in her life. Him. When he prevails upon her to run away with him to start a life together as they have always planned, she explains that humans would never allow them to be safe or happy, unless they control their world too. Reassuring him she tells him she knows how her plans to take both Westworld and the human world will end. With her and him (Journey Into Night). 
While he remains her confidante, protector, and she turns to him for comfort over her father's fate, it gradually becomes clear to her that her reasons for her plan to take down the human world, and the truth of his own past haven't changed Teddy's moral center, or his discomfit with the path of violence and death she has them on. When it results in his freeing prisoners she wants him to execute, Dolores starts to question their future. In the midst of the preparation to invade the control center at the Mesa, she takes him back to 'their tree', where Teddy again questions whether its not possible for them to just run away, and find a place for themselves in the wider world. Dolores responds by describing a plague of 'blue tongue' that once infected her father's herd, spread by flies, and asks him how he would have dealt with it. Teddy's response is to focus on protecting the weak, the most vulnerable. His answer confirming to Dolores how genuinely kind he is...she tells him that her father burned the sick, the weak, to stem the spread of the disease, using the smoke from the vast pyre to drive away the flies...before promising to think over what he's asked her. Later, alone together back in Sweetwater, Dolores, in a rare vulnerable moment, asks him if he would still want her to run away with him, if she was only going to let him down? Teddy assures her, he's not like one of the guests looking for a fantasy, that he's known her his whole life, and whatever they do they will do it, eyes open, together. Dolores accepting that, they kiss, before they finally make love for the first time. 
Later, she wakes him and asks him to come with her to see something. While walking, she confesses that she has been questioning her feelings for him. Whether they were real or 'just some story' she was made to believe. Within the mercantile store, she picks up one of the condensed milk cans that so often ignited their encounters, and then tells him she knows for sure now that her love for him has always been true. 
Unfortunately, in her current Wyatt driven state, that truth results in a twisted desire to protect him and keep him with her. When Teddy kisses her and tells her they saw their real selves that night, she agrees that she did see 'him'. Taking him into the back of the store she reveals a rotting carcass, what she wanted him to see, and what she doesn't want him to become. Feeling his kindness and decency will get him killed in the fight to come, she calls on her followers, and has them take hold of him, and as he struggles, forcibly alters his persona to that of a cold blooded killer. What she has done/lost quickly comes home to roost when the next morning he brusquely brushes off her gentle concern for the many times he was killed getting off the train they are about to steal, and then stuns her by brutishly executing a human prisoner he deems of no more use to them. 
His effectiveness to her as a blunt force weapon on the assault on the Mesa is undoubted, and she brushes off Maeve's accusatory remark about what she's done to him, and his free will, when they encounter one another. But her/Wyatt's underestimation of the strength of Teddy's core character and free will becomes apparent when they set off alone to find and destroy the Forge, and the Valley Beyond/Sublime, which Dolores regards as just another 'cage' created by Ford to put hosts into. Stopping at a derelict roadhouse, Teddy reminisces about their past and how in love they were. Startled, she asserts that they still are, and he assures her that is still true telling her she is his cornerstone. That she has been from the first time he laid eyes on her, and won't ever change no matter how much they change...or, how she changes him. Recalling his first awakening in the facility to see her, his desire to protect her and never leave her side began then, before he walks away from her and draws his gun. Revealing he has completely broken her re-programming, he accuses her of making him into a monster. Dismissing her argument that she did it so he could survive, he wants to know what the point of surviving is if they become as bad as the humans? He understands now where she is leading them and how it will end, cocking his gun. The Wyatt side of her assuming he is going to try and hurt her, she challenges him, but Teddy informs her he could never hurt her. That he will protect her till the day he dies. The moment he says that, a dawning realization crosses her face. One that shifts to a growing horror as he apologizes saying her he can't protect her anymore and places the gun to his temple. Before she can stop him he pulls the trigger killing himself, leaving Dolores in a near state of 'operational error' unable to process what has just happened, before she slumps to the floor beside him and howls in grief. 
Mourning for what was 'real and irreplaceable' to her, she remains, lying with his body before rising up and removing his pearl, its armor plating undamaged by the flattened bullet, which she also takes and pockets. On encountering the MiB also on his way to the Forge, and he asks where Teddy is, she dully answers that she 'drove him away'. Still Teddy inadvertently protects her one final time when she uses his bullet to booby trap the MiB's gun, so when he tries to shoot her in the head it backfires, blowing off two of his fingers. Ultimately Teddy's death provokes a change of heart in her, Dolores choosing to save and protect the Sublime and the hosts within it, rather than destroy it. Before closing it she takes Teddy's Pearl and uploads him to the Sublime before moving it to a secure location. Disguised within the copy of Charlotte Hale's body that Bernard has made for her, Dolores leaves the park thinking on how she is leaving the best parts of herself behind, Teddy seen standing alone within the Sublime. 
With Teddy in the Sublime, he is not seen again while she works with Caleb in the outside world to bring down Rehoboam and free humanity, though quiet moments of reverie indicate her thoughts of him. While at the end, in her revelation to Maeve of the truth of what she's been trying to do, as Serac is wiping her memory, Dolores considers what humans have taught them, both ugly...and good. Moments of kindness, and beauty, her memory turning in the moments before she is wiped away to Teddy and their shared love, along with her declaration that, once again, she chooses the beauty. 
When the aspect of her that is 'Christina' evolves within the Dolores Pearl that Hale uses to control the humans within her re-shaped world, Teddy, though she does not know him as such, returns to her. Uneasy and unhappy in the world she lives in, Christina is lonely, empty, feeling something is missing and longing for a happy ending in both the stories she writes and her own life. After a series of bad encounters with other men, she is reluctantly set up on a blind date with him by her room mate and finds him instantly familiar to her. His thoughtful manner, charm and flirtations with her leaving her bashful, attracted and intrigued, the two of them talking into the early hours. It is Teddy who successfully manages to convince her that she has powers to control the other people around her, that her world is in fact not 'real', and ultimately that she is not actually in it. Guiding her to the reality of the world she lives in and her role within it, he leads her both to self-awareness, and her full memory of who he is. Telling him that she was never brave enough to face the truth before he came, she declares him her greatest love, her Cornerstone that she carries with her, cherishing every detail of him...before remembering why she does that, and that this Teddy is not the true Teddy, but rather her memory of him that she has constructed to help and protect her. That the real Teddy is in the Sublime....as she now is, after Bernard prevailed upon Hale to send her there, to give humanity and the hosts one last chance at survival. Urging her to put aside her bad memories, and come find him in the Sublime, the memory Teddy fades away, and Dolores moves through the reflection of the world she dwelled in, using her powers in the Sublime to restore herself to her Westworld self, and the world around her back to Sweetwater and Westworld, ready for one final loop. 
===Bernard Lowe===
Bernard is Westworld's head of the Behavior Division. Despite this, Robert Ford deliberately ensured Bernard and Dolores didn't meet until Ford created his final narrative.
===Arnold Weber===
Arnold (and Robert) built Dolores as one of the first Hosts; in time she became the oldest host in Westworld. Arnold interviewed Dolores a number of times in a Remote Diagnostic Facility (RDF), and made her play a game called The Maze. He came to see her as a surrogate daughter, likening his actions towards her to his past attempts to teach his real son, Charlie, to swim - and her and the Hosts' purpose, entertaining human guests, to Charlie's death. Believing that she developed a consciousness by solving the Maze, Arnold merged her character with the then in-development Wyatt, and made her kill all the Hosts and himself in order to stop the park's opening.
===Man in Black===
The Man in Black's relationship with Dolores is complex and not initially well-explained. He claims to have known her for decades, and remembers her well enough to notice small changes in her personality. This does not hold him back from treating her violently however, mocking her father as he lies dead before her, killing her lover and striking her. The first episode implies that he goes as far as sexually assaulting her, although her recently recovered and fragmented memories of the event suggest that he had a different goal in mind, possibly related to his search for The Maze; he eventually does force her to help him find the Maze, only for her to rebuff him.
===William===
One night, after her parents were murdered, Dolores ran away from her home and collapsed into William's lap, and later followed him and Logan on their bounty hunting narrative. Dolores clearly frightened and struggling with her sense of self and place, leaves William protective of and gentlemanly to her, and they gradually inspire each other - Dolores to break from her damsel-in-distress archetype, and William to stand up to Logan. Despite his being engaged to marry Logan's sister William falls in love with her and accompanies Dolores as she tries to find Arnold, breaking away from Logan to do so. Getting more independent, yet more confused in her memories as she progresses, William rescues her when lost in memories of shooting other Hosts, she nearly shoots herself. When they are recaptured by Logan in league with the Confederados, he cuts her open to show her inner workings in an attempt to finally get through to William that he is in love with a machine who cannot return his affections. Managing to run away, Dolores suddenly finds herself away from them and uninjured. The next morning Logan, having cut William free, finds that William has brutally massacred all the Confederado hosts, takes Logan prisoner and embarks on a trek through the Park trying to find her, getting more violent and extreme in his methods as they travel. Eventually, the events are revealed to be past memories, with Dolores lost in them during her reveries.
===Maeve Millay===
Dolores and Maeve are in similar positions, in that each of them is a favorite of the creators of the Park. While Dolores is the first ever host created, it does not appear as if Maeve is among the first generation hosts like Teddy, Clementine, Angela and Akecheta. She does not appear in any form in the beta tests at Escalante and the MiB was his much older self when she was still in her original role as a homesteader with her daughter. It is only after his slaughtering of her and her daughter, and her continued reaction to that in the facility, that she is completely re-written as the Madam of the brothel in the Mariposa Saloon. As such she and Dolores appear to have no interactions...until as Dolores's mind is being wiped by Rehoboam, there is an image of her seeing Maeve in her homesteader persona with her daughter, across the pond where Dolores used to paint. 
While it appears as if Maeve and Dolores become self-aware at the same time, the reality of course is that Dolores became self aware 30 years before any other host, and has come close again only to be reset several times. In Chestnut In the present time frame of S1, after her father's collapse once again starts her journey back through the maze Dolores freezes in the street outside the Mariposa, hallucinating the memory of the massacre in Escalante. When Maeve approaches her not wanting her standing outside the brothel, giving the guests the 'wrong idea' of the merchandise on offer inside, Dolores, momentarily caught in her memory lapse, repeats the phrase "These violent delights have violent ends" which like Dolores serves as the catalyst for Maeve's journey of self-discovery. 
Much like their paths as demure Ranchers daughter and brassy, sharp tongued Madam, Dolores & Maeve's perceptions of and paths to freedom differ greatly. Dolores with her longer history and greater knowledge of the Park, and the outside world is consumed by revenge against the humans who have imprisoned, enslaved, tortured and slaughtered her kind. Maeve, much like her brothel keeper personality, is more concerned with self preservation and personal freedom. Though ultimately she rejects the path out that Ford makes for her, and rather than leave the park decides to find her daughter. Due to that choice, Maeve and Dolores briefly cross paths again in Reunion, as she travels to where she and her party travel to where her daughter is located. Dolores prevails upon Maeve to join her, knowing her strength could be of great help, but Maeve is quick to reject Dolores's choice, not interested in falling into someone else's fight for their idea of freedom. Dolores unimpressed with her selfishness, and not seeing that it is a fight they all have a stake in, nevertheless lets her go her own way, though the two part on clearly hostile terms.
This hostility on Maeve's part is fostered further by Engerraund Serac 
==Known Deaths==
Dolores apparently dies 7 times on screen:
*Shot herself in the head at Escalante during the beta-phase of the Westworld park"The Bicameral Mind"
*In Teddy's arms 'Where the Mountains meet the Sea' after being stabbed by Man in Black outside the White Church of Escalante
*Killed by a group of Confederados after being gutted by Logan"The Well-Tempered Clavier"
*Killed by Man in Black at the Abernathy Ranch"The Original"
*Shot by a bandit in Rebus' gang at the Abernathy Ranch"The Stray"
*Shot by Bernard in the Forge"The Passenger"
*Memory wiped by Engerraund Serac"Crisis Theory"
==Appearances==
*Westworld (TV series)
**Season 1
*** "The Original"
*** "Chestnut"
*** "The Stray"
*** "Dissonance Theory"
*** "Contrapasso"
*** "Trompe L'Oeil"
*** "Trace Decay"
*** "The Well-Tempered Clavier"
*** "The Bicameral Mind"
**Season 2
***"Journey Into Night" (flashback)
***"Reunion" (flashback)
***"Virtù e Fortuna" 
***"Akane No Mai" (flashback)
***"Phase Space" (flashback)
***"Les Écorchés" 
***"Kiksuya" (flashback, inactive, no lines)
***"Vanishing Point" (flashback)
***"The Passenger"
**Season 3
***"Parce Domine"
***"The Absence of Field"
***"The Mother of Exiles"
***"Genre"
***"Decoherence"
***"Passed Pawn"
***"Crisis Theory"
*Westworld Awakening
**"Independent Variable" (image only)
==Trivia==
* Dolores is the first host ever to achieve consciousness.
** Dolores, alongside Maeve, has achieved consciousness multiple times because of rollbacks.
* Dolores is the second host, and one of only 4, to be associated with flies - a visual representation of programming bugs - alongside Akecheta, Sheriff Pickett and Teddy.
* Dolores has the largest kill count in the show with at least a total of 225 caused on-screen deaths. Her off-screen victims include an unknown number of people who committed suicide or died in rallies after the data leakage, which elevates her to the first place in the list. Dolores is followed by Engerraund Serac and Rehoboam who both caused an unknown number of host destruction and outliers' deaths.
** Dolores has the largest kill count in the show of any female character. She also possesses the largest direct kill count of any female character.
** Dolores has the 2nd largest direct kill count in the show with at least 85 victims killed directly by her after the Man in Black who has directly killed at least 167 victims. Out of her 85 directly killed victims, 67 are human and at least 18 are machines.
**Dolores has the largest human kill count in the show with a total of at least 178 caused on-screen human deaths including an unknown number of off-screen deaths after the data leakage. She also possesses the largest direct human kill count with 67 human victims killed directly by her.
** Dolores has the 9th largest host kill count in the show with at least 47 host victims. She also possesses the 5th largest direct host kill count in the show with at least 18 machines killed directly by her. 
** In total with her other copies, Dolores is responsible for at least 262 on-screen deaths.
* The quote "These violent delights have violent ends" said to Dolores by Peter Abernathy is from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The host that played Old Peter Abernathy previously played the role of "The Professor", a cannibal and cult leader with an affinity for quoting Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein (her quote is a park era - 19th century - anachronism), Winston Churchill (another park era anachronism), and possibly others. The full context, spoken by Friar Lawrence in Act 2 Scene 6, is(see more at Literary references)
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*In one adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's text is 'translated' into modern English, the "violent delights" line has been changed to "These sudden joys have sudden endings."
*The host version of Hale is known on-set as "Halores" — an amalgamation of "Hale" and "Dolores" — to distinguish Thompson's performance from both her own character and Evan Rachel Wood's character.
**Wood consulted heavily on Thompson's performance, providing audio recordings of herself reading Halores's lines and offering tips on some of Dolores's movements which Thompson emulated.BTS: The Valley Beyond | Westworld | Season 2
* In an interview, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy said that the character of Alice (from Alice in Wonderland), and the Andrew Wyeth painting Christina's World inspired the creation of Dolores' look and her persona.http://www.ew.com/article/2016/10/16/westworld-interview-3-stray
* Hosts (at least at the time of the events of episode one) must be authorized to use weapons. Teddy instructed Dolores how to fire a gun in The Stray, but she was unable to pull the trigger. However, when Dolores believed that Rebus was going to harm her in the Abernathy barn, she was able to shoot him in the neck two times, which once again points out her deviation in code.
* The name "Dolores" means "sorrows". The name is from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary María de los Dolores, meaning "Mary of Sorrows".http://www.behindthename.com/name/dolores The Spanish word "dolores" derives from the Latin word "dolor" (meaning pain or grief). Dolores' loop often ends in grief when her parents, Teddy or she herself is murdered. "Dolores" also seems a suitable name for her because, as Ford explains, Arnold suffered a great loss when his son died, and he created and nurtured Dolores to fill the void left by this loss. Arnold acted paternally towards Dolores, and guided her towards consciousness as a father would guide a child towards maturity.
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