Eleanor

* See also BS2
* See also Sofia Lamb
* See also Delta ('Father')
* See also Stanley Poole and Grace Holloway
* See also Little Sisters
* See also Characters/Personalities
Eleanor was one of the primary characters in Bioshock 2. The Daughter of Sofia Lamb, and had been born in Rapture. She called Delta 'Daddy' possibly due to her having been a Little Sister conditioned to be with an Alpha, or to invoke that Conditioning on Delta whom she had Resurrected from his termination 9 years earlier, and the need to rescue her from her mother.
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Deformities Child ? :
Definite strangeness imposed by 'artist'
Seeing how narrow the knee joints on Big Sisters are portrayed, when with the thickness of both the suit and the flexible joint at that spot, the legs inside must be bizarrely misshapen. ( You may notice on normal human legs the knees are LARGER than the adjacent parts of the legs. ) This is with or without the abnormally long legs the game model makers also put on the Big Sisters.
'Artistic styling' is fine - WHEN ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE REASONABLY ACCURATE ANATOMICAL DETAIL. ( One too many Japanese Anime seen ??? )
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Eleanors (Telepathic) Link to Delta Should NOT be 'Psychic' (magic) -- IT Should Be Something Physically 'Real'BioShock Rapture is a Sci-Fi place, NOT Fantasy Magical. :
Could be be a link using some biological Plasmid mechanisms ( to get the IN HIS HEAD 'vision' aspect ). It might foreseeably operate via a suit radio interface into his brain - Notice that she SENDS to us (Delta/Player), but we don't talk back to her.  Big Daddies ( and their Maintenance Cyborg predecessors ) would have Radio Links to guide them in their maintenance tasks. Eleanor may have links to alot more communication infrastructure (machines) to make this work ( like transmitter boosters/relays on specific frequencies the Plasmids make use of ).   
Seeing it the way we do - may be part of the conditioning Delta had - now with 'extra' emphasis which might have been reinforced intentionally by clever Eleanor who needed Delta to save her from her mother ( who might be cooking up something like what Comstock had done to control Elizabeth in Infinite BS ).
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Like Father, Like Daughter ... :
Interesting that Eleanor may have gotten similar brain scans, and N-gram extractions as Delta had done to him ( with her being a early 'Gatherer' with the new experimental conditionings ), used as a part of the process that Sofia Lamb tried to reconstitute her daughter from the 'Sea Slug' mutated state, and then to further her 'Utopian' program.
This makes it possible that Eleanor's OWN selection of memories could have been inserted (by Eleanor) into whatever unfortunate corpse she decided to use to bring back as her 'Father', and who would carry out rescuing her from her crazy mother.
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Why Eleanor Waited So Long ( Awaken Daddy ) :
Why might it take so long ??  Lots of difficulties involved :
* Took a while just to come up with the idea ... ( Seeing Gil Alexander's insanity from 'memory infusions', then Sofia's talk of Eleanor becoming 'The One'... which didn't sound like a great thing to happen. )
* Search out, Find and Get Delta's DNA ( and maybe brain recordings, or his entire body in storage ).  "Delta was a Plasmid test candidate. His template DNA is on file at FF - that's how the scanner recognizes him."
* "Behind Mother's Back" she says "We ( She and the Little Sisters ) have found Father's body, and took a  gene sample."  -- "OOOOH it is the same DNA as the Blood that stained my Dress... Yaaaay!!!"
* Had to find/make a safe/secure a place to do this complex project ( bribing Big Daddies is NOT cheap ).
* Needed to Modify the Vita-Chamber machine ( more than just repair/break its genetic lock ) - need to learn how to do all that technical stuff - what to do, how to fix it, parts, tools ???
* Get an Alpha suit there ( that is NOT part of his DNA ) and whatever 'material' you need to reconstitute/repair an entire body ( Acquire whatever huge amount of ADAM is needed ).
* Possibly retry again and again to get it to finally all work ( messy failures that needed to be cleaned  up ).
* All of this while doing alot of it remotely thru the hands of some 7 year olds ( and maybe some help from some Big Daddies ) in between the involved Little Sisters normal 'Little Ghoul' activities and bed times.
* All the while doing all this 'under the radar' of Sofia Lamb and her lackeys ( possibly with Eleanor herself sneaking away to do the more difficult parts ? )
* Building all the correct 'memories' which would impel this Delta to come to her rescue
It JUST took a long time to "Put Humpty Dumpty back together again" ...
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Eleanor's Rebuilding of Delta :
* Eleanor's 'modification' of the Vita-Chamber ( Hmm, these things were in pretty good shape after 8 years ... must've been made out of that structural window 'super-glass' stuff ).
* The Vita-Chamber system (all of them) must have been previously 'hacked' if they later worked for Delta ( They were all programmed for Ryan's genes ONLY at one point in the BS1 timeframe, so worked for Jack ).
* How long did it take to get Little Sisters ( on remote control ) to do the 'hacking' of that Vita-Chamber in Adonis Luxury Resort ( or Eleanor to use them to find the info needed to reprogram it ) ?? Good thing Little Sisters regenerate as that must've been alot of hacking 'shocks'. ( Imagine the 'Pipe Maze' circuit except that it is more complex and it has as many pipe squares as the pixels on you video screen ... ).
* Delta's genetic codes ( and mental n-grams ? ) hidden away somewhere ( might have been on file in Gil Alexander's lab ).
* Take some convenient body mass to mutate ( plenty of bodies about Rapture ) and maybe a whole lot of ADAM ( Eleanor controlling Little Sisters to get that ) to completely rearrange the tissue into Delta's form.
* Got a Big Daddy Suit of the right kind ( did we ever really see which kind ? ), though with some 'Delta mark on it' ( or close enough for Sofia to recognize ). That would have been a sight : Seeing Little Sisters dragging the suit pieces there.
* How many times did it fail ( and they had to clean up the mess ) before getting it right??
* Normally a Vita-Chamber is used to "adjust" a person's physical body ( tune them, with or without ADAM in effect ) when they are inside it. More development might have led to a method to lessen the genetic 'turbulence' caused by ADAM side effects and get rid of the genetic damage/insanity.
* Player 'coming back to life' - having someone else drag the Player's body into the nearest Vita-Chamber ( Eleanor could have had Lil Sisters do that later for Delta, and Ryan some of his goons do it for Jack -- as he wasn't trying to kill Jack but was really stringing Atlas/Fontaine along for his own 'faked death' gambit ).
* Vita-Chambers no doubt had positive pressurization to keep the 'flies' out when activated....
* Sometime later, at that same 'modified' Adonis Resort Vita-Chamber machine, some Splicer walked into it ( allegedly to  make a phone call ) and ZAP -- It transformed him into another Delta, sans suit ( eventually found one ).
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Eleanor Did What ? :
Eleanor ( now suited up ), using the powers she had gained from the ADAM treatments her mother forced on her, Teleports herself to the rising escape submersible ( with or without sucking the tasty ADAM out of the Little Sisters in the 'Pediatrics' Wing of Persephone. )
So could she have Teleported herself out of the containment Isolation Room all along ??  Or as mentioned previously with the Teleport not being real ( and just a Perception Distorter - with Delta affected and being unaware when a time delay occurs when Eleanor blips in or out ... ? )    Maybe she just picked the lock to saunter about the whole time ( like Elizabeth, she 'Read a Book' on it ... ), possibly clouding peoples minds like the Houdinis Splicers do. ?
When she was 12, she probably snuck around and frightened Splicers from behind.
What she really needed was someone to kill Sofia Lamb, but Delta never quite got the chance.
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Much Easier : 
How much simpler it all would have been for Eleanor to control a Little Sister, and come up from behind on Sophia with a Taser ... Or as a Little Sister with that same Luger that Delta was forced to shoot himself with. Or shove one of those sharp ADAM Collecting Needles into the back of her skull ??
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Audio Diary Analysis : "Goodbye, Dr. Alexander" :
Eleanor ( Fontaine Futuristics ) : 
"Mother has destroyed Doctor Alexander ... She tried to splice him into some kind of living saint who would calculate the common good and adhere to it tirelessly. But now he's become ... something unspeakable. Mother's philosophy is just as corrupt as Ryan's. By her standards, it would be better to have the entire world equally miserable than to allow us to strive in our own behalf. I have to get out of here."
Eleanor says : 'Allow us to strive in our own behalf' which WAS Ryan's [[Philosophy[[, which Eleanor here advocates, except then says : "Just as corrupt as Ryan's" in the very same paragraph. 
Probably not the best worded - not just Vague material, but actually contradictory. 
What good is a "Saint" ( or Prophet ) if nobody believes them or follows their advice ? Sofia Lamb never explained how she would change Human Nature - except by Compulsion ( and as evidenced in-game : by Murder ). 
Ryan's Philosophy applies existing Human Nature, but does NOT outlaw empathy. It just makes provisions that such things are not be allowed to be abused/compelled ( ex - False Altruism ).
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Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Misfortune :
Further Story : Eleanor ( on The Surface after BS2 ) is blamed for ALL the kidnapping of the little girls, as she is seen coming to land wearing the Big Sister type suit as described by Something In The Sea witnesses. This might be something the Player merely hears about in the MMORPG ( which Eleanor does NOT come back to ), or would be part of A BioShock 3 Sequel Solo game plotline justification : For her returning to Rapture ( and likely with certain nasty Surface authorities following her ).
With the MMORPG's 'wide open' capability to create content, some Player(s) COULD create a Surface World scene ( or series of them ) presenting events concerning Eleanor's fate ( well vetted storyline/details, of course ).
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A Joke about Eleanor having Delta 'Wrapped around her little finger' ???
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