Ella Dunham

Ella Jae Dunham (née Blake) is a minor character on the sci-fi television series, Fringe (2008—2013). She is the niece-turned-adoptive-daughter of protagonist, Olivia Dunham in the 2026 future of Peter's erased timeline. She was portrayed by guest-starring actress Emily Meade.
In this possible 2026 reality, Ella became a junior agent of Fringe Division. She combatted End of Dayers terrorism in the dying futuristic Prime Universe. This grim future was a consequence of the inextricable link between the two universes being severed after their multiverse conflict 15 years prior. 
In order to save the future of humanity, Ella worked with Astrid and her uncles to send the Machine through a wormhole, creating a bootstrap paradox and thereby allowing a different choice to be made 15 years in the past. However, September then erased her uncle Peter, causing Ella's bond with her uncle and great-uncle to be erased as well. 
After her inter-dimensional uncle returned to the revised timeline, Ella gained a cousin in Henrietta. Her life history changed significantly, as she became the adoptive granddaughter of Massive Dynamic Executive Director, Nina Sharp, and also had a younger brother named Eddie. 
== Abilities ==
* Pain endurance.
* Inter-dimensional conflict resolution. 
*Time traveller 
The Parallel Universe was destroyed after her uncle Peter Bishop stepped into the Machine in the Prime Universe. The inextricable link between both universes meant that one universe could not survive without the other. This led to mass devastation, including the implied losses of Ella's biological parents. 
After the murder of her guardian Aunt Liv, an orphaned Ella worked with her uncle Peter Bishop to send the Machine back in time. She became one of the First People, initially believed to be an ancient, pre-native group of people who existed before dinosaurs. 
With help from her great-uncle Walter and Astrid Farnsworth, they sent the deconstructed Machine through a wormhole in New York City to the far-distant past to create a bootstrap paradox. 
This timeline was erased from existence. In the next time loop, Ella is never shown to have met the Bishops. She remained in Chicago with her still-married parents and younger brother. Her adoptive grandmother was Nina Sharp. 
== Background ==
Ella was born in 2003 to Greg and Rachel Blake. ("Amber 31422") When she first appears, she is around five years old and is portrayed by Lily Pilblad. Her parents are going through a rough separation and almost plan for divorce. In the Peterless Timeline, she gained a younger brother named Eddie. ("Nothing As It Seems") 
== Storylines ==
In "The No-Brainer", she plays on a laptop computer while her mother Rachel is busy in the kitchen. She downloads a program that intends to liquify her brain, but is safe after Olivia and Peter race to the apartment and thwart the murder attempt. Like her mother, she enjoys the friendship that Peter offers her. 
In The Transformation, she finds her way into Olivia's clothing and make-up for a game of 'dress-up'.
In "Inner Child", she wakes Olivia, not Rachel, early in the morning for a warm cuddle and some pancakes. When Olivia returns to her apartment, after solving the case, Ella engages her in a game of Simon Says - and wins.
In "Unleashed", she curls-up with Olivia for a bedtime story. 
In "Bad Dreams", she is concerned about her pending vaccination - where they put something dead in her blood. Later, after Olivia solves the case, Ella awakens and shares that what they put in her, is alive again. Olivia settles her down with the reassurance that it is just a bad dream.
In "Midnight", she plays with a boy her age, Graham, as Rachel chats with the boys' parents about getting Ella in to the school Graham attends.
In "August", she enjoys time alone with Olivia, who takes her to an amusement park for ride a roller coaster. December and The Observer watch the duo ride the coaster and December comments on how happy she is. He adds that "It is a shame things are about to get so hard for her". Who he is specifically referring to, Ella or Olivia, is not clear.
In "Brown Betty", she goes with Olivia to the Harvard Lab, where Astrid and Walter babysit her. Walter tells her a fairy tale while he is high on his own concoction of drugs, which he titled "Brown Betty".
In "Over There: Part 1", Olivia gives her a necklace that had belonged to Olivia's mother. Ella shares the gifting with Rachel, raising concern about Olivia's return.
In "Amber 31422", Olivia calls her on her 7th birthday during sensory-deprivation experimentation. Suggesting Ella was born in early Fall of 2003. 
In "The Day We Died", adult Ella Dunham is promoted to Fringe Agent in the second week of May, 2026. Olivia is her boss and she tends to Walter much like Astrid did a decade and a half earlier. She has suffered great loss since her childhood and remembers little of the lab other than the cow with kind eyes. She accepts the flag for the family at Olivia's funeral.
== Alternate Universe ==
Her mother's Redverse counterpart died during childbirth. (Over There: Part 1) Both of their hearts gave out. This was due to a virus unique to the Redverse known as VPE. Given her age, it appears the child was not the Redverse equivalent of Ella, as she was already five by the time Redverse Rachel died. 
== Quotes ==
* "But you can't. There aren't any happy endings nowadays, are there?"
* Are you kidding? That's not a proper ending. Don't you know? All good stories start with 'once upon a time', and they end with 'happily ever after'. You don't know how to tell stories." - (to Walter.)
== Trivia ==
* When the Observers state "things are about to get so hard for her", were they referring to the death of her parents?
* Never known to have met her great-uncle Walter Bishop in the Peterless Timeline, though it is possible she did in the three unseen years between 2012 and 2015.
* In "Brown Betty", she expressed frustration at stories without happy endings. In "The Day We Died", she cynically states there are no happy endings after Olivia dies.
* Was never addressed by Peter in the fourth season after her efforts to save the universes.
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