Lara Croft (Survivor Timeline)

Lara Croft, also known as Sweetie, Little Bird, Lady Croft, Ixik, Ahau and Ix Chel, is the main protagonist from the Tomb Raider (Survivor Timeline) series.
== Charactah Account ==
Lara doesn't seem to care much for her aristocratic background, though she later made a point of restoring her family's name. Lara was always friendly attempting to impress girls at her school with a bone she found, though they fled in terror. as a result, Lara didn't have many friends and seemed to prefer the solitude of books, and became quite an introvert. Winston once stated to her father that Lara may have trouble relating to girls her age as she had no female role models. After her chance meeting with Sam, Lara started coming out of her shell, and made more friends.
Lara had never needed to kill to survive prior to Yamatai. After being forced to kill a deer to eat, Lara is saddened by what she had done, even apologizing to the dying creature. However after her first human kill, she is emotionally shaken, she even attempts to avoid killing any more people, trying simply to threaten them with her gun, to no avail. Understanding that it is a necessity to survive the island she resigns herself to killing those who would kill her given the chance. However, Lara will not kill where it is unnecessary, seen when she attempts to sneak into Pripyat, she knocks a guard out cold and takes his gun, she also is reluctant to shoot a pack of dogs that surround her. Lara also doesn't kill a doe that follows her, whilst in the city, even offering it some of her Jaffa Cakes. She even refuses to shoot an unarmed man who is fleeing from her after a brief skirmish.
Lara displays perseverance, and while she shows fear at certain points, even being on the verge of tears as she begs Roth to come get her, she keeps to the mantra "Just keep moving". She is willing to do everything she can to help someone in need, even if it is ill advised to do so.
== Appearance ==
=== Comic ===
* Tomb Raider (Dark Horse)
* Tomb Raider: The Beginning
=== Literature ===
* Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Path of the Apocalypse
* Tomb Raider: The Ten Thousand Immortals
=== Video Games ===
* Rise of the Tomb Raider
* Shadow of the Tomb Raider
* Tomb Raider (2013)
== Trivia ==
* Lara's new "realistic and "more human" portrayal has led to several comparisons to the character Nathan Drake, the protagonist of the Uncharted series, which was created by Amy Hennig, who is a former employee of Crystal Dynamics, and writer and director of the Legacy of Kain series.
** Interestingly enough, Uncharted has been dubbed as "Dude Raider", due to its similar nature to Tomb Raider.
** Lara's Grey and Blue Henley outfit in Rise of the Tomb Raider bears significant resemblance to Drake's signature look, as he wears long sleeved t-shirts with the sleeves pushed up in all media he's featured in.
** Lara and Drake both have similar stomach wounds which they must endure until they can be treated, however, Drake was unable to treat his wound himself and passed out from blood loss.
* This is the youngest incarnation of Lara to be focused on, for the entirety of the games she's featured in, being 21 during the events of Tomb Raider, 23 during the events of Rise of the Tomb Raider, 26 during the events of Shadow of the Tomb Raider. She also briefly appears at the age of 11 during flashbacks. Previous incarnations of Lara have appeared at the age of 9 and 16 in previous games, though only briefly.
* This incarnation of Lara doesn't wear the trademark short-shorts, of the earlier timelines. However, she did wear them during most of the comic arc "Queen of Vipers" (Issues 14-17)
* Lara was a member of an archery club called "Sisters of Artemis" named after the Greek Deity. As seen by the thermal mug on her desk during the the opening of the game.
** Artemis was the goddess of several things, most notably (and fittingly) hunting, wild animals and the wilderness. Symbols of Artemis include a bow and arrows, and the Deer is a sacred animal of her.
* Rhianna Pratchett has stated in an interview that a part of her would have loved to make Lara a lesbian, and that she liked how fans had speculated about the relationship between Lara and Sam. It is unknown if anything will ever come of this as Lara's sexuality is never directly stated during the game or the tie-in canon comics.
* This incarnation of Lara has similarities to the character John Rambo.
** Both wear Jade pendants, though both have different reasons for doing so.
** Both receive a stomach wound, caused by impalement. Both later cauterize the wound themselves. Lara cauterizing her wound is a reference to how Rambo did it in Rambo III.
** Both suffer from vivid flashbacks from the harrowing ordeals they went through. (Yamatai for Lara, the Vietnam War for Rambo)
** Both also use bows and explosive arrows as Lara later receives bow upgrades the final bow resembles the bow used by Rambo in First Blood: Part II and Rambo III, while the explosive arrows may be a reference to the explosive arrows that Rambo uses in First Blood: Part II and Rambo III.
** Both fall from a tree & hurt themselves after hitting their ribs against its trunk.
** Both have to storm enemy strongholds to rescue their best friend. (Samantha Nishimura and Samuel Trautman respectively.) Both scale large canyon walls in order to do so. As well as this, both had previously been to the same stronghold to attempt a rescue (though Lara was trying to save someone different the first time.)
** Both are captured by enemy forces multiple times and escape. (Rambo is captured in First Blood by the local police and in Rambo: First Blood Part II by Vietnamese and Russian Soldiers, Lara is captured on multiple occasions, throughout both games and the comics, Lara however relies a lot less on sheer brute force to escape, though she does occasionally have to use it.
** Both improvise weaponry and equipment in the field. Though Rambo's almost all revolve around his signature Combat Knife. Lara's mostly revolve around her bow.
* Lara is also very similar to Belle from Beauty and the Beast. Due to her love of books, exceeding beauty (which she doesn't flaunt for attention), want for adventure, and their overall designs are similar.
* Lara is shown to have a love of Jaffa Cakes in the comics. Which feature in several moments:
** She gave some to Sam when they first met, as an alternative to allowing Sam to take a photo of her.
** During one of her trips with Sam she was shown to carry a bag full of them around.
** She hid an artifact in a box of Jaffa Cakes, in a hypnotized state.
** In a flashback to the Endurance, Lara sneaked into the kitchen to find some, though she was caught by Jonah who had bought an entire case for her.
** She even took some with her to Pripyat when she went looking for Kaz, she ended up feeding some of them to a local deer.
** Sam tried to offer Lara some as a way to cope with her stage fright, though Lara wasn't able to stomach food at the moment.
** While in Cozumel, Jonah asks Lara if she'd want some if he saw anyone selling them. Lara replied that she would.
* Lara's name (at least in the context of this particular incarnation) was chosen by her father as a nod to the Egyptian sun god, Ra.
** He did this as he believed that Lara was most likely conceived in Egypt.
* In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, in Cozumel, Lara can find a motorcycle and will tell Jonah she used to have one just like it prior to going to Yamatai.
* A Timeline of Lara Croft Leading up to ‘Shadow of the Tomb Raider’
* Interestingly enough, Lara was not shown to have any known love interest throughout the Survivor Timeline. It should be mentioned, however, that Lara Croft from the original timeline was in fact engaged.
** Jackson Lanzing (co-writer for the Survivor Crusade and Inferno arcs in the Dark Horse Comics) has stated that originally during Lara's toxic drug-induced hallucination, she would come to understand that her feelings for Sam were romantic and that the page where Lara and Sam's hug was supposed to be the two kissing. Phillip Sevy also said that he had drawn the image in question but by the time it went into publishing, the kiss had been redrawn as a hug.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Lara Croft (Survivor Timeline) at Tomb Raider Wiki
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