Tilda van der Meer

Escape Nemesis's onslaught and steal GAIA before fleeing to another planet with Aloy in her rocket.
Subdue Aloy with her Specter Prime exoframe. (both failed)

### Crimes

Conspiracy
Murder
Treachery
Attempted kidnapping
Attempted genocide

### Type of MB

Egotistical Immortal

**Tilda van der Meer** is a major antagonist in *Horizon* series, serving as one of the two main antagonists (alongside Gerard Bieri) of *Horizon Forbidden West*.

She is a Dutch hacker, as well as the former love interest of Elisabet Sobeck, who would join Far Zenith, along with the rest of the Zeniths, to escape Earth following the Faro Plague in Q4 2064.

Nearly hundreds of years later, she, Gerard, Erik Visser, and the rest of the surviving Zeniths escaped their destroyed colony of Sirius, after the rogue AI Nemesis destroyed it, in an attempt to retrieve GAIA and its subordinate functions to escape Earth, while soon having a mere encounter with Sobeck's genetic clone known as Aloy.

She is voiced by Carrie-Anne Moss.

## What Makes Her Magnificent

* Via Tilda's magnificence and planning to avoid the Zeniths' suspicion, it was revealed that she was able to retrieve all of the shattered pieces of Focus that Aloy destroyed, which gave her access to all of the data that Aloy has attained throughout her journey, enabling her to uncover Aloy's origins as a clone of Elisabet Sobeck.
* When she spent most of her interactions with Beta, she would soon cut off the data channel between the two, in an attempt to stave off the suspicion of the other Zeniths, which hinted her future defection to Aloy's team, as means to reach Aloy.
* After Aloy's group's mission to merge HEPHAESTUS in Cauldron GEMINI came to a disaster following her appearance inside the Cauldron, as well as with Gerard and Erik, which led to Varl's death, Tilda would soon cleverly facilitate her defection to the organisation when she proceeds to blind both Gerard and Erik with a flash of blinding light, thus giving Aloy and the other members of her team to escape, making her a Zenith defector.
* It is later revealed that Tilda has known Sylens' plan all along of using Regalla and the Tenakth to unleash a suicidal attack to the Far Zenith base and escape Earth, when she revealed to Aloy that she hacked through the Sons of Prometheus' Focuses via the organisation's members, thus uncovering all of his dealings towards the Tenakth rebel leader, which gives Aloy the needed advantage to strike a hammer blow to Regalla's machine convoy during her final attack in the Memorial Grove, thus crumbling all of Sylens' plans apart.
* Handed over Sobeck's copy of APOLLO to the GAIA Team to gain their trust, which undid Faro's efforts to wipe out the knowledge of Old Ones.
* As soon as Aloy's group unleash their attack to the Far Zenith base, Tilda would soon chase Gerard all the way to the Zenith base, before Erik's death and Aloy's arrival to the base's main hall enabled Tilda to defeat Gerard with a coup de grace to his back.
* Later, when Aloy and Beta knew about Nemesis, the AI that destroyed the Zenith's colony in Sirius, a fact that Tilda has been keeping under the wraps, it is revealed that her "alliance" with Aloy's group is considered a lie, as she would soon betray her and her allies after revealing Nemesis' true nature to them, by revealing her true colours of kidnapping Aloy and bringing her to the Zenith ship *Odyssey*, as she showed a great deal remorse of leaving Sobeck on Earth during the Faro Plague. Her intention of doing so was rather misguided and tragic, as it was even shown that Aloy attempted to negotiate peacefully before the battle, to which Tilda refused and attempted to incapacitate Aloy one more time, before leading to her demise.

## What Makes Her a Baddie?

* During the events of Cauldron GEMINI within the namesake quest, she starts out as a helpful ally to Aloy, after helping the rest of her team from Gerard and Erik by blinding both of them, thus allowing Aloy to be saved by them, in spite of Beta and GAIA being kidnapped by the Zeniths. Sylens, however, makes it clearly obvious that Tilda cannot be trusted considerably, given her history as a Zenith, as well as her hiding the truth behind Nemesis, as shown with her hostile interaction with Sylens inside Regional Control Centre/The Base, giving the impression of her being untrustworthy. She kept it under the wraps, when Aloy's group and her attacked the Far Zenith base, as well as Gerard, Erik, and the remaining Zeniths.
* When Aloy and her team later found out about Nemesis and why it was pursuing Far Zenith from Sirius all the way to Earth, it soon came to a head when Tilda betrays Aloy and her team, who would go so far in describing Aloy as her "best and possible self" of Elisabet Sobeck, and would needlessly discard Beta by treating her as Sobeck's "inferior copy", where she would regret about not taking Sobeck during the Faro Plague.
* She would then plan to kidnap Aloy and bring her to the Odyssey to escape Earth. However, after Aloy refused her rather suspicious offer, Tilda would then summon a Specter Prime exoframe, in a final effort to incapacitate Aloy, but soon failed when she was later killed by her, which ended Far Zenith, once and for all.

## Trivia

* Tilda is one of the two *Horizon* characters to be a Magnificent Baddie, along with Sylens.

## External Links

* Tilda van der Meer at the Villains wiki
* Tilda van der Meer at the *Horizon* wiki
* Tilda van der Meer at the Near Pure Evil wiki