Elsie

## Personality

*This information was supplied by one of Cooper's analytical reports.*

Highly
intelligent and analytical. She’s an expert manipulator and well versed
in brainwashing techniques. Has a controlling personality but is friendly and
patient even when antagonised. She chooses her words carefully and everything
she reveals, even genuine emotion, is calculated.

## Motivations

She infantilises
the people she considers to be in her care and believes that by keeping them
imprisoned within the bunker known as Safety or Paradise she is protecting
children, as she refers to them, from a world too dangerous for them. She is
capable of compassion but her sense of morality is askew, devaluing
self-determination.

She’s desperate
to convince new recruits to join her cause and is willing to spend a lot of
time trying to coax them into joining because she is trying to fill some kind
of emptiness inside of her and she believes that by saving them she can make
the pain go away. She will never give up on them and will continue to try to
convince them to join through cunning, trickery or outright kidnapping if she
has the opportunity.

She seems to
perceive wastelanders as a lost cause and has written them off – yet not out of
hatred as you would normally expect. She doesn’t hate them at all. She just
doesn’t see herself as capable of saving them and so sees them more as
shades-of-people-about-to-die rather than people – likely due to some form of
compassion fatigue.

She isn’t
capable of letting go of those she cares about and will rigidly uphold that
they belong with her no matter what they do and where they try to go. She seems
to believe she can fix people’s behaviour and that any attempt to escape her
people is an error rooted in the brain, similar to a mental illness, that can
be fixed.

## Evaluation

Elsie is an emotionally
damaged individual who manages her past trauma by recruiting and caring for
members of Salvation’s cult. She is very persistent and will continue
attempting to retrieve lost Salvation agents as well as recruit humans from
amongst us now that we know of the existence of Salvation.

The only way to stop her attempts to retrieve lost personnel is to fake their deaths and hide their whereabouts,
though she will be suspicious and require ample proof that he is dead. Under no
circumstances should it seem that the Rangers or the Seekers are responsible for any of her people's apparent deaths, instilling a fear that her people could face execution if captured would
only encourage Elsie to push for extreme measures Salvation might otherwise
avoid.

While human-led organisations have a tendency toward privileging territory and resources over human life and thus prefer the easy route of violence and destruction of their enemy, Salvation's priority list is set in stone. She is likely willing to maintain a lengthy Cold War of kidnappings, political manipulations, thefts and prisoner exchanges and will only escalate to lethal force if pressed. Attempts to prevent the loss of her own agents ensures that until lethal force is used by her enemies, she will avoid it at all costs. This may change if her own existence is threatened, however.

Any
contact with Elsie should be monitored and those who make contact with her
periodically assessed that they are not falling under her influence.

## Inconsistencies

Elsie’s obsessive attachment to
her Salvation operatives, aka Taurus / Harry Hammond is seemingly incongruous with Salvation’s attempt to have Taurus
assassinate Glitch Williams in the middle of a safe house surrounded by
Rangers. I can only theorise that she either did not make the decision to give
the kill order or felt so threatened by Glitch that such a sacrifice was
worth eliminating him.