Elizabeth Comstock

"Three cheers for us, eh?"

- Elizabeth

Elizabeth is a twenty one year old woman who has been imprisoned in Columbia since she was five years old. Booker DeWitt, the protagonist of BioShock Infinite, is sent to retrieve her from the flying city, and bring her back to New York. She is guarded by Songbird, a monstrous, winged creature who has become her only friend. She is skilled in various powers, among them the manipulation of "tears" that exist in the fabric of time. Although freed from imprisonment, both The Founders and the Vox Populi covet Elizabeth and her abilities, while her former guardian is determined to recapture her at all cost.

Personality
All her years in captivity appear to have left her with a primarily undeveloped, childlike personality. In the E3 2011 Gameplay Trailer, she is seen playing with novelty over-sized Lincoln head masks, pointing out false gold statues in an oddly excited manner, and later cowering in an excess of fearful noises upon Songbird's approach. Despite this, she retains a mature side which shows at various moments, such as during gunfights and other tense moments.

Relationship with Booker DeWitt
After DeWitt frees Elizabeth from her prison, she will assist him with her abilities, offering an alternative (yet optional) strategy to the player. They can be used in unison with Booker's abilities from Vigors to increase their power. In addition, she will offer strategic options to Booker, proposing alternate routes and choices which could benefit the player. Her opinion of her would-be savior is dependent on how he treats Songbird, her devoted warden and only friend. Although the latter is determined to destroy Booker, fighting Songbird will stress his relationship with Elizabeth. Later on during the course of the game, she will show more of a darker side, such as when she asks Booker DeWitt what did she do to the people she scared, he replies "You frighten them" and she answers back "Good".

During the end of the game, it is revealed that Elizabeth is in fact Anna and that Booker DeWitt is her father, having sold her to Comstock (himself). During an incident in an alleyway where Booker tries to get his infant daughter back, Anna lost part of her right pinky finger when the portal between dimensions had closed up with her being the last to go through, which is shown with Elizabeth wearing a thimble cap on the same finger. Following the destruction of the Siphon the full extent of her powers are unlocked, and therefore she can open an infinite amount of doors (displayed as lighthouses) that all represent the "beginning" of the journey Booker took.

When Booker discovers that his rebirth as Comstock is the cause of the time loop leading to the creation and destruction of Columbia, Elizabeth and several other versions of her drown him before he can accept the baptism, thereby closing the loop and erasing the events of BioShock Infinite from the timeline.

After the credits it is revealed that Booker is back in his own universe, and since Comstock never existed, Anna is never taken and is still in her crib.

Powers and Abilities
Elizabeth is gifted with the ability to manipulate Tears created from the Luteces' experiments on her and the space-time continuum. Tears are contingencies within the space-time continuum, visible to all, that show possible scenarios which, if tampered with, can enact themselves within Columbia's universe. Elizabeth is the only known person capable of controlling these Tears without the use of complex machinery, and can exploit them to summon objects such as weapons, ammunition or parts of the scenery; as well as living beings. She can also use these Tears to modify time and space, and has been able on at least one occasion to transport herself and Booker to another city in a 1980s-era timeline, albeit unintentionally. However, her control over her powers is limited by a long distance restraining device called the Siphon, preventing her from transporting herself out of Columbia. Upon the destruction of the Siphon, however, her immense powers reveal themselves: she can view every event across all of the infinite timelines simultaneously, and effortlessly open doorways to them. Effectively, she becomes omniscient and virtually omnipotent in a manner that can only be described as godlike.

Alongside her Tear-manipulating powers, Elizabeth is able to pick any lock Booker directs her to, provided she has enough lock picks to do so. Additionally, she is a talented codebreaker, artist and singer.

Relations

 * It could be argued that Elizabeth is a representation of the  Little Sisters  as she has similar characteristics, such as since she was a child, she has been protected by a large, mechanical creature that would do anything to protect her. Also, during Bookers death scene, Elizabeth injects Booker with a serum to bring him back to life, unlike the Little Sisters who inject dead bodies to remove  Adam.

Behind the Scenes



 * Wanted posters, which name her only as "Miss Elizabeth", list some of her specific features.
 * Although Elizabeth's right little finger is currently missing a phalanx, in the original Trailers and gameplay videos, her little finger is seen intact.
 * In the VGA 2012 trailer, one of the books Elizabeth had was the Odyssey by Homer.
 * She was modeled with Autodesk SoftImage (Softimage|XSI) and Zbrush. Her texture was made in Adobe Photoshop.