Fanfic / Rapture Falls

Rapture Falls is a BioShock AU series, focusing on the first two games. The stories, in chronological order, are Jackie's Cabaret (prequel focusing on pre-revolution Rapture), Getting Lost in the Con (an alternate version of the first game's ending, from Fontaine's perspective), and The Prodigal Son (AU retelling of 2).

Atlas is real... well, sort of. Close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades, at least. When Fontaine decided to splice up for the final confrontation with Jack, the combination of ADAM and his pre-existing mental issues make the character of Atlas- the honest and ruthless, yet caring revolutionary who guided Jack through Rapture- into a separate personality. And just before Fontaine can complete the process of turning himself into a monster splicer, Atlas manages to hijack his body and accepts death at Jack's hands.

But that's not the end, because 8 years later, a vita-chamber spits out Atlas- alive, but with a large chunk of his memory missing and no idea what happened to Rapture. He inevitably falls in with the only other group of sane people- Subject Delta and his companions Augustus Sinclair and Brigid Tenenbaum, plus a gaggle of cured Little Sisters. Together, they deal with a city that wants to kill them, an ocean that wants to do the same, Rapture's newest cult leader Sofia Lamb, and Atlas's crippling mental problems in order to finally reach the surface and maybe allow Atlas to finally meet the boy he considered his son- Jack Wynand.

The Prodigal Tropes

• Above Good and Evil: Surprisingly enough, not any of the main characters, but the minor antagonist Ava-Marie Tate in the audio diaries, where she explains that while humanity bothers with things like judgement and moral standards, she seeks to become 'the BEAST' (yes, all caps), a primal thing that seeks only joy for itself and is beyond caring what others think.
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • Atlas himself, since this version isn't just Fontaine putting on another act, but the character as Fontaine originally envisioned him brought to life. None of canon!Atlas's Kick the Dog acts are in line with what Atlas was supposed to be, so to the story's Atlas they never happened. Since Fontaine-as-Atlas claimed to be a family man, this one actually is, Atlas-the-character wasn't supposed to be a power-hungry tyrant so Atlas lacks Fontaine's designs for Rapture, and since in-game Atlas's original stated goal was to get Jack safely to the surface with killing Ryan a welcome bonus, that's now Atlas's real goal.
  • A very minor example, but Stanley Poole in this universe never flooded Dionysius Park, sold out Johnny Topside (he wrote an article on him, though), or embezzled from Lamb. He's still a smug, cowardly little fink, and he did send Eleanor to become a Little Sister, but he isn't a complete sociopath like in canon.
• Adaptational Villainy: Sofia Lamb did one thing far more reprehensible than her canon deeds; she gave Eleanor the same plasmid brainwashing Jack had, down to the 'would you kindly' trigger phase, in order to turn her into Big Sister.
• Adapted Out: Grace Halloway's fellow survivors Stanley Poole and Gilbert Alexander appear, but she herself does not- presumably because her story can't be made to fit Atlas's own narrative and problems, unlike Stanley (who's altered so that he's deluded himself into believing he's someone else to escape his own crimes, somewhat like Atlas's own creation) and Gilbert (the moral question of if the original persona's wants are more real than the current one's paralleling whether to favor Atlas's desires over Fontaine's).
• All-Loving Hero: Subject Delta doesn't have a mean bone in his body and can't bring himself to kill even Stanley Poole or the two dancing splicers. Which is lucky for Atlas, as Delta saves him several times and refuses to listen to Tenenbaum telling him to kill Atlas.
• Ambition Is Evil: The main difference between Fontaine and Atlas is that the former puts his ambitions over his friends, and the later puts his friends over his ambitions.
• Amnesiac Dissonance:
  • Justified with Atlas, who's not much like Fontaine at all, but also isn't exactly 'Fontaine minus memories'; he's a separate persona who "remembers" the past Fontaine made up for him, and is repressing any memories that would contradict being Atlas. When he does regain Fontaine's memories, he finds that he can't really emotionally connect to most of what Fontaine remembers doing, even stuff Fontaine did as Atlas.
  • Delta at one point worries that this is the case for him, but it's not; Johnny Topside was just as kind as Delta.
• Amnesiac Resonance: Atlas has a few moments of acting on Fontaine's memories while amnesiac despite having repressed most of their context, such as mistaking a Little Sister for child!Jack while hallucinating from EDEN (despite not remembering that he knew Jack as a child). Delta plays the trope absolutely straight- the only real difference between Subject Delta and Johnny Topside is that Johnny was talkative and Delta is mute.
• Amnesiac Hero: Atlas and Delta, to different degrees. Delta doesn't remember much from before he was a Big Daddy (though his memories are slowly returning), and Atlas has lost his memories of how the first game ended- because that's when Getting Lost in the Con happened, and the Atlas persona was born and took over Fontaine's body. He's also repressed the memories that were specifically Fontaine's (such as believing he was ill when he was actually having the plastic surgery to make him Atlas).
• Androcles' Lion: Atlas at one point saves a colony of cats from a splicer and is able to Mercy Kill their Feral Splicer master. In return, one of the cats joins his party and saves Sinclair after Lamb captures him.
• Animalistic Abomination: The Splicer Cat is essentially a universe-displaced Flerken. Fortunately, it's friendly.
• Asshole Victim: Discussed. Atlas comments that both Gilbert Alexander and Alex The Great did horrible things, and that neither has given them good reason to listen to their wishes. He ends up killing Alex The Great, mostly because he didn't want Delta to have to make the choice.
• The Atoner: Aside from canon's Augustus Sinclair and Brigid Tenenbaum, there's Atlas himself, for the ruthlessness of his revolution and Fontaine's crimes, once he realizes that he is Fontaine.
• Badass Normal: Valery White survived over a decade in Rapture without splicing once. Sadly, her luck ran out after she reactivated the Vita-Chambers. And according to Beatrice, she killed a splicer (Ava-Marie Tate) on her own without ADAM, though she likely died in the process.
• Becoming the Mask: Fontaine gets a forcible variant when Atlas manifests and then essentially possesses him.
• Believing Their Own Lies: Fontaine is aware of this trope, and mocks it... but that doesn't stop him from falling for it, creating the story's Atlas. There's also Stanley Poole, who in this universe has deluded himself into thinking he's writing an expose on the hedonistic socialite Ava-Marie Tate, while simultaneously taking on the role of Ava-Marie himself. When he finally gets his memories back, he kills himself rather than live with the guilt.
• Broken Pedestal: Sinclair doesn't take the reveal about Atlas being Fontaine very well.
• Brutal Honesty: On the rare occasions Fontaine speaks honestly, he does not hold back.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Stanley Poole may be Weak-Willed and now a delusional splicer, but he found out 'Atlas' was made up by Fontaine- something known to nobody but Fontaine and Steinman, and Diane was killed just on the off-chance she'd figure it out. That takes some legit Intrepid Reporter chops.
• Cassandra Truth: Stanley Poole outright says that Atlas isn't real, but it's dismissed as the crazed ramblings as a splicer.
• Chekhov's Gag: Carried over from the main game. You know that ridiculous Unstable Teleport Plasmid that blinks Delta all over and then back to where he started? Atlas gets it here, and it dumps him in Fontaine's office, leading to him regaining his memories and Fontaine's personality reawakening. It's also set up to be the way that Atlas and Sinclair escape to the Surface after they're left out of the escape pod.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Subject Delta and, as much as he may deny it, Atlas. The reason Johnny Topside wasn't able to escape Rapture in this universe was because he tried to bring Little Sister!Eleanor with him.
• Crazy Cat Lady: Now with more ADAM; some splicers have gone feral and live with colonies of animals. Atlas meets one who has a colony of cats; she's non-aggressive but very protective of them.
• Crazy Sane: Atlas is one of the more moral and stable people in Rapture- because he's an alternate personality of one of the least moral and stable people in Rapture, who's locked away all his memories of having been one of Fontaine's personas. And the reason he doesn't experience the usual splicing side effects is that his side-effect is the resurgence of Fontaine's personality.
• Deadpan Snarker: Atlas and Sinclair take their turns. As does Eleanor.
• Dirty Business: Delta doesn't particularly like killing Splicers, but he feels he has to for his own- and later Atlas's- safety.
• Driven to Suicide: Stanley Poole, after he remembers his own impersonation of Ava-Marie Tate and his giving up Eleanor to become a Little Sister. Atlas later almost does this to take Fontaine down with him, but Jackie's ghost saves him.
• Easily Forgiven: Justified when Delta finally learns the Atlas spoilers. Not only is Delta a good-hearted idealist, he also doesn't really know who Atlas or Fontaine were, since he wasn't in Rapture for long before being turned into a Big Daddy, so his first impression of Atlas was 'grumpy dad' rather than 'ruthless revolutionary'. Tenenbaum is also inclined to forgive him after talking to him some because a) she realized that Fontaine really thought he was Atlas, and b) as one of Fontaine's employees and creator of many ADAM-related atrocities, she'd be quite the hypocrite if she didn't give him a second chance. Sinclair... not so much.
• Enemy Within: Atlas is a good version to Fontaine during Getting Lost in the Con, and Fontaine turns it around after Atlas wins primary control in the climax. The more ADAM Atlas takes, the more powerful Fontaine becomes. And when Atlas finally meets Eleanor, she notes that he really needs to get a handle on the conflict between the personas.
• Even Evil Can Be Loved: Jackie still loves her little brother Frank, even after his war with Ryan got her killed.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Fontaine genuinely had people he cared for, even if he was ultimately willing to sacrifice them for power. Atlas essentially is the result of Fontaine's loving side being both something he can't get rid of and completely irreconcilable with his evil, so with the help of some ADAM it gained its own identity separate from his ambitions and deceptions.
• Everyone Has Standards: Andrew "Free Market" Ryan clamped down on teleportation plasmids for security purposes; nobody wants someone who can teleport straight into their safe, and teleportation straight to the surface would ruin the whole point of Rapture being a Hidden Elf Village.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Fontaine, much as in canon. He thinks Tenembaum is keeping his secret for some experiment, never even considering that she was giving him a second chance. He's even surprised when Jaclyn saves him as a ghost because she's his sister and she loves him. Delta also notes in his internal monologue that Lamb refuses to understand that he's saving Eleanor out of love.
• Exact Words: Tenenbaum chooses her words very carefully when telling Atlas about the events surrounding Ryan's death. She says that Jack killed Ryan at Atlas's word- but not that Ryan was the one saying those words, which were the triggers Fontaine implanted in Jack. And afterwards, she says that "there was a trap" that resulted in Jack and Atlas being separated and Atlas dying- but not that Atlas was the one to trigger the trap by betraying Jack, who then killed him. Atlas quickly catches that she's hiding something from him, but he isn't able to make her talk.
• A Fête Worse than Death: Ava-Marie Tate's parties started as A Party, Also Known as an Orgy and went downhill from there when she started using ADAM-based drugs, and Sinclair notes that blood became the most commonly seen bodily fluid at her parties. Now, with everyone a crazed splicer, said parties are mostly excuses to murder guests.
• Forgotten First Meeting:
  • Atlas doesn't remember that he knew Jack as a child, which causes him a bit of confusion when he hallucinates Beatrice as Jack and doesn't recognize the boy he sees her as.
  • Delta actually first met Eleanor as Johnny Topside, but doesn't remember it as Subject Delta.
• Fighting Your Friend: The 'Demo Daddy' Alex makes Delta fight is actually Walter, Johnny Topside's Heterosexual Life-Partner who was imprisoned with him. Delta is not happy when he finds out.
• Freudian Excuse: Ava-Marie Tate's audio diary reveals that she had a religious father who was controlling and abusive to her, so when she went to Rapture, she went wild with her newfound freedom and fell into depravity.
• Gentle Giant: Delta may be a massive and heavily-armed Big Daddy, but he's a total sweetheart who genuinely cares for Eleanor and refuses to harm anyone who isn't trying to kill him.
• The Hedonist: Ava-Marie Tate, a famous actress and socialite in Rapture, who thought concepts like taboos and depravity were trite and had guests to her parties take drugs as an entrance requirement. Though one of her audio diaries notes that she's become bored of all the pleasures Rapture offers and feels mostly numb.
• Helpless Good Side: Averted. Atlas, the good personality, is the fighter of the two. And even when he didn't have primary control, he was able to get some compliance out of Fontaine via threatening him with Your Mind Makes It Real, and is eventually able to take over Fontaine's body by force.
• Heroic BSoD: Atlas when he realizes his true identity, and Delta when he learns he was forced to fight his best friend from when he was human.
• Heroic Mime: Delta can be quite emotional and even snarky in his POV, but as a Big Daddy is unable to express it. He was apparently quite a chatterbox when he was human. Jack was also this while in Rapture; during Getting Lost in the Con he drives Fontaine batty by refusing to respond to his taunts.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Atlas, on account of leading Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters. It gets even worse when he remembers the truth behind the revolution.
• Humble Hero: Delta never wanted greatness; he just wanted to help his loved ones.
• Hyde Plays Jekyll: Averted. Fontaine thinks he could pull it off after he remembers his identity, but before he can try, Atlas resurfaces and takes back control. And when he does revert to Fontaine in front of others, he blows his cover fairly quickly.
• Identity Amnesia: Combined with Becoming the Mask, as Atlas forgets everything pertaining to his identity as Frank Fontaine, but recalls everything he did while in-character as Atlas, along with the backstory Frank made up for him.
• I Hate Past Me: An unknowing example. Atlas despises Fontaine and calls him a "blackguard", and wishes he'd been the one to gun Fontaine down. He's unaware that he was Fontaine, and escaped getting gunned down by taking on the Atlas identity. He hates Fontaine even more when he does remember, because now he knows of the atrocities Fontaine committed as him and what he did to Jack.
• I Know Your True Name: Atlas gives Fontaine pause in Getting Lost in the Con when he calls Frank by his birth name, which no one in the city knows.
• I Never Told You My Name: Atlas does it to himself a couple times; first during Getting Lost in the Con when he knows Fontaine's previous alias of Gorland, and later during The Prodigal Son when he realizes that despite him knowing and addressing Jack by name, Jack never told it to him.
• Intrepid Reporter: Stanley thinks he's one and tasks Atlas and Delta to infiltrate one of Ava-Marie Tate's parties so he can get the scoop on it. Of course, this is an ADAM-fueled delusion as there's no high society left to party and no papers left to take his stories. And there's no Ava-Marie Tate; she died some time ago. The Ava that Atlas meets is Stanley himself in her clothes.
• Irrational Hatred: Atlas, towards Sinclair. Fontaine's the one who actually hates Sinclair; Atlas is just feeling the roll-over. And Fontaine hates Sinclair because Sinclair was dating his older sister Jackie.
• Jekyll & Hyde: Atlas and Frank Fontaine- with bonus points for being caused by abuse of a sci-fi serum. Though in a twist, the original personality/'Jekyll' of the pair (Fontaine) is the evil one, and 'Hyde' (Atlas) is his repressed good side.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Fontaine may be an asshole, but he didn't get to power in Rapture by being a stupid asshole. He points out that Atlas can't afford to go cold turkey on ADAM because he'll need it to survive, and when he chews out Delta for letting his feelings for Walter distract him in the fight with Demo Daddy, Atlas can only apologize for how harsh he was.
• Kick the Dog: Alex the Great doesn't just force Delta to fight other Alpha Series, he pits him up against his former best friend Walter as the Demo Daddy, leaving Delta horrified and mourning.
• Let's Split Up, Gang!: Delta and Atlas do this while exploring Fontaine Futuristics. Atlas worries about it causing problems, but ends up going with it because Delta's on borrowed time before his separation from Eleanor drives him insane. So Atlas is alone when he enters Fontaine's office and remembers his past.
• Like a Son to Me: You know how Fontaine claims Jack's the closest thing he had to a son at the end of the game? Well, that's how Atlas actually feels about Jack; the first thing he asks Tenenbaum is where Jack is and if he's safe.
• Living Lie Detector: Atlas is very good at sussing out when someone isn't being completely honest, such as when Sinclair tries to divert Delta from realizing that Sinclair was the one who sold him to the Big Daddy program, or when Tenenbaum leaves out the big plot twist when telling him how the first game ended. Takes one to know one...
• Mad Artist: Atlas repeatedly complains about the prevalence of this trope in Rapture.
• Mercy Kill: Atlas does this to a non-hostile splicer who's been badly torn up by another.
• Mighty Glacier: The Demo Daddy, a prototype Big Daddy originally meant to protect Rapture from submarines and large sea creatures. It's big and extremely heavily armored, but lumbering to the point that Delta's the Fragile Speedster in comparison. Also, it's Johnny Topside's friend, Walter.
• Morality Pet: Beatrice, the cured Little Sister. She's the first person Atlas actually acts to protect. She's also this to Fontaine of all people; she reminds him of his baby niece and he saves her when she attempts to pull a You Shall Not Pass! on Big Sister. He even empathizes with her over both being raised in orphanages.
• Motive Decay: Atlas admits he suffered this, going from 'liberating Rapture' to 'kill Ryan' with no plans as to what should happen after that. Though in this case he did have plans, but repressed the memory because they were Fontaine's plans.
• Mushroom Samba: Atlas has a really bad reaction to the EDEN drug that Ava-Marie wants him to take before he attends her party. Most of the resultant boss fight is Atlas hallucinating various threats to himself that are actually something completely harmless. And he sees Stanley as the real Ava-Marie until Bea confirms Stanley's identity to him.
• Mutual Kill: Sinclair speculates that Valery and the real Ava-Marie did this to each other.
• Mythology Gag: At one point during production, there was one Big Sister and she'd turn out to be Eleanor. The idea was scrapped in-game (with Eleanor in a Big Sister suit being an 11th-Hour Superpower and fully an ally) because they wanted the player to fight Big Sister repeatedly and having her continually Villain: Exit, Stage Left so she'd remain alive for the reveal would get tiresome, so they made there be multiple Big Sisters so the player could kill a few for good and feel like they accomplished something. Here, a brainwashed Eleanor is the singular Big Sister, just like the devs originally intended.
• Never My Fault: Fontaine has this problem. Everything bad he caused is either someone else making their own decisions (never mind said decisions being the logical consequences of Fontaine's actions), or Ryan conspiring to get at him.
• Nice Guy: Delta is perhaps the only person in Rapture who's genuinely sweet with no hidden agenda or skeletons in his closet.
• Not Himself: Atlas is a tangled mess of a zig-zagged example. Sinclair, who worked with Atlas before Rapture went to hell, notices that there's something different about the Atlas he finds in the present. There is, but what's happening that Atlas is actually himself, while the 'Atlas' Sinclair knew was still one of Fontaine's personas, and he could never completely hide that it was still Frank Fontaine under there.
• Odd Friendship: Delta and Atlas. A free-willed big daddy and a former revolutionary with severe identity issues were always going to be an odd pair, but the two soon get used to working together and miss each other's presence when they're alone.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Sinclair is utterly shocked when Tenenbaum, who had previously always come down on the side of altruism, bluntly tells Delta to kill Atlas.
• Parental Substitute: Delta, for the cured little sisters and Eleanor. The girls eventually start seeing Atlas the same way, much to his surprise.
• Pet the Dog: Fontaine did have some level of care for Jack, making sure his fake memories were good ones, keeping a picture of him as a child, and harrying Tenenbaum to get Jack safely to the surface, though it didn't stop him from betraying Jack in the end. He also protects Beatrice from Big Sister, risking his own life, and eventually, Atlas is able to get him to admit that they both want to see Jack again.
• Playing with Fire: Atlas's preferred Plasmid is Incinerate.
• Posthumous Character: Jackie, in The Prodigal Son. Jackie's Cabaret is a prequel focusing on her when she was alive. There's also Valery (the one who supplied weapons for the Power to the People machines and who reactivated the Vita-Chamber in the beginning) and Ava-Marie Tate.
• The Power of Friendship: Why Demo Daddy Walter recognizes Delta and spares him at Fontaine Futuristics.
• Saying Too Much: How Fontaine gives himself away; saying "Don't you Atlas me!" where Tenenbaum can hear him. To be fair, he was in a stressful situation and was distracted scolding Beatrice for nearly getting herself killed.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: Tenenbaum already knew Atlas was Fontaine, but keeps it to herself as she realizes that Frank is genuinely convinced that he's really Atlas, and Atlas is a much kinder person than Frank. Notably, she knew this before Atlas himself did. Lamb also hints that she knows in her radio broadcasts to Atlas, but remains vague in order to screw with him. Stanley Poole tries to spill the beans, but no one believes him.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Atlas.
• Shoot the Dog: Atlas kills Alex the Great so that Delta doesn't have to make the choice.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Valery White, an arms dealer who was the one to reactivate the Vita-Chambers that revived Delta and Atlas, though she died shortly thereafter.
• Smug Snake: Fontaine, as usual. When he resurfaces, he immediately thinks of betraying the others to get the key to Rapture- even though Atlas points out that Rapture's falling apart and there isn't much point to it. And when he has to impersonate Atlas, Tenenbaum figures him out immediately.
• Split Personality: Fontaine and Atlas. This is why we don't do ADAM, kids.
• Split-Personality Takeover: What happens to Fontaine in Getting Lost in the Con.
• Spotting the Thread: Atlas occasionally does it to himself, due to the spoilers he's been repressing from himself. Not being able to figure out their full context drives him nuts.
  • When Tenenbaum gives him the spoiler-free summary of the first game, he notices that her explanation makes it seem like Jack simply ditched him in Rapture- a very out-of-character action.
  • He knows that Sinclair is lying about not knowing Delta's past, but he also knows that he shouldn't know that, and doesn't know why he knows anyway.
  • Despite his backstory as a metal-worker who would most likely have done repair work outside Rapture, he doesn't know how to put on a diving suit.
  • His narration refers to the protagonist of BioShock as Jack- which is the man's correct name, but he never had the opportunity to learn that, as Jack was a Heroic Mime.
• Sunk Cost Fallacy: Fontaine has this about taking control of Rapture. He sacrificed most things he genuinely cared for (like his friends and Jack) to get power, so if he ever gives up on his goal, even if it's by admitting that Rapture is falling apart at the seams and he wouldn't actually get to do much before the city fully flooded, that would mean acknowledging a) that he genuinely cared about his family and on some level felt that betraying them wasn't worth it no matter what it got him, and b) that all that backstabbing would only give him control over a wretched ruin of a city with only splicers for company. Atlas eventually manages to break him of it by throwing how much Rapture is a lost cause into his face and getting him to admit that what he really wants is to reconcile with Jack.
• Super Prototype: The Demo Daddy that Alex The Great sics on Delta. It can't use plasmids, but it's much tougher than any other Big Daddy in the franchise, since it was originally designed to be a frontline defense against things like submarines. It was also once Johnny Topside's friend Walter.
• Tomato in the Mirror: It's no spoiler to the audience, but Atlas himself has absolutely no idea that he's really Frank Fontaine and that his life was yet another of Fontaine's cons. He finally remembers his identity when he finds Fontaine's old office.
• Tragic Keepsake: Early on, Delta finds a painting done by one of his pre-Big Daddy friends, and Atlas breaks it out of its frame and rolls it up so he can keep it.
• The Vamp: Ava-Marie Tate was essentially Ryan's propaganda minister, and was fond of getting men to do what she wanted through sex and drugs.
• Villainous Breakdown: Fontaine spends the entirety of Getting Lost in the Con in one, which only gets worse with ADAM-induced insanity and his split personality being more dangerous than him.
• Voices Are Mental: Justified; Fontaine speaks with his natural Bronx accent, while Atlas uses the Irish accent that Frank created for the character. The difference is immediately obvious, and several characters comment on the voice change when Fontaine takes over.
• Weak-Willed: In contrast to the sociopathic canon Stanley, this Stanley's failing is how easily he's tempted by the glamour surrounding Ava-Marie Tate. To the point where after her own death, he became her so he could have his cake and eat it too by throwing the parties and reporting on them.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: During his rebellion, Atlas justified killing Little Sisters as 'euthanasia'. He's quite discomforted when he learns that they can be cured, and when they do they act like normal little girls.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Johnny Topside, as seen in Walter's memories. Being from the surface, Rapture never had time to beat him down and he was just amazed at the prospect of a city under the sea. He even tried to save Little Sister!Eleanor, even though everyone in Rapture thought the Little Sisters were lost causes.
• Wrench Wench: Valery White, owner of Valor Armory (supplier of all those vending machine guns) and the go-to girl when you needed something mechanical done that Ryan wouldn't like. She's the reason that the Vita-Chambers reactivated, though she died shortly thereafter.
• Younger Than They Look: Atlas looks and acts like a man in his thirties, but he was only 'born', so to speak, during Getting Lost in the Con, so he's at most a few hours old by the time of The Prodigal Son.
• Your Mind Makes It Real: Delusion!Atlas carries a gun that can hurt Fontaine because of this, even though it doesn't cause real wounds. Atlas threatens Fontaine by saying that even if the bullets aren't real, his brain isn't going to recover from the shock of believing a bullet went through it.