Wife
Wife is a pretty insightful datapoint if you can find it in Horizon Zero Dawn. It’s an audio datapoint from Helis, giving you an insight into the dark mind of one of the key antagonists in Horizon Zero Dawn.
In the datapoint, Helis tells the story of his wedding night and how, after his wife fell asleep, he lay watching her for hours, hypnotized by her beauty. Although enamored with his wife, he is frustrated by the vulnerability and fragility of life. He pushed away the luxuries and comforts filling the room and instead, slept naked on the stone floor.
When he awakes in the morning, Helis finds his wife, also naked, lying next to him on the floor. The datapoint ends with “You said nothing. You did not have to. Already you had shown me, beyond doubt, that we were meant to be.” It’s a touching datapoint that shows just how deep the hate and evil in Helis really goes, but it’s also kinda cute that a murderous psychopath who hates everything can find love, too.
