Who is Anna's real mother?

[Rhonion]

There is one question i cant figure out: who is Anna's mother? The ghost in the graveyard cant be the woman that gave birth to Anna otherwise Booker should have reconized her, since he is Anna's father.

[nicopico678]

I was actually talking to a friend about this today. Apparently Lady Comstock is the same person that Booker made Anna with, just in a different universe. I would say the reason he didn't recognize Lady Comstock as Anna's mother was the same reason he didn't recognize Comstock as himself.


Here's a link that talks a little bit about it. If you scroll to the bottom, "Alternate Lady Comstocks," it'll give ya an idea of it.


http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Lady_Comstock?action=edit&section=4

[Rhonion]

The same person in different universes can be different looking, like the 2 carzy scientists. They re same person but with opposite gender. So it is possible that Booker cant reconinzed himeself or his wife in other universe.

[Solarmech]

Really, how many people recognized Comstock as being an alt of Booker? He has a beard and looks 30 years older. Booker may well have noiticed that Lady Comstock looked and sounded a lot like his wife, but his wife has been dead for nearly 20 years so it "can't be her". To him it would be a very minor point and not worth talking about. And they never said her first name. sm

[Aesthyrax]

I think he would recognize Elizabeth's severed finger waaay before recognizing Lady Comstock. Probably his memory was affected by being in a different reality or, Lutece twins made him remember what they want him to remember. I assume he continued his life as mess after the loss of his daughter and couldn't function at all if he remembered something, anything. By the way, the Lady's full name is Annabelle Comstock or in Booker's reality, Annabelle Dewitt*.

[Darth Cannabis]

Originally posted by Aesthyrax:

I think he would recognize Elizabeth's severed finger waaay before recognizing Lady Comstock. Probably his memory was affected by being in a different reality or, Lutece twins made him remember what they want him to remember. I assume he continued his life as mess after the loss of his daughter and couldn't function at all if he remembered something, anything. By the way, the Lady's full name is Annabelle Comstock or in Booker's reality, Annabelle Dewitt*.

Except its not. Annabelle is Elizebeth. Annabelle is the name Dewitt as her father gave her before being stolen, Elizebeth, is what the Comstock version decided to call her after she was taken.

I am really not sure if Lady Comstocks 1st name is ever said.

[Adobe Wine Cannoli]

Originally posted by Darth Cannabis:

Originally posted by Aesthyrax:

I think he would recognize Elizabeth's severed finger waaay before recognizing Lady Comstock. Probably his memory was affected by being in a different reality or, Lutece twins made him remember what they want him to remember. I assume he continued his life as mess after the loss of his daughter and couldn't function at all if he remembered something, anything. By the way, the Lady's full name is Annabelle Comstock or in Booker's reality, Annabelle Dewitt*.

Except its not. Annabelle is Elizebeth. Annabelle is the name Dewitt as her father gave her before being stolen, Elizebeth, is what the Comstock version decided to call her after she was taken.

I am really not sure if Lady Comstocks 1st name is ever said.

No Aesthyrax is right, Booker's wife is called Annabelle, he named his kid Anna, before she was kidnapped and became Elizabeth.

[Solarmech]

Originally posted by Adobe Wine Cannoli:

No Aesthyrax is right, Booker's wife is called Annabelle, he named his kid Anna, before she was kidnapped and became Elizabeth.

The info about Booker's wife (Maiden Name: Annabelle Watson) is in this tweet from Ken Levine https://twitter.com/levine/status/567448188307910656 sm

[Darth Cannabis]

Wow that seems lazy and redundant. Giving the daughter and mother same 1st name, just to cause confusion apparently, as there is no other logical reason.

1st the same name tradition, is a lot more prevelant thru history for males, than it is for females. In that case, you have so and so the 2nd, or simply add a junior after. The female tradition of doing so is so uncommon, I am not sure whether or not there is a different protocal on names for it. In the female case, do you add a junior, or is it somethine else?

2nd, even if you due to game decision allready (like using the A initial), have to choose a name with A, there are plenty of other female names to choose from that start with A. Alice, Abigail, Alexandria (which would actual fit in pretty interestingly in a floating city name Columbia), etc.

I mean it is how it is, but it is somewhat unorthodox for mother daughter name sharing, unlike father and son. The exception, is ussually the mother dieing in childbirth, which would be my next question? What happened to her in Booker's timeline where daughter was taken?

[Adobe Wine Cannoli]

Booker's wife died in childbirth, which sent him into depression, then he turned to alcohol, gambling and debts.
It's mentionned quite early in the game when Elizabeth ask him if he's married which he respond "Died in childbirth" and when Elizabeth ask if he has a kid he respond with "No"

[Solarmech]

No, Anna and Annabell are NOT the same name. Similar yes, but not the same. And Booker could very well have named his daughter Anna as a tribute to her dead mother who he cleary loved dearly. As for putting a "junior" on a daughters name that is only a very recent concept. sm

[Darth Cannabis]

Originally posted by Solarmech:

No, Anna and Annabell are NOT the same name. Similar yes, but not the same. And Booker could very well have named his daughter Anna as a tribute to her dead mother who he cleary loved dearly. As for putting a "junior" on a daughters name that is only a very recent concept. sm

Ok the death in childbirth explains it. I must have missed that part (or more likely smoked away the memory). However, they are essentially the same name, as Anna is the shortened form of Annabelle, just as Bill, Billy, Will, and all variations are shortened forms of the proper name William, ♥♥♥♥ is a shortened form of Richard, etc.

So on official documents, such as a birth certificate from that timeline she would be Annabelle.

[Cryologist]

So...Booker ♥♥♥♥♥♥ himself?

[Solarmech]

Originally posted by Darth Cannabis:

So on official documents, such as a birth certificate from that timeline she would be Annabelle.

No, on official documents she would be listed as Anna DeWitt. Just as on official documents her mother would be listed as Annabelle DeWitt. As per the Solcial Security Admin there are seperate listing for Anna and Annabelle. As a note Anna was the 2nd most popular name in the 1890's. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names1890s.html Annabelle didn't make the top 200. sm

[Darth Cannabis]

Ok I was wrong. Anna actually has its own source as a Biblical name, and is not a shortened from of Annabelle. I was completely off. While it can be a shortened form of Annabelle, it has its own orginal source and separate distictinction as well. This is a case of me jumping at an IF (possible), as an IS and I apologize for it.

Interestingly enough, further research, shows Annabelle to be Gaelic in origin, whereas Anna as a non short for anything is Biblical.