Bioshock 2- Complete Edition -

Delta moved through it all with a father’s grim arithmetic. Every splicer he harvested, every Little Sister he spared or rescued, every turret he hacked—it was all for Eleanor. She was no longer a child in a diving helmet. She was a young woman, psychically linked to him, whispering in his helmet radio: “Father, don’t let her turn me into a vessel.”

One chooses to live on in another’s heart. The other chooses to die so a stranger can live. BioShock 2- Complete Edition

In the Complete Edition’s best ending, Eleanor chooses mercy and strength. She pulls him inside her own genetic code, making him a ghost in her machine. As she ascends to the surface, Rapture burning behind her, she carries Delta’s voice in her head. Not as a slave. As a conscience. Delta moved through it all with a father’s grim arithmetic