Family: Parents and a little sister named Elsa (deceased)
Alies: Aloy, Erend, King Avad. Neutral with all the other tribes.
Tribe: lived in the old world, slept for over 900 years, slightly part of the carja tribe.
Nickname: Due to her driven nature, she can come across as hot-tempered dealing with people who think she's just a small useless girl. Many of the Carja and Oseram men call her Spitfire and want to break her fiery soul.
History: Delya is a multifaceted woman, from having overtly physical hobbies like: rock-climbing, martial arts and interpretive dance to being an expert in computer programming, engineering and problem-solving. She is very goal oriented and is driven to get the job done. Hence why she got picked for the Horizon Zero Dawn project and didn't walk away from it. While she started in only the delta branch, she was quickly noticed by her peers and got transferred to the Alpha prime facility. There Elisabet Sobeck took her under her wing in secret for a special project. The Omega clearance was given to her, making a program undetected within Gaia that could give one person a cryo sleep pod far, far beneath the surface in case Gaia encountered programming issues.
Just before the failure of the sealed doors, Elisabet send Delya to the sleeping pod chamber through a hyper speed pod track deep underneath the ground, leading to the sleeping pod chamber. There under the guidance of Gaia's inner function named HYPNOS, entered the cryo sleep pod unaware of the events in the Gaia prime facility.
Plot points:
Wakes up after the events of Aloy purging HADES
HYPNOS signal leads Aloy and Erend to the sleeping pod chamber
The waking up procedure has some complications and she is brought to King Avads Castle for recovery under a lie.
Learns the truth about the Gaia prime facility, the other alphas, Gaia, hades and the machines.
Goes on a few adventures with Aloy while trying to adapt to this new world.
Goes on more adventures with Erend and grows closer to him.
Falls in love with him, but Erend being still infatuated with Aloy and him being oblivious, makes for awkward situations.
Erend finally notices her and has to fight with Aloy and other guards a group of mercenaries that are after Delya who doesn't know this.
While Delya is waiting for a kind of date with Erend but doesn't show up. (She waits all night till morning cause the other guards won't let her leave). In the morning she sneaks away, traveling to the place where they were working and gets ambushed.
Aloy, Erend and the other guards fight the mercenaries but can't prevent one from grabbing Delya and sliding a knife across her throat. They kill him immediately, but are to shocked to check if Delya is alive.
They leave the cave, Delya still alive, leaving through another exit and hearing that Erend doesn't care if she is alive or dead, unaware that he doesn't want the other guards to know, he's heart broken.
She travels back to Hypnos, heals herself and leaves for a journey beyond Carja territory.
During her journey, she loses her left arm and foot, gets rescued by a group that makes workable prosthetic's and teaches them a lot about the old world.
After 2 years she returns to Carja territory, saves Erend and a group of merchants of a crazed Thunderjaw by luck.
She continues her work, while Erend and her have this awkward tension that neither of them will acknowledge and rectify.
Delya's friends come to help her, including their leader who is a hulking dude who has his sets on Delya making his.
Delya rejects him, causing him to lash out and wound Delya in the process. Erend jumps in to her rescue but gets the full force of his attacks, causing him nearly to die, until Delya swings Erend's hammer against his face and he dies.
Delya brings Erend with much effort to Hypnos who heals him during the span of 3 days. After he is healed, he leaves without saying a word and doesn't visit or say anything to Delya.
After a ruse of hypnos, he returns thinking Delya want to kill herself and wants to stop her. He confesses he loves her, she confesses too and they make up.
Few months later Gaia is restored, Apollo is returned and all is well.
Possible plot points after this
A clan leader of the Oseram claims Delya as his wife, as she inadvertently promised herself to him while she traveled through the claim years ago.
Erend and Delya have been together for 2 years.
Both of them fight his claim but are unaware of each other desire to marry each other.
A hand to hand combat is proposed and even Delya is opposed to such a outdated concept, nothing can be stopped.
When Erend loses and Delya has to stop the fight in order to stop Erend from being killed, she accepts his claim.
When the topic of children comes up and she realizes she can't produce offspring, she tries to tell Erend before she can publicly tell everyone else, but fails after every turn.
At the wedding, she has to tell everyone that she is barren and is unable to have children. The clan leader refuses her as his wife, while Erend asks her to marry her.
They marry and Erend is convinced that Delya being unable to have children was a lie. After 2 months of being happy again, she reveals it wasn't a lie, crushing his heart.
Erend accepts a quest of King Avad that has him leave Carja territory for a long time without Delya knowing.
Before Erend leaves it takes a few weeks and within those weeks, Delya gets a big surprise when Gaia tells her she is pregnant. Delya tries multiple times to tell Erend this news but he is still mad at her, so cuts her off every chance she gets.
When Erend leaves and she finds out that she won't see him for a long time, she travels after him and catches their convoy just in time.
Even though he's ecstatic about the news, he still leaves with the convoy, promising he would be back before she gives birth.
This doesn't come to pass and after 1,5 years of Erend not being home, she fears the worst. Sadly the clan leader hears about her children (twins, a girl and a boy) and Erend not being there, he kidnaps the three of them and takes them to his clan.
Delya is poorly mistreated but does everything she can to give her kids everything they need which results in her getting malnourished and having to deal with beatings whenever her kids cry.
Eventually Erend returns months after Delya's disappearance and is horrified that no one knows where she is. With the help of Aloy who herself had just returned from a year old trip, it takes them back into the Claim and finding her with her children.
Just a glimpse of Erend and Aloy, she finds new strength within her and kills the clan leader with a knife straight to the heart when he tries to lay with her.
When Erend and Aloy barge into the clan leaders House, they are surprised to see her having killed the clan leader. Erend and Delya reunite, where Delya passes out in Erend's arms, totally exhausted.
Erend and Aloy bringing Delya and the kids back to Carja territory, to King Avad's castle in fear of retaliation of the clan.
The retaliation doesn't happen, instead an older clansman comes and thanks them, expressing regret of not helping Delya with her struggles.
Delya gets nursed back to health and reveals that their kids are named: Erso and Elsa, in memory of Erend's sister and her own.
