What do you think happened to Elizabeth or is it explained in the novel ?
Disclaimer: I didn’t get the novel yet, so all the weird theories I’ll be spouting now might change the moment the mailman rings the at the doorbell over the course of the next week.I’ve seen many people argue that she might have died in cryo or from the after-effects of her operation or was infected and these are all valid theories imo, because David never really explicitly says he killed her. He says he will do to Daniels what he did to her - which isn’t very conclusive. Personally, I must admit, I think he killed her. I’m not saying that he didn’t love her - I do think he did. But I think he still killed her. (I also think that he was at least very fond of Walter and…he still tried to kill him after he kissed him. And he has this weird attraction to Daniels…aaand tries to kill her. And kiss her. I kinkshame, David. I kinkshame so hard. what’s wrong with u?)In all seriousness, I think it all boils down to him being a very pragmatic asshole twat tosser person.
I think he confessed his feelings for her and she didn’t return them. Maybe he even admitted to his part in her husband’s death. (heck, I even think Elizabeth might have it in herself to forgive him for that, if he kept his mouth shut about the part where he had a pretty good time murdering him. Elizabeth knew that he was programmed to obey Weyland and if there’s one thing David is right about, she’s a kind-hearted person who deserved BETTER)Anyway, I think she rejected him and he killed her so he could at least pretend to be her grieving lover (I mean, he has a grave for her and takes care of it and he dumped the picture of her and Charlie into a filthy puddle on a spaceship while he has one of her alone on his desk)
And with her dead, he could even dissect her and continue his work on the neomorphs.
As you see - from her a very cynical, very pragmatic point of view, killing her was a win-win situation, because -Let’s consider for a moment what would have happened if he hadn’t killed her.
a) She would have been angry af with him for killing the Engineers, She seems like the kind of person who might take genocide (fucking genocide David!) the right way.
b) The moment they’d have landed she would have been killed or infected as well and
c) She would have died anyway. And he couldn’t have done science on her if she’d been mauled to death.
Of course he could have potentially kept her alive by locking her into some dark little cell for ten years that they couldn’t penetrate, but it would have been more difficult to pretend she loved him if all she ever did was yell at him to release her or kill her. Humans don’t cope well with this kind of isolation. With her dead, he could project anything on her he wanted.So in his own warped mind, this win-win situation might even include him having been ‘merciful’ with her by killing her.But as I said, that’s just my personal theory based on the assumption that he did in fact kill her - because to me this seems like the “logical” (to a completely twisted individual at least) explanation for killing her.The theories based on him not killing her - about her dying in cryo or of the infection or literally any other theory supported by canon - are equally valid and equally logical. And as someone who used to ship David and Elizabeth (used to? I still like their dynamic in Prometheus, but I think you SCREWED UP DAVID, YOU SCREWED UP BIGLY! SAD!) I also understand anyone who says they don’t like the character development David took and that it’s too drastic for them. In that case- screw canon.