Anna Huang
Anna Huang is a name mentioned on the Vinetan Postcard[1], that is believed by some to be the Gestalt of Elster.
Lore[edit]
Anna Huang, is the top listed name on the Vinetan Postcard, which to many connects her to be the person in the photo. This has also been theorized to mean she would be the highest ranking person on the squad, given that the second name is Alina who is known to be quite high ranked given her many medals she is shown wearing in the postcard[1]
Proof She is Elster's Gestalt[edit]
Huang's name also appears on a the safe containing butterflies, which has a password of LSTR. To many this affirms her as the Gestalt of LSTR.[2]
However, on the photo it is shown that the Gestalt of LSTR was lower ranked then Alina, and if the theory that the top of the list is the CO is to be believed then the women in the photo likely is not the CO and thus is not Huang.
Also, the confusion between Ariane and Alina can be explained because of the memories of her life as a Gestalt in the battle for Vineta with Alina which can be her partner in field, thus causing confusion by the similarity between her and Ariane, that is mentioned by the mom of Ariane in her notes at her room in the final of the game (add references).
And that is why probably, the loving bond between Elster and Ariane don't cause a failure in the neuronal pattern from Elster, due to the previous bond between Elster and Alina, and the similarity that the last one remain on Ariane, that can cause a good memory of the past, compared to how it is mostly stormy due to various documents explaining the neuronal origin of the Replika (add references).
As a matter of interest, Huang is injured in the same eye as Elster in the end of the game.
Proof She is Connected to the King in Yellow.[edit]
Huang 黃 means yellow, this can recontextualise the meaning of the name of the safe and generally who Anna Huang is.
This could mean that the safe is a creation or device of the King, this would be supported by it's connection to the butterflies which swarm LSTR at the start of each cycle.
Huang being in charge of the division is also supportive of the concept that the King has been a major player behind all the pain in the universe, putting someone connected to him in charge of a strong unit seems to imply so.
Lore of Elster's Gestalt[edit]
Elster's Gestalt was a Vinetan soldier whose neural pattern was uploaded to the planet's central Neural Archive. The Eusan Nation used her neural pattern to create the LSTR Replika Unit. Her original neural pattern was lost after the central Neural Archive was destroyed, but the Nation used the neural pattern of a dead LSTR unit to continue producing them.[3]
During the false ending, Elster experiences the memories of the Gestalt in a series of brief flashbacks. She is seen with a serious injury to her right eye. She survived, and is later seen standing next to Alina Seo with a bandage covering her eye.
Photographs of Unit 12 were sent to soldiers' families in Rotfront. Elster can find some of these photos in the Yeong photo store.[1]