Isolated and alone, she finds herself fighting tooth and nail for survival. From the Ship Log Selene Vassos Personnel File players receive the information that her heterochromia is trauma induced.After crash-landing on this shape-shifting world, Selene must search through the barren landscape of an ancient civilization for her escape.This is a very rare real-world condition affecting less than 0.001% of humans. The irises of her eyes are two different colors. Selene has a condition called complete heterochromia iridium.Selene's appearance and performance capture is based on the likeness of German model and actor Anne Beyer. Selene is voiced by Canadian actor Jane Perry, known for her work as Diana Burnwood in the recent Hitman series. Selene has been described as having 'a scientist's mind' as well as 'highly intelligent, driven to a fault, and relentless in pursuit of what she wants' by Returnal narrative director Greg Louden. This would be the beginning of a possibly endless nightmare for Selene. Seeking answers to her own life, Selene goes against the chain of command and enters the planet's orbit, only for the Helios to be struck by something and causing her to crash-land. While on said mission, Selene encounters the White Shadow broadcast signal emanating from the planet Atropos. Selene named it Helios after her son, possibly both to honor her child and serve as a reminder of her neglect. The guilt from this would persistently haunt Selene and further spur her to make it to space and off of the planet.Įventually, ASTRA picked her for deep-space exploration and gave her a ship of her own. It is indicated that she secretly hoped for an accident to befall her child and untether her from earth, and one night in a car ride her negligence and detachment granted her just that: a car struck her while driving her son, killing Helios while leaving her alive. However, Selene's focus was not on her family but rather the career she vied for. In this time, she additionally formed a family with an unknown partner and had a child named Helios. In adulthood, Selene pursued an aerospace career as her mother, signing up and training for an astronaut program as well. This negative image would persist well after her mother's death. It is implied that this event left Theia and Selene's relationship even further marred, with the young child unable to see her mother as anything other than an abuser due to Theia's grief and pain. Subsequently, both mother and daughter survived, though Theia would be permanently crippled and unable to continue participating in the space program while Selene would come out completely unscathed. Unable to fully swerve out of the way, she clipped the astronaut and drove both of them into the water below. One night on a drive with Theia, Selene murmured from the back of their car, 'Do you see the White Shadow?' Shortly after, Theia saw an astronaut appear in the middle of a bridge. Additionally, the phrase 'White Shadow' would somehow make itself known to Selene, permanently following her throughout life.

Her main company was a stuffed octopus-like toy, her expansive imagination, and her own developing interest in space. As a result, Selene came to suffer childhood trauma from the neglect and disregard at her mother's hands. Selene Vassos grew up with space in her life, with her mother Theia training to become an astronaut and being seldom present in her daughter's life.

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