

However, Sofia Lamb changed the focus of her experiments to Eleanor when she realized that Gil Alexander would not succeed. Lamb forced her own will on others, just as Andrew Ryan did before her, only while she wanted to force her ideals to eliminate "the self", he wanted to take control to eliminate the "Parasites", and both became what they despised), and wanted to escape. She became more rebellious, seeing the hypocrisy in her mother's altruistic ideals (e.g. Alexander went through as the experiment began to fail. During this time, Eleanor was confined to Persephone and the Fontaine Futuristics building, but she was horrified at seeing the changes Dr. Sofia then began her plans to create a perfect altruist by using ADAM to experiment on Gilbert Alexander, who volunteered to become "the first utopian". Eventually they were able to undo her Little Sister conditioning, but they could not remove the sea slug that had been implanted within her. Alexander over several years to rehabilitate Eleanor. Since then, Eleanor constantly thought of Delta and still dreamt about him. Sofia then retreated back to Persephone, taking Eleanor with her.

With the help of a gang of Splicers, Sofia managed to abduct Eleanor, and used a mind control Plasmid on Subject Delta to command him to shoot himself. However, Eleanor's time as a Little Sister did not last very long, because Sofia Lamb escaped from prison and tracked her daughter down on New Year's Eve, 1958. Alexander, who was ignorant of her true identity, turned her into a Little Sister and partnered her with Subject Delta. In fear of reprisal, Poole had Eleanor kidnapped and sold to the Little Sister's Orphanage.Įleanor spent time in the orphanage in Siren Alley before she was transferred to the care of Dr. Eleanor eventually confronted Stanley and threatened to tell her mother what he was doing with her home, fortune, and followers. This arrangement proved short-lived, because Eleanor quickly discovered that Stanley Poole was Ryan's spy who had gathered information on her mother's political activities, and he was now bankrupting Dionysus Park through overspending and mad parties.

Eleanor was entrusted into the care of one of her mother's patients and close follower Grace Holloway who had long wanted a child, and Eleanor lived with her for a time in her apartment at The Sinclair Deluxe in Pauper's Drop. When Eleanor was about seven years old her mother, Sofia Lamb, was arrested by Andrew Ryan and taken away to Persephone. In a later audio diary, Eleanor mentions that she had a childhood crush on him. At first, Eleanor was stand-offish towards the other children, whimsically referring to them as "dog-eaters" since her mother told her they were "raised on a diet of dog-eat-dog." During one of Eleanor's frequent escapes, she met a boy named Amir and got into a fight with him, making his nose bleed in the process, but eventually became his friend. However, she disobeyed her mother on numerous occasions, sneaking out to see other kids, and disabling the security systems her mother installed.
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As a young girl, Eleanor was highly intelligent, and taught herself how to take apart and reconstruct electronics. Sofia lectured her daughter on philosophy and psychology, hoping to raise her to uphold her own altruistic ideals.

Eleanor was raised by her mother, Sofia Lamb, in isolation from the other children of Rapture.
