David x Elizabeth

David x Elizabeth is the het ship between David 8 and Elizabeth Shaw from the Alien fandom.

Prometheus
Elizabeth Shaw was an archeologist who, along with her boyfriend, fellow archeologist Charlie Holloway, discovered a star map by the Engineers, the creators of the human race, across various ancient civilisations on Earth, which led to the moon LV-223. Wealthy businessman Peter Weyland then funded the creation of the scientific vessel Prometheus, which would send a crew which included Elizabeth and Charlie to explore the moon. Weyland also funded the creation of David 8, an android who was to serve aboard the vessel. David's creation was rushed, which led to several personnel at Weyland's company to express doubt about using him on the mission. Eventually, he was approved and placed on the vessel. David and Elizabeth shared a fascination with the Engineers.

When the crew arrived on the vessel, they were placed on hypersleep and remained in stasis for the rest of the journey. During this time, David monitored the expedition and the crew. When he monitored Elizabeth, he viewed a dream of hers where she, as a child, was having a conversation with her father about faith, which David found inspiring.

When the vessel arrived at the planet, it landed next to a giant artificial structure. The crew then began to explore the structure, which contained many ampules containing a black substance, a corpse of a giant humanoid alien, presumed to be an Engineer, and a large statue. David then secretly took one of the ampules for future study. When a storm began to approach the site, the crew left the structure. As they were returning, David saved both Elizabeth and Charlie. He then infected Charlie with the substance by spiking his drink, resulting in the latter's death. He later discovered a living Engineer currently in hypersleep.

Following Holloway's death, it was theorised that the Engineers had gone extinct from an airborne infection, which had now spread to the crew. As David prepared a devastated Elizabeth for an examination, he attempted to comfort her by bringing up similarities between the deaths of Charlie and her father, which only disturbed her. When he examined her, he realised that she was pregnant with an alien creature. He proposed that he freeze her until the creature could be removed from her body, but she refused. He then sedated her.

After escaping, Elizabeth went to the ship's Pauling MedPod 720i and surgically removed the creature. After this, she began wandering the halls of the ship. She then found David with Weyland, who had secretly been on the ship. Elizabeth then tried to convince them that the mission should be abandoned and that everyone should return to Earth. However, David then brought up the Engineer and Weyland then suggested reviving it. David, Elizabeth and Weyland then set out with mercenary Branwell Jackson and medic Kate Ford. After reaching the Engineer, they awakened it and David attempted to communicate with it. However, the Engineer killed Jackson, Ford and Weyland, and decapitated David, who said goodbye to Weyland. He then began communicating with an escaping Elizabeth, warning her that the Engineer was still pursuing her.

After the remaining crew had sacrificed themselves attempting to stop the Engineer from invading Earth, David warned Elizabeth that it was still alive. After she finally triumphed over the Engineer, David offered to return her to Earth on the condition that he would be allowed to return with her. She declined the offer, instead asking him to take her to the homeworld of the Engineers. She then retrieved his body and his head, and they left for the homeworld in an Engineer ship.

Alien: Covenant
Elizabeth managed to reattach David's head to his body and locate the homeworld of the Engineers. Before entering hypersleep, he told her that he would awake her just as the vessel arrived. However, when the vessel arrived on the homeworld, David unleashed the substance upon the Engineer population, causing them to go extinct, as a gift to Shaw. He had by then begun to believe that androids were superiors to both humans and Engineers. He began using her body for experimentation in an attempt to make her beyond human, and she died as a result of this. He then preserved her body and made a grave for her.

Fanon
The ship is the most written ship for both characters on AO3, as well as the ship with the most written works for Alien on AO3. This is largely due to the fact that both characters are the leads of the show, and that they are the only survivors of the Prometheus. It is mainly rivalled by David x Walter. Many written works choose to omit the events of Alien: Covenant. It currently has 100+ written works on AO3.

Fandom

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