Eloise Hawking/Theories

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Identity

• Penny is the child of Charles and an "outsider," while Daniel is the child of both Eloise and Widmore.
• During Desmond's time at the monastery, Ms. Hawking talked Brother Campbell into setting up a circumstance in which Desmond would meet her daughter.

Photo on Brother Campbell's desk

• The photo shows a relationship (friendship, family or romantic doesn't matter) between Eloise & Brother Campbell. Much like Eloise did with Daniel and directing his path to make sure he ends up on the island, she is working with Brother Campbell to make sure Desmond gets to the island as she knows he has to push the button to contain the energy.
  • Maybe she has to keep Desmond on the right track because he is also special and has a bigger role with the island.
  • It is through Desmond's repeated failures that he works the resolve to battle through and win. These failures may be his own doing, but this photo is a sign that perhaps he is being directed.
• For us, the audience, the photo serves to establish a link between these two moments in time (leaving the monastery and the jewelery shop)
• Brother Campbell met Desmond when he was drunk and unconscious - this was planned by Brother Campbell and Eloise. It's likely that he has known Eloise for a long time (perhaps because they're both religious?), and was asked to take Desmond under his wing for "a greater purpose". Eloise knew, from Daniel's notebook, and perhaps through some other insight to the future, that Desmond had to serve time on the island. Desmond's time in the monastery prepared him for living in the Swan Station and it pushed him towards a relationship with Penny and, eventually, towards the island. The picture is a clue that Desmond's destiny is being kept on track by Eloise.

General

• Is someone whose goal was to get Desmond to the island. She learned about Desmond from Daniel's journal. She also appeared the same way to Desmond to prevent him from changing his past.
• Even though she knows how to get back to the island, and she has a relationship with Widmore, he can't use her to get back to the Island. This is because you need to recreate the events that got you there in the first place. As Widmore was banished by the Others as a group, he wouldn't be able to use a window to go back.
• Mrs. Hawking will return to the island herself near the end of Season 6, as the "war" between Ben and Widmore (and the rest of the characters whom they've involved in their war) reaches its peak; she will be instrumental in the final resolution of all the characters' fates leading up to the series finale.
• Actually, her knowledge came to an end because the "future" events which she had knowldege of had all been fulfilled once the 316 flash took place, sending them to 1977.

Name

• Eloise will leave the Island, probably to escape the explosion of Jughead, and later she'll marry a man named Faraday. Daniel grew up thinking that Mr. Faraday is his real father. Mr. Faraday died sometime before the present events, and Eloise has since resumed using her maiden name.
• Or alternatively, once off-island, Eloise married a man named Hawking, and Faraday is her maiden name.

Pregnancy

• Eloise was pregnant with Daniel when she shot him. After The Incident occurs, she realizes that for the baby to be born she will have to give birth off the island.