About Songbird (spoilers)

I actually thought the bird itself was Comstock. When you get to his vessel there's that locked room that shows a Songbird casting around what looks like a model of Comstock.

But then you meet him right after so nope. Your theory could work though, same difference.

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Ccoming into the game, a connection between Booker and Songbird was definitely in my wheel house. The fact that Songbird is obviously a Big Daddy equivalent, and his job of protecting Elizabeth is usurped by Booker, now Booker kind of fills the Big Daddy role.

Then throughout the game that make it obvious that Booker and Elizabeth have some kind of connection that pre-dates the events in the game, and the fact that Liz feels empathy for Songbird at times.

I didn't think it was a for sure thing going on, but I could see it going that way at anytime, and since Songbird is never deeply explored it could still be a real connection. Maybe Songbird will further built up in the DLC.

"Nobody knows anybody, not that well..." - Miller's Crossing

When Elizabeth's teleports Booker and herself to Rapture, off in the distance is a deceased Big Daddy and a Little Sister that can be seen crying. One could argue that this is nothing but window dressing, but knowing how much care went into the little details in Bioshock: Infinite, I would like to think otherwise.

Anyway, I'll get to the point. Although it might make better sense to say that the deceased Big Daddy and crying Little Sister is an exact parallel to Elizabeth's relationship with Songbird, I think it's more fun to imagine that those two "people" are the Booker and Elizabeth of Rapture. After all, Booker is Elizabeth's true guardian.

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I hoped there was a bigger story to the songbird but really the only thing you get is a voxophone by Fink tallking about building him.

I don't know if Fink saw the designs for the big daddy in Rapture through a tear and adapted it to create songbird, I wish they made more of it.

Well, Elizabeth drowned both of them, didn't she? Interesting.

I was just a tiny bit disappointed in the lack of information Bioshock Infinite gave about Songbird. I remember reading in an issue of Game Informer that seemed to suggest there would be more info about the Songbird-Elizabeth relationship, although that same article stated that the main villain would be Salton Stall, so it was a helluva long time before the game came out.

In the actual game itself, I remember a couple parts in Fink's factory levels I believe where you can actually see blueprints of Songbird. I thought throughout most of the game that the Songbird was just some guy they threw into the suit, but there's a part in the Burial at Sea DLC where Fink says in a voxophone that he was communicating with Dr. Suchong in Rapture, and Suchong told him about the Big Daddies and Little Sisters which gave Fink and Comstock the idea for Songbird and Elizabeth. Also in the DLC I'm pretty sure there was a part where you go through a level with a bunch of cages and tanks filled with dead animals, so maybe Songbird was some animal that was mutated and juiced up on vigors that got placed in the suit.

There is one very strange part in Burial at Sea where you see the facility where they did the "imprinting" on Songbird, as evidenced by multiple blueprints of Songbird and photos of Elizabeth. Then there's a part where you see the head of Songbird (or possibly a different Songbird), literally just the head, and it's suspended from wires and looking at a video/slideshow of Elizabeth, and its head keeps jerking around and looking at you so it's obviously alive and aware, so hell, maybe it's all machine?

There is the theory that Songbird is Booker, and although that would definitely explain the connection between it and Elizabeth, I don't think it is. I'm pretty sure there's photos or voxophones somewhere that suggest Fink wasn't successful in getting the Songbird (or prototypes) to connect to Elizabeth, and the reason that Songbird cared for Elizabeth at all was because Elizabeth saved its life as a child. Plus the Luteces show that the musical organs can directly control Songbird's actions, so in my opinion that actually suggests that Songbird may totally be a machine.

Can't be too careful with all those weirdos running around.