Glint is my Death Stranding original character! She’s an ex-BRIDGES researcher that has to deal with chronic chiral contamination due to an accident while working under them. At a later point in the story, she reluctantly meets Higgs and they develop a turbulent relationship.

This OC isn’t a self-insert. She’s her own fleshed out character, altough she is paired with a canon character of the game.

Glint looks pale and worn, her appearance shaped around long-term illness rather than personal style. She keeps her ash-blond hair cut to jaw length because it’s practical.

Her left eye is amber-gold, and sometimes sheds a single golden tear during high chiral activity. Her right eye was lost in an accident and is hidden by an eyepatch.

Four cables protrude from her back as part of a custom system that drains excess chiral buildup. She wears a modified black bodysuit, insulated gloves, and reinforced porter boots—all designed for easy access and quick medical care.

• Reserved and analytical. Observes before engaging.

• Limits social interaction by choice, not due to poor social skills.

• High tolerance for physical pain and prolonged stress due to her chronic illness.

• Enforces strict personal boundaries.

• Trust is earned through visible competence and consistency.

• Emotionally distant but still displays empathy on certain situations.

• Can work closely with others but avoids emotional dependence.

Glint is a confirmed mid-to-high level DOOMS sufferer. Her level allows her to sense and see BTs, enter her own Beach, and access other Beaches during sleep/dream states. She can also directly influence chiral matter.

Her primary unique ability is chiral crystallization, also referred to as “tethering”. Glint can manipulate raw chiralium to anchor infrastructures to the Chiral Network, used to stabilize problematic zones and reduce signal drift.
The use of this ability places extreme strain on her body, though. While the process purges excess chiral contamination, it also causes exhaustion, tremors, blackouts and full collapse if not carefully monitored. The deployment of such ability requires recovery windows.

In addition to her DOOMS, Glint is also trained in field operations due to her past at BRIDGES. She is a competent marksman, and is familiar with survival protocols. She avoids unnecessary combat, due to the known risks of increased violence with chiral contamination.

Once a lead researcher at Middle Knot City’s secret BRIDGES labs, Nira Elenai specialized in the study of chiral matter. Her fieldwork focused on stabilizing chiral fluctuations, a discipline meant to safeguard infrastructure against surges. Her team also worked under the Chiral Network Development Division, responsible for stabilizing early prototypes during the Network’s construction phase.

She was often described as a young promise—brilliant in her field—before the strike changed everything.

During one of her solo field expeditions, Glint was struck by a weather phenomenon known as “chiral lightning”—a one-in-a-million event. It destroyed her right eye, partially damaged her spine due to the extend of the hit, and caused chronic chiral contamination. She later developed a higher DOOMS response, classified between levels 5 and 6—granting her limited control over chiral matter.

In the following months, BRIDGES treated her less like a survivor and more like a specimen. She built the spinal drainage system along her team to slow the contamination and walked away from the labs soon after, not being able to endure the pity of her colleagues much longer. That was the beginning of her exile.

Middle Knot fell, and so came the loss of her team and research base, severing her remaining ties to BRIDGES. She went off-grid after that, now hiding in a small shelter near Mountain Knot.

Glint isn’t romantically driven, as well as monogamous.

• If she were an animal, she would be a swan/huntsman spider.

• Before Glint, her name was Blitz.

• Her favorite color is ultramarine.

• She was born on the 24th of February, making her a Pisces.