Bjorn

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Bjorn was a human scavenger and cousin to Tyler Harrison and Kay Harrison, and Navarro's adoptive brother. Kay's child, which would become the Offspring, was his.^[2]

In 2142,^[3] Bjorn was part of a group that used the Corbelan IV to reach the Renaissance station.^[4]

Biography

Bjorn was born and raised in Jackson's Star located on LV-410 and was the cousin of Tyler Harrison and Kay Harrison, as well as Navarro's adoptive brother. He worked along with Tyler at the mines. In 2141, Bjorn's mother was trapped in the mines and sacrificed by a synthetic in order to save a dozen workers. This led Bjorn to develop distrust and hatred towards synthetics, particularly taunting Rain's brother, Andy.

At some point in 2142, he had an affair with his cousin Kay, whom he got pregnant,^[2] although she, apparently, never told him.

In 2142, Navarro detected a signal from a derelict Weyland-Yutani ship. Desperate to escape for better living conditions at Yvaga III, the group contacted Rain and asked her to let them use Andy to communicate with the MU/TH/UR artificial intelligence aboard the station in order for them to steal hypersleep pods and traverse the nine light years travel to Yvaga. Rain was skeptical at first and refused immediately after Bjorn told her Andy wasn't her real brother, making Rain angrily leave, but she later accepted.

Aboard the Corbelan IV, Bjorn tried to smoke a cigarette as the ship ascended. Upon docking with the Renaissance space station, Tyler, Bjorn, and Andy entered the derelict ship, only to find out the hypersleep chambers only had energy for three years, frustrating them. Tyler was able to locate fuel storage in another part of the ship. Along the way, Bjorn taunted Andy once more, telling him that artificial people were not permitted in Yvaga as it was not a company-based planet.

After they arrived at the lab, they managed to extract two fuel devices, accidentally locking the lab and rendering it unable to be opened without a higher clearance level; it also caused a genetic printer to start producing artificially modified facehuggers en masse. Right before Rain and Navarro could help by handing them a chip from a damaged android that would grant Andy a higher access to the station's systems, facehuggers began breaking out of their chambers, attacking Bjorn first, but he managed to throw it away. When Tyler was attacked, Bjorn used a shock baton to make the creature let go of him, causing him to pass out for a few seconds. When Andy fully reinitiated, the group was able to escape from the lab, but one of them managed to attach itself to Navarro.

The group decided to activate the damaged android, who presented himself as Rook and told them to mercy kill Navarro and run away, which angered Bjorn. After the group successfully detached the creature from Navarro's face, Bjorn used the baton to shock Andy and escape with Navarro, leaving Rain and Tyler behind. Upon arriving at the ship, Navarro died after the chestburster made its way out of her, accidently causing the ship to undock from the station and causing Bjorn to sustain a head injury. Later, Bjorn approached Kay when she found the creature in a cocoon in the wall. He used the shock baton in an attempt to hurt the creature, but it exploded and partially melted. Then Bjorn was attacked by the Xenomorph using its tail to stab his eye, with the damage causing acid blood to drip out from the cocoon onto Bjorn, melting two of his fingers and several parts of his body, before finally burning through his heart, killing him.

His corpse was later dragged by the Xenomorph along with Navarro's.

Personality

Bjorn was an impulsive individual who was quick to anger and prone to bullying behavior, usually aimed at Andy.

He was hostile to synthetics due to an incident in his past. However, he was not above using them for his own selfish gain. Bjorn was also shown to be emotionally attached to Navarro to the point that he was willing to leave everyone else behind, including his own cousins. This is also in spite of being told what could be growing in her and the evidence of the creature revealed to him.

Bjorn also showed great concern for his cousin Kay, as after the ship crashed he tried to keep her safe from the Xenomorph and when acidic blood began to fall on him and Kay tried to intervene, Bjorn yelled at her to stay back so she couldn't to put herself in danger, prioritizing Kay's life over his own.

Trivia

• In August 2024 on Reddit, director Fede Álvarez confirmed that Bjorn was in fact the father of Kay's baby.^[2]

Appearances

• Alien: Romulus

References