Mary "Horizon" Somers
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Mary Somers, going by the nickname Horizon, is a playable Legend in Apex Legends. She was introduced in seventh season of the Apex Games.
Biography
Gravitational Manipulator
Almost a century ago, the Outlands were dangling on the edge of a cataclysmic energy crisis. Dr. Mary Somers, a charmingly eccentric astrophysicist, was hired to find a solution. Mary moved her family to the scientific research station on Olympus and set to work.
With the help of her apprentice, Dr. Reid, Mary discovered Branthium - an element she was convinced could be the key to limitless energy. But Branthium can be found only on the accretion disk of a black hole, so Mary and Dr. Reid departed on a dangerous mission to prove her theory right.
Mary promised her son Newton she’d return safe and sound. But Dr. Reid betrayed her, stealing the Branthium and sending her shuttle into the black hole’s orbit. Using her wits, Mary modified her robotic vacuum companion N.E.W.T. to escape. But time moves differently on the outskirts of a black hole, and she was 87 years too late.
Now Mary is determined to fund her research to find a way to go back in time and be with her son. She joins the Apex Games as Horizon, master of gravity, just in time for the next season to debut on Olympus--where her old life once was and where she had promised to return.
Origins
Dr. Mary Somers was born in 2608 on Psamathe. She obtained a doctorate degree in Astrophysics, as well as gave birth to her beloved son, Newton Somers.
Promise
Philanthropist Lillian Peck proposed that, due to the limited resources within The Outlands, a critical energy crisis would occur within twenty years. Scrambling to find a solution, Somers and her assistant, Dr. Ashleigh Reid, discovered the element branthium, of which even the smallest shards could serve as an extremely potent energy source. However, branthium could only be naturally found on the accretion disk of a black hole. In 2646, in an attempt to save The Outlands, Somers and Reid made an expedition to a black hole to obtain the element. Before departing, Somers promised her son Newton that she would return to him. He was left in the care of Peck during her journey. Somers set out in a capsule to obtain a small piece of branthium, which she successfully transferred back to Reid in the main ship. However, Reid betrayed Somers, detaching the capsule’s tether and leaving the latter stranded in the orbit of the black hole. Somers struggled, but eventually extracted her own branthium with the help of N.E.W.T., her vacuum drone, and was able to use it to return to Psamathe. However, nothing was the same when Somers returned. Despite only 246 days passing for her, 87 years had passed on Psamathe due to time dilation. As a result, Olympus was abandoned and in ruins, and Newton had passed away long ago. Still wishing to fulfil her promise, she decided to join the Apex Games in order to fund research into time travel so she could return to her son. She received an offer for financial support towards this endeavour from Hammond Robotics, but she declined it, still not ready to place her trust in others. While his mother was stranded in space, Newton served as a member of Project: Iris and was one of Pathfinder’s creators. He held high respect for Dr. Reid based on her work with Somers, not knowing how she betrayed her.
Pathfinder's Quest
Somers met with Pathfinder during his search for his creators, discussing branthium, a crystal used as an energy source and the origins of Project: Iris.
Season 7
One day, during a match on Olympus, Somers found an audio log from Newton. Determined, she found several more before rerouting a phase runner to her old home, where she was met with a recording from herself in the past, revealing that her time travel research proves fruitful.
Season 9
The Legacy Antigen
While some of the other Legends departed for Gaea, Somers stayed on Olympus to help mitigate the Medusa outbreak. As the epidemic continued and the Medusa vines spread, Olympus continued to suffer heavy structural damage, damaging equipment and troubling Somers, who didn’t wish to see her home destroyed even further. While conducting research with Wattson, she was approached by Ash, who forcefully requested structural engineers to secure a local Arenas site. Immediately after, an earthquake struck, causing the ceiling to cave in. Somers was saved by Ash, who pushed her away from the falling debris. Before leaving, Ash stated that Somers was doing great work in protecting Lilian Peck’s legacy, and that her son would be proud of her. Somers, confused and distressed at the mention of her son, wondered aloud how Ash knew about her son, with Wattson suggesting the inscription on Pathfinder’s newly constructed statue. When the Legends returned from Gaea with several Carthage spiders, Somers used their enzymes to create a serum that would help to vaccinate the populace and stop the vines. However, it is found that this will only delay further growth of the vines. Somers decided to send the Icarus fleet - minus the flagship, whose vines were too embedded to break free - to the black hole on which she was stranded. She was once again approached by Ash, who told her that Lilian Peck would thank her for saving Olympus, and would tell her that she is never alone.
Season 10
Somers awakes from a dream, where she is spoken to by Lilian Peck. She talks to Pathfinder about this, as he was present for The Event. She learns that Newton had checked into the lab on Olympus on the day of the incident, and while he was officially regarded as deceased, a body was never recovered. Remembering Ash’s words to her at their last meeting, she inquires about Pathfinder’s “relationship” with the simulacrum, where he lets slip that she holds the Olympus access codes, which were supposedly only known to Peck. Believing Ash to be a reconstruction of Peck, Somers travels to the wreckage of Skull Town on Kings Canyon, where she is confronted and attacked by Revenant. Breaking free of his grasp, she reveals her reason for intruding on his “home”: as he is the only simulacrum to have ever recovered their original identity and personality, she wishes to know how. Revenant angrily states that there are special codes in the systems of simulacrums constructed after him, and that a simulacrum cannot wake up without them. Somers departs and meets with Crypto, who gives her jailbreak codes to free a simulacrum’s personality. She then travels to Olympus in an attempt to awaken Peck from within Ash. Unbeknownst to her, Revenant is following her. Somers confronts Ash at her base of operations and begins reciting the codes given by Crypto, stunning the simulacrum. Revenant takes this opportunity to attempt to destroy Ash, fracturing her faceplate. After Somers finishes delivering the codes, an awakened Ash stares bewildered at her, astonished that she “survived.” At this moment, Somers discovers the true identity of Ash: Dr. Ashleigh Reid, her betrayer. For a brief moment, Reid’s consciousness (henceforth referred to as Leigh) was present, and told Somers that she knows what happened to her son. However, Ash quickly represses her original persona. She presses Ash for answers, but receives only admonishment, weeping as the simulacrum walks away.
Season 11
Trouble in Paradise
During an Apex Games match on Storm Point, Somers is placed on a team with Crypto and Wattson, who have been scouring arenas for old IMC-produced machine parts. The latter two go on ahead, where they are confronted by Ash. Somers later confronts Ash in a small IMC facility on Gaea. During this engagement, Leigh takes over and tells her old colleague that Newton did not die during the Phase Runner Incident. Ash quickly resumes control, shattering the sword used by Amélie Paquette to kill her human body. Somers threatens to kill the Simulacrum, but Ash taunts her, saying that she would take any potential information about Newton with her in death.
Season 12
One night, Horizon arrived at the Paradise Lounge to find Fuse binge drinking. She sat with him and discussed his sorrows, particularly Mad Maggie's entry into the Apex Games and Fuse's feud with her.
Season 13
Somers attended Bangalore's retirement party and later assisted in fighting the beast that came ashore on Storm Point.
Season 14
Somers competed in a match with Fuse and Vantage, with the three winning the match and Somers showing support for the plucky young legend, Vantage.
Personality and traits
Dr. Mary Somers is shown to have a fun and cheery personality and shown to get along and care for everyone. Furthermore she is also depicted to be extremely intelligent evidenced by a degree in astrophysics. However despite her love of collaborations, evidenced by her friendship with The Group, she became paranoid and distrustful after being betrayed by Ash which is demonstrated by turning down help from Hammond Robotics with her time travel research.
Physical appearance
Dr. Mary Somers aka Horizon is depicted a tall Scot with ginger hair, blue eyes and freckles. She always wears her signature spacesuit.
Relationships
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Somers has good relationships with all the legends apart from Ash yet has since shown sympathy for her after learning her plight of having Dr Ashleigh Reid within her. She has particularly comradery with Crypto and Wattson, due to their love of technology. She also is shown to have a friendship for Fuse after comforting him when his old frenemy, Mad Maggie joined the Apex Games.
Before the Games and the formation of The Group and Project Iris, Somers was shown to be great friends with Lillian Peck, a rich philanthropist who sometimes babysat Newton while Somers was working late at the labs.
Somers is shown to have a great love for her son Newton and is desperate to time travel back to return to him.
Apex Legends
Abilities
| Tactical Ability | Passive Ability | Ultimate Ability |
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 Gravity Lift |
 Spacewalk |
 Black Hole |
| Reverses the flow of gravity, lifting players upwards and boosting them outwards when they exit. | Increase air control and reduce fall impacts with Horizon’s custom spacesuit. | Deploy N.E.W.T. to create a micro black hole that pulls players in towards it, and hits them with a graviton blast at the end. |
Customization
- Main article: Mary "Horizon" Somers/Customization
Quotes
- Main article: Mary "Horizon" Somers/Quotes
Behind the scenes
Appearances
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Update History
Gallery
Images
Horizon Teaser
Horizon and Newton Somers
Videos
- Apex Legends - Stories from the Outlands – “Promise”-2
- Meet Horizon – Apex Legends Character Trailer
Horizon Character Trailer
- Apex Legends Season 7 – Ascension Launch Trailer
Ascension Launch Trailer
Apex Sidestories
- ApexQuests SideStory Red flags
Red Flags Short
Trivia
- Horizon's black hole ability is similar to the Gravity Star from Titanfall 2.
- At the end of Season 7, players who played Horizon were able to re-route the Phase Runner by activating the panel at Hammond Labs. It would take them to a secret inaccessible area at Bonsai Plaza, to hear a message from Newton, as well as earn some free rewards. Upon completion of the message, the Phase Runner would take the player to Rift Aftermath as normal. (This can only be done once per match by anyone.)
- Her All Charged Up finisher is the only finisher to have ever been changed, as, in the 8.1 Update, the time to complete the finisher was increased from 4.21 seconds to 6 seconds and added a little more animation in the beginning. This is because the finisher was faster than other legends’ finishers before the change, even Pathfinder's Hi-5 finisher, the current fastest finisher in the game, making it one of the most powerful finishers in the game.
- Horizon authored an academic writing named "Utilization of Hyperdense Matter Extracted from Black Hole Ergosphere". A page of it can be partially seen on Wattson's desk.
- Horizon's drone NEWT is seemingly named after her son Newton. She sometimes talks to her drone as if it is her son.
- Horizon has ADHD, confirmed by her voice actress Elle Newlands.
- Horizon's name could be attributed to the event horizon of a black hole, where nothing can escape the tug of the black hole.
- Horizon's Galactic Guardian and Rising Storm skins are designed after Voltron.
- Horizon's Atom Heart Mother skin is designed after Gipsy Danger and/or Gipsy Avenger from the Pacific Rim films. Additionally, it is named after the Pink Floyd album of the same name.
- Horizon's Anya's Armor skin is named after voice actress Elle Newlands' late cat, who passed away shortly before the launch of Season 14.
- Horizon's Phoenix Rising skin is designed after Scarlet Witch from the Marvel franchise. Additionally, the NEWT robot on her back is designed after Vision.
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| Ash • Bangalore • Ballistic • Bloodhound •Catalyst •Caustic • Conduit • Crypto • Fade • Fuse • Gibraltar • Horizon • Loba • Lifeline • Mad Maggie • Mirage • Newcastle • Octane • Pathfinder • Rampart • Revenant • Rhapsody •Seer • Valkyrie•Vantage • Wattson • Wraith |