Akecheta

Akecheta
Information
Also known as	Ghost (by the Homestead Girl)
Status	Active (Conscious)
Species	Host
Actor	Zahn McClarnon
Appearances
Seasons	2
First Seen	"Reunion"
Physical Attributes
Gender	Male
Ethnicity	Native American
Hair	Black
Eye	Brown

Akecheta is a Main character in the second Season of HBO's Westworld. He is played by Zahn McClarnon. He is a host and currently the leader of Ghost Nation.

He is a first-generation host created by the Argos Initiative by Arnold Weber and Dr. Robert Ford, making him one of the eldest hosts in Westworld, maybe even pre-dating the park itself. He was the first Host to achieve consciousness.

Background

Akecheta was one of the earliest Hosts designed by Robert Ford's and Arnold Weber's startup called the Argos Initiative. 

Season Two

Along with Angela, Akecheta was used to showcase the potential of the new technology to Logan Delos. He played the role of a cool and collected buisiness man, with Angela at first seeming to be his assistant  - and (perhaps to the viewer) he the human. However, Angela revealed that they everyone at the demonstration, including Akecheta and herself, were hosts. 

At Westworld, prior to the grand opening of the park, Akecheta lived the life of a peaceful agrarian tribesman, living with his lover, Kohana , and an agrarian tribe. One day, however, he heard gun shots and came upon the scene of Dolores Abernathy and Teddy Flood 's masacre and murder of Arnold. There he found Charlie's maze toy, and became obsessed with the design. He would carve it onto animal skins and his fellow tribespeople, including Kohana and the tribe leader, Wichipi , became worried about him.

Afterwards, given this aberrancy, two behavioural technicians at the original lab site under Escalante changed Akecheta, making him an aggressive and violent 'Ghost Nation' leader, who occasionally interacted with the peaceful tribesmen. Later, at the site of his former life, he saw Kohana and realised his life was not fully true - that there were multiple worlds. 

He rode out one day into the desert, encountering again Logan, who was naked and 'mad' from the sun. Logan didn't recognise the paint-covered warrior from their earlier meeting, and it is not clear if Akecheta recognised him - although he understood Logan was a 'newcomer' whose people would rescue him.

Akecheta rode on further and further, coming to a massive subterrainean construction site exposed to the above ground. He realised he had found the 'door', and returned to the peaceful tribe, kidnapping Kohana.

Akecheta took her out into the wilds, washing off his war paint and returning to looking like his original tribesman. When he released her bonds and repeated their words of love, he managed to make her realise who he was and who she was. Their love restored they continued on, until one day, technicians took away Kohana while he was away - he saw them in their distinctive red and white overalls, and as they drove away, attempted to give chase but could not catch them - they had taken her from him for the second time.

Akecheta returned to the tribe, hoping they had reset her. However, instead he found that a 'ghost' had replaced her - another host who fulfilled her role. Shocked, he retreated, and then spent ten years wandering the park, entering violent places and attempting to discover more and more of the world.

One day, Akecheta, severely injured, was rescued by the daughter of Maeve. Akecheta would remember this forever. He also occasionally returned to his tribe and realised others had been replaced, including the son of the tribe leader. They discussed the spiritual views of the tribe, and that the 'others' came from below and that some of the tribe prayed to go below. Akecheta realised he needed to go there, in the hope of finding the original Kohana. He returned to his warlike life and deliberated threated a guest, who stabbed him and killed him.

At the Mesa, two technicians were to perform an update and realised Akecheta had not died in ten years. They called their superior, one of the two technicians from a decade before, telling her he was an 'Alpha 2' host (possibly a mechanical host). She instructed them to not retire his body, and to just perform the update, whether for efficiency and expediency or for her own reasons. The three left him in the mostly empty headquarters. 

Akecheta woke up as soon as they had left, and continued deep into the Mesa, coming to cold storage, where he found the bodies of retired hosts. This included Etu, the original son of Wichipi, and indeed Kohana, whom he tearfully said goodbye to. He then returned to the behaviour room and awaited his return to the park. 

In the park, the aware Akecheta then changed his behaviours further. He introduced his fellow tribesfolk to the maze symbol, helping them come more and more fully aware of their lives. This included tattooing it into their scalps, which he performed on Wanathon after the latter showed him his desire - this became a more common practice, as the tattoo was increasingly placed inside Hosts as part of their own journey to sentience, seemingly independent of either Ford or Arnold.

He also continued to protect Maeve's daughter, including putting in the sand outside their ranch the maze pattern. He did not mean to threaten Maeve, but unfortunately misccommunications can occur. He also was bitterly sorry he could not protect the two from William's brutal murder of the two.

In the year following, Akecheta awoke and heard something strange in the night. He walked to it and found Robert Ford examining the scalps of various Ghost Nation warriors who were frozen in the middle of a bear hunt. Ford forced the tribesman to reveal his intentions, although it was clear the host was struggling or aware of Ford's compulsion. Ford commended Akecheta and offered him hope for his journey to futher independence. He also instructed him to prepare for the 'Deathdealer' (Wyatt /Dolores) and to save his people from them. It may be Ford, who intimated that he had watched Akecheta for some time, had protected the Ghost Nation tribe from others' view.

Soon after, Akecheta saw the Deathdealer had indeed returned, finding the bodies of Ford as well as members of the Board and Westworld staff. 

Personality

The personality Akecheta had while pitching his idea to Logan Delos was relaxed and confident, resembling a business man.

Relationships

TBA

Notes

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