[ooc] application for endless prom
NAME: Tiffany
JOURNAL: arcesso
CONTACT: live.infamy [at] gmail.com
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CURRENT CHARACTERS: Buffy Summers (BTVS: antihellsucking)
CHARACTER NAME: Eleanor Zoe Bishop
FANDOM: Heroes
GRADE: Junior
MOST LIKELY TO: be committed to an insane asylum.
YEARBOOK QUOTE: "I accidentally set my grandmother's house on fire when I was six. Caused a blackout in four counties in Ohio when I was eight. I spent my ninth birthday in a glass room with an IV of lithium in my arm. I've lived in this building for seven years, ever since the shrinks diagnosed me as a sociopath with paranoid delusions. But they’re just out to get me, 'cause I threatened to kill them. I'm sixteen years old and I've never gone on a date. Never been on a roller-coaster. Never been swimming. This is the first public school I've ever been to. And now you know everything there is to know about me. I don't have the luxury of being more interesting than that."
PERSONALITY: Elle is said to be a cautionary tale of what would happen to the heroes if they had been aware of their powers since birth. The experimentation and subsequent memory loss led her to become sadistic and exceptionally infantile. Her psychological profile brings to light her dependency and inferiority issues, both results of her daddy issues. She has the emotional capacity of a child, since she was raised in a facility, shut away from the world and anywhere that she might develop in a normal social manner, which has lead to fit throwing and putting her father on a pedestal. She has a tendency to develop shallow, affectionate attachments to all of the men she meets - Peter, Mohinder, and Gabriel - which mirror, though to a lesser degree, this insatiable desire to live up to her father's expectations and get his commendation. On top of this, she has zero regard for personal space and actually seems to get joy out of forcing herself into the bubbles of others, particularly the inmates of Hartsdale.
While she's been diagnosed as a sociopath with paranoid delusions, a diagnosis that's not altogether off-base, she does have a few deeper emotions - she feels guilt about being a part of turning Gabriel Gray into Sylar, and she feels guilt when she abandons Claire at the Pinehearst institute after Claire had shown her such kindness, but she generally suppresses these feelings because, in the end, her own self-preservation comes first. She's an open book for the most part and doesn't hold back her feelings, always loudly complaining or becoming aggressive or overly cheerful. The only time she shows real restraint is around her father and Angela Petrelli - her father because she wants to please him, and Angela because she's the new boss of the Company and Elle wanted to play the good, controlled operative so she could continue working there because it's all she's known. She has, though minimal, some extent of respect for authority that has been drilled into her by her life as a company girl.
She's a natural cynic and pessimist, and she thrives off sarcasm and adrenaline. She creates excitement in missions even if it costs them some ease in completing it, generally by using her ability excessively. Accompanied by her flippancy with her ability is a desire to prove herself, this often leads to her throwing a fit when she gets undermined. Elle doesn't handle rejection or change well, so even though Noah got her to begin doubting Primatech, she wished to remain with them because it was all she knew.
Interestingly, while she has an undying devotion to her father while with The Company, she still appears to know between right and wrong and a desire to do right, despite being labeled a sociopath by various psychologists. When she gets assigned to the Gabriel Gray case, she tries to back out several times, narrowly avoiding telling Noah that she doesn't have it in her to turn this good, nice person to killing someone else when he's obviously torn up about it. So, at least to some extent, she has the capability for empathy, though in this case, since it was an isolated incident, it can be inferred that it was because she saw something of herself in Gabriel. The Company was trying to turn a good man into a killer, just like they'd done to her with their experimentation and sealing her off from the world. She wanted to save him from that fate to save herself, on some level. She still carries a lot of this guilt around with her, though she tries to shove it off and fill her sociopath diagnosis by acting like it doesn't bother her.
She also has a lot of bitterness towards anyone who got the opportunities she didn't while they were younger, but it pretty much gets summed up into one big ball of hate and thrown at Claire Bennet, who is the epitome of getting everything she never had. She has a family that loves her, as opposed to her mom that got sick of her, shoved her off on an unloving father, and then died shortly after. She has opportunities -- a social life. She's well-liked. She's this bubbly, happy, mind-numbingly heroic cheerleader. And Elle is just a continuous disappointment to her father.
[IF YOU ARE AGING YOUR CHARACTER DOWN, HOW WILL AGING YOUR CHARACTER DOWN AFFECT THEIR PERSONALITY? Considering we get a pretty good idea of Elle's canon teen years in the comics and in references by Noah and Elle herself, I'll just be AUing her in that canonpoint. She'll retain all of her same personality traits because they were formed through the years she spent in Hartsdale facility, and considering even at sixteen she would have spent seven years there, the traits are developed. I will, however, be AU-ing her from her pre-canon time in Villains with the Gabriel Gray assignment and combining it with a comics assignment regarding Claire Bennet. So, she won't have the development of having that guilt over making Gabriel into Sylar, and she'll have the tougher shell of season 2 but a definite ability to -- although she won't show it -- feel empathy for people.
AU HISTORY: When Elle was 6 years old, she accidentally set her grandmother’s house on fire.
At 8, she caused a blackout in four counties in Ohio. So, she was taken to Hartsdale, NY because her mother was sick of dealing with her and wanted to shove her off on Bob, where she would spend the next 16 years in the Company's prison facility. Under Dr. Zimmerman's suggestion, Bob began testing the extent of Elle's abilities, encouraging them to push her well past her breaking point. During a brief point, she escaped and ran away by blasting her own father. She headed to an arcade where she made the games go on the fritz with her ability, racked up a million tickets and got the lightning bolt necklace she always wears. Noah Bennet retrieved her courtesy of some rubber dishwashing gloves and a lot of determination.
She spent her 9th birthday in a glass room with an IV of Lithium in her arm for her efforts. She has never been on a date, or a roller coaster, or gone swimming. She threatened to kill the psychologists who diagnosed her as a sociopath with paranoid delusions. How much time was spent as an inmate versus as an agent of The Company is unknown, but she was experimented on at the behest of her own father for years. The Haitian has removed any specific memories of this experimentation, but it was enough to turn her into the sadistic lunatic that she is today.
Her first chronological assignment that we know of is when she is partnered with Noah Bennet to observe Gabriel Gray, prior to his identity switch to Sylar. In the comics, they claim that her following Claire is her first assignment, but since it's closer to Homecoming than Gabriel's identity change, we can assume it's her second. Regardless, in Endless Prom, she'll be doing double duty.
As far as Noah knows, she's just infiltrating West High as a way of getting close to Gabriel so she can find out how dangerous he is and if they need to bring him in. However, her father and head of the Company, Bob Bishop, has also instructed her to keep an eye on things with Claire Bennet, Noah's daughter, to see if she manifests an ability. As far as Elle's concerned, her jealousy for Claire causes her to believe that Claire's nothing special, and she's just keeping an eye on her from afar while trying to soak up the chance to finally be in a public school like a normal kid -- even if it is on a Company assignment.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: One of us, one of them. That's how it always was within the Company and Elle kind of liked it that way. Sure, Noah Bennet was boring, and sure, he was all seriousness all the time, but that made him more fun to make angry. Which she did. Often. Not only that, but it meant she was the only one who got to do the showing off. There would always be more chances to make Daddy proud when you were the center of attention from the start.
Their assignment was to pick up Fitzgerald and bring him to level 5. Bag and tag was one of Elle's favorite parts of the job because it meant she got to play. They'd cornered him into an alley and Elle just couldn't help but think of what an idiot he was when he went ape and his tattoos lit up like christmas lights. Really, it was almost like he didn't realize she was a human taser. So, she rolled her eyes as Noah continued threatening, gun brandished.
"Boys." She held out one hand, a ball of blue lightning gathering in it. "Would you just let me handle this?" It was direct at Noah and she sent the ball hurling in Michael's direction. It knocked him off his feet and a trashcan next to him caught fire from some stray sparks. Elle didn't pay attention. Instead, she collected more lightning and began a continuous shock, grin widening at the way his body twitched. It took Noah's hand on her shoulder, shaking her, to get her to stop.
When she looked up, his expression was demanding, and Elle's own lips pursed into an innocent pout, though the way her eyebrows knitted together was obviously defensive. If he told her dad she got carried away again … ugh.
"Oh, relax, would you? I'm just having a little fun. He'll be back at 100% in no time," she cast a look in Michael's direction and tried to hide her smile. "Well, maybe not. But, he'll live! He's a champ, he'll walk it off."
FIRST-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: [ The video kicks off with Elle in her apartment, blasting the microwave with a pretty large stream of blue electricity. From her hands. She appears to be ... well, pretty pissed off. She grimaces a little when she realizes the damage she did and pokes at the door of the microwave. It comes off, crispy as all hell, and she lets it clatter to the floor before she speaks up bitterly. ]
Whatever, it was a piece of crap anyway. [ Turning over her shoulder she catches glimpse of her device on the kitchen counter, recording. So, she walks over and picks it up, a slow, not-so-stable smile working up on her face. ]
You know, I've been thinking. Stefan was right. If somebody's a threat, you don't just let them walk around. You get rid of them. I don't think anyone would be happy to hear I just let a murderer run around without trying to stop him. It's practically self defense, anyway.
[ She sets the device up on the counter so she can talk to it without having to hold it again and starts pacing a little as she waxes poetic. ]
I mean. I didn't even do anything. Who kills somebody because they wanted you to be happy for once in your stupid, miserable little life anyway? [ She glares back at the camera. ] You don't. You don't hurt people that you love. And you don't love the people who hurt you.
[ She holds out one hand in a fist and brings it slowly down to where it's parallel to the floor, letting her hand slowly unflex into a position where her palm is spread, a ball of electricity growing in it and lighting up brightly when her fingers are fully extended, threatening. ]
See, I've been thinking a lot about what I wanna do with this second chance, you know? And I think I'm gonna do exactly what Daddy would want me to. So. Sylar. Consider this your only warning. I'm coming for you, and there's nowhere you can hide. [ The threatening look turns into a slow, confident smirk and she straightens up, clenching her fist and dispersing the electricity. She reaches out, grabs the device, and the feed cuts right as she heads out the door. ]
[ooc; The deal with this post! This is ... the climax of Elle's horrible memory loss life, compounded by the Cry Me a River curse. Or at least the beginning of it, which'll come to a head in a log where she tries to kill Sylar like ... next Friday. Anyway! She's gradually forgotten all her guilt over turning him into a killer, and it's completely gone now, which means all of the things that make her feel bad for being a "sociopath with paranoid delusions" more or less, and extremely sadistic in her tendencies, are gone. Along with her guilt over human life.]
JOURNAL: arcesso
CONTACT: live.infamy [at] gmail.com
to boldly trek @AIM
invoke @plurk (ask before adding)
CURRENT CHARACTERS: Buffy Summers (BTVS: antihellsucking)
CHARACTER NAME: Eleanor Zoe Bishop
FANDOM: Heroes
GRADE: Junior
MOST LIKELY TO: be committed to an insane asylum.
YEARBOOK QUOTE: "I accidentally set my grandmother's house on fire when I was six. Caused a blackout in four counties in Ohio when I was eight. I spent my ninth birthday in a glass room with an IV of lithium in my arm. I've lived in this building for seven years, ever since the shrinks diagnosed me as a sociopath with paranoid delusions. But they’re just out to get me, 'cause I threatened to kill them. I'm sixteen years old and I've never gone on a date. Never been on a roller-coaster. Never been swimming. This is the first public school I've ever been to. And now you know everything there is to know about me. I don't have the luxury of being more interesting than that."
PERSONALITY: Elle is said to be a cautionary tale of what would happen to the heroes if they had been aware of their powers since birth. The experimentation and subsequent memory loss led her to become sadistic and exceptionally infantile. Her psychological profile brings to light her dependency and inferiority issues, both results of her daddy issues. She has the emotional capacity of a child, since she was raised in a facility, shut away from the world and anywhere that she might develop in a normal social manner, which has lead to fit throwing and putting her father on a pedestal. She has a tendency to develop shallow, affectionate attachments to all of the men she meets - Peter, Mohinder, and Gabriel - which mirror, though to a lesser degree, this insatiable desire to live up to her father's expectations and get his commendation. On top of this, she has zero regard for personal space and actually seems to get joy out of forcing herself into the bubbles of others, particularly the inmates of Hartsdale.
While she's been diagnosed as a sociopath with paranoid delusions, a diagnosis that's not altogether off-base, she does have a few deeper emotions - she feels guilt about being a part of turning Gabriel Gray into Sylar, and she feels guilt when she abandons Claire at the Pinehearst institute after Claire had shown her such kindness, but she generally suppresses these feelings because, in the end, her own self-preservation comes first. She's an open book for the most part and doesn't hold back her feelings, always loudly complaining or becoming aggressive or overly cheerful. The only time she shows real restraint is around her father and Angela Petrelli - her father because she wants to please him, and Angela because she's the new boss of the Company and Elle wanted to play the good, controlled operative so she could continue working there because it's all she's known. She has, though minimal, some extent of respect for authority that has been drilled into her by her life as a company girl.
She's a natural cynic and pessimist, and she thrives off sarcasm and adrenaline. She creates excitement in missions even if it costs them some ease in completing it, generally by using her ability excessively. Accompanied by her flippancy with her ability is a desire to prove herself, this often leads to her throwing a fit when she gets undermined. Elle doesn't handle rejection or change well, so even though Noah got her to begin doubting Primatech, she wished to remain with them because it was all she knew.
Interestingly, while she has an undying devotion to her father while with The Company, she still appears to know between right and wrong and a desire to do right, despite being labeled a sociopath by various psychologists. When she gets assigned to the Gabriel Gray case, she tries to back out several times, narrowly avoiding telling Noah that she doesn't have it in her to turn this good, nice person to killing someone else when he's obviously torn up about it. So, at least to some extent, she has the capability for empathy, though in this case, since it was an isolated incident, it can be inferred that it was because she saw something of herself in Gabriel. The Company was trying to turn a good man into a killer, just like they'd done to her with their experimentation and sealing her off from the world. She wanted to save him from that fate to save herself, on some level. She still carries a lot of this guilt around with her, though she tries to shove it off and fill her sociopath diagnosis by acting like it doesn't bother her.
She also has a lot of bitterness towards anyone who got the opportunities she didn't while they were younger, but it pretty much gets summed up into one big ball of hate and thrown at Claire Bennet, who is the epitome of getting everything she never had. She has a family that loves her, as opposed to her mom that got sick of her, shoved her off on an unloving father, and then died shortly after. She has opportunities -- a social life. She's well-liked. She's this bubbly, happy, mind-numbingly heroic cheerleader. And Elle is just a continuous disappointment to her father.
[IF YOU ARE AGING YOUR CHARACTER DOWN, HOW WILL AGING YOUR CHARACTER DOWN AFFECT THEIR PERSONALITY? Considering we get a pretty good idea of Elle's canon teen years in the comics and in references by Noah and Elle herself, I'll just be AUing her in that canonpoint. She'll retain all of her same personality traits because they were formed through the years she spent in Hartsdale facility, and considering even at sixteen she would have spent seven years there, the traits are developed. I will, however, be AU-ing her from her pre-canon time in Villains with the Gabriel Gray assignment and combining it with a comics assignment regarding Claire Bennet. So, she won't have the development of having that guilt over making Gabriel into Sylar, and she'll have the tougher shell of season 2 but a definite ability to -- although she won't show it -- feel empathy for people.
AU HISTORY: When Elle was 6 years old, she accidentally set her grandmother’s house on fire.
At 8, she caused a blackout in four counties in Ohio. So, she was taken to Hartsdale, NY because her mother was sick of dealing with her and wanted to shove her off on Bob, where she would spend the next 16 years in the Company's prison facility. Under Dr. Zimmerman's suggestion, Bob began testing the extent of Elle's abilities, encouraging them to push her well past her breaking point. During a brief point, she escaped and ran away by blasting her own father. She headed to an arcade where she made the games go on the fritz with her ability, racked up a million tickets and got the lightning bolt necklace she always wears. Noah Bennet retrieved her courtesy of some rubber dishwashing gloves and a lot of determination.
She spent her 9th birthday in a glass room with an IV of Lithium in her arm for her efforts. She has never been on a date, or a roller coaster, or gone swimming. She threatened to kill the psychologists who diagnosed her as a sociopath with paranoid delusions. How much time was spent as an inmate versus as an agent of The Company is unknown, but she was experimented on at the behest of her own father for years. The Haitian has removed any specific memories of this experimentation, but it was enough to turn her into the sadistic lunatic that she is today.
Her first chronological assignment that we know of is when she is partnered with Noah Bennet to observe Gabriel Gray, prior to his identity switch to Sylar. In the comics, they claim that her following Claire is her first assignment, but since it's closer to Homecoming than Gabriel's identity change, we can assume it's her second. Regardless, in Endless Prom, she'll be doing double duty.
As far as Noah knows, she's just infiltrating West High as a way of getting close to Gabriel so she can find out how dangerous he is and if they need to bring him in. However, her father and head of the Company, Bob Bishop, has also instructed her to keep an eye on things with Claire Bennet, Noah's daughter, to see if she manifests an ability. As far as Elle's concerned, her jealousy for Claire causes her to believe that Claire's nothing special, and she's just keeping an eye on her from afar while trying to soak up the chance to finally be in a public school like a normal kid -- even if it is on a Company assignment.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: One of us, one of them. That's how it always was within the Company and Elle kind of liked it that way. Sure, Noah Bennet was boring, and sure, he was all seriousness all the time, but that made him more fun to make angry. Which she did. Often. Not only that, but it meant she was the only one who got to do the showing off. There would always be more chances to make Daddy proud when you were the center of attention from the start.
Their assignment was to pick up Fitzgerald and bring him to level 5. Bag and tag was one of Elle's favorite parts of the job because it meant she got to play. They'd cornered him into an alley and Elle just couldn't help but think of what an idiot he was when he went ape and his tattoos lit up like christmas lights. Really, it was almost like he didn't realize she was a human taser. So, she rolled her eyes as Noah continued threatening, gun brandished.
"Boys." She held out one hand, a ball of blue lightning gathering in it. "Would you just let me handle this?" It was direct at Noah and she sent the ball hurling in Michael's direction. It knocked him off his feet and a trashcan next to him caught fire from some stray sparks. Elle didn't pay attention. Instead, she collected more lightning and began a continuous shock, grin widening at the way his body twitched. It took Noah's hand on her shoulder, shaking her, to get her to stop.
When she looked up, his expression was demanding, and Elle's own lips pursed into an innocent pout, though the way her eyebrows knitted together was obviously defensive. If he told her dad she got carried away again … ugh.
"Oh, relax, would you? I'm just having a little fun. He'll be back at 100% in no time," she cast a look in Michael's direction and tried to hide her smile. "Well, maybe not. But, he'll live! He's a champ, he'll walk it off."
FIRST-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: [ The video kicks off with Elle in her apartment, blasting the microwave with a pretty large stream of blue electricity. From her hands. She appears to be ... well, pretty pissed off. She grimaces a little when she realizes the damage she did and pokes at the door of the microwave. It comes off, crispy as all hell, and she lets it clatter to the floor before she speaks up bitterly. ]
Whatever, it was a piece of crap anyway. [ Turning over her shoulder she catches glimpse of her device on the kitchen counter, recording. So, she walks over and picks it up, a slow, not-so-stable smile working up on her face. ]
You know, I've been thinking. Stefan was right. If somebody's a threat, you don't just let them walk around. You get rid of them. I don't think anyone would be happy to hear I just let a murderer run around without trying to stop him. It's practically self defense, anyway.
[ She sets the device up on the counter so she can talk to it without having to hold it again and starts pacing a little as she waxes poetic. ]
I mean. I didn't even do anything. Who kills somebody because they wanted you to be happy for once in your stupid, miserable little life anyway? [ She glares back at the camera. ] You don't. You don't hurt people that you love. And you don't love the people who hurt you.
[ She holds out one hand in a fist and brings it slowly down to where it's parallel to the floor, letting her hand slowly unflex into a position where her palm is spread, a ball of electricity growing in it and lighting up brightly when her fingers are fully extended, threatening. ]
See, I've been thinking a lot about what I wanna do with this second chance, you know? And I think I'm gonna do exactly what Daddy would want me to. So. Sylar. Consider this your only warning. I'm coming for you, and there's nowhere you can hide. [ The threatening look turns into a slow, confident smirk and she straightens up, clenching her fist and dispersing the electricity. She reaches out, grabs the device, and the feed cuts right as she heads out the door. ]
[ooc; The deal with this post! This is ... the climax of Elle's horrible memory loss life, compounded by the Cry Me a River curse. Or at least the beginning of it, which'll come to a head in a log where she tries to kill Sylar like ... next Friday. Anyway! She's gradually forgotten all her guilt over turning him into a killer, and it's completely gone now, which means all of the things that make her feel bad for being a "sociopath with paranoid delusions" more or less, and extremely sadistic in her tendencies, are gone. Along with her guilt over human life.]