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Name or Handle: Christina
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Email: lollobrigida@gmail.com
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Any current characters here?:
Ruby - Supernatural
Faith Lehane - Buffy
Kaylee Frye - Firefly/Serenity
Character Information:
Character Name: Elle Bishop
Age: 23 (born in 1983 and pre-eclipse is 2006)
Canon: Heroes
Appearance:
Elle is a petite blonde with bright blue eyes. She's often very put together and tries to give off an unusal amount of sex-appeal. She uses her body as a weapon, figuratively and literally. She knows that she is perky and adorable and tends to wear clothing that accents that.
Personality:
From first glance, Elle seems a perky blonde that has a positive attitude and high self esteem. Her body language is often that of a seductress or vixen, leaning over and curling up aside people, as if this is something she simply assumes the other person won't mind at all. Her usual pattern of speech often gives the impression of talking down to everyone, with a lighter teasing tone behind most of her words. Generally, this is simply a defense mechanism to hide away the darker urges and motivations she knows she has within her.
Calling her a live wire would be putting it lightly, not just for the sake of her ability. She's unpredictable at times, and doesn't like to be told she can't do something, or that she's wrong. Most times, rather than deal with the consequences of how she feels about something she puts up a wall, shutting people out without hesitation, while outwardly she smiles as if nothing was wrong in the first place. It's easier for her to lie about being hurt than to actually express what is going on in her own mind.
Most of her formative years were done under the supervision of a psychiatrist. It's possible, that a lot of her lying and acting as if nothing is wrong is something that she learned early on in order to get out of talking to the shrinks. Especially, since it's apparent that she doesn't like to talk about herself. Even when Peter tries to show an interest in her, she still is extremely guarded, refusing to give him any details. Most of that is because she'd rather keep her distance, since that's what her training teaches her to do, but also because she's not sure anything that she could tell him would be even interesting enough for him.
Being raised by her father she is a Daddy's girl, always seeking his approval to the point where it is a dangerous level of attention that she needs. Her father instilled an extremely high standard to her, claiming she was 'better than everyone else' and Elle believes that she still is working to get to that point. She will push herself, and allow her ability to be pushed to extreme levels if it will get the desired results. That sort of commitment level is something she barely notices as dangerous, and her motivation behind going to that level is probably something she barely recognizes is wrong. Her ability to judge what is right from wrong is heavily blurred between those two lines. Because of this, she often doesn't think that she'll have to deal with the consequences and this makes her once more seem like she is above it all and, even worse, other people.
Deep down, she is still just a child; young, naive, and lacking so many of the memories that one relies on to actually grow up and learn from mistakes and experiences. Her social outings aren't even outings, as much as they are missions or tasks that her father gives her. The first time she could even make a friend, it's when she's tasked to do so with Gabriel Gray. She enters his shop, saves him from his own suicide, and makes a connection to another person. It's even something that she protects from her files, I think, because she never relays that Gabriel had been trying to kill himself. It's something that she protects from her job, almost as if she feels like she owes him that much. It could be forethought to the acts that she knew they were trying to get him to do, but it's one of the few times that she's shown to actively take someone else and their situation into consideration and it is a key element in her relationship with Gabriel and later Sylar.
Rather than deal with how her actions and the actions of others against her make her feel, once more, she puts on an act of someone more innocent and child-like thinking that was how she got away with things when she was little, and it should still apply now. The main disadvantage that gives her is that she didn't have the regular childhood, and most of her failures and times she was punished have been erased by the Haitian, in order to falsely give her father that ideal 'loving father' image. She thinks that when she was little things were good and that she made her father proud and that he loved her. She believes that it's only recently, now that she's been allowed out from under his wing, that she's begun to let him down.
She can be over bearing and push herself onto people even when it is clear that they are not comfortable around her. Using her sexuality and her physicality to get what she wants lends to a certain level of self confidence that is extremely false in nature. She knows she's pretty and that this can get her things in life. Her feelings get hurt very easily though, and her lack of understanding why people want to hurt her is completely lost on her. She tends to think she should get her way and when she doesn't much like a child she can act out, usually violently.
Her clinical diagnosis of sociopath with paranoid delusions not only ties into her moral compass, but the fact that her father, throughout her childhood, continued to put her through extreme experiments regarding her ability and wiped her memory of any negative effects they had on her. She is paranoid about being hurt, but she has no real idea why that is. She also doesn't trust her diagnosis, because she has no real reason to believe that her behavior is not correct for a girl her age. She simply thinks that they just don't understand her, and since she has no one else to compare her own behavior against - clearly, it's them just trying to make her look bad.
Almost everyone she ever cares about leaves her. Her mother died when she was young, her father emotionally abandoned her around the time she gained an ability, in order to maintain a clinical perspective on her testing, Gabriel Gray left and became Sylar, and even Peter who earns her trust and a kiss eventually walks out of the facility to go join Adam. Beyond that, every time she trusts someone they eventually fail her. From Arthur saying she was a good match with Sylar, to Sylar actually killing her. She lives with a constant fear of not being good enough, and that her failure will result in her being left alone. That level of loneliness probably reminds her of her childhood where she had no friends and was just a test subject for her father.
She is fully capable of learning from her own experiences, but hasn't been given the adequate time in canon to do so. It's almost as if every time something happens that she should react to happens, something even worse is forced onto her. Each time she fails at her job, and makes a mistake, she's not given much time to learn from what she did wrong, because she's given a new assignment. When her father dies, she's fired and her ability malfunctions. She does realize that what her father did to her was wrong, but it takes seeing how other families function (the Bennets) for her to even consider that something was wrong with her own life.
She's capable of love and deep emotion, but she might simply just not understand that is what she's feeling. There is no way to be taught these things and her emotional background is one of cause and effect, where when she does one thing it's rewarded with another. She wants to impress her father, so she does things that he wants in order to gain his approval. Most of the time that never comes, so her attempts all end up hollow and don't give her any benefit. The few times that she is given that positive reinforcement and is told that she did something right for a change, there is a definite shift in her features and her emotional well-being.
When she attacks Sylar and in essence saves the lives of others, she thinks that is cool. It lights up her face and she feels accomplished. When she finally gets Peter to actually ask her for a shock, she's nearly elated that he's accepting her for who she is. She's timid and nearly hesitant to hurt him because she doesn't want him to reject her. When he kisses her, she's nearly confident that he did it because he wanted to, which is much more important than him doing it because he needs to. She can't tell the difference and she accepts this act for something that makes her heart race and her breath grow short. She's immediately endeared to him and believes that this is how it is supposed to be with her and Peter. Of course, he leaves and she realizes that it was a trick, but for a moment there she thought she had something.
Background:
http://heroeswiki.com/Elle
Canon point:
There is a flashback episode called Villains that goes into how Sylar and Elle met for the first time. Toward the end of the episode, Elle brings Trevor to Gabriel’s house to show him that they’re not alone. It’s a temptation that she creates for Gabriel to take another ability so that the Company has it on record. This is a huge spot for her canon wise because she makes the choice to pick the Company over her own beliefs and her own feelings for Gabriel. I’m picking this also because I think it gives me the most room to let Elle grow into her own person on her own and experience the world as an opportunity to have her own life instead of living in what her father wants her to become. Plus, I’ve never played her from this early in canon and I’d like to be able to give that a shot.
Special Abilities:
Elle has an electrical based ability. She’s an evolved human, so her genetic code has given her something a little special on the side. The main aspect of her ability is generating an electrical current. She can produce anything from a static-electric-type shock to a full EMP level burst. This energy is dispersed through her skin, but she has been trained to have it focused and directed through her hands.
I have likened her ability to be something of a second nervous system. Since she seems mostly immune to her own electrical output, I figured that it had to be something that developed with her body. Because she is constantly producing energy it had to be slightly passive, like blood flowing through veins. Her ability to produce high level outputs, also pushes me to think that she’s constantly in an on position, but that she can simply kick it up a notch when her fight/flight responses kick in.
Along with the electrical current comes the hints of such a level of power. I’ve often alluded to her having a natural hum about her, much like high-tension power lines. Also that she has a soft hint of ozone around her, due to the sparks that her ability often causes.
She’s also been trained as a Company agent. This means she has skills with handguns, tracking people, diversion tactics, and a small amount of hand to hand combat, though it’s possible she didn’t train as much in the hand to hand skills due to her ability giving her longer range offensive moves. She’s also very good with a pair of scissors (ie: Hair-cuts).
Power Conversion: I don’t think that her ability, the way that I have it set up with it being part of her actual biology, needs to be converted over to the force. I already have Faith and Ruby with their force powers, so having a character that doesn’t have to have the Force to have her power will give me something different to play with.
If it needs to be converted, then I will do that, but I'd prefer to keep her out of that part of it.
Sect: Civilian
Job:
None yet.
Samples:
First Person:
Hello? [She’s moved out of the room, but she’s taken the blanket off the bed and wrapped it around herself.]
I don’t think you realize what you did. [She’s trying to sound tougher than she feels right now, but she’s woken up in a space that wasn’t Hartsdale.]
You made a big mistake taking me. My father is going to be so pissed at you. [If he even notices... of course... she could handle this herself.
Totally.]
You’re going to be so sorry. You’ll see.
Third Person:
It wasn't even as if it was her own fault, but still she couldn't help but needle at the Bennet family while she was in their house. Her ability betraying her at every single breath and the only thing she knew she had control over was the bite in her words. Even that held a flinch in her features when her body reacted to the current that she couldn't control anymore. Everything was a lie, but it should've been something she was at least used to.
Her father was dead, her position within the Company discarded and any actual hold she thought she had on her ability had gone away weeks ago. Now she was tempted with a choice to head into a new building that had a lab and a powerful name behind the business card. Pinehearst had found her, sought her out with what they claimed could be the solution to her problem. The problem though was that she hadn't ever heard of Pinehearst, and that put new doubt into her mind about just what it was that they wanted with her.
Bennet always knew something, she figured that out early on. Now he seemed to be her only choice, and sitting in his house trying to figure out exactly how she was going to explain herself, and the burned out laptop in front of her was proving a difficult task. Instincts were always the easiest thing to rely on. Fight or flight, and she knew she had no where else to go at this point. No other path to choose and honestly no one else to go to at this point. She had the Bennet house, and she had Claire.
Claire; the girl that could heal, and had a father that cared so much about her that he allowed them all to believe he was dead, just to keep her safe. Claire that had the souvenir brought back from all the trips to wherever the lie took him. Claire who would heal no matter what damage was done to her.
It seemed the perfect solution in her mind. Unleash the ability that she hadn't been able to control and siphon some of it out of her... away from her just so that maybe it wouldn't hurt anymore. It all came through her and out of her palms and around her fingertips pushing from herself into Claire. The way the girl looked back at her, the cold unfeeling grin of someone that didn't seem to care... didn't seem to realize how much that should've hurt looked so familiar to her.
That split second it took to recognize that sort of darkness was enough of an opportunity for Claire to take advantage and then she was being pulled into the other room. The slight struggle and more of her energy was forced toward the girl now on the ground. She wanted the pain to go away, she wanted to just make it stop but she couldn't stop it at all. It was always part of her and now it was more than just a part of her, it was all she seemed to be.
The water was cold as it cut across her shoulder and over her neck. It soaked into her shirt and dampened her hair as it cascaded over her clothing. The conduit that she knew she was now had something to let the energy cling to, it didn't run through her like it should've done before... it hovered around her skin and stayed close like the water itself was doing. What little avoidance of pain she could bear from her ability before was gone as she slunk down against the counter. Her shoulders pressed to the wall and the back of the cabinet, cowering in pain knowing that even if she could draw herself in smaller that it still would hurt just the same.
That it would always hurt... because it was never going to stop.
Anything Else:
SPECIAL SECRET CODE WORDS YO: blue milk and Jolee Bindo Not to be confused with Jolene Blalock.