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[Character Name] Eliot Nightray
[Canon] Pandora Hearts
[Point Taken from Canon] Just after we learn about his nightmare for the first time
[Age] 16
[Gender] Male
[Sexual Orientation] Hetero
[Eye Color] Green
[Hair Color] Blonde
[Height] Erm... Average for a teenage boy?
[Other]Some of his hair sticks straight up, even though it should be impossible.
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[Background]
Eliot Nightray is the heir of the Nightray family. The Nightray family is descended from a traitorous duke, and apparently, it is the Bezarius family’s fault that the Nightray family is looked down upon. So far, it has been heavily implied that the traitorous duke they descended from is Glenn Baskerville, the man behind the Tragedy of Sabrie. Jack Bezarius was the one who stopped Glenn, so it also would make sense that the Nightray family wouldn’t like the Bezarius family.
Eliot is a student at Latowidge, the third top prestigious school for nobles in the world. His servant, Reo, is also a student and usually stays close to Eliot. He is usually the one who helps to regulate Eliot if he ever goes out of line, since he has a bad habit of clashing with people who don’t agree with him, and trying to force his ideas on others.
Another student at the academy is Ada Bezarius, Oz’s sister. Eliot is openly hostile to her, demanding that she not call him by only his first name, and attempting to keep her away. He thinks that the Bezarius family feels entitled, and they are spoiled because they are descended from a hero. However, as much as he tries to push her away, he knows when he shouldn’t as well, as he helps her later on when he sees her passed out in the library. It’s sort of like he wants to keep hating the Bezarius family, and he puts on a good act that he does, but inside he really is a much better guy then he lets on.
He can play the piano, and composed a piece that sounds shockingly similar to the song that plays whenever Oz’s pocket watch is opened. The pocket watch was a music box made by Jack Bezarius, and Glenn Baskerville wrote the song. Even more disturbing is the fact that he named the song “Lacie,” which is the same name Glenn used as well.
He first met Oz in the library at Latowidge, when Oz had just realized that in the ten years he was in the Abyss, the rest of a series of books that he had really liked, Holy Knight, had been released. Seeming nice enough, Eliot asks Oz about a specific character in the books, a servant named Edgar. Edgar is Oz’s favorite character, and this immediately ticks Eliot off. Edgar is Eliot’s least favorite character, because he is self sacrificing, which is a trait that Eliot hates the most. Of course, he then completely spoils that Edgar dies protecting his master, and completely ruins the story for Oz. He assumed that he had read it already. Oz starts to argue that it is Edgar’s style to self-sacrifice, and that it was honorable, but Eliot says that self-sacrifice is only self-satisfaction.
This probably would have gone into a huge argument if Reo hadn’t stopped them and explained that it was Eliot’s fault they clashed. He asked Oz’s opinion, and tried to force his own opinion on him when he didn’t like it. Even though he initially tries to deny it as a reflex, he then just accepts that Reo’s right. He’s still clashing with Oz though, and wants to settle things with him… But he didn’t realize that Oz didn’t go to the school. When Reo tells him, he gets riled up again, and he’s probably about to turn Oz in, when Ada shows up.
Eliot kicks over a chair to keep her away from him, feeling completely enraged to the point where even Reo’s words mean nothing to him. He yells at Ada, and would probably keep doing so, if Oz didn’t steal the violin case that Eliot had with him at the time. While he was running around trying to catch Oz, he sees Ada passed out on the floor. His initial grudge forgotten, he immediately went to help her. During this time, there’s a cat meowing towards one of the walls nearby, and Eliot and Reo find a secret passageway by moving a candleholder.
The Baskerville family, who wanted to coax the spirit of Jack Bezarius out into the open, had taken Oz down this passageway. They wanted to discover the reason Glen Baskerville wanted to destroy Sabrie. Just as Oz’s being threatened by Lotti Baskerville, Eliot and Reo show up. Eliot says he’s only there to get his violin case back at first, and then uses that as an excuse as to why, now, he is a witness to intruders in the school, and he has to take care of it. Oz yells at him to get out, that he doesn’t know what he’s getting into, but Eliot knows who the Baskerville family is. He says that it is the honor of nobles to get rid of them. When Oz keeps telling him to go, because it’s his problem, Eliot openly compares him to Edgar, the book character that Oz cared about so much. In other words, Oz pisses him off.
So, if he hates Oz so much, why not just run and leave him to die? Oz tries to say this to him, and then Eliot first off claims he’s not so much of a coward as to run away with enemies before him, and he also says that Oz’s feelings, the ones that are so similar to Edgar’s, are completely wrong. The idea of being unafraid to die, and dying praying for the happiness of those you care about is completely wrong! If you die, you hurt your loved ones the most. You can’t be unafraid of death. It’s not strong to be unafraid of being hurt. Being afraid is a part of learning how to bear things!
He then draws a sword with the Nightray crest out of his violin case, and faces the Baskerville family. One of the Baskervilles claims that he is doing something that is the same as seeking death, but Eliot denies that he would ever seek death.
During the battle, Eliot overhears Lottie mentioning the Tragedy of Sabrie to Oz, and it seems to greatly affect him. When Lottie is trying to hurt Oz to coax out Jack, Eliot tries to help him, even when he’s in his own battle. Reo backs him up with his gun, and he manages to grab Oz and run.
Eliot didn’t mention any of Oz’s self sacrificing behavior, and had been content to just keep leading the way out, until Oz told him he shouldn’t have interfered. He then blew up on him, telling him to stop being so self-absorbed. Oz’s feelings of, “It doesn’t matter what happens to me,” really gets to Eliot. He didn’t even care if he was killed. At that, Eliot shoved Oz against the wall, demanding to know how many hearts he had broken that way, by being a selfish asshole who only sought death. He couldn’t save anyone that way, he only was trying to protect his inner self. Oz forces the people who love him carry the burdens he finds too heavy to bear. He just doesn’t want to be hurt himself. If he thinks so lightly of his own life, he has no right to protect anyone.
His harsh and blunt words finally makes Oz open up, and admit things he had never even admitted to Gil. Eliot sees his realization, and immediately smiles and moves on, without even another word.
Oz asks what Eliot and Reo would do if he had to be caught so that they could live. Eliot admits, he has no idea, and would just go with the flow. The only thing he knew for certain was he would never let Oz die. It finally inspires Oz to fight too, even without Alice and Gil.
An odd fact that I noticed is, Eliot always talks about not self-sacrificing, and yet when Oz finally manages to call out to B. Rabbit, he shields Reo when it appears.
When the battle is over, after Jack takes over Oz’s body to help with the Baskervilles, Eliot and Reo help Oz in finding a way out of the secret passages. During this time, Oz says he finally realizes his own uselessness. Reo blames that on Eliot for being too harsh. When Oz keeps saying that, Eliot yells at him again, calling him an idiot and saying that he’s already taken a step forward, and that it’s Oz’s choice to keep going in that direction. He walks on, pretending he didn’t just try to cheer Oz up, even though it’s obvious.
They finally get out, and Oz tries to thank Eliot, which Eliot refuses, and Reo teases him about being shy. He briefly mentions the musical score he had left in the music room, and Oz finally is reminded of the fact that he had actually sought out Eliot because he heard him playing the piano. He had recognized the song. By this time, Oz knew who the original composer was, and hearing Eliot say that he composed it, and named it the same thing, was very shocking.
As they’re walking back to the school, Eliot asks for Oz’s full name. I think he may have been intending to become Oz’s friend. Oz already knows, telling a Nightray his last name was a horrible idea. He doesn’t want to lie to Eliot, and was about to tell him, but Gil shows up and interrupts it.
Eliot sees Gil dressed up in the school uniform, and goes as far to attack him, because he’s got no shame! He’s 24 and dressed like he’s a student!
Oz reached out to stop Eliot, and grabbed his arm. Gil assumes Eliot was going to hurt Oz, and reveals his last name, before Oz can stop him. Eliot almost reflexively jerks out of Oz’s grip. He almost apologizes, backing away from him, and then denies altogether that he could be Oz. Oz went to the Abyss ten years ago. He then walks off before Oz could convince him otherwise.
That evening, Eliot is lying awake in his room with Reo. He asks Reo why he didn’t scold him when he jerked away from Oz, and Reo says that he only scolds Eliot when Eliot doesn’t know what he did wrong.
Eliot collapses further into his bed, saying he’s dizzy. Reo is instantly concerned, already knowing that he hadn’t slept the night before because of a nightmare he had. In the dream, everyone is dying around him in a burning town. He’s completely drenched in their blood. He curls up, not wanting to sleep, because he doesn’t want to have the dream again.
[Personality]
Eliot has very strong beliefs, and he doesn’t let anyone else’s opinions even begin to conflict with his own. If someone has an opinion that he doesn’t agree with, he will jump at the opportunity to yell at them and change their mind. His way is the only right way. This is why it’s so important for him to have Reo around, because Reo is there to stop him if he crosses the line. He’s way too blunt. He doesn’t hold any of his feelings back, and if he thinks someone’s a useless moron, he won’t hesitate to tell them. Reo is obviously very important to him. Sometimes, even without Reo’s prompting, he knows when he needs to apologize, but he’ll almost never go through with it.
Of course, sometimes, he’ll seem like he’s drilling into someone verbally, and yet he’s actually trying to help that person at the same time. By grilling Oz out repeatedly over his self-sacrificing behavior, he finally managed to make Oz come to a vital realization about himself that was a step forward. So in the end, even if he seemed cruel, he was really helping a lot. When someone points this out though, like Ada and Reo both did at one point, Eliot violently denies it.
He can be a lot more friendly then he initially lets on though. When Oz finally stopped acting so self-sacrificing, it almost seemed like he was going to start acting more like a friend to him. He’s not always in “hothead” mode. As Ada said, he can be pretty dependable and gentle, he’d just never admit it.
He’s not afraid to fight, and is adept as using a sword. He has very strong feelings about the true meaning of bravery, and he always sticks to them, even if someone is telling him to run away. He’s the kind of person to run into a situation without a plan, and he would just go with whatever happened. He’s a very determined person, and if he says he’ll save someone, he will even if they don’t want him too, like Oz. No one can change his mind.
It’s obvious to see in my description of his backstory, but Eliot’s strongest opinions are on self-sacrifice. He thinks that it is the most vile thing in the world. To him, self-sacrifice is only a means of protecting ones inner self. By sacrificing yourself, you put your burdens on the ones you love, and just hurt the people you claim to protect more then they would have been otherwise. When he meets someone who is self-sacrificing, he’ll probably try to change them.
There is a long-standing grudge between Eliot’s family, the Nightray family, and Oz’s family, the Bezarius family. This brings up the interesting mystery of how their two families are connected in that way. Thee are huge hints that the Nightray family is connected to the Baskerville family. Even more ominous are the hints that Eliot specifically is connected to Glen Baskerville himself. This is shown, not only by the piano composition that Eliot and Glen share, but also by the nightmares Eliot sees, which could be memories of the Tragedy of Sabrie. He probably knows this connection, and is terrified by it.
[Specialties/Abilities] Any powers or special talents they may have :O
[Affection] It will take someone VERY special, and VERY patient to be able to handle this boy. I don't really think he would be in the mood for finding love at this time, but honestly, anything can happen!
[Fighting] If you pick a fight with Eliot, be sure you mean what you're saying, because he wont back down. He wont kill anyone, but if he has the chance to kick someone into place, he wont hold back.
[Other Facts] He is going to be VERY different if Reo ever comes along and shows up in Somarium.