Post by Elzia Wolfsbane on Mar 6, 2010 10:52:32 GMT -7
Elzia Belladonna Wolfsbane
Character Basics
Nationality: Nation of He Without A Name
Leader Character?: No.
Playby: Keira Knightly
Custom Title: Darkness is only the absence of light.
Age: 24
Nickname(s): Little Shadow
What Makes You Tick?
National Traits:
- Shadow Walking
- Shadow Fighting
- Shadow Healing
Unique Qualities:
- Shadow-merging- a special way of disappearing, by merging completely into the shadows, and almost becoming an intransient shadow yourself.
- Shadow-messenger- like shadow-fighting, this involves your shadow becoming your double. In times of great need, Elzia can send her shadow away from her as a messenger. However, being separated from her shadow for a long period of time is stressful and painful to her.
Weaknesses:
- Light
- Fear- unlike other members of her nation, Elzia feels fear, and has no ability to control it. The very fact that she can feel is her greatest weakness. The very fact that her mind is not protected from fear by He Without A Name terrifies her. It is a dangerous weakness for one from her nation.
Personality:
Elzia, as her father always said (when he was alive), is a difficult creature. Stubborn and definite about everything, she is often haughty, bordering on cold, to her contemporaries. She is defensive by nature, to the point of paranoia (she always wants to know what people are thinking, or if they’re against her, etc), and diligently cautious. In a way, her haughtiness is a part of her defensive nature- warmth and tenderness seem to her to be foolhardy and incautious ways of presenting oneself.
Elzia is also very critical of herself. The fact that she is often afraid bothers her extremely. She often feels weak and useless- this makes her ruthless, as she feels weakness is not a thing to be tolerated.
Though deeply buried beneath her coldness, her paranoia and her meticulous self-preservation, Elzia is a passionate and romantic personality. Ambitious and self-sufficient, in another world she might have been go-getting and brilliant- airy and open-hearted. But that is not the case. There is a darkness about Elzia, a kind of natural, fatalistic darkness that casts the more romantic corners of her mind in deep shadow.
Her attempts not to feel, and not to be afraid, and not to have weakness or give herself away- strangely all these features of her character, despite her self-sufficiency, make her easily dominated, stifled and manipulated by others. She is wise enough to know this is the case, but is too hopeless and pessimistic to see a way out.
She loves shadows and darkness, particularly because she can hide in them, and escape through them, but at the same time, Elzia has her doubts about He Without a Name. These doubts are deeply buried, and she’d never admit to them, but all the same, she does not feel worshipful duty towards this dark god. She feels… afraid. And sometimes, when she is all by herself, and she has time to think for long periods for herself, she wonders- what exactly is his name, anyway? She does not have the confidence to start openly questioning things- but the question is still there.
History:
Ruthless. That’s the word they used to describe him. Ruthless, unforgiving and remorseless. That’s how they described her father. He had risen through the ranks of the Nation’s army, fighting for He Without A Name, and famous for his cold dislike of the Barren Wastes. It was his almost senseless dislike of that nation which earned him the name Wolfsbane, which Elzia inherited from him. He was an army man, a strong and imposing figure, often intolerant and hard-hearted. Perhaps she learnt to fear from learning to fear him- that was at least how she learnt to hide in the shadows. He had little time for Elzia and her mother, but when he did, he was manipulative and domineering, sometimes violant. Her mother, named Belladonna, was a human from some other land- Elzia was never sure where, but sometimes feared it might be Atlantis. In any case, her mother never spoke of her origins, and worshipped He Without A Name as if she had been born with a prayer to him written already on her lips. Elzia’s mother was violently critical of her- partly, she tried to fix Elzia before her father’s eyes. But it never worked. ‘She is a difficult creature,’ he used to say- and that, at least, was a signal that he was tired, and not about to beat her.
After her mother died, Elzia developed a loving dependency for her father- a kind of love tainted irredeemably by deep fear. She had never been afraid of the dark- but she had always been afraid of him. She strove restlessly to please him- but always felt she had done too little. The only thing he was ever proud of was her haughtiness, and her great strength at manipulating shadows.
After his death, when she was nineteen, Elzia inherited the family house. It was a big house, filled with shadows, and her diminutive form seemed to rattle around inside. She is lonely, and her loneliness fills her with fear.
About You!
Name: Disha
Anything Interesting?: I’ve lived in two continents, and last Christmas I visited Stone Henge. I am also an aspiring authoress.
