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Detailed Character Profile

Full name: Elena Braşoveanu

Nicknames: The Dark Angel, El, Lena

Age: 23

Date of birth: June 28, 2028

Nationality: Romanian

City of birth: Constanta

Hometown: San Francisco

Where she was held captive/lived when she was brainwashed: Madborough (fictional city in europe)

Current location: New York (2051)

Occupation: Superhero, but her day job is at a book store due to it being one of her happy places, she loved reading books as a child and the smell of them etc but after being held captive for years it was a way to escape, a way to pretend she was someone she wasn’t so ashamed of

Employing company: Outcasts Inc

Team name: The Outcasts

Does he or she own a home? she lives in a skyscraper almost apartment building kind of thing but it is specifically for heroes and they are in seperate apartment things where each person has their own floor designed to their choosing with a lift connecting them all but she also has a house of her own filled with things for her past that is more unique and shows the side she tries to hide from people and the only person who gets to see it is her boyfriend - not until she has to visit her place on a mission though as it shows the side of her she hides from everyone

Eye colour: Blue

Hair colour: Brown

Hair style: Wears it down normally but in hero form it is in a very high ponytail, her hair is very long

Skin colour: Tan

Height: 5’4

Build: Slim

Sexual Orientation: Straight

If a social class exists in their world, to which one do they belong? Upperclass

Does the character drink regularly? Yes, you will regularly find her at the end of a long day nursing a drink, most of the time it is vodka - although if she wakes up from a really long day she will sneak into her boyfriends room and go and grab some of his 20 year old bourbon.

Does the character smoke? No, her captors used to smoke all the time and now she can’t stand being anywhere near it.

Talents/Skills: Dagger and knife skills, unbelievable with swords, incredible flexibility and cat-like reflexes, ability to read and hide emotions

What’s the style of the character? her style is very futuristic and fashion-forward due to the setting of the story

Do they have any distinguishing features (tattoos, piercings, scars, birthmarks)? - she has a tattoo at the base of her neck which was her ID number from when she was held captive - she never wanted any more after that, feeling like tattoos were a way of branding, she’s got multiple ear piercings, she’s got a scar on her left shoulder from being shot, she has a massive scar the length of her forearm on her right arm and another one on her left thigh from a knife

What's their preferred outfit? She generally navigates towards skirts and dresses as she loves fashion and is very feminine which people find odd due to her aggressive nature and will wear leggings around home as they are the only form of pants that are comfortable

Do they wear glasses? No

What accessories are ALWAYS associated with them? She will always wear the necklace her boyfriend got her before they got together, he had it from when he was younger and told her that he couldn’t imagine anyone else wearing it, and in her hero form it is her swords - it is the one thing she kept from her past as a villain as they were gifted to her by a citizen she saved despite being ordered to kill her

What's their usual level of grooming/dress style? - Fashion forward, very put together, style thats stands out from the crows - lots of colour due to only wearing shades while held captive

Describe their handwriting (sloppy, neat, careful, unintelligible). It is very neat and script like, very pretty, however, because of that it can sometimes be quite hard to read

How do they walk? Confident, powerful strides in public - almost as if on a runway but around home and those she trusts it is more meaningless, often distracted or sad like

Posture: Stiff, military

How emotive are they? Do they wear their emotions on their sleeve? How easily can others to read them? - She is very hard to read, she has so many emotions bottled up inside that she feels deeply when alone but no one else ever sees that, to her its a sign of weakness and it is one of the few things she is thankful for being trained in because no one can ever figure her out if she doesn’t want them to - well other than her boyfriend due to his similar experience.They have a resting bitch face as well.

What are their hobbies? As a child she did almost everything but her main hobby was dance, she had competitions every weekend, always coming first and that skill was part of the reason why shed got kidnapped. Since then though she hasn’t really taken up many hobbies, although she loves reading as a distraction and also loves taking photos as a way of trying to understand things and also tell a story herself, this is also why she loves writing, and to get her feelings out and understand them without having to talk to anyone about it

What kind of vehicle to they drive? she drives a motorbike, its quick, easy and good to get in and out of tight spaces - great for a hero but also for someone who is quite an impatient person in her everyday life

What are their pet peeves? Slow walkers, loud chewers, people asking her if she is okay

What do they like to do in their spare time? She does a lot of training, even outside of mandatory training sessions (it allows her to think straight) but for fun she will read, write and take photos. She will also spend a lot of her evenings on the roof talking with her boyfriend about anything and everything while stargazing (she loves the stars as she never really got to see them much when she was held captive and used to stargaze with her family, mostly her dad before she was kidnapped as he was an astronomer)

What is their favourite place in the world? She absolutely loves Romania, she was really disappointed and sad when her parents moved her to America and she has always wanted to go back but is scared that with all of the trauma she has been through that if she goes back she won’t see it the same, so instead she dreams of it every night and writes about etc hoping that one day she will be able to head back there

What is their favourite book? To kill a mockingbird

What is their favourite food? Cheeseburgers (it was her favourite thing about coming to the US)

Relationships

Family: Her mum was the traditional housewife and she was really close with her mum, they would spend the weekends baking together and she would often help out in the kitchen, both of their love of food bringing them close. Her father wasn’t home much, he was in the army and was deployed for most of her life but when he was home he would take her to the pier and they would go on rollercoasters and he would let her win all the carnival type games before finally taking her to go and get ice cream form her favourite ice cream shop just down the road from their house. She had two older brothers growing up who she was quite close with, they were only 2 and 3 years older than her and they would often find themselves playing in the yard and having wrestling matches with each other with lollies as prize money - when she was kidnapped, however, both her parents and here brothers were killed as they didn’t want any witnesses or anyone spending a lot of time searching for her, or for someone to recognise her when she was doing their dirty work for them. Her grandparents died of natural causes and her uncle died of a heart attack but she does have one cousin that is still alive but she hasn’t gotten in contact with because of her past and not wanting to bring the bad she holds into her cousins life.

Pet: She doesn’t have any pets yet but has always wanted a dog, specifically a husky.

Love interest: She met her boyfriend Isaac when she joined the Outcasts and the bonded very quickly due to their very similar pasts. They don’t end up together until the end of the story, they have both been into each other previously, however, it isn’t until the two of them reveal a lot of their past and true self to each other during the story to be able to beat their opponent that they both realise that they should be together.

Enemies: The entire Hysteria (group who kidnapped her) organisation. As well as the enemy for the story Kaitlyn, she was apart of Hysteria and had been kidnapped as well, they used to be friends but are no longer due to her still being bad and Elena being good

Is your character religious, or do they have a mentor, someone they put on a pedstal, or do they take advice from someone? She looks up to her boyfriend a lot due to his ability to move on from the trauma he went to and the pain that he caused others etc, she strives to be able to do the same as him

Mental Characteristics Intelligent or not? She is fairly intelligent, it was part of her training - she needed to know everything about every upperclass member of the society as well as threats to the incorporation, as well as needing to know every detail of ways to escape, ways to torture etc all without being caught - but that is very limited knowledge, she has no pop culture knowledge etc due to being brainwashed and held captive for nearly half her life

Fears: Her biggest fear is to revert back to who she was in her past, but she also fears losing those she cares about, or for them to realise she is the horrible person she says thinks she is etc

Rational Or Emotional: Depends on the circumstance, normally she is very rational - if she has to chose between to strangers she will choose based on who has more life to live etc even though it will affect her greatly afterwards, but if anything to do with her life needs to be decided on she finds it a lot harder to look at it rationally, instead she will get very close to spiralling out of control

How could you upset this character? Bringing up her past, abandoning her, make her feel unwanted or alone etc

Biggest strength: Her ability to read peoples emotions and hide her own

Biggest weakness: Her self-doubt

Is the character an introvert or an extrovert? When she was a child she was an introvert but the years of torture and keeping to herself turned her into an introvert, the longer she is out of captivity and the more she is around those she cares about and who cares about you she begins coming more and more into her old outgoing personality.

What would the character like to change in his/her life? Their past

What things motivate the character? Helping people, proving to herself that she isn’t a bad person

What are they most afraid of people finding out? While she doesn’t want anyone finding out about what she did when she was a villain - her boyfriend knows most of it but the one thing she will never let out, even to him is that she killed a child and she also killed one of her brothers - it is the thing that haunts her the most and the thing that she thinks no one would be able to forgive her for

What do they want the most? To help, and to replace all the pain and suffering she has caused with happiness and thankfulness

Does the character prefer to give or to take? Give

Is the character rather nice or rude? She has a cold exterior and people will tend to shy away from her on the streets but if anyone interacts with her they will learn she is very nice very quick

MAIN POINTS

Full backstory: Elena was born in Romania and moved to the United States when she was seven due to her father getting a new job. Her parents and two brothers uprooted their lives and began living the “American Dream”. She was extremely close with her family, her father more specifically and they all spent the weekends doing things together, she had what most would describe as the perfect childhood. Until a week after her tenth birthday when she was kidnapped by Hysteria. She was taken to Madborough where they tortured and brainwashed her for two years (it took a lot longer than most due to her close connection with her family) into a trained and deadly killer. Over the next couple of years she became the teams biggest asset. She killed thousands of people over the 8 years she was killing for them, until one day she ran into a citizen who reminded her of her humanity. She didn‘t return to the compound that night and underwent a massive breakdown at the realisation of who she had became and how many people she had harmed, only starting to heal again after being recruited to The Outcasts, a villain turned superhero crew. Ever since she joined she has spent her spare time trying to figure out how to take Hysteria down, however, know she has a more immediate problem to deal with so all of that must be put on hold.

Details about her world: Her world is a futuristic and more money hungry and cut throat version of earth today. Everyone is fashion forward and striving to be the best in each city, country or even the world. Everything is very technologically advanced and the status system holds a very important role within the world. There is also an imaginary city Madborough which is where most of the story takes place, it is the most dangerous and criminally run city in the world, here the citizens take being at the top to a whole other extreme, everyone is a criminal its just a question as to who is good enough to not get caught.

What she wants/needs: To save the world and to erase the horrible things that she has done in her past

Special ability/skill: Dagger and knife skills, unbelievable with swords, incredible flexibility and cat-like reflexes, ability to read and hide emotions (this is with people she trusts, however, she also has the ability to hide her face from those she doesn’t know or trust, this was done with a serum she was injected with while held captive to hide her identity so she didn’t get caught while killing and so no one she knew from her past life could see her - as they had control of it at this point)

External problem: Her ‘friend’ that she had while she was held by Hysteria is killing a bunch of people after breaking free from Hysteria and is trying to build her own evil empire. She wants to recruit Elena onto her side and uses the things she has done in her past against her to do this.

Internal problem: Guilt and loneliness due to self isolation. Struggle to accept that she can be a good person/already is

How she will solve the problem: She ends up having to go back to Madborough and become the person she used to be again, only issue is while doing this she has to try and not revert back to who she was

What she learns: After working with the two people she trusts most in the world and who have been through similar pasts they allow her to realise that you can move through her mistakes and also that she won’t go back to being the person she used to be and that she is different now

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