♦ Elegy Merle Lovell ♦

Theme: METHOD_METAFALICA/. – Orgel Arrangement
Image Song: Delirium – Epica

♦ GENERAL INFORMATION ♦
Role: The Fiancé
A daughter born of nobility, months before her birth, her father’s life was ended. It was claimed that he had committed an act of treason, and as a result, he was executed. . . . Left widowed and without the knowledge that she was pregnant, her mother fell ill with grief and was unable to ever recover her health. Born to a frail mother, she was raised with the pressing knowledge that the slightest upset could disturb her mother’s wellbeing, and as a result, all personal wants and desires came to be nearly forgotten as she did everything in order to make sure her mother was feeling the best she possibly could. And in the end, this has led her to sacrifice all hopes and wishes of ever leading a happy life, as she’s come to be engaged to a man she could not detest more. Despite her unhappiness, she presses onward for the sake of her ill mother, willing to go through with this marriage if it means that she will be able to live in better health. She lives her days as a rather gloomy lass, ever dismal and lonely as her notable engagement has led to her being ostracized by many people within her city, and rumors have spread like wildfire among many social circles about her as of late. . . .
Gender: Female
Nickname(s): With the social circle she was born into, Elegy grew up with few and far nicknames as it was considered improper by many to shorten or to sound too casual toward anyone of noble blood. However, there have been occasional uses of ‘Elle,’ for her nickname and the few, nicer servants working in her household who are older than she have called her ‘Love’ before due to her last name. Among the townspeople and people of certain circles though, Elegy has taken on multiple names, unpleasant titles have been applied to her out of spite, anger and jealousy. . . . Needless to say, none of these are pleasant.
Age: Eighteen
Race: Salamander-Human Halfling

♦ APPEARANCE ♦
Height: 5 ft 4 ins (163 cm)
Weight: 115 lbs (52 kg)
Measurements: 33-21-35 (83-53-89)
Build: Slender/Pear-Shaped
Hair Color: Golden Blonde
Eye Color: Cerulean Blue
Scars/Tattoos/Piercings: Though it might not be expected, Elegy does indeed suffer from some notable scars upon her person. Despite how it was she grew up, or at least, the environment she did, the girl underwent some rather harsh torment and bullying in her younger years that left her with a couple of nasty remnants and reminders of the incidents on her person. On her person, there are several indentures that remain on her arms and her forehead from a time when children decided that they wanted to throw rocks at her, the worst of these is the one on her forehead though, as the rock that hit her left her bleeding with a concussion. Following these, there also lays upon her skin several other notable marred areas, of which include gashes, discolorations and things of the like. . . .

As far as other things go, Elegy is indeed in possession of pierced ears, one per ear, and no other pierce-able part of her has been otherwise touched. And she has on her person no tattoos.
Description:
Hair – As far as things go, she has rather nice hair. It’s color is something to speak of, a rather unusual and rich shade of blonde, it’s healthy and has a nice sheen to it thanks to her lifestyle. Elegy’s hair is kept rather long, halfway between her waist and hips, and it is layered at her waist, shoulder blades, shoulders and her jaws while it is she keeps bangs of slightly varying length. Following her jaw length hair, she also has sections of hair which fall only to her nose and her eyes, which are the bangs she keeps—as far as a part goes, it’s off to the right side of her head while it is often that her bangs fall into her eyes and are left to frame her face. That is, this is how her hair will look if it is kept down, otherwise, when it is up, her hair will be pulled up and out of her face near entirely.
Body – In truth, she has a decent build to her. Putting it simply, she’s got to her a slender pear shaped figure, her hips measure just a bit larger than her bust while it is she has a rather thin waistline. As far as things go, her bust is a bit above average while in total, she has a healthy body, it’s slender and lithe, but it really possesses no tone to it due to her having a rather lax and inactive style of life. As far as things go, the healthy factor goes toward her face as well since it is of a healthy appearance.
Eyes – They are a beautiful blue, clear and as pure as the shade of cerulean could be.
Skin – Though it ought to be, Elegy’s skin is anything but flawless. Indeed, she is the daughter of a noble; the girl is suffering from scar after scar on her person due to incidents in her childhood of bullying and such things because of her lineage, jealousy and rumors being spread about her due to her birth and the fact that her father was executed before she was born. There is a far amount of scars and such on her person. . . .
Expressions – Normally it’s a rather gloomy one, Elegy is a girl who has more or less seemed to have given up on living anything akin to a happy life and this shows on the expressions she normally carries. It’s one of hopelessness, one that is listless and that betrays her natural beauty; it makes her seem like she’s little more than a doll doing what it is she’s told. Her life and situation seem to be wholly without chance of change, and she seems like she’ll be stuck within it forever . . . so it is with this that she’s gone ahead and bid farewell to all expectation she ever had for happiness, so she always looks dismal, although that’s not really in line with who it is Elegy is on the inside.

Preferred Clothing: In truth, with how she’s been her whole life, Elegy really has no taste in clothing, no personal preference or anything of the sort, as sad as that is . . . she wears what is left out for her to put on and does what she’s told.



♦ MENTALITY ♦
Oddities: For being as small as she is, Elegy has an unusually large appetite, she gets hungry often and tends to eat so much food, you’d think she’d be making herself sick. This couldn’t be further from the truth though, as Elegy always seems perfectly content after a meal despite having consumed enough food for someone twice her size. The girl is a food lover, and appreciates a good meal, always being polite about it and showing her gratitude whenever she’s served or cooked for.

She apparently sleepwalks, that’s what she’s been told at least. Evidently, she wanders out of her bed at random and walks around, even going outside. Elegy has been told she carries the expression of a doll whenever this happens, and if she is addressed, she speaks in a tone of voice that is very, very monotone.

Given her passive and rather submissive nature, as well as the need for her to more or less ‘serve’ under someone, Elegy is a girl who speaks in an usually formal manner, given her upbringing. She does not use abbreviations in her speech, such as ‘I’m’ she will instead say ‘I am.’

In line with how she was raised, Elegy is very much a subservient girl. So much so, that it is almost frightening to think about. It is very rare to see her ever, ever act on her own.

Although she is a Salamander Halfling, Elegy is aware of this but has never had her powers awaken, so whatever powers she holds over fire are still dormant.

Skills: Sewing, singing, cooking, reading, writing. . . .

Likes: Cooking/baking, sewing, animals, books/reading, writing, the stars, sweets, and looking at the moon.
Dislikes: Having to make decisions, isolation, monsters, blood, pain, death, bitter/sour things, being left to her own volition, and thunderstorms.
Hobbies: Reading, writing, cooking/baking, stargazing, and being of companionship.

Phobia(s):
Atychiphobia – Failure.
Agliophobia – Pain
Hemophobia – Blood that is not her own
Astraphobia – Thunderstorms
Aquaphobia – Deep water

Personality: A bit of an odd girl, Elegy is someone that is not at all easy to define. . . . Given her upbringing and the last few years of her life, she has developed quite an interesting and complicated personality. Reared as a noble, Elegy is someone who seems to present themselves with pride, strength and the upmost certainty of their heritage, person and self. Looking at her, Elegy seems like she’s a very strong young woman, someone who can carry their own weight and shoulder a multitude of burdens without batting an eyelash. She seems as if she’s haughty, prideful and almost arrogant, even the expressions she carries upon her face cause her to be written off as such. Here’s the reality though . . . she’s not really any of these things. She’s not full of any sort of pride in herself or her lineage, and she’s not strong in any sense of the word. Her mentality and emotional state are rather fragile, and in truth, the slightest of overloads can be enough to send her into a spiral of depression, anxiety and a fit of tears. Elegy is really a timid young woman who merely presents herself as a being full of strength so that no one would have the chance to think otherwise, she fears what people might think, or do, if they discovered that she was actually a very weak girl. Not wanting to end up being used, or taken advantage of, Elegy does her best to hide her many weaknesses and her fragile state of self.

As she is now, and as she has been for many years, Elegy is one who does her best to detach herself from the happenings around her. From people’s plights, to their words and to any situation at hand, she prefers not to let her emotions get mixed up in anything; she knows her own frailty and realizes that if she allowed herself to be open to the misery of the world around her, and to her own situation, that she would break. Honestly, what is keeping Elegy from breaking now is uncertain, even to her; she even wonders why it is she is trying to look strong to everyone around her now. Her situation seems utterly hopeless, so why? The only answer to this whole matter that she can form is that inside of her, she wants to retain some sense of self, something that will remind her that she is still her own person, and that she will not break to her keeper. . . . Even still, there are undoubtedly times when Elegy’s nearly lost it, become overwhelmed by her own situation.

She tries to act as strong as she can, she doesn’t want to submit to the reality of her life, but the truth is that her façade is slowly, slowly crumbling and with each day, Elegy is coming closer to breaking.

Underneath this mask of hers, this seemingly emotionless girl who seems a pillar of certain strength, maturity and pride, Elegy is really something else. . . . With that emotional frailty of hers, Elegy is certainty a very sensitive young woman. The plights of others cling to her heart and have become a heavy weight upon her, part of the reason she seems so insensitive toward everything and one. She feels a lot of guilt for what the world seems to be coming to. In reality, she despises herself, and the family in which she was raised. She’s utterly ashamed of what she is and whom. But still, she doesn’t want to break in front of others, so she never lets them know of how she feels. Elegy is certain that they would not sympathize with her, and would only seek to truly harm her if they realized how deep her guilt traveled.

With that sensitivity she has, Elegy is honestly a kind soul who is scared. Though she can seem off-putting and rude, she’s really just anxious of the world around her. She was a sheltered child, in a word, and she never saw the truth of the world as she grew up, and because of that, everything around her is still very much alien and frightful. By isolating herself from everything she feels like she can cushion those uncertainties of hers and keep her heart sustained. Honestly . . . that’s even beginning to fail her. Elegy’s led an isolated existence, she’s never had a friend or true companion.

So, what things boil down to is this . . . she’s lonely. Elegy is a girl who is very lonesome, though she doesn’t do anything to try to make friends. In a way also, she sees herself unfit to befriend those around her, given what her heritage seems to be, in a word, she feels she’d be a burden to another. She knows of her own shortcomings and as such, she doesn’t want someone else to have to deal with them. However, just to say, if Elegy were ever able to make a friend, or find herself becoming close to another, the heavy mask she wears, the one that makes her look so haughty and strong, it’d come off, and the girl underneath would awaken. The truth of her feelings would come to surface, she’d be unable to hide her tears from a friend if they came to her, should her worries overtake her, those would consume her in their presence, and in a word . . . Elegy would become heavily dependent upon that person. She’d be needy, want attention, and might even feel a need to cling to her friend.

Really, she’d seem completely childish, as in that if she did not get these things from her friend, she’d be prone to pouting. . . . But, there would definitely be a bright side to being Elegy’s friend, after some time, you’d begin to see a rare side of her, the true her. Yes, she seems a lot like a child, but that’s because part of her still is, Elegy is honestly an innocent soul full of curiosities and wonderment. She has dreams, fascinations, hopes and even believes in things that most view as nonsense, such as making wishes on stars. . . . In these moments of seeing the true side of her, it wouldn’t be out of the question that one would even get to see her smile, and laugh.

In reality, Elegy is something of a very cheerful soul underneath this heavy mask of hers . . . if ever this mask can be torn away from her, it’s likely that one might come to see the upbeat and happy side of her.

Weapon: N/A

Fighting Style: Putting it really simply, she has none, Elegy’s never had a reason to fight, or to try to at all, so she’s got no style what so ever.

Abilities: Recollection; because she has read so very many books and such in her lifetime, Elegy is gifted with a wealth of miscellaneous knowledge that she can recall at will. The information she is privy to varies greatly by topic. As she was never given a formal education, all she has ever learned came from the books she read.

As of now, Elegy has no other abilities to speak of.

♦ BACKGROUND ♦
Relationship Status: Engaged
Family:
Father – Lucian Veyne
Deceased.
Age – Nineteen
A once renown, powerful Salamander whose name was known among his people and even among many other races, Lucian was someone who always did not stand for the fact that it was forbidden for his clan to intermingle with others. He didn’t understand the rules that had been made, and thus, he did not choose to follow them. . . . Technically speaking, he was actually the next in line to become the ruler of his particular clan, but because of how he acted, the title skipped him and went to his younger brother. Following this, Lucian left home to travel across Leu Chrysallia, to understand the larger world and to see what it was he was missing out on by being forced to remain with his people at all times. And it was during his travels that he met her, a young human woman who he came to love so dearly, that he was willing to throw out all cautious and remembrance of the rules dictated to him by his father and clan. . . .

Lucian was known among people for the fact that he was indeed a very strong, and powerful Salamander, so he was already known to Violetta. She herself was already engaged for marriage when it was she met Lucian, but still, the two fell in love, and against the wishes of her parents, Violetta called off her engagement to marry Lucian. Lucian was the happiest he’d ever been with Violetta, but this happiness was short-lived as, eventually he came to be sought out by his clan, his father and brother. Upon discovering the fact that Lucian had come to be with a human, they carried out what their clan’s laws dictated, and they executed Lucian for his ‘crime.’
He died before even knowing that he was going to be a father, without ever getting to know his daughter Elegy . . . but, within this girl flows Lucian’s power, and his Salamander blood, and within her she carries on his legacy.
Mother – Violetta Lovell
Living.
Age – Thirty-Five
A sick and ailing woman, taken to illness by the grief of having lost her husband and love of her life at just seventeen . . . Violetta is a woman who has not been able to be within her daughter’s as often as she would want to be due to her poor health, and because of this, she and her daughter are not exceptionally close, but there is a distinct love within her for Elegy. In all truth, Violetta was much like Elegy is in her younger years—a gloomy lass who seemed content to have her life ruled over by others while deep down inside she was yearning for freedom, for a chance at true happiness. And when it was she was growing close to the time of her arranged marriage, Violetta got her wish, she met Lucian Veyne, a powerful, wandering Salamander whose heart she managed to capture. She loved him dearly, greatly, and quickly she and he married.

With Lucian, Violetta felt nothing but happiness . . . until it was he came to be executed for having loved her, due to his clan’s laws about not ever coming to love or be with a human. Lucian’s death sent Violetta’s health to Hell, she became very frail, and only came to pull through her grief upon the discovery that she was pregnant with Lucian and hers child. For the sake of the life within her, Violetta pulled through, going long enough to give birth to her daughter, Elegy. Since this, she’s been sick as ever before, some days she can’t even get herself out of bed. But still, she’s alive and is going on so that she can at least be around to see her daughter grow, and in truth, though she’s not been able to express it, the last thing Violetta wants to see is her daughter unhappy. . . . If she knew that Elegy was caught in despair about her arranged marriage, then she would not have the girl go through with it.
Personal History: To throw it together rather simply, Elegy is a young woman who’s life has not been a cakewalk in the least, since before she was born, her life was an unhappy one—her father was executed by his people for the fact that he fell in love, and bedded a human woman. His Salamander clan claimed it taboo to ever do such a thing, to go with one outside of the Salamander race was forbidden and punishable by death. Despite this fact, Lucian still came to love Elegy’s mother, Violetta, and in human terms, the two married and remained together as a couple for a good six months before it was he came to be discovered by his father and brother, and promptly killed for his ‘crime.’ Violetta caught in grief fell to poor health, only managing through it because of the fact that she was now with child, Lucian and hers that is.

The nine months of pregnancy Violetta underwent were torture for her and her health, it was hard for her to get through it, but, she managed to do so in order to give birth to Elegy. . . . Even after she was born, Violetta remained a woman of frail health, though she very much loved her daughter, she was unable to show it to her much due to the fact there were days she just couldn’t even get herself out of bed. Because of her health, Violetta was not much of an active presence in Elegy’s rearing or growing up, and so the girl mostly grew up on her own with the aid of the household servants and such.

With no friends to speak of, Elegy was a lonely lass who contented herself with much reading in her childhood and in her teenage years as well. Like her mother, Elegy is also a girl who suffers from rather frail health it seems, she is victim to high fevers at times, soreness, fatigue and other sorts of problems, which have made it all the worse for her getting by—her poor health worries her mother, who just wound up sicker as a result. . . . Unfortunately, the problems Elegy experiences with her health never improved as she got older, they strike at her just as frequently as ever and are just as hard to deal with. Of course, her health problems do nothing to help how she feels, always alone, having been bullied before due to the whole situation behind her birth, for the fact that she’s actually a Halfling, having had rumors spread about her too. . . . Elegy’s fallen into a cycle of despair and gloom.

Once, she had been a rather hopeful young girl who thought of life as a wonderful thing, she was bright, optimistic and happy, but the years wore away at her until little more than a shell was left, a shell of a girl who muddles through by faking a smile for her mother, and simply accepting things as they are. Thinking of herself as doomed to a life of unhappiness, solitude and forever-bad health, Elegy really has taken to whatever it is that she’s told to do, becoming submissive and miserable, listless and seemingly a girl who has no sense of individual, no volition or anything. The simple truth is that she’s unhappy with everything, the fact that she’s even had a marriage arranged for her too has only made it all the worse.

The last thing she wants to do is to make her mother ill or worry her with her troubles, so Elegy has taken to bottling everything up since she was very young, and as if it isn’t enough that she already does worry her mother with her random fevers and such. . . .

As far as she’s come to be concerned, Elegy will never find happiness, she will always be alone, and there is no longer a reason for her to desire happiness, freedom and such, so she’s given up on trying to be anything more than what she appears to be. She’s playing a role now, simply that. With her upcoming marriage, Elegy is prepared fully to sink into a life of the expected, routine, mundane and ever the same. . . .

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