Height: 5' 5"
Appearance: Elena has deep brown hair, cut short in a pixie bob style. Her large golden brown eyes carry a slightly feminine touch, which ensures that people see her as female and not male. Her smooth skin, a slight peaches-and-cream colour, has freckles scattered lightly across her cheekbones and arms.
Small and elfin, Elena is lithe and moves gracefully, although she looks weak enough to snap easy if bent the wrong way. However, Elena is rather flexible, the most obvious sign being that she can bend her fingers all the way back until they touch her wrist. Due to her short hair, Elena does look a little masculine, albeit in a very adorable manner. She is not very conspicuous, and tends to blend into the background.
Elena likes to change her appearance every now and then, messing around to see which look suits her best. Originally, her hair was long and wavy, but a fortnight ago she cut it short. Her eyes and hair are naturally brown. Although she uses makeup and contact lenses to change her appearance, she has never gone for facial surgery before.
Elena prefers practicality over fashion, so her clothes are usually comfortable. However, her style ensures that her outfits look nice, rather than just something she pulled out of the closet at random.
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Gender: Female
Sexuality: Straight/Heterosexual
Age: 19
Species: Human
Role: Air Elemental
Powers:
Flight
As the Air Elemental, Elena can use the wind to float herself up. It technically doesn't count as flying, but Elena likes it. Her small frame helps, too.
Air Manipulation
As expected of the Air Elemental, Elena can manipulate air, mainly to create winds of varying degrees.
Invisibility
Elena can create a sort of bubble around objects, people and herself, rendering anything inside the bubble to be invisible to everyone but whoever is inside it.
Of course, since Elena doesn't have full control of these powers, attempting to use them may have otherwise unintended effects.
Abilities:
Flexibility
Elena's lithe body and graceful movements allow her much flexibility, so she can stretch and bend herself quite easily, and has much freedom of movement.
Archery
Elena's good with a bow and arrow, and her aim is good.
Preferred Weapons: Due to Elena's lithe body and her training in self-defense, she's quite good at close-combat fighting, using only her body. However, she's quite comfortable with a bow and arrow as well.
Personality: Elena is warm and enthusiastic, typically bright and full of potential. She sees possibilities all around her and in daily life, and her enthusiasm lends her the ability to inspire and motivate others. She can talk her way out of most situations. She loves life, seeing it as a special gift, and strives to make the most out of it. With an unusually broad range of skills and talents, she is good at most things which interest her. At times, she may seem directionless and without purpose, but she's actually quite consistent, in that she has a strong sense of values which she lives with.
Elena has great people skills, because she is genuinely warm and interested in people, and places great importance on her inter-personal relationships. She feels a strong need to be liked, and tries her best to please people around her. She excels at bringing out the best in others, and is typically well-liked. They has an exceptional ability to intuitively understand a person after a very short period of time, and uses her intuition and flexibility to relate to others on her own level.
Despite all these, though, Elena sometimes makes serious errors in judgment. She have an amazing ability to intuitively perceive the truth about a person or situation, but when she applies judgment to her perception, she may jump to the wrong conclusions.
Elena is basically a very happy person. She may become unhappy when she is confined to strict schedules or mundane tasks. Consequently, she works best in situations where she has a lot of flexibility, and where she can work with people and ideas. She has the ability to be quite productive with little supervision, as long as she is excited about what she's doing.
Quirks: Elena usually has her music manuscripts with her, and is apt to start working on the at any point of time, even while walking. Don't worry, she's still aware of the people around her, and is able to continue doing what she was doing before, such as carry on a conversation. She also has one earphone plugged in most of the time.
Likes:
✔ Music
Elena loves music very much. She composes her own music, and likes to draw inspiration from the world around her. As a result, she has her manuscripts with her most of the time (see Quirks). She also has one earphone constantly plugged in, but can still keep her mind focused on the outer world.
✔ Her friends
Elena is very thankful for her friends, and loves them very much. She treats them well, and would do anything for them at a moment's notice.
✔ Sugary food
Elena has a metabolism slightly higher than average, and is apt to eat quite a bit, despite her small size. She likes to eat sweets and other sugary stuff when she's working on her music.
✔ Animals
Elena has a soft spot for animals, especially fluffy ones such as hamsters and rabbits. She would like to have one, but doesn't have the time for one.
✔ Shopping
One of the best ways Elena likes to bond with her friends is through shopping! She'll ask them out and they'll walk down the street together, looking at what each shop has to offer. Even if it's only window shopping, Elena enjoys being with her friends.
Dislikes:
✘ Crowds
Now, Elena doesn't have claustrophobia, but she dislikes overly large crowds. She can't stand the squeezing together, and prefers to have a little personal space.
✘ Rap
Rap is the only kind of music Elena doesn't really gravitate toward. She thinks it's just people talking really fast to a beat, and sees nothing in it at all. She won't listen to rap, and usually tries to keep away from it.
✘ Boredom
Elena tries to occupy herself, but when she runs out of ideas on what to do, she does get a little upset.
✘ Waking up early
Elena would rather sleep in on most mornings, and doesn't like it when she's woken up early.
✘ Insects
Although insects count as animals, Elena usually sees them as pests. She's not like most girls who squeal and shriek at the sight of a bee, but she'd rather not be around them.
Biography: Elena was born in Italy, to parents well in love with each other and a brother, Fabian, older than her by 3 years. To her parents, Fabian was always better, more talented, so Elena was constantly pushed into his shadow, ignored. This only served to make her brother selfish, and he bullied Elena to no end when they were alone.
When in school, no longer under the influence of her parents and brother, Elena started trying to find something she was good at. She discovered her talent for music, and joined the Music Elective Programme. Due to her talent, she became well-known at school, and made quite a few friends.
Fabian, angered, started drinking. He came home drunk often, causing destruction at home and despair in his parents. Though she knew it wasn't her fault, Elena did feel a little guilty for being the cause of her brother's nightly drunkenness. One night, while staggering home, Fabian walked into the path of a speeding car and was killed.
Elena's parents were devastated. They moved to New York, USA, to try and forget their son's death. Watching Elena prosper, in social terms, made them unhappy. They felt that Elena didn't mourn her brother, that she did not love them. They constantly ignored her, as before, but when they actually did interact, it was with sharp words and angry glances.
Finally, Elena could no longer take it, and left after a particularly vicious argument, seeking solace with her best friend, Alistair. She was 18 at the time, and already had a job of her own as a bartender, which was enough to sustain her. For slightly over a year now, she's been living with Alistair. She's quite sure that her parents have moved somewhere else, but when out in the streets, she always keeps a wary eye out for her parents.
Six months ago, strange things started happening to Elena. A slight breeze followed her everywhere she went, even indoors. If she concentrated really hard, she would flicker in and out of visibility a couple of times. And when she was particularly happy, she'd float upwards a little bit. This was really alarming, and of course Elena wondered what she was supposed to do about it. She figured floating wasn't really a good sign, and decided to keep it a secret. Of course, that happened around the time the existence of the Fey was announced, and Elena thought they might something to have to do with it. She tries hard to keep her so-called 'powers' under control, but they do slip every now and then.
Opinion: Elena has an opinion on almost anything and everything. She's heard extensively about the fey and IPAF, and thinks she knows enough about them to have formed an opinion.
The Fey
Elena has heard lots about the Fey being dangerous, disastrous if interacted with, deadly, blah blah blah. Through a friend at IPAF, she's also heard about the four types, and finds it strange that there would be different types. Being rather interested in the supernatural, Elena thinks that perhaps not all of the Fey are bad, so to speak, and would like to meet one and communicate with it someday.
IPAF
IPAF has made itself a rather big influence on society, and Elena sometimes wonders if there is something big going on inside the Agency, if there isn't some kind of conspiracy brewing behind all its big ideas to capture and kill faeries. Since one of her friends works there, she's careful not to voice her opinions, but she's still curious about IPAF.
Vampires/Weres
Elena has long accepted Vampires and Weres as part of her community. She's okay with being around them, as long as they don't suddenly decide to turn her into dinner.
Other: She lives in a rented house with her best friend, Alistair James.
