āWhen you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.ā
Full Name
Estelle Jolie Lavalle
Nicknames
By the Legion she is known as Dr Lavalle or just simply Lavalle. Her friends tend to call her Elle or Esta, an simpler form of her given name.
Sexuality
||Bisexual||
The French are a race of lovers, or so they say and Estelle is quite often the epitome of this stereotype. The French lady has had many lovers through the years, both male and female, she honestly canāt say which sex she prefers the best, both other a unique and sensual experience, how could she possibly choose? Despite the apocalypse somehow Estelle has managed to maintain a rather active love life, sex has become an escape from her tiresome work, it is the only way to keep her from going insane.
Allegiance
The Legion
Age
Thirty-Seven
Birthday
May 31st
Height
5ā 5ā
Weight
130lbs
Secrets
Estelle Jolie Lavalle
Nicknames
By the Legion she is known as Dr Lavalle or just simply Lavalle. Her friends tend to call her Elle or Esta, an simpler form of her given name.
Sexuality
||Bisexual||
The French are a race of lovers, or so they say and Estelle is quite often the epitome of this stereotype. The French lady has had many lovers through the years, both male and female, she honestly canāt say which sex she prefers the best, both other a unique and sensual experience, how could she possibly choose? Despite the apocalypse somehow Estelle has managed to maintain a rather active love life, sex has become an escape from her tiresome work, it is the only way to keep her from going insane.
Allegiance
The Legion
Age
Thirty-Seven
Birthday
May 31st
Height
5ā 5ā
Weight
130lbs
Secrets
Estelle is the very definition of secretive, she trusts no one and so her secrets remain just that, secrets. She has a very obsessive nature in all aspects of her life, she had suffered from OCD and is easily attached to people, tasks or things; before the apocalypse Elle had gained around seven restraining orders from ex-partners, she struggles greatly at letting people go and moving on. Now her latest obsession is finding a cure for the virus, she can spend days locked in her lab testing different vaccines, she will go without food and sleep until someone forces her to rest. Another rather big secret of hers is her mental stability, she has suffered from severe depression since her teens and schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, she has been on mediation for a long time, however recently she had stopped taking the medication and the effects are starting to show.
'I confess that I have been blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.'
Personality
Estelle is a genius there are no two ways about it, she has been a high established member of her field since she published her first paper right out of university about the next global pandemic and little did she know just how true this would be. From the outside Ella can seem like a well composed and suave individual, she can talk herself out of almost anything, knowing how to use her charms and graces as a woman to get what she wants. However soon the cracks begin to show, she is obsessive, impulsive, abrasive and confrontational, she is always right even when she is wrong and will not take no for an answer. Ella can be rude and mean and become disillusioned, all traces of her mental illness coming into effect, if she feels sympathy she does not show it and this has come to affect every relationship in her life. She can be very coy, calculating and manipulative, she is not above using others for her own personal gain.
Likes||Dislikes
+Reading
+Working
+Sex
+Wine
+Cheeses
+Classical Music
+Classical movies
+Intellectual conversations
+Attention
+Being more intelligent than others
+Solving Problems
+Poems
-Being ignored
-Criticism
-Being rejected
-Loosing
-Animals
-Small children
-Not being able to figure something out
-Her medication
+Working
+Sex
+Wine
+Cheeses
+Classical Music
+Classical movies
+Intellectual conversations
+Attention
+Being more intelligent than others
+Solving Problems
+Poems
-Being ignored
-Criticism
-Being rejected
-Loosing
-Animals
-Small children
-Not being able to figure something out
-Her medication
Fears||Weaknesses
Perhaps Estelle's greatest fear is herself, she knows that there is something wrong with her mentally and a part of her hates it, she hates things others adore such as puppies and children but she just can't bring herself to care for such trivial things. Having recently stopped taking her medication (as she believed it was affecting her work) Ella has become very unstable, she has fits of rage and sometimes even blackouts, they scare her but her obsession with finding a cure had overshadowed her rational side, she will do anything to achieve this goal.
Weapons
She does not carry any conventional weapons, she does not know how to shoot or had no desire to learn, she can't throw knives or punches, all because she doesn't need to. Her lab is her battlefield and the only weapons she needs there is her knowledge. If she does get into trouble however, she can often manipulate herself out of it, she is very good at that.
Skills
Aside from Estelle's intelligence, she can speak five languages (other than her native French) and these are English, Spanish, German, Russian and Standard Mandarin. She is also quite a talented cook, her mother was once a chef at a high end French restaurant in Paris and so Ella learnt a lot from her. Ella is a trained runner, she has great stamina and can run for long distance, she is also quite agile.
"A mind needs books like a gun needs bullets."
History
Estelle was born in Paris, France during the middle of an outrageously hot heat wave on the 31st May 1976. She was raised by her mother, Katherine as a single parent, she had been married to a man named Stephan, Estelleās father, however he left not long before their child was born, apparently in order to āfind himself,ā he was never seen by them again. From a early age it was evident that Estelle was different from her peers, her educational skills far suppressed those of other children in her class, by the age of seven she was doing work aged for children 13+. By the age of ten the school had truly done all they could for the young girl, it was clear that she needed a higher standard of schooling, her mother agreed and managed to get her daughter a scholarship to attend a prestigious private school in the UK. Estelleās time at this school was conflicting, they offered her the education she needed to thrive, however she suffered terribly at the hands of bullies. The beginning of her mental illness has been sourced to this period in her life, she was tormented by other girls and developed a severe anxiety which lead to depression, Ella constantly wrote home to her mother begging for her to come and pick her up but her mother always believed her to be exaggerating, until she got that fateful call from the hospital saying that Ella had tried to commit suicide. After that Katherine brought her home to France. Life after that seemed to return to some normalcy; however it was clear that Estelle still carried some mental scars. As her high school years ended, Ella went to UniversitĆ© Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, one of the best universities in France, where she studied Bio-Chemistry Science. After she graduated with high honours, she moved across the Atlantic and began Medical School, followed by research work at the Environmental Protection Agency; she was one of the first to learn about this new Virus sweeping across the globe and it was her and her teams job to prevent it. Unfortunately the world went to hell before they could make any real progress. She had travelled to the East Coast as she heard there were ships taking people back across the Atlantic, she wanted to return home to her mother, however she was intercepted and quarantined, once she was cleared of the infection, she was offered a job by the Legion to continue her work into finding a cure for this virus, she accepted.
Theme Song
Over the love || Florence and the Machine
Ever since I was a child,
Iāve turned it over in my mind.
I sang by that piano, tore my yellow dress and,
Cried and cried and cried.
And I donāt wanna see what Iāve seen,
To undo what has been done.
Turn off all the lights,
Let the morning come.
Now thereās green light in my eyes,
And my lover on my mind.
And Iāll sing from the piano, tear my yellow dress and,
Cry and cry and cry,
Over the love of you.
On this champagne, drunken hope,
Against the current, all alone,
Everybody, see, I love him.
āCause itās a feeling that you get,
When the afternoon is set,
On a bridge into the city.
And I donāt wanna see what Iāve seen,
To undo what has been done.
Turn off all the lights,
Let the morning come.
Now thereās green light in my eyes,
And my lover on my mind.
And Iāll sing from the piano, tear my yellow dress and,
Cry and cry and cry.
āCause youāre a hard soul to save,
With an ocean in the way,
But Iāll get around it,
Iāll get around it.
āCause youāre a hard soul to save,
With an ocean in the way,
But Iāll get around it.
Now thereās green light in my eyes,
And my lover on my mind.
And Iāll sing from that piano, tear my yellow dress and,
Cry and cry and cry and,
Over the love of you.
Cry and cry and cry and,
Over the love of you.
Cry and cry and cry and,
(I can see the green light),
(I can see it in your eyes).
(I can see the green light),
(I can see it in your eyes).
Over the love of you.
Cry and cry and cry and cry.
(I can see the green light),
(I can see it in your eyes).
(I can see the green light),
(I can see it in your eyes).
I can see the green light,
I can see it in your eyes.
I can see the green light,
I can see it in your eyes.
I can see the green light,
I can see it in your eyes.
I can see the green light,
I can see it in your eyes.
I can see the green light,
I can see it in your eyes.
I can see the green light,
I can see it in your eyes.
Over the love || Florence and the Machine
Ever since I was a child,
Iāve turned it over in my mind.
I sang by that piano, tore my yellow dress and,
Cried and cried and cried.
And I donāt wanna see what Iāve seen,
To undo what has been done.
Turn off all the lights,
Let the morning come.
Now thereās green light in my eyes,
And my lover on my mind.
And Iāll sing from the piano, tear my yellow dress and,
Cry and cry and cry,
Over the love of you.
On this champagne, drunken hope,
Against the current, all alone,
Everybody, see, I love him.
āCause itās a feeling that you get,
When the afternoon is set,
On a bridge into the city.
And I donāt wanna see what Iāve seen,
To undo what has been done.
Turn off all the lights,
Let the morning come.
Now thereās green light in my eyes,
And my lover on my mind.
And Iāll sing from the piano, tear my yellow dress and,
Cry and cry and cry.
āCause youāre a hard soul to save,
With an ocean in the way,
But Iāll get around it,
Iāll get around it.
āCause youāre a hard soul to save,
With an ocean in the way,
But Iāll get around it.
Now thereās green light in my eyes,
And my lover on my mind.
And Iāll sing from that piano, tear my yellow dress and,
Cry and cry and cry and,
Over the love of you.
Cry and cry and cry and,
Over the love of you.
Cry and cry and cry and,
(I can see the green light),
(I can see it in your eyes).
(I can see the green light),
(I can see it in your eyes).
Over the love of you.
Cry and cry and cry and cry.
(I can see the green light),
(I can see it in your eyes).
(I can see the green light),
(I can see it in your eyes).
I can see the green light,
I can see it in your eyes.
I can see the green light,
I can see it in your eyes.
I can see the green light,
I can see it in your eyes.
I can see the green light,
I can see it in your eyes.
I can see the green light,
I can see it in your eyes.
I can see the green light,
I can see it in your eyes.
FaceClaim || Marion Cotillard