Post by Gaz on Sept 24, 2022 16:19:01 GMT
Ellie Salem
Generalities
Name: Ellie
AKA: (optional)
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Race: Half-Blood
Faction:
Squad:
Role:
Battle Theme: Stranger I Remain& Instrumental
Rank: D
Total Red Orbs: 1000
-400
(Umbra Sanguinis: Gladius)-400
(Umbra Sanguinis: Hasta)Remaining: 200
Blue Orbs: 0
+200
(Umbra Sanguinis: Gladius)+200
(Umbra Sanguinis: Hasta)-400
(Umbra Sanguinis: Falx)Character Description
Physical Appearance(s): Ellie is a tall woman (6’0”) in the prime of her youth at twenty eight years of age, and because of both of her heritage and her life on the road she has gained a fit and well-toned body that was gifted with some amazing curves where they are needed. Her strawberry blonde hair is long enough to reach her lower back with its end transitioning into a deep fiery red. Her skin is blemish free and is only marked by a series of wavelike cloud tattoos that travel her entire body on each side leaving the Belly, Chest and back free and they stop on the neck. These Tattoos are black without a hint of any other colour.
Ellie’s eyes have Central Heterochromia, giving them an ever-shifting pattern or two colours. Each of her eyes are a striking blue base colour with a golden-brown shifting and changing in each, this makes staring into them a visual spectacle. Combine this with her love of using face paints whilst she is hunting, and they stand out even more against the skull pattern she favours.
Ellie also sports a wide variety of body piercings that take a lot of maintenance to stop them from closing up. These piercings are a pair of holes in each lobe that usually carry simple gemmed studs but for formal occasions hold intricate gold loops. Her lower lip to the left has a pair of studs in a snakebite formation, these are normally standard titanium studs but can sometimes be gems, her outer right nostril has also bares a stud piercing. The last easy to see is a navel piercing which is always studded with a brilliant red ruby. There are more than that, but they are in places people do not get a chance to look.
Ellie wears a large array of clothing, her standard hunting attire is a modified Nuns garb, a sleeveless cropped leather tunic that bares a cross above her breast is the only thing she wears on her torso, showing off some of her tattoos and the stud piercing. On her arms she has a pair of long black leather fingerless gloves, each bares a chain that is wrapped around the forearm to dangle below the wrist a silver cross. Over her right shoulder is a ragged brown cloak that she uses in all weathers or to distract. Around her waist is a series of belts and buckles that help keep her cloak attached to her body. Her legs are covered by a western split riding skirt and a pair of heavy black knee-high combat boots that sport many zippered pockets and buckles to maintain their fit.
When not out on the prowl for demons to destroy Ellie has an absolutely massive selection of clothes to wear, from ornate and fancy dresses all the way to cheap and easy street clothes! Her casual attire is usually her combat boots over a tight pair of ripped up jeans and any simple and fun t-shirt.
Personality:
Ellie, unlike her desired hunter appearance, has a red-hot fiery temper. She is quick to anger and throw punches or insults when her nerves have been trodden on. People can get on her bad side incredibly easily if they specifically target innocent children, her friends or her mentor. That is because these are the things, she values most in the world, if they were to be taken away then she’d have nothing else to live for.
The fact Ellie cares so much for her friends and her mentor is something she considers a great achievement, before that she only had one love and that love betrayed her. This has left Ellie hard to really get close to and connect with as she is scared of another great betrayal. She hides what she really feels behind a wall of comedy and snark and lets her already legendary temper flare at even the slightest hint of trouble. Once a person has been around her long enough to get her story and she opens up, they come across a kind and caring woman that is viciously loyal to those who have earned this position in her life.
The huntress likes to spend her free time indulging in bad action movies… and bad comedies… and romance, though this last one will only be revealed to special people. This fascination was something she shared with her father before she ran away as a young teen, it’s the one thing she still does even without the man around to feel young and like there are no troubles in the world. She will never go and find the man that raised her, feeling far too much shame to go back to him after everything she has done.
With a great love of Italian food Ellie has an obsession with good Pizza, making it her go to food whenever anyone asks for a recommendation. Ellie makes it a point wherever she goes to find every Pizza place and then to work out the best one as her got to spot. For the love of all that is holy do not, ever, put pineapple on a pizza.
Finally Elie is quite religious, something she had come to after her betrayal. Though whilst she is not the most devout and has a potty mouth she will turn to her faith when under intense stress, using the belief in something better than her to push her through to the end. She is not a Christian, or a follower of any major religion, her belief is in those she cares for giving her power.
Backstory
Father, Elliot Salem
Mother, Lilgoth Queen Of Shadows
Elise was born to what seemed like a young couple in Alberta, Canada. Before she could even remember she was abandoned by her mother, leaving her and her seventeen-year-old father to fend for themselves in the world. His parents had died when he was young, and this was another in a series of incidents that drove the young man into a societal hole. But he persevered. Raising his baby girl, the best way any single father could, he may have had to work hard gruelling days, but it was worth it to see his baby smile and hear her laugh. The mother, he didn’t know was a devil, one that got thrills from destroying the lives of humans. The one issue she had with this man was that he was just unbreakable… to the point she genuinely fell in love with him. Once the child was born, she made the choice to leave and forget what humanity she gained to claim a greater prize in the hells.
Elliot raised Ellie well, bouncing around form place to place until he could afford a small apartment for the pair to live in in New York City. Here he could put his now young child in school and work numerous jobs without needing to travel far. This gave Ellie a sense of independence from a very young age, as she was often left home alone after school until the early hours of the morning when her father came home to read her a bedtime story. Ellie never did well in school, she was inquisitive and bright sure. She just never got on with many of the other children due to their bullying of her hair and the fact she had no mother. This made her purposefully screw up tests and assignments as a strange cry for help.
This was their lives for years, spending what little time they had together being an adorable duo, watching bad movies together and exploring the city they called home. It wasn’t until Ellie’s middle teens that life changed. She fell in with a bad crowd, a group of youths that had similar situations but no one like her dad to keep her cared for. This gang was headed up by a demon in disguise, using the kids for his own ends. When he met Ellie though he recognised her half breed nature by instinct and grew curious.
Damian, the demon, grew close to Ellie. He was insidious, corrupting the once innocent girl to hate the world and all the people in it. They beat people, committed theft and other crimes. When New York City grew too hot for them they fled, leaving Ellie’s father behind with not even a note as the police bashed through his door. Damian had framed the man for crimes he and Ellie committed. It was cleared up, but the man spent a year in jail. When he found out what Ellie was doing he was heart broken and turned to drinking in a depression.
Ellie whilst on the run with Damian fell in love and was willing to give this man everything, she didn’t know what had happened to her father but was so infatuated with the new man in her life that it slipped her mind to check on him. This ended up in a years long journey that led the pair across the world and into stranger places where she learned to fight for her life. The strange thing was… she loved it.
The moment of heart break came on her twenty fifth birthday. Damian had grown bored with the current arrangement and wanted to be rid of Ellie, but he wanted to gain something from it. He took her to the City of Dis, through the vail between the worlds and brought her into a fighting pit, to sell her to the highest bidder. This did not end well. He had trailed Ellie through warzones and introduced her to the demon world, they had worked together to kill people and lesser devils… The betrayal and heartbreak she felt combined with her fight or flight reaction to fight caused her to grab her sword and in a brutal display the demon called Damian was disposed of.
As an uproar was caused all around the pit everything went black for Ellie, she had blacked out due to the sheer stress of it all and awoke to the screams and sounds of fighting. As she awoke, she saw a man using magic oil to dispatch foe after foe before pulling her to freedom. This man was David Moore and he had brought light to Ellie’s dark corrupted world.
Once Ellie was back in the material world, she moved to the Templar headquarters. Ellie had discovered her natural magic in her years of travel but did not know why or how it worked. She knew the basics of how to use it, but it was not refined… the following years she trained and was under the tutelage of David… whenever he was visiting at least. The rest of the time she was alone, avoiding making any sort of meaningful connection, scared that people would hurt her again.
Traits
Shade Affinity
Ellie due to her heritage has blood that is imbued with the power of shadow. This shadow comes to Ellie's defence by hardening her skin at the moment of impact to lessen damage taken.
Knit By Shadows
The same shade that protects the body from harm knits it back together at an increased rate after any sort of harm has been done to it. The innate shadow magic that is in her blood reacts to anything that pierces its defence to keep Ellie’s body inline with her soul and restore it to a perfect condition. This is done unconsciously as long as the body has the stamina to power it. This shadow regeneration is so potent in fact that lost limbs and what would normally be mortal wounds are considered nothing but a scratch in the long term.
Equipment
Name: Umbra Sanguinis
Description: The Umbra Sanguinis is a oversized sword forged using the shadow infused blood drawn from Ellie, when this is mixed with molten steel it creates the substance Shadow steel. A hard black metal that glistens with an iridescent flare in the light. The sword itself is as long as she is tall and has a single sharp cutting edge with the back of the blade flaring out into a coiling serpent design. The handle for this blade is made from the same Shadow Steel wrapped in a white material for comfort, there is no guard between the handle and the oversized blade. This is the Umbra Sanguinis Gladius
Upgrade Points: 1
Upgrades: Umbral shifting, The Umbra Sanguinis has a strong magical infusion from Ellie’s demonic blood, this allows it to change its shape and form to varying degrees. These forms come with their own intricacies and drawbacks. Ellie can initiate this change with a single thought, allowing her to shift the weapon into the best form to suit the situation.
Name: Umbra Sanguinis Hasta
Description: The Hasta form is a oversized spear with a long thick shaft that looks to be a pair of snakes intertwined with both of their mouths opening to produce a large iridescent black spearhead that has an ever shifting swirling pattern on the broadsides The wrapping of the sword handle stretches and spaces out to wrap around the snakes that form the spear shaft.
Upgrade Points: 1
Upgrade: Umbral Shimmer, due to the shifting patterns on the spear head even the faintest of light glints off and creates the illusion of extra spearheads along side the original, making blocking the attack more difficult to the original head being mixed up with the harmless fakes.
Name: Umbra Sanguinis Falx
Description: The Falx form takes the shape of a long scythe, a reaping hook that keeps the same twisting snake patterned shaft as the Hasta Form. The two intertwining snakes with the sword hilts wrapping stretched around as far as it can. The heads of the snakes this time protrude onto the blade of the scythe with an open maw, making the blade itself look like an oversized fang that drips shadow
Upgrade Points: 1
Upgrade: Hot Blade: The Falx form has a hotter blade that inflicts burns as it cuts, these burns are not severe but can cause quite a bit more pain than a standard cut caused by any similar weapon.
Combat Foci
Name: Umbral Sword Master
Description: Ellie is trained in the art of swordplay and is more adept in using oversized blades as her weapon of choice. Her favoured style is to use heavy consecutive attacks to barrage opponents in an unrelenting style… this does however leave her quite open to other foes.
Rank: D
Aspects:
Name: Umbral Scythe Master
Description: One of the forms her Crafted Arm has taken is that of a Scythe, a weapon designed for long sweeping attacks to hit and cleave through multiple opponents. Those that have witnessed it describe it as a beautiful dancing style of combat where Ellie seems to move to unheard music. While the overall damage is weaker than the other weapons it allows for more control of a larger battlefield.
Rank: D
Aspects:
Name: Umbral Spear Master
Description: Spears are a quick and versatile weapon and are great for either single target combat or keeping a number of foes at bay. Ellie utilises the weapon of a spear by dashing around the battlefield, making quick jabs and escaping before there are any repercussions. If anyone gets to close she spins the weapon around and pushes everything away with a light attack
Rank: D
Aspects:
Name: Shadow boxing
Description: When Ellie is without her Umbra Sanguinis she is an adept boxer, capable of beating anyone or thing that comes within arms reach of her to a pulp. Her style grafts parts from famous boxers of the past, with the mantra. “Float like a leaf, sting like a hornet and be the eye of the lion.”
Rank: D
Aspects:
Techniques
Name: Shadow Coalescence Slice
Description: With a thought Ellie has mastered the art of switching her weapons form, in a heart beat she imagines the form she wants and shifts her grasp as the Shadowsteel reforms into the new shape. As the weapon solidifies she makes a slicing attack, capitalising on the confusion caused during the swap
Focus: Weapon Master
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