[ooc] application for sirenspull
Player Information
Name: Tiffany
Age: 19
AIM SN: to boldly trek
E-mail: live.infamy [at] gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yep
Bonus: How did you hear about Siren's Pull? PM from ohaifootface
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Heroes
Canon Format: TV series and supplementary comics
Character's Name: Elle (Eleanor Zoe) Bishop
Character's Age: 24
What form will your character's NV take? Something along the lines of an iPhone.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Elle has the ability to create and manipulate electricity in varying voltages -- from a spark to a full on electrical surge. It comes out in the form of blue sparks. At various times in the series, we see that this ability is a double-edged sword, because while it's extremely powerful as an offensive weapon, the current running under Elle's skin also means she can't really handle being exposed to water. If she uses it when wet, it'll backfire and conduct in the water to shock her instead of her target. Not only that, but when she suffers excessive trauma such as the death of her father and subsequent attack by Sylar in season 3, her shocks "built up" and caused her constant pain due to intermittent shocks that don't have an outlet. She can control it to be anything from a huge burst of electricity to a sharpshot.
Weapons: Elle doesn't carry any weapons because of how she was taught to rely on her ability.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History:When Elle was 6 years old, she accidentally set her grandmother’s house on fire.
At 8, she caused a blackout in four counties in Ohio. So, she was taken to Hartsdale, NY because her mother was sick of dealing with her and wanted to shove her off on Bob, where she would spend the next 16 years in the Company's prison facility. Under Dr. Zimmerman's suggestion, Bob began testing the extent of Elle's abilities, encouraging them to push her well past her breaking point. During a brief point, she escaped and ran away by blasting her own father. She headed to an arcade where she made the games go on the fritz with her ability, racked up a million tickets and got the lightning bolt necklace she always wears. Noah Bennet retrieved her courtesy of some rubber dishwashing gloves and a lot of determination.
She spent her 9th birthday in a glass room with an IV of Lithium in her arm for her efforts. She has never been on a date, or a roller coaster, or gone swimming. She threatened to kill the psychologists who diagnosed her as a sociopath with paranoid delusions. How much time was spent as an inmate versus as an agent of The Company is unknown, but she was experimented on at the behest of her own father for years. The Haitian has removed any specific memories of this experimentation, but it was enough to turn her into the sadistic lunatic that she is today.
Her first chronological assignment that we know of us one in which she is partnered with Noah Bennet to observe Gabriel Gray, prior to his identity switch to Sylar. After preventing his suicide, she develops a bond with him that keeps him from feeling the desire to kill. However, the Company orders that she and Noah provide Gabriel with a list of people with abilities so that they can witness his ability in action. Elle tries to refuse, realizing she has feelings for Gabriel, but is strong-armed into going along with it. She appears to feel some guilt over helping create Sylar.
After further work with the Company, including stalking Claire and trying to see if she manifests an ability around Homecoming, though most of her other stuff's done off-screen, she is charged with taking care of Peter and making sure that he takes his medication while he is “checked in” to the Company’s facility, and she develops an attachment to him to the extent that when he escapes with Adam, she shocks him and sets him on fire as he escapes. She is also charged with recovering him, and follows him as far as Ireland when her father makes her come back because she killed Rick, the man who Peter was staying with.
When she returns to the states, she is kidnapped by Noah Bennet and West as collateral for Claire’s return, where she is strapped to a chair with her feet in water to prevent her from using her ability. Noah informs Elle of the experimentation her father died on her and while she doesn’t appear to believe him at the time, the way she later treats her father shows that maybe she does acknowledge that Noah’s explanation makes sense. The exchange is made and Elle zaps West and Claire as they fly off, but Noah shoots Elle before they can recover Claire. Bob reams her for not being able to capture Claire, causing Elle to try and capture Sylar (powerless at this time) in an attempt to make up for it. She fails to do so, but saves Molly Walker, Mohinder Suresh and Maya Herrera in the process.
She then goes to get Noah Bennet’s help, but runs into Sylar who had just killed her father. He tries to take her ability, but she knocks him out with an exceptionally large burst of electricity. The electricity also allows for the escape of all of The Company’s prisoners, a transgression for which Angela Petrelli fires her.
Her powers began to backfire on her and Daphne found her, suggesting that she go to Pinehearst because they would know what was wrong with her and be able to fix it. Cautious and doubtful, Elle instead chose to instead head for London. When the overload got too tough to handle, she contacted Claude Rains and stayed with him for a while. When that went awry, she invaded the Bennet home in hopes of finding Noah because he "always seemed to be the one with the answers". Since Noah isn't present, Elle convinces Claire to simply come to Pinehearst with her instead to get the answers. On the way, they become besties, and then Elle ditches Claire and Peter because she's also a dumb bitch when she hears Pinehearst can remove abilities.
Unfortunately, Pinehearst's idea of removing her abilities is to lock her away in a dark room in old school shackles and throw Sylar into the room with her. She electrocutes him until he forgives her for what he did to him, and she forgives him for killing her father. Sylar acquires her ability through "empathy" and she teaches him how to use it. They then get sent on a mission to pick Claire up. The two show up at the Canfield house in Costa Verde and a confrontation during the Eclipse, which removes all of their abilities, ends in Claire getting shot and Elle and Sylar passing out on the floor with no cheerleader in custody. Elle relocates Sylar's shoulder and they have sex on the floor because... the mission is fucked anyway and it's Heroes and Arthur predicted it earlier.
Noah starts trying to kill them and they flee to a grocery store. Noah hunts them to the grocery store and Sylar locks Elle in a ghetto lift while he fights Noah off, and eventually gets his neck slit and Elle sobs forever. But, Sylar comes back because it's the end of the eclipse. They go to the Bennet house and hold Sandra hostage -- I'll be pulling Elle from en route to the Bennet House. However, Hiro Nakamura comes in out of nowhere and teleports them out just as Sylar was about to kill Noah so they could escape with Claire.
They arrive at a beach where Sylar kills Elle, saying that he can't change what he is.
Point in Canon: 2.09 Cautionary Tales. After suiting the triple agent Mohinder with a gun and dragging him out to try and convince HRG to hand over his daughter to the Company, Elle wound up getting knocked unconscious and captured by West and HRG. They brought her back to the Butler home, hosed her down and tied her to a chair with her feet in water so she couldn't zap the bonds or her captors. Noah taunted her with the knowledge of what her father did to her when she was a child -- the experimentation -- and how he'd had the Haitian make her forget. They organized a meet-up to trade her off with Claire, who Elle's father, Bob, had kidnapped while Mohinder and Elle were out. As they headed off to make the trade-off, Elle wound up in Siren's Port.
Character Personality:Elle is said to be a cautionary tale of what would happen to the heroes if they had been aware of their powers since birth. The experimentation and subsequent memory loss led her to become sadistic and exceptionally infantile. Her psychological profile brings to light her dependency and inferiority issues, both results of her daddy issues. She has the emotional capacity of a child, since she was raised in a facility, shut away from the world and anywhere that she might develop in a normal social manner, which has lead to fit throwing and putting her father on a pedestal. She has a tendency to develop shallow, affectionate attachments to all of the men she meets - Peter, Mohinder, and Gabriel - which mirror, though to a lesser degree, this insatiable desire to live up to her father's expectations and get his commendation. On top of this, she has zero regard for personal space and actually seems to get joy out of forcing herself into the bubbles of others, particularly the inmates of Hartsdale.
While she's been diagnosed as a sociopath with paranoid delusions, a diagnosis that's not altogether off-base, she does have a few deeper emotions - she feels guilt about being a part of turning Gabriel Gray into Sylar, and she feels guilt when she abandons Claire at the Pinehearst institute after Claire had shown her such kindness, but she generally suppresses these feelings because, in the end, her own self-preservation comes first. She's an open book for the most part and doesn't hold back her feelings, always loudly complaining or becoming aggressive or overly cheerful. The only time she shows real restraint is around her father and Angela Petrelli - her father because she wants to please him, and Angela because she's the new boss of the Company and Elle wanted to play the good, controlled operative so she could continue working there because it's all she's known. She has, though minimal, some extent of respect for authority that has been drilled into her by her life as a company girl.
She's a natural cynic and pessimist, and she thrives off sarcasm and adrenaline. She creates excitement in missions even if it costs them some ease in completing it, generally by using her ability excessively. Accompanied by her flippancy with her ability is a desire to prove herself, this often leads to her throwing a fit when she gets undermined. Elle doesn't handle rejection or change well, so even though Noah got her to begin doubting Primatech, she wished to remain with them because it was all she knew.
Interestingly, while she has an undying devotion to her father while with The Company, she still appears to know between right and wrong and a desire to do right, despite being labeled a sociopath by various psychologists. When she gets assigned to the Gabriel Gray case, she tries to back out several times, narrowly avoiding telling Noah that she doesn't have it in her to turn this good, nice person to killing someone else when he's obviously torn up about it. So, at least to some extent, she has the capability for empathy, though in this case, since it was an isolated incident, it can be inferred that it was because she saw something of herself in Gabriel. The Company was trying to turn a good man into a killer, just like they'd done to her with their experimentation and sealing her off from the world. She wanted to save him from that fate to save herself, on some level. She still carries a lot of this guilt around with her, though she tries to shove it off and fill her sociopath diagnosis by acting like it doesn't bother her.
She also has a lot of bitterness towards anyone who got the opportunities she didn't while they were younger, but it pretty much gets summed up into one big ball of hate and thrown at Claire Bennet, who is the epitome of getting everything she never had. She has a family that loves her, as opposed to her mom that got sick of her, shoved her off on an unloving father, and then died shortly after. She has opportunities -- a social life. She's well-liked. She's this bubbly, happy, mind-numbingly heroic cheerleader. And Elle is just a continuous disappointment to her father.
Character Plans:Basically, with this canon point, Elle's going to get to feel really awkward trying to forge her own thing and break away from Daddy's influence, which will be fun to play with, but game specifically, she'll probably start off with target practice on the monsters until I can set her up with some CR plots.
Appearance/PB:Here and here.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample[There's some fumbling going on with the NV device, but when she finally gets it turned on, all that can be hurt is the frustrated rumble in the back of her throat.] You wanna know what I hate more than all the stupid cheerleaders in the world? Teleporters. So, fess up, you little troll. Not that I don't appreciate the save from Glasses and Boy Wonder, but I'm getting a little sick of the crappy scenery.
Not to mention the fact that you screwed up my phone so only this crappy one works -- what's the deal with that, anyway? I've got people to call, okay? And this thing isn't working right. [People like her daddy, who's going to be very mad if she gets home late. Crap.]
Third Person SampleOne of us, one of them. That's how it always was within the Company and Elle kind of liked it that way. Sure, Noah Bennet was boring, and sure, he was all seriousness all the time, but that made him more fun to make angry. Which she did. Often. Not only that, but it meant she was the only one who got to do the showing off. There would always be more chances to make Daddy proud when you were the center of attention from the start.
Their assignment was to pick up Fitzgerald and bring him to level 5. Bag and tag was one of Elle's favorite parts of the job because it meant she got to play. They'd cornered him into an alley and Elle just couldn't help but think of what an idiot he was when he went ape and his tattoos lit up like christmas lights. Really, it was almost like he didn't realize she was a human taser. So, she rolled her eyes as Noah continued threatening, gun brandished.
"Boys." She held out one hand, a ball of blue lightning gathering in it. "Would you just let me handle this?" It was direct at Noah and she sent the ball hurling in Michael's direction. It knocked him off his feet and a trashcan next to him caught fire from some stray sparks. Elle didn't pay attention. Instead, she collected more lightning and began a continuous shock, grin widening at the way his body twitched. It took Noah's hand on her shoulder, shaking her, to get her to stop.
When she looked up, his expression was demanding, and Elle's own lips pursed into an innocent pout, though the way her eyebrows knitted together was obviously defensive. If he told her dad she got carried away again … ugh.
"Oh, relax, would you? I'm just having a little fun. He'll be back at 100% in no time," she cast a look in Michael's direction and tried to hide her smile. "Well, maybe not. But, he'll live! He's a champ, he'll walk it off."
Name: Tiffany
Age: 19
AIM SN: to boldly trek
E-mail: live.infamy [at] gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yep
Bonus: How did you hear about Siren's Pull? PM from ohaifootface
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Heroes
Canon Format: TV series and supplementary comics
Character's Name: Elle (Eleanor Zoe) Bishop
Character's Age: 24
What form will your character's NV take? Something along the lines of an iPhone.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Elle has the ability to create and manipulate electricity in varying voltages -- from a spark to a full on electrical surge. It comes out in the form of blue sparks. At various times in the series, we see that this ability is a double-edged sword, because while it's extremely powerful as an offensive weapon, the current running under Elle's skin also means she can't really handle being exposed to water. If she uses it when wet, it'll backfire and conduct in the water to shock her instead of her target. Not only that, but when she suffers excessive trauma such as the death of her father and subsequent attack by Sylar in season 3, her shocks "built up" and caused her constant pain due to intermittent shocks that don't have an outlet. She can control it to be anything from a huge burst of electricity to a sharpshot.
Weapons: Elle doesn't carry any weapons because of how she was taught to rely on her ability.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History:When Elle was 6 years old, she accidentally set her grandmother’s house on fire.
At 8, she caused a blackout in four counties in Ohio. So, she was taken to Hartsdale, NY because her mother was sick of dealing with her and wanted to shove her off on Bob, where she would spend the next 16 years in the Company's prison facility. Under Dr. Zimmerman's suggestion, Bob began testing the extent of Elle's abilities, encouraging them to push her well past her breaking point. During a brief point, she escaped and ran away by blasting her own father. She headed to an arcade where she made the games go on the fritz with her ability, racked up a million tickets and got the lightning bolt necklace she always wears. Noah Bennet retrieved her courtesy of some rubber dishwashing gloves and a lot of determination.
She spent her 9th birthday in a glass room with an IV of Lithium in her arm for her efforts. She has never been on a date, or a roller coaster, or gone swimming. She threatened to kill the psychologists who diagnosed her as a sociopath with paranoid delusions. How much time was spent as an inmate versus as an agent of The Company is unknown, but she was experimented on at the behest of her own father for years. The Haitian has removed any specific memories of this experimentation, but it was enough to turn her into the sadistic lunatic that she is today.
Her first chronological assignment that we know of us one in which she is partnered with Noah Bennet to observe Gabriel Gray, prior to his identity switch to Sylar. After preventing his suicide, she develops a bond with him that keeps him from feeling the desire to kill. However, the Company orders that she and Noah provide Gabriel with a list of people with abilities so that they can witness his ability in action. Elle tries to refuse, realizing she has feelings for Gabriel, but is strong-armed into going along with it. She appears to feel some guilt over helping create Sylar.
After further work with the Company, including stalking Claire and trying to see if she manifests an ability around Homecoming, though most of her other stuff's done off-screen, she is charged with taking care of Peter and making sure that he takes his medication while he is “checked in” to the Company’s facility, and she develops an attachment to him to the extent that when he escapes with Adam, she shocks him and sets him on fire as he escapes. She is also charged with recovering him, and follows him as far as Ireland when her father makes her come back because she killed Rick, the man who Peter was staying with.
When she returns to the states, she is kidnapped by Noah Bennet and West as collateral for Claire’s return, where she is strapped to a chair with her feet in water to prevent her from using her ability. Noah informs Elle of the experimentation her father died on her and while she doesn’t appear to believe him at the time, the way she later treats her father shows that maybe she does acknowledge that Noah’s explanation makes sense. The exchange is made and Elle zaps West and Claire as they fly off, but Noah shoots Elle before they can recover Claire. Bob reams her for not being able to capture Claire, causing Elle to try and capture Sylar (powerless at this time) in an attempt to make up for it. She fails to do so, but saves Molly Walker, Mohinder Suresh and Maya Herrera in the process.
She then goes to get Noah Bennet’s help, but runs into Sylar who had just killed her father. He tries to take her ability, but she knocks him out with an exceptionally large burst of electricity. The electricity also allows for the escape of all of The Company’s prisoners, a transgression for which Angela Petrelli fires her.
Her powers began to backfire on her and Daphne found her, suggesting that she go to Pinehearst because they would know what was wrong with her and be able to fix it. Cautious and doubtful, Elle instead chose to instead head for London. When the overload got too tough to handle, she contacted Claude Rains and stayed with him for a while. When that went awry, she invaded the Bennet home in hopes of finding Noah because he "always seemed to be the one with the answers". Since Noah isn't present, Elle convinces Claire to simply come to Pinehearst with her instead to get the answers. On the way, they become besties, and then Elle ditches Claire and Peter because she's also a dumb bitch when she hears Pinehearst can remove abilities.
Unfortunately, Pinehearst's idea of removing her abilities is to lock her away in a dark room in old school shackles and throw Sylar into the room with her. She electrocutes him until he forgives her for what he did to him, and she forgives him for killing her father. Sylar acquires her ability through "empathy" and she teaches him how to use it. They then get sent on a mission to pick Claire up. The two show up at the Canfield house in Costa Verde and a confrontation during the Eclipse, which removes all of their abilities, ends in Claire getting shot and Elle and Sylar passing out on the floor with no cheerleader in custody. Elle relocates Sylar's shoulder and they have sex on the floor because... the mission is fucked anyway and it's Heroes and Arthur predicted it earlier.
Noah starts trying to kill them and they flee to a grocery store. Noah hunts them to the grocery store and Sylar locks Elle in a ghetto lift while he fights Noah off, and eventually gets his neck slit and Elle sobs forever. But, Sylar comes back because it's the end of the eclipse. They go to the Bennet house and hold Sandra hostage -- I'll be pulling Elle from en route to the Bennet House. However, Hiro Nakamura comes in out of nowhere and teleports them out just as Sylar was about to kill Noah so they could escape with Claire.
They arrive at a beach where Sylar kills Elle, saying that he can't change what he is.
Point in Canon: 2.09 Cautionary Tales. After suiting the triple agent Mohinder with a gun and dragging him out to try and convince HRG to hand over his daughter to the Company, Elle wound up getting knocked unconscious and captured by West and HRG. They brought her back to the Butler home, hosed her down and tied her to a chair with her feet in water so she couldn't zap the bonds or her captors. Noah taunted her with the knowledge of what her father did to her when she was a child -- the experimentation -- and how he'd had the Haitian make her forget. They organized a meet-up to trade her off with Claire, who Elle's father, Bob, had kidnapped while Mohinder and Elle were out. As they headed off to make the trade-off, Elle wound up in Siren's Port.
Character Personality:Elle is said to be a cautionary tale of what would happen to the heroes if they had been aware of their powers since birth. The experimentation and subsequent memory loss led her to become sadistic and exceptionally infantile. Her psychological profile brings to light her dependency and inferiority issues, both results of her daddy issues. She has the emotional capacity of a child, since she was raised in a facility, shut away from the world and anywhere that she might develop in a normal social manner, which has lead to fit throwing and putting her father on a pedestal. She has a tendency to develop shallow, affectionate attachments to all of the men she meets - Peter, Mohinder, and Gabriel - which mirror, though to a lesser degree, this insatiable desire to live up to her father's expectations and get his commendation. On top of this, she has zero regard for personal space and actually seems to get joy out of forcing herself into the bubbles of others, particularly the inmates of Hartsdale.
While she's been diagnosed as a sociopath with paranoid delusions, a diagnosis that's not altogether off-base, she does have a few deeper emotions - she feels guilt about being a part of turning Gabriel Gray into Sylar, and she feels guilt when she abandons Claire at the Pinehearst institute after Claire had shown her such kindness, but she generally suppresses these feelings because, in the end, her own self-preservation comes first. She's an open book for the most part and doesn't hold back her feelings, always loudly complaining or becoming aggressive or overly cheerful. The only time she shows real restraint is around her father and Angela Petrelli - her father because she wants to please him, and Angela because she's the new boss of the Company and Elle wanted to play the good, controlled operative so she could continue working there because it's all she's known. She has, though minimal, some extent of respect for authority that has been drilled into her by her life as a company girl.
She's a natural cynic and pessimist, and she thrives off sarcasm and adrenaline. She creates excitement in missions even if it costs them some ease in completing it, generally by using her ability excessively. Accompanied by her flippancy with her ability is a desire to prove herself, this often leads to her throwing a fit when she gets undermined. Elle doesn't handle rejection or change well, so even though Noah got her to begin doubting Primatech, she wished to remain with them because it was all she knew.
Interestingly, while she has an undying devotion to her father while with The Company, she still appears to know between right and wrong and a desire to do right, despite being labeled a sociopath by various psychologists. When she gets assigned to the Gabriel Gray case, she tries to back out several times, narrowly avoiding telling Noah that she doesn't have it in her to turn this good, nice person to killing someone else when he's obviously torn up about it. So, at least to some extent, she has the capability for empathy, though in this case, since it was an isolated incident, it can be inferred that it was because she saw something of herself in Gabriel. The Company was trying to turn a good man into a killer, just like they'd done to her with their experimentation and sealing her off from the world. She wanted to save him from that fate to save herself, on some level. She still carries a lot of this guilt around with her, though she tries to shove it off and fill her sociopath diagnosis by acting like it doesn't bother her.
She also has a lot of bitterness towards anyone who got the opportunities she didn't while they were younger, but it pretty much gets summed up into one big ball of hate and thrown at Claire Bennet, who is the epitome of getting everything she never had. She has a family that loves her, as opposed to her mom that got sick of her, shoved her off on an unloving father, and then died shortly after. She has opportunities -- a social life. She's well-liked. She's this bubbly, happy, mind-numbingly heroic cheerleader. And Elle is just a continuous disappointment to her father.
Character Plans:Basically, with this canon point, Elle's going to get to feel really awkward trying to forge her own thing and break away from Daddy's influence, which will be fun to play with, but game specifically, she'll probably start off with target practice on the monsters until I can set her up with some CR plots.
Appearance/PB:Here and here.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample[There's some fumbling going on with the NV device, but when she finally gets it turned on, all that can be hurt is the frustrated rumble in the back of her throat.] You wanna know what I hate more than all the stupid cheerleaders in the world? Teleporters. So, fess up, you little troll. Not that I don't appreciate the save from Glasses and Boy Wonder, but I'm getting a little sick of the crappy scenery.
Not to mention the fact that you screwed up my phone so only this crappy one works -- what's the deal with that, anyway? I've got people to call, okay? And this thing isn't working right. [People like her daddy, who's going to be very mad if she gets home late. Crap.]
Third Person SampleOne of us, one of them. That's how it always was within the Company and Elle kind of liked it that way. Sure, Noah Bennet was boring, and sure, he was all seriousness all the time, but that made him more fun to make angry. Which she did. Often. Not only that, but it meant she was the only one who got to do the showing off. There would always be more chances to make Daddy proud when you were the center of attention from the start.
Their assignment was to pick up Fitzgerald and bring him to level 5. Bag and tag was one of Elle's favorite parts of the job because it meant she got to play. They'd cornered him into an alley and Elle just couldn't help but think of what an idiot he was when he went ape and his tattoos lit up like christmas lights. Really, it was almost like he didn't realize she was a human taser. So, she rolled her eyes as Noah continued threatening, gun brandished.
"Boys." She held out one hand, a ball of blue lightning gathering in it. "Would you just let me handle this?" It was direct at Noah and she sent the ball hurling in Michael's direction. It knocked him off his feet and a trashcan next to him caught fire from some stray sparks. Elle didn't pay attention. Instead, she collected more lightning and began a continuous shock, grin widening at the way his body twitched. It took Noah's hand on her shoulder, shaking her, to get her to stop.
When she looked up, his expression was demanding, and Elle's own lips pursed into an innocent pout, though the way her eyebrows knitted together was obviously defensive. If he told her dad she got carried away again … ugh.
"Oh, relax, would you? I'm just having a little fun. He'll be back at 100% in no time," she cast a look in Michael's direction and tried to hide her smile. "Well, maybe not. But, he'll live! He's a champ, he'll walk it off."