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Character
Name: Elizabeth "Liz" Thompson
Fandom: Soul Eater (manga)
Gender: Female
Age: mid-late teens (roughly 17?)
Time Period: Chapter 81
Wing Color: Does "Peregrine falcon" count as a color?
History:
Wiki: [#]
Chapter Summary: [#]
Former App Summary: [#]
And now a summary of what happened since CH 62...
The kids enter into the Book of Eibon in order to recover Death the Kid, and also presumably to eventually stop Noah, the really scary guy who wants to archive everything. The Book is divided into seven chapters, mirroring the seven sins. They start out in the chapter known as "Lust," in which every character is sex swapped. They get out of Lust when Blair helps defeat the succubus meant to keep them there, but a side effect of being in Lust is that they retain the opposite sex's characteristics for the amount of time directly proportional to how randy they are.
It's a point of vague amusement that it gets down to Liz and Tsubaki as guys after a few more chapters, and down to the end of the line where Liz barely reverts before Tsubaki. She goes from being incredibly embarrassed to joining Patti in calling Tsubaki a pervert, because that is how maturity rolls in this series.
Maka and Soul are off doing their own thing while Liz stays with the main group, getting up to the bridge leading toward where Kid (theoretically) is. Black*Star ends up being invited in, and Liz waits with the rest thinking about how she'd gotten involved with Kid in the first place.
(They'd tried mugging him, he'd ended up helping them out when they were in a spot of trouble, and she accepted his offer to come live with him in part because she expected that she and Patti/Patti could drain him dry and feel no remorse for having done so.) Anyhow, Liz reflects on how, in a way, Kid killed them by bringing them out of the bitterness that at least haunted Liz, to a point where she'd wished the world would disappear except for her and her sister. As these thoughts pile up, along with ones about how, even while in the chapter of Greed, all Liz wants is Kid and Black*Star to come back safely, she tells Tsubaki how she hadn't even manged to thank Kid for what he'd done for them yet... and starts crying.
Tsubaki and Patti create a Liz hug sandwich, and then because Black*Star and Kid convinced the book itself that they were meant to come rule the world, they all get dogpiled out of the book of Eibon on the tail of a Manticore, and so begin to fight Noah after a brief meet up where Liz says welcome back to Kid and then Kid, Black*Star, and a mostly unable to fight too much Maka all get their weapons and start soul resonating and kicking Noah and his book-summoned creatures' collective rear ends. Kid ends up achieving the second line of sanzo connecting, meaning two of his white hair lines connect around the entirety of his head, leveling up the degree of soul resonance with Liz and Patti.
Then Noah basically goes down, after his giant dragon creature is slain, and that is where Liz is coming from. (While Gopher, Noah's loyal often beaten on follower, runs off with the book of Eibon.)
Personality:
Liz gets to play the sarcastic, often cowardly straight-girl to the eccentricities of her sister and of Death the Kid. She's more introspective than Patti, spending more time thinking about their past and what progress they've made, or what the future will hold than her sister ever appears to give thought to. She's close to, and to a degree, dependent on Patti, working well with Kid and the other kids at Shibusen due to training, time, and mutual respect.
Considering the fact Liz and Patti work with Death the Kid, who, being Shinigami-sama's son, deals often with souls, it's almost hilarious that Liz herself is afraid of ghosts to the point of ignoring whatever a given ghost is saying in order to remain freaked out over the fact they're a ghost. (Considering she eats souls as part of work, it's even more hilarious that when souls start manifesting as ghosts she just can't take it. Her fear of ghosts extends into being creeped out and disturbed by all sorts of monsters -- she just doesn't handle them well at all.)
Liz also tends to be the most mature, in looking at situations, and is the least likely to be distracted during a mission -- if she doesn't get freaked out or stalls before doing something she perceives as dangerous. She brings Patti and Liz to focus time after time, which is beneficial, since they tend to be more easily distracted by thoughts (for Kid, of things out of perfect order/symmetry) and/or shiny objects (which is more Patti's thing).
Liz and Patti aren't above using tricks on a fairly low level to get things done -- in Baba Yaga's castle, they booze up one of the antagonists and drug him with a sleeping drug while dressed up as maids. Liz's confidence in herself and her sister improves phenomenally when working with Kid; as neurotic as he may be, as silly as her sister can be, and as cowardly as she herself an be, she knows they're capable at kicking ass -- though this is shaken when Kid is essentially book-napped by Eibon.
Liz doesn't always pick up on when she shouldn't talk about something or make an issue of something; such as when Kid is trying to not have it pointed out that he's carrying BREW, she joins in with Patti saying it's not just a flashlight or baggage, ragging on how if the equilibrium is off, he just won't move.
She also likes shopping, attractive men, and being somewhat devious.
When Kid falls into his funks, Liz has learned to help pull him out of them by praising what he is worth, or the positives awaiting him in the future. The fact that most the time he falls into self-loathing over a personal lack of symmetry doesn't always sit well with her, but it's the life she lives, and she complains about it when it's pointed out by Kid particularly in relation to herself.
Liz's relationship with her sister is incredibly important to her. As much of a coward as she is, she cannot stand the thought of her sister being killed, or allowing her sister to die.
As was recently shown and self-narrated by Liz, she was incredibly bitter at the world prior to meeting Kid. It took time being with him, and seeing Patti change into someone who could laugh freely (and still kick ass, Patti is great for being both childlike and intensely serious, mood dependent), and finally, seeing herself change into someone who didn't just wish for the rest of the world to go away. These days she's much more open to the world and possibilities in it, along with the people in the world. Protecting that world, or rather helping out the guy who wants to protect the balance of the world? Suddenly is the better idea. She's grown in the sense that she prizes people, other than just Patti, over financial gain. There are people and ideas worth fighting and living for, and protecting those is important.
Again, helping those people, and helping them protect the kind of world they want to see be brought into existence, outweighs the thoughts she once had of a world that was only for her and her sister. She's grown past that initial selfishness, and let herself become more emotionally available to the people close to her, and it's been a positive experience. Even when it hurts! Because it's a lessening of the hate and anger that had ruled so much of her life beforehand.
Strengths:
Liz has a lot of belief in her friends, and forms strong bonds with those friends. She's capable as a weapon, even if she's not as physically active or strong as her sister. She can pull herself together in the face of events, if that has limitations based on her prioritizing people's lives as more important to her than just acting out against someone or something that frightens her.
For example, she does pull "Patti" on Noah, holding him in her sights after Kid was taken into the book of Eibon. She confronts him, despite being terrified, and yet ultimately does not pursue a confrontation, taking Noah at his word that he'd kill them both if they continued to interfer. In a rewording of what he said, she (they) were beautiful, but not worth collecting.
Patti transforms back to her usual form and berates Liz for letting Noah leave, while Liz, who is crying by then, says she couldn't bear to lose Patti, too. Putting their lives in danger, especially right after losing Kid, was unthinkable to her. She is at heart not the bravest person, but in moments like those it can be seen she tries very hard in spite of her own fears -- and makes decisions that are as hard as blindly pursuing/lashing out at someone who's taken an important person away from her, in order to do what she thinks is necessary to save another of her important people.
She has an inward patience for Kid's fits of neurosis, if not so much an outward one; she goes between coaxing him into being able to deal with/handle a given situation, or slowly losing patience and confronting him over it -- or being sarcastic when dealing with Kid, or any of their friends.
Patti is the more martial of the sisters, but Liz is often the "brains" in the sense that she made a lot of the calls when they were growing up, and she's able to reason, logic, or bullshit her way through a given situation as needed. She's street smart, in theory. She's protective of her friends, to reiterate a point, and especially her sister. She does what she can to help them out! If it fails from time to time, she keeps trying anyway. The more faith she has in the people around her, the more she believes they need her, the more she pulls together to be the support they need.
Courage is people! And in particular, for her, friends where before she'd never wanted to have any at all.
Street wise as a strength -- and not above using drugs (esp. alcohol) or her ~womanly wiles~ to throw someone off guard and/or to incapacitate them. See Liz and Patti bamboozling Giriko in Baba Yaga's castle. Liz can flirt, and isn't opposed to doing so, hell, even for fun. She likes positive attention!
Weaknesses:
Liz is, again, cowardly. She gets frightened fairly easily, is not comfortable with ghosts or things of that nature, which is hilarious given what she, Patti, and Kid do for a living. If she's scared that acting in one manner will cost her more than she can afford to lose (again, confronting Noah, then letting him leave without pulling the trigger out of fear/the wish to not lose her sister -- or their lives)
Liz uses sarcasm as a defense, and she's more vulnerable to loss and the concept of helplessness than might be apparent. The obvious example is with her sister; Liz tends to build a large part of her world view around her sister, and in originally accepting Kid's offer to come live with him, Liz saw it as a means to an end to help bring her sister's quality of life up. This can lead into her flights of fancy, or overactive imagination -- even while Kid at the time was waxing poetic, Liz was imagining all the amazing things they could have pending him being a rich little sugar daddy, and things were awesome in her head. "Patti!! CINDERELLA!! WE'RE JUST LIKE CINDERELLA!!"
It's part of her fear of ghosts manifested, separate from the fear of souls. Since she kind of has to devour souls in a way, apparently it's the personality and possible inability to handle the intent behind a ghost's potential evil impulses... or in a better sense, the supernatural. Liz grew up dealing with hard reality, trying to be outwardly unafraid of what she lived surrounded by in New York (or the Brooklyn streets) raising and protecting and working with her sister after being abandoned by her prostitute mother.
Even if their particular New York, in flashbacks, sounds a lot more like a noir film than anything like modern NY, but that's just what it is.
Liz also has a tendency to blush when complimented, which isn't so much a weakness as her being less of the hardened person she wanted to be, and more like a teen appreciating the world and the teenage social spectrum in a more normal capacity.
Which is it's own weakness, in a way: outside of the strange ability to turn into a gun, Liz acts and responds like a fairly normal teenage girl. Her responses to the things that scare her -- losing people, dealing with the supernatural, in particular ghosts or random body parts in jars -- are knee jerk and unhappy, even if she'll still move forward if goaded into it, or it being necessay to get things done. (Patti helps when it comes to this, as we see in the chapter where they're introduced, when fighting mummies. Liz knows this mission needs to be completed, even if Kid ran home to straighten a portrait, so in spite of her disgust and eventual fright dealing with these things, she and Patti trade off using each other to blast through to the Pharoah. Things go haywire at that point, but so it goes.)
She's also been suffering shounen female syndrome, aka shown lots of potential (largely with Patti) and then consistently not reacting or acting out in order to engage the world around her and/or improve or fight for the things she believes in most, which isn't inherently bad, but is a trait worth noting.
Also, in regards to her active imagination! It can lead to her jumping to conclusions, and not always correct (or even reasonable) ones. Liz also has a knack of getting into strange situations she can't get out of, if those situations tend to be special plot contrivances in the first place. (Seriously, a mummy who doesn't allow a character to transform into weapon form, but has them tied up all lovingly soul-draining BDSM? This series...)
Samples
First Person:
Hey! Who's there? I can hear you, you know!
[ Silence. The young woman who spoke shifts eventually, stepping backward and hitting foliage. She stops, and the silence resumes. She's listening hard for whoever she thinks is out there. ]
Even if I can't see you. Just where am I? Where's everyone else? How did we get separated? And right after everything was looking up, too...
[ Steps are recorded, and it sounds like someone is approaching the journal itself. They stop again, and someone gasps. ]
No way...
[ There's a touch of rising hysteria in this person's voice as they say; ]
The book is haunted?!
[ A rapid turn around and the sudden crashing of foliage as someone runs like mad away from the open journal, shouting out names that get progressively quieter the further she gets from the journal. ]
Patti! Kid! Black*Star! Tsubaki! Maka!Soul! This isn't funny! Where are you?! ... DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE WITH THE POSSESSED BOOK, GUYS! ONE
[ Anything else called out is obscured by the sound of everything else, considering it's all far louder than the person who ran away by this point. ]
Third Person: Liz distrustfully eyed the book where it lay on the ground. Granted, it looked nothing like the book of Eibon, and siad book had just been run off with by Gopher, but it didn't stop her from indulging in a moment of paranoia.
One that intensified when she nudged it with a stick, opening the pages and hearing voices with a kind of suddenness that made her jump back and look around to see who was there.
"Hey! Who's there? I can hear you, you know!" She was glad her voice sounded more bothered than frightened. Of the emotions vying for dominance right then, irritation was currently winning. She and Patti and everyone else had just gotten Kid back. Noah had just been dealt with! Sure, BREW and the Book of Eibon were AWOL, but they'd handle that. With everyone together again, she knew they would.
"Even if I can't see you."
So what the hell had happened?
"Just where am I?"
The voices had risen and fallen, talking amongst themselves. No one had responded to her first call, which was kind of creepy. Liz looked around again, taking a step toward where she thought the voices were coming from.
"Where's everyone else? How did we get separated? And right after everything was looking up, too..."
Getting close to the book lying open on the ground, she paused again. It was almost as if the sounds themselves were issuing forth from the ground.
She froze, eyes widening. "No way... The book is haunted?!" Visions flashed through her mind, of the book levitating and sprouting paper teeth and a lashing ribbon tongue, chasing after her and trying to absorb her much the way Kid had been taken into the book of Eibon. It was a ridiculous idea, but the sharp spike of fright it sent through her left her with a racing heart.
Liz turned and was shouting out for everyone before she'd even registered that she'd started running. "Patti! Kid! Black*Star! Tsubaki!" Barely pausing in her mad rush toward anything that looked familiar (this whole location was wrong, even if she hadn't seen much of the one they'd fallen out into and fought Noah surrounded by), Liz didn't feel herself crying in the almost comical fright that had taken over. It might have been a sort of second catharsis, knowing that Kid was finally back, that things would be okay, interrupted by whatever interlude this was. "Maka! Soul! This isn't funny! Where are you?!"
Where was everyone? Where were the professors?
All things she had no answer to, and likely wouldn't for some time yet, if she didn't run into someone fairly innoucuous to explain it to her... or if she'd ever turn around and figure out that possession was not why the journal had been talking to her in the first place.
"Don't leave me alone with the possessed book, guys!"
At the current rate, it would take a while.
Name: Ishmael
Livejournal Username: shadhahvar
E-mail: ashenpaw@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: AIM: shadhahvar / MSN: N/A
Current Characters at Luceti: N/A
Character
Name: Elizabeth "Liz" Thompson
Fandom: Soul Eater (manga)
Gender: Female
Age: mid-late teens (roughly 17?)
Time Period: Chapter 81
Wing Color: Does "Peregrine falcon" count as a color?
History:
Wiki: [#]
Chapter Summary: [#]
Former App Summary: [#]
And now a summary of what happened since CH 62...
The kids enter into the Book of Eibon in order to recover Death the Kid, and also presumably to eventually stop Noah, the really scary guy who wants to archive everything. The Book is divided into seven chapters, mirroring the seven sins. They start out in the chapter known as "Lust," in which every character is sex swapped. They get out of Lust when Blair helps defeat the succubus meant to keep them there, but a side effect of being in Lust is that they retain the opposite sex's characteristics for the amount of time directly proportional to how randy they are.
It's a point of vague amusement that it gets down to Liz and Tsubaki as guys after a few more chapters, and down to the end of the line where Liz barely reverts before Tsubaki. She goes from being incredibly embarrassed to joining Patti in calling Tsubaki a pervert, because that is how maturity rolls in this series.
Maka and Soul are off doing their own thing while Liz stays with the main group, getting up to the bridge leading toward where Kid (theoretically) is. Black*Star ends up being invited in, and Liz waits with the rest thinking about how she'd gotten involved with Kid in the first place.
(They'd tried mugging him, he'd ended up helping them out when they were in a spot of trouble, and she accepted his offer to come live with him in part because she expected that she and Patti/Patti could drain him dry and feel no remorse for having done so.) Anyhow, Liz reflects on how, in a way, Kid killed them by bringing them out of the bitterness that at least haunted Liz, to a point where she'd wished the world would disappear except for her and her sister. As these thoughts pile up, along with ones about how, even while in the chapter of Greed, all Liz wants is Kid and Black*Star to come back safely, she tells Tsubaki how she hadn't even manged to thank Kid for what he'd done for them yet... and starts crying.
Tsubaki and Patti create a Liz hug sandwich, and then because Black*Star and Kid convinced the book itself that they were meant to come rule the world, they all get dogpiled out of the book of Eibon on the tail of a Manticore, and so begin to fight Noah after a brief meet up where Liz says welcome back to Kid and then Kid, Black*Star, and a mostly unable to fight too much Maka all get their weapons and start soul resonating and kicking Noah and his book-summoned creatures' collective rear ends. Kid ends up achieving the second line of sanzo connecting, meaning two of his white hair lines connect around the entirety of his head, leveling up the degree of soul resonance with Liz and Patti.
Then Noah basically goes down, after his giant dragon creature is slain, and that is where Liz is coming from. (While Gopher, Noah's loyal often beaten on follower, runs off with the book of Eibon.)
Personality:
Liz gets to play the sarcastic, often cowardly straight-girl to the eccentricities of her sister and of Death the Kid. She's more introspective than Patti, spending more time thinking about their past and what progress they've made, or what the future will hold than her sister ever appears to give thought to. She's close to, and to a degree, dependent on Patti, working well with Kid and the other kids at Shibusen due to training, time, and mutual respect.
Considering the fact Liz and Patti work with Death the Kid, who, being Shinigami-sama's son, deals often with souls, it's almost hilarious that Liz herself is afraid of ghosts to the point of ignoring whatever a given ghost is saying in order to remain freaked out over the fact they're a ghost. (Considering she eats souls as part of work, it's even more hilarious that when souls start manifesting as ghosts she just can't take it. Her fear of ghosts extends into being creeped out and disturbed by all sorts of monsters -- she just doesn't handle them well at all.)
Liz also tends to be the most mature, in looking at situations, and is the least likely to be distracted during a mission -- if she doesn't get freaked out or stalls before doing something she perceives as dangerous. She brings Patti and Liz to focus time after time, which is beneficial, since they tend to be more easily distracted by thoughts (for Kid, of things out of perfect order/symmetry) and/or shiny objects (which is more Patti's thing).
Liz and Patti aren't above using tricks on a fairly low level to get things done -- in Baba Yaga's castle, they booze up one of the antagonists and drug him with a sleeping drug while dressed up as maids. Liz's confidence in herself and her sister improves phenomenally when working with Kid; as neurotic as he may be, as silly as her sister can be, and as cowardly as she herself an be, she knows they're capable at kicking ass -- though this is shaken when Kid is essentially book-napped by Eibon.
Liz doesn't always pick up on when she shouldn't talk about something or make an issue of something; such as when Kid is trying to not have it pointed out that he's carrying BREW, she joins in with Patti saying it's not just a flashlight or baggage, ragging on how if the equilibrium is off, he just won't move.
She also likes shopping, attractive men, and being somewhat devious.
When Kid falls into his funks, Liz has learned to help pull him out of them by praising what he is worth, or the positives awaiting him in the future. The fact that most the time he falls into self-loathing over a personal lack of symmetry doesn't always sit well with her, but it's the life she lives, and she complains about it when it's pointed out by Kid particularly in relation to herself.
Liz's relationship with her sister is incredibly important to her. As much of a coward as she is, she cannot stand the thought of her sister being killed, or allowing her sister to die.
As was recently shown and self-narrated by Liz, she was incredibly bitter at the world prior to meeting Kid. It took time being with him, and seeing Patti change into someone who could laugh freely (and still kick ass, Patti is great for being both childlike and intensely serious, mood dependent), and finally, seeing herself change into someone who didn't just wish for the rest of the world to go away. These days she's much more open to the world and possibilities in it, along with the people in the world. Protecting that world, or rather helping out the guy who wants to protect the balance of the world? Suddenly is the better idea. She's grown in the sense that she prizes people, other than just Patti, over financial gain. There are people and ideas worth fighting and living for, and protecting those is important.
Again, helping those people, and helping them protect the kind of world they want to see be brought into existence, outweighs the thoughts she once had of a world that was only for her and her sister. She's grown past that initial selfishness, and let herself become more emotionally available to the people close to her, and it's been a positive experience. Even when it hurts! Because it's a lessening of the hate and anger that had ruled so much of her life beforehand.
Strengths:
Liz has a lot of belief in her friends, and forms strong bonds with those friends. She's capable as a weapon, even if she's not as physically active or strong as her sister. She can pull herself together in the face of events, if that has limitations based on her prioritizing people's lives as more important to her than just acting out against someone or something that frightens her.
For example, she does pull "Patti" on Noah, holding him in her sights after Kid was taken into the book of Eibon. She confronts him, despite being terrified, and yet ultimately does not pursue a confrontation, taking Noah at his word that he'd kill them both if they continued to interfer. In a rewording of what he said, she (they) were beautiful, but not worth collecting.
Patti transforms back to her usual form and berates Liz for letting Noah leave, while Liz, who is crying by then, says she couldn't bear to lose Patti, too. Putting their lives in danger, especially right after losing Kid, was unthinkable to her. She is at heart not the bravest person, but in moments like those it can be seen she tries very hard in spite of her own fears -- and makes decisions that are as hard as blindly pursuing/lashing out at someone who's taken an important person away from her, in order to do what she thinks is necessary to save another of her important people.
She has an inward patience for Kid's fits of neurosis, if not so much an outward one; she goes between coaxing him into being able to deal with/handle a given situation, or slowly losing patience and confronting him over it -- or being sarcastic when dealing with Kid, or any of their friends.
Patti is the more martial of the sisters, but Liz is often the "brains" in the sense that she made a lot of the calls when they were growing up, and she's able to reason, logic, or bullshit her way through a given situation as needed. She's street smart, in theory. She's protective of her friends, to reiterate a point, and especially her sister. She does what she can to help them out! If it fails from time to time, she keeps trying anyway. The more faith she has in the people around her, the more she believes they need her, the more she pulls together to be the support they need.
Courage is people! And in particular, for her, friends where before she'd never wanted to have any at all.
Street wise as a strength -- and not above using drugs (esp. alcohol) or her ~womanly wiles~ to throw someone off guard and/or to incapacitate them. See Liz and Patti bamboozling Giriko in Baba Yaga's castle. Liz can flirt, and isn't opposed to doing so, hell, even for fun. She likes positive attention!
Weaknesses:
Liz is, again, cowardly. She gets frightened fairly easily, is not comfortable with ghosts or things of that nature, which is hilarious given what she, Patti, and Kid do for a living. If she's scared that acting in one manner will cost her more than she can afford to lose (again, confronting Noah, then letting him leave without pulling the trigger out of fear/the wish to not lose her sister -- or their lives)
Liz uses sarcasm as a defense, and she's more vulnerable to loss and the concept of helplessness than might be apparent. The obvious example is with her sister; Liz tends to build a large part of her world view around her sister, and in originally accepting Kid's offer to come live with him, Liz saw it as a means to an end to help bring her sister's quality of life up. This can lead into her flights of fancy, or overactive imagination -- even while Kid at the time was waxing poetic, Liz was imagining all the amazing things they could have pending him being a rich little sugar daddy, and things were awesome in her head. "Patti!! CINDERELLA!! WE'RE JUST LIKE CINDERELLA!!"
It's part of her fear of ghosts manifested, separate from the fear of souls. Since she kind of has to devour souls in a way, apparently it's the personality and possible inability to handle the intent behind a ghost's potential evil impulses... or in a better sense, the supernatural. Liz grew up dealing with hard reality, trying to be outwardly unafraid of what she lived surrounded by in New York (or the Brooklyn streets) raising and protecting and working with her sister after being abandoned by her prostitute mother.
Even if their particular New York, in flashbacks, sounds a lot more like a noir film than anything like modern NY, but that's just what it is.
Liz also has a tendency to blush when complimented, which isn't so much a weakness as her being less of the hardened person she wanted to be, and more like a teen appreciating the world and the teenage social spectrum in a more normal capacity.
Which is it's own weakness, in a way: outside of the strange ability to turn into a gun, Liz acts and responds like a fairly normal teenage girl. Her responses to the things that scare her -- losing people, dealing with the supernatural, in particular ghosts or random body parts in jars -- are knee jerk and unhappy, even if she'll still move forward if goaded into it, or it being necessay to get things done. (Patti helps when it comes to this, as we see in the chapter where they're introduced, when fighting mummies. Liz knows this mission needs to be completed, even if Kid ran home to straighten a portrait, so in spite of her disgust and eventual fright dealing with these things, she and Patti trade off using each other to blast through to the Pharoah. Things go haywire at that point, but so it goes.)
She's also been suffering shounen female syndrome, aka shown lots of potential (largely with Patti) and then consistently not reacting or acting out in order to engage the world around her and/or improve or fight for the things she believes in most, which isn't inherently bad, but is a trait worth noting.
Also, in regards to her active imagination! It can lead to her jumping to conclusions, and not always correct (or even reasonable) ones. Liz also has a knack of getting into strange situations she can't get out of, if those situations tend to be special plot contrivances in the first place. (Seriously, a mummy who doesn't allow a character to transform into weapon form, but has them tied up all lovingly soul-draining BDSM? This series...)
Samples
First Person:
Hey! Who's there? I can hear you, you know!
[ Silence. The young woman who spoke shifts eventually, stepping backward and hitting foliage. She stops, and the silence resumes. She's listening hard for whoever she thinks is out there. ]
Even if I can't see you. Just where am I? Where's everyone else? How did we get separated? And right after everything was looking up, too...
[ Steps are recorded, and it sounds like someone is approaching the journal itself. They stop again, and someone gasps. ]
No way...
[ There's a touch of rising hysteria in this person's voice as they say; ]
The book is haunted?!
[ A rapid turn around and the sudden crashing of foliage as someone runs like mad away from the open journal, shouting out names that get progressively quieter the further she gets from the journal. ]
Patti! Kid! Black*Star! Tsubaki! Maka!Soul! This isn't funny! Where are you?! ... DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE WITH THE POSSESSED BOOK, GUYS! ONE
[ Anything else called out is obscured by the sound of everything else, considering it's all far louder than the person who ran away by this point. ]
Third Person: Liz distrustfully eyed the book where it lay on the ground. Granted, it looked nothing like the book of Eibon, and siad book had just been run off with by Gopher, but it didn't stop her from indulging in a moment of paranoia.
One that intensified when she nudged it with a stick, opening the pages and hearing voices with a kind of suddenness that made her jump back and look around to see who was there.
"Hey! Who's there? I can hear you, you know!" She was glad her voice sounded more bothered than frightened. Of the emotions vying for dominance right then, irritation was currently winning. She and Patti and everyone else had just gotten Kid back. Noah had just been dealt with! Sure, BREW and the Book of Eibon were AWOL, but they'd handle that. With everyone together again, she knew they would.
"Even if I can't see you."
So what the hell had happened?
"Just where am I?"
The voices had risen and fallen, talking amongst themselves. No one had responded to her first call, which was kind of creepy. Liz looked around again, taking a step toward where she thought the voices were coming from.
"Where's everyone else? How did we get separated? And right after everything was looking up, too..."
Getting close to the book lying open on the ground, she paused again. It was almost as if the sounds themselves were issuing forth from the ground.
She froze, eyes widening. "No way... The book is haunted?!" Visions flashed through her mind, of the book levitating and sprouting paper teeth and a lashing ribbon tongue, chasing after her and trying to absorb her much the way Kid had been taken into the book of Eibon. It was a ridiculous idea, but the sharp spike of fright it sent through her left her with a racing heart.
Liz turned and was shouting out for everyone before she'd even registered that she'd started running. "Patti! Kid! Black*Star! Tsubaki!" Barely pausing in her mad rush toward anything that looked familiar (this whole location was wrong, even if she hadn't seen much of the one they'd fallen out into and fought Noah surrounded by), Liz didn't feel herself crying in the almost comical fright that had taken over. It might have been a sort of second catharsis, knowing that Kid was finally back, that things would be okay, interrupted by whatever interlude this was. "Maka! Soul! This isn't funny! Where are you?!"
Where was everyone? Where were the professors?
All things she had no answer to, and likely wouldn't for some time yet, if she didn't run into someone fairly innoucuous to explain it to her... or if she'd ever turn around and figure out that possession was not why the journal had been talking to her in the first place.
"Don't leave me alone with the possessed book, guys!"
At the current rate, it would take a while.