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OOC Information;
Name; Sam
Personal Journal; sammywhatammy
Contact; sammywhatammy @ AIM
Other Characters; N/A
IC Information;
Character Name; Elika
Canon; Prince of Persia 2008
Canon Point; post-death, pre-awakening
Age; early twenties
House; Heimdall
Power; Damage Drain
Personality;
There are two things that define the core of Elika, princess of the Ahura (OO-ra); her selflessness and her devotion. She was born the heir of a crumbling culture and land; both were still incredibly beautiful, but falling into decay after generations of people leaving the land. From a very young age, Elika was fascinated by any and all knowledge of the world she could hear or find or read about; not just the history of her land and her people, but also stories from the traveling merchants (who eventually dwindled away) of the many worlds outside the borders of the Ahura's world. Elika explored every inch of the Ahura land, eager to know the history of every centimeter of rock and building and earth, in awe of the majesty and legacy of the previous generations of her people. Unfortunately, by the time Elika was born, most of the glory of her people had faded, and remained as a ghost in the stories and art and buildings.
Elika dreamt much of the world outside her own small one, imagining the sights and sounds and smells and people. She had a dream of leaving the Ahura one day, though as a temporary or permanent vacation she doesn't specify, and seeing the world for herself. Her biggest wish was to see the sea and travel across it. She could only vaguely picture it her mind, likening it to the sea of sand that surrounded her lands.
For all her dreaming, however, her first and foremost duty and preoccupation of thought and action is that of her lands and her people. Elika loves everything about the Ahura very deeply, and is entirely devoted to preserving its history, beauty, and duty to the Temple. She speaks of the glory days with a sort of wistful awe, and a deep respect for all who came before. She suppresses any selfish desires of her own that she may have; instead, the well-being of others and balance of the world being her utmost wish.
Elika is a believer. She believes people are all inherently good, as is the world; she believes in hard work and responsibility and peace. She also believes in gods. You might say that's easy when your people have been charged with guarding the god of darkness, Ahriman, for a thousand years, but who's to say that Temple isn't empty and just a symbol? Not her. More than Ahriman, she believes in the god of light, Ormazd (or-MAHZ) with an unwavering ferocity, despite his noted absence for over a thousand years and especially in the world's time of need now that Ahriman was released from his prison in the Temple.
For as small as her world has been all her life, Elika isn't as naive as the Prince believes, and very well read and knowledgeable. She even has a sense of humor! She banters back and forth with the Prince very often. It's just the task of preventing the end of the world that handles with an almost deadly seriousness. ...Okay, and the legacy of her people in general. She's pretty serious and practical, though ultimately an optimist. When the Prince was corrupted, it was only hope she had to go on that healing the Fertile Ground of that area would heal him as well.
Feminine but tough, Elika is fiercely independent and intelligent, and can take care of herself. She may not be able to defend herself physically due to a lack of martial training, but she certainly holds her own in being able to follow the Prince on their parkouring travels without the help of a fancy gauntlet like his. Lithe and nimble, she uses the magic she newly inherited to be constantly ready to fight and aid the Prince, for Elika is a healer in many respects. She wishes to heal the land, to heal the Ahura people and bring them back to their duty and home, and she even wishes to heal the way the Ahura royalty has functioned for generations and reform it. (Or, she would have wanted to if she hadn't died!)
Again, Elika is smart and not as naive as the Prince thinks, or even wishes. She sees through him fairly easily, understanding that his lack of wanting to supply information about himself and his past, even going so far as to deny giving his name, is an enormous defense mechanism of some kind. She's not fooled. She succeeds in having him divulge more than he's comfortable, but even that is like pulling teeth and he stops himself quickly and is still vague about what little he tells. She goes along with his ruse, only because there's not much of a way to do otherwise.
Elika is likewise silent about herself, but not nearly as much or from a wish for none to know, but rather as a sort of self-effacing. When she talks of herself and her childhood, it's usually in relation to how she's admired the history of the Ahura from a very young age. She barely talks about the death of her mother, or her mother in general. That, at least, mirrors the Prince.
Her devotion to the well-being of the world, to preserving the peace and balance, and to the gods, is unparalleled. She is willing to do whatever it takes to put things right, to prevent the end of the world and seal Ahriman away again. To that end, she keeps an absolute secret from the Prince - that she must die in order for this to happen. Ahriman granting her father's wish to revive her from the dead was what caused the whole mess in the first place, and she knows inherently, probably from the beginning, that she must die in order for the world to be put back in order. She never tells the Prince, not once, not even in the middle of the act, only saying "I'm sorry." She has little that she wants for herself. Her dedication, motivation, ferocity of intent is impressive and unstoppable. She doesn't even fear death.