Name: Elia Louisa Reinhardt
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Height: 5'3
Sexuality: Elia is about as sexually adept as a nun so even she doesn't know which way she swings.

Psych Profile

Traits

• Incredibly Intelligent - Elia was not raised amongst a fluttering bunch of ladies-in-waiting nor was she raised on the streets. She was raised in a workshop of an inventor who was deemed mad by some and genius by others. She was his blood and growing up in such an environment made her into one of the greatest minds in the country.
• Industrious - When she started, she had naught but her mind, a dilapidated workshop and the wisdom left behind by her father. From this, she forged an empire of machinery and a name for herself. Although she's quite rich, she never forgot where she came from and can make stunning creations from just a few simple parts.
• Kind-Hearted - Elia can sometimes be a tad cynical or a little disapproving of someone's intelligence but behind all that coldness is a warm heart that simply wants to better the world she inhabits. Not once has she made a weapon using her intelligence nor does she ever plan to - a move which caused tension with one particular noble family.
• Strong-Willed - It takes a lot of guts to ignore the status quo and follow your own path. By all regards she should have been wedded and bedded by this point but she seems happy creating her empire rather than creating little... things.

Monster Traits

• Shadow Form - When Elia is in shadow form, she is capable of dissolving into a being made purely from darkness. Being something made out of a lack of light, it is almost impossible to see her if she sticks to the shadows. Her form can be manipulated easily so she can look like a beast of a man or a well-curved woman.
• Endless Torment - She can't physically interact with someone when in shadow form but in a world that doesn't believe in the old magic, the sheer sight of a figure made purely from shadows is enough to terrify anyone. If she really wanted to, she could paralyse them with fear or even kill them.
• Sleepless Whispers - This is Elia's primary use: intelligence gathering. The myths of shadow people originated from those who woke to find themselves paralyzed with a being made of darkness straddling them. Once Elia does this, her target becomes very willing to give over any information she asks for.

Flaws

• Stubborn - Despite her intelligence, Elia is as stubborn as a mule. Once she sets her mind to something, she will follow through with it even if it leaves her completely drained or wishing she hadn't listened to herself. She would have got far with her father's teachings and her own intelligence but not far enough. The only reason she's as successful as she is now is due to those who doubted her or dismissed her.
• Socially Inept - She's spent her life surrounded by clockwork mechanisms and steam machines so naturally, when it comes to things that actually have a pulse, she doesn't do awfully well. The core problem is that Elia would rather be back in her workshop instead of socialising and thus, she has gotten into a lull of not needing human contact.
• Know-It-All - Unfortunately for Elia, she has to spend a lot of her time around rich nobles to attract business. The unfortunate thing about this is that most nobles are self-righteous idiots who think they're very well versed when it comes to knowledge. When she proves that they indeed know very little, it does not make her many friends.
• Self-Hatred - It is a painful existence to know that you can change so much in the world but you can never change what it is that hurts you the most. If she could, she would go back in time and change so much but the fact is, she cannot and that mere fact is what she hates most about herself. Sometimes she even thinks that she would prefer to be stupid and not have to research these things that hurt her only to discover that they're way above her.

Monster Flaws

• Volatility to Light - Since she has been changed, it is nearly impossible for her to step outside during the middle of the day. She's capable of standing in the light of the dawn and dusk but midday would burn her very skin and more than likely leave her blind. She much prefers the darkness so recently, she has adapted an unhealthy paleness to her complexion.
• Lack of Interaction - Elia is physically incapable of interacting with the world in her shadow form meaning that she is almost completely useless during a battle.
• Religious Objects - Objects that have a religious connotation to them usually prove to be particularly dangerous to Elia. Them objects alone are the only things capable of interacting with her during her shadow form and thus, they can prove to be extremely painful and bring on a sensation of burning.

Backstory:
Elia Louisa Reinhardt was born on a cold December morning to two parents who were considered the greatest minds of their time. Her birth seemed too much for her mother who later died due to loss of blood. Her first victim and she had barely even opened her eyes for the first time.

Her early life was eventful, at best. The lack of a solid mother figure and a father who understood machines better than he understood little girls led to her regularly ditching lessons in school to instead run amuck (or more regularly, go to her father's workshop). The mere fact that she learned more by herself and in the workshop didn't say a lot for the public schooling system but once her father realised that, he consented to having her leave school if she learned under him.

From a very young age it was painfully obvious that Elia was not going to be a little lady or a lady of any sorts for that matter. More times than most, any dresses she was forced into were abandoned for shorts and trousers. When her father queried her on it, she answered that she was never going to be able to work in a dress so she was never going to need a dress. Her father couldn't find a flaw in her argument and fearing she would rebel anyways if he enforced it, he allowed her to abandon her finery. Being a naturally curious little thing, she spent more time in her father's workshop than he did and eventually, the knack of inventing was simply instilled within her.

Her early teenage years were enjoyable ones. Although her father was aging and regularly falling into poor health, she was a sprightly young thing that did the work for him and ultimately learned under his careful eye. If it wasn't already obvious that she was following in his footsteps, it became painfully so when she became a major designer on the royal airship he was commissioned to make. Her designs brought a new inspiration to the entire process which made her father a decent name for himself.

As she grew into a young woman and attracted the attention of suitors (which she fervently declined), her father's health worsened. Eventually, a few days after her seventeenth birthday, he passed away in his sleep. It was a painless death but Elia was left distraught. He was the only solid figure in her life and he was ripped away from her. She had no one but machines after that and it was the machines that she turned to. She fell away from society so much so that many suspected her to be dead. More times than enough, she went without sleep in her research. The subject of her research? Time. If time could be reversed, things could change. The world could change. She could break the curse of death. She just needed more time.

She never found her time and eventually, she gave up on her quest, which was quickly destroying her. Instead, she turned her genius to the world of machinery and science. Within a year, she fashioned a business out of her inventions. Within two, she became one of the richest females in the country as other countries invested in her transportation devices.

It came as no surprise that she was invited to the Lord Nixus' Masquerade - she had been invited most social events recently. Unlike the most of them which she turned down, Elia decided that this party could only help her work so she elected to attend it. Although she had no intention to meet Lord Nixon himself, it wasn't surprising that she caught his eye considering she was the only female in the room not wearing a dress. It was curiosity that drove her to follow the maid and despite the disturbing pictures along the way, she very willingly stepped into Lord Nixus' private quarters. After that? Well, we all know what curiosity does to cats.

Character Motivation:
Elia hates what Nixus has done to her and she hates her shadow form but more often than not, she has found herself willingly slipping into the form. It allows her to see so much more than she can normally and more importantly, it allows her to acquire knowledge. Knowledge is all she ever wants.



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