Post by Elodie Edison on Jan 18, 2013 14:34:57 GMT
Full name: Elodie Ezmerada Edison
Alias: Ondine
Age: 20
Birthday: August 14th 1992
Hometown: Luxor, Egypt
Current Occupation: Drug runner at the Funhouse
Appearance: Curvy with naturally striking features, Elodie has always appeared older than she is, something not helped by the dark circles almost constantly present under her eyes. Her Egyptian heritage can be seen in her colouring with honey skin and ebony hair that falls naturally in soft waves. Her hazel eyes are large and doe-like, offsetting her otherwise petite features. While recently she had not found a lot to make her smile, when she does her entire face lights up from the broad grin.
Personality: Initially quite adventurous, Elodie is now incredibly quiet and introverted. Haunted by nightmares, her insomnia leaves in her a constantly drowsy state, making her somewhat clumsy. Despite all this, her survival and mothering instincts are strong which has seen her and several other children through their lives in District X.
Powers: Elodie’s powers are only apparent when she is in water. Having the ability to breathe underwater, she will not drown even if spending hours below the surface. The longer she remains submerged, the more her powers develop. Starting with a few scales forming on her legs, Elodie’s feet will eventually elongate into fins as her legs scale over completely, the effect creeping up her stomach. Some scales also form along her jawline and her hands become more pointed. These effects disappear fairly quickly once she returns to land.
History: Elodie’s father Jonty Edison was the great-great grandson of inventor Thomas Edison. An archaeologist and historian, Jonty travelled the world, making a name for himself across the globe and eventually winning a documentary series for himself that seemed set to turn him into a household name. While travelling for his first documentary, Jonty first met Masika Awad, a young Egyptian woman who worked at the Mummification Museum of historical Thebes, now known as Luxor. Meeting Masika turned Jonty’s world upside down as he fell madly in love with her and relocated to Luxor, despite his family willing him to remain in America. Jonty continued to make documentaries, initially taking his wife with him, but when she fell pregnant, Masika chose to stay in Luxor while Jonty went away to work. He returned in time to see the birth of his daughter whom he and Masika decided to name Melody Esmeralda. However, when they went to register the birth, a misunderstanding of the Western name by the clerk had the baby recorded as Elodie Ezmerada. They were home before the mistake was realised but Jonty and Masika found they rather liked the misheard name and so they never had it corrected.
Elodie’s early years were spent blissfully in Luxor as her father took an extended sabbatical to remain home with his wife and daughter. Privately schooled, the girl showed a prowess for music, learning how to competently play the piano, harp and cello by the age of ten, as well as excelling in math and science. When not at school, Elodie’s time was divided between exploring her mother’s museum and exploring the various ruins Luxor had to offer with her father. Her parents never had another child and so their attention remained fully on Elodie, whom they showered with gifts while somehow managing to keep her from becoming too spoiled. However, they soon decided that to offer their child more opportunities than Luxor could offer, it would be of benefit to return to Jonty’s home in America. When Elodie was aged 14, the Edisons packed their belongings and set off on what was planned to the move that made them. Rather than take a simple route, Jonty and Masika had decided to explore the areas between their homes, showing Elodie as much of the world as they could and perhaps making a documentary that would establish Jonty as the greatest living explorer.
The first months of the journey went off without a hitch, the family taking in new wonders that filled them all with excitement for the rest of their trip. Elodie, who had never left Luxor before in her life, found the experience thrilling and was often finding herself in trouble for wandering off without her parents or someone from the small film crew that they had with them. Eventually they set off on the trip’s first journey across the ocean. So far Elodie had never been across more than a river in her life, and the big ship that would take them to Asia, intimidated her to the point of pure terror. Her father had picked the day to travel despite warnings of the monsoon season, figuring that they would get some spectacular and unique footage. Unfortunately, his decision meant that he would never get the chance to see the footage at all.
Rocked by a heavy storm, Elodie woke in the middle of the night to hear shouting coming from the deck of the ship. Hurrying out to see what the noise was about, she saw her parents and the sailors fighting to keep control of the vessel as the Indian Ocean unleashed hell on them. The mast was splintered and toppled, great waves attacked over the sides of the ship and the groaning of wood all pointing towards the inevitable. Terrified, Elodie had held onto the side of the ship, screaming for her father who kept being knocked off his footing by the waves as he tried to reach her. Unable to do anything, the young teen was helpless to watch as Jonty was swept overboard into the angry ocean. There were shouts from the sailors and before she knew what was happening, one of the crew had picked her up and helped her and her mother into a cabin below deck so that they would not be blown overboard like Elodie’s father. The action was pointless though, as within a mere half an hour, the ship had bowed to the pressure of the weather and was sinking fast. The shouting was soon muffled by the wind before the sea began filling people’s lungs. Clinging to her mother as water began to slowly engulf their cabin, Elodie could do nothing but cry, closing her eyes as she waited to die. She felt the water cover her mouth and nose and realised it was her final moment, only the moment seemed to stretch on and on. Eventually, Elodie opened her eyes, exhaling a breath but not finding her lungs on fire with the ocean water.
She still clung onto her mother, though as she turned her head, she found that Masika had already succumbed and drowned. Believing herself dead and this all a horrible trick of her dying brain, Elodie was horrified when she looked down to see her legs and found them transforming into what she could only relate to as the fin of a mermaid from legends. She didn’t know what was happening, but a desire to escape kicked in and she swam, her new skill seeing her to the surface as the ship dropped further and further towards the sea bed. With no idea of where to go, Elodie merely swam in one direction, the monsoon bearing down above her, until she found land. Exhausted both physically and emotionally, she collapsed onto a beach where she remained until locals found her the next morning. They informed her that she was on the island Pemba that made up part of Zanzibar and did their best to send out messages to the US embassy for her. Having watched her parents die, Elodie was naturally traumatized and retreated into herself, finding no wonder in the exciting things on Pemba. By the time an uncle arrived with a private plane to take them back to America, the teenager hardly spoke at all.
In America, Elodie found that she had a rather generous trust fund waiting for her, as well as a family that couldn’t do enough to help her settle in. While they were loving, the Edisons here lacked the spark she had seen in her parents and tiptoed around her for fear of further upsetting her. She was sent to school almost immediately where she failed to settle in amongst the other stuffy upper class pupils and was in trouble daily for ‘day dreaming’, when really all she did was replay the worst day of her life over and over again in her head. Elodie developed insomnia, terrified to close her eyes in case images from the storm filled her dreams as so often they did. Eventually, in a desperate bid to get her to sleep naturally, her family sent her to a rather extreme psychologist. His idea was to try to take Elodie’s mind back to the shipwreck and try and relieve as much of the negativity as possible. For the treatment, Elodie was tricked into a swimming pool where she instantly began to have a panic attack. Her mutation flared up again, shocking the psychologist and her family. Before any of them had a chance to react, Elodie fled the building, resolving to put them all behind her and start afresh.
With access to her trust fund, Elodie was able to make her way to New York where, by chance, she fell onto the radar of Alec Godfrey. Just sixteen, she was enrolled into his ranks of children and given a job of smuggling drugs off of ships and swimming with them to land so that the ships passed police inspections. Alec used her trust fund like it was his own, until her family cut the account off, clearly trying to make Elodie return to them. But the girl wouldn’t go. Though she didn’t care for the musty sheets that she called a bed in the Funhouse, she was comforted to be around other mutants and no one there tried to make her sleep. It was only when she was almost dropping from exhaustion that she would be granted a sedative to make her fall into a dreamless sleep, and that was fine with her.
As one of the older people at the Funhouse, Elodie has been one of three girls whom Alec turns to in moments when he becomes lucid enough to remember human desires. Though the trysts are not forced, nor are they moments of passion or love and have led to Elodie becoming even more introverted and mistrusting. After four years, her faith in Alec and his ways is rapidly depleting and she is looking for any way out of District X.
Family:
Thomas Edison - Great-Great-Great-Grandfather
Jonty Edison - Father
Masika Awad - Mother
Theo Edison - Uncle
Marcia Edison - Aunt
Other Information:
-Has her great-great-great-grandfather’s signature tattooed on her back, just under where a camisole might hit, as a private reminder to try and live her life as he lived his.
-Is fluent in both English and Egyptian Arabic
PB: Mila Kunis
Alias: Ondine
Age: 20
Birthday: August 14th 1992
Hometown: Luxor, Egypt
Current Occupation: Drug runner at the Funhouse
Appearance: Curvy with naturally striking features, Elodie has always appeared older than she is, something not helped by the dark circles almost constantly present under her eyes. Her Egyptian heritage can be seen in her colouring with honey skin and ebony hair that falls naturally in soft waves. Her hazel eyes are large and doe-like, offsetting her otherwise petite features. While recently she had not found a lot to make her smile, when she does her entire face lights up from the broad grin.
Personality: Initially quite adventurous, Elodie is now incredibly quiet and introverted. Haunted by nightmares, her insomnia leaves in her a constantly drowsy state, making her somewhat clumsy. Despite all this, her survival and mothering instincts are strong which has seen her and several other children through their lives in District X.
Powers: Elodie’s powers are only apparent when she is in water. Having the ability to breathe underwater, she will not drown even if spending hours below the surface. The longer she remains submerged, the more her powers develop. Starting with a few scales forming on her legs, Elodie’s feet will eventually elongate into fins as her legs scale over completely, the effect creeping up her stomach. Some scales also form along her jawline and her hands become more pointed. These effects disappear fairly quickly once she returns to land.
History: Elodie’s father Jonty Edison was the great-great grandson of inventor Thomas Edison. An archaeologist and historian, Jonty travelled the world, making a name for himself across the globe and eventually winning a documentary series for himself that seemed set to turn him into a household name. While travelling for his first documentary, Jonty first met Masika Awad, a young Egyptian woman who worked at the Mummification Museum of historical Thebes, now known as Luxor. Meeting Masika turned Jonty’s world upside down as he fell madly in love with her and relocated to Luxor, despite his family willing him to remain in America. Jonty continued to make documentaries, initially taking his wife with him, but when she fell pregnant, Masika chose to stay in Luxor while Jonty went away to work. He returned in time to see the birth of his daughter whom he and Masika decided to name Melody Esmeralda. However, when they went to register the birth, a misunderstanding of the Western name by the clerk had the baby recorded as Elodie Ezmerada. They were home before the mistake was realised but Jonty and Masika found they rather liked the misheard name and so they never had it corrected.
Elodie’s early years were spent blissfully in Luxor as her father took an extended sabbatical to remain home with his wife and daughter. Privately schooled, the girl showed a prowess for music, learning how to competently play the piano, harp and cello by the age of ten, as well as excelling in math and science. When not at school, Elodie’s time was divided between exploring her mother’s museum and exploring the various ruins Luxor had to offer with her father. Her parents never had another child and so their attention remained fully on Elodie, whom they showered with gifts while somehow managing to keep her from becoming too spoiled. However, they soon decided that to offer their child more opportunities than Luxor could offer, it would be of benefit to return to Jonty’s home in America. When Elodie was aged 14, the Edisons packed their belongings and set off on what was planned to the move that made them. Rather than take a simple route, Jonty and Masika had decided to explore the areas between their homes, showing Elodie as much of the world as they could and perhaps making a documentary that would establish Jonty as the greatest living explorer.
The first months of the journey went off without a hitch, the family taking in new wonders that filled them all with excitement for the rest of their trip. Elodie, who had never left Luxor before in her life, found the experience thrilling and was often finding herself in trouble for wandering off without her parents or someone from the small film crew that they had with them. Eventually they set off on the trip’s first journey across the ocean. So far Elodie had never been across more than a river in her life, and the big ship that would take them to Asia, intimidated her to the point of pure terror. Her father had picked the day to travel despite warnings of the monsoon season, figuring that they would get some spectacular and unique footage. Unfortunately, his decision meant that he would never get the chance to see the footage at all.
Rocked by a heavy storm, Elodie woke in the middle of the night to hear shouting coming from the deck of the ship. Hurrying out to see what the noise was about, she saw her parents and the sailors fighting to keep control of the vessel as the Indian Ocean unleashed hell on them. The mast was splintered and toppled, great waves attacked over the sides of the ship and the groaning of wood all pointing towards the inevitable. Terrified, Elodie had held onto the side of the ship, screaming for her father who kept being knocked off his footing by the waves as he tried to reach her. Unable to do anything, the young teen was helpless to watch as Jonty was swept overboard into the angry ocean. There were shouts from the sailors and before she knew what was happening, one of the crew had picked her up and helped her and her mother into a cabin below deck so that they would not be blown overboard like Elodie’s father. The action was pointless though, as within a mere half an hour, the ship had bowed to the pressure of the weather and was sinking fast. The shouting was soon muffled by the wind before the sea began filling people’s lungs. Clinging to her mother as water began to slowly engulf their cabin, Elodie could do nothing but cry, closing her eyes as she waited to die. She felt the water cover her mouth and nose and realised it was her final moment, only the moment seemed to stretch on and on. Eventually, Elodie opened her eyes, exhaling a breath but not finding her lungs on fire with the ocean water.
She still clung onto her mother, though as she turned her head, she found that Masika had already succumbed and drowned. Believing herself dead and this all a horrible trick of her dying brain, Elodie was horrified when she looked down to see her legs and found them transforming into what she could only relate to as the fin of a mermaid from legends. She didn’t know what was happening, but a desire to escape kicked in and she swam, her new skill seeing her to the surface as the ship dropped further and further towards the sea bed. With no idea of where to go, Elodie merely swam in one direction, the monsoon bearing down above her, until she found land. Exhausted both physically and emotionally, she collapsed onto a beach where she remained until locals found her the next morning. They informed her that she was on the island Pemba that made up part of Zanzibar and did their best to send out messages to the US embassy for her. Having watched her parents die, Elodie was naturally traumatized and retreated into herself, finding no wonder in the exciting things on Pemba. By the time an uncle arrived with a private plane to take them back to America, the teenager hardly spoke at all.
In America, Elodie found that she had a rather generous trust fund waiting for her, as well as a family that couldn’t do enough to help her settle in. While they were loving, the Edisons here lacked the spark she had seen in her parents and tiptoed around her for fear of further upsetting her. She was sent to school almost immediately where she failed to settle in amongst the other stuffy upper class pupils and was in trouble daily for ‘day dreaming’, when really all she did was replay the worst day of her life over and over again in her head. Elodie developed insomnia, terrified to close her eyes in case images from the storm filled her dreams as so often they did. Eventually, in a desperate bid to get her to sleep naturally, her family sent her to a rather extreme psychologist. His idea was to try to take Elodie’s mind back to the shipwreck and try and relieve as much of the negativity as possible. For the treatment, Elodie was tricked into a swimming pool where she instantly began to have a panic attack. Her mutation flared up again, shocking the psychologist and her family. Before any of them had a chance to react, Elodie fled the building, resolving to put them all behind her and start afresh.
With access to her trust fund, Elodie was able to make her way to New York where, by chance, she fell onto the radar of Alec Godfrey. Just sixteen, she was enrolled into his ranks of children and given a job of smuggling drugs off of ships and swimming with them to land so that the ships passed police inspections. Alec used her trust fund like it was his own, until her family cut the account off, clearly trying to make Elodie return to them. But the girl wouldn’t go. Though she didn’t care for the musty sheets that she called a bed in the Funhouse, she was comforted to be around other mutants and no one there tried to make her sleep. It was only when she was almost dropping from exhaustion that she would be granted a sedative to make her fall into a dreamless sleep, and that was fine with her.
As one of the older people at the Funhouse, Elodie has been one of three girls whom Alec turns to in moments when he becomes lucid enough to remember human desires. Though the trysts are not forced, nor are they moments of passion or love and have led to Elodie becoming even more introverted and mistrusting. After four years, her faith in Alec and his ways is rapidly depleting and she is looking for any way out of District X.
Family:
Thomas Edison - Great-Great-Great-Grandfather
Jonty Edison - Father
Masika Awad - Mother
Theo Edison - Uncle
Marcia Edison - Aunt
Other Information:
-Has her great-great-great-grandfather’s signature tattooed on her back, just under where a camisole might hit, as a private reminder to try and live her life as he lived his.
-Is fluent in both English and Egyptian Arabic
PB: Mila Kunis
