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Character Name: Elraine Figarette (Elle)
Canon: Double Arts
Canon-Point: Chapter 23 - Shortly after deciding to move on to the next town.
Age: Sixteen
History: Unfortunately, there really isn't a detailed wiki on this series since it was canceled and is incredibly under the radar for the most part. Surprisingly, it does have a TV Tropes page that's actually fairly accurate (though it still doesn't really detail the history enough). Still trying to figure that one out.
The World of Double Arts
Elraine comes from a more old school world where the highest technology seems to be phone lines and the fastest method of travel, horse drawn wagons. The world ranges from having quaint towns to small cities with bustling markets to buy, sell, and trade goods although it may have once had cities even larger. Considering circumstances though, can't really blame the poor saps for having more things to worry about like terrifying, life threatening things such as the disease, troy/troi. For all intensive purposes, I'll be referring to it as troy, but neither spelling has been specified as the absolute correct one. Again, obscurity. It happens.
Troy, or "Vanishing Disease", is a sickness that's wiped out much of the world's population. It's a terrifying terminal poison that gradually kills its host. People eventually become so sick, they're bed ridden and must . Its final stage only lasts about a minute, however, it consists of the patient having seizures. And after the seizures cease? The patient literally fades out of existence. At this stage, the disease can not be reversed*. Those with troy are highly contagious. It literally takes only a simple brush of skin on skin contact for someone to contract it from someone else. It can even be transferred through hair on skin or hair on hair contact. In the past, this disease led to villages literally being wiped off the map.
However, while hope seemed feeble and far in between, it was finally found when the people began to discover young girls who had a higher resistance to the disease. Over the years, they came to form the Sisters, Elraine eventually becoming one of them. These are people who voluntarily give up on the pursuit of their own dreams and ambitions to travel the world seeking out pleading families to slow the progression of the disease. Basically, they go in, make skin contact with the patient, and suck some of the poison out into their own body through that simple hand to hand contact. Unfortunately, again it never cures it. It also has the lovely affect of shortening the life span of the sister. Elraine, herself, has cured so many patients that she freely admits to someone how she'll likely never make it to twenty. So, basically, it's a big, unfun cycle of people slowly dying from a disease that's impossible to cure and can really only be hopefully quarantined... Now, if only people would stop touching each other. Gawd.
Wow, that came out wrong.
To make matters worse, for some damned reason, despite how awful and terrible this disease is, there's a group of assassins known as The Gazelle who go around killing Sisters because they feel like it. Okay-- no, seriously, it's apparently because they don't want the disease rid of. The reason as to why is never explained. Guess they like population control? Gotta love cliffhangers. Okay, not really.
*It has only been stopped once ever in canon record due to the combined efforts of Kiri and Elraine for Heine's sake which basically can amount to Kiri acting as an anchor to stalling Heine's final stage and Elraine using Kiri's power to be able to contain an overdraft of troy's poison to revert Heine away from the danger stage.
The Curious Case of Kiri
Okay, so as noted before, troy sucks. It's terrible. No one can cure it. Cue Kiri, or Kili. Again, difference in translations and nothing is ever solidified. Kiri's a boy that somehow has full immunity to troy. He also has this crazy ability that's likely related to that known as "Flare". With this ability, as long as he's making skin on skin contact with a person, two things can happen. For one, contact with a person increases their vitality. In the past, this has helped people he's known heal quicker or even get over colds sooner.
The other is depending on how many people he's holding hands with, he can actually up the strength between them. So, two of them suddenly have double the strength. Three people? Triple. Four? Quadruple. You get the picture. It's like a magical power of friendship chain thing. Either way, because of his flare power and immunity, he's seen as the possible cure-all for this disease. If him holding hands with Elraine can prevent her from dying, what else can they do if they tamper with it? And thus, he is asked by the order to come on down to the main base of operations known as Church Headquarters.
Unfortunately, the Gazelle end up catching wind of it and now they're pissed because, hey, they want people dead from this disease. They don't want a cure. Guess who's now on the top of their hit list? You know it. Even more curious is the fact that they're confused as to how another person could be immune. Another cliffhanger that's never reconciled though. Bummer.
How Elle Even Fits Into All This, Damn It!
Elle was a victim of one of those unfortunate cases of 'whole village being wiped out'-- made worse because from what can be seen, she was the sole survivor. Who then graduated to the status of sister not long after. That's right. Since the tender age of eight, she has been helping people cheat death for a little bit longer. The duty's something she apparently long since accepted considering the world of the sisters has such a martyr complex. She even treats so many patients that she comes to be famous among her crowd, known as the "White Fairy".
After curing a patient in the town of Turm, however, Elle finally succumbs to the throes of death. Or, well. At least she would have if a local hadn't shown up, a boy by the name of Kiri. They soon discover that the only reason why Elraine still draws breath is because of Kiri's bizarre immunity and equally bizarre ability, Flare, which keeps her alive so long as they remain in skin to skin contact. Without that, Elraine would die. So, as the cheerful head of the sisters, Sister Martha, explains later to them, so long as they hold hands forever be it eating, bathing, using the toilet, or sleeping, Elraine could live a long life yet. ...Yeah, that didn't go over well for either of them.
Before they're sucked into this revelation much further, however, they end up attacked by one of the assassins Sister Martha just manages to forewarn them about. After managing to evade the assassin for a short time, Elraine decides she'll be a distraction for Kiri to escape despite knowing the consequences of her choice, that which makes itself apparent only moments later. Kiri gets a first hand show of the vanishing disease which he's never seen before... and decidedly tells Elle to piss off. There's no way he's gonna let her off herself like that for him. If she wants to see a world without troy, he decides he's gonna damn well let her see it. So, after a cutesy pick me up from his end, he formulates a plan of attack that actually defeats their first big bad. ...Only telling Elle afterwards that the whole idea was entirely improvised. But hey, it worked, right?
After such an unsettling attack, Kiri decides it might be best off to introduce her to his folks in Turm seeing as she won't be going anywhere else unless it's with him for a while (or perhaps that's more the other way around). Despite Elle's worries and constant apologies, she's welcomed warmly by "Mink-san" and "Urates-san", Kiri's mother and father respectively. After spending a surprisingly nice night at the Luchile's (despite the spaz of having to wash and sleep while she holds Kiri's hand), she wakes up to remember that she still hasn't reported into the order. Whoops?
After the initial awkward of the delayed conversation, Sister Martha advises Elle and Kiri to stay cautious and that they should remain in Turm for the moment. She notes that the Falzen, a group of their best Millitare Sisters are on their way to rendevous with them and take them to Church Headquarters. In the meantime, basically, don't do anything stupid. As far as they're aware, Kiri is the sole possibility finding an actual cure for Troy. ...Cue another assassin trying to kill them. This time, they are rescued by none other than Kiri's childhood friend (and ex!?), Sui, who loves a good fight (in fact, she dated all the boys in the village just to fight them. ...Yeah.)
Despite the attack, Kiri and Elle set out for what Kiri had planned: a Thanksgiving festival rehearsal. The actual festival won't take off for another six months, but apparently Kiri has a big run of the place from its artistic approach to mobilizing things. Cue Kiri showing Elraine just what the flare can do with thirty/forty people, moving an entire building.
After a busy day, however, the following one Elle asks Kiri for a favor. Considering the attacks they've had on them, she figures they might want to stop by St. Atles's, a hidden base of the Sister's, in order to possibly pick up a guard. Kiri agrees to go with her. The sisters there are very warm and welcoming of them, praising Elle (with her embarrassing nickname) and Kiri for being the one they've been possibly looking for all that time. There's also a-- haha --touching moment when Kiri realizes just how physically disconnected from the world they are when they inquire to touch his hand.
Unfortunately, the warm and fuzzies don't last. It's there that Lucci Zezu, one of the eleven top assassins of the Gazelle, decides to attack. The sisters at the base press Elle and Kiri to flee. But while they do, Kiri finds himself filled with guilt and turns back, even if that means carrying Elle when she refuses to go with him. Despite his best intentions though, the fight runs one-sided with Elle nearly disappearing from troy when she and Kiri are separated. While he manages to save her, it is only after a surprising if not deflected attack by Kiri and one of that sisters that Lucci decides to more or less play with them later and the fight finally ceases. While there are no casualties, it's still a bitch-slap-to-the-face realization for Kiri that if they get caught up in a situation like that again, not only are they likely going to die but they may very well take people with them. Yeah, no, that doesn't sit well with him.
It's after this conflict that Sister Martha decides that they should leave Turm and go to Deodradd (Deodorad?). There, they need to beg Fallen Denzell for his protection no matter what. After a kind send off from the Luchiles, Elle and Kiri do as instructed and take the next wagon east the next morning (though not without the surprise!company of Sui). The trip ends up uneventful to their good fortune though Sui decidedly "borrows" Elle's wallet to buy cherries shortly after their arrival. Still, there are more pressing matters. Kiri advises going to find a friend of his mother's, the fortune teller what's-her-name. Apparently, she goes by several different alias... all the time. Her current one's Tissera.
But what doesn't change about her is her ability to tell concise information and she sends them off soon after on Fallan's trail. Still, even when they do find him, he refuses to help them, explaining that he has decided to never protect anyone. Elle and Kiri back off, deciding to find a place to stay. However, Sui reunites with them then in order to inform them that they've been followed all day long by a group of assassins and should expect an attack that night.
As predicted, an attack does come though not without a surprise run into Fallen (who apparently was bribed into it by Tissera). Still, Fallen refuses to fight for them and the first assassin ends up brawling with Sui. Kiri leads Elle off to escape from the fight only to then question what will happen if they keep running. If they can't protect themselves, it's likely they'll eventually get cornered and killed. Mutually, they decide they'd rather fight... and then abruptly get their opportunity when another assassin attacks them. Through teamwork, they manage to take down their attacker and return to the main street just in time to see Fallen face off with Abro, the Poison (blank). Fallen easily defeats the last assassin.
After turning the assassins in to the authorities, Elraine makes her report to Sister Martha and is told to remain off the radar as much as possible. Fallen also agrees to stick around them to ward off assassins, but again, he will not protect them. During their downtime, they meet the sister, Heine. Their small talk leads to Heine blabbering about her dream of being a painter that she gave up since she felt being a sister was more important. Elraine turns around and exclaims to Heime how she should still be pursuing her dreams, too, as long as she lives.
But the bittersweet reality is that Heime is one cure away from her seizures starting and has just as much of a martyr complex as Elraine had. When Kiri and Elle catch wind of the truth, they rush in for a desperate save attempt. Through quick and dangerous thinking on Elle's part, Heine manages to ultimately cheat the death she realized she wasn't ready for. She therein agrees to quit as a Specialist Sister and begin background work while pursuing the dream she'd almost forgotten.
Still, things don't remain calm. When Elle reports in again, she's informed that the Falzen have been completely obliterated. This leads to an emergency meeting at Tisera's place. It's there that they plot out their plan to leave for headquarters using their own strength and Kiri requests for Fallen to teach them a unique fighting style for him and Elle. Fallen surprisingly agrees to this task and thus becomes their hardass teacher for the next week approximately where he strictly guides through to learn their own fighting style, a style learned through... dancing. Yep. Also now known as "Double Arts" ("Twin Fight Dance").
Elle surprisingly does well with the lessons although the style and her condition leads them to drawing her up a new outfit with more skin exposed in order for Kiri to more easily get contact with her should things go weary. It's probably a good thing because they get their first real combat exercise only days afterwards when another group of assassins arrives in town. With Fallen still refusing to fight with them, Kiri, Elle, and Sui take on a corrupted priest and ensemble of henchmen and poisoned arrows with fierce grace. It's their first victory with their new art, but it's also a victory they spend little time savoring.
It's a long way to church headquarters. Best to get moving to the next town, they agree.
Personality:
Elle in a Nutshell
Selfless, reserved, and kind with a side of spaz.
Probably the best way to describe Elle in a wrap. Being raised in a culture where her focus has mainly been on the disease, Troy, she has had the unfortunate if not respectful life of growing up far too fast to counteract its spread. This is the girl who turned back to a mother and her child and explained politely with a smile that she probably wouldn't live until twenty. To that end, at least when concerning the matters of troy, Elle has a very responsible, serious, dedicated demure about her. She's very mature about her mission and courageously carries it out as quickly and efficiently as she can, all for helping those who've been stricken.
Being raised as a Sister, she tends to carry herself in a reserved, closed form for the most part. Her speech patterns aren't excessively formal, but they are respectful to the point that Kiri's mother has to kind of prod her to refer to her and Kiri's father otherwise. Elle also demonstrates some inadequate feelings for herself in the way she apologizes profusely to them for invading their space despite the dire situation. It's clear that she doesn't like to be a nuisance to people-- even when her reasons are clearly valid. She doesn't like to trouble people! She's there in that world to help people, after all! It's her duty!
Though in fact, it's that very duty that has had its share of downsides though. Despite her interdependent views, Elle still remains to have a bit of a lack of self-worth despite Kiri's influence. It's something that really will only take time to heal though. Even though her intentions have been good, as they like to say, everyone's a critic. Even while she's been there to help people, there have been those who have called her ability to temporary thwart the disease a cop out. And while not specifically noted, it wouldn't be surprising if anyone ever got enraged at her for being late to anyone (Heine has a personal dealing with that). People have also met her with cruelty, fearing that she would infect them, too, or just generally taking the disease out on her.
Regardless of how people have treated her in the past though, Elle remains kind to people. She rarely is seen getting angry and aggressive towards much of the people she speaks to. Even towards assassins and the like, Elle is more likely to express fear and worry for her friends and comrades than outright anger. It's not to say she can't get angry or upset. She definitely does. Elle's focus just tends to weigh more in the safety of the people important to her and her own fears of inadequacy that come with her lack of fighting ability.
Still! Enough though she looks down at her inability to fight for a while, Elle isn't a doormat. In fact, she can be quite stubborn and set in her own ways. One beastly instance of stubbornness is in the way she insists to Kiri that if he wanted to go back and help the sisters fight Luzzu, he could. ...But he would have to leave her behind, knowing full well what that would mean. In another, she chose to act to save Heine through recklessly taking in the poison from her without telling Kiri ahead of time what her intentions had been. So, there are definitely poignant moments where she won't just follow along with what everyone wants the most all the time.
It doesn't mean she won't roll with things if they aren't a good idea. Elle is open to change, especially when it comes to a means to leveling the playing field. While at first very under-confident and knowingly meek in her combat tendencies, Elle decidedly works with Kiri then to learn a fighting technique of their own, a clear indication that Elle can definitely be willing to overcome weaknesses of hers. In fact, she manages to do so and even gain confidence from this sought change as seen in their first fight using Double Arts.*
Of course though, underneath everything is a more teenage Elle with silly teenage what do antics. This is especially put on display with the sudden awkward antics that have to do with holding hands with Kiri. She's easily flustered and flaily... even more so when Kiri instigates it as he likes to do sometimes. It's likely Elle never dated anyone or even considered dating with how dutiful she is, so for her to suddenly be confronted with not only being around a boy her age all the time who is made of stranger danger but having to change and shower and use the bathroom among other private venues with only a curtain or door between them, one can only imagine the lack of comfort levels going through the charts. And due to this lack of comfort, it really takes very little to set her off. She's super high strung and quickly tells him off, even if it's a very little thing, in reaction to her own embarrassment being prodded.Not gonna lie though. Kiri sometimes full well deserves it.
And underneath even this? There is a scared Elle. As Kiri unearthed, Elle clearly doesn't want to die from Troy. She does fear it, an understandable fear at that. At the same time though, she will not outright complain about it. If anything, she tends to worry a lot more about giving it to other people through accidental contact and outright states how the sister's uniform is meant as a sign to not come near her because she has troy and it's bad without blinking an eye. It's just a normal part of the culture she was raised in and thus heavily ingrained into her.
All in all, Elle is a complex young adult with much yet to learn though at the same time? Is sadly more learned in some areas than she perhaps deserves to be at her age.
The Kiri Effect
Once upon a time, Elle was a masochist. ...Okay, so she's still a masochist in some ways to this day, but before meeting Kiri? Elle was one of many in the Order who wrote their own lives off for the greater good. She allotted herself to be consumed by the role of the sisters and didn't think of much else. This made for her to be a very dedicated, kind, and loyal individual, even when faced with negative repercussions from the frightened populace. However, it also made for someone who held little value in themselves, someone who had looked at what she thought was her fate square in the eye and had assumed herself to having already accepted it.
But despite thinking that way, through Kiri, Elle not only discovers new found hope in an actual cure but also what she really wants in life: to actually be able to live long enough to see a world without troy. Not just hope for it! This opens her eyes to the reality that it's okay for sisters to follow ambitions and live their lives in accordance with their own wishes, too. That they essentially have as much of a right as any other person in their world to do as they wish. And this new hope also gives Elle this first burst of real happiness that she otherwise seems to have dealt with far and few between due to the heavy truths in her line of work.
Abilities/Powers:
Poison Drain
With skin on skin contact, usually through holding hands, Elraine is able to take in poison from other victims of Troy in order to further prolong their life. Of course, it's at the cost of shortening her own. Only works with Troy.
Sensor
For some inexplicable reason, sisters are capable of telling from sight alone whether a person has Troy or not. The why is never explained, but it's none-the-less a canon fact. Note that she's only capable of telling if they have this specific disease.
Dancing/Double Arts
Elraine surprisingly can hold up as a decent dance partner which ended up making her into an equally well skilled fighter of the martial art made between her and Kiri. It consists of having seamless coordination, tempo, and grace with whoever she's "dancing" with. Unfortunately, it's an ability not really plausible unless she really syncs with someone else. ...If she ever allows anyone else to get that close to her, that is.
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Character Name: Elraine Figarette (Elle)
Canon: Double Arts
Canon-Point: Chapter 23 - Shortly after deciding to move on to the next town.
Age: Sixteen
History: Unfortunately, there really isn't a detailed wiki on this series since it was canceled and is incredibly under the radar for the most part. Surprisingly, it does have a TV Tropes page that's actually fairly accurate (though it still doesn't really detail the history enough). Still trying to figure that one out.
The World of Double Arts
Elraine comes from a more old school world where the highest technology seems to be phone lines and the fastest method of travel, horse drawn wagons. The world ranges from having quaint towns to small cities with bustling markets to buy, sell, and trade goods although it may have once had cities even larger. Considering circumstances though, can't really blame the poor saps for having more things to worry about like terrifying, life threatening things such as the disease, troy/troi. For all intensive purposes, I'll be referring to it as troy, but neither spelling has been specified as the absolute correct one. Again, obscurity. It happens.
Troy, or "Vanishing Disease", is a sickness that's wiped out much of the world's population. It's a terrifying terminal poison that gradually kills its host. People eventually become so sick, they're bed ridden and must . Its final stage only lasts about a minute, however, it consists of the patient having seizures. And after the seizures cease? The patient literally fades out of existence. At this stage, the disease can not be reversed*. Those with troy are highly contagious. It literally takes only a simple brush of skin on skin contact for someone to contract it from someone else. It can even be transferred through hair on skin or hair on hair contact. In the past, this disease led to villages literally being wiped off the map.
However, while hope seemed feeble and far in between, it was finally found when the people began to discover young girls who had a higher resistance to the disease. Over the years, they came to form the Sisters, Elraine eventually becoming one of them. These are people who voluntarily give up on the pursuit of their own dreams and ambitions to travel the world seeking out pleading families to slow the progression of the disease. Basically, they go in, make skin contact with the patient, and suck some of the poison out into their own body through that simple hand to hand contact. Unfortunately, again it never cures it. It also has the lovely affect of shortening the life span of the sister. Elraine, herself, has cured so many patients that she freely admits to someone how she'll likely never make it to twenty. So, basically, it's a big, unfun cycle of people slowly dying from a disease that's impossible to cure and can really only be hopefully quarantined... Now, if only people would stop touching each other. Gawd.
Wow, that came out wrong.
To make matters worse, for some damned reason, despite how awful and terrible this disease is, there's a group of assassins known as The Gazelle who go around killing Sisters because they feel like it. Okay-- no, seriously, it's apparently because they don't want the disease rid of. The reason as to why is never explained. Guess they like population control? Gotta love cliffhangers. Okay, not really.
*It has only been stopped once ever in canon record due to the combined efforts of Kiri and Elraine for Heine's sake which basically can amount to Kiri acting as an anchor to stalling Heine's final stage and Elraine using Kiri's power to be able to contain an overdraft of troy's poison to revert Heine away from the danger stage.
The Curious Case of Kiri
Okay, so as noted before, troy sucks. It's terrible. No one can cure it. Cue Kiri, or Kili. Again, difference in translations and nothing is ever solidified. Kiri's a boy that somehow has full immunity to troy. He also has this crazy ability that's likely related to that known as "Flare". With this ability, as long as he's making skin on skin contact with a person, two things can happen. For one, contact with a person increases their vitality. In the past, this has helped people he's known heal quicker or even get over colds sooner.
The other is depending on how many people he's holding hands with, he can actually up the strength between them. So, two of them suddenly have double the strength. Three people? Triple. Four? Quadruple. You get the picture. It's like a magical power of friendship chain thing. Either way, because of his flare power and immunity, he's seen as the possible cure-all for this disease. If him holding hands with Elraine can prevent her from dying, what else can they do if they tamper with it? And thus, he is asked by the order to come on down to the main base of operations known as Church Headquarters.
Unfortunately, the Gazelle end up catching wind of it and now they're pissed because, hey, they want people dead from this disease. They don't want a cure. Guess who's now on the top of their hit list? You know it. Even more curious is the fact that they're confused as to how another person could be immune. Another cliffhanger that's never reconciled though. Bummer.
How Elle Even Fits Into All This, Damn It!
Elle was a victim of one of those unfortunate cases of 'whole village being wiped out'-- made worse because from what can be seen, she was the sole survivor. Who then graduated to the status of sister not long after. That's right. Since the tender age of eight, she has been helping people cheat death for a little bit longer. The duty's something she apparently long since accepted considering the world of the sisters has such a martyr complex. She even treats so many patients that she comes to be famous among her crowd, known as the "White Fairy".
After curing a patient in the town of Turm, however, Elle finally succumbs to the throes of death. Or, well. At least she would have if a local hadn't shown up, a boy by the name of Kiri. They soon discover that the only reason why Elraine still draws breath is because of Kiri's bizarre immunity and equally bizarre ability, Flare, which keeps her alive so long as they remain in skin to skin contact. Without that, Elraine would die. So, as the cheerful head of the sisters, Sister Martha, explains later to them, so long as they hold hands forever be it eating, bathing, using the toilet, or sleeping, Elraine could live a long life yet. ...Yeah, that didn't go over well for either of them.
Before they're sucked into this revelation much further, however, they end up attacked by one of the assassins Sister Martha just manages to forewarn them about. After managing to evade the assassin for a short time, Elraine decides she'll be a distraction for Kiri to escape despite knowing the consequences of her choice, that which makes itself apparent only moments later. Kiri gets a first hand show of the vanishing disease which he's never seen before... and decidedly tells Elle to piss off. There's no way he's gonna let her off herself like that for him. If she wants to see a world without troy, he decides he's gonna damn well let her see it. So, after a cutesy pick me up from his end, he formulates a plan of attack that actually defeats their first big bad. ...Only telling Elle afterwards that the whole idea was entirely improvised. But hey, it worked, right?
After such an unsettling attack, Kiri decides it might be best off to introduce her to his folks in Turm seeing as she won't be going anywhere else unless it's with him for a while (or perhaps that's more the other way around). Despite Elle's worries and constant apologies, she's welcomed warmly by "Mink-san" and "Urates-san", Kiri's mother and father respectively. After spending a surprisingly nice night at the Luchile's (despite the spaz of having to wash and sleep while she holds Kiri's hand), she wakes up to remember that she still hasn't reported into the order. Whoops?
After the initial awkward of the delayed conversation, Sister Martha advises Elle and Kiri to stay cautious and that they should remain in Turm for the moment. She notes that the Falzen, a group of their best Millitare Sisters are on their way to rendevous with them and take them to Church Headquarters. In the meantime, basically, don't do anything stupid. As far as they're aware, Kiri is the sole possibility finding an actual cure for Troy. ...Cue another assassin trying to kill them. This time, they are rescued by none other than Kiri's childhood friend (and ex!?), Sui, who loves a good fight (in fact, she dated all the boys in the village just to fight them. ...Yeah.)
Despite the attack, Kiri and Elle set out for what Kiri had planned: a Thanksgiving festival rehearsal. The actual festival won't take off for another six months, but apparently Kiri has a big run of the place from its artistic approach to mobilizing things. Cue Kiri showing Elraine just what the flare can do with thirty/forty people, moving an entire building.
After a busy day, however, the following one Elle asks Kiri for a favor. Considering the attacks they've had on them, she figures they might want to stop by St. Atles's, a hidden base of the Sister's, in order to possibly pick up a guard. Kiri agrees to go with her. The sisters there are very warm and welcoming of them, praising Elle (with her embarrassing nickname) and Kiri for being the one they've been possibly looking for all that time. There's also a-- haha --touching moment when Kiri realizes just how physically disconnected from the world they are when they inquire to touch his hand.
Unfortunately, the warm and fuzzies don't last. It's there that Lucci Zezu, one of the eleven top assassins of the Gazelle, decides to attack. The sisters at the base press Elle and Kiri to flee. But while they do, Kiri finds himself filled with guilt and turns back, even if that means carrying Elle when she refuses to go with him. Despite his best intentions though, the fight runs one-sided with Elle nearly disappearing from troy when she and Kiri are separated. While he manages to save her, it is only after a surprising if not deflected attack by Kiri and one of that sisters that Lucci decides to more or less play with them later and the fight finally ceases. While there are no casualties, it's still a bitch-slap-to-the-face realization for Kiri that if they get caught up in a situation like that again, not only are they likely going to die but they may very well take people with them. Yeah, no, that doesn't sit well with him.
It's after this conflict that Sister Martha decides that they should leave Turm and go to Deodradd (Deodorad?). There, they need to beg Fallen Denzell for his protection no matter what. After a kind send off from the Luchiles, Elle and Kiri do as instructed and take the next wagon east the next morning (though not without the surprise!company of Sui). The trip ends up uneventful to their good fortune though Sui decidedly "borrows" Elle's wallet to buy cherries shortly after their arrival. Still, there are more pressing matters. Kiri advises going to find a friend of his mother's, the fortune teller what's-her-name. Apparently, she goes by several different alias... all the time. Her current one's Tissera.
But what doesn't change about her is her ability to tell concise information and she sends them off soon after on Fallan's trail. Still, even when they do find him, he refuses to help them, explaining that he has decided to never protect anyone. Elle and Kiri back off, deciding to find a place to stay. However, Sui reunites with them then in order to inform them that they've been followed all day long by a group of assassins and should expect an attack that night.
As predicted, an attack does come though not without a surprise run into Fallen (who apparently was bribed into it by Tissera). Still, Fallen refuses to fight for them and the first assassin ends up brawling with Sui. Kiri leads Elle off to escape from the fight only to then question what will happen if they keep running. If they can't protect themselves, it's likely they'll eventually get cornered and killed. Mutually, they decide they'd rather fight... and then abruptly get their opportunity when another assassin attacks them. Through teamwork, they manage to take down their attacker and return to the main street just in time to see Fallen face off with Abro, the Poison (blank). Fallen easily defeats the last assassin.
After turning the assassins in to the authorities, Elraine makes her report to Sister Martha and is told to remain off the radar as much as possible. Fallen also agrees to stick around them to ward off assassins, but again, he will not protect them. During their downtime, they meet the sister, Heine. Their small talk leads to Heine blabbering about her dream of being a painter that she gave up since she felt being a sister was more important. Elraine turns around and exclaims to Heime how she should still be pursuing her dreams, too, as long as she lives.
But the bittersweet reality is that Heime is one cure away from her seizures starting and has just as much of a martyr complex as Elraine had. When Kiri and Elle catch wind of the truth, they rush in for a desperate save attempt. Through quick and dangerous thinking on Elle's part, Heine manages to ultimately cheat the death she realized she wasn't ready for. She therein agrees to quit as a Specialist Sister and begin background work while pursuing the dream she'd almost forgotten.
Still, things don't remain calm. When Elle reports in again, she's informed that the Falzen have been completely obliterated. This leads to an emergency meeting at Tisera's place. It's there that they plot out their plan to leave for headquarters using their own strength and Kiri requests for Fallen to teach them a unique fighting style for him and Elle. Fallen surprisingly agrees to this task and thus becomes their hardass teacher for the next week approximately where he strictly guides through to learn their own fighting style, a style learned through... dancing. Yep. Also now known as "Double Arts" ("Twin Fight Dance").
Elle surprisingly does well with the lessons although the style and her condition leads them to drawing her up a new outfit with more skin exposed in order for Kiri to more easily get contact with her should things go weary. It's probably a good thing because they get their first real combat exercise only days afterwards when another group of assassins arrives in town. With Fallen still refusing to fight with them, Kiri, Elle, and Sui take on a corrupted priest and ensemble of henchmen and poisoned arrows with fierce grace. It's their first victory with their new art, but it's also a victory they spend little time savoring.
It's a long way to church headquarters. Best to get moving to the next town, they agree.
Personality:
Elle in a Nutshell
Selfless, reserved, and kind with a side of spaz.
Probably the best way to describe Elle in a wrap. Being raised in a culture where her focus has mainly been on the disease, Troy, she has had the unfortunate if not respectful life of growing up far too fast to counteract its spread. This is the girl who turned back to a mother and her child and explained politely with a smile that she probably wouldn't live until twenty. To that end, at least when concerning the matters of troy, Elle has a very responsible, serious, dedicated demure about her. She's very mature about her mission and courageously carries it out as quickly and efficiently as she can, all for helping those who've been stricken.
Being raised as a Sister, she tends to carry herself in a reserved, closed form for the most part. Her speech patterns aren't excessively formal, but they are respectful to the point that Kiri's mother has to kind of prod her to refer to her and Kiri's father otherwise. Elle also demonstrates some inadequate feelings for herself in the way she apologizes profusely to them for invading their space despite the dire situation. It's clear that she doesn't like to be a nuisance to people-- even when her reasons are clearly valid. She doesn't like to trouble people! She's there in that world to help people, after all! It's her duty!
Though in fact, it's that very duty that has had its share of downsides though. Despite her interdependent views, Elle still remains to have a bit of a lack of self-worth despite Kiri's influence. It's something that really will only take time to heal though. Even though her intentions have been good, as they like to say, everyone's a critic. Even while she's been there to help people, there have been those who have called her ability to temporary thwart the disease a cop out. And while not specifically noted, it wouldn't be surprising if anyone ever got enraged at her for being late to anyone (Heine has a personal dealing with that). People have also met her with cruelty, fearing that she would infect them, too, or just generally taking the disease out on her.
Regardless of how people have treated her in the past though, Elle remains kind to people. She rarely is seen getting angry and aggressive towards much of the people she speaks to. Even towards assassins and the like, Elle is more likely to express fear and worry for her friends and comrades than outright anger. It's not to say she can't get angry or upset. She definitely does. Elle's focus just tends to weigh more in the safety of the people important to her and her own fears of inadequacy that come with her lack of fighting ability.
Still! Enough though she looks down at her inability to fight for a while, Elle isn't a doormat. In fact, she can be quite stubborn and set in her own ways. One beastly instance of stubbornness is in the way she insists to Kiri that if he wanted to go back and help the sisters fight Luzzu, he could. ...But he would have to leave her behind, knowing full well what that would mean. In another, she chose to act to save Heine through recklessly taking in the poison from her without telling Kiri ahead of time what her intentions had been. So, there are definitely poignant moments where she won't just follow along with what everyone wants the most all the time.
It doesn't mean she won't roll with things if they aren't a good idea. Elle is open to change, especially when it comes to a means to leveling the playing field. While at first very under-confident and knowingly meek in her combat tendencies, Elle decidedly works with Kiri then to learn a fighting technique of their own, a clear indication that Elle can definitely be willing to overcome weaknesses of hers. In fact, she manages to do so and even gain confidence from this sought change as seen in their first fight using Double Arts.*
Of course though, underneath everything is a more teenage Elle with silly teenage what do antics. This is especially put on display with the sudden awkward antics that have to do with holding hands with Kiri. She's easily flustered and flaily... even more so when Kiri instigates it as he likes to do sometimes. It's likely Elle never dated anyone or even considered dating with how dutiful she is, so for her to suddenly be confronted with not only being around a boy her age all the time who is made of stranger danger but having to change and shower and use the bathroom among other private venues with only a curtain or door between them, one can only imagine the lack of comfort levels going through the charts. And due to this lack of comfort, it really takes very little to set her off. She's super high strung and quickly tells him off, even if it's a very little thing, in reaction to her own embarrassment being prodded.
And underneath even this? There is a scared Elle. As Kiri unearthed, Elle clearly doesn't want to die from Troy. She does fear it, an understandable fear at that. At the same time though, she will not outright complain about it. If anything, she tends to worry a lot more about giving it to other people through accidental contact and outright states how the sister's uniform is meant as a sign to not come near her because she has troy and it's bad without blinking an eye. It's just a normal part of the culture she was raised in and thus heavily ingrained into her.
All in all, Elle is a complex young adult with much yet to learn though at the same time? Is sadly more learned in some areas than she perhaps deserves to be at her age.
The Kiri Effect
Once upon a time, Elle was a masochist. ...Okay, so she's still a masochist in some ways to this day, but before meeting Kiri? Elle was one of many in the Order who wrote their own lives off for the greater good. She allotted herself to be consumed by the role of the sisters and didn't think of much else. This made for her to be a very dedicated, kind, and loyal individual, even when faced with negative repercussions from the frightened populace. However, it also made for someone who held little value in themselves, someone who had looked at what she thought was her fate square in the eye and had assumed herself to having already accepted it.
But despite thinking that way, through Kiri, Elle not only discovers new found hope in an actual cure but also what she really wants in life: to actually be able to live long enough to see a world without troy. Not just hope for it! This opens her eyes to the reality that it's okay for sisters to follow ambitions and live their lives in accordance with their own wishes, too. That they essentially have as much of a right as any other person in their world to do as they wish. And this new hope also gives Elle this first burst of real happiness that she otherwise seems to have dealt with far and few between due to the heavy truths in her line of work.
Abilities/Powers:
Poison Drain
With skin on skin contact, usually through holding hands, Elraine is able to take in poison from other victims of Troy in order to further prolong their life. Of course, it's at the cost of shortening her own. Only works with Troy.
Sensor
For some inexplicable reason, sisters are capable of telling from sight alone whether a person has Troy or not. The why is never explained, but it's none-the-less a canon fact. Note that she's only capable of telling if they have this specific disease.
Dancing/Double Arts
Elraine surprisingly can hold up as a decent dance partner which ended up making her into an equally well skilled fighter of the martial art made between her and Kiri. It consists of having seamless coordination, tempo, and grace with whoever she's "dancing" with. Unfortunately, it's an ability not really plausible unless she really syncs with someone else. ...If she ever allows anyone else to get that close to her, that is.
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