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travailler) wrote2017-09-01 04:25 pm
travailler) wrote2017-09-01 04:25 pm
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Character: Elphelt Valentine
Age: Unknown, but suggested to be created less than a year prior. Physically/mentally late teens to mid twenties.
Canon: Guilty Gear
Canon Point: Revelator chapter 06.
Background: Wiki link.
Personality:
To most anyone unaware of Elpheltâs true identity, she seems to be nothing but a kindhearted and clumsy girl. She is someone who wears her heart on her sleeve, expressing what she feels without restraint. She loves all: romance, friendship, nature, animals, and food; she abhors conflict and violence. She wishes to become the âperfect wifeâ and to maximize her womanhood or femininity, except that she has no idea what any of that means. She is impulsive, settling on a goal and going at it with all her effort without actually thinking ahead of time how to accomplish it.
Because of her exuberant personality, people tend to take her at face value. Her positivity and kindness make it difficult to believe there is conflict in the core of her being. In reality, she was created by her mother, known as the Universal Will, for the sole purpose of exterminating humanity. Her true personality is that of a merciless machine programmed to sabotage Sol Badguyâs attempts to foil her motherâs plan and to carry out said plan (killing humans and reviving Justice, the God of Destruction) to fruition. To this end, her mother programmed her with human emotions so that Elphelt may imitate humans and infiltrate human society. This programming was unknown to even Elphelt herself, making her act as a âManchurian Candidateâ: fulfilling her motherâs plan without being aware she was fulfilling it.
Unfortunately for Mother, Elpheltâs programming was corrupted and the emotions she should have discarded when her mission was finished did not go away. When the subroutine activated that should have eliminated her emotions and reverted her to her killing machine nature, she was able to fight against it. With the support of Sin Kiske and Sol Badguy, she was able to overpower her latent programming and restore the personality she had come to identify as âherselfâ.
Underneath her optimistic and bubbly personality is a combination of powerful, negative emotions; most prominently, she possess what is best described as a 'Pinocchio complex'âi.e. she is an artificial person who dreams of becoming ârealâ. This causes her to have an inferiority complex towards other women, making her feel compelled to compare herself to them. This is also the core motivating factor behind Elpheltâs need to âmaximizeâ her womanhood: she is doing everything she can to overcompensate for the fact she is not a âreal girlâ. It also makes her fearful of being rejected by others, but this is understandable given that most anyone in her world is terrified of Valentines due to the actions of her predecessor.
Because of her insecurities, Elphelt tends to push others away despite her loving personality. She knows being as pushy and boisterous as she is can keep people at a distance, which Bedman notes to her when she is under his control. Her fear of rejection and her insecurities regarding not being human are not the only thing causing her to keep others at a distance: she fears she may revert to her ânormalâ personality and hurt those around her at any time. She knows fully well that her mother created her to be dangerous.
Despite her insecurities and attempts to keep others at armâs length, Elphelt has a powerful sense of justice. She does not hesitate to do what is right, even at her own expenseâthis is most well evidenced when she has been captured by her mother and, in despair that there is no way to save her, attempts to kill herself to foil her motherâs plans, being absolutely necessary to revive the God of Destruction. It is only her sisterâs promise to save her that gives her the determination to risk the world for the chance of being able to live. She is stubborn on this matter and will help others no matter what trouble she may get into; for example, she escapes King Kyâs airship without saying a word to anyone so that she could fly clear across the world and save Sol from getting dragged into another dimension, even in spite of the fact Sol was the one person treating her terribly at that point.
By her own admission, Elphelt hates other people being lonely. This is undoubtedly due to the fact she herself is lonely and cannot stand the thought of others experiencing the same pain. This is the primary reason she gives for saving Sol from being trapped in the Backyard: he would be all alone. Even though it is revealed that it was at least in some part her true programming that did thisâSol would have been stuck alone forever, but at the benefit of preventing Justice from revivingâeven Sol believes she did it because she didnât want him to be alone.
Along with sneaking away to interfere with the battle, Elpheltâs impulsiveness manifested when she first realized she was a Valentine. Remembering what she was and hoping to prevent her motherâs plans, she took it upon herself to invade an illegal military research facility and steal the weaponry (explicitly designed to be anti-Valentine) there to arm herself.
Despite her personality not being optimal for battle, being a clumsy pacifist, Elphelt is still extremely competent in battle. She is an excellent shot with her weaponry and is shown defeating dozens of opponents that were giving the elitesâKing Ky, King Leo, Sinâtrouble. This was what she was designed for (as she says to Leo, "I AM a Valentine, you know.") even though her current personality inhibits her from reaching her full power.
She lacks any notable skills outside of battle. While she was designed to imitate humans, she was not given any particular skills or talents that would not be useful in battle. This combined with the fact she was only just âbornââshe initially thought she was a normal human until her programming reminded her of what she was and remembered her memories were artificialâhas left her with a lack of life skills and a lot of naivetĂ©. Much of what she knows she either got from the basic necessities her mother programmed into her and what little she gained over the few months (or year) she had spent in the world. Unfortunately, her sources of learning are a bit questionable, given that one of her primary sources of feminine etiquette is a magical girl radio show she listened to at some point.
In the second game, everything about Elphelt continues to be true, but one major event impacts her that she still struggles to wrap her head around: she meets her mother and learns, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that her mother is a terrible, irredeemable person. Although Elphelt had rebelled against her mother's plans--going so far as to acquire weaponry designed specifically to fight Valentines--there had been a part of her that hoped that, once she met her mother, she would be able to peacefully change her mother's mind. She also hoped her mother would love her. Neither of these are true, as the constant suffering her mother puts Elphelt through--brainwashing her, forcibly changing her appearance, treating her like a doll, immobilizing her, having sudden angry outbursts, and forcing Elphelt to watch her sister die***--pushes Elphelt to the breaking point, but even while she has absolutely no power, Elphelt does what little she can to stand up to her mother, even if that amounts to little more than telling her off.
Her mother explains in detail what Elphelt's purpose is and just what she hates humans so much, which will be something Elphelt will have to wrestle with as she learns more about humans firsthand.
(***Ramlethal survives, but both Elphelt and their mother believe she is dead.)
The core of Elphelt's existence is her continual resistance to her 'true' personality--the programming her mother intended for her to obey--and the one she inherited accidentally. She craves relationships of any kind, but fears rejection and judgement, as well as the danger she poses to others. She dislikes the fact she is not human and wishes to be one. She bemoans the fact her mother programmed her to not love anyone while obsessing with the thought of falling in love. She lives by overwhelming those issues with her outgoing, kind personality and hoping that someday things will work out. From the canonpoint she is being taken from, she is not going to have much confidence that it is possible, which will exacerbate her fears and jealousy while in Empatheias.
Because of her exuberant personality, people tend to take her at face value. Her positivity and kindness make it difficult to believe there is conflict in the core of her being. In reality, she was created by her mother, known as the Universal Will, for the sole purpose of exterminating humanity. Her true personality is that of a merciless machine programmed to sabotage Sol Badguyâs attempts to foil her motherâs plan and to carry out said plan (killing humans and reviving Justice, the God of Destruction) to fruition. To this end, her mother programmed her with human emotions so that Elphelt may imitate humans and infiltrate human society. This programming was unknown to even Elphelt herself, making her act as a âManchurian Candidateâ: fulfilling her motherâs plan without being aware she was fulfilling it.
Unfortunately for Mother, Elpheltâs programming was corrupted and the emotions she should have discarded when her mission was finished did not go away. When the subroutine activated that should have eliminated her emotions and reverted her to her killing machine nature, she was able to fight against it. With the support of Sin Kiske and Sol Badguy, she was able to overpower her latent programming and restore the personality she had come to identify as âherselfâ.
Underneath her optimistic and bubbly personality is a combination of powerful, negative emotions; most prominently, she possess what is best described as a 'Pinocchio complex'âi.e. she is an artificial person who dreams of becoming ârealâ. This causes her to have an inferiority complex towards other women, making her feel compelled to compare herself to them. This is also the core motivating factor behind Elpheltâs need to âmaximizeâ her womanhood: she is doing everything she can to overcompensate for the fact she is not a âreal girlâ. It also makes her fearful of being rejected by others, but this is understandable given that most anyone in her world is terrified of Valentines due to the actions of her predecessor.
BEDMAN: Don't you find it odd? You're so outgoing and friendly with everyone, but at the same time...you push them away.
Because of her insecurities, Elphelt tends to push others away despite her loving personality. She knows being as pushy and boisterous as she is can keep people at a distance, which Bedman notes to her when she is under his control. Her fear of rejection and her insecurities regarding not being human are not the only thing causing her to keep others at a distance: she fears she may revert to her ânormalâ personality and hurt those around her at any time. She knows fully well that her mother created her to be dangerous.
Despite her insecurities and attempts to keep others at armâs length, Elphelt has a powerful sense of justice. She does not hesitate to do what is right, even at her own expenseâthis is most well evidenced when she has been captured by her mother and, in despair that there is no way to save her, attempts to kill herself to foil her motherâs plans, being absolutely necessary to revive the God of Destruction. It is only her sisterâs promise to save her that gives her the determination to risk the world for the chance of being able to live. She is stubborn on this matter and will help others no matter what trouble she may get into; for example, she escapes King Kyâs airship without saying a word to anyone so that she could fly clear across the world and save Sol from getting dragged into another dimension, even in spite of the fact Sol was the one person treating her terribly at that point.
SOL: But the reason you gave me...something about how people shouldn't be alone. If that's not a lie...PROVE IT TO ME!
By her own admission, Elphelt hates other people being lonely. This is undoubtedly due to the fact she herself is lonely and cannot stand the thought of others experiencing the same pain. This is the primary reason she gives for saving Sol from being trapped in the Backyard: he would be all alone. Even though it is revealed that it was at least in some part her true programming that did thisâSol would have been stuck alone forever, but at the benefit of preventing Justice from revivingâeven Sol believes she did it because she didnât want him to be alone.
Along with sneaking away to interfere with the battle, Elpheltâs impulsiveness manifested when she first realized she was a Valentine. Remembering what she was and hoping to prevent her motherâs plans, she took it upon herself to invade an illegal military research facility and steal the weaponry (explicitly designed to be anti-Valentine) there to arm herself.
Despite her personality not being optimal for battle, being a clumsy pacifist, Elphelt is still extremely competent in battle. She is an excellent shot with her weaponry and is shown defeating dozens of opponents that were giving the elitesâKing Ky, King Leo, Sinâtrouble. This was what she was designed for (as she says to Leo, "I AM a Valentine, you know.") even though her current personality inhibits her from reaching her full power.
She lacks any notable skills outside of battle. While she was designed to imitate humans, she was not given any particular skills or talents that would not be useful in battle. This combined with the fact she was only just âbornââshe initially thought she was a normal human until her programming reminded her of what she was and remembered her memories were artificialâhas left her with a lack of life skills and a lot of naivetĂ©. Much of what she knows she either got from the basic necessities her mother programmed into her and what little she gained over the few months (or year) she had spent in the world. Unfortunately, her sources of learning are a bit questionable, given that one of her primary sources of feminine etiquette is a magical girl radio show she listened to at some point.
ELPHELT: Truthfully, I was really looking forward to meeting you, Mother, until I realized what a terrible person you were.
In the second game, everything about Elphelt continues to be true, but one major event impacts her that she still struggles to wrap her head around: she meets her mother and learns, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that her mother is a terrible, irredeemable person. Although Elphelt had rebelled against her mother's plans--going so far as to acquire weaponry designed specifically to fight Valentines--there had been a part of her that hoped that, once she met her mother, she would be able to peacefully change her mother's mind. She also hoped her mother would love her. Neither of these are true, as the constant suffering her mother puts Elphelt through--brainwashing her, forcibly changing her appearance, treating her like a doll, immobilizing her, having sudden angry outbursts, and forcing Elphelt to watch her sister die***--pushes Elphelt to the breaking point, but even while she has absolutely no power, Elphelt does what little she can to stand up to her mother, even if that amounts to little more than telling her off.
Her mother explains in detail what Elphelt's purpose is and just what she hates humans so much, which will be something Elphelt will have to wrestle with as she learns more about humans firsthand.
(***Ramlethal survives, but both Elphelt and their mother believe she is dead.)
SOL: There's a line in you too, and on one side of it is the person we know as Elphelt.
The core of Elphelt's existence is her continual resistance to her 'true' personality--the programming her mother intended for her to obey--and the one she inherited accidentally. She craves relationships of any kind, but fears rejection and judgement, as well as the danger she poses to others. She dislikes the fact she is not human and wishes to be one. She bemoans the fact her mother programmed her to not love anyone while obsessing with the thought of falling in love. She lives by overwhelming those issues with her outgoing, kind personality and hoping that someday things will work out. From the canonpoint she is being taken from, she is not going to have much confidence that it is possible, which will exacerbate her fears and jealousy while in Empatheias.
Abilities:
Super Human Strength / Endurance: Valentines are near indestructible and possess overwhelming physical strength.
Flight: Elphelt is capable of hovering and flying. She is capable of doing this for long periods of time and for long distances, as she flew thousands of miles in under an hour.
Anti-Valentine Weaponry: Elphelt has an armory's worth of illegal magitech weaponry developed by black site facility operated by the United Nations. These weapons consist of a pistol, a shotgun, a sniper rifle, a bazooka, a cake-knife-shaped sword, and strawberry-shaped grenades. They can use her magic as ammunition or be loaded with ordinary bullets.
Super Human Speed / Sharpshooting: Elphelt is shown shooting down dozens of enemies in a matter of seconds.
Self Destruct: Elphelt is capable of making herself self destruct. All of her magic power contained in her body is released at once. It is hypothesized to be powerful enough to kill Sol Badguy, who is more or less indestructible. This has the side effect of killing her, obviously.
Power Restraint: Elphelt is capable of negating her sister's powers, just as her sister is capable of negating hers. This is a program coded into the two of them, so it is nothing that can be applied to others.
MAGNUM WEDDING: Her last resort. It is a magic bullet that is fired into the heart of her opponent to make them fall in love with her. Being in love with others, not interested in women, being her sister, or using it on herself is not enough to keep the effect from happening. Mostly for gags.
Murder Marionette: Elphelt's true form. Along with her physical appearance becoming an amorphous black figure and her personality turning into a unhinged killing machine, her powers are all increased in every aspect, although the extent and most of the specifics are unknown at this time. She is shown summoning multiple versions of her weapons as well as dozens of floating rapid-fire anti-army cannons that she does not use in her normal form. She is shown razing a wide area from a far distance during the short time she uses this form.
Mind Control: Only applies to yokai, but the Valentines can brainwash the more animal-like/unintelligent ones to do their bidding.
Alignment: Aiada. Elphelt's Pinocchio complex making her wish to be more like real people is envy. She gets envious of other people having loving families and in romantic relationships. She has a habit of comparing herself to other women and feeling inferior. Aiada's mint color also matches the clovers on her guns (and with the eventual canon update, her outfit). She is going to be jealous of the fact most everyone else in Empatheias have lives to return to while she believes returning home means becoming Justice and ending the world.
Other: She has a piggy bank shaped like a doggy.
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[Returning to Verens is something Elphelt has always assumed would not be an option for her if she were to return home. Now, having gone home and returned, she wonders if being here is not actually worth the trouble. It feels like a joke at her expense to have returned immediately after watching Ramlethal die. The awe she once had for Verens is gone. Not replaced with anything. Just gone. She feels empty.
The fact the atmosphere has changed in her absence does not help. Before, no matter how bad her worries got, Verens provided a diversion. It was so easy for her to ignore her problems. Sometimes she was even able to convince herself she belonged. Now, though, she cannot ignore the fact she does not belong; with so many people side-eyeing her wherever she goes, she is reminded. For someone with such self loathing and a need to be friends, the locals being clearly critical of her wherever she goes is too much. At best, she can keep her spirits up well enough that the drop in temperature following her around could be chalked up to the weather; however, most of the time it is too much and her emotions are plain to see as, no matter her expression, there is that cloud above her.
Today is one of those too much days. As much as she hates feeling ostracized, staying home alone is worse, so she forces herself to put up with all the looks and comments. The clouds around her drizzle while the weather is sunny. Elphelt hopes to find something to cheer her up. Restaurants and stores always have at least one person giving her the stink eye, so no matter how nice the clothes or how tasty the sweet, she leaves feeling sad.
Elphelt stops. The light drizzling from the clouds above her dispel immediately. All negative thoughts are gone from her mind for the first time since returning. A tiny puppy, for whatever reason, scurries down the sidewalk towards her. There is nothing else in the world right now except for this tiny, fluffy dog. This isn't what she expected to find today, but it is certainly what she needs. For the first time all day, she can actually see the sun above her. In fact, the warmth and light coming from her is brighter than the sun. The puppy looks just like Ram's--
Except, just as she kneels down to pet the dog, the owner comes running up and snatches it from the ground. Elphelt doesn't register the words the woman says, only the tone. She is dangerous and cannot be trusted to touch the puppy. She stares blankly at the spot the puppy had been as the woman trots off. Elphelt's appearance dulls, the cloud re-appears above her head. The temperature around her plummets and instead of a drizzle of rain there is a flurry of snowflakes. She doesn't feel sad, only numb, like the cold.
For someone who only wants to belong, Verens does not seem to be the place anymore.]
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