Elle Bishop

Elle Bishop
Portrayed By	Kristen Bell
Gender	Female
Date of Birth	July 18, 1983
Age	24
Zodiac Sign	Cancer
Aliases	None
Place of Birth	New York City, NY
Current Location	New York City, NY
Occupation	Company Agent FUGITIVE!
Known Relatives	Robert "Bob" Bishop (father)
Significant Other	None.
Known Abilities	Electric Manipulation
First Appearance	Eviction

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Elle Bishop is a young agent of the Company raised within its walls since she was nine years old. It's safe to say that she has issues. Big ones.

History

Elle Bishop is the only child of Bob Bishop, one of the founders of the Company and a man of complicated morals. Manifesting her powers at an early age, it quickly became apparent that Elle could not control her ability. After a string of unfortunate accidents, including the destruction of her grandmother's house, Bob made the decision to bring Elle to the Company at age nine, where she could learn control within a safe environment.

Of course, he also wanted to use her as a lab rat. She was subjected to extensive testing and experimentation during her childhood only to have her memories subsequently erased. In times of high stress, when her ability was particularly volatile, they would keep her in a glass room and give her medication through an IV just to keep her under control.

As a teenager, Elle exhibited signs of mental disturbance and sociopathic tendencies. She'd developed something of a habit for shocking the other patients in the facility - some for fun, some for cruelty, some for no reason at all. In very little time, she developed a reputation for sadism and torment.

She was recruited from within Company walls, allowing them to design a series of smaller missions as training to prepare her for life as an agent. Her training was done under the supervision of Eden, another young agent of the Company.

In 2006, she was assigned to work with Noah Bennet on the Gabriel Gray case. Elle's first meeting with him found Gray having hanged himself in his shop; she broke the rope, talked him down, and the pair quickly formed a bond. She spent a significant amount of time with him, observing him using his acquired power of telekinesis, hoping to witness him killing a second victim.

Elle was vocal about her distaste for the assignment, suggesting that there were simpler measures to take and that they shouldn't manipulate someone into becoming a murderer. Appealing to her dependent nature and reminding her that she could comply or face life without her job at the Company, Noah convinced Elle to go along with the plan, despite the feelings she had developed for Gray in her time posing as a friend.

Elle complied, luring a young man to Gray's apartment and manipulating Gray into killing the man to take his power. After displaying her own ability, she ran out and left Gray to become the serial killer known as Sylar.

The mission was considered a success, if messy, and Elle settled into life as an agent with relative ease.

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Electric Manipulation

Elle is capable of generating and manipulating electric currents. She has limited control over her ability, able to direct the output into one of several forms as well as varying the intensity, but is prone to losing that control in times of high stress or anxiety. Thanks to a lifetime of use, experimentation, and training, Elle is capable of impressive feats with her ability.

There are three main forms her power takes: a bolt or arc extending from her hand to a target, a ball which can be projected towards a target, and a shock transmitted by direct contact with a target. Her ability can be used to weld, ignite fires, power electrical objects, act as a defibrillator, and other so-called "practical" ventures - but she has a certain penchant for using it in a more playful and tormenting way.

Generally speaking, Elle is immune to her power, feeling no pain or residual effects from creating and transmitting a charge. Situations which are taxing on her emotionally, however, can strip away her control, leading to incidents of unintentional self-harm. These incidents can be isolated or they can be ongoing, depending on the severity of the emotional distress and whether Elle has an outlet for her power.

Elle's power is ineffectual when combined with water, whether this means being outside in the rain or being doused by an unnatural source, generally leading her to shock herself rather than her intended target. This has been employed as a defensive measure against her many a time, and it's the most effective way to incapacitate her. It should be noted that in the rain, she can still hit her target, but it is typically at her own expense.

While she typically produces currents and arcs through her hands, the currents Elle produces can be transmitted from any part of her body. When she is capable of maintaining control over her ability, touching her is not likely to pass a charge; when her control falters, however, close proximity is a bad idea.

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Recent Timeline

February to December, 2007

2007

February to April, 2007
Meeting Peter Petrelli in the Company facility was a turning point for Elle, in a sense, as she began to consider life in the real world and what it might hold for her. In a fit of guilt for what the Company was doing to him, she replaced his Haitian pills with placebos, allowing him to regain the use of his powers and escape the Company. In return, Peter took Elle with him when he escaped - the first taste she would have of life outside the Company.

Unfortunately, Elle's father appeared shortly thereafter, luring her back to the Company with a special assignment of great importance. Highly dependent upon her father and wanting to impress him, Elle accepted the assignment and was sent to the Dominican Republic, leaving Peter without so much as an explanation. She hadn't expected to be gone particularly long, and imagined when she returned that life would continue as she'd left it.

She was wrong.

Mid-April to September, 2007
Elle's father had sent her abroad secretly, having seen a Mendez painting depicting her death at the hands of Sylar. In an effort to keep her safe and potentially lure Sylar back to the Company's hands, Bob called in some favours, creating a "decoy" of his daughter to take her place. The decoy was convincing, if a complicated stunt to pull off for so long. In her time in Elle's life, the decoy made friends, developed her relationship with Peter (and then ended it), and was more or less successful when sent on assignment for the Company.

The ruse came to a crashing halt when, in late September, the decoy was involved in an altercation at Primatech Research. Sylar and Kellie had broken into the building, and the decoy was killed at the hands of Sylar on Level 5. For a few hours, nothing seemed amiss, but when the illusion was dropped and the decoy's body returned to her true form, Bob had to answer for his decisions.

October to December, 2007
Elle was called back from the Dominican Republic shortly thereafter, much to the confusion of her colleagues and former acquaintances. She was only apprised of the situation upon her return, and while she never fully explained the circumstances of her "death" and subsequent return to anyone else, she did explain it to Peter, whom she had reconnected with in an altercation with Sylar which led to the killer's recapture.

By visiting Peter to explain her absence and replacement, Elle exposed herself to the catalyst for the Shanti virus. The dormant virus had been passed on to her by proximity to her father, who had contracted the virus during the outbreak earlier that year. At the same time, she learned of Victoria Pratt's involvement in the creation of the Shanti virus strain. Unfortunately, Pratt was considered "off-limits" to the Company at the behest of Angela Petrelli, the new head of the Company.

Elle's illness progressed rapidly, and she called on Cassandra Aldric for a cure, at the guidance of her father. In exchange for the woman's help, and at the instruction of her father, she passed information about Pratt along to Cass with the hope that one of the would-be heroes would seek Pratt out and put a stop to her plans to create a new strain of the virus.

When she had recovered from the virus, Elle was visited by Peter, who asked her for a favour: to supply him with Haitian pills for someone who "needed his help" controlling his power. She stole some pills from the Company facility, passing them along with no confirmation on who they were for; still, Peter had made her suspicious enough to demand attention, and she began looking into his life without his (or the Company's) knowledge.

It turned out it was easier than expected: in monitoring Peter's activity, Elle was able to track a work order for camera installation to a warehouse on the outskirts of the city. Reasonably certain she knew what to expect when arriving, she went well-armed and broke into the warehouse, nearly killing Sylar before he turned the tables on her.

She was eventually released, but not before Sylar had effectively held her hostage and used intimidation to force information out of her. She was tracked down by Peter first, who tried to justify his support of Sylar's attempt to change, and then by Sylar himself, who came to her apartment to apologize for what he had done to her. In a very surreal encounter, Sylar - or Gabriel Gray - and Elle confronted their shared past and spoke of redemption.

2007 was a very strange year for Elle.

2008

• 2008-01-02: Elle visits an old friend to ask his advice. Subsequently, she's abducted by the Company at her father's orders, left to spend the night on a couch in his office.
• 2008-01-03: Waking in her father's office, she is confronted by her father about recent events, forcing her to make a surprising decision - leaving the Company. Lost, she pays a visit to Gabriel when she can't find Peter, who finds them on his own a short time later. Elle and Gabriel go into hiding.
• 2008-01-06: Hiding out in a hotel, Elle and Gabriel are not expecting Noah Bennet to be able to find them - but he does, and he gives them a critical deadline. They don't meet it.
• 2008-01-12: Elle doesn't take being locked up very well. After nearly a week without a sound from the Company, shee decides to risk a trip out to the store. In the ensuing chaos, Elle shoots someone, effectively ensuring that the Company will come after them now. Gabriel disappears with Hiro, leading to a very distraught Elle when Peter finally catches up with her… until Gabriel comes back.
• 2008-01-14: Moved to a new hotel, Elle and Gabriel are resigned to their status as captives by choice when Angela Petrelli shows up at the door to shake things up.
• 2008-01-15: Gabriel leaves to pick up painting supplies to ascertain whether or not Angela was telling the truth; in his absence, Church comes knocking to bring Elle home.
• 2008-01-19: Having fled to Maine to stay with an "old friend," Elle calls Gabriel to tell him she's safe and overhears his fight with Peter.
• 2008-01-20: Peter pays Elle a visit in Maine to ask for her help in rescuing Elena from the Company. That same day, Elle returns to New York to check on Gabriel, finding him dead. Luckily, he doesn't stay that way.
• 2008-01-23: Back in Maine, Elle has lived a short few days in peaceful ignorance of what has been happening in New York, only to have that peace disrupted when Peter and Gabriel show up.
• 2008-01-25: Elle brings Peter's dog home from the kennel and she and Gabriel settle in to their temporary housing. It goes well for about ten minutes - until Elle has the bright idea to call her father. When the line goes dead, she calls on a Company agent to check on Bob.

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Relationships

Bob Bishop

IC Occurrences Bob Bishop is the reason why Elle has as many problems as she does today. When she manifested her power as a young girl, he brought her to the Company for testing and experimentation to determine the upper limits of her abilities. Raising her as a single parent under abnormal circumstances, he had her trained to become a Company agent. He didn't hesitate to put her into some dangerous situations, such as assigning her to work with Noah Bennet on the Sylar case. The experimentation he subjected her to during her childhood and adolescence has been largely forgotten by Elle, thanks to Bob's use of the Haitian to erase her memory, but other agents hinted at enough to make her suspicious. She has since discovered some of what Bob has done to her, but much of it is still a mystery. Early in 2007, Bob was informed of a Mendez painting depicting Elle's death at the hands of Sylar. Desperate to keep his daughter safe, he coerced her to go on a mission to the Dominican Republic, despite her flight from the Company. In her stead, he had a "decoy" created with an illusion: another electrokinetic, whose appearance was changed by a cellulokinetic, who would take over Elle's life and deceive Sylar into going after the wrong person. It worked, but when Elle finally returned from the Dominican after her replacement was killed, she was unimpressed with the deception - especially since it meant that she had lost what was rapidly becoming one of the most important parts of her life. After that, nothing was quite the same. Elle convinced Bob that she should be allowed to live outside Company walls, and she was given an apartment from the Company - which Bob had placed under surveillance without her knowledge. In January, Bob confronted Elle about her lies and omissions: she had failed to report back to the Company about her discussions with Peter, stolen medication from the facility, and even had Sylar to her apartment without informing her superiors. Cornered and infuriated, Elle shocked Bob unconscious and fled the Company. They haven't seen each other since.

Elle & Bob Elle suffers something of a fractured relationship with her father. Having been raised within Company walls for much of her life, she is eager to impress him, thinking that good work and sweet smiles will garner the affection that is otherwise missing from her life. Bob is much quicker to dismiss her actions and chide her for her mistakes than he is to admit that she has done something well. He is distant and cold to Elle, but he is the only family she has; consequently, she demonstrated a blind devotion to him until very recently, despite acting out childishly from time to time to seek attention. At the same time, however, Bob is highly protective of his daughter. It was his affection for her, however poorly conveyed, that ensured that she did not suffer the same fate as other volatile Evolved discovered by the Company. While others with her lack of control and insubordinate attitude would have been locked away for life, Bob used his position of power to train her to be an agent and keep her on a leash; in one sense, he is the reason why she had any life at all, as deprived and twisted as that life may have been. Elle alternates between affection for her father and resentment towards him. Their odd relationship has often had one pulling away while the other reached out: if Elle is seeking attention and approval, Bob is dismissive and unimpressed; if Bob is being affectionate or showing concern, Elle is resentful and cold. Still, deep down they do love each other, complicated or not, and while Elle has left the Company, she has not forgotten her father.

Peter Petrelli

Summary of IC Occurrences Elle first met Peter when he was being held in a cell at the Company. She visited him frequently, her dependent personality quickly latching onto him and leading her to question the Company's mission. He took her with him when he escaped the Company, subsequently becoming her first (and only, to date) boyfriend. Unfortunately, her father had a mind to send Elle away, and by the time Elle returned, her relationship with Peter had long since ended thanks to the illusion left in her place. When she visited to explain the illusion and her disappearance for months, she contracted the Shanti virus from Peter, resulting in an ongoing illness for which Peter feels responsible. In the end, it was through Peter and his contacts that Elle was cured. Balancing the scales, Peter came to Elle to ask for a favour, resulting in what became the most confusing month of Elle's life. She isn't quite sure where they stand now, but Peter is helping to keep her safe.

Elle & Peter Peter has the distinction of being Elle's first love; after a lifetime of being used and manipulated, for Elle to meet someone who genuinely cared for her was significant. He opened her eyes to much of what she was missing in the real world, and though they're no longer together, she will be eternally grateful to him for trying to give her the life she'd never had. He made her question her life as an agent - but more than that, he made her realize that her own perception of "Right" and "Wrong" is not infallible. While before she met him, her moral compass was askew (if it ever existed), he was responsible for nudging it back in the right direction. This has forced her into a permanent state of conflict regarding her actions as she struggles to do the "Right Thing" - and when the going gets rough, she just might wish he'd never had such a powerful influence on her. Ultimately, Elle still cares very strongly for Peter; her feelings for him were significantly deeper than infatuation, and her father pulling her away from her best chance at a normal life has left behind a void. She will very likely love him for a long time yet, and that love is one of the reasons why she will go out of her way to help him, risking life and limb.

Gabriel Gray

Summary of IC Occurrences Elle and Gabriel have a sordid, convoluted past thanks to the Company's involvement. Once upon a time, Elle had started to develop feelings for Gabriel, until she was forced to double-cross him, effectively turning him into a serial killer. As Sylar, he killed whom he thought to be Elle only to later be captured by the real Elle. When Elle discovered who Peter had been helping, she stormed the warehouse where Gabriel was hiding, intending to kill him — and unable to do so. Ashamed at what he had done to her when she was at his mercy, Gabriel came to apologize to Elle. Though she was reluctant to believe he had changed, she ultimately accepted the olive branch, even turning to him for help when she ran from the Company. They're now in hiding, and suffice it to say that their relationship is very… surreal.

Elle & Gabriel Woo, lots of information will go here. This will be long, twisted, conflicted, and angsty. For now, I think we can leave it as, "If Elle and Gabriel were on Facebook, their Relationship Status would be listed as: 'It's Complicated.'" That about covers it.

Lawrence Church

IC Occurrences This will be updated eventually. Gah. Sooooo lazy. Having been with the Company for decades, Lawrence Church has known Elle since — well, since before she was even brought to the facility. He watched her grow up and has been there to witness some of Elle's spectacular failures. He served as a mentor during her adolescence and early adulthood, helping ease her into life as an agent and show her the ropes. He's also been there when she needed someone to listen, entertaining her moral dilemma regarding the Company's mission and admitting that he questions some of the same things. The two shared a teasing sort of camaraderie before Elle ran from the Company; now, they're on opposite sides of a line in the sand, and he's required to report anything and everything she does to the Company. Now, whether or not he will report her is a different matter entirely…

Elle & Church A bunch of stuff goes here! About their friendship and how she looks up to him and how FREAKING TRAGIC it was that she left and he came after her! Yes.

Noah Bennet

IC Occurrences This will be updated eventually. Noah is scary. He and Elle have worked together for a long time. See: Gabriel Gray. There's more to it than this but I am LAZY and just trying to get formatting right. >_>

Elle & Noah A bunch of stuff goes here! About how Elle alternately respects and hates Noah Bennet. And his daughter. ESPECIALLY his daughter. Who gets her own tab later. Blah, blah, blah.

Cassandra Aldric

IC Occurrences The relationship between Elle and Cass is, like so many others, twisted and rocky. Not that it's Elle's fault; she didn't even meet the woman until relatively recently, but the woman living her life for several months certainly did enough to make Elle seem like a psychopath. Elle was assigned to gather information on Cass and her operations, which she has been doing as surreptitiously as possible. In the process, she's come to know more about Cass and what it means to be selfless, disrupting Elle's view of the world and making her life more complicated. As it stands, Elle has respect for the woman and is indebted to her for having provided the cure for the Shanti virus. …TO BE UPDATED!

Elle & Cass A bunch of stuff goes here! I'm not even going to pretend I have more to say than that right now.

Meryl Wolfe

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Claire Bennet

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Quotes

• "You'll get used to it, and then you'll start to like it." — Elle (to Peter), Four Months Ago
• "I accidentally set my grandmother's house on fire when I was six. Caused a blackout in four counties in Ohio when I was eight. I spent my ninth birthday in a glass room with an IV of lithium in my arm. I've lived in this building for sixteen years, ever since the shrinks diagnosed me as a sociopath with paranoid delusions… but they’re just out to get me 'cause I threatened to kill them. I'm twenty-four years old and I've never gone on a date, never been on a roller-coaster, never been swimming. And now you know everything there is to know about me. I don't have the luxury of being more interesting than that." — Elle, Four Months Ago
• "He's adorable. Can I keep him?" — Elle, Cautionary Tales