Elle Bishop. Cute. Blonde. Sociopath who can throw bolts of electricity like some sort of newfangled Greek god. She idolizes her father, Robert Bishop, who heads The Company after the recent events in NYC. An agent of the same Company, she is unseasoned and overconfident, possibly the worst possible combination of traits (not to mention her power) that one would want in an agent. But hey, her daddy is in charge, so nyeah.
Elle's past, like so much about her, is largely a mystery…to people around her as well as to herself. Oh, it's certain that there are those who know. Her father Bob. The other founders of the Company. Even some of the high-ranking agents like Noah Bennet. But beyond those few, and their secrets within secrets, no one can truly say. Her memories have been erased on more than one occasion by the Haitian, and she is ultimately a product of them and their manipulations.
What IS known is a melange of information. Elle's father is (to the best of her knowledge), Bob Bishop, the man who handles the day to day running of the Company. Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean he's her biological father…she could very easily have been given to him to raise as an infant, in the same way that Noah Bennet was given charge of the infant Claire. She was raised without a mother…either that, or her memories of one have been stripped from her.
She knows that she can remember back to when she was six, because her electrical powers were active by even that young age. Her accidental discharges overloaded the wiring system of her grandmother's house, causing it to catch on fire. Bob moved them in the aftermath of it, the first of several moves they would make. Her power continued to grow exponentially. By the time she was eight, a discharge made in anger overloaded the entire local grid, and blacked out four counties in central Ohio. It was at this point that the Company decided she was too dangerous to be on the outside. She was to be brought in for testing.
Elle was normal enough when she first arrived. An occasionally tempermental child, but still a fairly sweet little girl, all "unicorns and rainbows", as Noah would say. But that was soon to change. Elle was put through massive testing, designed to see how much energy she could generate…even when that voltage was so high that it started to cause damage to her own mind. Her own father prompted the scientists to continue the testing, even when Elle would pass out from the pain. The combination of torture, self-inflicted electroshock therapy, and radical memory deletions at the hands of the Haitian led to a systematic collapse of Elle's psyche. Although her powers grew in both strength and fine control, the sweet girl that had come into the facility withered away, into a "sociopath with paranoid delusions". And sadist. Mustn't forget that part.
Anything that was good in Elle was purged, whether by intent or accident. What they had left was their perfect operative. Someone desperate for the approval of her father. Someone who would kill without hesitation. (In fact, they went a little overboard there…the trouble isn't getting Elle to kill. It's getting her NOT to.) Of course, that came at certain sacrifices. Elle has literally spent her entire life since she was eight years old living in the Company's facility. Any sense of normality, of the things that a normal child or teenager might do, are completely foreign to her. Not the skills, of course…she's quite well-trained. And she has plenty of knowledge…they made sure not to neglect her teaching. But in terms of actual life experience it's quite limited…the only times she left the facility are when she was dispatched on missions.
Her first actual assignment for the Company was to spy on Claire Bennet. She got assigned to the same school and even some of the same classes, and after some surveillance, found out about the existence of Claire's tape…a short-lived revelation, as she was ambushed by Noah Bennet and the Haitian and her memory of it removed. The entire mission fueled a dislike of Claire that's done nothing but grow stronger to this day.
Another of her early assignments involved a boy named Matt Neuenberg, who had an ability of enhanced memory. Elle was responsible for bringing him into the Company, and (in what seems to be a trend) starting a sort of relationship with him. However, Matt died after he was forced to download all the information stored in the Company's mainframe. If there'd been any affection left in her, this killed the last of it.
She took up toying with some of the other prisoners…first Adam Monroe, and then later, Peter Petrelli. However, something about Peter managed to rekindle something in her, and after they'd been there a time, she decided to help him get out. She swapped out his medicines with a placebo to allow him to regain his powers, and once she did, she set the stage for an escape, planning to have him knock her out and escape.
The thing was, he threw her a curve ball. While he did knock her out and escape, then he took her with him. She's been staying with him ever since. They've gone on a date…Elle's first, and the relationship has been growing since then, though she still isn't exactly the most well-balanced individual. She's been trying to talk him into working with the Company, including getting him to meet with her father and discuss things. Of course, her father's none too thrilled with her seeing Peter, but that just helps make things all the more complicated…
Personality
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Elle is one screwed up, evil lil' *. Years of experimentation and conditioning by the Company, not to mention essentially electroshock therapy from her own powers, and then having her memories swiss-cheesed a dozen ways from Sunday by the Haitian has created a person that bears absolutely no resemblance to the sweet little rainbows and unicorns girl that went off to the Company when she was eight years old. Still, the core elements of her psyche can be summed up fairly simply.
Sadist. Like it or not, it's true. Elle's been hurt so often and for so long that long ago her mind made the connection that being able to hurt other people, instead of being the one getting hurt was a good thing. She draws actual pleasure from inflicting pain on other people. Physical is best, but emotional pain works too. It makes her happy to hurt other people. Needless to say, this doesn't make Elle a very nice person.
Psychopath. Elle is a psychopath as per the standard clinical definitions of such. She is, in effect, a predator, and lacks in any kind of moral compass. She works on a very simple hierarchy of needs, where she'll pursue the things that she wants, no matter what the law or social mores or matters of right and wrong say, and if she's impeded in that pursuit, she's likely to become very violent, and very dangerous.
Paranoid delusions? Is it paranoid if they really ARE out to get you? Actually this part of her mental condition was poorly diagnosed. It isn't so much that Elle thinks that other people are out to get her as that she's apt to blame anything and everything that goes wrong in her life on other people. For some reason, she's fixated rather a lot of this on Claire Bennet, who she sees sort of as herself through the looking glass…the Company agent's daughter who got everything handed to her on a silver platter and has the perfect life.
The defining core of Elle's psyche, though, has to be her burning need and desire for her father's love and approval. Almost everything she does can be viewed from this light, and his lack of love for her over the years really explains a great deal about her. (After all, what kind of father sits by while his daughter is being "tested" to the point of passing out from pain…and then tells them to continue?)
The one possibly redeeming quality she could have is her recent relationship with Peter Petrelli. While she's doing her best to bring him over to the Company, his affection and concern for her have given her some things that she's lacked over the years, and it -might- be possible to build a core from it for the future.
February 18 (Something in the Air): Elle goes to Ed to see if she can get some of the truth about what they did to her out of him.
February 19 (Eviction): Elle tells Benjamin to get out of Dodge. After all, never know when you'll need someone to owe you a favor.
February 21 (Fight Club Sandwich): Elle heads out to get a sandwich. Runs into Max, and chaos ensues, during which Elle gets stabbed through the arm, and cooks Orion to medium well.
February 22 (Testing A Theory): Elle grabs Claire and hauls her down to patch up Orion after his electrifying night. Well, that and to use Claire for a guinea pig. Cause that's always fun.
February 26 (D. Lish Morning): Elle and Anders pay a visit to Niki to try and get her to cooperate. Well, Anders tries to get her to cooperate. Elle is more concerned with trying to torture Niki.
February 26 (Night Watch Epic Fail): Elle breaks into Bob's office to get a good look at her file. Anders catches her and gets fried for it.
February 27 (No Damsel): Distraught over what she's learned from checking her file, Elle heads to the city, wherein she bumps into Hiro and Trixie.
March 1 (Violated): Elle and Anders end up bringing in Claudine and Ianto. Despite this, due to the actions of T.C., things get complicated and the Haitian has to do damage control.
March 2 (Quid Pro Quo): Elle makes arrangements with Benjamin to leave herself a little video memo, just in case the Haitian should mess with her head, concerning the experimentation the Company did on her.
March 7 (The Spark): Elle shows up to play hairdresser with Peter Petrelli. No more emohair!
March 7 (A Strong Undercurrent Of "Skank"): Elle stops by to pay Mohinder a visit. Turns out Mohinder was already visiting with Mara. The two get along wonderfully.
March 8 (Yes Daddy): Bob calls Elle on the carpet for some of her recent actions. She's placed under house arrest due to poor performance.
March 10 (The Foe You Know): A group of people break in to rescue Peter Petrelli. Elle, who'd already been trying to help Peter get out, is knocked out by Peter and taken along.
March 10 (Can't Just Go Back): Elle wakes up after getting knocked out and takes stock of her situation with Peter. For better or worse, going back to the Company doesn't seem an option.
March 10 (Cat and Mouse): Recently "kidnapped" from the Company, Elle heads off with Peter to the Petrelli mansion, only to find Sylar already visiting. Fighting and electric zappiness ensue.
March 11 (What Is It With Heroes Stealing Pants): In the wake of the battle with Sylar, Elle and Peter start to make plans. Also, getting non-bloody clothing.
March 13 ("Anybody Home?"): Elle and Peter, while out looking for Nathan, stop off at Mohinder's apartment to see if Molly is around and might be able to help in the search.
March 14 (An Innocent Face): Elle stops off at Enlightenment Books and pretends to be Little Miss Innocent while getting a copy of Dr. Suresh's book. Gives her phone number to Alyssa.
March 16 (Peter Petrelli's Posse): Elle and Peter head out for coffee, and they run into practically every Evolved in New York. Or that's what it seems like.
March 24 (First Date Ever): Peter takes Elle out for her first-ever date. And gives her a locket.
March 25 (We Need A Plan): Elle talks Peter into making a deal with the devil. Or the Company. Same difference.
March 27 (Hasta La Vista Baby): Peter and Elle are going to need people to make this whole Sylar-stopping plan work. One of the first they tap is lawyer/musician Jane Forrest.
March 30 (Satellite Group Aka Not The Justice League): Elle and Peter have a meeting with Bob to discuss a possible alliance between Peter and his people and The Company, working together rather than at odds.
April 16 (Cutting Loose): Elle hooks up with her BFF, Candice Wilmer, after not having seen her for a few weeks. Jane and Randall are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
April 16 (The Girlfriend's Back): Elle hooks back up with Peter after having been gone the last while.
April 17 (Sometimes You Just Have To Vent): Feeling guilty after Peter tells her that Jane thinks she was drugged, Elle makes a point of going over to see how she's doing. What starts with the intention of discussing the satellite company turns into a surprisingly honest heart-to-heart.
April 18 (Battle Of The Blondes): Elle goes to visit Pamela to express her displeasure about naked women accosting her boyfriend. Pamela kicks Elle in the face and throws a van at her. Elle lights Pamela's house on fire with her niece and nephew in it. Whacky times.
April 18 (Healing Touch): Elle comes home after getting kicked, nearly blown up, and having to flee barefoot. Peter has a puppy. Peter also has a healing touch. Peter makes for an awesome boyfriend.
April 19 (Pumpkin to Carriage): Elle is Not Happy(TM) after the encounter with Pamela. She gets ahold of Candice, and asks her bestest friend to handle it, so Elle won't have to kill Pamela herself (which would make Peter unhappy).
April 19 (Just Another Saturday Night): In a foul mood after getting kicked in the face earlier, Elle heads out to go to a bar, intending to have her first real "getting drunk" on. While she's there, she runs into Gabrielle and Jonathan. She fries a grabby drunk and gets hit on…without frying the hittee.
April 20 (An Electric Sunday Morning): Elle visits the person she's counting as her second friend, Jane Forrest. Powers are displayed, and Elle stops Jane's heart. (Don't worry, she restarts it!)
April 20 (Arguing And Making Up): Peter comes home after a day of training and he and Elle get into an argument over Sylar, the Company, and where they stand with things. After the not-so-fun arguing part comes the more-fun makeup sex.
April 21 (Fears and Freak Outs): Elle has a heart to heart with her BFF to tell her that she's thinking about leaving the Company and getting out. This, unfortunately, is likely to start an unpleasant chain of events.
April 21 (All Fun And Games): Second actual official date! Peter takes Elle out to an arcade. Competitions are had, Elle beans someone in the head with a skeeball, and a bet is lost.
April 22 (Breakfast And Shoes): Elle shows up to visit Jane with breakfast and presents both. They chat briefly, and Jane gets the idea to expose Elle to some music.
April 22 (It's A Small World): Elle goes out to pick up a sandwich and bumps into Jonathan again. When Peter calls her later, they hook up, and discover omens of a Dark Future.
April 23 (What Price, Friendship?): Elle goes to Kirby Plaza to answer a phone call from her father. When she gets there, she finds a rude surprise that will change her life.
April 23 (None The Wiser): Elle wakes up after having her memories sliced and diced by the Haitian. Thankfully, due to some artful arranging of things, the blonde isn't yet aware that she's lost almost a month worth of very focused memories. However, their loss definitely has Elle in fine form, one more her psychoblonde self.
April 23 (Stalker Calls): Elle gets called by Peter. Since Elle has no clue who Peter IS, decides that he's a stalker and general nutjob. Then gets called by Jane, who she -also- decides is a psycho nutjob. Elle is not happy with whoever gave out her number.
April 24 (Don't Tase Me, Girlfriend): Elle, unhappy with one Peter Petrelli stalking her, goes to Peter's place to express her unhappiness with being stalked. In high-voltage ways. Peter gets owned.
April 24 (Stop Saying You Know Me!): Immediately following Elle owning Peter, she leaves his place and bumps into Jane on the porch. Jane tries rationale discourse. Elle tries blue lightning. Elle wins.
April 24 (Photoshopping): Given all the weirdos saying they know her, and with the pictures she took from Peter's earlier, Elle taps Claudine to do some research for her and find out what's what.
April 24 (Find Me A Telepath!): With no good answers, Elle decides the best way to get them is to have a telepath check in her head, as well as Peter and Jane's. But since she doesn't want to let the Company in on this, she goes to Enlightenment Books to demand the list they have there. (The one Alyssa put her on, back on March 14th.) The bookstore people decide to be stubborn, and a battle royale ensues.
April 24 (Elle In The Bucket): After being knocked out by shorting out at EB, Elle wakes to find herself tied up in a bathtub with Jane watching her. Many nasty words are exchanged, and a politician is called in for use of contacts.
April 25 (Found Elle A Telepath): Nathan Petrelli comes through with a win in the form of Rianna. She goes psyche-diving inside Elle's messed-up head and confirms for her that her memories have been erased. Further checks confirm that Peter and Elle are telling the truth.
April 25 (Cheap Plastic Ring With Valuable Memories): In the aftermath of Rianna's revelations, Elle and Peter discuss where to go from here, and whether the relationship was real. Thankfully, the little plastic ring Peter gave her on the 21st, plus some psychometry, answer that question.
April 27 (Where Do We Go From Here?): Having set things on course with Peter, Elle now has to do the same with Jane. Unlikely roommates are arranged.
April 27 (Do You Mind Kissing?): With her (minimal) things moved into Jane's, Peter comes by to visit Elle, and see if they can find the spark they had before. Thankfully, Elle is good at sparks.
April 28 (I Kinda Like My Sin - Filled Ways): Having had it impressed upon her that it's a BAD thing to electrocute people in a bookstore, Elle drops by to try and do the right thing. Cass is less than impressed. Angry words follow.
April 28 (Electric Blue Lemonade): Elle is vexed about rejected apologies. Peter comes by to take her out on a date. It is discovered that 5'1" blonde girls with no food in their stomachs and a lack of history make LOUSY DRINKERS.
April 29 (Thank You, Adam Sandler And Drew Barrymore!): Elle shows up back at home as Jaden is visiting Jane. In the aftermath, Peter comes to visit and they all come up with a plan just in case they should get Haitian'd again.
April 30 (Vote Petrelli): Peter pays Elle a morning visit before she plans to go visit Bob and confront him over being Haitian'd. He gives her a memento and good luck charm.
April 30 (A Complicated World): Elle goes to see Bob. Things go…surprisingly well, all things told.
April 30 (Getting Elle Out Of Her Pants): Elle comes home to tell Jane and Peter how the meeting with her father went. Peter gets a little anxious, and Elle's jeans get midas-touched.
May 1 (A Not-Perfect World): Peter invites Elle over, cooks for her, and there is a long discussion on the world in general.
May 2 (It All Seems... So Normal): Elle and Jane have a bit of roommate bonding. Jane tries to show Elle how to cook. It is not a total disaster, surprisingly.
May 3 (Okay To Be Worried): Peter comes back to tell Elle about the situation with Heidi. Elle is less than thrilled to find out her boyfriend is going out in ways that could get him killed.
May 4 (Promise Ring): After spending the night at Peter's, he surprises Elle by giving her the real version of the plastic ring he got her earlier. There is general squee over this fact.
May 4 (Monopoly And Other Games): Peter and Elle go over so Elle can meet the family. While Peter is putting the nephews down, she and Nathan have a heart to heart and discuss possible…options.
May 5 (To Protect Everyone): Elle meets up with Peter after he gets killed by Jessica in the bookstore. They have a talk over Peter's Superman complex, and Elle manages to talk him into doing something in the grey zone.
May 6 (Early Morning Revenge): Elle, not happy about Jessica ripping Peter up like a wet napkin, shows up to express her displeasure. And she'd have gotten away with it too, if not for those meddling kids!
May 6 (Cooking The Door): Elle returns home in a semi-psychotic frenzy after getting beaten by Jessica. She proceeds to trash her room like a rockstar before getting talked down by Peter.
May 7 (Claws In): Bob calls Jessica and Elle in and tells them to kiss and make up. This does not go overly well. In the aftermath, Elle gives Bob some news she probably shouldn't.
May 7 (Tornados, Earthquakes, Paintings, Plans, And... Bugs?!): After her meeting with Bob, Elle heads home to tell Peter and Jane what's going on. She also drops some Company intel to them, in the hopes of getting their help with things they might not rather do.
May 8 (Drinking, Dancing, and Deception): Elle hooks up with her BFF Candice to go drinking and talk about the conflicts in her life. Candice tries to convince her to dump Peter.
May 10 (Elle Is Cute And Psychotic): Elle goes over to bring Nathan a fruit basket for calling in Rianna. Once there, she meets Heidi, and decides Heidi is good people.
May 10 (Why Cant We Be Friends): Elle tracks down Jessica, and tries to get her to hand back over the painting. Jessica and Elle prove that you do not put two psycho blondes in close proximity. Elle blasts Jessica a couple times, Jessica retaliates by putting the spike of her heel through Elle's foot. And her shoe. And the floor. OW. All this in Den of Iniquity.
May 10 (No High Heels For A Week): A wounded Elle is taken home by her boyfriend, who heals her foot as well as he can, and dispenses medical advice.
May 11 (A Tragedy Of Errors): After Jack lets drop something he shouldn't, Elle becomes convinced Peter is cheating on her with Elena (she's a paranoid, it happens). She intercepts Elena to express her unhappiness with this situation. The situation is finally and barely defused when Elena, after having been kidnapped, uses her powers to knock out Elle.
May 11 (Omission Versus Lying): Elle and Peter have a big fight over what happened, secrets, lives vs. jobs. There is very nearly a breakup.
May 11 (No Promises, And No Sugary Platitudes): Elle and Jane have their discussion after the whole "Elle kidnaps Elena" incident. It is not of the happymaking.
May 13 (The Trouble Of Mourning Someone Who's Still There): Peter comes over, very drunk after meeting with his venomous, backstabbing lush of a brother Nathan, and gives Elle a speech that sounds very like The Breakup Speech, Pt. 2.
May 13 (Startled and Shocked): In a panic attack induced by Peter's speech, Elle calls up her BFF to beg for help. Candice refuses to provide it. Elle begins to go off the deep end, literally losing control of her electrical generation and shocking Candice.
May 13 (K - Knock Me Out): After shocking Candice, Elle runs home in full panic attack mode, virtually bleeding lightning around her. When she finds her roommate, she asks for the thing she least likes in the world, to stop the danger.
May 13 (Again, That's Bob Talking): Elle wakes up after unconsciousness. She and Jane have a talk about what happened, and why. Elle tries to be strong like her Daddy would want.
May 13 (Wing It): Elle, having decided that yeah, she kinda overreacted, goes to try and apologize to Elena and hope the door isn't slammed in her face. Elena, being a good Catholic girl, makes with the forgiveness.
May 14 (From One El To Another): Since the apologizing thing went really well, Elle decides to return with Chinese food and the traditional Elle offering of friendship; expensive shoes. There is conversation, swapping of gifts, and meeting of Ramon. Also funny haps with tongs.
May 14 (The Four A. M. Return): After visiting with Elena, Elle comes home to crash out and watch T.V. This plan is only marginally interrupted by Jane coming home, and substantially MORE interrupted by Peter showing up.
May 16 (Chaos Theory): After Heidi finds out Nathan had an affair with Mara, Peter taps Elle to babysit Simon and Monty. Yes. Babysit.
May 16 (Kangaroo Pizza): Elle finds out that small children are harder to deal with than locked-up Evolved. Rules Are Laid Out.
May 16 (A Promise Is A Promise): Elle begs one of the maids to watch the terrible twosome for an hour or so so that she can get some sane adult conversation. And babysitting. So she goes to Elena's. Unfortunately, Heidi has ALSO gone to Elena's. Heidi is a total bitchface about the entire thing justifiably concerned about her children, and in the end, all three go back to Casa De Petrelli.
May 17 (All About The Benjamins): Elle shows up at Enlightenment Books in an attempt to make things right. She brings enough cash to pay Cass's insurance deductable. And apologizes. Cass is somewhat less a total bitchface a bit more accepting than the last time Elle tried apologizing.
May 18 (This Is The Really Real World): Elle shows up to stop Drake's amateur superheroing. She tries persuasion. When that doesn't work, she tries electricity. Drake tries superspeed kicks to sensitive spots.
May 18 (Blonde, Law, Bunny Suit): Elle comes home after her fight with Drake and puts ice on her boo-boos. Peter shows up to lay hands on her boo-boos. Jane shows up at awkward moments. EVERYONE sits down and watches movie.
Power: Electrokinesis
Elle's power allows her to generate electricity and to control the nature and amount of that electricity's output. In and of itself, perhaps not as impressive an ability as some of the other Evolved, but notable for two main reasons:
A) Elle doesn't just generate electricity, Elle generates A LOT of electricity. When she was eight, she caused a four-county blackout. When she was still a pre-teen, the Company was running tests to get her to generate enough power for a city block. Now? It's 10 years later. Elle can theoretically put out enough power to power not just a city block, but an entire -city-. How long she could do this for is anyone's guess (probably not very long), but it's still a massive, massive amount of power generation. That whole "1.21 gigawatts!" thing? Yeah. She could do that.
B) Elle has A LOT of control over her power. 10 years+ at the hands of the Company training and testing in using them will do that to a girl. She can vary the intensity of her discharges, cause very precise arcs, and essentially has lots of other tricks, all because of her long training. Generally, the only people with more experience at their abilities than Elle are people of the Company Founders generation (or those rare few older, like Adam).
1.21 Gigawatts: Part of Elle's training involved using her to power things. She's had a lot of practice at it. With use of this stunt Elle can provide power as if she were a generator or a wall-outlet, providing it at the correct amperage and voltage to not overload things that she's powering. The better the roll the larger a thing she can power…and let's not forget that powering an entire city is not beyond her.
Clear!: Elle can use her powers to act as a defibrillator restarting someone's heart. She's actually had training from the Company in how to do this and can thus restart someone's heart on an average roll. She can also cause someone's heart to go into fibrillation or even stop doing damage but this is reflected better in her Static Charge From Hell stunt.
Don't Tase Me, Bro: Elle is a walking, talking, taser if she needs to be. It's quite easy for her to knock someone out with her powers either by touch or ranged attack. Elle rolls an attack dodged by her target normally. If she hits the target takes no actual damage but must beat Elle's Success Level with a Stamina roll or be knocked unconscious.
Extra Crispy: Basic Zeus-esque hurling of lightning bolts at the general vicinity. Elle can let out either a pulse of Electricity (she does this generally if it has to travel over a long distance) appearing as a crackling electrical sphere, or more commonly as a solid searing beam of electrical energy that continues till she shuts it off. Elle rolls her stunt as normal while the target dodges as normal. However if Elle keeps the beam flowing the target continues to take the same damage each pose round until the beam is interrupted by putting something between Elle and her target or Elle is stopped (tackling, breaking her concentration, etc).
I Mock Your Surge Protector: Elle can crank out a truly scary amount of electricity, and since she can vary the wattage and amperage she can cause utter havoc to sensitive electrical systems. Using this stunt she deals -double- the normal damage to such electrical systems, allowing her to blow out televisions, computers, and the like with nigh-effortless ease.
Now Skywalker, You Will Die: There's a reason why electricity has been used as a torture since man harnessed it…because the pain it can deal without killing someone can be truly impressive. And given that Elle's both a sadist and works for a truly nasty company she's worked hard to master this little trick. Elle has to be touching her target to use this stunt. Her target must roll Willpower vs. Elle's success level to keep from being broken by the pain and giving in to torture. It causes no actual damage…but it hurts. A. LOT. Given that it's torture things get worse the longer it goes on…for each day beyond the first that someone's subjected to this they roll their Willpower with an additional penalty.
Penny In A Light Socket: Nerves work on the conduction of electrical impulses. Isn't it convenient that Elle produces buckets of electricity? She can use this specifically to cause nerve damage to a target. Elle must touch her target to use this stunt, and her target rolls Stamina to resist. 1 "point" of damage indicates the targeted body part is numb, limp, and useless for 1 hour. 2 points renders it useless a day. 3 points for a week. 4 or more indicates permanent nerve damage and uselessness unless healed by some fashion .
Plasma Cutter: All that's required to make plasma is to pass an extremely strong electrical current through a gas like oxygen. Lightning bolts make it, for example. And so can Elle. Essentially, this allows her to act as either a human welding torch or a plasma cutter…either fusing metal together or cutting through it like a hot knife through butter. Because the charge can arc out, this is a very short-range ability (the target has to be within 6 inches of a part of Elle's body).
Static Charge From Hell: Elle can also choose to let electricity crackle or arc in any given way about her body (generally her fingers) . When so doing she can deliver a shock ranging from "scuffing your feet over the carpet" to "my arm's gone numb" to a target touching her. This does not need a roll to hit, but requires the target to already be touching Elle or willing to let her touch them (or unable to STOP her from touching them) . Damage is variable…anywhere from a painful shock doing no actual damage up to Elle's maximum damage.
Robert Bishop: Daddy. Person whose approval matters most to Elle in this world. (Also, head of the Company. But that's entirely secondary to being Daddy.
Peter Petrelli: Boyfriend. Before and after memory wipe. Elle's first date, and first real relationship. One of the very small group of people Elle actually loves.
Candice Wilmer: BFF. Twisted sociopathic illusionist, which is not so bad when you're a twisted sociopathic electrokinetic. Best friends through thick and thin. (Even if she is a memory-wipe-orchestrating BITCH. Elle doesn't know that.)
Elena Gomez: Oddly enough, after being kidnapped, Elena still made with the forgiving. Yay for Catholic upbringings. Elle and Elena had a talk/dinner/swapping of gifts, and that's enough to be a friend in Elle's book. She's already making plans to get Elena AND Jane in the same place. She'd love to get Candice there too, but doesn't think that would go over so well.
Jane Forrest: Roommate. Second-closest-girl-friend. (As in, friend-who-happens-to-be-female, not "girlfriend". Elle doesn't swing that way.) Source of infinite patience in trying to socialize Elle. Even if she has a penchant for drenching her.
Jonathan McCormick: Computer guy who very clearly has a thing for the electroblonde. First person to buy her a drink at a bar, and first person she ever really went dancing with. He counts as a friend, though just barely.
Arianna Rockford-Johannsen: Telepath who hates the company, read Elle's mind for her, and proved she'd been mindwiped. Also laying the foundation for getting Elle to ask very troubling questions about the Company. Not -really- Elle's friend, but Elle thinks she is.
Edward Boone: Sometimes partner and occasional pain in the ass. Rubs Elle the wrong way, but competent at his job, and useful skills.
Jack Derex: Bartender at the Den of Iniquity. Seems to know LOTS of people, including Peter, Elena, and more. Might be a useful person to get to know more, whether in the friendly way or the blackmail way.
Orion Granger: Company agent, so useful skills and information. Marginally useful power, too…makes him good at stopping bullets AND utterly vulnerable to Elle's own powers. These are both good things.
Drake Maxwell: Marginally paranoid, with delusions of superherodom. Also, useful ability. Could almost certainly be blackmailed into using it on Elle's behalf in exchange for her NOT hauling his ass in.
Nathan Petrelli: Peter's brother. Politician with buckets of useful contacts, son of one of the Company's founders. Also, did the horizontal mambo with skankadelic Jessica Sanders, caught on video on tape the Company owns. Potentially leverageable through Peter, through the video, or through having a wife and two kids who make excellent conductors.
Claudine Salonga: Annoyingly perky semi-geek who works for the Company. Mild enough to be easily bullied, which in turn gives her access to good resources and Elle the ability to intimidate her into using them on her behalf. This is good.
Anders Skaargard: Company agent, now transferred. Prior to his transfer, had gotten knocked on his ass by Elle's powers, and thus put into the proper framework…under her.
Mohinder Suresh: Brilliant geneticist, occasional Company tool. Elle has acted as his liaison to the Company before and may again. Would be easy to manipulate, especially through Molly, but that might piss off Daddy. Use only at need.
Molly Walker: TOO DAMN USEFUL to be allowed to get away. However, also a child and thus easy to intimidate, or easy to manipulate through threat of pain to Mohinder or others.
Benjamin Winters: Owes his escape from Company facilities to Elle. As such, OWES HER BIGTIME. Could be useful to call in at some point.
Claire Bennet: Oh-so-perfect princess who OUGHT to be lying in a Company facility, kept sedated, and used as blood-on-perpetual tap. But oh, NO. We can't do anything wrong to the princess. God forbid.
Alyssa Christianson: Telekinetic bitch who thinks it's funny to mess with sprinkler systems. Has something of use and value which would warrant frying her on TOP of her thinking she's funny. Elle just hasn't figured a way to do it without Peter figuring it's her yet.
Lachlan Deatley: Loud. Mouthy. Scottish. Do we really need to say more?
Gabriel Gray: Actually dangerous. Needs to be put down with extreme prejudice when she sees him next, not "taken into custody." Fried till medium-well and a good sear has developed on the outside.
Pamela Hall: Blonde bitch who thinks it's funny to kick people in the face. Elle set Candice on her some time ago.
Adam Monroe: Another one of the actually-dangerous people. Seems to have some deal going with Daddy, so don't fry on sight, but definitely worth looking into.
Cassandra Aldric: Owner of Enlightenment Books. Okay, so zapping her MIGHT not have been the nicest way to get what she wanted. On the other hand, it was the stupid telekinetic bitch who wrecked all her books, and if she can't accept an honest apology, then screw her.
Noah Bennet: Miss Perfect Princess's dad. Would be a Tool if she could figure out ANY way to leverage him, but he remains annoyingly impervious thus far.
Clint Evans: Thief with teleportation powers. Brought in by Elle to Company custody.
Trixie Mimura: Met her -once-, with Hiro. Honestly, probably wouldn't be able to pick her out of a crowd…just wasn't that memorable.
Angela Petrelli: Company founder. Much like HRG, would be a Tool if she were willing to do what it takes to leverage her…but Angela is as bloodthirsty as she is. Hard to get a lever on someone so pragmatic.
Heidi Petrelli: Actually…kind of nice. Elle's not sure what to make of her. She seems like she might actually be pleasant, but isn't well-known enough to be counted as a friend.
Ianto Pryce: Tagged-and-bagged by Elle. Not dealt with since then.
Maxwell Swan: Almost an enemy, just for STABBINGS IN THE ARM. But, low-threat enough to be bothered with.
"All right, I killed him, okay? What is the big deal?!" — Elle, Fight or Flight
"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
"You know, the psychologists are out to get me just because I threatened to kill them once or twice. Seriously… can you say overdramatic?" — Elle, Something in the Air
"Tell anyone I was here? I'll turn you into a dork-kabob, capiche?" — Elle, Eviction
"I'm sorry… I guess I mistook your super-regeneration powers for super-doormat powers and felt the need to speak up. It won't happen again, I promise." — Elle (to Claire), Testing a Theory
"When are we getting around to torturing her? I mean, that is what we do, right? We hurt people for a living. So are you going to tie her down or should I?" — Elle (about Niki), D. Lish Morning
"I think my dad let some people hurt me when I was a kid." — Elle, No Damsel
"You like to sit in the ivory tower your daddy built for you, you self-righteous bitch. You're sure you're right, every time. You think you know everything about the Company there is to know. Hell, you think you know everything about the world. — Elle, Yin And Yang
"Hi Elle. If you're seeing this, it means they brought you back yet again and tall dark and handsome did that memory trick he's so good at. The thing you need to know. The thing they don't want you to know is that Daddy lied to me. To you. You get the picture. They experimented on me. He knew about it. And he didn't stop it. He may have even prolonged it. That's what I wanted you to remember. No matter what, you have to remember that. And you have to make all of them pay for what they did. Especially daddy." — Elle, Bwuh Moments
"It's okay. I'm not going to zap you when your back is turned. Trust me, give it some time and you'll start asking me to do it." — Elle, James Bond In The Wonderful Land Of Oz
"I wasn't playing you, Peter. I think I might love you, whatever that means. It's stupid and childish and totally me." — Elle, The Spark
"If you want, I could graduate you to spiked paddles and cat-o-nine-tails." — Elle, Can't Just Go Back
"You can be as strong as you want to be. And you're going to have to be pretty strong because yesterday was an indicator? There's a lot of people who are going to be relying on you." — Elle, What Is It With Heroes Stealing Pants
"He's controlling them just fine. And if worse comes to worse, I'll take care of it before it becomes a problem." — Elle, "Anybody Home?"
"I don't care, Peter. I'm not going to rein myself in. It's not my style. Let your mother and your brother think what they want. I'll respect their house and I'm not going to disrespect them in it, but that's all." — Elle, Stop The Serial Killer, Save The World
"Ooooh. Is that the one with all the mostly naked men trying to kill each other? You really do know the way to my heart." — Elle, First Date Ever
"Let's just say… I can power a city block and I wouldn't break a sweat." — Elle, Hasta La Vista, Baby
"I'm not terrible. I'm bored. If I were terrible I'd have killed her." — Elle, Cutting Loose
"That's good. Because if you got yourself killed, there would be an awfully big mess." — Elle, The Girlfriend's Back
"I try to avoid doing a lot of screaming, honestly. Usually I'm the one hearing it." — Elle, Sometimes You Just Have To Vent
"And as far as forcing you…let's just say that we can do this the easy way or the hard way. And if you really don't want to ruin your niece and nephew's lives, you'll be smart and pick easy." — Elle, Battle Of The Blondes
"That bitch. And I was even being NICE." — Elle, Healing Touch
I'll settle for dead. I'd prefer totally insane, or even better, hanging out in a Company cell where I can personally express my unhappiness before she gets disappeared." — Elle, Pumpkin to Carriage
"The Company aren't "nice" people, Jane. They do what they do, because they believe they have to…but they're also big proponents of the whole "greater good" theory. They'll hurt people, if they think that at the end of the day, it will help more people." — Elle, An Electric Sunday Morning
"Peter, sometimes I think you look too hard at the way you WANT the world to be, rather than the way it IS. The Company isn't a devil. I'm not an angel. Everything is somewhere in between." — Elle, Arguing And Making Up
"Can't I want more than I had there? I -like- going on dates. I -like- getting presents. I -like- being with a boy. I like being noticed." — Elle, Fears and Freak Outs
"You know some of the things I've done. And some of the things I might still do. You're with me even with that?" — Elle, All Fun And Games
"I feel…I don't know. There's so many new things that I'm doing. But I'm glad for Peter. And I'm glad for my friends. You -are- my friend, right?" — Elle, Breakfast And Shoes
"Better be. What would you do without me, after all?" — Elle, It's A Small World
"There's got to be -someone- we can play with." And when Elle says that, she doesn't mean "That we can collaboratively play a game with." No. She means "that we can use for a toy". — Elle, None The Wiser
"Look, I don't know what kind of stalker fixation you have, but the only way you could have got this number is going through records you shouldn't have. Which means you know what's going to happen as soon as my father finds out. And then if there's anything left of you once he's done, I get what's left." — Elle, Stalker Calls
"Ah-ah-ah now. You stay put like a -good- little stalker, or Auntie Elle is gonna light you up like a Christmas tree." — Elle, Don't Tase Me, Girlfriend
"I ought to teach you both a lesson. Run a few thousand volts through your brain. You'd be alive, if you call having a brainpower a few degrees above a hamster living." — Elle, Stop Saying You Know Me
"I need answers. And I'm going to get them, one way or the other. If you don't tell me what I want to know…or I even -think- you're lying to me….let's just say they're going to have to invent new words for pain, for what I'm going to do to you. Understand?" — Elle, Find Me A Telepath!
"Come on, the last thing your political career needs is the press finding out your brother keeps women tied up in his bathtub." — Elle, Elle In The Bucket
"You came through on your promise. Always good to find a politician that'll do that." — Elle, Found Elle A Telepath
"There's no way I can leave them. I don't think that's an option they're going to put out there, and who knows what they'll decide to take next time." — Elle, Cheap Plastic Ring With Valuable Memories
"Clearly, you know who I am and what I do for a living, and you probably know what kind of person I am. So why'd you fall for me?" — Elle, Do You Mind Kissing
"Yeah, well, you know what? I kill people. That's what I do. So, I'm sorry that I jacked up your store. But it could have been a lot worse." — Elle, I Kinda Like My Sin - Filled Ways
"I don't know. I got kind of silly. Here I'd think you'd like that." — Elle, Electric Blue Lemonade
"This is Jane Forrest, your roommate, and Peter Petrelli, your boyfriend. You can trust both of them. Someone already had the Haitian wipe Peter from your memory once; the chance is there that they might do it again. They're not going to let you leave. The Company, I mean. Somehow you've got to find some way to balance having a life and doing your job. But they're not always right. They're not always infallible. The times they've wiped you. What happened with Matt. They're not going to be able to take everything…not and have you still be functional. Think back to it, remember it. You have to find some way." — Elle, Thank You, Adam Sandler And Drew Barrymore
"Most of my dreams from there aren't particularly happy ones, Peter. And I'll be as careful as I can be, I promise. He's still my dad. He's not going to hurt me." — Elle, Vote Petrelli
"I know what my job is, Daddy. I can find the line between the two. I just need you to trust me. Please." — Elle, A Complicated World
"I think it needs to exist. I've never thought otherwise. There's just some things that I don't know I would be okay with, that they do. And at the same time, some of it, I am." — Elle, Getting Elle Out Of Her Pants
"It's probably easier to just…treat it like I work for the CIA or something. I have to do some dangerous, sneaky things sometimes, and that doesn't mean I can always tell everyone everything about what I have to do. That doesn't mean that I care any less for you." — Elle, A Not-Perfect World
"Trusting the insane woman with a knife in your kitchen…you're a brave woman." — Elle, It All Seems... So Normal
"Think about how you felt when you found out what happened to me. That's how I'd feel if something happened to you. I'd rather KNOW, Peter." — Elle, Okay To Be Worried
"Right now, the best thing in the world that Peter…or the people close to him…can do is to give me as much information as they can. Because if it's something that might align with the Company's goals, I can lend help. If it's something they'd be neutral to, I can probably sway them to your side. And if it's something they'd be outright opposed to… at the very least I might be able to run some interference." — Elle, Monopoly And Other Games
"Would you rather we -didn't- watch them and they end up with a pop-top for a head, Peter? Every person whose name we DON'T have is a person we CAN'T protect." — Elle, To Protect Everyone
"Inside. And you can tell me a little story all about a bookstore and a painting." — Elle, Early Morning Revenge
"Don't be. I'm not dumping you. And I hope you're not dumping me. But Peter, I can't keep…I can't keep locking things up. I'm gonna go nuts if I do. I want you to be safe, just like you want me to be safe. But I just…I am who I am. And that's either someone you want to be with or not." — Elle, Cooking The Door
"And what about you -completely- screwing up what I was working on there by deciding you wanted to go all slasher flick in the bookstore? What was -that- all about?" — Elle, Claws In
"I trust you to do what's -right-. Isn't that the important thing here? Would you rather they have their trust safe and their bodies dead, or the other way around?" — Elle, Tornadoes, Earthquakes, Paintings, Plans, And... Bugs?!
"That's Daddy's decision to make. Besides, if we keep them locked up, then we have to worry about people trying to break them out. It's a pain in the ass." — Elle, Drinking, Dancing, and Deception
"Well, I don't really want to intrude. I really just came mostly to drop that off for Nathan. I don't think he likes me that much. Or likes that Peter's dating me. It's just been kind of a long day, and I…figured I should do something to thank Nathan. It's a fruit basket. I didn't really know what to get." — Elle, Elle Is Cute And Psychotic
"Information. And since we're supposed to make nice, why don't we sit down and have a lovely little talk on a couple things? We don't want things to get…rowdy. Some of us have more to lose than others." — Elle, Why Cant We Be Friends
"My hero. Over the counter should be okay. Low body mass plus high pain tolerance should both dovetail nicely here. Anyhow…thank you both." — Elle, No High Heels For A Week
"Get your phone. Come back in here with it, and then call Peter. Tell him to come here right away. Do not tell him what the situation is. If you don't, or if you take more than 20 seconds to get back here with your phone, she's dead." — Elle, A Tragedy Of Errors
"You're not responsible for me or what I do. Just be there for me. That's all I want." — Elle, Omission Versus Lying
"I'm sorry. I didn't ask them to take my memories. I'm not happy that they did. But I'm still Elle. I may not remember, but the person I was is still right here. She's just got a little bit of amnesia." — Elle, The Trouble Of Mourning Someone Who's Still There
"I don't know what to do, he came by last night and he had been drinking and we got in this huge fight the other day and now he's talking like he's going to leave and I think he's going to break UP with me!" — Elle, Startled and Shocked
"I've tried. I don't…I can't…" her shoulders slump. "I've done everything I know how to do." she says. "I don't know any more to try." — Elle, Again, That's Bob Talking
"I've told him…that I love him. A lot. It's…he said last night that I'm not the same after my memory got wiped. I tried calling my friend but she said I should break up with him. I…it just…it feels like the whole world is against me." — Elle, Wing It
"I…was dangerous. I caused some accidents. I needed to learn control. My dad was just trying to keep things safe." — Elle, From One El To Another
"I talked to her…later that afternoon, after you came by. Apologized for what happened. We talked a while. So tonight, I brought Chinese over to her place. And shoes. And she gave me these!" She indicates the Elena-bracelets on her arm. "And I met her dad. He's kind of weird. Nice. But weird." — Elle, The Four A. M. Return
"Rule Number One. No killing yourself. Rule Number Two. No killing each other. Rule Number Three. No doing anything that makes me take you to the hospital. Rule Number Four. If one of you hits, pushes, scratches, bites, or ANYTHING ELSES the other one, I will do it to you, harder. Now. Besides that, I don't have rules. You can eat whatever you want to. If you want something delivered to eat, I'll call for it. You can stay up as late as you want and you can watch whatever you want on television. AS LONG AS YOU FOLLOW THE RULES." — Elle, Kangaroo Pizza
"They needed a sitter. Peter asked me. They're both okay! Well, Simon kind of has the runs. But I think that was from the pizza." — Elle, A Promise Is A Promise
"I tried asking nicely. Then I tried asking not so nicely. And then Jessica shoved her heel through the middle of my foot. But if you got it back, all's good. I'm not so good at this apologizing thing. But sorry. I'll get out of your hair now." — Elle, All About The Benjamins
"You need help. Life isn't a movie. And you running around like you think you're in Batman, or Blade Runner? You're not helping anything. The world has mechanisms for keeping people safe. Police. Courts. Laws. All you're doing is being a vigilante, and you're risking starting a witch hunt." — Elle, This Is The Really Real World
"Yeah, something like that. The client thought I would look better with his foot in my ribcage." — Elle, Blonde, Law, Bunny Suit
Videos
"Bitch" — To the Meredith Brooks song, this is Elle's themesong on HeroesMUSH.
"Stand In The Rain" — To the Superchick song of the same name. This video shows more of Elle's redeemable side. She's not ALL bad.
"Numb" — By Linkin Park. Elle's growing frustration with the methods of the Company.
"Because Of You" — Elle's relationship and the ups and downs, with Peter.
"Good or Evil" — And of course, evil Company bitch Elle.
