DEWITT, Elektra Lavinia

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ELEKTRA LAVINIA DEWITT

FULL NAME: Elektra Livinia DeWitt.
NICKNAMES: Elle.
AGE: Twenty-two.
GENDER: Female.
SEXUALITY: Straight.
STATUS: Single.
GROUP: Student.
GRADE: Senior.
MAJOR: English Literature.
JOB OCCUPATION: Campus Store supervisor.

HAIR: Naturally a dirty blonde, but she'll admit to lightening it frequently enough. Sometimes she'll play around with the hair dye too, just for a change. Her hair is usually kept mid-length to long, but she is one for waking up and chopping it off that morning. Usually kept down and loose, she only ties it back when it's hot or for some special event..
EYES: Hazel.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: None really worth mentioning. There might be a few remaining from bumps and childhood accidents, but they're only tiny and barely visible.
TATTOOS: “Mary had a little lamb” on her ribs in memory of her late mother. “Here I am. What will we become? We become ourselves. We're all mad here. All the world is green.” is styled in a way Elektra chose right underneath the first tattoo. There is her personal sketch of Stripe and Yellow from the book Hope for the Flowers inked next to this whole chunk of writing. Finally, she has “courage, dear heart” from the Chronicles of Narnia tattooed on the inside her upper right arm.
PIERCINGS: Her ears twice.
PLAY-BY: Dianna Agron!

LIKES: Reading, fairy tales, fantasy novels, fairies, mythology, libraries, singing, nights in alone, crochet, Shakespeare, poetry, romantic comedies, vanilla frosting, walking, music, playing piano, playing guitar, children, daydreaming, summer, Christmas, weddings, romantic tales, historical romances, romance novels, fairy lights, flowers, cats, starry nights, dancing, dresses, sneakers, sentimental things, souvenirs, Paris, dreams, travelling, blue skies.
DISLIKES: bullies, being shouted at, thunderstorms, an audience, sad endings, tight crowds, creepy men, key lime pie, crying, cemeteries, feeling sad, stupidly high heels, talking about her parents, long drives, horror movies, hospital waiting rooms, body buffs, liars, being laughed at, beer, stress, prison visits, the mundane, sleeping in too late, headaches, sour cream, chocolate cake, watching the news, mortality, finite choices, lack of imagination.
FEARS: Dying, never finding her happy ending, losing her books/imagination.
SECRETS: Elektra met her dad for the first time when she was eighteen. He's been in prison her whole life, and before that point she was allowed no contact with him. However she doesn't talk about this, or the reason why she so desperately clings to the fantasy world of her books and her daydreams.
PERSONALITY: Elektra is most noticeably a dreamer. She believes in the impossible and her imagination is always dragging her off to fantasy lands. She's idealistic, which can annoy plenty of people. Happy more often than not, it's rare to see Elektra without a smile on her face or a giggle just waiting to come out. She's emotional and easy to read when it comes to her feelings. Musical, Elektra won't perform for an audience of even one person, but she's got the talent to go somewhere with it if that ever changed. Music is as big a part of her life as books are, the only difference is that she keeps her voice to herself. A bookworm, it's not uncommon to see Elektra carrying two books with her at all times; in case she finishes one. She's imaginative and there's no way to deny that, but sometimes she can be so out of touch with reality because of it too. Despite this flaky image most people get as their first impression of Elektra, she's actually strong and surprisingly brave since not only has she been through a lot but she aspires to be like the heroes in her books. Shy, it takes a lot to really crack Elektra's shell to see all the layers that are masked by her day dreaming front. She's a believer in a lot of 'silly' things, but while most people laugh at her for it no one ever asks for the reason behind it, which is really quite a sad but thoughtful thing. When Elektra gets angry then she's known for breaking down in tears as she screams or shouts her side of the argument. She's never raised a hand to anyone and never wants to, but she'll not be used as some doormat either. More often than not she'll shout her part and then go off to cry somewhere by herself. When it comes to love she's a hopeless romantic who wants that fairy tale ending and happily-ever-after. She's naive and falls too easily but she's forever the optimist once she's gotten over what went wrong with the guy before. A lot of people make the mistake that she's foolish enough to fall for any line handed to her, but Elektra does have some more street smarts than that. However, she does dream of her own Prince Charming coming to sweep her off her feet and promise her that happy ending.

MOTHER: Caitlyn Rhea Sandford, deceased.
FATHER: Jamie Murray DeWitt, 52.
SIBLINGS: Cassandra Demeter Newton, half-sister, 29.
OTHERS: Elizabeth Annabelle Sandford, maternal grandmother, deceased.
PETS: Bengal Cat, of three, named Grim and a British Shorthair, of two, named Cheshire!
HOMETOWN: Glens Falls, New York
HISTORY: Caitlyn's first child was born when she was still young and battling her way through college. The father was a fraternity boy who wanted nothing to do with her or Cassandra. Elizabeth, Caitlyn's mom, made a comment about how the Sandford women were destined to be left alone with their babes. Elizabeth's father had been killed in military action during the first world war when Elizabeth was still only a baby. Elizabeth's own husband, Caitlyn's father, had left when Caitlyn was still an infant after falling for the charms of a much younger woman. Another seven years passed by before Caitlyn fell madly in love with roguish Jaime DeWitt; a man who had the women wrapped around his finger, but whose life of crime was quickly catching up with him. Caitlyn told him she was pregnant just three days before he was arrested and successfully prosecuted on charges relating to drug smuggling. He was sentenced to twenty-five to life, ultimately leaving another child without a father and with only more evidence to support Elizabeth's idea of the family women being cursed.

Elektra was born in the winter, and named after the famous Greek heroine who Caitlyn had been reading so much about in the weeks leading up to her birth. Elizabeth would have preferred her granddaughter to have a more classical name, but Caitlyn wanted her daughter to be strong and unyielding, much like in the Greek tales. Caitlyn raised her youngest daughter on fairytales and promises of a brighter future. She told Elektra all about the myths and fairies and every night was a new story about a heroic girl on some dream born adventure to change destiny for the better. Elektra's earliest memories of childhood are some of these stories and hunting for fairies in the woods while they enjoyed a family picnic on a clear Sunday afternoon.

Jamie wanted to see his daughter, but the rules were tough to get visitation and Caitlyn was eternally forbidden by her own strict mother to let the man anywhere near Elektra. It was with great reluctance that she kept away, only communicating with him through photos and letters which she sent in secret for as long as she could. Tragedy would strike though when Elektra was only six. Caitlyn had been sick over the Christmas and doctors ultimately found out that it was cancer. Originating in her cervix it had spread aggressively and now there was nothing more they could do than to make her final days more comfortable. Elektra hadn't turned seven before her mother passed away, leaving her and her older sister in the care of their strict and somewhat cold grandmother.

Elizabeth was devout to the church and someone who didn't have time for the fairytales that Elektra favoured. She called them nonsense and would frequently scold Elektra for having her head in the clouds or her nose in some book about fairies and princesses. Cassandra had been influenced by their grandmother greatly, and she honestly believed that her little sister was foolish for believing in happy endings or the idea of their being a fairy kingdom in the bottom of their garden. Elektra had her imagination to use as he escape and it was something she frequently did. She would escape to worlds where princes would come and rescue her from the clutches of the grandmother who forced her to church when she just wanted to read Alice in Wonderland over and over. Caitlyn hadn't had much to give to her youngest daughter before she died, but she had given her a wonderful imagination and everything Elektra needed to break away from the cold reality in which she lived. Elizabeth didn't want false hope being given to her family and she would forever remind them that men were destined to break them and that they needed to be stronger than that.

In school, everyone knew Elektra for having her head in the clouds and her nose in the book. She was the little girl who believed in the strength of Disney princesses and who wanted to find dragons to battle them down and come out victorious. She would be scolded endlessly by teachers and her grandmother for living in such a fantasy world, but no one could deter her from those fantastic dreams. Elektra needed to know that there was more out there than the grim future her grandmother seemed to promise to both her and Cassandra. Forced by her grandmother, Elektra wound up as part of the local choir group, as well as learning piano from the strict woman herself. Guitar came during her teenage years when she found a local boy who was willing to teach her in return for her helping him with his English reports. She was bullied quite a bit, but Elektra kept her spirits high thanks to books and those fairytales she clung to for all she was worth.

Elektra enjoyed her music. It was another escape for when she couldn't have her books or when her grandmother dragged her somewhere. She wasn't the most confident of girls, so she only sang when she was with the choir, but when she was growing into a teenager people began to notice that she had quite the impressive voice. They wanted to give her solo numbers and parts, but she declined every time. Just the thought of standing in front of an audience had her feeling sick to her stomach, like she was going to faint. She was able to sing when she didn't realise people were listening, but the moment she knew she was done and would just stop and run off. Elektra would always choose the escape of her books and her day dreams over that of music, no matter how much she loved perfecting a tune or melody.

Her relationship with her sister was always strained. Cassandra thought Elektra foolish for believing in the happy endings and the promises of Prince Charming. Cassie was much more down to earth and eerily like their grandmother when it came to having a cynical view of the world. Elektra was nothing like her and it was extremely difficult for the two to be close when they were always clashing. Usually it was Cassie confronting Elektra over spending time with a boy who “would only want one thing” or yelling at her for making promises that Cassie believed Elektra couldn't keep. It was little things mostly, but it kept the sisters from being close friends, even if Cassie only did what she did to try and look out for Elektra, to make her see the world without the rose tinted glasses Elektra loved to wear so much.

When Elektra was eighteen she prepared to move to New York City for college. High school had done little to change her. People still thought she was some ditzy daydreamer who believed in dragons, fairies and Prince Charming and those people were right, but the didn't see just how strong Elektra could be either. Something that was shown when Elizabeth took ill and a weak heart left her with very little time to pass advice onto her grandchildren. She gave them her usual warnings about the threat of men, how they would break their heart and leave them with the children to raise alone, but then she told Elektra that she was proud that she had stuck to her guns for all those years and never let herself or Cassie kill those belief in fairytales. Elizabeth still called them stupid, but decided that there was hope for Elektra yet if she could be that stubborn through it all. At the funeral was the only time Elektra performed to a crowd, per her grandmother's final request. She wanted her favourite hymn sung by her granddaughter, but Elektra still had to do it with her back to the mourners and at the start of the service so her nerves couldn't get the best of her.

After the funeral, when they were cleaning out the house, Elektra found a box with her name on it. Opening it she found eighteen years worth of letters and cards from the father she had never met. Elizabeth had always told her that he never bothered to get in touch, but this box proved differently. Elektra had pictured some man who didn't care for so many years and yet these letters were full of love and care from a man who desperately wanted to be there for his little girl. Hurt that this had been kept from her, scared of what might happen next and feeling a million other things, Elektra sat down and wrote back to her father, expressing her desire to meet him and explaining that she had only just received all the letters he had sent to her. She received clearance to visit him at the end of the month and made the journey to the prison where she finally met the man who she hadn't seen a photograph of since she was a little girl. It was an awkward, emotional meeting between the two and involved a lot of Jamie telling Elektra how much she looked like her mother and how proud he was of her every time she told him about something in her life.

After that she wrote frequently and visited whenever school work freed up enough to give her a chance. Jamie was hoping to get out at the end of his minimum and Elektra didn't know how she felt about that. It was still some time away, but she couldn't see a criminal whenever she looked at him. He was her father no matter what and she liked to think that he broke the “curse” since he might not have been around but he had always cared. She didn't tell anyone about her father or her visits, because she didn't know what to expect from other people, but she was happy to call him her dad. His mistakes were in the past, he promised her that, and she wanted to believe him as much as she believed in her fairytale endings.

Time passed and very little changed. She worked in the campus store, found a cute little apartment and still argues with her sister when they meet up for lunch once a week. The sisters are close, but not friends, which is a difficult thing to explain to anyone else. Now a senior studying English Literature, Elektra has no clue what the future holds for her, but she still clings to her hopes and her wishes and every belief that there is a happy ending out there for her.

YOUR ALIAS: Kim
RULE WORDS: kidnappedbykim.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: In a blue box that is so much bigger on the inside.
SAMPLE:

Nope.

[kim]