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|FullName=Elektra Natchios | |FullName=Elektra Natchios | ||
|Gender=Female | |Gender=Female | ||
|Species=Human | |Species=Human | ||
|Theme=Marvel | |Theme=Marvel | ||
|Chartype= | |Chartype=FC | ||
|Active= | |Active=Dropped | ||
|Occupation=Heiress and Assassin | |Occupation=Heiress and Assassin | ||
|Citizenship=Greek / US Dual Citizen | |Citizenship=Greek / US Dual Citizen | ||
|Residence=Croft Centre (East Side, Manhattan) | |Residence=Croft Centre (East Side, Manhattan) | ||
|Education=University Degree | |Education=University Degree | ||
|Groups=[[Defenders]], [[Martial Arts]] | |Groups=[[Defenders]], [[Hench]], [[Martial Arts-OOC]], [[Street Level-OOC]], [[Hellfire Club]] | ||
|Quote="I don't murder people, that's just crass. I extricate them from the mundanity of life." | |Quote="I don't murder people, that's just crass. I extricate them from the mundanity of life." | ||
|PAge= | |PAge=29 | ||
|AAge= | |AAge=29 | ||
|DOB=20 October 2001 | |DOB=20 October 2001 | ||
|Height=175 cm | |Height=175 cm (5'9") | ||
|Weight=59 kg | |Weight=59 kg (130 lb) | ||
|Hair=Black | |Hair=Black | ||
|Eyes=Blue | |Eyes=Blue | ||
|Actor=Elodie Yung | |Actor=Elodie Yung | ||
|Profile=Elektra Natchios | |Song="Gasoline" by Halsey<br>"Castle" by Halsey | ||
|Profile=Elektra Natchios was the former Greek Ambassador, Hugo Natchio's daughter. Heir to his estate and fortune, she trained as an elite martial artist, ninja, and assassin, and was destined to be a weapon against the Hand. That is until she made the fatal error of accepting the offer to be the Fist that Rules the Hand in hopes of ending an lifelong battle that none of them could win. Discovering her error she ended up sacrificing herself to prevent a holy war of sorts, instead hastening it as the Hand took her lifeless body and created Black Sky. Their plan failed, though, as in the end emotion wins out over cold, calculating death, and she regained her memories of herself, and chose her own future by deciding to join with the Defenders and seek to destroy the Hand instead. Now she learns what life after death holds for her, and takes her own future in her hands, this time, totally unscripted by anyone but herself. | |||
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|Description=Striking. Exotic. Feminine. Those might be the first few words that come to mind upon looking at Elektra Natchios. She is of clear Mediterranean descent, her skin a deep olive tone even in the sunless winter months. Straight black hair reaches halfway down her back and is often let loose in a simple center part. Her eyes border on the edge of brown or black and are just slightly almond shaped. She has a full mouth, generally painted with an artful burgundy lipstick, and fine features with high cheekbones. Her body is slender in a way that might be considered fashionable or, if one realizes how much of it is muscle, dangerous. She stands about five and a half feet without heels.<br><br>Her clothing is high class; elegant and understated. Classic. Today, she's in an elegant pair of high waisted black slacks with a deep crimson silk shirt tucked into the sailor-style button waistband. The cuffs of the pants just slightly cover a pair of black spike heels. A few pieces of tasteful jewelry decorate other parts, but she seems to be dressed to not draw attention. | |Description=Striking. Exotic. Feminine. Those might be the first few words that come to mind upon looking at Elektra Natchios. She is of clear Mediterranean descent, her skin a deep olive tone even in the sunless winter months. Straight black hair reaches halfway down her back and is often let loose in a simple center part. Her eyes border on the edge of brown or black and are just slightly almond shaped. She has a full mouth, generally painted with an artful burgundy lipstick, and fine features with high cheekbones. Her body is slender in a way that might be considered fashionable or, if one realizes how much of it is muscle, dangerous. She stands about five and a half feet without heels.<br><br>Her clothing is high class; elegant and understated. Classic. Today, she's in an elegant pair of high waisted black slacks with a deep crimson silk shirt tucked into the sailor-style button waistband. The cuffs of the pants just slightly cover a pair of black spike heels. A few pieces of tasteful jewelry decorate other parts, but she seems to be dressed to not draw attention. | ||
|History=One might not expect one of the most dangerous assassins in the world to have started life as a spoiled rich girl, but that's exactly how Elektra's path began. The daughter to business mogul and Greek ambassador Hugo Natchios and his late wife Christina, Elektra's status as an only child (and last remaining part of his wife) meant that he spoiled her rotten. The best schools, the best clothes, exotic trips abroad every year, tutors, jewelry, anything she ever wanted.<br><br>A precocious child, Elektra spoke four languages by the time she was six, and found herself bored with schooling. Filled with excess energy, and showing a malaise with life, her father sought ways to channel his bright daughter, and put her in martial arts, a skill she excelled at. Enough that by the time she was ten, she had been invited to take private lessons, and eventually met her teacher, Stick.<br><br>This is where her life's path truly began.<br><br>Elektra's life might have been something completely different if it weren't for the cold blooded murder of her father just as she entered the formative years of puberty. While she had always been rich, and would never want for anything, ever, the one thing in life that had meant the world to her - her father - had been taken away. It's unknown if Stick had a hand in engineering her father | |History=One might not expect one of the most dangerous assassins in the world to have started life as a spoiled rich girl, but that's exactly how Elektra's path began. The daughter to business mogul and Greek ambassador Hugo Natchios and his late wife Christina, Elektra's status as an only child (and last remaining part of his wife) meant that he spoiled her rotten. The best schools, the best clothes, exotic trips abroad every year, tutors, jewelry, anything she ever wanted. | ||
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A precocious child, Elektra spoke four languages by the time she was six, and found herself bored with schooling. Filled with excess energy, and showing a malaise with life, her father sought ways to channel his bright daughter, and put her in martial arts, a skill she excelled at. Enough that by the time she was ten, she had been invited to take private lessons, and eventually met her teacher, Stick. | |||
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This is where her life's path truly began. | |||
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Elektra's life might have been something completely different if it weren't for the cold blooded murder of her father just as she entered the formative years of puberty. While she had always been rich, and would never want for anything, ever, the one thing in life that had meant the world to her - her father - had been taken away. It's unknown if Stick had a hand in engineering her father?s death, but he certainly took advantage of it, stepping in to offer Elektra the chance at revenge. | |||
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This is when her training began in earnest, and when her life took the dark turn that would define her future. Continuing with her private schooling, Elektra also began to train upwards of six hours a day in the martial arts. This is where she learned to clear her mind and heart of all emotion - things that would hamper her in becoming the weapon she needed to be to avenge her father's death. | |||
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It was this single minded focus that would be used against her when she first encountered The Hand, believing them to be behind her father's murder. Those initial encounters were brief, but bloody, yet, within her, they saw what could potentially be a valuable asset and set out to court her, by playing her vulnerabilities. The Hand planted evidence that pointed to Stick as having been her father?s murderer, and believing this to be true, Elektra went half mad, hunting Stick down for nearly a year, but never being quite able to bring herself to killing him. | |||
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Believing herself a failure as an assassin, and in her quest, Elektra dropped all ties with her past, and tried to make a normal life for herself instead. Moving to the United States, she enrolled in an International Law degree at Columbia University, hoping to focus on the kind of life she knew her father would have wanted for her. It was there that she met Matt Murdock, and fell in love. | |||
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It wasn't enough, though. Just like when she was a child, Elektra quickly became bored with her studies. She began to take mercenary jobs on the side to relieve the boredom of the mundane life she?d chosen. She began sparring with her blind lover, Matt. And for a time, this seemed to work. Life was good. | |||
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Or would have been, if The Hand had not grown impatient, and she, herself not continued to find herself bored with ordinary life. Even loving Matt Murdoch wasn't enough to stop Elektra from taking on more and more mercenary work, and somehow finding herself working for The Hand, becoming, in time, one of their very best assassins. If they hadn't pushed her to kill her former mentor, she might even have remained one of theirs. It was that push, to have her eliminate Stick, that had Elektra falling out with them once more, and ultimately discovering their true role in her father's death. | |||
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In the end, Elektra couldn't balance all the disparate aspects of her life. Her lover wanted her to come clean. She wanted revenge. The mundane just wasn't enough to keep her happy. Elektra lost Matt to her inability to leave her past behind. Without him, there was nothing left to keep her trying to be on the straight and narrow, and she set out to hunt down the upper echelons of The Hand to eliminate them once and for all. | |||
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It was a war that could have continued for all their lifetimes if a solution were not presented, a solution that while unorthodox, offered both parties an out. Simply put, Elektra would become The Hand. Not just an assassin working for them - some disparate whorl on one of its fingers - but the Fist that was made when they were all clenched. | |||
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It was an elegant solution to a difficult problem, and for a time it seemed to be working. By day, Elektra Natchios ran her father's Empire, Hellas International, by night, she roamed the streets and back alleys of New York - Hell's Kitchen and Gotham in particular, and throughout it all, was the Fist of the Hand. It didn't last, though. | |||
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It was through the course of being the Fist that Elektra learned of the ancient Prophecy that the Fingers of the held held to: that of Black Sky. It was a prophecy that rang very familiar to Elektra, having been told throughout her youth, by Stick, that she had been born to end the war between the Chaste and the Hand. | |||
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Elektra was trapped, unable to leave the Hand, especially without fear of her friends being harmed, and all of them hunted down for the rest of their days, and unwilling to stay with the Hand and become the weapon that they wanted her to be in this war. Instead, Elektra decided to take herself out of the equation and arranged for her own death so that neither side could use her against the other, thus breaking the Prophecy once and for all. | |||
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Unfortunately for Elektra, things didn't go as planned. The Hand cared little how she died, only that she died, and soon retrieved her body and turned her into the living weapon Black Sky, a being who was neither alive nor dead, and killed without thought or reason, unable to die except for the traditional beheading. The Hand set her loose upon the Immortal Iron Fist, and the Defenders, believing that their plans to regain K'un L'un were now at hand, and their continued immortality would be assured. | |||
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They'd all underestimated the strength of Elektra's bond with, and love for, Matt, though. Deep within her lay the shattered remains of the psyche that had once been Elektra Natchios, and through the battles she was set upon against the Iron Fist and the Defenders by Madame Gao and the Hand, Black Sky began to retrieve those shattered bits and reform them into the woman she once was. Elektra would never be the living, breathing being that she once was, but neither did she have to be Black Sky. | |||
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Ultimately, Elektra turned upon the Hand, throwing down her wakizashi, and retaking her sai, standing once more in the side of the Defenders, uncertain of whether or not she could reclaim their trust, but knowing that she had to try. Her life would be different, and she might never be a hero, but she didn't need to be Perfect Death, either. | |||
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This is where her story begins again. | |||
|Personality=Metamorphosis. First you are one thing; then you are another. | |||
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There is no denying that Elektra was dead. Her death was witnessed. Her body buried. That she was resurrected is also documentable. That she exists can not be denied. But where does that leave her? | |||
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Elektra's past is riddled with actions she is not necessarily happy with. So, too, are there some she can mention with pride. The same woman who was mercenary and assassin, is also the same woman who built the Hugo Foundation Building, and set up the Pro-Bono fund overseen by Nelson and Murdock. She's also the same woman who killed mindlessly for the Hand before remembering herself and taking the difficult steps to not only break away from a fate that was prophesied for her, but to take up a renewed sense of self. A self who can be rewritten any way she wishes. | |||
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Elektra doesn't yet know what it is she wants with this second chance at life. She knows she does not wish to be Black Sky, a mindless killer, the perfect execution of death. And yet, she also knows that in her soul, or what suffices as one within her, she is a perfect weapon, and to deny herself that may only lead to such decisions as led her into the clutches of the Hand, or worse. | |||
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What she seeks now is a way to balance her needs and her desires, and still remain true to the woman she chose to be. She has had the option of being that killer and did not take it. Now she must grab onto a new definition of self, one that tries to balance both her abilities, and chase away the boredom that she always once felt with the mundanity of life. | |||
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She may never be anything more than just a killer, but this time, it is Elektra who gets to decide that, not anyone else. | |||
|Abilities=<span style="color:#EE204D">'''PHYSIOLOGY'''</span> | |||
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Her resurrection as the Black Sky by the Hand's Substance granted Elektra numerous enhanced attributes: | |||
*Enhanced Strength: While Elektra's strength is certainly more than that of a normal human, it still lies below that of superhuman like Luke Cage or Jessica Jones. While she is able to punch a human, such as Daredevil, back several metres, her blows are not killing blows in and of themselves, unless she employs martial strikes. | |||
*Enhanced Durability: Because she is not rightly alive (nor is she dead), Elektra is able to function beyond the point a normal human would be able to, ignoring injury, fatigue, falls of up to several stories, and even such things as the need to eat, drink, and sleep. She is able to take a direct blow from the Iron Fist without suffering major injury. And while her recovery time is shorter than the average human, after a big battle, she does have to recuperate, allowing her body to mend its injuries. Her finely honed body control of prior to her death has been magnified to exquisiteness, leaving her a very nearly perfect weapon. | |||
*Enhanced Speed: Elektra's speed exceeds that of most humans. Only the best trained of fighters can consistently avoid her blows and counter them over an extended period of time. This does not mean that every blow hits, but the longer a fight draws out, the more the odds are in Elektra's favour. Most people just can't keep up with her. | |||
*Enhanced Reflexes: Her reflexes already honed to peak human before her resurrection, post-Black Sky, Elektra's reflexes are lighting fast, leaving her able to dodge the attacks of several skilled fighters at once, often without taking an injury. This does not mean that she is untouchable, merely that to get an edge, you need skill, and surprise, something most don't have against her. | |||
*Enhanced Senses: While not on par with those of Daredevil, Elektra's senses are at the height of human limits, allowing her such feats as fighting multiple skilled assailants in a darkened room, unarmed, without taking an injury, as well as disarming them. The ability to focus on the finest details of an opponent's movements and breathing give Elektra an edge in any fight. | |||
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<span style="color:#EE204D">'''CHI MANIPULATION'''</span> | |||
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Since her death and resurrection, Elektra has the ability to draw in her chi and use its force outwardly in a single strike, or push, giving her a quick edge in any fight where she has the time to gather her chi and use it. | |||
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<span style="color:#EE204D">'''UNLIVING'''</span> | |||
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Elektra is neither alive nor dead, as it has been noted that Matt could detect no heartbeat within her. She is very resilient and resistant to the effects of damage and injuries, able to take significantly more blows than a normal human before having to retreat and recoup. She is also, for all effects and purposes 'unkillable' in a fight, unless she is beheaded. Elektra certainly can be taken down in a fight, and injured to the point where she appears dead, but unless she is beheaded, like the rest of the Hand immortals, her body recuperates and in time, she returns to life. How long that takes, however, is not known - it could be months, or days. | |||
|Skills=<span style="color:#EE204D">'''BIOLOGY'''</span> | |||
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Not a doctor, but Elektra has studied the body for many years specifically focusing on the ways she can defeat it. She knows all the various pressure points on the human body which can be used to quickly down or even kill an opponent. While this skill is specifically limited to humans, should she have study time and access to knowledge about other species, she would be able to pick up such understanding for them as well. | |||
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<span style="color:#EE204D">'''DANCING'''</span> | |||
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Still a debutant and a spoiled rich girl, Elektra's years of training included dancing for quite some time. She's quite capable in ballroom, swing and Latin dancing. It's one of the few relaxing things she actually enjoys. | |||
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<span style="color:#EE204D">'''LANGUAGES'''</span> | |||
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Elektra currently speaks Greek, Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese and English fluently. She's picked up conversational Arabic, Italian and Portuguese in her travels. Part of being a highly intelligent mercenary and assassin means that she has a routine reason to use all these languages as well! | |||
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<span style="color:#EE204D">'''MARTIAL ARTS'''</span> | |||
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Elektra has been training in some form of martial arts since she was six years old. She's become one of the world's best assassins, having gone through multiple masters of the highest nature during her years training. She can taken on a dozen ninjas by herself, moves as fast as a normal human being can, and knows how to use her opponent's weight against them with deadly force. | |||
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<span style="color:#EE204D">'''STEALTH'''</span> | |||
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The Hand trains, primarily, ninjas. While Elektra's abilities go beyond Ninjutsu, having had other teachers, she has been highly trained in the art of simply not being seen. She can scale walls, blend into shadows, manage across surfaces that should not hold her weight, and handle any of the classic stealthing techniques the ninjas of legend know. If the woman doesn't wish to be seen nothing beyond supernatural senses will see her. | |||
|Resources=<span style="color:#EE204D">'''AMBASSADOR'S DAUGHTER'''</span> | |||
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Elektra still has high political and government connections due to her father having been the Greek ambassador to the United States for two decades. | |||
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<span style="color:#EE204D">'''ARSENAL'''</span> | |||
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Due to the large amount of money she's inherited, Elektra keeps a highly dangerous arsenal of weapons at all points in time. Assault rifles to hand guns, body armor, a wide variety of knives, machetes and garrotes, Elektra is armed for all sorts of combat needs. She even has fancy, useful things like zip lines, shadow suits, and more finesse gear that isn't directly for killing, but helps her get jobs done far easier. | |||
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<span style="color:#EE204D">'''NATCHIOS FORTUNE'''</span> | |||
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Upon her death, Elektra willed her considerable fortune away to Matt Murdock (with some exceptions that covered some charitable organizations and foundations she supported, as well as a few small personal sums given to individuals). Now that she is alive again, it still remains to be seen what will become of her former fortune. Will it remain with Matt? Will she seek to have herself reinstated as 'living' and thus her former fortune revert back to herself? Or will she just wash her hands of the whole matter and take that new lease on life thing to its most extreme. Time will tell. In the meantime, however, she's not destitute. If anything, Matt can be counted on to give her a place to sleep. | |||
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<span style="color:#EE204D">'''THE DEFENDERS'''</span> | |||
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Now that all that nasty Hand business is behind her, Elektra has found herself aligned with the Defenders, and coming to their aid, in common goals. She might not be a full-fledged member, but she's earning their trust, and their friendship, and her deeds have earned her at least the respect of being able to call upon them in need. It's good to have friends in.. uh.. well, street level places. | |||
|Weaknesses=<span style="color:#EE204D">'''BEHEADING'''</span> | |||
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Simply put, like the rest of those given immortality by the Hand's elixir, Elektra can't rightly be killed by any means other than beheading. No special weapons are needed, just head completely off of her body? That's it, she writes no more. | |||
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<span style="color:#EE204D">'''ENEMIES'''</span> | |||
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Elektra is an assassin. Killing comes to her as naturally as breathing. Her instinct is to slay, not merely to defend herself or render her opponents helpless. This often places her at odds with other, more moderate (or, arguably, sane) individuals. There's also dozens, possibly hundreds, of individuals throughout the world who have a personal vendetta against Elektra for killing someone they loved or respected. | |||
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<span style="color:#EE204D">'''FRIENDS'''</span> | |||
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Elektra isn't one who has cultivated many firm or strong relationships in her life, but amongst the ones there are, she can certainly be manipulated. Those include: Matt Murdock, Darcy Lewis, and Stick. Maybe her uncle Kosmos Anastas. Those are people she'd do any number of not so savoury things to save or keep out of trouble. Thankfully, of the group, only Matt Murdock is terribly obvious. | |||
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<span style="color:#EE204D">'''GUILTY'''</span> | |||
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Elektra's death and resurrection have given her something most people don't get: a second chance at life. While she remembers the woman she was before her death, she doesn't feel the weight of the guilt the way she once did. While it is proving tricky to balance her understanding of the wrongs she once did, with the woman she is trying to become, Elektra is making strides. Still, it doesn't mean that she can't be given pause from time to time over a sudden memory of something she has done, or more particularly, the pang of guilt it brings. It may lead her to overcompensate at times, who knows? It's hard to tell as she's only just begun her new life. One thing is for certain, the further along she goes in becoming 'human' the more these memories will plague her. She will have to deal with them. | |||
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<span style="color:#EE204D">'''THE HAND'''</span> | |||
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To say the Hand is upset about losing their living weapon would be an understatement. And while they might have been delivered several major blows to their organization, blows that have rendered them entirely less powerful than they once were, they are not without any power at all, and their reach is long and wide. While they may not strike out yet, there is no doubt that they will some day.. It is this shadow that hangs over Elektra, and quite possibly by proxy, her friends in the Defenders, and others. It does mean that she's a known figure, and will always be a target wherever she goes, though she is powerful enough that most of the low level wannabees aren't stupid enough to take her on? at least not alone! | |||
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"I don't murder people, that's just crass. I extricate them from the mundanity of life." | |||
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Full Name: | Elektra Natchios | ||
Gender: | Female | ||
Species: | Human | ||
Theme: | Marvel (FC) | ||
Occupation: | Heiress and Assassin | ||
Citizenship: | Greek / US Dual Citizen | ||
Residence: | Croft Centre (East Side, Manhattan) | ||
Education: | University Degree | ||
Status: | Dropped | ||
Groups: | Defenders, Hench, Martial Arts-OOC, Street Level-OOC, Hellfire Club | ||
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Apparent Age: | 29 | Actual Age: | 29 |
Date of Birth | 20 October 2001 | Actor: | Elodie Yung |
Height: | 175 cm (5'9") | Weight: | 59 kg (130 lb) |
Hair Color: | Black | Eye Color: | Blue |
Theme Song: | "Gasoline" by Halsey "Castle" by Halsey |
Profile
Elektra Natchios was the former Greek Ambassador, Hugo Natchio's daughter. Heir to his estate and fortune, she trained as an elite martial artist, ninja, and assassin, and was destined to be a weapon against the Hand. That is until she made the fatal error of accepting the offer to be the Fist that Rules the Hand in hopes of ending an lifelong battle that none of them could win. Discovering her error she ended up sacrificing herself to prevent a holy war of sorts, instead hastening it as the Hand took her lifeless body and created Black Sky. Their plan failed, though, as in the end emotion wins out over cold, calculating death, and she regained her memories of herself, and chose her own future by deciding to join with the Defenders and seek to destroy the Hand instead. Now she learns what life after death holds for her, and takes her own future in her hands, this time, totally unscripted by anyone but herself.
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