[hider=Elena Ral]
[hr][center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/180726/ed7b492d803c5e595c581dec0ea57bc7.png[/img][/center][hr][center][img]http://safebooru.org//samples/2489/sample_1c71dd1ad822046b7d1aa280cbb5abb58e3aac16.png?2595247[/img][/center][hr][center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/180726/4eff753415b2d5e117e4e87c24b58905.png[/img][/center][hr][center][color=ffc2c2][b]Species:[/b][/color] Human
[color=ffc2c2][b]Gender:[/b][/color] Female
[color=ffc2c2][b]Birth Date:[/b][/color] June 3rd
[color=ffc2c2][b]Age:[/b][/color] 19
[color=ffc2c2][b]Height:[/b][/color] 5'4" 

[color=ffc2c2][b]Relatives:[/b][/color]
[i]Petra Ral - Adoptive Sister[/i]
[i]Mr. Ral -- Adoptive Father [/i]

[color=ffc2c2][b]Current Residence:[/b][/color] Survey Corps Baracks
[color=ffc2c2][b]Former Residences:[/b][/color] The Underground City; Stohess District
[color=ffc2c2][b]Occupation:[/b][/color] New Survey Corps Member (Currently), Baker (Formerly) 
[color=ffc2c2][b]Affiliation:[/b][/color] Survey Corps; Scout Regiment.

[color=ffc2c2][b]Hair Color:[/b][/color] Red
[color=ffc2c2][b]Eye Color:[/b][/color] Red[/center]
[hr][color=ffc2c2][b]Personality:[/b][/color] 
Elena is endlessly curious and quick witted thanks to years of private tutoring and spends a good deal of her spare time curled up in her bunk while pouring over the latest history book that she's managed to get her hands on. Despite this bookish manner, most of her teammates are fond of Mr. Ral's adoptive daughter. She has a friendly disposition and is quick to encourage people when they seem like they need it. Her kindness shouldn’t be mistaken for weakness though, as Elena does not tolerate bullying and will call out anyone she thinks is being a jerk. 

Her time spent in the underground has given her a great sense of compassion and when she's not studying Elena loves to help out around the base, whether that means helping bake breads in the kitchen or assisting some of the less affluent recruits with their reading and writing. The one place you will rarely find Elena is the stables. This is because she didn't see a horse up close until after she moved above ground and she believes they look more like beasts than gentle creatures. 

To the great dismay of her father, who wants nothing more than to see her and her sister married well, Elena is quite dense when it comes to matters of the heart and doesn’t always notice when she’s being flirted with. Some of the other members of the survey corps have made a game of seeing how outlandish they can make their advances before she notices she’s being hit on. On the rare occasion when she does catch on to their intentions she becomes quite shy and easily flustered. 

[color=ffc2c2][b]History:[/b][/color] 
Elena was born into the darkness of The Underground to two black market merchants who did surprisingly well for themselves, despite their circumstances. They traded in all sorts of things ranging from meats to gas and spare parts for omni-directional mobility gear. This kept their pockets somewhat full and their house mostly warm, so Elena felt very blessed. Her parents taught her from a young age the importance of stealth and going unnoticed, knowing that drawing attention to one's self could be a death sentence on the streets beneath the capital city. The young girl learned to blend into a crowd as well as to tread lightly, and if she ever drew the attention of any unsavory types she always manged to lose them just as quickly.

Her luck ran out the year she turned six, when she came home to find both of her parents murdered and all of their wares stolen.

Elena didn't have much time to mourn them however, as she was too busy trying to survive. She was only able to stay in her home two days before it was ransacked by scavengers and she had to flee into the streets. She spent the next two months always staying hidden and under the radar of local gangs while sorting through rubbish bins to find bits of food. One morning when the growling of her stomach became too painful to ignore, she attempted to steal a loaf of bread from a convoy of merchants traveling from Stohess District and heavily guarded by MPs. She was caught of course, and as the Military Police slapped the shackles onto her small wrists, Elena was sure she was going to spend the next few years of her life in prison.

The owner of the bread, a merchant by the name of Mr. Ral, took pity on her and told the guards he wouldn't be pressing charges. Once they released her the merchant told the young girl she could eat until she was full. Elena stuffed handfuls of bread and cured meats into her mouth, answering questions such as, "Where are your parents?" and "Are you all alone?" through sobbing hiccups, until finally the man asked if she'd like to come and live above ground with him and his family.

She agreed in an instant.

It wasn't until later that Elena would learn that the merchant's mercy stemmed from having his own daughter at home, an eight year old girl by the name of Petra with honey colored hair and kind eyes. She had been begging for a little sister and as Mr. Ral had lost his wife a few years earlier, he had been unable to provide her with one.

This event was a major turning point in little Elena's life and from then on she always had a warm bed to sleep in, food in her belly, and plenty of love from both her adoptive father and sister. Mr. Ral insisted that his newest daughter should sit in with Petra whenever their private tutor came by, so she soon learned to read and write as well as maths and the history of Paradis and The Walls. When she was old enough, Elena took over baking the bread and sweet rolls for her father's stall and quickly found that she had a knack for it.

She joined the Survey Corps cadet training program in the middle of her eighteenth year, wanting to follow in the footsteps of her older sister. She completed her training recently to become a fully fledged member of the survey corps. 

[color=ffc2c2][b]Abilities:[/b][/color]
[i]Baking [/i]-- Never underestimate the power of a home cooked meal!

[i]Basic Survival Skills[/i] -- Her time in the underground helped hone some of Elena's basic skills such as building fires, finding shelter, field dressing wounds, as well as skinning small animals such as rats and feral dogs. If she was ever left alone on the other side of The Walls she would be able to keep herself alive, provided that she doesn't become Titan food, of course. 

[i]Stealth[/i] -- The skill that she prides herself the most in, Elena is still able to slip through situations unnoticed when she wants to. Some of her teammates have even threatened to tie a bell around her neck so she will stop accidentally scaring them. It is so ingrained in her mannerisms that most of the time she's not even aware of the way her steps don't make any noise or that she's breathing so quietly that it is undetectable except for the gentle rise and fall of her chest.

[i]A Wealth of Knowledge[/i] -- Elena has spent countless hours reading different texts and retains a great deal of information that she has learned from them. She greatly admires the great minds like Erwin Smith who excels in battle tactics planning and most recently Armin Arlert, who's quick thinking was the main reason Eren was able to plug the whole in Wall Rose.

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