It wouldn't be me if I didn't have at least two characters. So here's another one submitted for approval. [hider=Ellie Duke][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/xaFXHYC.jpg[/img] [color=4E4E4E]┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓[/color] [h1][i][img]http://txt-dynamic.static.1001fonts.net/txt/dHRmLjk2LjVhNTVmMS5SV3hzYVdVZ1JIVnJaUSwsLjA,/league-script.league-script.png[/img][/i][/h1] [sup][b]“[/b]Miranda might have been some prom queen, but she wouldn't last on the [color=B0E0E6]Duchess' court.[/color][b]”[/b][/sup] [color=4E4E4E]┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛[/color][/center] [right][sub][h1][color=B0E0E6]✶[/color] [i]B[/i]ASICS [color=B0E0E6]✶[/color][sup][sub][color=2E2C2C]-[/color][/sub][/sup][/h1][/sub][/right] [hr][indent][sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]full name / nickname(s)[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] [indent]Eleanor 'Ellie' June Dukensie. || 'The Duchess' || Ellie Duke[/indent] [sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]gender / sexuality[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] [indent]Female || Bisexual || Finding Herself [/indent] [sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]age / grade level[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] [indent]Seventeen || Junior[/indent] [sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]occupation[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] [indent]Unemployed. || Would apply to work at Grimaldi's the second they were hiring.[/indent] [sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]physical appearance[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] [indent]On the street a girl like Ellie Duke likely wouldn't cause accidents just by walking, but she might certainly get heads turning - and not for her sense of style which hovers somewhere along the lines of 'sporty, flirty casual'. Ellie has a confidence about her appearance which is aided by her overall physique, being involved in athletics from a young age has paid off with a lean, fit frame and the point of pride that are her legs; at 6'0 even there's a lot of leg to go around which is often why she wears shorts to show them off or size-too-small jeans to accentuate them. Her hair is a natural blonde and rather wispy and for a while she wore it in ponytails when on the court, now she just keeps it at a medium cut and deals with the sweat and the loose strands that come with the territory of athletic activity without proper care. During the season and on game days specifically, Ellie would always be seen either in a Letter Jacket or half of her jersey in order to drum up interest in the students supporting athletics or just to remind people that she's on the varsity team and how much that means to her. In the off season or when games weren't scheduled her choice in clothing wouldn't look out of place if it was worn by the somewhat soulless looking models in a catalog. Shorts and jeans, tank tops with a bit more neck and shoulder and a lower cut than perhaps the dress code actually allows, to blouses or denim ensembles. If there was a word that could sum up Ellie's typical style it would be 'confidently basic'. She's proud of her physique, her arms have tone and definition to them and her legs are capable of some great strides, but she isn't particularly interested in making a fashion statement other than 'looks good on and off the court'. On that metric she's rather successful. Her eyes also happen to be bright blue, to fully complete the set.[/indent][/indent][hr] [sub][h1][sup][sub][color=2E2C2C]-[/color][/sub][/sup][color=B0E0E6]✶[/color] [i]I[/i]N DEPTH [color=B0E0E6]✶[/color][/h1][/sub] [hr][indent][sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]personality[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] [indent]It's a fine line between confident and arrogant and Ellie rides that line damn near every day. No one can deny her talents on the court, hell it's a contributing factor to why the team was doing rather well during the season, but the arrogance comes with Ellie thinking she deserves special treatment or the likes because of it. Her confidence is more in terms of being able to walk into the room and look, feel, and act like nothing could phase her. She carries herself well and when she isn't acting self-important for athletic performance she is actually fairly down to earth and sociable. Ellie has just put all of her eggs in the athletics basket so taking it incredibly seriously is understandable, but also unfortunate as what will she have should those athletic dreams fizzle out and die - be it from failure or God forbid an injury in her prime. Ellie isn't always the easiest person to get along with, but she's honest and dedicated and despite her inflated sense of import on the court, she is a team player albeit one who would always prefer to be calling the shots even in a school project. If there wasn't the self imposed pressure to strive for lofty goals, Ellie would be much easier to deal with and her confidence would be inspiring rather than peppered with hints of bitchiness and egotism. If she could dial that part of her back and focus on the sarcastic, pizza loving fiend part of herself she would no doubt be one of the more popular students because of personality alone.[/indent] [sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]superpower[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] [indent][color=B0E0E6][b]Cryokinesis || Ice Manipulation:[/b][/color] Ever since the incident, Ellie has had a rather strange relationship with the frozen state of water known as ice. She isn't sure if she is generating the ice herself or if she is pulling from outside sources, but when trying to open a door only to find her hand has frozen the knob and locking her inside for an hour or so the questions aren't about 'what's the source of this' and more 'what the fuck is happening?' Her hands are constantly cold to the touch even though she doesn't feel that, but things she touches - whether she freezes them or not - feel like they just got taken out of a cold storage locker. One thing she knows for certain and that it seems her hands are the only outlet for her ice abilities and at present there's less control and more the hope that extending her hands won't result in her shooting a mini snow-blower from her palms. She's taken to wearing gloves since basic activities - like drinking from a water bottle - was proving to be damn near impossible. Given time, practice, and understanding the full breadth of her abilities would manifest in solid ice blasts and attacks, freezing, and even cryokinetic constructs and the like; but as it stands Ellie can basically make snow cones and cool people down on a very hot day. She tried playing basketball to take her mind off of everything, but she wound up freezing and shattering the ball after only a few dribbles which only added to the stress. [/indent] [sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]backstory[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] [indent]Ellie is a New York native, born to Michael and Alice Dukensie, and living in Manhattan before the cost of raising a child was a bit more than anticipated and a move across the bridge was mandated. Ellie's father was a basketball coach at Midwood and it was because of him that Ellie developed a love of the sport. It started with her and her father going to local courts and having bonding moments, but over time it developed into Ellie and her dad having actual games and Ellie shining. When she tried out for the team in her Freshman year at Midwood there were, of course, cries of nepotism but Ellie's prowess spoke for itself and silenced all but the loudest of dissenters. She made varsity in her sophomore year. Ellie was closer to her father than she is her mother and it stems mostly from a lack of shared interests. Her mother works at a publishing office and Ellie isn't exactly the biggest fan of sitting down and reading fiction. But given that both of them lost the man they idolized - Ellie her father and Alice her husband - after the virus both of them have started to rely on the other for support, emotional or other wise; though Ellie has still kept the whole Elsa thing from her mother. It is because of her father, back when he was alive, that Ellie put so much of herself into basketball. She had dreams and now they are the dreams of her and Michael. A scholarship. Maybe the national team. Assuming she can even play basketball again given her penchant for turning the ball into an ice sphere. But even before the virus, Ellie was driven to be the best. She made captain of the team on her junior year and she was going to lead the team to finals, get a trophy for the school case. And then everything went to shit and basketball was the furthest thing from anyone's mind. Ellie still wants to think this is all some kind of fucked up dream or something, that she could just wake up one day and everything's back to normal. Her dad in the kitchen eating his eggs. Mother sipping coffee over the paper and smiling again. Grimaldi's after practice and ruining her dinner. But every day it seems like the only constant is pizza, and even that's starting to lose its taste. [/indent][/indent][hr] [right][sub][h1][color=B0E0E6]✶[/color] [i]T[/i]HE SURFACE [color=B0E0E6]✶[/color][sup][sub][color=2E2C2C]-[/color][/sub][/sup][/h1][/sub][/right] [hr][indent][sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]extracurricular activities[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] [indent]Ellie's main extracurricular is her position on the varsity girls basketball team. It's where her nickname of The Duchess comes from and she's hoping there's a potential scholarship in it. She plays center and is the team captain. When she isn't on the court she can often be found having a slice or two of pepperoni pizza over at Grimaldi's.[/indent] [sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]supporting cast[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] [indent]Michael Dukensie | Father | Deceased Alice Dukensie | Mother | Alive[/indent] [sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]other[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] [indent][sub][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfwFGQM4D1E]My mother told me that the world has got its plans I wanna hold em til they burn right through my hands Don't ask me questions cause I'm tired of confessing And I know that it's not much to say but I swear that I'd like to change[/url][/sub][/indent][/indent][hr][/hider]