[hider=The Caregiver || Eleanor “Ellie” Mae Caldwell]
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[sub][color=B3EB3F][b]Faceclaim: Lily Collins // Color Code: B3EB3F[/b][/color][/sub]

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[sub][color=B3EB3F][b]Full Name:[/b][/color][/sub]
[indent]Eleanor Mae Caldwell[/indent] 

[sub][color=B3EB3F][b]Nickname(s):[/b][/color][/sub]
[list][*]Ellie  
[*]Mae 
[*]Doc[/list]

[sub][color=B3EB3F][b]Age:[/b][/color][/sub]
[indent]Thirty-five // July 15th[/indent] 

[sub][color=B3EB3F][b]Gender:[/b][/color][/sub]
[indent]Female[/indent] 

[sub][color=B3EB3F][b]Sexuality:[/b][/color][/sub]
[indent]Heterosexual[/indent] 

[sub][color=B3EB3F][b]Occupation:[/b][/color][/sub]
[list][*]Board Certified Doctor
[*]Currently runs a family practice in Pines Holler, on Main Street[/list]

[sub][color=B3EB3F][b]Place of Residence:[/b][/color][/sub]
[indent]448 Miners Street.[/indent] 

[sub][color=B3EB3F][b]Family and Close Connections:[/b][/color][/sub]
With the deaths of her parents Ellie doesn't really have anyone in the town that are blood related. But she treats all the residents as extended family.

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[sub][color=B3EB3F][b]Appearance:[/b][/color][/sub]
[list][*][color=B3EB3F]Height:[/color] Five feet, five inches. 
[*][color=B3EB3F]Hair:[/color] Dark brunette || Deep expresso/Chocolate 
[*][color=B3EB3F]Eyes:[/color] Green with Gold 
[*][color=B3EB3F]Body Type:[/color] Slim, petite build with an athletic, somewhat angular frame. 
[*][color=B3EB3F]Clothing Style:[/color] Simple layered outfit. Single color blouse, pants or skirt, scrubs, coat or Doctor's coat, Stethoscope
[*][color=B3EB3F]Body Markings:[/color] None[/list]

[sub][color=B3EB3F][b]Personality:[/b][/color][/sub]
Eleanor Caldwell is not loud. She does not announce her convictions or posture for moral authority. Her presence is steady, deliberate, and deeply disarming. She listens more than she speaks, and when she does speak, it is with precision.

At her core, Eleanor is deeply compassionate, shaped by a lifetime of witnessing suffering that could have been prevented with resources, attention, or simple decency. She believes medicine is as much about dignity as it is about treatment. This belief guides her practice: she charges when she must, waives fees when she can, and never humiliates a patient for needing help. To her, care is not transactional, it is relational.

That compassion is paired with a quiet, controlled anger. Eleanor is keenly aware of how systems fail people like those in Pines Holler, and she harbors little patience for those who profit from that failure. She despises exploitation dressed up as progress and has a particular disdain for outsiders who treat the land as expendable. While she rarely confronts injustice directly, she is meticulous in how she counters it, through documentation, legal pressure, strategic alliances, and the careful use of her financial independence.

Eleanor is fluent in multiple social worlds. She can navigate boardrooms and back porches with equal ease, adjusting her posture, speech, and silence as needed. This adaptability is not duplicity; it is survival refined into skill. Still, it leaves her somewhat isolated. She belongs everywhere and nowhere at once.

Grief has settled into her like a second spine. She loved her husband, though she does not romanticize the marriage. His death changed her not by breaking her, but by clarifying what she would no longer tolerate, inaction, complacency, or living someone else’s version of a meaningful life.

Ultimately, Eleanor believes in choice. In the right to stay, to leave, to fight, or to rest, without coercion.

[hider=History:]
Eleanor Mae Caldwell was born into a town that taught endurance before it taught ambition. Pines Holler did not raise dreamers so much as survivors, people who learned to work around what was broken, to make do with less, to hold on to what mattered because there was no guarantee it would still be there tomorrow. Her childhood was marked by routine hardship: early mornings, hand-me-downs, the hum of exhaustion that settled into the bones of adults long before they were old. Yet it was also marked by community. Neighbors who watched one another’s children. Shared meals when money ran thin. A deep, almost spiritual connection to the land and to the people who had bled into it for generations.

Eleanor stood out early. She learned fast, asked questions adults couldn’t always answer, and absorbed books like they were lifelines. Teachers noticed. So did classmates, some with pride, others with quiet resentment. By the time she graduated valedictorian, there was a collective understanding in Pines Holler: she was leaving. Scholarships carried her away from the hills and into ivy-league institutions that were clean, efficient, and indifferent. There, she learned to sand down her accent, dress for credibility, and translate herself into something palatable for people who had never known hunger or powerlessness. She did it well, but never without cost.

Medical school was relentless. Eleanor excelled not because it was easy, but because she refused to fail. She watched classmates burn out or fracture under pressure and learned early how to compartmentalize grief, exhaustion, and fear. During this time, she married into old money, a man whose family legacy opened doors she had been knocking on her entire life. The marriage was built on mutual respect and genuine affection, though never complete equality. His world assumed permanence; hers had always been provisional. Still, they made a life together, one defined by shared ambition and the belief that good could be done with the right resources.

His death came suddenly. An accident. No drama, no villain, no one to blame. One day Eleanor was a physician with a powerful surname; the next she was a widow and an heiress. The inheritance was vast, complex, and quietly transformative. Trust funds, properties, investments, wealth that insulated her from consequence and granted her a freedom she had never known. For a time, she drifted. Worked. Traveled. Consulted. Grieved in private.

Then Pines Holler began appearing in the news she read between cases, and on her social media. Land acquisitions. Plant closures. Environmental concerns buried under corporate euphemisms. And finally, the closure of Parton’s Lumber Company, the last reliable source of work for many families she had grown up with.

Eleanor returned home not as a prodigal daughter, but as a physician with credentials, capital, and intent. She opened a family practice and began consulting at the regional hospital, framing her return as practical, even nostalgic. But beneath that simplicity was a deeper purpose: to serve, to document, and to protect. Pines Holler had been forgotten before. This time, it was being targeted. And Eleanor intended to make that expensive.[/hider]

[sub][color=B3EB3F][b]Extra Facts // Headcannons:[/b][/color][/sub]
[list][*]Eleanor despises any mention of the 'evil creatures of hell' that she says is destroying more than just homes. She actively opposes them as much as possible.
[*]Eleanor still wakes up early, even when she doesn’t have to. Years of farm-town mornings and hospital rounds have wired her to greet the day before the sun fully rises.
[*]She drinks her coffee black and too strong, but keeps cream and sugar on hand for patients and visitors, hospitality matters to her.
[*]When stressed, she cleans. Her clinic is immaculate, but her house is lived-in, cluttered with books and half-finished thoughts.
[*]Has a habit of pressing her thumb against the inside of her wrist when thinking hard—a self-soothing gesture she’s unaware of.
[*]Knows most families by surname and history, even if she hasn’t seen them in years.
[*]Still uses old landmarks when giving directions (“where the mill used to be,” “past the Johnson place”) rather than updated maps.
[*]Feels a pang of guilt every time someone thanks her too profusely, like she hasn’t quite earned the reverence some locals give her.
[*]Quietly funds community repairs through shell donations: school supplies, clinic upgrades, emergency fuel assistance during winter.
[*]Keeps her parents’ old land untouched, even though developers have offered obscene amounts for it.
[*]Board-certified in family medicine with additional specialization in internal medicine, pediatrics and toxicology, skills that are becoming increasingly relevant.
[*]Has testified as an expert witness before, though never locally. She knows how to speak carefully under oath.
[*]Keeps copies of patient records offsite, encrypted and duplicated, just in case.
[*]Treats undocumented workers, drifters, and “unofficial” residents without question.
[*]Has a standing agreement with the hospital administration that allows her significant autonomy due to her reputation and connections.
[*]Eleanor doesn’t live lavishly. Her wealth shows in stability, not excess.
[*]She owns property she doesn’t advertise, land that strategically blocks certain development routes.
[*]Old-money connections still call her, especially when rumors circulate about Appalachia becoming “the next investment frontier.”
[*]She knows exactly how much leverage she has and uses it sparingly, which makes it far more effective when she does.
[*]Has turned down multiple offers to sell patient data or consult for corporate healthcare initiatives.
[*]Suffers from occasional insomnia, especially when cases involve children or environmental illness.
[*]Keeps her late husband’s last voicemail saved but hasn’t listened to it in years.
[*]Has never remarried and avoids the topic with practiced ease.
[*]Struggles with asking for help, she gives it freely but accepts it reluctantly.
[*]Sometimes wonders who she would have been if she’d stayed in Pines Holler the first time.
[*]Wears her wedding ring on a chain tucked beneath her shirt rather than on her hand.
[*]Keeps an old high school yearbook in her office drawer
[*]Drives a practical, slightly battered vehicle rather than anything flashy.
[*]Has a stethoscope older than most of her colleagues, gifted to her by a mentor who believed in her early. 
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