At Elphelt's current canonpoint, she has been kidnapped by her mother and the process of turning her into the God of Destruction (Justice) has started. On top of that, she (are convinced her sister Ramlethal is dead, killed intentionally by their mother (Ariels) via a bomb on the scale of a nuclear warhead. She has spent the better part of several days in this situation: initially being brainwashed into non-stop dream, then left physically imobile and completely alone, save for her mother visiting and making her life extra miserable.
After that point, the countdown to Elphelt's transformation into Justice has entered the final 24 hours. All that is necessary is a massive amount of energy, which Ariels is accumulating during that time period.
In the meantime, her mother makes an announcement to the entire world regarding the plan. Seeing as her mother (originally a bodiless being from another dimension) had possessed the body of the spiritual and religious leader of the world, this causes chaos and Ariels kills hundreds of aristocrats she had invited to a celebration, as well as releasing an army of mutant Gear-like creatures on the capital city. Elphelt does not witness this firsthand, but her mother explains the plan in detail beforehand, including her intentions of not only killing all humans, but making them as miserable and hopeless as possible beforehand.
Thankfully, Ky Kiske was present during the massacre and attacked Elphelt's mother. Despite being beaten immediately, Ky's sword had a sample of blood, which was used to identify the location of Ariels and, by extension, Elphelt. Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske, Sin Kiske, and Jack-O Valentine (the only Valentine not created by Elphelt's mother) arrived to save Elphelt.
Between Ramlethal's apparent murder and the arrival of her rescuers, Elphelt continued to do her best to stop her mother, even though she was physically incapacitated. Her begging failed, as did her attempts to get her mother to understand what she was doing was wrong. Never at any point does her mother show any sign of underestanding Elphelt, much less any empathy.
When her rescuers arrived, her mother gave Elphelt the option of either allowing the group to come to them and die or to tell them to go away and they would be left alive, but Elphelt told her off as she believed Sol and the others would be capable of defeating her.
Elphelt was incapacitated for the entirety of the final fight. Jack-O introduced herself as being Elphelt's "other mother"; unlike the other Valentines being clones of Justice, Jack-O was genuinely half of the person Elphelt was copied from. More importantly, Jack-O was there to take Elphelt's place to revive Justice, but also return Justice from the human-hating destructive back to the gentle human whose body was used to create her.
Sol, Ky, and Sin fought Ariels, who had no trouble handling the three. Gradually, all the commotion ended up weakening and breaking the chains that kept Justice's body steady. This was a problem due to long-range weapon Sol's group intended to use to provide the energy needed to fuse Jack-O and Justice's body into one could not adjust its aim easily. Gradually, one after another broke and Ky, then Sin, then Sol all needed to keep Justice in the line of sight, meaning no one was capable of keeping Ariels busy.
At that moment, Ramlethal appeared. She had been saved at the last moment from her mother's murder attempt, but not without harm. The individual who saved her was part of a third group separate from Sol's and Ariels's, and the fact she survived was kept secret so that she would be used as a surprise trump card. Ramlethal was able to steady Justice's body, freeing Sol to keep Ariels from interfering with the plan. Eventually, the weapon was charged and fired; along with providing the energy needed to fuse Jack-O with Justice and thereby freeing Elphelt, Sol punched Ariels into it, which was the first thing strong enough to incapacitate her.
With Jack-O fused with Justice in her place, Elphelt's purpose as a tool to start the Apocalypse was finally nullified. Rather than reviving Justice proper, Jack-O and Justice's body fused and become the human that was used to create Justice, Aria. This removed any threat of Justice being revived in the form of the 'God of Destruction' and revived Sol's lover. Elphelt and Ramlethal's mother was emprisoned by the United Nations.
After, Ky and Sin brought the Valentine sisters back home to recover. After overhearing Ramlethal tell Elphelt they couldn't stay there with King Kiske or the rest of his family, Ky pointed out the Valentines were part of that family. Ky said he would reveal the existence of his wife and son to the world, as well as the Valentines, and said they would all be together even if he had to abdicated the throne for marrying Dizzy. Despite everyone being pessimistic about that, Elphelt thought things would work out and referenced that day's newspaper: Dizzy had participated in the fight and had been noticed by many people, but rather than being afraid of a Gear, the people quoted in the paper had nothing but good things to say about her, hence why Elphelt thought the human world would be able to accept the human king's family predominantly not being human.
The whole 'a family' thing was more than just the adoption of two homeless girls, though. Elphelt and Ramlethal were clones of Justice/Aria, who was the mother of Dizzy (hence why the human king marrying her wasn't expected to go over well), who herself was the wife of Ky and mother of Sin. They were legitimately biologically related and effectively something between Dizzy's aunts and sisters, thus making the Valentines a part of the royal family.
The positivity came crashing down when everyone realized that meant they were related to Sol, who was recently forced to admit to being Dizzy's father and, by extension, Ky's father-in-law. Ramlethal realized, being children of sorts to Aria (being clones), they would need to call him father. She was appropriately mortified. Elphelt, however, thought 'sisters' was a more appropriate analogy for their relationship with their original, so she thought calling Sol 'big brother' would be more appropriate.
And that was where the canon ended for the time being. Elphelt was saved, her sister survived, her mother was defeated, and Elphelt finally found the family she had been looking for that her mother would never provide.
Updated Personality:
The biggest change to Elphelt's personality is the result of her mother finally being defeated. With Ariels being imprisoned and Justice being revived without her, Elphelt is no longer a symbol of the threat her mother poses to humanity, so one major source of shame in her life has been eliminated. Her programming is still a threat, but nothing on the scale of total extinction. She still harbors some insecurities as a result of being non-human (and being a copy of someone else), mostly regarding her Pinnochio-like syndome of not feeling like a 'real' girl, but that is not nearly as soul crushing as being a ticking time bomb.
Learning Ramlethal had actually survive her mother's murder attempt eliminates the feelings of despair. She will still feel guilty for having put Ramlethal (and everyone else) in danger for her sake. Even though not saving Elphelt would mean the world ending, they made it clear they were doing this as much to save Elphelt as the world; this is true in particular for Ramlethal who is still not particularly attached to the world as a whole and prioritzes Elphelt above it. The depression and mourning she has dealt with in Empatheias for the last few months will be cut short.
The frustration and distress Elphelt feels towards her mother due to her being 1) evil and 2) a terrible parent will be toned down considerably as a result of finding a new family that are not insane and treat her like a doll. This does not mean she will not still want to understand her mother, want her mother to understand her, and her mother to stop being evil, but the feelings of loneliness and having no place to belong (even being with Ramlethal) will be a moot. Even being away from her family, the knowledge she is a part of one will be enough to keep her spirits higher in general and in particular when the topic of family comes up. Mothers in general will still be a sore spot to some extent, though. New family or not, the person who brought her into the world still exists and is terrible.
Overall, Elphelt's optimism will be higher than ever, even taking into consideration that her optimism was already high despite all of the terrible things going on around her.
Being the aunt-in-law/sister-in-law to a king means she will double down on the whole 'womanhood' thing so she can be appropriately prim and proper, but she will probably be bad at it and forget half the time.
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Character: Elphelt Valentine
Current Canon Point: Revelator chapter 06
Updated Canon Point: Post-Revelator DLC chapters
Updated Background:
At Elphelt's current canonpoint, she has been kidnapped by her mother and the process of turning her into the God of Destruction (Justice) has started. On top of that, she (are convinced her sister Ramlethal is dead, killed intentionally by their mother (Ariels) via a bomb on the scale of a nuclear warhead. She has spent the better part of several days in this situation: initially being brainwashed into non-stop dream, then left physically imobile and completely alone, save for her mother visiting and making her life extra miserable.
After that point, the countdown to Elphelt's transformation into Justice has entered the final 24 hours. All that is necessary is a massive amount of energy, which Ariels is accumulating during that time period.
In the meantime, her mother makes an announcement to the entire world regarding the plan. Seeing as her mother (originally a bodiless being from another dimension) had possessed the body of the spiritual and religious leader of the world, this causes chaos and Ariels kills hundreds of aristocrats she had invited to a celebration, as well as releasing an army of mutant Gear-like creatures on the capital city. Elphelt does not witness this firsthand, but her mother explains the plan in detail beforehand, including her intentions of not only killing all humans, but making them as miserable and hopeless as possible beforehand.
Thankfully, Ky Kiske was present during the massacre and attacked Elphelt's mother. Despite being beaten immediately, Ky's sword had a sample of blood, which was used to identify the location of Ariels and, by extension, Elphelt. Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske, Sin Kiske, and Jack-O Valentine (the only Valentine not created by Elphelt's mother) arrived to save Elphelt.
Between Ramlethal's apparent murder and the arrival of her rescuers, Elphelt continued to do her best to stop her mother, even though she was physically incapacitated. Her begging failed, as did her attempts to get her mother to understand what she was doing was wrong. Never at any point does her mother show any sign of underestanding Elphelt, much less any empathy.
When her rescuers arrived, her mother gave Elphelt the option of either allowing the group to come to them and die or to tell them to go away and they would be left alive, but Elphelt told her off as she believed Sol and the others would be capable of defeating her.
Elphelt was incapacitated for the entirety of the final fight. Jack-O introduced herself as being Elphelt's "other mother"; unlike the other Valentines being clones of Justice, Jack-O was genuinely half of the person Elphelt was copied from. More importantly, Jack-O was there to take Elphelt's place to revive Justice, but also return Justice from the human-hating destructive back to the gentle human whose body was used to create her.
Sol, Ky, and Sin fought Ariels, who had no trouble handling the three. Gradually, all the commotion ended up weakening and breaking the chains that kept Justice's body steady. This was a problem due to long-range weapon Sol's group intended to use to provide the energy needed to fuse Jack-O and Justice's body into one could not adjust its aim easily. Gradually, one after another broke and Ky, then Sin, then Sol all needed to keep Justice in the line of sight, meaning no one was capable of keeping Ariels busy.
At that moment, Ramlethal appeared. She had been saved at the last moment from her mother's murder attempt, but not without harm. The individual who saved her was part of a third group separate from Sol's and Ariels's, and the fact she survived was kept secret so that she would be used as a surprise trump card. Ramlethal was able to steady Justice's body, freeing Sol to keep Ariels from interfering with the plan. Eventually, the weapon was charged and fired; along with providing the energy needed to fuse Jack-O with Justice and thereby freeing Elphelt, Sol punched Ariels into it, which was the first thing strong enough to incapacitate her.
With Jack-O fused with Justice in her place, Elphelt's purpose as a tool to start the Apocalypse was finally nullified. Rather than reviving Justice proper, Jack-O and Justice's body fused and become the human that was used to create Justice, Aria. This removed any threat of Justice being revived in the form of the 'God of Destruction' and revived Sol's lover. Elphelt and Ramlethal's mother was emprisoned by the United Nations.
After, Ky and Sin brought the Valentine sisters back home to recover. After overhearing Ramlethal tell Elphelt they couldn't stay there with King Kiske or the rest of his family, Ky pointed out the Valentines were part of that family. Ky said he would reveal the existence of his wife and son to the world, as well as the Valentines, and said they would all be together even if he had to abdicated the throne for marrying Dizzy. Despite everyone being pessimistic about that, Elphelt thought things would work out and referenced that day's newspaper: Dizzy had participated in the fight and had been noticed by many people, but rather than being afraid of a Gear, the people quoted in the paper had nothing but good things to say about her, hence why Elphelt thought the human world would be able to accept the human king's family predominantly not being human.
The whole 'a family' thing was more than just the adoption of two homeless girls, though. Elphelt and Ramlethal were clones of Justice/Aria, who was the mother of Dizzy (hence why the human king marrying her wasn't expected to go over well), who herself was the wife of Ky and mother of Sin. They were legitimately biologically related and effectively something between Dizzy's aunts and sisters, thus making the Valentines a part of the royal family.
The positivity came crashing down when everyone realized that meant they were related to Sol, who was recently forced to admit to being Dizzy's father and, by extension, Ky's father-in-law. Ramlethal realized, being children of sorts to Aria (being clones), they would need to call him father. She was appropriately mortified. Elphelt, however, thought 'sisters' was a more appropriate analogy for their relationship with their original, so she thought calling Sol 'big brother' would be more appropriate.
And that was where the canon ended for the time being. Elphelt was saved, her sister survived, her mother was defeated, and Elphelt finally found the family she had been looking for that her mother would never provide.
Updated Personality:
The biggest change to Elphelt's personality is the result of her mother finally being defeated. With Ariels being imprisoned and Justice being revived without her, Elphelt is no longer a symbol of the threat her mother poses to humanity, so one major source of shame in her life has been eliminated. Her programming is still a threat, but nothing on the scale of total extinction. She still harbors some insecurities as a result of being non-human (and being a copy of someone else), mostly regarding her Pinnochio-like syndome of not feeling like a 'real' girl, but that is not nearly as soul crushing as being a ticking time bomb.
Learning Ramlethal had actually survive her mother's murder attempt eliminates the feelings of despair. She will still feel guilty for having put Ramlethal (and everyone else) in danger for her sake. Even though not saving Elphelt would mean the world ending, they made it clear they were doing this as much to save Elphelt as the world; this is true in particular for Ramlethal who is still not particularly attached to the world as a whole and prioritzes Elphelt above it. The depression and mourning she has dealt with in Empatheias for the last few months will be cut short.
The frustration and distress Elphelt feels towards her mother due to her being 1) evil and 2) a terrible parent will be toned down considerably as a result of finding a new family that are not insane and treat her like a doll. This does not mean she will not still want to understand her mother, want her mother to understand her, and her mother to stop being evil, but the feelings of loneliness and having no place to belong (even being with Ramlethal) will be a moot. Even being away from her family, the knowledge she is a part of one will be enough to keep her spirits higher in general and in particular when the topic of family comes up. Mothers in general will still be a sore spot to some extent, though. New family or not, the person who brought her into the world still exists and is terrible.
Overall, Elphelt's optimism will be higher than ever, even taking into consideration that her optimism was already high despite all of the terrible things going on around her.
Being the aunt-in-law/sister-in-law to a king means she will double down on the whole 'womanhood' thing so she can be appropriately prim and proper, but she will probably be bad at it and forget half the time.
Updated Abilities:
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Other:
None.
Questions:
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