>< I'm so very far behind, blaaargh. On the bright side, I have a [poorly-done] analysis of one of the old story's protagonists. It's difficult to understand without context, but I don't see much purpose in attaching the file.
Ellie, Elizabeth, Ellusia—occasionally “Ellusia218”, if facing a taunt in the right universe. Who is she? It's a confusing topic, when an author takes a character, splits it in two and ends up developing one part to be so absurdly different from the other. At the start—in Neopets, that is—she's a rather quiet, insecure, slightly bitter character who avoids her younger sister (Perri, the narrator) at all costs, mostly because she finds her to be a complete pest. She is antisocial, “mysteriously” leaving the table the second she cleanses her plate and ignoring her younger brother's complaint that she's “not supposed to fly in the house”. To make it clear: both she and Perri are fairies, possessing lovely wings of...shininess, to put it simply. All is revealed when her sister follows her up to her room, catches her in the act of using the flute, and leads Ellie to tell a long tale of why and how she owns such an enchanted instrument. Shortly after she bursts into tears and pleads with Perri to keep quiet about the matter—the agreement is made.
She's kept hidden from the narrator for much of the writing thereafter—with the exception of a villain impersonating her and having a nervous breakdown—until she appears in one of Perri's nightmares to free her from the insanity. Somehow she's lost her awkwardness, also possessing an air of sternness and snappishness; this, however, is likely another impersonation, though for a good cause. Her next appearance is slightly more so confusing: the dislike for Perri has turned into gleeful condescension, for she now thinks that she's capable of everything. “I know Avalaria's tricks!” she shouts once Perri explains that the aforementioned fairy is a manipulative character—despite having never met the fairy for herself. Once Camarana backs her sister up, the poor girl resorts to what becomes a common mantra of hers in later writing: “Go away! Just go away!” Then again, it may be justified if she's as insecure and harried as she's always been; collapsing under confusion (apparently she “ended up absorbing the [flute's] powers”), stress, and probably a dollop of angst. At that point the story breaks off when the author suffers from the ultimate writer's block, resorting to writing what she calls a “mequel” and switching to Ellie's point of view.
This, indeed, provides insight. It begins with Ellie “staring at the flute lying on [her] pillow”. She mentions a dream, of course, given the vitality of dreams in order to progress the plot. Deciding that the dream was a coincidence, she shifts the blame to Perri while bemoaning her sister's inconsideration and sibling rivalry. The thoughts are then pierced—gasp!—when Perri's shrill voice shouts of breakfast. After some grumbling, Ellie flies down the stairs to be chastised by an annoying younger brother, whom she shoots a glare: she holds both of her siblings in contempt, and they seem to do the same to her. Not the happiest of family relationships. Nat shoos them away to play with toys and read. Ellie does just that, returning to the sanctity of her room to whip out a graying book. Naturally, Perri barges in to whine over the Wocky's love of books and failure to spend enough time with her. This leads to an argument and a shooing. Later on Nat enters, bringing news of a soon-to-be-sibling that makes Ellie ecstatic—hopes of a clean slate, possibly?
Hours pass, consisting of Ellie happily learning to play the Flute, disliking the ability to hypnotize others (she doesn't enjoy manipulating?), and Perri—unsurprisingly—barging in. With a fretfulness about her—oh noes, what if she tells Nat or the new sibling and they think us crazy?—she sits her sister down and, as in the original, tells the lengthy story of how everything came to be. While it's clear that she found her information in the dusty ol' book, it's also evident that she'd fabricated the claim that Queen Fyora had delivered the Flute; either because she thought that Perri would refuse to believe that she had found it mysteriously or because she found it all to be so ridiculously confusing that she couldn't remember what had been fact and what had been fiction. Coinciding with the plot of the original, Ellie notices that the obnoxious sister is absent from dinner, coming to the conclusion that it was, to an extent, her fault. And, as a result of the author's procrastination, the writer's block falls like a sledgehammer to cut the story off once more.
What can be concluded from a close examination of this character? With a small surprisingly role for a character intended to be a key piece of the plot, any development she receives is not shown. As a result, it comes off as derailment of her personality that writing from her perspective or giving her extra “pagetime” could have made more subtle. After all, what's a reader to feel but confusion when a shy, flustered character suddenly becomes sarcastic and more stoic and, soon after, cocky and rough-tempered? To condense all that has been shown of her personality (with extra emphasis on her earlier self): Ellie is an insecure character with a bit of a temper, being in the throes of sibling rivalry with both Perri and that pesky younger brother of hers. Other than that, little of her personality is displayed. And with that...
...We come to the humanized version. Dun, dun, and dun.
Currently working out a new personality for her, entirely revised.
Random Stuff:- Thick, tangled, dirty-blond hair
- Hazel eyes, slightly drooping
- Round face
- Nose of average length with a bump halfway down
- Thin lips--near-flat upper, pointed lower
- Slightly underdeveloped build
- Observant; often staring at unimportant details out of boredom
- Lives in an alternate universe in the taiga biome
- Somewhat literate: having little time to read, she knows few complex words
- 15-years-old
- 5'4''
- Thinks little of the future, apart from an interest in "finding a place that's always warm"
- Has no answer when asked what to do when that's accomplished
- Rarely encouraged or discouraged by relatives, who appear to believe that she'll never accomplish anything unless it's done entirely on her own
- And yet they're unwilling to let her live alone...
- Relatively good instincts
- Fast
- Gets cold easily (hence the longing for eternal warmth)
- Rarely thinks in the long term
- Sees herself as confused--very, very confused
- Thinks that she has a nasty temper, though in comparison with others her age, she really isn't that much of a handful
- If she befriends another person, she'll normally be a follower, very dedicated to helping them and being a decent enough friend
- A bit prejudiced.
Not fully planned out yet. =S
