Eliza Grey

Eliza Mackenzie Grey is the adoptive mother of Marlowe. After killing her abusive employer, it brands her as a fugitive. Upon finding a newborn baby in a boxcar she has escaped on, she becomes his mother and names him Marlowe, after a town she comes across to rest. Years later, she resides in Spitalfields, London, with Reverend Walker, a drunkard man and Brynt, a former American wrestler. Realizing she cannot escape her past, as men would continue looking for her, Eliza decides to leave Marlowe in the care of Brynt.
== Background ==
Eliza grew up in an unstable household. Her father died when she was younger, and her mother remarried to an abusive man who would repeatedly molest Eliza. At aged thirteen, she was sold by her mother to an agency as a domestic, and Eliza yet again is placed with a man who would assault her.
At aged sixteen, Eliza murders her employer by a hairpin she finds in the dresser, as he was about to rape her. Realizing the crime committed, she is on the run, fleeing away onto a boxcar from Suffolk. In the compartment, Eliza finds a dead mother whose baby has a strange blue light around him. She takes the baby in and names him Marlowe.
As time goes by, occasionally moving from place to place, Eliza notices Marlowe's ability which burns flesh. Rather than being afraid, she continues to care for him and tells him not to tell anyone as there's people who will fear anyone who's different.
Eliza works as a washgirl in Wapping, and is found by Brynt who offers a place to stay. One day, a bounty hunter knocks on their door while Reverend Walker is gravely sick and Brynt is away. Seeing the bounty man seize Eliza, six-year-old Marlowe grabs the man's wrist, melting the flesh. Eliza sends Marlowe to bed and leaves through the back of the alley, knowing she will always live her life on the run and Marlowe will be safer with Brynt.
== Appearance ==
Eliza is described to have brown hair, big eyes, and a "narrow-pinched face." As she gets older, she wears a scraggly shawl and her hands are covered with red sores from manual labor.
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