Elektra Perkins

Mandy "Elektra" Perkins is a former resident of Elmtree House and a main character in
== Biography ==
=== Before the Series ===
Elektra was born in 1996 as Mandy Perkins, Elektra is the daughter of Mary and Bernard Perkins and lived with them and her sister, Melissa. Unlike her sister, Elektra had a rebellious attitude towards her parents, including being a vegetarian and on one occasion, ending up in jail on her sister's prom night. Fed up of dealing with her, Elektra's parents put her into care.
Whilst in care, Elektra met a girl named Kali. The care home they lived in was rough, so the girls formed themselves into a gang called The Cobras, initially to protect themselves. However, they eventually recruited more members and became a gang that harassed and bullied others. Eventually, after being moved through a series of care homes, Elektra ended up staying at Elmtree House to be protected from her old gang.
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=== After Leaving Care ===
In the Instagram Drama "After The DG" it was revealed that at some point after she left The Dumping Ground she had a relationship with a boy called Matt. It's revealed that he started to become abusive towards Elektra physically and mentally, and stopped her from talking to or seeing her friends. And on one occasion, he locked her in a room. This also caused for Elektra and Melissa's falling out when Melissa found out about Matt being abusive towards Elektra she did nothing about it. To which reached breaking point for Elektra where she escaped her abusive relationship with Matt, and moved out of Melissa's house and found her own place. To which Elektra started to own online T-shirt selling business, whilst also training to be a mechanic. When Elektra finally became a qualified mechanic she got a job working at a local garage. It's also revealed in After The DG, that Melissa didn't even congratulate her for becoming a mechanic.
== Personality ==
As soon as she moves into Elm Tree House, Elektra is shown to be an unkind, aggressive-natured person. Elektra knows what she wants, and isn't afraid to stick up for her own opinion. She also picked on some of the kids if they met her means and had a fierce rivalry with Liam. However, Elektra does have a good side; she was disgusted with what The Cobras became as opposed to why she and Kali initially started it and was initially very close to Kali until she realised Kali approved of the gang's new attitudes. She also apologised to Carmen for putting her in danger when Carmen tried to follow her across the bridge and helped Tyler out when he thought he was going mad, while also feeling sorry for Melissa due to everything that their parents forced her to get involved in.
== Appearance ==
=== Characteristics ===
Elektra is a teenage girl with long straight brown hair that had blue streaks, grey-blue eyes and is fair skinned.
=== Attire ===
She normally wears blue, grey, black and sometimes yellow themed clothes. She goes for skinny jeans and looser fitting tops, sometimes under jackets, with Dr. Martens. She has shiny metallic blue ones with yellow laces, black ones with blue laces and in the Dumping Ground, she has a new pair that are bright yellow with blue laces. She also usually wears large silver hoop earrings. With her former gang Elektra was given an earring (episode Snake Bite) in the shape of a snake to represent her former gang the Cobras. However, this was only worn in one episode until she realises that the gang is bad news.