Elizabeth "Eliza" Thornberry (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

Elizabeth "Eliza" Thornberry is a character featured in the AngieYaz/RoseOfSharon reboot of the Sonic Underground television series, emigrated from the The Wild Thornberrys television series. She is a girl who whom, unknown to most (with the exception of her older sister Debbie), gained the ability to speak with animals after an encounter with an African shaman from her Earth, two years prior to the start of the series at the age of ten. Eliza is portrayed as a geek by her extensive zoological knowledge and her glasses, braces and by occasionally standing pigeon-toed. She has freckles and shoulder-length red-orange hair that is usually worn in braided pigtails with two red elastic bands and occasionally a ponytail. She almost always wears a yellow dress, though later in the series, she sports other clothes.
Eliza is voiced by Lacey Chabert.
==Description==
Eliza is a 12-year-old girl, who’s always ready for adventure. Her natural curiosity means she often leaps before she looks often with amusing or disastrous results. She possesses the power to speak clearly to animals (at least from the Earth that she is from) and understand their reactions. She loves animals and exploring the wild jungles, deserts, and forests that she travels to along with her family all around the world as they film their nature television show: Nigel Thornberry's Animal World and Sir Nigel Thornberry's Animal World. What her family doesn't know—at least for a while—is that she was given the ability to talk to every animal she meets by a shaman in Africa. Eliza's "Gift of Gab" is a secret. If anyone ever found out she speaks to animals, she would lose her powers. It isn't easy for Eliza to keep such a big thing to herself, but luckily she has her best pal Darwin the Chimpanzee to confide in. Eliza has saved numerous animals from poachers, trappers, and other perilous situations, and never fails to make new friends, no matter what species they may be from. She gains her love of adventure from her parents (her father mostly), which often leads to problems. Eliza is the only member of her immediate family to have their appendix removed. Because of her gift, Eliza goes to extreme efforts to talk to all kinds of animals and get to know them, even if they're predators. This obsession has often led to mishaps or Eliza foolishly putting herself (and sometimes others) in danger. Eliza's reckless behavior stems from her naïve perspective that, since she can talk to animals, she knows them better than actual experts and plenty of times she has been proven wrong; she never seems to learn her lesson.
According to character design supervisor Patrick Dene, Eliza grows up to host her a wildlife show of her own at age twenty-two. It’s the world's second most-watched nature show, right behind her father's.
==Physical appearance==
Eliza almost always wears a short-sleeved yellow dress with a red collar, buttons, cuffs and pockets, white panties, a pair of brown boot-like shoes, and a pair of glasses without which she can't see. She has orange hair in braided pigtails, sometimes she wears her hair in a ponytail and braces. Upon occasion, Eliza will let her hair down and when she does her hair is longer than her mom's but shorter than her sister's. By the end of the series she wears her hair down held back with a hairpin.
In episodes in which Eliza wears bathing suits, her outfit consists of a purple bathing suit with brown shorts and purple flip-flops.
In the cold climates, she wears a thick parka which is purple or blue in color.
In episodes, Eliza wears her scuba gear; her wetsuit is yellow much like her everyday outfit a mask on her face, flippers on her feet, a red air tank on her back to carry air to breathe underwater, and a regulator in her mouth.
As a twenty-two-year-old woman, Eliza keeps her red hair in a ponytail, and switch from her large glasses to smaller and oval shaped ones (much like her mother's). She wears a safari outfit, with long green socks and a red bandana tied around her neck with a watch on her left wrist.
While this article shows her with her appearance from the The Wild Thornberrys television series, in the reboot she is redesigned to be more in line with the typical designs of Sonic characters and drawn in the Sonic Underground art style.
==Trivia==
*Eliza has seemed to inherit her bad vision from her mother, but it is unknown how bad Marianne's vision is.
*Eliza has had several near-death encounters both with animals, other humans and nature itself.
*Eliza bears some resemblance to Pippi Longstocking; the pigtails, an ape companion, a 'power' that sets them apart from others.
*Eliza's actual date of birth is NOT given within the series proper, but is to be assumed from dialogue, that it is late June/Early July due to her being three months younger than her Cousin Tyler Tucker. 
She has braces although her orthodontist is not seen or mentioned.
*Eliza is the only Thornberry kid whose name does not start with the letter D.
*The only human characters to know about her secret to talk to animals are Donnie, Debbie, Sloan and Bree.
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