Elizabeth George

is a prominent character in The Awakening series.
==Character History==
Elizabeth George was a martial arts teacher in India, and has a surgeon sister, Isabel, living in New Orleans. Isabel, feeling her family have been struggling back home, invites her mother and sister to New Orleans, where she is making a good living. Upon this Elizabeth decided to move to America, and their mother, not wanting to remain alone, goes with her.
Elizabeth is a righteous person, and chooses to believe there is good in every person. Although a fierce fighter, she is very gentle at heart.
==Season One==
Elizabeth makes her first appearance in the season 1 finale, in a non-speaking role. She is seen at the airport, boarding the plane to New Orleans with her mother. She's later seen panicking when the plane shakes while approaching New Orleans, due to the massive battle going on between Davina and Sascha; and finally when the plane lands and she and her mother reunite with her sister, Isabel.
==Season Two==
Elizabeth decides to move out and find a place closer to her dojo. She's seen to have not many students, but she teaches them all with utmost care. One of the following days she saves Anna from a mugger, without knowing who she is, and they become friends while Elizabeth walks her to her place. Later on Anna approaches her about joining a non-profit movement whose ideal is defending and protecting the lives and rights of gifted people, as an answer to the notorious Paladins, people who are actively and openly against the existence of people with powers. She agrees, and in time the movement turns into a local organization and gets the name Brotherhood, with lots of new people wanting to join every other day.
Elizabeth volunteers for field duty, which she feels she is best suited for given her skill set, but soon realizes the people (and their opinions, actions) can be too harsh. Upon this, Davina empowers her with magic, giving her superhuman strength. When she shares these developments in her life with her sister, Isabel is worried. She tells her not to get too involved, as it could bring trouble to their family's doorstep, and none of them need that.
In the meantime the city is attacked by a power-copier named Leon, self-nicknamed Chameleon, who copied the powers of Amy, a girl with pyrokinetic abilities. Seeing Amy is intended to confront Leon and hoping she will be able to take him out, Elizabeth decides not to interfere. However, Amy fails to even get close enough, and gets shot and dies, as Elizabeth can do nothing but watch.
Feeling responsible for her death, Elizabeth loses her spirit and becomes unable to proceed with her duties. This goes on until the season finale, where Leon launches an attack on the city. At the time due to Davina using her full power for a spell, Elizabeth's super strength is gone, but regardless, Elizabeth feels it's her duty to face Leon and stop him. She faces him on a rooftop. She takes massive beating, but manages to kick Leon off the roof. A news helicopter was recording the entire fight, and as a result the entire city was watching the whole thing. Isabel was also watching the news, with pride and joy, as her sister becomes victorious and saves the city.
As of that day, Elizabeth is referred to as "The Rooftop Hero".
*What If?
The "What If" of season 2 focuses on the choice Elizabeth made about whether to stop Amy before she faces Leon, the day she died, and tries to see what would happen if Elizabeth stopped Amy.
Elizabeth gets in Amy's way and advices her to stop what she is planning to do. The two engage in a brief but fierce fight which results with Elizabeth knocking Amy unconscious and taking her in Brotherhood's custody. Initially Elizabeth is hostile and bitter toward Amy, as she burned her arms and hands during the fight. But eventually eases her posture as Amy refuses to talk to anyone but her, and realizes she was only trying to undo what she had done. She created Leon, gave him his powers, so it's her responsibility. She has no right to unleash such evil on a city she came to seek protection from. Seeing they are on the same side, she and Elizabeth ease on each other and eventually become friends. And when the day comes they go against Leon, Elizabeth includes Amy into her team. Amy, now fully aware what she's up against, is scared to confront Leon. Elizabeth encourages her, and although with difficulty, Amy manages to de-power Leon and then burns him to a crisp. Elizabeth tells her she has to run, because even though she's a member of Brotherhood now, between Paladins and now Leon, she has killed people and people will come after her. They say goodbye, then Amy flees.
==Season Three==
Elizabeth learns that the burns and hits she's taken during her fight with Leon has caused massive internal damage, including uterine necrosis. Because of that, when she was taken to the hospital after the fight for emergency surgery, doctors had to remove it. Elizabeth is devastated when she finds out she will no longer be able to become a mother, but is further wrecked when Ian breaks up with her because of this, because he wants to be with somebody he can start a family with.
One of the following days, she is approached by a Paladin representative, asking her to join them. When she informs Chase about this, she is advised to take the offer, to become a double agent and inform them about their plans and agenda, which could help stop them, or even take them down. Elizabeth agrees, but since she has powers, Davina gives her a pair of magic gloves, which would suppress the magic that gives her her powers, to help prevent any potential incidents.
On her first day with the Paladins, Elizabeth is forced to kill a gifted woman to prove her loyalty to the cause. And things only go further downhill from there. Day after day, she's forced to kill people, some of whom she knows. One of the days the Paladins discover that Ian is a witch, and order her kill him. Elizabeth agrees at first, angry at him, but changes her mind when she discovers he's married and his wife is pregnant. Otto, another Paladin and Sebastian's (head of Paladins' New Orleans branch) right hand man, catches up to them, takes Elizabeth out and finishes the job himself.
Elizabeth was expecting punishment for her failure, but instead Sebastian acknowledges that he's pushed her too hard and tells her to take a break, because he'd rather lose a few missions than lose her. Moved and confused, soon a romance sparks between the two. However, as her "return" duty, she is ordered to blow up the school because there are gifted children there. Discombobulated, Elizabeth leaves first, but then returns to object the mission. Their argument soon turns physical, and it is revealed that Sebastian is gifted too, and has super strength. When she realizes this, she takes her gloves off, and after taking a huge beating, finally unleashes her full might, all her repressed anger, self hatred and takes it all out on Sebastian by beating him mercilessly to a bloody pulp. She is then forced to kill him too, as he promised to never stop going after her and her loved ones. She calls Chase to turn herself in for all the crimes she's committed, but not before calling her sister and apologizing for all the problems that she caused that awaits them. When Chase arrives, he refuses to arrest Elizabeth. If she stops now, all that she's done, all the sacrifices she's made and all the pain she's endured will be for nothing. She must assume control, rise up in their ranks, do whatever it takes to gain power and influence, which is the only way they can take down the entire Paladins. She reluctantly agrees, and with the promotion that she got upon exposing the gifted head of New Orleans branch and taking him down, she leaves in a plane to work at their HQ in Switzerland.
==Season Four==
Elizabeth is working as the acting director in the HQ, but many of her coworkers do not appreciate her peaceful methods. To further complicate the matters, she exposes that she too has powers while trying to deescalate a conflict.
Fearing that she's turning into a violent and aggressive person and is not prepared or ready to lead people the way she is expected to, Elizabeth thinks about stepping down from her duty, but is motivated and inspired by one of her colleagues. And if she ever hopes to really change how the Paladins work, she must work to gain everyone's trust, and solidify her place among their ranks.
==Season Five==
Elizabeth doesn't make any appearances in this season, but returns in the season finale, for Oswald and Lake's funerals, who were killed fighting a demigod. They were her friends and fellow Brotherhood members who took over the field duty after she left. After the funeral, she meets Jack, who convinces her to have dinner with him. During the dinner, when Jack offered to leave town with her, she revealed she's going to Europe, not a state or city in US. He still agrees to go with her, and when asked why, he says he doesn't know whether she is the one, but if he doesn't try, he'll never know but always wonder. She gleefully agrees, and they take off in his private jet.
*What If?
This chapter tries to answer what would happen if Elizabeth picked up the phone when Oswald called him, the day he and Lake died.
In this version of events, Elizabeth arrives to town in the nick of time to save Lake and Oswald. She takes down the demigod that would kill them, and the three reunite happily. She is now fully aware of her powers, and explains she is not holding back in life for anything anymore. Where the duo's death had broken the team's spirit in the original version of events, this time they are now angry and motivated, and further encouraged by Elizabeth's presence, declare a full on war against demigods. The demigods are defeated with zero losses. Afterwards Elizabeth decides to stay in town.
==Season Six==
Elizabeth and Jack's relationship go through a rough patch, as Jack begins suspecting Elizabeth is not being open, which leads them to eventually breaking up. In the end, fearing she's losing Jack, Elizabeth confesses everything. From the secret mission she is on, to the people she's killed, and how she can't have kids; she tells him everything. Jack assures her that he thinks nothing less of her, and even admires her strength and calls her a hero. They reconcile and decide to get married.
==Season Seven==
Jack and Elizabeth get married, but at their first night, they are attacked by an invisible force. Davina rules out ghost as the attacker because her magic has no effect on this thing, which they eventually decide to call "poltergeist". Elizabeth soon finds out the poltergeist is the vengeful spirit of the woman she killed on her first day with the Paladins, Marley Matheson. Davina offers to stay with them to help however she can, but Elizabeth sends her back home where she is needed more, as her magic can't help them.
Eventually Elizabeth gives in, as she is unable to fight the poltergeist, and agrees to let her take over her body, offering her own life in return of the life she's taken from her. However, seeing Elizabeth's body is mighty powerful, the poltergeist furthers its agenda and decides to take full revenge by killing Elizabeth's loved ones. Jack calls Colin for help, but "Elizabeth" kills Colin's entire team and nearly kills Colin himself too. Colin leaves in defeat, claiming his days are already numbered, wanting to see his daughter one last time.
As the poltergeist goes after Jack, Elizabeth musters whatever strength she has left in her, and manages to take over her body for long enough to beg Jack to kill her and save everyone. They say each other goodbye, then Jack stabs her in the heart, trapping the spirit inside the body and killing it, along with Elizabeth.
*What If?
This chapter of what if tries to see what would happen if Colin decided to face "Elizabeth" after his defeat, instead of going back home.
With Jack's help, Colin corners "Elizabeth" in a room. Even though he is physically beyond helpless against her, by clever traps and relentless attacks, he manages to hurt Elizabeth's body enough, until the spirit has no choice but to leave Elizabeth and enter Colin's body. Then before the spirit can take over entirely, he tells Elizabeth that she knows what she has to do. Elizabeth stabs him in the heart, killing both Colin and the poltergeist.
==Powers & Abilities==
As a human, Elizabeth is a skillful martial artist, proficient in hand to hand combat. But she doesn't possess any supernatural powers. However, due to Davina's magic, she has certain superhuman powers and abilities.
*Heightened energy output: Due to her body producing much more energy than before, this gives her muscles more strength, which translates to superhuman strength, enhanced speed and reflexes, as well as stamina.
*Enhanced durability: She's much less affected by physical damage and impacts.
*Heightened metabolism: She can heal physical wounds faster and is much more resistant to sicknesses.
*Heightened senses: As her 5 senses are heightened, her sense of smell, hearing, sight, humor, fashion, taste (?) and touch are improved to superhuman levels.
Since her powers come from magic, Elizabeth doesn't have to increase her food portions to support her energy output.
Since she's still human, she also retains all of her normal human weaknesses, albeit to a lesser extent.
==Trivia & Notes==
*Originally the character's surname was "Adams", but it was changed when her ethnicity was determined as Indian.
* and were also considered for the role.
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