Elektra Natchios

## Background

### 1981 - 2001: Elektra Natchios

Elektra Natchios was born on the Greek island of Syros near the Aegean Sea. Her father was successful businessman Hugo Kostas Natchios & her mother, Christina Natchios, was essentially his young & loving trophy wife. But her mother's status never mattered to Elektra, as she still loved her mother despite never meeting her.

Prior to Elektra's birth, her mother was quite flirtatious with many men & most assumed she was carrying an affair. Elektra's older half brother saw his father's embarrassment & grew tired of his stepmother's antics. When Christina announced she was pregnant, Orestez's disdain for the woman led him to plan her murder & that of the bastard she carried. During a home invasion, Christina was killed & Hugo was caught in the crossfire but was only shot in his arm. Orestez was shamed to learn that not only was his father was caught in the assassination attempt but that the bastard child survived. When Elektra was taken to the hospital, she was confirmed to be Hugo's child as well. Learning of his son's treachery, Hugo had Orestez was willingly exiled from the family estate.

Elektra essentially grew up the only child of a single father. When she learned of the tragedy that happened to her mother, Elektra lashed out & self-harmed herself. Her father eventually sent her away to psychotherapy until she became more stable. To give her a positive outlet to redirect her pent up emotions, he had her train in various martial arts. What started as a mere activity turned Elektra to an exceptional combatant as she excelled in every style she learned.

### 2001 - 2004: Elektra

When her father was appointed Greek ambassador to the United States, Elektra decided to see the country herself & transferred to Columbia University. She soon met the blind law student, Matt Murdock. Though different in their upbringings, she felt there was a kinship between them & soon began a romance.

She & Matt started training together, falling more & more in love. He was so caught up in love that he couldn't even concentrate in class. Though Elektra seemed to be somewhat stable to Matt, she had some tricks up her sleeve. After hearing a group men brag about taking advantage of a women, she lured then to a dark alley. She allowed them to think they have the upper hand & pin her down. Just as one of them pulls out a knife, she attacked & killed all of them with no remorse.

After her father was gunned down by assassins, Elektra left Matt & school to seek revenge. Elektra travels to China to study in martial arts, receiving training from Stick of the the martial arts organization known as the Chaste. Elektra is eventually corrupted by her own impulses & instead joins The Hand, a group of ninja like assassins. After breaking free of their control, Elektra worked as a bounty hunter & assassin for hire for the following years. Having undertaken a contract in New York City to capture Bullseye, she crossed paths with the blind vigilante Daredevil, whom she instantly recognized as her former lover Murdock. Though they ended up working together & still cared deeply for one another, Daredevil disapproved of Elektra's chosen profession.

Their relationship changed when Kingpin, the most powerful figure in East Coast organized crime, hired Elektra as his chief assassin. She was sent to kill Ben Urich but came into conflict with Matt. He stopped her & thwarted the Kingpin's plans. In retaliation, Kingpin ordered her to kill Matt's best friend & law partner, Foggy Nelson but she could not carry out the contract, remembering him from her college days as a good guy. Soon after, Bullseye determined that the only way to regain his status as the Kingpin's chief assassin was to kill Elektra. During the battle, Bullseye impaled Elektra with her own sai & she died in Matt's arms.

### 2004 - 2006: Elektra

In reality, Elektra had faked her death & decided to purify her soul so that she could find her own place in the world. Seeking a new focus for her life, Elektra recruited her own order of fighters & mercenaries called the Ryu to oppose the Snakeroot, a part of the Hand. She proved herself to be a poor leader & the entire Ryu was killed trying to battle the Snakeroot. However, Elektra ultimately completed the destruction of the Snakeroot alone.

### 2006 - 2010: Elektra

Elektra then began a freelance association with S.H.I.E.L.D. for some years. When HYDRA teamed up with the Hand to use technology to control various heroes as their only personal army, Nick Fury handpicked Elektra for the job, paying her in hundreds of thousands of dollars. Getting her money's worth, Elektra prevented the soldiers from killing others & was able to destroy the technology the two organizations had created. With the all the problems she solved, it was no surprise when a bounty was placed on her head. A mercenary eventually came to collect & Elektra was able to defeat him but not before taking some hits. Even in her state, she took down several HYDRA operatives & managed to reach Murdock's office to raid his stash of first aid supplies. When confronted by Foggy Nelson, she collapsed from extensive blood loss due to her injuries.

Elektra was nursed back to health by none other than Matt Murdock. For saving her life, he stated that she owed him a favor. Deciding to hear him out, Matt asked her to join the reformed Heroes for Hire under Misty Knight & Colleen Wing. Elektra accepted, joining the all girl team of hunting down criminals. The gig lasted for a bout a year before Black Cat quit, leading to the dissolution of the group.

Running from her tumultuous past, Elektra attempted to lay low in Las Vegas. But as always, Elektra met someone who needed saving. In her mission to teach the people of the casino a lesson, she caught the attention of Arcade & was placed in the middle of one of his games. There, she & some kidnapped celebrities were forced to play till death against Arcade's crew. After watching all her teammates die, Elektra lost her temper & killed everyone on Arcade's crew then beat Arcade. After discovering Wilson Fisk was behind it all, she returned to New York for payback.

## Romantic Relationships

* Matt Murdock: Boyfriend (2001 - 2003); Infrequent Lover (2003 - )
* Logan: One Night Stand (2008)

## Personality

Elektra is shown to be a very confident woman, in both her skills and looks. This has led her to be arrogant at times. However, she has stated that she is alone in the world & believes that Murdock & she are kindred spirits as she viewed him as the only person who understands her for who she is deep down. Elektra also had a habit of becoming bored quite easily which Murdock picks up on their first meeting. Thus, she has developed a fun-loving, free-wheeling & wildly unpredictable personality & is more than capable of having a good time throughout her crusade with Daredevil, enjoying both the fight & the physical challenge that came with it.

From her training, Elektra learned to be the perfect assassin and killer. She can be coldblooded to her enemies & enjoyed killing them. She doesn't possess Murdock's moral compass but at the same time, seems to respect him for his refusal to kill. Elektra tends to think of her goals as first & furthermost importance with little sympathy to others & little care or even realization over breaking the law.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Assassins Instinct**: As a result of her training with the Hand, Elektra moves with heightened primal instincts but the more evolved parts of her brain remain intact, preserving her intelligence. In other words, she thinks like a woman & strikes like a cobra.
* **Mind Switch**: Elektra's strangest gift is her ability to "throw" her mind into those of others. For instance, she was able to track down her target by temporarily "borrowing" people's minds & acting through them while she hunted around for her prey.
	+ ***Discern Target***: This temporary mind control enables her to literally sniff out the intent of her targets. It is unknown how long the effect lasts, but Elektra has gone a full two days or more in another person's mind while they zoned out in hers.
	+ ***Discern Location***: This "mind jump" ability might explain why Elektra is always a step ahead of her competition or seems to know where her target is at all times.
* **Hypnosis**: Elektra has demonstrated the ability to mesmerize others & as such make them see illusions or other phenomena.
* **Mind Shield:** Elektra has demonstrated an ability to remain hidden & undetected by other telepaths. By using a telepathic technique that she learned during her time with the Hand, Elektra can create a mental shield around her mind keeping herself hidden from psychics & mind locating machines like Cerebro.
* **Silent Scream:** She can emit a high powered Chi based scream originally used by Shang-Chi, By focusing on her Chi Y puckering her lips together, Elektra can use this technique to perform a high pitched scream that can render a person permanently deaf or kill if she focuses on one target.
* **Peak Human Condition**: Elektra trains daily & has exceptional strength. She possesses the peak human level physicality in terms of strength, speed, reflexes & agility. She is an Olympic-level athlete & gymnast, having won competitions in both swimming & track from an early age. Elektra has been shown capable of preventing Black Widow from shooting her at a close range. She did this by literally slicing through the bullet with her sai.
	+ ***Acrobatics*:** She is an excellent acrobat capable of many difficult feats.
	+ ***Hand to Hand Combat/Martial Arts***: Elektra is proficient in many martial arts originating from China, Thailand & Japan. While many of them are unstated, Ninjutsu is the most noticeable one. She's also won trophies in aikido, kendo & karate. She has mastered many techniques as an assassin. She was trained in the art of killing by Stick, Members of the Chaste & The Hand.
	+ ***Honed Senses***: She has demonstrated the ability to detect a threat to her well-being in the immediate vicinity before they commit the action.
	+ ***Nervous System Control*:** She can control her nervous system enabling her to deaden her body to physical pain, control her emotions & even her bleeding rate.
	+ ***Pressure Point Locator*:** She can locate different pressure points on a person's body. She can incapacitate, paralyze, severely injure, or kill a person.
	+ ***Stealth*:** Due to her training as a ninja assassin, she can blend in with the shadows and remain undetected by most humans.
* **Marksmanship:** Elektra is skilled with throwing weapons & sharpshooting
* **Weaponry**: She is a master of many different weapons. Among the known are Okinawan Sai which are her usual weapons of choice, katanas, knives, sansetsukon (3-sectional staff) & throwing stars (shuriken).
* **Twin Sai:** Elektra’s primary weapons are her twin sai, long daggers with narrow blades & twin blade guards. She can use them to slash, stab & throw. Her Sai are protected with synaptic snare with biometric locks keyed to her nervous system that will deliver a shock that paralyzes any other person who touches it for sixty seconds, to ensure nobody can use them against her again.

### Weaknesses

* **Matt Murdock (Occasionally):** Elektra's only weakness is Matt Murdock, depending on the day. She won't do anything that will put his life in danger but if he was to end up hurt as a result of her actions, that would not bother her greatly. Plus, Matt is fully capable of taking care of himself so it would be difficult to use him as bait or weakness.

### Ratings

* **Acumen:**  4 - Trained / Learned
* **Might:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Quickness:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Mysticism:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Gadgets:** 6 - Expert / Advanced
* **Projection:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Tactics:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Battle:** 7 - Master / Elite
* **TOTAL:** 160 - Power Level 4 / Moderate Threat

## Trivia

* She has killed over 100 people.
* She has said that she'll never love anyone the way she loves Matt Murdock. Matt has also admitted to having several rendezvous with Elektra, with them even discussing running away together.

## Notes

* The original character of Elektra belongs to the Marvel Universe.