Elizabeth Hayward

## Miscellaneous

**Elizabeth Lou Hayward**, also called **Eliza**, is a protagonist in *Titan's Run*.

Death: her fingers singed, painted by lightning scars; a bag of money is discarded on her body; a snake rests in the space between her collar bones. Left behind: Alan (father); Vanessa (mother); Georges (husband).

## Biography

Eliza was born in Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, England, UK to Vanessa Sheffield, a pharmacist, and Alan Dunsmore, a funeral director. Eliza remained an only child, but she had countless cousins who lived nearby.

### Adolescence

Eliza studied French and participated in an exchange program in Nantes. She worked at her mother's pharmacy and became an equestrian.

When Eliza was 16, Alan broke up with Vanessa. In response, Vanessa moved to be closer to her mother; Eliza followed and took her mother's surname. It took her years to heal from what felt like a betrayal from her father.

### Adulthood

Eliza attended the University of Cambridge, then pursued a living in Kensington. Her research brought her to Ethiopia.

She married Georges Hayward in England. She was 29.

At age 30, she survived a severe car crash with seemingly little to no injury. However, a slight tingling down to her feet led to a temporary paralysis of both legs. She needed to learn how to use a wheelchair, and through physical therapy, how to walk and run again. Eliza and Georges take a break from their marriage in an attempt to prevent any growing resentment.

What kept her going was the potential to continue her research in space. She fought for her place on Titan, and she earned it.

## *Titan's Run*

Born of sand. She has had 3 former bodies, all of them female.

### *Beyonders*

To the Ecliptus gala, Eliza wore a V-neck, sleeveless, dark plum gown, with her hair worn in an intricate up-do that culminated in a low bun.

### *Deepsky*

Eliza tends to a wound Jack's arm. She tells him in confidence that she was studying to become a nurse when she was pulled from the lottery to be sent to Arcadia. Jack gets the sense her world revolved around education.

Eliza dreams of Ethiopia.

### *Angry Orbit*

Eliza heals another one of Jack's wounds. She thanks him for standing up for her earlier. They bond over their pasts - the both of them understand what it is to suffer and to heal from it.

Eliza witnesses William Austor brutalizing Matthew Warner. In retaliation, she hits Austor over the head with a pipe, staff, or rod, and promptly does her best to help Matthew. She can't save him.

## Character

### ISFP

Eliza is an ISFP, referred to as the Adventurer or the Composer.

From a journal entry:

> *Spirit of the Mountain. She has tasted that feeling, that existing merely to exist, simplistic life. Yet she began as little more than a spoiled heiress who had a thing for Flyboy. Next was beautiful Hera, sensual and submissive, but smart. And hella jealous. Very, very jealous. I like to think Eliza's come a long way. The little bird.*
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> *I'll add that she comes from Nataly - a love interest to Jack who never ceased to speak her mind. Her strength and devotion set her apart from the rest. Seems that whoever Eliza is, she carries the blood of monarchs within her.*
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> *Left over - to kick Austor's ASS; to thank Jack for what he did for her; to walk and run again.*
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## Themes

### Healing

Eliza's theme is *healing*. By the time she is on the team, she is "old friends" with the concept of healing.

### Asclepius

Eliza carries within her the spirit of the *serpent bearer*. Note the freckles on her face in the shape of the constellation Ophiuchus. Possible opinions and insight into attempts at reanimation or postponing the ageing process?

### Nataly Alexandre

Eliza stems from Nataly Alexandre, also known as Nathalie Romilley, Nathalie Noble, and Natalie Rook. She was a warrior and a medic who spoke her mind. She was also very familiar with suffering and healing: she was medically inclined; she led a rebellion of suffering and healing Tenshi; she was injured and forced to live in a wheelchair for much of Vol. 3; and she lost Jack. She struggled to recover from the pain Jack's betrayal and loss caused her.