Elsie

Elsie being introduced by Lucy

Elsie is the financial manager for the Forty Elephants. She's the wife of Lucy Corbyn and Patrin Pidgely, and doting sister-in-law to Rachel Pidgely.

## Appearance

   Elsie is a stout white woman with blue eyes and blonde hair that goes midway down her back. She wears a blue ball gown with an off-shoulder neckline lined with white frills. It has 3/4 length sleeves lined in matching frills. The bodice, sleeves, and the drapery skirt are all a baby blue; the floor-length pleated underskirt is a a slightly darker shade of blue, lined with white frills. At the back of the dress, there's a darker blue ribbon tied in a bow. Elsie wears blue shoes that match her dress. Around her neck she wears a black choker with a ovular purple gem.

## Personality

Elsie is shown to be a gentle, patient, maternal, and driven woman with a cheery but firm approach to things. She can be insistent and witty, relying on a pleasant feminine charm to unobtrusively get her way. She's notably studious and compassionate, though she doesn't take well to disrespect, using well a voice of her own. Even so, she doesn't at all mind being defended, as shown when Lucy tells Hyde off for his ill manners toward her and Patrin.

## Biography

Little is currently known about Elsie's past, but at what point or other, she met Lucy and joined the Forty Elephants as their accountant. It could be that she met Lucy around the same time as Patrin did. The three of them are pictured together in the portrait in the main room of Lucy's base in Chapter 7, page 5 which may depict their wedding.

Elsie's first appearance happened in Chapter 10, page 2, where after coming back from the Blackfog Bazaar, Hyde, Rachel, Lanyon, Betsy, and Tacy went to Lucy's house. Lucy quickly came to the conclusion that Hyde had never been wanted to be found in the first place, and was going to confront Rachel about starting a search for him, but Elsie and Patrin arrived, excitedly asking after their apparent guests. Lucy initially wanted to turn their visitors away, but her spouses insisted that they never got to entertain guests and invited everyone personally to stay, so Lucy begrudgingly allowed them to, letting them accept the spouses' offer of tea.

While Lucy brought Rachel to another room to talk to her, Elsie and Patrin conversed with the guests and served them tea. Hyde questioned Patrin's role in the Forty Elephants, and after, Elsie divulged her role as financial manager and only *technically* part of the thieving empire. Hyde responds incredulously at this, but Betsy and Tacy chime in, saying that Elsie's great and "covers all [their] medical expenses." Hyde climbs on top of a chair and Elsie tells him to get down, with Elsie grabbing a broom as though to shoo him off. The two end up explaining that Rachel's efforts stems from care for Hyde, despite her funny way of showing it.

After Patrin explained Rachel's past and her therefore attachment to Hyde, Hyde decided to leave. However, he ultimately stopped, confronted with nightmarish hallucinations outside the door. Newly content to stay at Lucy's house for a little while longer if only to avoid the nightmares, Hyde ordered Patrin and Elsie to bring him a glass of scotch. Patrin and Elsie were less than pleased, Elsie reminding that they weren't Hyde's servants. Hyde, properly overwhelmed, snapped at them both and insulted their positions as 'housewives', when Lucy arrives, calmly commanding he not talk that way to her spouses.

Hyde tried to apologize, justifying his actions as a fit of passion, to which Lucy only laughed. She went on to level Hyde, pointing out the glaring differences between them, Lucy a *real* criminal overlord by her own hard work *and* the gracious help of others, including and especially her spouses. Absolutely unlike Hyde, who seems to only cause trouble for selfish kicks and really only meddles with petty crime. (throughout this explanation, Elsie looks on slyly, covering her mouth as though to stifle a laugh.) Lucy highlights here Elsie's skill for money laundering, an invaluable asset to the Forty Elephants, hugging and complimenting her as Elsie leaned in with a flattered, albeit undoubtedly self satisfied smile. Elsie's last appearance was her cheekily smiling with Patrin as Lucy finished her spiel and promptly showed Hyde out.

## Relationships

* Lucy Corbyn (wife)
* Patrin Pidgely (husband)
* Rachel Pidgely (sister-in-law)

## Trivia

* Patrin and Elsie are noted to be married to each other as well as with Lucy.
* Lucy remarks that the Forty Elephants gang wouldn't be where it is today without Elsie, and her talent for money laundering.
	+ As financial manager, she's said by Tacy to notably handle their medical expenses.

## Gallery

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1. ↑ #Disqus comment made October 26, 2020 under Chapter 10, page 5.