Elaine Belloc

The Daughter of Joshua (Art by Dave Johnson)

### Affiliation

* Devil May Cry, Dante (Surrogate Father), Heaven, Dark Knight Initiative, Gael (Guardian)

## Appearance Information

### Portrayed By

* Junior (Actor)

> You know what you think is best. For the sake of ending this conversation, I'll choose to believe that you're right—this time
>
> **Elaine Belloc.**

**Elaine Belloc**, or just called **Elaine**, is the daughter of Archangel Joshua with a human woman, known as Jude Easterman.

## Overview

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Elaine is the daughter of Joshua and Jude Easterman, which makes her a hybrid entity known as the Nephilim. This makes Elaine the second Nephilim that is sired by a True Archangel. However, due to being the daughter of an Archangel, she is far more powerful than any other Nephilim, as well as possessing great goodness, to the point of being considered a possible successor to God.

It is said that she will fight in the Final Conflict, some even believe that Elaine will become the new Supreme Being over existence, gaining the sum total of God's power and being, and presiding over the Creation she will remake.

Her powers are so great that they surpass even her father's powers, and because she is an entity considered an "abomination" because she is the result of the DNA of an angel and human, many angels fear her and consider her a threat to the Multiverse, with some suggesting she should be killed. Joshua, however, has always maintained that his daughter is, above all, an honest and kind being, even more so than he.

## Physical Appearance

Elaine is a female Nephilim; however, she always seems to be changing shape, sometimes appearing as a little girl, or as a grown woman. Elaine usually appears as a girl with short black hair around her neck. Her eyes are black, but when she uses her powers, they go totally white. Despite appearing as a grown woman, she has a slender figure, making Gabriel think she is not very feminine.

Elaine sometimes likes to sport two huge white or golden wings that blaze lighter than the Sun itself at its apex in the sky.

## Personality

Due to being the daughter of an Archangel of light and a human being, Elaine is an honest and kind person, having a good relationship with her father Joshua and her uncle Lucifer. She is also respected by various entities such as Departure. Unfortunately, due to her being a Nephilim, many angels believe she is the opposite of all of this, considering her an evil entity that can overthrow all of Heaven's hosts and threaten the life of all creation. Something that Joshua, Lucifer, Gabriel and the other archangels totally disagree with.

In truth, due to Elaine's personality added to her extraordinary power, God considered that she could actually become a future guardian of Heaven or even that if he passed the government of creation to her, she would wisely govern all creation. Lucifer, on the other hand, believes that Elaine would take care of creation better than God himself. Joshua, however, says that this is not a matter for a child, and that Elaine shouldn't worry about it.

## Powers and Abilities

Being of Nephilim physiology, Elaine herself has powers beyond imagination. However, due to Elaine being the daughter of a True archangel, or rather of the Archangel, her powers are extraordinarily insane, far exceeds that of any Nephilim. It has been stated numerous times that Elaine possesses unimaginable power and according to her father, Joshua, her power could very well exceed his own, and practically every other angel. Even Merkabah wouldn't be crazy to try to beat her, as her power is considered a threat to Heaven and Hell, and Creation itself.

Mephistopheles claimed that the child could destroy all of Creation and Gabriel even stated that Elaine could do "almost anything". Her power is so potent that Lucifer, who has been in the presence of God, initially mistook Elaine for God when sensing her power. He states that she is similar to Joshua yet drastically different, but at the same time still very powerful. Lucifer also comments that in comparison to his own children, Elaine is more powerful than they are besides Jack Kline.

### Believed Power

* **Gestalt Monotheistic Deity Physiology**: A completely theoretical theory, at the end of the Great Conflict, Elaine may become the personification of God and the Anti-God, becoming an entity that personifies both sides of the coin of Good and Evil, being the personification and reincarnation of The Atzmus, Is, isn't it, always was, never was, always will be and never will be. Elaine is the combination of both an Anti-God and a Monotheistic Deity Physiology into a singular being. Like the Anti-God and the Supreme Being, she is truly omnipotent, omnipresent, and also omniscient, but unlike either side, the user is both the alpha and omega of all existence. In essence, Elaine has three of the aforementioned powers, but according to his/her status, he/she has the powers are related to both creation and destruction. However, this power is completely theoretical.

### Real Powers

* **Created Archangel** - Elaine's is a unique hybrid of Nephilim allowing her to access her full nigh-omnipotent abilities.
	+ **Middle-tier Nigh-Omnipotence** - Elaine is arguably more powerful than her father, Archangel Joshua.
	+ **Nigh-Omnipresence** - Elaine can almost be at multiple places at once.
	+ **Inherent Nigh-Omniscience** - Elaine inherited Joshua's nigh-omniscience knowledge.
	+ **Wings** - Elaine has two beautiful golden or white wings.
		- **Flight** - With her wings, she can fly at high speeds.
		- **Atomic Manipulation** - Elaine can alter the physical structure of matter.
		- **Magic** - Elaine's wings are imbued with Enochian magic that allows her to harness magical abilities.
	+ **Immortality** - Elaine can live forever unless she's killed.

## History

At first Elaine seemed like another character with the ability to see and speak to the dead, when in fact she is so much more. It is only when she meets Lucifer himself that she discovers her true origins; being Joshua's daughter. After she was born, Elaine was taken by her brother Cal who raised her for a while. When a man named Matthew Belloc offered to look after the brothers, Cal accepted, and they were both named Cal and Elaine. After Gael (Matthew Belloc) regained his memory and departed for Heaven, Elaine was taken care of by the Devil May Cry's Son of Sparda Dante, and within a few days she quickly grew into a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old girl, probably due to to her status as a Nephilim and strengthened by her heritage as a daughter of a true archangel.

Elaine, unfortunately, is currently being hunted and pursued by many malevolent and powerful beings such as demons, monsters, and even entities that are associated with the Old Ones. The only reason being is that she would either be used as a weapon or must be exterminated due to the threat she poses. The angels themselves are attempting to seize Elaine but mainly for protection knowing how powerful she is and as well as knowing how much of a threat she will be should she be placed in the wrong hands. Her power is so great she was able to gain the immediate attention of Nyarlathotep, a being so powerful that even the combined might of the original five true archangels was not enough to defeat him.

## Myths and Legends

Elaine Belloc is a fictional character in the Vertigo Comics series Lucifer created by Mike Carey. Elaine was created by Carey specifically for the Lucifer series, and her character is that of a young girl with special powers who encounters Lucifer and takes part in the adventures and battles surrounding him. She is the half-angel daughter of the Archangel Joshua Demiurgos, and thus a direct descendant of The Presence. She is the one who inherits the Presence's rule over Creation and assumes the Throne of God.

## Quotes

> Also, I'm Nigh-Omniscient. So all that stuff you people say you don't want to know? Well, I know it. And I'm Nigh-Omnipresent. Which is super-distracting, let me tell you. Not to mention being Nigh-Omnipotent. Which terrifies me, and should terrify you, too. If you've got any sense. What I'm not, though, is sure of what I'm supposed to do with all this power.
>
> **Elaine about her divine nature.**

> A great shouting starts. I hear many cries, greetings, and oaths. I turn my back on everyone. With a little effort…very little…my awareness slips through my skin. It expands to fill the space that is now mine and that could be me too. On Earth, the cycle of life begins again. Flowers grow, rain falls, people live and die. This entire system is maintained and guaranteed by a single will. Mine. In the bedroom of a house in Antwerp, say, in Capetown, or in New York, a girl wakes up crying. The tear that runs down her face is like a miniature world, deep, crystalline, and perfect. I get lost in it.
>
> **Elaine.**

> Lots of kids dream about being princesses or presidents. But few dream of being Gods. And the people who do dream of being gods aren't usually the kind of people you want to be stuck worshiping. I've tried to talk to other gods. They can be kind of unfriendly. Or weird. So I've been muddling along on my own since Lucifer left. Trying to be a new kind of god. No commandments. No sacrifices. No fires. No floods. Just a lot of hand-wringing.
>
> **Elaine.**

## Gallery

(Art by Christopher Moeller)(Art from Vertigo)(Art by Roysovitch)
## Trivia

* Her name can mean "shining light" or "sun ray".