Ellie

**Ellie** • History • Quotes • Gallery

* S7
* 1989
* 1988
* 1987

Max Hamilton - boyfriend

Michael Tomlinson - best friend

MJ Baines - best friend

Rose McCarthy - best friend

Nick Mayes - friend

Vigilante

### Appears In

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60

> *"All my life, I didn't know who I was, what I was, why I was here...**until I met you**. You showed me what I am, who I am, what I can be. And it made me realize, even when I told you it was over, that I can't do it...**I can't live without you**,"*
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> -- Ellie confesses her feelings to Max, 1989
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**Margaret "Maggie" Cooper** (born **Margaret Harrington**), better known as **Ellie**, nicknamed **"El"**, and formerly referred to as **Subject 067**, is a main protagonist of *The 48th Street Fellowship*.

Born with innate telepathic and telekinetic powers, Ellie was taken from her mother by the St. James Institute and raised in a laboratory, where she was forced to undergo traumatic experimentation. In the process, she opened a portal to an alternate dimension, the Dark Dimension, which resulted in the facility she was housed at to explode. This caused a group of kids in the area to gain incredible powers, while also allowing the Dark Lord to spread his minions into the world. She later befriended this Fellowship and became romantically involved with their leader, Max, as they fought to protect Dewberry from the Shadow Goblin and its master, the Dark Lord.

In 1988, it was revealed that Ellie had fallen under the guardianship of the town sheriff, David Cooper, and she began to view him as her father figure. As the group learned more about the Dark Lord, Ellie decided to seek out her origins, discovering her mother had also been a test subject of the St. James Institute and that the two of them were somehow linked to Subject 001. Returning to Dewberry, she was able to close the Breach and destroy the connection between the Dark Dimension and the human world. Her efforts proved successful and caused the Fellowship to lose their powers. Her relationship with Max became serious as they danced together at the Summer Ball.

In 1989, Ellie helped the Fellowship regain their powers in preparation to fight the Air-Walker and prevent the Dark Lord from merging dimensions once more, discovering that both her and Max were the Air-Walker's targets, for the combination of their powers could kill the Dark Lord for good. After the battle, Ellie swore a blood oath to one day return to Dewberry and kill the Dark Lord once and for all. After the oath, she tearfully said goodbye to Max as he left Dewberry for college, before finally deciding to leave Dewberry with him and live their lives on the road.

## Overview

### Physical Appearance

Ellie is a short girl of 15 when the series begins.

In 1988, Ellie has had the chance to grow her hair out, revealing she has curly, dark-brown hair.

By 1989, she has grown her hair down to her back. Her hair has also become darker, now appearing black. This continues into New 1989.

### Overview

Ellie is shy, nervous and cautious around others, but demonstrates a fierce, unrelenting and often terrifying loyalty to those who care for her. She has developed PTSD from her time as a lab test subject.

Ellie is reluctant to harm innocent life and has no malicious intent, but has sometimes been forced to maim or kill in extreme circumstances. She does not take this lightly as these instances are always followed by strong feelings of guilt and self-loathing, not to mention the physical toll these acts had on her body. In every event of having to resort to killing someone, she has done it in self-defence.

Due to her very limited vocabulary, she initially could not effectively communicate her thoughts and emotions and had little to no understanding of simple concepts, including rudimentary things like friendships or promises. These difficulties communicating often lead to misunderstandings with her friends. Despite this, she was a quick learner and came up with creative ways of explaining concepts.

When she joins and earns the trust of the Fellowship, she comes out of her shell and enjoys reading the comic books her new friends give her. She experiences love for the first time with Max, the very first person to accept her and her nature.

In *Season 5*, Ellie has fully embraced herself into the counterculture of the late 1980s, most likely due to her life on the road with Max.

## Powers, Equipment and Abilities

Due to her mother undergoing intrusive experiments with the St. James Institute when she was pregnant with her, Ellie was born with powerful psychokinetic powers. She was forced to spend the first sixteen years of her life undergoing experiments to test the limits of her abilities, and so she has great control over her abilities. Like the other Institute test subjects, her nose begins to bleed whenever she uses her powers. She seemingly lost her powers after the death of the Dark Lord, due to her abilities being linked to Subject 001. After becoming the new conduit of Artemis, Ellie's powers were made strong enough to defeat the Beholder, therefore making her one of the most powerful known entities.

### Superpowers

* **Telekinesis:** Her most recurrent power, she is able to manipulate objects, people and creatures with her mind. When amplified by her emotions, her telekinesis is strong enough to lift large, heavy objects.
	+ **Pain Amplification:** Ellie's powers are amplified depending on the level of pain, both physical and emotional, that she experiences.
* **Levitation:** Via telekinesis, Ellie can suspend objects in the air, making them levitate. On two occasions, she was able to make herself levitate, most likely due to her using most of her strength and concentration.
* **Extrasensory Perception:** Ellie can gain information through the mind rather than the physical senses. She could recognize people taken into the Dark Dimension from photos, though she had presumably never met them before.
	+ **Remote viewing:** Via ESP, she can seek out and find targets in different locations than her own. When amplified by sensory deprivation, this ability is powerful enough to find targets over vast distances, even as far as other dimensions.
		- *See Also: The Palace*
	+ **Telepathy:** Often used in tandem with her RV abilities. When she has located her target, she can choose to communicate with them mentally.
	+ **Psychometry:** Also known as "token-object reading", Ellie can gain information about a person by touching objects associated with them.
* **Biokinesis:** Ellie can manipulate the bodies of living creatures to a certain extent, as shown when she disintegrated the Shadow Goblin and broke the necks to two Institute agents with a literal twist of her own neck.
* **Portal Manipulation:** Ellie can open and manipulate portals to the Dark Dimension, although this is often accidental and arises when she enters a state of panic and fear. For example, when she made contact with the Shadow Goblin, her fear was so intense it caused the Breach to open.

## Relationships

### David Cooper

> *"Please don't ever leave me again,"*
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> -- Ellie to Cooper before the Battle of Neverland
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From 1988, Ellie views Cooper as her father figure and trusts him completely.

### Max Hamilton

Even after spending just a few days together, Ellie and Max quickly fell in love with each other. Max was the first among the Fellowship to recognise that Ellie was just another kid and she meant no harm to anyone. Their romance forms one of several essential subplots in the series.

In '*Restoration*', it is hinted that her and Max's relationship may have turned physical in the last year. However, the two dance around the thought of loving each other repeatedly, leaving the rest of the group frustrated that neither of them can admit their feelings. As Ellie becomes close friends with Rose, she accidently confesses that she loves Max and considers telling him. Rose, however, tells her to wait for Max to tell her he loves her. Believing that Max doesn't love her - coupled with him lying about his talk with Cooper - Ellie publically breaks up with him, leaving him confused, angry and short-tempered.

When Ellie overhears MJ and Rose saying that Max told MJ and James he loves her, she becomes ellated and heads out to track down Max, who has been missing since their breakup.

In the hospital construction site, as Max tends to her injuries, they once again dance around their love, with neither explicily saying the words. With MJ's encouragement, they both express their passion, with Ellie telling Max she can't live without him. She gets angry when Max can't say the words, but her frustration eventually leads to him confessing his love. Ellie is left speechless.

Before the final battle at Neverland Mall, Ellie grabs Max and tells him she loves him, to which Max smiles and says "I know". They kiss passionately and realize they have a whole mall to fool around in. With the little time they have, they sneak into a back room and finally have sex. In the process, their neural link becomes even stronger.

When Max prepares to leave Dewberry, Ellie begs him to leave her behind and have his own life. After he leaves, he reverses back and begs her to come with him. With a nod of permission from Cooper, Ellie gets in the car and they drive off together for parts unknown.

### Rose McCarthy

Initially, Ellie and Rose have the weakest friendship in the group. However, in *Season 3* the two of them hit it off. Rose encourages Ellie to be her own person.

### Brandon Alexis

Ellie grew up viewing Dr Alexis as a father figure.

## Trivia

* Her age is never explicitly stated, but her adoption certificate estimates her age to be around 16 in *Season 2*, putting her at the same age as the rest of the core Fellowship.
* Ellie is one of eight characters to have entered the Dark Dimension, the others being Joyceln, Cooper, Michael, Catherine, Hope and Lucas.
* Ellie is one of the few human characters to have ever killed anyone, the others being James, Cooper, Joyceln and Dr. Alexis.
	+ Of them all, Ellie has the second-highest kill count, with a total of 6. She is surpassed by James with a total of 8 and is followed by Cooper with 3, Alexis with 2 and Joyceln with 1.
* She has the fewest lines of dialogue out of any main character in the series.
	+ Ellie says only 154 words throughout the entirety of *Season 1*, with just under half of those words being "Max".
	+ In the original scripts for the series, Ellie was supposed to be mute, and would only begin learning how to speak in *Season 2* after being taken in by Cooper.
	+ She says fewer words than several recurring characters, including Lucas and Argyle.
* In '*Battle of Neverland'*, she loses her virginity to Max.
* She is the only member of the Fellowship who was born with their powers.

## Behind the Scenes

* Ellie was originally planned to enter a relationship with Michael instead of Max in early production notes.
* In the original production notes for *Season 4*, Ellie was one of only three members of the Fellowship to survive, the others being James and Brooklyn.

* The 48th Street Fellowship Characters
* The Dark Dimension