Colette Elsington

**Colette Elsington** is one of the main characters in Thy Dark Devices and the supposedly innocent law-abiding child whom simply "stumbled upon trouble". Unknowingly, Colette is host to the phantasm "Medeusa", hunted by Kirche, Tartaroth and The Schmidt Network. She is also protected (unwillingly) by both Adventas Lamient and Thassia Dey, as they repay their debt to Lvray Rijks.

## Physical Appearance

Colette is a young girl of Thirteen, being One-Hundred and Fifty-Three Centimetres tall and weighing around Thirty-Eight Kilograms. She has dark brown locks of hair that falls down to shoulder-length and is cut neatly at the fringe. Colette has chocolatey hazel eyes that both Adventas Lamient and Thassia Dey describe as "rich". Her skin is pale and her overall complexion is extremely beautiful.

Colette's clothing is rather unfashionable: She wears a baggy pair blue of corduroy overalls over a thin pink blouse with red ribbons. Colette also wears a tartan coat that was clipped around her shoulders as well as earmuffs and a beanie. Her feat were covered by neat brown shoes.

Once the Medeusa Phantasm was unsealed, Colette's body changed. The skin became even more pale and her eyes became golden. Her hair turned into long, thin, moonlight silver snakes with black heads and red-ish eyes. Medusa also enhanced Colette's body features, making her taller, muscled and grew out her finger nails.

## Personality

Colette merely appears to be a shy, meek, rather uncouth girl. Constantly nervous about others's opinions about herself and tends to avoid interaction with those that she is not close to, even running away in the middle of a conversation with Adventas when Rijks was approaching. She is also prone to laughter, finding Adventas and Thassia's antics rather amusing.

Colette's rather annoying feature is that she always attempts to paint herself as a victim in almost every situation, an unlucky bystander whom just happened to get in the way. This rather large personality flaw that was contradicted by Adventas Lamient when she explained, victims cannot remain victims forever, a fact that becomes apparent in the incident set by Nazologia with Colette at its centre. In a desperate attempt to deflect blame and keep up her facade, Colette deludes even herself, creating what might even be considered a split personality between her and the phantasm Medeusa (even though they are the same being to almost every fibre).

Colette is considered to be cute by most people she knows, in both appearance and personality. This is revealed to be a major factor that lead to a total lack of self confidence and self worth, her image as a "shy, cute girl" having been built up in part by the people around her, who only possess a surface level understanding of their fellow classmates. Colette is afraid of her true self spilling out, and desires nothing more than to hide herself and remain unnoticed by others. By creating her fake personality, while never becoming fulfilled, she can remain comfortable by never really being affected by anyone else; however, this also means that she does not truly trust anyone. This desire for comfort, neither achieving happiness nor feeling pain.

The first time Colette shows her true personality is when she has to interact with a salesman whom had been pressurizing her too much upon what to buy. She snapped at him what she wanted, using a speech pattern that she had never truly used before. Although she maintained a balance between her personalities, Colette shows more favour to her old speech pattern and charm, though remains more defiant than previously.

## Abilities

* **Divinity**: After revealing the "Medeusa" side of her, Colette gains power beyond the capabilities of mere humans. She is shown to be in control of the snakes that make up her hair, even being able to change their proportions if she feels the need. Colette's physical capabilities also improved, making her able to leap from rooftop to rooftop and even having the ability to defy the laws of gravity. Colette can wrap mere silk around her wrist and transform it into a solid white spear, this also being able to change it's proportions.

## Trivia

* "Medeusa" isn't a separate entity from Colette as they are the same being. "Medeusa" is merely the term used for Colette's actual fibre of being, Colette always having the same personality and flaws in every life that she leads. Colette's true and real purpose is to be "Medeusa", as subconsciously intended by Ebyyse, a heartless yet powerful being that contrasts with Colette's meek personality.
* Originally, Colette was a character that JWMRC initially created for readers to pour in their hatred so that other characters would be saved that critism. JWMRC then changed her slightly so that she wouldn't be as loathed as she could have been, simply stating that he merely liked the character.