Eli Zerka

Elijah Zerka (Voiced by Ian Perla)

Elijah ("Mini Muscles") Zerka, is the youngest member of the Insignificants, and also the strongest! His Lightning Gamia is incredible, and arguably unstoppable. However, Eli doesn't have as much control over his strength as the others.  He is quite conceited, and believes that he is one of the best fighters in the world.  He consistently dives head first into everything, and has no fear of consequences.  As ridiculous as his mindset is, his friends find great comfort in his confidence.  Eli is rarely scared, or annoyed, but this is usually, because he is annoying or scaring someone else.  Even though some find him aggravating, they know the group wouldn't be the same without him. - (*obsoletesouls.com*, 2018)

## Profile

### **Appearance**

Eli is a spry teenager with light skin, sharp brown hair, and brown eyes. Eli wears a black hooded collar jacket with an orange shirt underneath it. On his lower half, Eli wears black pants and orange shoes with a yellow dot next to each heel. Before the time skip, Eli wore a black hoodie with black pants and black shoes that featured a white

bottom trim. Eli also used to wear a thick head wrap (unknown if this was due to injury).

### **Personality**

Eli Zerka is easily recognized as a cocky character, but his extreme confidence comes from his great strength. At times other character's find Eli annoying, but his happy energy is

often a great mediator for tension. Eli eventually learns to take dire situations more seriously, but most of the time (even in the face of defeat) Eli will smirk and crack a joke.

Eli shared a bond with Cletus and Amir towards the start of his journey, but after Cletus disappeared, Eli developed a

stronger friendship with Amir instead. Eli quickly became friends with Dex after the events on Karakapala, and even taught him how to use gamia. Once Eli met the other Insignificants, he became good friends with all of them. Eli dislikes Dave, the Mustard Maniac, Titania, Tosen, the King Sea Haegan, Sheldon, Sheehan, and Zadroga.

## Story (contains spoilers)

Eli Zerka is a lightning gamia user, and one of the main characters in Obsolete Souls™. Eli’s adventure begins after wakes up on the shore of Karakapala island. Upon waking up, Eli meets Amir Amadon, an Earth gamia user who’s been on the island for a small time now. Amir introduces Eli to Cletus and Master Sheehan, two people who have lived on the island long before him. Amir got Eli acquainted to life on Karakpala, and took him in as another student under Master Sheehan.

Life on Karakapala starts to seem enjoyable until Cletus disappears from the island, and Amir tells Eli of Karakpala’s inactive baskor. After a long period of time, Amir finds Dex upon the shore of Karakapala Island. Amir introduces Dex to Eli, and together they introduce Dex to Master Sheehan. Dex asks Master Sheehan for a way off of Karakapala, but Master Sheehan redirects the conversation to a more dire issue of a Sea Haegan invasion on Karakapala Island. Dex, Eli, Amir, and Master Sheehan travel to the Haegan Hideout to fight against the Sea Haegans for the Dauphinius Stone, and the safety of Karakapala. The 4 of them worked their way to the King Sea Haegan's throne room to battle the King. After they fight the King Sea Haegan, the King tells them that his Sea Haegans have already begun invading Karakapala. Master Sheehan sends Dex, Eli, and Amir back to Karakapala, so he can stay behind to finish off the King.

Dex, Eli, and Amir make an intense swim from the Sea Haegan hideout to the Island, and battle against the Haegans burning it down. The jungle like area covering the baskor was now a sea of flames, and somehow the baskor was finally activated. Eli peered into the baskor with Dex and Amir, but before they could even think about what they saw, Master Sheehan approached them from behind. After a short verbal altercation, Master Sheehan attacks Eli and renders him unconscious. When Eli awakens, Master Sheehan and Amir are nowhere to be seen, but Dex is lying next to the now inactive baskor. When Dex wakes up, he begs Eli to teach him how to use gamia. Eli agrees to teach him, and the two of them vow to become stronger. They battle against Sea Haegans for 3 months before they come face to face with the King Sea Haegan once more. The King Sea Haegan tells Dex and Eli that he has cut his ties with Master Sheehan, and that he will escort them off of the island if they can bring him Sheehan's head. Dex and Eli agree to the terms, and are brought to Stobon by the Sea Haegans.

After the Span of Distinction, King Absen publicly announces that he will be delivering a speech in Stobon that the world needs to see. Masses of people begin to gather in Stobon to see the speech. Dex and Eli attend the speech, but become separated inside of the Stobon International Center. Eli watches the speech from the crowd, and as the speech twists for a crazy turn of events, Dex is framed for murdering Queen Taiza in front of the audience. Dex is chased out of Stobon by Trent with Eli following closely behind. From this point on Vinny, Dex, and anyone traveling with them are labeled as Insignificants. Dex finds his older brother Justice at the docks, and leads Aria, Vinny, Eli, Tamara, and Trent right to him. Justice takes everyone into his submarine to talk with each other, and then brings them to Jervachen. Upon arrival in Jervachen, Justice tells the new group to find a woman named Titania, or else they won't survive being in the public eye.

Eli and the other Insignificants begin to travel through Jervachen to Treblem, but on the way they are intercepted by Litilnumia, and Tamara is kidnapped. Amidst the kidnapping the King of Ravinan is mentioned. Trent becomes worried, and reveals to the group that Titania is actually his older sister, and that he comes from a family of Treblem royalty along with Tamara. They rush over to Treblem, and upon entering the Kingdom they learn that Titania is now the kingdom’s Queen. Trent tells Titania about Tamara's kidnapping, but also of his distrust with the Insignificants aside from Aria. Trent betrays Vinny, Dex, and Eli in favor of Aria, but after Titania realizes that Dex is Justice's younger brother, she lets Vinny, Dex, and Eli out of her prison at the agreement of never leaving Treblem castle. The Insignificants agree to Titania's terms only to go back on their word later that night. Afraid that Titania may start a war with the kingdom of Ravinan over Tamara, the Insignificants head to Ravinan to try and save Tamara by themselves. Once they reach Ravinan, Dex decides to wait for the others outside of the kingdom to prevent any unnecessary chaos that could come from people identifying him. Aria, Vinny, Eli, and Trent enter Ravinan castle pretending to be sent by Queen Titania, and proceed to search the castle for Tamara. Eli, and Trent split from Aria and Vinny to search the lower half of the castle.

Eli and Trent eventually reach the bottom of the castle, and they find Tamara lying in a small amount of water in a near death state. Tosen confronts them while they’re there, and gets into an argument with Trent. Tosen gets Trent’s full attention by asking him if he can share a family secret with him. Before Tosen shares this secret, he knocks Eli out cold. Trent wakes Eli up shortly after, and tells Eli that he’s leaving the castle with Tosen. Although confused as to why Trent would do such a thing, Eli refuses to let Trent leave with Tosen, but Tosen and Trent team up to defeat Eli. After they leave, Eli exits the castle. To much surprise, Jane is waiting for him and the others to come outside. Eli boards the jet, and after Jane gets Aria, Vinny, and Dex inside, she brings them back to Nebra-tech. A day after the attempt to rescue Tamara, Diderot calls Aria, Vinny, Dex, Eli, Jane, and Justice to the roof of Nebra-tech for a meeting.

Diderot introduces Sheldon, a man who claims to be a Zarragorian. Sheldon tells everyone that he’s existed since the beginning of time, and he showed them a piece of his past through a relic that he travels with. In Sheldon's past they see the Zarragorian named Zadroga. Sheldon proceeds to tell them that Litilnumia is actively trying to revive Zadroga, and that Earth Alpha will be doomed if they're successful. They agree to help Sheldon if he can help them find Tamara and Trent while they're gone. To stop the resurrection, Vinny, Dex, and Justice leave for New Egypt to try to find the real Dauphinius stone. Meanwhile, Aria, Eli, and Jane fly across Earth Alpha to stop the strange disturbances on the planet. On the other side of Earth Alpha, Aria, Eli, and Jane traveled to Kentron E. in search of a cause for disturbance, and they find nothing. Afterwards they traveled north to Itwern Cavern, and found a baskor deep inside the cave that lead them to the Vortex of Consequence. (This was Eli’s first time traveling through a baskor.)

Inside of the Vortex they found Tosen collecting an artifact known as Thorg's Eye. They proceed to battle Tosen for the whereabouts of Tamara and Trent, but Tosen refused to disclose any information. All Tosen said was that his siblings are safe, and he'll release them from his control after they fulfill their roles in his plan. The Vortex of Consequence begins to collapse without Thorg's Eye, so Tosen and the Insignificants flee the Vortex. Eli and the Insignficants successfully escape, and return to Nebra-tech. With everyone back at Nebra-tech, Diderot calls them all together for a meeting in the Nebra-tech laboratory. Diderot introduces Kohiid to the team, and Kohiid relays the information about the resurrection of another Zarragorian named Thorg. It turns out that Tosen is using Tamara, Titania, and Trent to resurrect Thorg as a combatant against Litilnumia's plan to resurrect Zadroga. Diderot grabs Dex, Jane, and Justice to follow him into Lestormine to stop Thorg's revival. Diderot’s lists Aria, Vinny, Eli, and Phalle as a back up team. While the back up team waits for Diderot to return, Kohiid talks with Eli in private. Kohiid reveals that he is actually Amir Amadon, and recently returned from the center-verse. After Eli, and Kohiid/Amir reunite, Diderot successfully returns to Nebra-tech with the Stralade family in tow. Together, the Duphaines have successfully stopped Thorg's resurrection, but at the cost of Jane being severely wounded, and losing control of her legs. Eli keeps to himself, and tries to remain positive before they try to stop Litilnumia. The other Insignificants bicker among themselves, and their emotions run wild until Diderot calls everyone together for a meeting once again. Diderot introduces Zach who claims that he heard Vinny was in the area, and wanted to pay him a visit. Diderot's actual purpose for the meeting was for Tosen to share the information that he has on Litilnumia's plan. Tosen clarifies that he is unsure of their methods for performing the resurrection, but he knows that they're going to do it somewhere inside of Ravinan castle. Before the Insignificants get the chance to head to Ravinan, Stobon is invaded by a mass of Sea Haegans.

As soon as the Sea Haegan threat is dealt with, Eli and the Insignificants head out to Ravinan. Once they reach the Ravinan castle throne room, the room twists into a strange area with an open baskor leading to Belial's Hovel. Once inside the Hovel, they search high and low for the Litilnumia members. However, they all become separated upon entry, and have to survive on their own. Eli comes across Dave, and wastes no time engaging in battle. Eli loses the battle, but he manages to keep himself together. After he runs into Tamara, Trent, and Zach he leaves Belial’s Hovel. When they leave Ravinan Castle they are ambushed by an organization known as VANEF. Eli, Tamara, and Trent tried to fight them off, but are unsuccessful until Aria uses the last of her strength to unleash her full gamic potential. To contain Aria's overuse of her Nebrajin abilities, Trent uses the Nebrajin Vacuum to absorb the last of her power. Afterwards Eli, Tamara, and Zach carry Aria, Trent, and the rest rest of the Insignificants to make an escape to Nebra-tech. After Eli recovers he talks with Kohiid about Master Sheehan. Kohiid tells Eli that he’s unaware of Sheehan’s intentions, but he knows that Sheehan killed the King Sea Haegan. As they talk about Sheehan, Dex returns from the center-verse. As Kohiid and Eli get excited for Dex’s return, they rush to tell everyone that he’s back, but when they find their friends they learn of Jane’s death. Eli and Kohiid give Dex, Diderot, and Justice time to grieve before the Insignificants begin to form a new plan to stop Zadroga. Afterwards, the new plan they came up with involved taking control of the Galaxy Kites from within Belial's Hovel. The team gets prepared for one more attempt at saving the universe. After tying up their loose ends, Eli and the Insignificants set out for Ravinan once more.

This time when the Insignificants enter Belial's Hovel they aren't separated. At this point many areas of Belial's Hovel are now morphing between realms in the universe, and the center-verse. The Galaxy Kites that Litilnumia were previously using are quickly losing their energy. With a more balanced playing field, the Insignificants and Litilnumia clash one last time. Eli challenges Dave to a rematch, and he successfully turned the tide of battle in his favor to win the fight. However, after Eli battles Dave, Eli is never seen again. Later on, Dave emerges in front of Belial’s Happy Place with Joey, so it is questionable about what happened to Eli. Kohiid searches the Hovel for Eli, but the Hovel collapsed while Eli and Trent were still inside. It is unknown whether Eli lived, or died.

## Gameplay

***In combat, Eli has great physical capabilities and sub-par defense with an attack focus.***

Eli is a **"*Brawlers*"** fighter**.** He can equip **"*Light Armor*",** and **"*Large Shields*".**

***(Eli's attributes after the time skip.)***

**Eli's move list is as follows:**

## Musical Themes

Eli's theme song is respectively titled Eli's Theme, and can be unlocked through the Jam Room. His song can also be heard on the Obsolete Souls OST. Other times the song can be heard are during Eli's Max Universe special move, Eli's initial introduction, and during Eli's 2nd battle against Dave.

https://dennelcake.bandcamp.com/track/Elis-theme

## Gallery

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## References

1. Obsolete Souls™ video game
2. www.obsoletesouls.com
3. (Weatherspoon, D, D., personal communication, 2019.)
4. www.dennelcake.com