Elise Nilsson

Elise is one of the chief protagonists and allies in the story *Vampires in Sweden* and a supporting character in some of the later misadventures, especially those taking place near Scandinavia. She serves as Klara's somewhat overprotective bdyguard and confident, but in the modern arc is less overprotective and usually comes to check up on her and deliver special messages. She considers herself to be a rival to Otto- Wolfgang.

## Appearance

Elise is a tall and well- built woman, being quite strong. Although similar to Leifur, this is often hidden by the clothing she wears. She has shorter blonde hair that goes to around mid-back, although most of the time, it's in a bun. She has light blue eyes and a pretty extensive burn scar on the right side of her face.

She is seen quite frequently with a long grey coat with shoulder pads signifying her rank. Otherwise, she wears a pale blue collared shirt and a black skirt that goes down to her knees with pantyhose that go to her shoes. In warmer climates and conditions, she wears a striped t-shirt and jeans or shorts.

## Personality

Elise is often seen as a very serious, tough, and professional person. Often getting flustered by some remarks about her. However, once she gets to know people, she becomes very sociable and ditches some of her professionalism for more casual talk. Nevertheless, she is extremely protective of Klara (and later the kids) and will go to great lengths to assure her safety (once almost calling all of Interpol to search for her when she didn't answer her text within five minutes). Because of this, and the fact that she and Otto have a very interesting relationship, she is often jokingly called a yandere.

Although very sociable for the rest of the group, she and Otto have an amusingly snarky relationship where they both get into small arguments and drop embarrassing details about the others, often making people assume they are in a relationship or were (neither of which are true).

## Character Background

Most of Elise's backstory is unknown, however, there are snippets that are mentioned by either Klara or Elise herself. For the most part, she keeps her backstory very simple, yet still explains most of the important details- a reference to her military background.

Elise was born in 1977 in Osterstund, Sweden; the daughter of a small-time factory manager. It is thought that her father worked for a steel factory that was slowly but surely leaving Sweden due to significantly less demand. When she was thirteen, due to her high level of skills in mathematics and athletics, she was allowed entrance into the nearby boarding school, even if it was both selective amongst the aristocracy and pretty expensive (it is thought that the tuition was equivalent to her father's salary). Because of this reason, she is was often ostracized within the school, almost to the point where she was about to leave. However, she happened to come across a younger Klara and the two strike a friendship (it is later revealed that the moment when Klara came, she had an instant crush on her, not realising she was a Princess).

Throughout their secondary school they primarily stick together and both of them manage to acquire new sets of friends, even if both are ostracized by the school (it is theorized by Elise that some things they wanted to say to Klara, they instead say to Elise). At the end of secondary school, she is offered university at Stockholm but instead joins the Armed Forces in secret. Klara is later seen also being in the Armed Forces, which is part of the reason why Elise does this. Their relationship continues to thrive and Klara reveals that she has some feelings for Elise.

While during training, Elise, Klara, and an unnamed guy, have a malfunction in their S- tank and it drives off a road and catches fire. Elise is seen knocked out, and the other crewmember having broken his arm and unable to pull himself out. Klara pulls Elise out and helps the other crew member out before some ambulances show up on the scene. Elise is hospitalized, but Klara claims that Elise was the one who rescued them (it is never explained why). She later winds up becoming a special forces operative, specializing in long range sniping, and having an extreme dislike for Otto's tank collections.

Afterwards, she is chosen to be Klara's bodyguard and the two reconnect after a few years of limited communications. Because of the events with the S- tank, she is even more overprotective of Klara and gets frustrated and annoyed when Klara brings home random guys or comes home blackout drunk.

### VAMPIRES IN SWEDEN

Elise is first introduced in this arc when Klara comes home after a date with Otto (who was under the "alias" Wolfgang Hauptmann). She is seen visibly annoyed and brings subtly brings up the fact that it's another one of her short-lived relationships.

She winds up spending a sparse amount of time with them (pure coincidence) and starts to grow suspicious of Wolfgang. Despite being particularly cold and hostile towards him, he simply doesn't give a fuck and tries to be her friend- often laughing and grinning in a psychotic way to get under her skin. Ironically, his sympathy towards her is what sparked her investigation into his personal life. She goes to great extents, calling up Interpol favors and getting in touch with the Bundeswehr and World War Two museums. She struggles with deciding whether or not to confront Klara or Wolfgang with the information, but the house in Vienna is raided and she and Wolfgang go into full protect mode of Klara.

During the story, Elise and Wolfgang grow closer, but still have a snarky attitude with each other. Although she still loves Klara, she admits to both herself and Otto that he would be better for the role (a win-win for all three of them). However, she demands that they still maintain contact with her and that she still is Klara's bodyguard, which Otto agrees to.

She is invited to the honeymoon, and Otto insists upon her coming, but she equally insists on not coming (at least officially). In several parts, she can be seen as a sort of Easter Egg.