Ellie Mark

* Ellie Mark
* Nightmare Queen Ellie

### Class

Psychic 8/Incarnate 2/Soulcaster 10//Warlock 5/Ur-Priest 2/Eldritch Disciple 10/Hellfire Warlock 3

## Physical description

### Species

Quori noble (azurin/tsucora) psychic lich

### Eye color

Central heterochromatic red and purple

**Ellie Mark** is an outsider from Dal Quor who took on a mortal form after being cast out by YEOZ. She is an incredibly bitter individual who wants nothing more than to tear the world apart, seeing it as her own personal nightmare, and being affected similarly to Charry and Nara in her recalling of memories from the "ancient past".

## Personality

Being an extraplanar being, Ellie has no concern for the residents of the mortal world. She is perfectly fine with exploiting others to get her way, or obliterate them entirely if they get *in* her way. Other than that, Ellie demonstrates the personality traits of an angsty teenage girl. In the past after Belle's death, she would have outbursts of anger, but as a lich, she becomes cold and her fury is similarly icy. She sometimes exhibits symptoms of depression. She is essentially always frustrated at her condition, knowing that she can do nothing to avoid being a puppet for YEOZ to play with.

Ellie has a one-track mind concerning her interests: she likes the occult, making a video game, and her friends, and will dedicate large amounts of time and resources to further her goals in one of these. Unlike every other individual in existence, with the exception of her family, she would stop at nothing to protect her friends. When dealing with natives of the Material Plane, Ellie constantly maintains her guard, contributing to the angsty teen persona.

## History

Ellie was in fact the first individual to come into existence during the creation of the Dream Gang, succeeded immediately by Benikurage. She was granted her OVERWRITE and RESET abilities around the time of her creation. Early on, she discovered the Nightmare Realm and its heart, and seeking new powers, she ate it, becoming the Nightmare Queen. YEOZ let her retain these powers, but when she tried to challenge them, they found it troublesome and exiled her. Some time before her birth date on June 22, 1999 (and perhaps, before her conception), she was cast out of Dal Quor and became a soul to a newborn child.

Her mortal vessel was born on June 22, 1999, and unlike a regular deific avatar, housed all of her essence, making her essentially a fully mortal entity. During her childhood, she met her friends, Belle, Johnny and Rachel. She was initially quite cold towards them, seeing them as a way for YEOZ to mock her, but eventually caved and, accepting that they resembled her "real" friends quite closely, joined their group. She also met a lot of other people, such asZoey Uroboros and Daniel Hammond, the latter of whom she worked together with to make a video game.

Her childhood was quite exciting, attending school by day and studying the occult with her friends by night. It was these studies that lead her to develop her class levels on top of her abilities, as well as her friends.

During the Unstoppable Force Incident, Zoey's *Terrified* killed Belle for, among other reasons, getting too close, and to prove a point. When Zoey was sent into another dimension, Ellie was left without anyone to take her rage out on, but she still feels spiteful towards Zoey for what she sees as being responsible for killing her best friend.

Following Belle's death, she continued her life as ordinary, but became more bitter and reserved and closed off, skipping school to work on her game and imbuing heavy emotions into it. These emotions became the catalyst for her astral memoir. Spending days all alone without anyone to provide her company, Ellie contemplated her existence deeply, and fell into despair and madness. No longer able to handle her life as it was, on April 18, 2013, she vowed to end it with a gunshot to the head.

Two months later on her 14th birthday, she returned as a psychic lich, rising from her literal grave after awakening in her now undead body. The process was almost entirely accidental, and it seemed that more than anything else, her reanimation was similar to how a revenant rises. Noting this strange turn of events, she researches her powers more deeply and discovers that she can create undead, and does so to reanimate Belle. The two of them go to bring the gang back together, all of them a little shaken from both recent and past events, but ultimately, they're doing okay. Ellie decided to take them on one final campaign together.

In her incarnations in Magnum Opus, she mostly went through resurrecting from her grave and trying to reassemble her friends, as written above. However, things changed in the third reset, and instead, she was fleeing from YEOZ, and drawn to the universe (not a native of it) through some weird- *speaking both in character and out, I actually genuinely have no idea what was happening in Magnum Opus 3*. She disappears into a forest both to sate her enjoyment of exploration, and to try to get closer to North Carolina to see what became of it in this world. There, she met a Mitoki Shitodo masquerading as Zoey Uroboros, and they had some kind of "rap battle", most similar to the one that started the Unstoppable Force incident. Afterwards, Mitoki demonstrated her terrifying powers by transforming into her true form in the most sickening way possible, and proceeded to attack. They fought, some interlopers showed up offering a prize, and Ellie, not wanting to deal with any of this, used the Overwrite button to take control of Mitoki. However, that caused her to vomit a black tar out, and that tar became Suzumi Kuzu, who was seeking revenge on her for killing them in Magnum Opus 1. The interlopers fight off Suzumi who flees, Ellie leaves Mitoki in the forest, and then runs off to find somewhere to sleep, to check on the Abyss, since one of the interlopers looks exactly like a being at the heart of the Abyss, most well-remembered, but never reanimated. As it turns out, that being is still there, because surprise surprise, that interloper isn't my character. She heads into Beach City to go visit... the Beach. There though, she has to fight Nara, who wants her for her Overwrite power, but gets Candace to help her by revealing the fact that Ellie is undead and therefore "obviously evil" (not how that works in this world, but undead are still mistrusted for being evil most of the time). They beat her up, and Nara steals half of her soul, or rather, an attribute she possessed long ago (an Undertale SOUL, as opposed to the spiritual and intangible "essence" that they are now), which she called a Soar (in reference to Monomy's Kites, which function similar to Undertale SOULs). What happens to her afterwards is irrelevant though, because she ultimately flees, and then, as is the fate of The Magnum Opus, the RP just... ended.

## Relationships

### Ellie's Family

Ellie has essentially the same relationship with her dad and brother; they're alright. She doesn't feel too strongly towards them, but does feel a need to 'protect' them from the horrors of the dark powers she works with. Her mother on the other hand, she is significantly closer to, but still grew apart from during the deterioration of her emotional health. She feels a similar way in needing to protect her from the truth. Her family are perhaps the only ones aside from her friends she doesn't attempt to manipulate, except to keep them out of harm's way.

### Belle Elmore

Ellie's relationship with Belle is essentially that they're best friends, but Ellie has a one-sided crush on her, and Belle doesn't reciprocate but does sort of 'cater' to her to make her happy. Ellie loves her with all of her heart, and feels almost vengeful at the fact that, it seems, in every incarnation of the world, Belle will always die. After reanimating her, Ellie feels guilty at what she thinks is stripping Belle of her humanity.

### John Miller

Her 'guy friend' Johnny. Ellie and Johnny have a fairly boyish friendship, although Johnny was probably the least closest to Ellie before Belle's death, and after Belle's death they essentially didn't talk at all. Nonetheless, they like each other, and their differing methods. They remind each other of 'home', although Ellie's subconscious is also filled with loathing for Johnny, who was the culprit to Belle's death in what Ellie sees as the "true" incarnation of the world.

### Rachel Clemont

Ellie and Rachel before Belle's death were not very close, but being the two who put up posters together and saw *something* at Belle's funeral, they sort of confided in each other. They were also perhaps the most active when it came to studying the occult. Both of them became recluses of their own variety though, and eventually, as Ellie's health declined, she almost entirely forgot about Rachel, even though she gave a copy of her game to Rachel.

### Katherine Hawkins

Ellie thought Kathy was cute in a childish way. Also, Kathy is the only one in her group who is younger than her, although Care is the same age as Kathy (but she considers Care to be in a different group who is just friends of friends with hers). After Belle's death, she almost never saw Kathy, who took a lot of time to grieve, and by the time she had come to terms with Belle's death, Ellie was in high school.

### Zachary Underwood

Zach was known in their group as the Funny Guy, having a smile on his face almost all the time and cracking jokes whenever possible (even if his sense of humor was a bit "loud = funny"). It was quite the juxtaposition to see him so visibly filled with despair after 2009. Zach and Johnny are the same age, so Ellie still sees him at school, and although he was trying to cheer everyone up, for years it didn't work. Even when his efforts were coming to fruition in 2013, Belle was reanimated as an undead, so ultimately, his attempt to heal everyone was sort of in vain. Despite that though, he's perfectly happy with Belle being back, and likes to adventure with the other five.

## Abilities & Skills

Ellie interestingly lacks a dream self; hers died shortly after her main vessel succumbed to the gunshot wound. When she "sleeps" to regain her powers, she projects her consciousness into the furthest depths of the Abyss, creating a nightmarish dreamscape known as *black space* that is formed from the depths of her subconscious mind. Black Space is adjacent to the Nightmare Realm, but does not link to it normally. Indeed, during it's normal manifestation, it has no planar links at all, making getting in and out difficult compared to a regular dreamscape. She has the powers of a third-rank demigod, meaning she has all of the baseline abilities common to deities, demigods, and a few special abilities of her own; hers are the ability to alter reality via the OVERWRITE button; the ability to kill anyone via a hand of death; the ability to create a cloud of darkness that saps the lifeforce of others; and the ability to split herself up to possess others. With enough determination, she can even bend time backwards and RESET things to a point in the past, but she has to first SAVE manually, and can only do it every once in a while (and its a bit jank and might not properly all the time).

Because Nara took half of her SOUL in Magnum Opus 3, Ellie only possesses half of the OVERWRITE button, which means in the Roleplay meta-continuity, her ability to OVERWRITE is diminished (and well enough, because that power is insanely busted when used to its fullest potential). In it's weakened state, she can only primarily use it to shift things around, create minor objects, or essentially grant herself extra time; she can "jump forward" to and setup anything she could possibly do with enough time, but YEOZ doesn't let her directly place anyone in a situation that is unavoidably fatal. For the same reason (roleplay = powers have a limit), her ability to kill people instantly via her life-draining cloud and hand of death is usually disabled, as is her RESET power, and she rarely gets the opportunity to possess interlopers.

Concerning her skills, she is actually quite normal for a 14 year old, and mostly just knows various things about the stuff she's interested in. She is a prodigious game developer adept at coding in C++ and C#, as well as modelling, spriting and composing music with her knowledge of musical theory. She can play the piano and drums and is decent at singing as a result of band practice she had with her gang at school. She knows how to deceive, intimidate and persuade others.

Her spells draw upon the Shadow Weave to function, much like Suji. Because of this, her spells and magical effects are harder to detect with Weave-based divination magic, and she is a superior enchanter, necromancer and illusionist, but a weaker evoker, conjurer or transmuter. As a psychic, her primary ability is to draw upon emotions and thoughts to cast psychic spells. These work similar to a sorcerer's magic, except they are psychic, not arcane, and so require emotion and thought components instead of verbal and somatic components. Her psychic magic typically attacks the minds of others, enhances her senses, or conjures or creates something, but there is wide variety. She prefers the schools of illusion, necromancy and enchantment, because a. she has a lot of those and b. they're enhanced by the Shadow Weave to be harder to resist. As a psychic, her powers are focused through her control over dreams, and so she gains power over the dreams of others and can manipulate their dreams or siphon them for power. She can also detect the thoughts of others as a spell-like ability.

As an incarnate, she has the power to shape soulmelds and possesses a large pool of essentia, an augmentation of her innate essentia pool that she had since birth. She also possesses a powerful aura of evil and can detect the presence of good, but other than that, has no real powers that most incarnates have. Instead, she has the ability to invest essentia into her spells to make them more powerful, or convert spell energy into temporary essentia to get a brief power surge. She has the power to bind to her least and lesser chakras. Additionally, she can use the power of necrocarnum to violate her spells and make them deal a pure evil kind of damage. The soulmelds she shapes varies throughout the weeks, but on most days she prefers to shape *strongheart vest*, *mage’s spectacles*, and *bluesteel bracers*, as well as bind *necrocarnum circlet* to her crown chakra, *arcane focus* to her throat chakra, and *wind cloak* to her shoulders chakra.

As an ur-priest, she uses the Shadow Weave to siphon power from cosmic forces and deities more powerful than herself. She casts spells like a cleric, but does not have access to a domain or the ability to convert spells into negative energy, but she *can* channel negative energy in a burst effect. She can also use her incarnum techniques to convert channelled energy into incarnum, and does this whenever she isn't using the energy to command undead or heal or harm in an area.

As a warlock, she has access to powerful invocations and a potent *hellfire blast* that she uses as her main ranged weapon. Her hellfire blast, formed from the scarlet flame that is the Nightmare Realm's essence, incurs damage to her unnatural life force which also fuels her warlock powers and the potency of her channelled energy, but she negates this damage with *strongheart vest*. Her most frequently used invocation is *utterdark blast*, which transforms her blast into a deadly shot of negative energy that drains the life of the living and heals the undead, giving herself a source of free healing. In melee, she will shape her blast into a glaive and strike multiple times before retreating. Other invocations of hers include the ability to turn into a swarm of vampire moths, her favored animal, and create black tentacles that possess a chilling grip. She combines her warlock and ur-priest abilities as an eldritch theurge, giving her the ability to apply her eldritch essence invocations to her ur-priest spells.

Her other abilities include the ability to use Dark Speech to shriek in a language of pure evil, causing evil creatures to cower or greatly revere Ellie, or causing good or neutral creatures to fear her or maybe even despise her depending on their relative power. Additionally, she has mild psionic abilities that she can use to create barriers of force, empower her eldritch blasts and ray attacks, and "focus".

She has a natural resistance against the illusions of others and can see through them clearly with her mythic sight, feign a convincing death, attempt to control the dreams and nightmares of others, and possesses a potent aura of fear that frightens her opponents within around 60-30 ft. She also has the innate power to move through the Shadow World, plane shift between the Material Plane and Dal Quor or back again, modify the memories of others, and shape shadow matter into partially real illusory evocations or conjurations. As a lich, she possesses the ability to drink enchantments that she overcomes to restore her form, and confuse others with a touch, as well as the malign powers offered by being undead and an immunity to cold and electricity-based attacks. When destroyed, she takes a lot longer to reform than an ordinary lich, but her astral memoir is also much more secure than a lich's phylactery; destroying it does nothing, and instead it must be used as a focus to engage battle with Ellie's astral legend in a mindscape. This legend is sort of a manifestation of her chained spirit as bound to her astral memoir, which is a CD with a development copy of Monomy on it. This super spooky haunted disc regenerates in random spots pivotal to her when destroyed (and if you were to try and separate it from its magic, another disc would form as if it were destroyed), and if you try and play it (its a Wii game, if you're curious), Ellie Mark's astral legend tries to kill you by drawing you into the game and murdering you with video game mechanics. And then she eats your soul, and her immortality lasts for another 20 years. If she is destroyed while her astral legend isn't, she regenerates at a site pivotal to her, like her house, or her school, or Daniel's house.

### Equipment

She mostly carries around her phone in her pocket, and her attire is very plain. When prepped to adventure, she wears her chasuble of fell power, which empowers her chaos magic and eldritch blasts, and her gloves of eldritch admixture, which she can pop charges from to empower her blasts further with elemental energy. These items were made by Belle, and she treasures them as representations of their friendship and storied history.

## Trivia

* Her deific portfolio includes death, undeath, video games, nightmares, childhood, and eldritch secrets.
* She was originally from a completely separate project, but just kind of *wound up* here, and ended up getting replaced by a redesigned Ellie.
* Her eyes have red irises and purple pupils, but she used to have complete heterochromia where one eye was red and the other was purple. This shift just kind of happened as she grew older.
* Vampire moths being her favored animal is a Grimm reference, as some people theorize him to be a vampire moth.
	+ She also screams like Grimm, and skitters like him too, but she is not a gentleman and is kind of an asshole.
* Her favored weapon is the light mace, as the *warlock's scepter* is a magic item using the stats of a light mace.