Ellie

Ellie, sometimes called El for short, is the leader of The Warren. She is not very authoritarian but rather organizes tasks and helps the settlement's members work together to get jobs done. Ellie is very short and some notable features are her buck teeth and her missing left ear. She is married to Fawn and they have six children.

## Appearance

Ellie is a short lagomorph with brown eyes and eyeliner. Her fur is white with a brown tail and ears and brown patches on her left foot, her right eye, and a small circle above her right eye. Her left ear is torn with only 1/3 of it left. She has large buck teeth that are a rounded shape with a partial split in the middle.

In her early years, Ellie wore pirate attire and had a gold hoop earring in her left ear. When she first joined The Warren she switched to baggy kahki-colored pants with pink and blue patches on the knees and a rope belt around her waist. She wore a blue t-shirt with a wave pattern on it before switching to her current shirt, a torn green t-shirt showing the top half of a peace symbol. As she gets older, Ellie wears loose sweatpants and a woven bracelet.

## Personality

Ellie is known for being kind-hearted and enthusiastic, which can be good or bad depending on the situation. As The Warren's leader, she keeps herself busy with remembering everything that has to get done such as gardening, crafts, and trading. She wants to keep the people she loves safe but has a hard time saying no to anyone in need. Ellie tends to think things through to find the best solution, with the exception being in regards to children. She adores children and if one is in danger she will leap to help them without regard for anything else.

Ellie has ADHD and while she organizes a lot of The Warren's affairs, she can be forgetful and has a hard time recognizing people and remembering names. She is easily excitable and fast-moving, and her speed is her main advantage during combat. Ellie has trauma from her past that makes her afraid of wind storms, prone to night terrors, and claustrophobic.

## History

### Pirate Years

The majority of Ellie's childhood was spent living out at sea and being raised by her fathers Checkers and Burgundy. She, her fathers, and her many siblings formed a family of pirates. They carried trade items across the ocean but were not above stealing and starting fights. Ellie in particular was known for being a boisterous teenager and a good pickpocket. By the time she was 16, Ellie had earned the nickname Triple L among people who were wary of her unruly nature and her skill wielding a short cutlass.

The pirate family would regularly come to shore during holidays and events in order to join the crowds of people trading items (and possibly not keeping a close enough eye on their valuables). At one of these events, Ellie was hanging out by herself and feeling bored when she heard people singing somewhere in the crowd and decided to join in. They all had a great time singing and dancing until she eventually rested and talked to one of the lagomorphs, Fawn. They ended up enjoying each other's company and met up every day throughout the event.

### Settling Into The Warren

Ellie learned that Fawn had recently moved to a small settlement called The Warren and began daydreaming about traveling beyond the shore. After some encouragement from her fathers, she joined Fawn's group and went to The Warren with them. She was excited to make new friends and learn about their gardening and homes in the ground that did not move with the waves. She befriended lagos like Gadget and Plodder but pined after Fawn until finally confessing and they started dating.

When she was 26, Ellie visited The CaPital and was appalled seeing people, many of whom were teenagers, fighting in The Pit. She snuck into the living area for incarcerated pit fighters and met Hash, who told her that they had been there for a year. Ellie managed to free Hash and convince them to come back to The Warren with her.

When Ellie was 29 she, Hash, and Plodder made a routine trip to a city across the desert to trade for some medical supplies. On the way back to The Warren, they stopped to rest at an oasis, only to find too late that there were two rabid carnis there. One grabbed Ellie by the ear and the other attacked Plodder, while Hash tried to fend off the carnis. In the end Plodder and both carnis were killed, and Ellie and Hash were badly wounded. The two survivors hid in a small cave by the oasis as a sandstorm swept in and raged for days. They eventually managed to get back home and get proper medical treatment, but the ordeal left Ellie with a fear of tight spaces and windstorms.

Being away from Fawn for a long time and not knowing if or when she would return made Ellie think more seriously about how much she loved her partner. It wasn't long after that before they got married, and when Ellie was 32 they had kids of their own. They were very surprised to learn that they were having triplets, who they named Bullseye, Kipper, and Tyrant. During this time, The Warren began to grow and Ellie gradually became its leader.

### The Koifolk

Years later, on another trip with Hash and Gadget, they discovered the remains of a destroyed city with no inhabitants to be found. Nearby, they heard two small children crying in a small hole beneath a rock. Ellie was the only one small enough to crawl inside and coax the children out, which was distressing due to her claustrophobia. They took the children home and Ellie and Fawn decided to adopt them. The kids were just barely old enough to tell them their names, Tancho and Jade.

### Change

One day Fawn, Ellie, and their kids were visiting a small pond near The Warren for fun. The wives rested on the bank and kept an eye on their children as they spread to different areas to have their own adventures. But then Bullseye called out to his mothers because he saw that Tancho had swam underwater and gotten snagged by a sunken branch. Ellie quickly leapt into the water and freed her daughter, and thankfully Tancho woke up once she was out of the water; however, everyone was surprised to see that the ordeal had caused Tancho to mutate, sprouting a set of fish gills under her jawbone.

The family embraced Tancho's new mutation (she was the second to mutate after Kipper, who grew horns) and over the following months the extent of her mutation progressed. Tancho eventually had a scaly fish tail where her rabbit tail used to be. Her fish gills became fully functional, but at the gradual detriment of her air-breathing abilities. (To be continued...)

At some point in the future, Ellie and Fawn adopt Emira.

## Alternate Universes

### Zombie Apocalypse

The Zombie Apocalypse universe involves an outbreak that turns lagos into zombies when they are bitten. Ellie joins a small group that tries to rescue a child being guarded by an infected and mutated Medusa. They are able to save the child, who is later named Bolt, but Ellie is bitten by Medusa and has to be abandoned. An infected Ellie eventually makes her way back to The Warren, where she is captured and kept in a small pit in the hopes that a cure will someday be found.

### Evil El

In this universe, Ellie has lost her way and became an unjust leader with power reaching beyond The Warren. El came to believe that their world was too dangerous and that the only way to fix it is to enforce rules and punish criminals without remorse. These views began when Fawn died from an illness, and grew when Fawn's sister Washer and her family went missing after their village was ravaged by rabid carnis. El's influence grew and she helped further unite cities for communication and trade, but at the expense of many. She was initially protected by Wood and would threaten to stop helping her partner Sprocket, who is more greatly wounded in this universe, in order to make Wood do her bidding. She is currently guarded by Desdemona, but some lagos are plotting to overthrow her. In this universe she wears robes and a golden hoop earring.

Ellie in the Evil El AU
### Mutation

Ellie never mutates, but an in an alternate universe where she does, she has goat legs and horns.

## Trivia

* Ellie is claustrophobic and is also afraid of wind storms.
* Ellie likes to sing sea shanties.
* She is an excellent swimmer
* During her pirate years she had a gold hoop earring in her left ear.
* The height of her initial design was 2'11"- now she is a whopping 3'6"