Elijah Gunvald

Elijah Gunvald is a lieutenant in Team Cthulu.

## Background

Elijah first came up during a conversation between Bernhardt Gunvald and Lisa Corven. Lisa was unhappy to hear that Elijah would be present.

Elijah's first appearance was following the introductory class to Ethics and Social Responsibility at R&X University. Elijah wished MC, Liz and Amber luck in the upcoming debate, and revealed that he was one who volunteered to protect the twins from the twin snatcher. Depending on MC's reputation, he will either express appreciation for his work, or frustration at H.E.R.O.'s insistence on protecting him from the consequences of his actions.

At some point after his first meeting with MC, Elijah is seem at the library, where he chews out some new agents for disrespecting Henri.

Elijah later showed up after MC encountered a scared H.E.R.O. agent who refused to fight a monster. He is glad if MC helps her, and upset if he tries to force her to fight, even going so far as to threaten him if he ever does anything like that again. His responses differ slightly depending on his previous interaction with MC.

MC and Elijah's teams have their debate at the next class after MC's Infiltration of S.I.N's induction ceremony. The outcome of the debate depends on whether or not MC chooses to put effort in, though Elijah will get angry with with him if he wins since doing so involves making arguments that he knows are false and relying on Elijah's inability to prove him wrong. After the debate, Elijah lets the twins know that he's been assigned to watch them 24/7.

Elijah battles against Kira Kelsey prior to the meeting regarding the Eisheth situation. It is unknown exactly how the fight ended, but he seemed to be losing the last we see of him. During the meeting, he interjects to let MC know that he is adopted when Bernhardt introduces him as his son, and admonishes Kira when she seems more concerned about hunting the monster for sport then protecting people.

## Powers and Abilities

### **General Superhuman Abilities**

As a level 5 superhuman Elijah possesses an incredible amount of strength, speed and durability. His exact physical abilities are unknown, but he does seem to struggle in close quarters against Kira.

### Level five Abilities

Elijah's power allows the manipulation of elastic collisions, as well as the mitigation or amplification of kinetic energy. This allows him to nullify the transfer of energy between any object and the thing that it collides with. This also magnifies the energy already contained within the object. This power can be used offensively or defensively, turning an object into a lethal missile, or Elijah can use Bounce on himself to reduce the power of a strike he takes.

The power does have a weakness in that it only effects the transference of kinetic energy. Other types of energy are still capable of effecting Elijah if he attempts to use it defensively.

Elijah is able to infuse the metal balls on his belt with energy. Once thrown, the balls are able to bounce like rubber off of inanimate objects to gain momentum before crashing into their opponent with all of their force.

### Orbital Comet

When rapidly bouncing an orb between his hands it will generate a large amount of force which even he struggles to maintain even with both of his palms coated in his power. When he claps his hands together and shoving them forward the orb is released towards the ground and then bouncing towards its target.

This attack gained him a lot of recognition among the other lieutenants and even his father who doesn't think highly of Elijah gained some respect for his son due to this powerful attack.

### Equipment

Being a lieutenant, Elijah gets custom equipment designed to augment is powers. All the pieces are custom designed by Bramon Xanthe. He has received the following equipment:

## Relationships

### Team Cthulhu

Bernhardt doesn't think very highly of his son, calling him a "Limp wristed coward". Elijah has not yet made his opinion on his father known, but it's likely negative due to their differing views on heroism and government regulation of H.E.R.O. Lisa and Kira don't seem to like him very much either, with Kira in particular insulting him multiple times throughout their parring match and the subsequent meeting. Henri seems largely indifferent to him.

### Team Lucifer

Malik Drexel seems to think highly of Elijah, and hopes that his goodness will rub off on his father. Elijah seems to like Malik as well, though his muttering during his first encounter with MC suggest that he finds his dedication to heroism lacking sometimes. He is also friends with Clark Cabellero, viewing him as one of the few true heroes in their organization.

### MC

Depending on MC's actions, Elijah can view him as another true hero, or a symptom of the corruption within H.E.R.O.

## Trivia

* Bernhardt Gunvald adopted Elijah although the reason is unknown.
* During the fight with Eisheth Elijah was repeatedly knocked away in a pose that was very similar to the one to the Dragonball character Yamcha when he was killed by a Saibamen although its unconfirmed if this is a reference or a simple coincidence.