Elena Tharmy

#### Early Life

She was born in the Tuscun Republic to Yulissa Poczi and Rameriz Jancho. They agreed on the last name Tharmy 3 weeks after childbirth. Most her of her childhood was unexceptional until the age of 6. She had been growing up in the large town of Solvia, a inland town that survived mostly on its silk trade and black market vendors that were able to hook itself into the town guard. Rameriz Jancho found his living as one of the corrupt guardsmen, keeping illegal goods flowing smoothly and making sure any arrested smugglers were let out early. His standard of no favouritism towards any group as long as they payed him didn't keep him with many friends however. He was murdered by an unknown assailant and the group responsible had never been found out.

Yulissa Poczi was not just talentless but also irresponsible. Once the money that Rameriz stocked up finally started to trickle away through alcohol, gambling and frivolous odd goods and clothing she abandoned her child and house quickly to return to the Hussar Common Kingdoms with her family. For someone so young in the Tuscun Republic there are only a few options for survival. Attempting to find a spot in the overcrowded government orphanages, becoming a beggar, joining a cartel or gang, smuggling goods or you were picked up by the notorious Tuscun Assassins.

#### Tuscun Assassins

She was scouted by Basilisk, one of the most senior members who held a great influence in the assassination group. He found her surviving off nothing but scraps and rats in what he assumed was a rundown house her family had used to own. She was nothing special in way of skills or talent but she showed a hardiness and survivability that was hard to come by in regular people. In his eyes it was easier to breed killers from people who had nothing but their life left than trying to train someone with an attachment to things like family, loyalty or possessions. This girl could easily be taught and trained to detach themselves from anything other than the mission.

He took the young girl in and brought her to the store that he and his brothers and sisters of the Tuscun Assassins used as a base in Solvia. Here he introduced her to the most important members he needed for her training, Hare and Owl so that she could learn the ways of murder and how to get away with it. Bear and Lion to have her become stronger so she would actually have the power to do so. And lastly Wolf so she could become a hunter of men no matter where they might hide.

It was here that he learnt that he had his hands on something special. She was a genius, not in murder of anything educational but she picked up any type of combat you threw at her nearly instantly. After having her practise for a few hours she could perfect and polish a technique, if you threw an off attack or trick at her it'd only work once before she remembered it and locked it away somewhere deep in her brain. Not even Elena could tell you how she knew or even what she specifically had learnt.

She was an absolute failure in the advanced classes of assassination, things like seduction, verbal manipulation and poison brewing were a total flop in getting her to learn. She did however display a rather believable and very unique style of masking her behaviour. She acted in seemingly random and ignorant ways to drop the guard of the people she made contact with. The idea that she was a pig headed and as strong as a bull really fit a persona that hid her actual identity well.

It was when she turned 10 she was not only given her title as Ox but her mask and tattoo also. Finally becoming a member of the Tuscun Assassins.

After this she followed through with many contracts both minor and high-value. She also engaged in more physically demanding and intimidating jobs like physical blackmail, bodyguard work and counter-assassination.

### Personality

Elena acts in a manner that seems light-hearted and completely ignorant or uneducated individual, she comes off as being quite gullible and completely clueless about her own actions or the actions of others. In the same vein of most Assassins this is one of her main forms of lowering the guard of enemies or potential targets.

In reality she is a strong-headed and violent individual who prefers to tackle her missions head on using physical techniques coupled with confusing words and actions to throw others off her true goals.

She is a first and foremost anti-government revolutionary and despises control from others, which is what led to her turning against the Tuscun Assassins. Her charisma and charm are completely lacking which denies her the possibility of becoming a proper ringleader however.

### Appearance

She is a young lady with short blonde hair and green eyes. Her muscles are overdeveloped but she is a head shorter than most adult men. She has tattoos covering most of her abdomen and back.

Before her betrayal of the Tuscun Assassins she was usually seen wearing the famous mask of the Ox signifying her as one of the strongest members of the organization. She also wore a tanned leather jacket and trousers. Afterwards she was almost always seen in only a tank top and a pair of ragged leather pants.

Her tattoos include:

* A depiction of a decapitated, bruised and bleeding ox head which she was given during her initiation to the Tuscun Assassins as a child, this is located on her upper back.
* The words "Dziri czecze" which is Bidra Kalenhos (The native language of the Hussar people) for 'Play your part'. The saying is commonly used by Hussar Royalists as a term meant that commoners should accept their role in life, this tattoo is located in small writing under her left breast.
* A bastard sword etched with 'IX'. She was awarded this after killing Prince Harold the IX of Britannia. This is on her back along with a list of similar tattoos awarded for killing high-value targets.
* On the left side of her abdomen is an orient lady in traditional white makeup mouth agasp as the bottom of her body is on fire. She has never commented on the meaning of it but most have assumed it is to do with the Ninin Islands' revolts against Hue-Gon which ended in the burning of the centuries old Red Palace.
* A small girl in a simple silk dress with a large tree branch extruding from the back of her head. The branch is covered in blooming flowers and a blue bird sits on the end of it. This is located under her belly button. This is a reference to the culling of the Ethnie by the people of Acre and Elin.

## Quotes

* *"Assassins, nobles, politicians, knights, merchants, whoever. They all try and control each other like domesticated animals one way or another. I've had enough of people telling me how I should act or what I should do, if chaos is freedom than I'll kill people until I get chaos wherever I go..."*
* *"They say you can only leave the Assassins through a coffin, too bad for them they didn't specify which one of us would be ending up in it."*
* *"I'm simple because I'm an idiot. I work with what I've got and all that is, is a lot of ways to hit someone. My beliefs are just what I follow because I can't understand what everyone else seems to understand. I'm a person not a doormat, I don't like a small armed baby of a noble telling me to pay him just because I'm alive in 'his' land."*
* *"The day has eyes and the night possess ears. In the end it doesn't matter if they had an eagle's eye or a bat's ear, I'd smash them into a pulp either way."*
* *"I don't hate or despise those that are weak by any means. I only wish that the people who choose to stay weak with every chance they get, have to die a horrid death. Some people only get one chance at greatness, how can nobles with all the power in the world still be forgotten by history?"*