Elise Defort

Elise Defort is a retiree of the DGSE (Directorate-General for External Security) and the French Military, where she moved to America and became the housekeeper and servant of the Knight Family. After the death of Will Knight's parents, Elise would become a mother figure for Will and would assist him in his efforts to fight crime in New York City and beyond.

## Biography

Elise Defort was born in the French countryside only a decade after World War II. Not much is known about Elise's early life, but what was known was that she was a remarkable student and a child prodigy. Passing school with flying colors before she went to Sorbonne University. Soon after graduating, she managed to join the French military and became an elite operative. During her time as a French operative, she went on a flurry of different missions that would traumatize her, shocked her, and hardened her mental fortitude. After 1982 when French government would install the DGSE, Elise would join the national security agency and instantly rocket through the ranks.

Elise would get married several times, not much is known about her past husbands besides the fact that she met most of them in her line of work and have a few children under them. However because of her dangerous line of work with the many terrorist groups and criminal organizations targeting Elise, Elise was forced to alienate herself from her own children and even have their backgrounds and surnames changed in order to protect them.

Eventually, Elise would meet a nice couple who traveled to France for business. The couple were Charles and Betty Knight who ran the international organization known as Knight.Corp. Elise would soon become close friends with the CEO's, she would especially become close friends with Betty Knight, to the point where the two would become like sisters to each other.

As Elise would get older, she was deemed to be unfit for service anymore, as she was soon honorably discharged from the DGSE and the French Military. She was offered a position to become a drill instructor and teach the next generation of soldiers, however she refused and decided to become a housekeeper for the Knight estate and decide to have a much more relaxing and carefree career.

However, years later an incident would occur as several men with guns broke into Knight Manor and murder Charles and Betty Knight, only leaving their son Will as the sole survivor of the Knight family. At that moment something would happen to Will as his powers would manifest and out of pure rage, he would slaughter all the gunmen in the house. After the carnage and chaos the police would show up as Elise would promise a traumatized Will that she would never leave his side.

Will would later on dedicate his life to fighting crime, utilizing all the skills and technology he needs in order to wage a one man war against crime. He would soon take up the superhero identity of DragonMan while Elise would assist in his effort to battle crime.

## Appearance

Surprisingly fit, appears like a 50-60 year old, bundled

up white hair, blue eyes, average black housekeeping uniform

## Personality

After the murder of Will's parents, Elise would act as a surrogate mother and dedicate her life to assisting and protecting Will. Even willing to sacrifice her own life to protect his. Elise is usually very professional and friendly, at her old age she has met a slew of different types of people and knows exactly what to say and how to interact with them. As an ex-French operative she is talented at reading people and getting whatever information she needs out of people. Usually she always tries to get information in a much more friendly way, getting on another persons level and talking to them rather then using straight up manipulation.

## Trivia

-Elise Defort was based off of Alfred Pennyworth from DC Comics.

-Elise Defort is also based off of Monique Dupre from Godzilla The Animated Series.