Lise Lovelace

Lise Lovelace (Lee-ze Love-lass) is a minor Antagonist in Monument 14 'Brambly Boundaries'. Lise is a Physics Major on year 3 of her 5 year Physics course as well as the head of the Science club and one of the 8 prefects in Brien Academy.

Lise is sought out to protect information regarding Sathariel within Brien Academy but shows little loyalty. She agrees in return for funding for her Graded Unit project. She has to fulfil this promise when the protagonists go searching for Sathariel but is ultimately defeated.

## Appearance

Lise Lovelace stands at 155cm or 5'0" and is considered to be attractive by her peers. She has long grey hair and yellow eyes which turn green upon activating 'Splitting Atoms'. She wears glasses and the Brien Academy prefect uniform with a lab coat draped over it.

## Personality

Lise is a stoic and stubborn girl with a keen fascination with Chemistry and Physics. Lise dismisses most other pursuits calling art 'pointless' and likening business majors to 'preparing to run in a Hamster wheel for the rest of your life.'.

She spends most of her time alone, saying that she prefers to work alone and sees fellow science students as competition rather than peers. Lise's pragmatic and anti-social outlook on other people means that she maintains little to no social contacts and was able to morally be fine with helping Sathariel if it meant that her project would be finished.

## Splitting Atoms

Splitting Atoms manifests itself as the top half of a mechanical humanoid. SA's main body resembles a Nuclear coolant reactor with a pattern of Radiation Symbols wrapped around it, sandwiching the word 'CAUTION'. SA's arms appear as mechanical, piston-like appendages with no hands but are wrapped with glowing green rods, resembling Uranium rods. SA's head floats above its body, with a central core followed by several small orbs orbiting its head, resembling the model for a Uranium Atom and its orbiting electrons.

Splitting Atoms, like other Brien contracts was manifested by its contractor and as such has no control ratio.

Splitting Atoms' ability is to perform Fission on a large scale.

Splitting Atoms can separate a large object into two halves with energy flying out in a cone as 'shrapnel' from the resulting explosion. The resulting 'shrapnel', which Lise describes as being like 'Neutrons' are super-heated and can penetrate most materials though fizzle out after 50 metres of travelling. Lise cannot control the movement path of the 'Neutrons' but she can choose whether or not they will damage something by setting a fixed distance before they fizzle out by calculating the object's location relative to others she doesn't want damaged. SA's fission cannot move objects with its 'explosion'.

Splitting Atoms second ability activates as a radius around herself as far as 3 metres. Within this radius, subjects who have not been exempt by Lise will experience an intense sensation of radiation sickness.

The combination of Lise' long ranged ability alongside her second ability makes her a deadly opponent, but her reluctance to violence shows her using Splitting Atoms fairly rarely.

## Trivia

* Lise Lovelace's name is derived from Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish Physicist who contributed to the discovery of Nuclear Fission, and Ada Lovelace, an English Countess and Mathematician and contributor to the Analytical Engine. Meitner's background in Physics and relation to Nuclear Fission are clearly displayed by Lise' interests and Splitting Atoms' powers whilst Ada Lovelace is represented more by Lise' analytical nature and the calculations she needs to perform to fight with Splitting Atoms.
* Splitting Atoms is a reference to the sElf song of the same name from the 'Super Fake Nice' album.
* Lise' power may work on living animals but she concludes that, "aside from it being a messy affair, I don't rightly know enough about Biological Structures to split them properly.". She is never seen using Splitting Atoms' fission on living animals.