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IC Information:
Name: Preincarnation name: Euphemia li Britannia
Reincarnation name: Elizabeth Victoria Bishop
Canon: Code Geass
Age: 16 at time of death in previous incarnation, 18 now.
Preincarnation Appearance: Right here.
Any differences: Not particularly, since her first echo turned her hair pink again.
Preincarnated History: Euphemia li Britannia was born to the royal family as Third Princess. Her childhood was spent between court life and vacationing at the Imperial Villa, and for the most part it was a relatively peaceful and sheltered existence. That is not to say her life was untouched by tragedy. Even in the most innocent period of her life, she was surrounded by the calamities that would one day take shape and rule the remainder of her time in the world. From the politics of the time to the budding crimes of her father, all the way to the positions of power that would one day drive her distant from her dearest siblings, the path carved out before her was set before she was even conceived.
The first blow, perhaps, was the assassination of Empress Marianne, Lelouch and Nunnally's mother. Euphemia never witnessed any of this, only learned later that the woman she had looked up to so much as a child had been murdered, but it shook her deeply all the same. In her little girl eyes, Marianne had been so incredible, so strong and invincible and everything that Euphemia wanted to be when she was grown that the world became all at once a very senseless place. It was also the first time Euphemia had to face the idea that people were alive and would someday die. She followed her sister Cornelia like a shadow for weeks after, taking solace in her sister's seemingly unshakable strength. For as long as Euphemia remembers and without question, Cornelia has always been her closest, most beloved sibling even though they no longer always see eye to eye on some matters.
Not long after this, something happened within the royal family that struck a little closer to home for Euphemia. Her playmates and dear siblings Lelouch and Nunnally vanished overnight, and Euphemia was led to believe that they were deceased as well. Lelouch had always been close to her as they were the closest in age of all the royal family, and with Euphemia's fondness for his mother they had spent a great deal of time together. Nunnally, too, she loved for her half-sister's sweet disposition and gentle heart. To lose them so soon after their mother left Euphemia a little quiet and skittish, but with the support of Cornelia she lived through it as well.
Then time passed. Her remaining siblings grew up. Schneizel, Cornelia, and Clovis all became deeply involved in the politics of war, of conquest. They were still close, but Euphemia found it increasingly harder to relate to them. In memory of Lelouch and Nunnally's slain mother, of Lelouch's ideals and Nunnally's gentle soul, Euphemia did not believe in resolving things through war and did not find her nation's constant quest for power to be a noble one. She thought they had land and power enough to sustain a very high standard of living for their people, so there was simply no need to continue to expand and dominate. Unfortunately, she was alone in this.
When her brother Clovis died governing Area 11, Euphemia was filled with a grim sense of reality and unease. Her feelings conflicted with themselves. She was aware that her precious, baby-faced brother had turned out to be a less than virtuous person. The older the two of them grew, the harder it was to hold a conversation with him. She was grieved all the same, mourning deeply the boy he had once been. He was so young when he died, and she'd let herself have the hope that he might have grown out of it and become the brother she had always been so fond of again. She mourned the future he would never have as well as the sudden loss of his life. Their family seemed to be getting smaller and smaller, and there didn't seem to be very much that Euphemia could do about it at all. Once again, Cornelia was there for her. They remembered the Villa together, and promised each other to rebuild Area 11 for all of their fallen siblings.
Life settled down for a while, with Euphemia grudgingly performing her duties as Third Princess while learning near voraciously about the world, about politics and science and engineering. She was a bit of a loose cannon for a princess, always sneaking out to get a better grasp of the world around her. It was on one of these escapades that she met the man who would radically change her life just for being a part of it.
Suzaku Kururugi was more than a close friend to Euphie after their fateful (fate=gravity) meeting; he was a reason for living. Just being with him and talking to him inspired her. Seeing him made her not only want to make the world a better place, it made her feel that she really could. That together, they could change everything. Somehow. Such was the magic of budding love. She took it upon herself to stand beside him, to help lift him up and encourage him to keep going, to never give up. In one of her first bold moves as a Princess, she made Suzaku into her Knight, the first Honorary Britannian to ever be granted the title. She wanted to offer him the whole world, in time.
Somewhere in all of this, the terrorist Zero had made a name for himself and was leading an insurgence against the Britannian Empire. At one point, his Order of Black Knights took her hostage of a building she was in, and after drawing attention to herself to get the guards to leave another girl alone, she has a brief meeting with the notorious terrorist himself. Something about the way he treated her, gun-waving aside, something about the way he spoke and those dramatic gestures and stance reminded her of... something. Something she would not quite place until after he left her again.
For a while, she followed Zero's movements, both through the media and through innocently interrogating her siblings when she came across them. At the same time, she delved into their shut-away past, remembering how abruptly Lelouch and Nunnally had disappeared, and how the caskets they had buried for them had been empty. It did not take her long to connect the dots, though she had no solid proof of anything. Knowing she had to be cautious for all of their sakes, she let the story continue to unfold before her.
It was when she became abruptly stranded on an uninhabited island with Zero during some fiasco or another (her life had become more prone to these after meeting Suzaku) that she finally got her proof that Zero was, in fact, her long lost half-brother. She asked him right off and he answered her honestly, making their reunion a relatively joyous and peaceful one. What little time they spent on the island was reminiscent of their childhood together and left Euphemia wishing that they could return to that innocent time.
Upon their safe return, Lelouch returned to being 'deceased'/Zero, Suzaku resigned as her Knight out of shame for his actions that had led to them being stranded on the island, and Euphemia returned to pretending she knew nothing of anything, feeling as though she had been forced back from all the progress she had made. It was somewhere in the midst of this discontent, trying to work out what she could do next to possibly make things better again, that she managed to come to terms with her feelings for Suzaku as well as hatch the idea for the Special Administrative Zone of Japan where a step towards equality could begin. This she joyously announced at Ashford Academy's annual school festival, and from then on her life was a fast-track flurry of accomplishing this bold feat.
Unfortunately, her dreams would never come to fruition. Carelessness on Lelouch's part while they discussed her decision cased her to succumb to a Geass to kill all of the Japanese, and the ceremony ended in massive casualties when she opened fire on the gathered crowd. When Lelouch adapted his slip into a master plan, she became a part of the collateral damage caused by his ideals and died after sustaining a fatal gunshot from him. Subsequently she was assigned blame for all the damage she unwillingly caused, given the title of 'massacre princess', and went down as a black stain in the history of the royal family.
Reincarnated History This time around, Euphemia was born as Elizabeth Victoria Bishop, daughter of an wildly successful, self-made businessman. Her father has had his hands in everything from toy manufacturing to real estate to oil, and at this present moment in time he owns a large chain of hotels all along the West Coast of the United States. Elizabeth's mother died when she was very young, and her father is the kind of man who is incredibly ruthless in everything he does. He's caused no small amount of misery for the world in his career, crushing his competition and making whatever cuts are necessary to bolster his bottom line. On some level Elizabeth has always understood that what her father was doing was wrong, but at the same time he's also always been kind and devoted to her. As such, she's always felt very torn as far as her feelings on her father and what he does goes.
For the first few years of her life, Elizabeth felt unquestionably like a princess. She had everything she could ever want and then some. She had no shortage of friends buzzing about her, and she always went to the very best schools wearing the very best clothes, dropped off in the very best cars. Still, even at that age she could sense some strange hollowness in her seemingly perfect life. She tried to fill that void by focusing on her studies, becoming a favorite of her teachers on top of everything else. And yet that emptiness stayed.
When she was in the 6th grade, she first learned what social activism was and it was something that struck a chord in her. Before long she was petitioning for a club to promote human rights and helping those less fortunate. By the 7th grade she was spending her time after school doing volunteer work and community service. Her father thought that sort of thing was beneath his daughter, but she was a willful child who knew just how to appeal to her father in the right way to get him to relent.
When she was in 8th grade, she first realized that a large part of her father's empire was built on the backs of undocumented workers, and it mortified her. Considering the truly charmed life she'd been allowed to lead, the idea that she'd lived so well at the expense of others shocked and horrified her. The few conversations she tried to have with her father on those grounds didn't go well at all, and he forbade her from ever bringing it up again.
Elizabeth still loved her father in spite of his flaws, because learning that he was taking advantage of the less fortunate didn't negate the fact that he was her father and all the good things he had done for her growing up. And yet she couldn't turn a blind eye on this. People were getting hurt. For that reason, she decided she would become an immigration lawyer and try to help whoever she could. If she couldn't change her father, she would just have to change the systems enabling her father to do what he was doing.
Presently she's in her first year at college, where she intends to get an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering purely because it interests her. She does a great deal of volunteer work and human rights campaigning on the side, and her plans are to apply to law school after graduation in order to get that degree in immigration law.
Prior game history: Once becoming a part of the numbered people within the city, Elizabeth took a very active role trying to organize and empower those among their ranks. She forged friendships, traded information, and investigated what she could of the strange happenings to the best of her resources and abilities. Her most notable relationships were that of her ones with Jack Sears, who she housed for a time while he was in hiding from authorities, Aaron Strider who she regarded with awe and respect for his medical practice, and Casval Mass who near instantly stole her breath away with his bravery and conviction. Friendships she fostered with those more her age were with Hajime Fujisai, Banagher Links, and Brendan Blake.
She was still very much involved and invested in the resistance efforts when her father abruptly summoned her home, taking her with him on an extended business trip to Europe. He had her take a year off school in hope of changing her mind about taking over his sprawling corporate empire after him. He was largely unsuccessful in this, and although Elizabeth won't be resuming classes until the fall, she's returned to Locke to get her lease in order for her coming school year. Only she'll be getting a lot more to put in order than she bargained for when she steps off that plane.
First Echo: Not long ago one of her classmates sarcastically addressed her as 'Princess' after learning who her father was and bullied her a little over it, after which she spent a while in the bathroom feeling upset. By the time she came back out, her hair had turned entirely bright, bubblegum pink. With no idea what to make of it or what to do, she's just been telling people she wanted a change of pace and has been dying her formerly blonde hair pink.
1st Echo- She was bullied by some kid and her hair turned pink.
2nd Echo- After fondling the statue in the Dead District, she regained the memory of the Britannian flag.
3rd Echo- Captain Casval Mass delivered a fairly touching oath to her, after which she gained back the knight badge which once belonged to Suzaku.
4th Echo- Fighting werewolves gave her a brief memory of camping with Lelouch.
5th Echo- Spending time at the museum returned her memory of having to select a winning painting for a gallery, as well as being addressed as 'princess.'
Preincarnation Personality: Euphemia comes off as a very simple person upon first meeting. She is cheerful and good natured, even-tempered and forgiving, and she possesses the grace and constitution expected of a person of her status. Especially next to her siblings, she seems complacent, almost demure. Because of all this, because she smiles readily and speaks of idealistic, almost naive things, many take her for a docile puppet princess. In that, they are terribly mistaken. However she may seem, Euphemia is a deeply complex character who is torn between politics, familial loyalties, her own beliefs, and her dreams for the future.
As a princess of the Britannian Empire, it is difficult for Euphemia to express herself as a person. There are many things expected of her, most of which she is helpless but to fulfill. Where her sister Cornelia and brother Schneizel are able and willing to act on the battlefield, Euphemia's nature lends her to a more reserved approach to her royal duties. This has left her with the most figurehead of political acts, mostly in the realm of petty ceremonies where her hand is guided. Though she has always accepted these acts as part of her responsibilities as the Third Princess, she has become increasingly dissatisfied with her role in the world around her.
Meeting Suzaku was likely the catalyst for all this, but her feelings of discontent have been a long way coming. There is a part of her that has never grown up, that has remained suspended in her memories her childhood spent with her siblings back at the Imperial Villa. It was a peaceful time in all of their lives, and she has never stopped longing to be able to return to it. The innocence in those memories is an integral part of her, and it is the very foundation of her idealistic beliefs. It is not that she does not understand the discrimination in the world, but that she refuses to reinforce the idea by putting stock in it. In her refusal to justify the injustices in the world, she does her best not to let it come between her and her choices. She can see very clearly why she is supposed to pick the painting done by the noble's son, but she refuses to accept that it is the right thing to do. She understands all of the risks involved in making Suzaku her Knight, she simply refuses to let them stop her.
The air of delicacy she carries around her is deceptive, as Euphemia is an extremely strong-willed, fearless, and resourceful person. She is much more intelligent and more insightful than most people give her credit for, and she has always been keenly interested in her studies. It is because her approach to things is rather unorthodox that these traits about her easy to miss. She has a very passive approach to bettering the her own life and that of those around her, but she is nonetheless unmovable in what she decides to do.
Despite her circumstances and status nearly suffocating her at every turn, Euphemia is still a deeply loving, optimistic person. That, too, comes with the innocence that her dearest memories lend her. She cares very much for her all of her siblings, especially her dear sister Cornelia and even her estranged half-siblings, Lelouch and Nunnally. She believes with all her heart that the world can be changed without violence, and that there is good in the royal family and the power they possess that only needs help to be brought out.
Any differences: By and large Elizabeth is the same person now that she was then. She is slightly less mature at 18 than she was at 16 before, but that's because she's led a far more pressure free life without having to be at all times away that she is a public figurehead and global politics rest in some part on her shoulders. This time around her problems are much smaller scale and the odds seem far less daunting, so she's yet to be truly tested as in her previous incarnation. Elizabeth is still able to live in the innocence of her childhood, holding on to her fondness for her father in spite of the skeletons in his closet that have come to light. She still believes with all her heart that no person is irredeemably evil, that every single soul has the infinite possibility to do good in the world, and that those possibilities never die. They just get forgotten.
For Elizabeth, the largest difference between her then and her now is her relative isolation from the rest of the world. She has no siblings to long after, and that feeling has been replaced with a more general sense of longing for connection. She also has never met Suzaku or anyone like him in this life, so everything she is at the moment is self-motivated. Although she's someone who is very self-reliant and strong-willed, the kind of person who always thinks for herself, she's definitely not used to existing in a void. In fact, she finds herself that much dependent on her father for emotional support since he's literally all he has at this point in her life.
She's also in the middle of a rebellious phase right now that's slightly less than purely for the betterment of the world. One thing she missed out on in her previous life that she regretted to her grave was never getting to have a normal school life, and right now she's in her freshman year of college. She's determined to get the most out of it, so she's guiltily taken on a few less than academic extracurricular activities. She also purposefully applied to a school across the country from her father to stretch her legs a little bit in an attempt to be independent. She lives on campus, is taking a cooking class, and generally trying her best at having a hand at resembling 'normal' for a year or two before devoting her life to giving back to the world for everything it's given her.
Of course, then her hair turned pink.
Abilities: Euphemia can play a decent hand at chess thanks to something in between her older siblings doting on her and being a middle child struggling to shine. She's also a fairly passionate public speaker, has a good handle on politics, and can forage for food in a pinch. Her survival skills when stranded are fairly top-notch considering her upbringing. She can also handle the kickback on a semi-automatic weapon and pilot mecha, but is moot on supernatural and superhuman feats.
Roleplay Sample – Third Person:
If she didn't leave the bathroom soon, she was going to be late for her next class. Sighing, Elizabeth hugged herself and tried to sternly scold herself into shape, telling herself that this was no way for a college student to be acting. It was just one immature kid, and it wasn't like she'd never heard that joke anymore. She fought down the urge to call her father, since he was likely busy anyway and it'd been her decision to go away to college. She wasn't going to turn her back on all that now. He might tell her to come home, to transfer to a closer university. Shaking her head, she pulled her shoulders back and straightened her back, exiting the bathroom with measured, confident strides.
She could do this. She'd underestimated how hard being this far from home could be, sure, but she could definitely still do this. And for all the potential hardships, there were just as many amazing opportunities for her here. She couldn't lose sight of all the exciting flyers she saw on the many bulletin boards that were scattered through the school buildings just because she let herself get emotional over something so little. She walked right on over to the sinks and went to wash her face, wondering if all that trying not to cry had turned her nose red like it always would when she was a little girl.
"...what on earth...?" she gasped aloud when she peered into the mirror at her reflection. Her hands went up to her hair, feeling through the individual strands.
Was it the lighting in here? No, a glance overhead showed the same fluorescent lights that's in every campus bathroom, so there was no reason her hair should look so pink. And it wasn't like it could be someone's idea of a joke. She'd come in here with the same blonde hair as always. In the midst of her puzzlement, she caught sight of the reflection of the clock in the mirror and--
"Oh no!"
She was late for class! She'd have to think on it later. For now, she grabbed her backpack and ran out the bathroom before her professor marked her as absent.
Roleplay Sample - Network:
[audio]
Hello, everyone! This is Elizabeth, Elizabeth Bishop! I thought it might be beneficial for all of us to have some kind of central intelligence database, a sort of compilation of everything we individually know so that we might cross-reference it and begin to search for patterns.
Of course, this is a daunting and risky task all things considered. However, I believe the risks are well worth what we could learn, provided we entrust this project in the right hands.
I am willing to submit my background for your consideration as someone to spearhead the project, but of course if there is a better candidate I would be more than fine stepping down. It doesn't matter to me who does this, as long as it gets done.
I have a few preliminary drafts on different data systems for consideration also, and if anyone has any experience in information security please let me know!
This must be very confusing for everyone involved, and it's more important now than ever that we help one another.
Aside from this project, if anyone needs anything that I can help with, please just let me know.
Thank you all for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you!
Any Questions? I was wondering what kind of extensive relationship you need to have with an object before it can be considered something you get as an echo. Specifically I'd be really interested in getting her a Knightmare frame eventually (mechs in Code Geass) but she never has one of her own. She does on several occasion pilot the mass-produced models, however, so would that be enough connection for her to get that back in bits and pieces? Thank you!
Name: Liv
Are you over 15? Yep.
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IC Information:
Name: Preincarnation name: Euphemia li Britannia
Reincarnation name: Elizabeth Victoria Bishop
Canon: Code Geass
Age: 16 at time of death in previous incarnation, 18 now.
Preincarnation Appearance: Right here.
Any differences: Not particularly, since her first echo turned her hair pink again.
Preincarnated History: Euphemia li Britannia was born to the royal family as Third Princess. Her childhood was spent between court life and vacationing at the Imperial Villa, and for the most part it was a relatively peaceful and sheltered existence. That is not to say her life was untouched by tragedy. Even in the most innocent period of her life, she was surrounded by the calamities that would one day take shape and rule the remainder of her time in the world. From the politics of the time to the budding crimes of her father, all the way to the positions of power that would one day drive her distant from her dearest siblings, the path carved out before her was set before she was even conceived.
The first blow, perhaps, was the assassination of Empress Marianne, Lelouch and Nunnally's mother. Euphemia never witnessed any of this, only learned later that the woman she had looked up to so much as a child had been murdered, but it shook her deeply all the same. In her little girl eyes, Marianne had been so incredible, so strong and invincible and everything that Euphemia wanted to be when she was grown that the world became all at once a very senseless place. It was also the first time Euphemia had to face the idea that people were alive and would someday die. She followed her sister Cornelia like a shadow for weeks after, taking solace in her sister's seemingly unshakable strength. For as long as Euphemia remembers and without question, Cornelia has always been her closest, most beloved sibling even though they no longer always see eye to eye on some matters.
Not long after this, something happened within the royal family that struck a little closer to home for Euphemia. Her playmates and dear siblings Lelouch and Nunnally vanished overnight, and Euphemia was led to believe that they were deceased as well. Lelouch had always been close to her as they were the closest in age of all the royal family, and with Euphemia's fondness for his mother they had spent a great deal of time together. Nunnally, too, she loved for her half-sister's sweet disposition and gentle heart. To lose them so soon after their mother left Euphemia a little quiet and skittish, but with the support of Cornelia she lived through it as well.
Then time passed. Her remaining siblings grew up. Schneizel, Cornelia, and Clovis all became deeply involved in the politics of war, of conquest. They were still close, but Euphemia found it increasingly harder to relate to them. In memory of Lelouch and Nunnally's slain mother, of Lelouch's ideals and Nunnally's gentle soul, Euphemia did not believe in resolving things through war and did not find her nation's constant quest for power to be a noble one. She thought they had land and power enough to sustain a very high standard of living for their people, so there was simply no need to continue to expand and dominate. Unfortunately, she was alone in this.
When her brother Clovis died governing Area 11, Euphemia was filled with a grim sense of reality and unease. Her feelings conflicted with themselves. She was aware that her precious, baby-faced brother had turned out to be a less than virtuous person. The older the two of them grew, the harder it was to hold a conversation with him. She was grieved all the same, mourning deeply the boy he had once been. He was so young when he died, and she'd let herself have the hope that he might have grown out of it and become the brother she had always been so fond of again. She mourned the future he would never have as well as the sudden loss of his life. Their family seemed to be getting smaller and smaller, and there didn't seem to be very much that Euphemia could do about it at all. Once again, Cornelia was there for her. They remembered the Villa together, and promised each other to rebuild Area 11 for all of their fallen siblings.
Life settled down for a while, with Euphemia grudgingly performing her duties as Third Princess while learning near voraciously about the world, about politics and science and engineering. She was a bit of a loose cannon for a princess, always sneaking out to get a better grasp of the world around her. It was on one of these escapades that she met the man who would radically change her life just for being a part of it.
Suzaku Kururugi was more than a close friend to Euphie after their fateful (fate=gravity) meeting; he was a reason for living. Just being with him and talking to him inspired her. Seeing him made her not only want to make the world a better place, it made her feel that she really could. That together, they could change everything. Somehow. Such was the magic of budding love. She took it upon herself to stand beside him, to help lift him up and encourage him to keep going, to never give up. In one of her first bold moves as a Princess, she made Suzaku into her Knight, the first Honorary Britannian to ever be granted the title. She wanted to offer him the whole world, in time.
Somewhere in all of this, the terrorist Zero had made a name for himself and was leading an insurgence against the Britannian Empire. At one point, his Order of Black Knights took her hostage of a building she was in, and after drawing attention to herself to get the guards to leave another girl alone, she has a brief meeting with the notorious terrorist himself. Something about the way he treated her, gun-waving aside, something about the way he spoke and those dramatic gestures and stance reminded her of... something. Something she would not quite place until after he left her again.
For a while, she followed Zero's movements, both through the media and through innocently interrogating her siblings when she came across them. At the same time, she delved into their shut-away past, remembering how abruptly Lelouch and Nunnally had disappeared, and how the caskets they had buried for them had been empty. It did not take her long to connect the dots, though she had no solid proof of anything. Knowing she had to be cautious for all of their sakes, she let the story continue to unfold before her.
It was when she became abruptly stranded on an uninhabited island with Zero during some fiasco or another (her life had become more prone to these after meeting Suzaku) that she finally got her proof that Zero was, in fact, her long lost half-brother. She asked him right off and he answered her honestly, making their reunion a relatively joyous and peaceful one. What little time they spent on the island was reminiscent of their childhood together and left Euphemia wishing that they could return to that innocent time.
Upon their safe return, Lelouch returned to being 'deceased'/Zero, Suzaku resigned as her Knight out of shame for his actions that had led to them being stranded on the island, and Euphemia returned to pretending she knew nothing of anything, feeling as though she had been forced back from all the progress she had made. It was somewhere in the midst of this discontent, trying to work out what she could do next to possibly make things better again, that she managed to come to terms with her feelings for Suzaku as well as hatch the idea for the Special Administrative Zone of Japan where a step towards equality could begin. This she joyously announced at Ashford Academy's annual school festival, and from then on her life was a fast-track flurry of accomplishing this bold feat.
Unfortunately, her dreams would never come to fruition. Carelessness on Lelouch's part while they discussed her decision cased her to succumb to a Geass to kill all of the Japanese, and the ceremony ended in massive casualties when she opened fire on the gathered crowd. When Lelouch adapted his slip into a master plan, she became a part of the collateral damage caused by his ideals and died after sustaining a fatal gunshot from him. Subsequently she was assigned blame for all the damage she unwillingly caused, given the title of 'massacre princess', and went down as a black stain in the history of the royal family.
Reincarnated History This time around, Euphemia was born as Elizabeth Victoria Bishop, daughter of an wildly successful, self-made businessman. Her father has had his hands in everything from toy manufacturing to real estate to oil, and at this present moment in time he owns a large chain of hotels all along the West Coast of the United States. Elizabeth's mother died when she was very young, and her father is the kind of man who is incredibly ruthless in everything he does. He's caused no small amount of misery for the world in his career, crushing his competition and making whatever cuts are necessary to bolster his bottom line. On some level Elizabeth has always understood that what her father was doing was wrong, but at the same time he's also always been kind and devoted to her. As such, she's always felt very torn as far as her feelings on her father and what he does goes.
For the first few years of her life, Elizabeth felt unquestionably like a princess. She had everything she could ever want and then some. She had no shortage of friends buzzing about her, and she always went to the very best schools wearing the very best clothes, dropped off in the very best cars. Still, even at that age she could sense some strange hollowness in her seemingly perfect life. She tried to fill that void by focusing on her studies, becoming a favorite of her teachers on top of everything else. And yet that emptiness stayed.
When she was in the 6th grade, she first learned what social activism was and it was something that struck a chord in her. Before long she was petitioning for a club to promote human rights and helping those less fortunate. By the 7th grade she was spending her time after school doing volunteer work and community service. Her father thought that sort of thing was beneath his daughter, but she was a willful child who knew just how to appeal to her father in the right way to get him to relent.
When she was in 8th grade, she first realized that a large part of her father's empire was built on the backs of undocumented workers, and it mortified her. Considering the truly charmed life she'd been allowed to lead, the idea that she'd lived so well at the expense of others shocked and horrified her. The few conversations she tried to have with her father on those grounds didn't go well at all, and he forbade her from ever bringing it up again.
Elizabeth still loved her father in spite of his flaws, because learning that he was taking advantage of the less fortunate didn't negate the fact that he was her father and all the good things he had done for her growing up. And yet she couldn't turn a blind eye on this. People were getting hurt. For that reason, she decided she would become an immigration lawyer and try to help whoever she could. If she couldn't change her father, she would just have to change the systems enabling her father to do what he was doing.
Presently she's in her first year at college, where she intends to get an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering purely because it interests her. She does a great deal of volunteer work and human rights campaigning on the side, and her plans are to apply to law school after graduation in order to get that degree in immigration law.
Prior game history: Once becoming a part of the numbered people within the city, Elizabeth took a very active role trying to organize and empower those among their ranks. She forged friendships, traded information, and investigated what she could of the strange happenings to the best of her resources and abilities. Her most notable relationships were that of her ones with Jack Sears, who she housed for a time while he was in hiding from authorities, Aaron Strider who she regarded with awe and respect for his medical practice, and Casval Mass who near instantly stole her breath away with his bravery and conviction. Friendships she fostered with those more her age were with Hajime Fujisai, Banagher Links, and Brendan Blake.
She was still very much involved and invested in the resistance efforts when her father abruptly summoned her home, taking her with him on an extended business trip to Europe. He had her take a year off school in hope of changing her mind about taking over his sprawling corporate empire after him. He was largely unsuccessful in this, and although Elizabeth won't be resuming classes until the fall, she's returned to Locke to get her lease in order for her coming school year. Only she'll be getting a lot more to put in order than she bargained for when she steps off that plane.
First Echo: Not long ago one of her classmates sarcastically addressed her as 'Princess' after learning who her father was and bullied her a little over it, after which she spent a while in the bathroom feeling upset. By the time she came back out, her hair had turned entirely bright, bubblegum pink. With no idea what to make of it or what to do, she's just been telling people she wanted a change of pace and has been dying her formerly blonde hair pink.
1st Echo- She was bullied by some kid and her hair turned pink.
2nd Echo- After fondling the statue in the Dead District, she regained the memory of the Britannian flag.
3rd Echo- Captain Casval Mass delivered a fairly touching oath to her, after which she gained back the knight badge which once belonged to Suzaku.
4th Echo- Fighting werewolves gave her a brief memory of camping with Lelouch.
5th Echo- Spending time at the museum returned her memory of having to select a winning painting for a gallery, as well as being addressed as 'princess.'
Preincarnation Personality: Euphemia comes off as a very simple person upon first meeting. She is cheerful and good natured, even-tempered and forgiving, and she possesses the grace and constitution expected of a person of her status. Especially next to her siblings, she seems complacent, almost demure. Because of all this, because she smiles readily and speaks of idealistic, almost naive things, many take her for a docile puppet princess. In that, they are terribly mistaken. However she may seem, Euphemia is a deeply complex character who is torn between politics, familial loyalties, her own beliefs, and her dreams for the future.
As a princess of the Britannian Empire, it is difficult for Euphemia to express herself as a person. There are many things expected of her, most of which she is helpless but to fulfill. Where her sister Cornelia and brother Schneizel are able and willing to act on the battlefield, Euphemia's nature lends her to a more reserved approach to her royal duties. This has left her with the most figurehead of political acts, mostly in the realm of petty ceremonies where her hand is guided. Though she has always accepted these acts as part of her responsibilities as the Third Princess, she has become increasingly dissatisfied with her role in the world around her.
Meeting Suzaku was likely the catalyst for all this, but her feelings of discontent have been a long way coming. There is a part of her that has never grown up, that has remained suspended in her memories her childhood spent with her siblings back at the Imperial Villa. It was a peaceful time in all of their lives, and she has never stopped longing to be able to return to it. The innocence in those memories is an integral part of her, and it is the very foundation of her idealistic beliefs. It is not that she does not understand the discrimination in the world, but that she refuses to reinforce the idea by putting stock in it. In her refusal to justify the injustices in the world, she does her best not to let it come between her and her choices. She can see very clearly why she is supposed to pick the painting done by the noble's son, but she refuses to accept that it is the right thing to do. She understands all of the risks involved in making Suzaku her Knight, she simply refuses to let them stop her.
The air of delicacy she carries around her is deceptive, as Euphemia is an extremely strong-willed, fearless, and resourceful person. She is much more intelligent and more insightful than most people give her credit for, and she has always been keenly interested in her studies. It is because her approach to things is rather unorthodox that these traits about her easy to miss. She has a very passive approach to bettering the her own life and that of those around her, but she is nonetheless unmovable in what she decides to do.
Despite her circumstances and status nearly suffocating her at every turn, Euphemia is still a deeply loving, optimistic person. That, too, comes with the innocence that her dearest memories lend her. She cares very much for her all of her siblings, especially her dear sister Cornelia and even her estranged half-siblings, Lelouch and Nunnally. She believes with all her heart that the world can be changed without violence, and that there is good in the royal family and the power they possess that only needs help to be brought out.
Any differences: By and large Elizabeth is the same person now that she was then. She is slightly less mature at 18 than she was at 16 before, but that's because she's led a far more pressure free life without having to be at all times away that she is a public figurehead and global politics rest in some part on her shoulders. This time around her problems are much smaller scale and the odds seem far less daunting, so she's yet to be truly tested as in her previous incarnation. Elizabeth is still able to live in the innocence of her childhood, holding on to her fondness for her father in spite of the skeletons in his closet that have come to light. She still believes with all her heart that no person is irredeemably evil, that every single soul has the infinite possibility to do good in the world, and that those possibilities never die. They just get forgotten.
For Elizabeth, the largest difference between her then and her now is her relative isolation from the rest of the world. She has no siblings to long after, and that feeling has been replaced with a more general sense of longing for connection. She also has never met Suzaku or anyone like him in this life, so everything she is at the moment is self-motivated. Although she's someone who is very self-reliant and strong-willed, the kind of person who always thinks for herself, she's definitely not used to existing in a void. In fact, she finds herself that much dependent on her father for emotional support since he's literally all he has at this point in her life.
She's also in the middle of a rebellious phase right now that's slightly less than purely for the betterment of the world. One thing she missed out on in her previous life that she regretted to her grave was never getting to have a normal school life, and right now she's in her freshman year of college. She's determined to get the most out of it, so she's guiltily taken on a few less than academic extracurricular activities. She also purposefully applied to a school across the country from her father to stretch her legs a little bit in an attempt to be independent. She lives on campus, is taking a cooking class, and generally trying her best at having a hand at resembling 'normal' for a year or two before devoting her life to giving back to the world for everything it's given her.
Of course, then her hair turned pink.
Abilities: Euphemia can play a decent hand at chess thanks to something in between her older siblings doting on her and being a middle child struggling to shine. She's also a fairly passionate public speaker, has a good handle on politics, and can forage for food in a pinch. Her survival skills when stranded are fairly top-notch considering her upbringing. She can also handle the kickback on a semi-automatic weapon and pilot mecha, but is moot on supernatural and superhuman feats.
Roleplay Sample – Third Person:
If she didn't leave the bathroom soon, she was going to be late for her next class. Sighing, Elizabeth hugged herself and tried to sternly scold herself into shape, telling herself that this was no way for a college student to be acting. It was just one immature kid, and it wasn't like she'd never heard that joke anymore. She fought down the urge to call her father, since he was likely busy anyway and it'd been her decision to go away to college. She wasn't going to turn her back on all that now. He might tell her to come home, to transfer to a closer university. Shaking her head, she pulled her shoulders back and straightened her back, exiting the bathroom with measured, confident strides.
She could do this. She'd underestimated how hard being this far from home could be, sure, but she could definitely still do this. And for all the potential hardships, there were just as many amazing opportunities for her here. She couldn't lose sight of all the exciting flyers she saw on the many bulletin boards that were scattered through the school buildings just because she let herself get emotional over something so little. She walked right on over to the sinks and went to wash her face, wondering if all that trying not to cry had turned her nose red like it always would when she was a little girl.
"...what on earth...?" she gasped aloud when she peered into the mirror at her reflection. Her hands went up to her hair, feeling through the individual strands.
Was it the lighting in here? No, a glance overhead showed the same fluorescent lights that's in every campus bathroom, so there was no reason her hair should look so pink. And it wasn't like it could be someone's idea of a joke. She'd come in here with the same blonde hair as always. In the midst of her puzzlement, she caught sight of the reflection of the clock in the mirror and--
"Oh no!"
She was late for class! She'd have to think on it later. For now, she grabbed her backpack and ran out the bathroom before her professor marked her as absent.
Roleplay Sample - Network:
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Hello, everyone! This is Elizabeth, Elizabeth Bishop! I thought it might be beneficial for all of us to have some kind of central intelligence database, a sort of compilation of everything we individually know so that we might cross-reference it and begin to search for patterns.
Of course, this is a daunting and risky task all things considered. However, I believe the risks are well worth what we could learn, provided we entrust this project in the right hands.
I am willing to submit my background for your consideration as someone to spearhead the project, but of course if there is a better candidate I would be more than fine stepping down. It doesn't matter to me who does this, as long as it gets done.
I have a few preliminary drafts on different data systems for consideration also, and if anyone has any experience in information security please let me know!
This must be very confusing for everyone involved, and it's more important now than ever that we help one another.
Aside from this project, if anyone needs anything that I can help with, please just let me know.
Thank you all for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you!
Any Questions? I was wondering what kind of extensive relationship you need to have with an object before it can be considered something you get as an echo. Specifically I'd be really interested in getting her a Knightmare frame eventually (mechs in Code Geass) but she never has one of her own. She does on several occasion pilot the mass-produced models, however, so would that be enough connection for her to get that back in bits and pieces? Thank you!