RWBYTD:Elissa Ithakos

Elissa is a character in RWBY: Training Day, played by squidheadjax.

Profile

History

“This is my father’s house!” Elissa is the first and only child of Outis and Pamela Ithakos (nee Uberwald). Her father was already a renowned hunter in the youthful days of his career, and her mother was a scion of the wealthy and influential (if not well-regarded) Uberwald house. He failed to return from an expedition when Elissa was just barely old enough to remember him, and has been missing (presumed dead) since. In her father’s pace have been a veritable locust plague of gold-digging bachelors, seeking to soak off the combined fortunes of the Ithakos and Uberwald families, while her mother refuses to believe that Outis is actually dead. Fed up with the joint attempts by the gold-diggers and her maternal grandparents to excise her father’s legacy, she practiced with Polyphemus, the older, clunky weapon that her father left behind until she was able to use it to impersonate his ‘ghost’ and send the suitors running. The next year, she enrolled in Beacon, boldly including the incident in her application.

Prior to her forceful dismissal of the ‘suitors’, Elissa attended Sanctum Academy, earning a reputation for being vocal and driven, performing well in the team exercises emphasized there, but unable to focus on anything besides the overly broad goal of diving herself to become a superior huntress. Though not anti-social, she had few connections as much of her time was taken up dealing with her home life and training goals. When her paternal grandfather died, she purchased a hunting hawk and named it after him, and the bird has heard many things she would tell nobody else. Fortunately, it's not a parrot.

During her time at Sanctum, she qualified with (and set aside) a school record of ten different weapon configurations, discarding them and starting over when she couldn’t rise to the top bracket. Every year that she was eligible, Elissa competed in the Mistral regional tournament, always placing fairly high but never managing to escape the shadow of the irritatingly perfect yet impossible to hate reigning champion - even finally mastering Polyphemus didn’t give her the edge she needed to defeat Pyrrha, to her great consternation. Why couldn’t she have been on the Marshmallow Flakes box for just. One. Year!?

Appearance

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Elissa is pale-skinned for a Mistral native, with soft but narrow facial features and grey eyes, framed by long, straight black hair usually worn unadorned or tied into close-hugging braids. For combat, she wears a mantle of aged bronze and blue leather accented with hawk feathers died in matching colors. The grey traveling cloak she often wears over it is accented around the shoulder with brown feathers. These feathers come from Aeolus, her pet hawk, which she will have with her whenever appropriate.

Personality

Elissa’s hyper-competitiveness is made more tolerable by not being as fundamentally selfish as it could be. On a team, she’ll pull the weight of two, just to make sure everyone else is properly supported. She’ll make the bully give back all the lunch money, and twist his arm until he writes out a receipt for interest owed. She’ll go all out to get a smile out of a friend having a bad day, even if she has to look the fool to do so. And while she’s quite happy to threaten otherworldly retribution upon people making moves on her mother for the family fortune, she’s generous to anyone who isn’t working an angle on her.

It’s only when she has nothing left to go charging after that she lets the strain and weariness show. Or when someone reminds her of her father.

She seems able to read her hawk's reactions with unusual acuity for a human, and often uses him as a scout.

Though this may be because there's often a camera hidden in his harness.

Weapon

Polyphemus (The Bow form)

The one-eyed king, blinded by nobody. Polyphemus is a mechanized bow in the traditional recurve form of Elissa’s homeland. The mechanism requires considerable strength even when the dust input is fully harmonized to its user’s Aura; without that, its operation is well beyond the limit of human strength. Its primary mode of operation is to form a powerfully charged arrow from a Dust shell for the wielder's convenience, but it can be used to convey genuine physical payloads, such as grappling-line arrows, as well. Part of the Dust expended in the formation and launch of the arrow leaks into the user’s Aura, limiting its total power, but the wielder is stronger for it.

Scylla (The Right-Hand Sword)

The ocean-eater, the inescapable whirlpool. Longer and more slender than its sister, this half of Polyphemus’ separated form excels at channeling water-aspected Dust to send a flood of enemies to their doom. She always weilds it in concert with Charybdis, and fights differently depending on which sword she leads with.

Charybdis (The Left-Hand Sword)

The hardest place; the rock of despair. Shorter and broader than its sister, this ill-omened blade impairs both the proper movement of Dust and the foul energies of the Grimm. She always weilds it in concert with Scylla, and fights differently depending on which sword she leads with.

Traits

My Family Legacies

The Ithakos hunter legacy and the Uberwald old money legacy both elevate and haunt Elissa. Her paternal grandparents, both Hunters of reknown in their time, are lost to her now. Her grandfather died after a long wasting away, as he pined for his lost only child; her grandmother is lost in the mists of dementia. And, of course, her father is absent and presumed dead. As the only Ithakos child, it's on her to carry on that legacy. ...and probably have another generation, though this doesn't immediately appeal to her.

On the other hand, there are her maternal grandparents, part of the vast and influential Uberwald family, who wanted Elissa to embrace a more luxurious and mercantile lifestyle. She somewhat regrets taking their showers of gifts while turning her back on the path they were supposed to persuade her to, but it is her life.

Never at Rest

Elissa is frantically driven. She's internalized always being considered less than the best at everything, and thinks people will only pay attention to her if she comes out on top. It’s only when she has nothing left to go charging after that she lets the strain and weariness show. Or when someone reminds her of her father.

Notice me, Ariadne!

Elissa needs to be noticed, and this need has, for now, fixated on the beautiful, high-achieving upperclassman. Exactly what sort of notice she's seeking is up in the air, but because of Elissa's reckless drive, Ariadne usually notices when she's managed to injure herself. Again.

Getting sufficient attention from another PC will likely shift this around.

Game Info

Stats

• Wounds - OOO
• Defense - 3 (4 when leading with Scylla)
• Action Pool Maximum - 10
• Charge Pool Maximum - 6

Skills

• Courage* - 4
• Dirty Tricks - 3
• Perception - 2

Passion: Glory

Whenever Elissa makes a Strike that fills the last wound circle of an opponent, she receives two Charge dice. If that blow ends the fight, she keeps that bonus and all accumulated Charge instead of the normal reduction by half.

Powers

Power	Type	Cost	Effect
Resilience I	Passive	-	+1 to Defense
Force Attack	Strike	4 Charge Dice	+5 bonus dice on an Strike roll
Squad Tactics	Passive	-	+1 die to any joint maneuver
Soulbound Weapon	Soulbound Weapon	-	Gain a Soulbound Weapon (Polyphemus and the twin swords)
Weapon Upgrade III	Soulbound Weapon	-	+3 effect slots on a Soulbound Weapon
Multi-Soul I	Soulbound Weapon	-	1 additional Soulbound Weapon
Quickdraw	Soulbound Weapon	-	Switch between soulbound weapons without skipping turn

Soulbound Weapon Effects

Ultimate Weapon - Polyphemus

Power	Slots	Effect
Soulcharge	3	+1 Charge die per turn
Power Strike	1	+1 bonus die on Strike rolls against an Individual
Shining	1	User is unaffected by Darkness. Also applies to combined Maneuvers and Achievements

Ultimate Weapon - Scylla & Charybdis

Power	Slots	Effect
Protection	1	+1 to defense
Area Strike	1	+1 bonus die on Strike rolls against a Swarm; weapon powers can affect swarms
Weakening	2	Inflict Weakened (+1 to defense of any foe the victim attacks) condition on struck enemy
Multi-Strike	1	+1 bonus die on Strike rolls against a Squad

Links

Family

With an absent father presumed dead by most, and most of her short lifetime spent protecting her mother from a locust swarm of would-be suitors and grandparents eager to marry into more power, Elissa's family life wasn't exactly a picture of happiness.

• Outis Ithakos (father)
  • "Where are you, father?"
• Pamela Ithakos nee Uberwald (mother)
  • "Stay strong while I'm gone, mother. I'll be back. I promise."
• Marchand and Silena Uberwald (maternal grandparents)
  • "I'm sorry. I'll never be the sort of person you want me to be."
• Aeolus (deceased) and Nika Ithakos (paternal grandparents)
  • "I'll never forget your kindness, grandfather. I know gram won't either, even if she seems to have lost so much else."

Others

• Pyrrha Nikos
  • "Aaaaagh! Why does she get to be so perfect!"
    
• Arctos
  • "I'll have to keep an eye on that one. Something tells me I'll need to start up another Lunch Money Recovery Cooperative here."