Editing RWBYTD:Elissa Ithakos (section)

==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!?