Elite
Appearance
Elite is a young boy roughly in his teens. Somewhere between 13 and 16. He is typically seen wearing his blue and yellow colored mask as well as his blue jacket and short brown pants. Elite has a look of both a scared little boy and a bubbling over volcano hiding a river of lava inside. When he is in typically conversation Elite is awkward with his words and uncharacteristically shy. Often mumbling around words or unable to find the proper thing to say.
When in battle he adopts a fare more deadly appearance and posture and it shows with how ruthless he is in combat.
Personality
As mentioned above. Elite is both a clumsy, awkward young boy with a submissive attitude when not directly fighting anyone. But when forced into combat his attitude automatically changes to that of a cold murderer and fights with deathly precision and skill. Any hostility is instantly met with a cool attack on his part and anyone hoping to catch the boy off guard will soon find he has already pulled out a knife and is holding up to their neck.
Most people are aware of Elite's violently different personalities except for, and here's a shocker, Changeling who automatically seems to disarm him.
Powers
Elite's powers are mostly a combination of advanced marital arts, skills and training that have allowed him to fight to the point where he can easily match most any mutant on an equal level due to an excellent manipulation of Chi energy.
Background and Continuity
In this universe, Elite was born in Freedom City to an ordinary parent couple. Named Johnny at birth, Elite lived a normal childhood until Serpent Men invaded Freedom City one day and stole Johnny's parents, taking them into the deep under layer of the city. Johnny was also taken and would probably have remained a slave had The Blade of Tiamat not found the child and decide to take him as his squire.
Johnny wound up killing hundreds of people in the name of the Serpent people and his mentor. But it wasn't until one failed attempt at trying to kill Izdubar did Elite receive the possibility of redemption. He was taken to Claremont where Duncan Summers purged most Serpent Man mind manipulation from him and give the boy a new lease on life.
Since then Johnny has tried to come to grip with the people he's killed and the fact that the Serpent Men may someday come for him. He is prepared to fight if he does so. Luckily for him Changeling has been probably his only peace in the storm that has evolved in his life. As both are recently freed from the shackles of an oppressive evil they're both finding much common ground in each other.
