First Name: Elektra
Last Name: Natchios
Alias or Nick-name: Little Amber, Epsilon, Perfect Death; impersonated Chastity McBryde and Sandy Newton; numerous aliases throughout mercenary career
Title: Originaly Daredevil, but she's got her own title now
Age: Twenties
Height (we need to know whether to look up to you or not): blah, not sure
Eye color: green
Hair color: black
Sex: female
Pick a side: inbetween
Powers (Must be approved by a mod first): Elektra has occasionally demonstrated low-level telekinesis, though it is possible that this may be just illusion which victims of her mesmerism are led to see. She can communicate telepathically with individuals possessing similar levels of mental discipline, such as the Chaste.
Abilities: Elektra possesses peak human levels of strenght, speed, agility, reflexes, stamina, etc. She is an expert in Ninjutsu and various other martial arts, as well as gymnastics. She is a mistress of the skills of the ancient Ninja warriors of Japan.
Elektra has numerous abilities which border on the superhuman. She can control her own autonomic nervous system to a degree, controlling bleeding, fighting infection, etc. She is able to keep to the shadows and move with such speed that she can remain unseen even in broad daylight. She also has demonstrated on occasion the ability to mesmerize others, and as such make them see illusions or other phenomena.
Weapons (if applies): Elektra is highly proficient with such weaponry as long swords, shuriken (throwing stars), and especially the sai, a special three-pronged dagger. In addition, Elektra is experienced with a variety of firearms, explosives, and even anti-tank or aircraft artillery.
History: Elektra's father, Hugo, was a young Greek ambassador, embarassed by his wife's affection towards other men. When Christina became pregnant, both Hugo and his son, Orestez, a young man at the time, suspected that Hugo was not the father. Infuriated, Orestez hired men to kill Christina. Shortly before noon, August 13th, a helicopter flew over the vacationing Hugo and Christina, firing down upon them. Though Christina was the target of the attack, Hugo was shot as well. Hugo recovered, but Christina only survived long enough to give birth to her daughter. After medical tests proved that he was the father after all, Hugo accepted the baby, naming her Elektra. Guilt over injuring his father drove Orestez away from his family.
Elektra attended parochial school where, despite her high intelligence, she received poor grades. She spent much time under psychiatric evalutaion. At the age of nine, her dog Agamemnon was slain by men who had planned to assault her. Elektra was saved by Orestez, now a grown man who had developed into a skilled martial artist. The very next day, Elektra began martial arts training under a Japanese sensei, achieving a black belt by age twelve.
While living in the United States with her father, she attended Columbia University, carefully watched over by bodyguards Athos and Stavros. At the age of nineteen she met Matt Murdock; the two found they shared a thirst for danger and adventure. Because of her father's overprotective nature, Elektra and Matt were forced to meet in secret, their clandestine meetings only serving to fuel their passions. Elektra was plagued by dark voices that spurred her to violence, which she was able to contain only by taking out her impulses on criminals that she felt deserved punishment.
A year later, Elektra and her father were held hostage in a building on campus. A disguised Matt defeated the terrorists with Elektra's help, but a police officer outside the building mistook Hugo Natchios for one of the terrorists and shot him dead. Unable to bear the pain of the loss, and fearing that she would be overwhelmed by her own dark voices, Elektra fled, leaving behind a heartbroken Matt. Before she left the United States, she tracked down and confronted the man who had arranged the assault that led to her father's death. Despite her skills, Elektra was defeated by the man and his bodyguard, but she was saved by a sai hurled from the shadows. Elektra believed that the sai was thrown by Stick, who had appeared and advised her in the past, but it was actually hurled by an agent of the Hand. Impressed by the weapon, Elektra decided to make it her own.
Searching for meaning in her life, Elektra made her way to Japan. Her sensei knew even his best efforts could not help Elektra, so he suggested she seek out the Chaste, a clan of warriors led by Stick. Elektra excelled at all disciplines and hoped to become the eighth member of the order. However, Stick recognized the pain and hatred that still burned within her. To preserve the group's purity, he forced Elektra to leave the Chaste.
Determined to prove her worthiness, Elektra planned to infiltrate the Hand, the ninja cult that had been at war with the Chaste for many years, and defeat them from within. The Hand proposed a test, tricking Elektra into killing her former sensei. Elektra's already fragile psyche was shattered. The Hand took advantage of her state of mind and trained her to become one of their greatest warriors. Still, they were unable to completely turn her to their ways. Elektra broke free of their control and fled Japan, but she was forever tainted by the darkness of the Hand.
Elektra became an assassin-for-hire, selling herself to the highest bidder. She was hired to kill Carlos Huevos, the dictator of San Concepcion, a small South American country. Her success brought her to the attention of the S.H.I.E.L.D. (Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law-enforcement Division), which sent two agents - John Garrett and Arthur Perry - to determine the assassin's identity. The United States sent its own ambassador, Reich, upon whom Elektra discovered the stench of the Beast, the powerful being that controlled the Hand.
Elektra slew Reich, only to discover that the Beast had switched hosts and now possessed Ken Wind, a U.S. presidential candidate. Elektra used her skills to manipulate Garrett into assisting her, managing to thwart S.H.I.E.L.D. and to kill Wind, but Garrett was wounded in the process. To ease his pain, Elektra made Garrett believe he had switched bodies with Wind and become president. As Elektra escaped, Garrett was taken back to S.H.I.E.L.D., his dream preserved while he lay in stasis.
Elektra was hired to stop a man from killing von Eisenbluth, a Nazi war criminal who had experimented on and tortured the man's family. Elektra distracted the man, and the elderly, crippled von Eisenbluth shot him dead. However, after hearing von Eisenbluth's anti-Semitic remarks, Elektra killed him herself.
Years later, Elektra accepted a contract in New York City, finally crossing paths with Daredevil, whom she quickly learned was Matt Murdock. Matt vehemently disapproved of Elektra's profession while Elektra refused to abandon her chosen way of life. Lovers became enemies, and enemies became fierce combatants. The two still cared deeply for each other, but as far as Elektra was concerned, their love had been murdered along with her father.
The Kingpin hired Elektra as his chief assassin, eventually sending her to kill Franklin "Foggy" Nelson. When Foggy recognized her as Matt's old girlfriend, though, she could not bring herself to complete the assignment. Bullseye, seeking to regain his position as the Kingpin's chief assassin, ambushed Elektra. After an epic battle, Bullseye impaled Elektra on one of her own sais. Mortally wounded, Elektra crawled to Matt's apartment. She died in her former lover's arms.
However, after losing their master warrior Kirigi in battle, the Hand decided that resurrecting Elektra would afford them an edge in their ongoing battle with the Chaste. They exhumed her body and were in the midst of a resurrection ceremony when Daredevil, the Black Widow and Stone (a member of the Chaste) arrived and stopped them. During the battle, Daredevil tried to complete the resurrection using techniques he once saw Stick employ. He believed he was unsuccessful, but Stone saw that Daredevil had somehow cleansed Elektra's soul, purifying her spirit. He secretly took Elektra's body back to the Chaste's mountain retreat to complete the resurrection process.
Now alive and pure once more, Elektra became a member of the Chaste, remaining on their mountain for years. Later, the ninja clan known as the Snakeroot stole John Garrett from S.H.I.E.L.D. From his mind and memories they distilled Elektra's dark essence, using it to create their own warrior, Erynys. Stone and Elektra left the mountain retreat and managed to defeat Erynys while she was battling Daredevil. In the process, however, the dark essence returned to Elektra. Because she was again impure, the Chaste could not let Elektra return to their order.
Returning to the only career she knew, Elektra was hired by a man named Kiefer to kill scientist Daniel Connor. She did so successfully, but the murder was witnessed by Connor's young teenage daughter, Avery. Taking the girl with her, Elektra learned that Avery had actually been genetically engineered from Wolverine's DNA, and that her parents had been charting her progress. When Avery's parents attempted to escape their superior, Kiefer, had ordered their deaths. With the aid of Wolverine, Elektra slew Kiefer and arranged for Avery and her repentant mother, Veronica, to establish new lives, hidden from further intrusions.
Tekagi, who had worked closely with Elektra during her time with the Hand, became the new leader of the Snakeroot. Tekagi had to purify his clan's sword, Sakki, with the blood of three innocent victims to regain the power the group once held. Elektra learned of the Snakeroot's plans and set out to form her own order, or Ryu, made up of her recruits Impact, Lynch, Masquerade, Niko, Salvo, and Target. Elektra's "Army of Stealth" attempted to stop the Snakeroot from claiming its targets - Father Peter Nova, Navajo activist Singer Tsilkali, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aaron Sokoto. Elektra's order did not fare well, and all her new recruits died in battle. Fighting alone, Elektra saved the Snakeroot's final target and killed Takegi with the clan's sword, essentially destroying the Snakeroot in the process.
Elektra helped Wolverine recover from his descent into bestial madness after Magneto tore the Adamantium metal from his body. She found camaraderie with dance instructor Konrad Weiss, and in the Dojo of King Lau and McKinley Stewart (who became her lover). She was targeted again by Bullseye, but this time she defeated him. She acted as guardian to young Nina McCabe after her father was killed. Elektra also briefly became tangled in the plot of the being known only as the Architect, last of the mysterious Shining Ones. She fought a string of would-be assassins, as well as the Four Winds, the American Samurai, the Silencer, and Kuroyama, a warrior of the Hand, who slew Nina and resurrected her as one of their own.
Once more an assassin-for-hire, Elektra was hired by the next incarnation of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate) to kill Saddam Abed Dasam, the leader of Iraq, and retrieve a box in his possession. She succeeded in retrieving the box's contents - the powerful Scorpio Key - but refused to hand it over to anyone, especially the S.H.I.E.L.D. Instead, Elektra captured the police officer responsible for killing her father years before. Because the two shared an intimate bond of tragedy, she entrusted the box and the key that it held to him, knowing that he would keep it safe.
After assisting sexual assault victim Ione Katamides in gaining vengeance on her attackers, Elektra encountered the Hand once again. Led by Takashi, the Hand sought to use basketball star and political hopeful Lyle Crawford. Elektra was guided to oppose this by the spirit of Lyle's dead father, jazz musician "Black Cat" Buddy Crawford, who had been killed by the Hand years before. Ultimately, Elektra decapitated Lyle before he could be transformed into the Earthly incarnation of the Hand's Beast.
Elektra encountered Jeremy Locke, a member of the Coalition, a group of people who sought revenge against her for killing their loved ones. Managing to drug and capture Elektra, Locke attempted to make her understand the consequences of her actions and abandon her long cycle of violence. The rest of the Coalition sought to kill Elektra, but she slew most of them instead. However, Locke had successfully reached Elektra, and she returned to him for help. Locke's assistant, Carson, recuited his friend, the female sensei Drake, to help Elektra break her addiction to violence. Upon their first meeting, Drake easily bested Elektra in a quick sparring match. Through Drake's training, Elektra learned the proper path. For once, her life had meaning.
The Hand, meanwhile, was angered that someone had been influencing Elektra whom they still considered to be their warrior. They slew the remaining members of the Coalition, except Locke, whom they kidnapped. After the Hand poisoned and killed Drake, Elektra agreed to meet the Hand to save Locke. To kill the final agent of the Hand, Elektra plunged her sword into him straight through Locke, killing them both and restarting her personal cycle of violence.
Once more, Elektra began to travel the world, assassinating the likes of Leonard Prebble, corrupt Djanda president Bridget Hapanmyas, and her own employers when they attempted to betray her. She once spent a week killing the Punisher's targets before he could. When the two finally met up, she told him that she had done it because she was bored. Intrigued, the Punisher asked her out on a date.
On an adventure to the nation of Naou, she was hired to kill the Piaka Loio (the Bloody Prophet), allegedly a reincarnation of the death god Bara. Elektra slaughtered the Prophet's followers, but upon learning that the Prophet was actually a small child, she allowed him to live. She did eliminate all evidence of the child's ever having been the Prophet, knowing no one would believe him.
Returning to the USA, Elektra was hired by Evgeny Bezzubenkov to kill his Russian mobster father Urishka so that he could succeed him. In the process, Elektra suffered from a severe flu she had contracted in Naou. While dazed and feverish, Elektra had a vision of the god Bara, during which time she believed herself to be fighting for her life against the death god while she was actually slaying both Urishka and Evgeny. Subsequently, she visited her own grave where she encountered Daredevil again. Feeling there was no longer any existing relationship between them, Elektra fled.
Without a sensei, without purpose, Elektra remains an assassin - one who knows exactly what it feels like to die every time she takes a life. She is a shadow, unseen untile the moment she chooses to reveal herself. Her life is one of seclusion, world travel, cover identities, disguises, and an ongoing inner battle that takes a toll as severe as the world of violence, blood and death in which she lives.
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