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Character Information

Real Name: Eleven Milton-Keynes
Nicknames/Aliases: Eve, Evie, Elf
Species: human/nymph
Gender: female
Age: 19
Date of Birth: November 11, 1988
Physical Description: Her small 125 pound frame stands at 5' 3". She has long, wavy blonde hair and blue eyes. Her light skin is spattered with freckles.
Unique Features: She has a few chickenpox scars on her legs that she affectionately calls her spots. She also has a very slight Australian accent that pops up every now and then.
Birth Location: Honolulu, HI
Blood Family: Parents Schuyler and London. Aunt and uncle Jane and Mickey Colchester, cousin August.
Residence: a room at The Wine Bar & Inn
Residing With: no one
Profession(s) Held: Student studying abroad.
Employment: A server at the restaurant.
Physical Strengths: Quite an athletic girl, she's an excellent ice skater.
Physical Weaknesses: She's one of those people who can't open the pickle jar not matter how hard they try.
Magical Abilities: Very light healing abilities. Her healing, if successful, leaves light scars. Also, it drains her physically and can make her ill if the problem she is trying to fix is too big.
Personal Skills & Training: Aside from ice skating, Eleven is classically trained on the piano. Well enough that she once took a piano exam with a fever and passed. She also likes to cook.
Personal Weaknesses: Oddly enough, she's scared of entering large bodies of water.
Personality: Eleven gets along quite easily with others. She doesn't make a huge deal out of differences in species, color, or creed. In fact, she quite enjoys being a "halfling," as she calls it, because it means she's extra special. She especially likes being able to help others with her healing, no matter that she doesn't have her mother's full ability.

A very bubbly, smiling girl, Eleven tends to give a light tinkle of a laugh at the end of almost every sentence she says. She's very easily amused and she enjoys amusing others. Once you meet Eleven, she'll remember you and treat you as a friend. (Unless of course you treat her as otherwise.) She does this because she considers herself a shy person, and she is always glad to meet new friends.

Eleven's near-constant cheer can be as much a curse as it is a blessing. She doesn't like to think on serious matters. She'll do all she can to try to distract others or herself from worries. This has proven a hard task with the virus and the war, and leaves her seeming very childish sometimes, though she means well.

History: Eleven was an unexpected bonus in Schuyler Milton-Keynes' life. Having married London in what appeared to be the nymph's forties, Schuyler hadn't any idea that they could have a child at all. When he learned his wife was pregnant, the shy man--who had taken long enough to find a significant other--was happy to hear he would have an heir, though he wasn't quite sold on the idea of having one so special. He began to grow nervous around praeternaturals he could identify, not wanting to somehow let them down, thus he was always happy to indulge his wife's lust for travel. Lo and behold, Eleven was born while the wealthy couple were vacationing in Hawaii, and she was named for her early, yet adamant, arrival.

Eleven stayed with her parents in Hawaii for a few years, and also spent time with them in the Caribbean and in Australia--a place of sentimental value, as it's where her own parents and her uncle and aunt were rumored to have met. Emotional attachments aside, these moves were a result of London's fickle whims, which Eleven didn't understand until she learned about her true heritage.

Because Schuyler insisted the girl be raised human, Eleven didn't know she was special until she got the chicken pox at nine-years-old. As she scratched herself silly she began to slowly heal herself, but because the healing wasn't focused, and because her ability is limited, she was left with the scars on her legs. It was with this discovery that her mother sat her down with her father at their side and explained what a Naiad was and what a Naiad could do.

Eleven's life changed with the explanation; a whole new world was revealed to her. While she walked around with this secret she suddenly inherited, she also came to realize the other secret in her family: her uncle Mickey was a Selkie. This meant her cousin August, who before she thought of as a rival for familial affection, was special too. Not that this meant they could finally see who could swim faster, but it allowed them to bond on a level previously unopened to them. She and August quickly came to grow as close as siblings as London settled for living in California, and both children grew up.

After high school, Eleven and August went to the East Coast to study at Columbia and MIT, respectively. They remained close throughout their college years and even decided to do study abroad in neighboring countries when the opportunity came. Eleven went to Greece to study the Classics, which she took on as her major and as a personal joke for her parents, though she did take her studies seriously. In fact, she found first-hand praeternatural sources who were more than happy to help her with research!

Eleven was in Greece when the Pandora virus first hit and was stranded when air travel was banned. She did however meet up with August, who had been studying in Italy. He decided to try to find a way to go back to America via sneaking and underground operations while she stayed in Greece with the local praeternatural community. Since they separated, Eleven has not heard from August.

It was through the locals that Eleven heard of Elysium and they helped her get into contact with a scout who would take her to safety. Eleven was reluctant to go out of worry for her cousin and her family, but with the war starting up in late May and the virus raging she didn't have much of a choice.

Eleven chose to stay at the Inn so she wouldn't have to feel as much that she was living alone. Once established in some semblance of a life in Elysium, she wanted to become a server at the restaurant because she needed something to do during her days and nights that would keep her from worrying.