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Character Name: Elfie Hopkins
Series: Elfie Hopkins
Timeline: Post movie events when she moves away from the village
Canon Resource Link: Wiki link here
Character History:
Elfie Hopkins is 22 years old and for lack of a better word she's a slacker who lives in a sleepy hunting village in England. One thing that keeps Elfie occupied in this dead end village that she calls home is the fact that she’s a wannabe detective and has been ever since her mother’s death when she was a child which she blames herself for. When she was a young teenager around 13 years old she was out with her geeky best friend Dylan Parker one evening. They had been gone for quite a while and her mother who was worried about them had gone out to look for them. She knew that there was a hunt going on in the village and she was afraid that something had happened to both Elfie and Dylan. Straying too close to the hunting party Elfie's mother was shot and killed by one of the hunters. Elfie has always had her suspicions that it wasn't an accident and this was her first 'big case' to try and find out the motive behind her mother's death...of course this was all just to cover up her own grief and guilt. Her father was completely broken by the events and has never been the same since though he did re-marry to an alcoholic woman who isn’t fond of Elfie and Elfie isn’t fond of her.
Elfie and Dylan occupy themselves in this small village by investigating the local population and upsetting them with their imaginative allegations. Everything changes however when the Gammon family, a group of trendy city dwellers move in next door to Elfie…
The Gammon's weave tales of adventure and seduce the villagers, offering them exotic trips around the world which they're in the business of. Or at least that’s what they’re telling everyone anyway. It's not long before the villagers are jet setting off, heading to bag the top 5 in Africa or heading off a desert to ride camels through the sand. However, these local people never make their flights and they never return to the village. To begin with Elfie is just as charmed by the Gammon's especially the father of the family, Charlie. He wasn't like any man she had ever met before and he seemed to...understand her. Until she gets suspicious again that is. So, Dylan and Elfie together start to investigate the Gammon's life. Bloody violence and pandemonium start in the village and it's not the blood of the animals that are being hunted anymore. Elfie finally uncovers the truth about the Gammon family and it's worse than she ever could have imagined in her wildest nightmares.
Charlie, the head of the family had been a missionary in Papua New Guinea and lived with a local tribe there. As he lived with them he went ‘native’, adopting their customs one of them being cannibalism. It’s in Papua New Guinea that he met his future wife and eventually they had two children a boy and a girl. When they moved away from Papua New Guinea Charlie found it difficult to move away from the life had been accustomed to, influencing his wife and his kids to join in on his diet. For years and years they’ve moved from place to place sending families on these trips only to catch up with them on their way to the airport, kill them and eat them. This is exactly what they have planned for Elfie’s village. There are many clues that point her to the truth and eventually she does find it out. She’s not quick enough to save Dylan’s father or her father and step-mother, all being killed by the Gammon family. When Dylan goes missing she fears the worse and heads to the Gammon house ready to take them out. She manages to kill the children and mother without too much difficulty, finding Dylan in the house and still alive. Then Charlie returns home. She has great difficulty fighting him off and it’s one of the local men, the butcher in the village that ultimately saves them from death, shooting Charlie and killing him.
After the events in the village both Elfie and Dylan decide to leave to go to the city where Dylan has been accepted into university. They leave the past behind as boyfriend and girlfriend to start a new life and a new adventure together.
Elfie likes to portray herself as a kind of a ‘tough girl’ and a rebel. The way she dresses and the fact that she’s likes to smoke a lot of weed indicates that clearly. She’s often getting herself into trouble with the locals of the area and this indicates clearly that she likes to break the rules and doesn’t really care what other people think about her. At least the people who aren’t worth it anyway which in Elfie’s eyes are very few in number. There are very few people that she lets herself get close to except for her only friend in the village Dylan Parker. This shows that she’s an extremely guarded person who could even be described as a bit of a loner. Elfie is also a very stubborn person. Everyone in the village tells her to stop with her investigations and to leave the Gammon’s alone but she doesn’t listen to them. Instead she’s determined to get to the bottom of anything suspicious going on in her neighbourhood. This again shows that she obviously doesn’t really care what other people think about her. She’s not exactly the most cheerful of people either; she even describes herself once as being ‘miserable as fuck.’ As a result there are very few emotions that she shows other than…well, being miserable.
However, underneath Elfie’s tough exterior there is a vulnerable young woman underneath. Even though her mother has been dead for nearly ten years now she’s still broken by her death. The guilt and the hurt that she felt on that day are still as prominent as it was before and it’s the reason that she acts out so much. She also feels unloved by her father and her step-mother but because of the type of person she is she keeps her emotions and concerns bottled up inside. Honestly, Elfie just wants to be accepted by people and she wants people to understand why she does the things she does instead of shutting her out. Her vulnerability is also shown when Dylan gets an acceptance letter from a university in the city. She shows that she’s slightly selfish as she doesn’t want him to go fulfil his dream but stay there with her. However, again she’s only hiding her true emotions which is a common trait of hers especially when it comes to Dylan. Love clearly isn’t something she’s comfortable with expressing and this is shown clearly when it comes to Dylan. He kisses her and instead of admitting how she feels about him she just pushes him away as a reflex. Affection isn’t something that comes easy to her either. When she does finally admit to how she feels for Dylan he mentions the fact they’re now an item and her response is: “Shut up, Parker.” She does smile with him though, showing that she is capable of being something other than miserable on the exterior from time to time.
As Elfie is essentially a wannabe detective there are many personality traits that she has which help her to achieve this detective’s mind. She is extremely good at piecing information together immediately linking the fact that Charlie had gone ‘native’ with the fact they were cannibals. This also shows that she’s an extremely intelligent, observant and persistent person, never giving up on her investigations even if others think she’s just being farfetched.
Abilities/Special Powers:
Though Elfie doesn’t exactly have any special abilities or qualifications to show how intellectual or not she is Elfie has a great detective’s mind and she has an extremely good imagination. Her mind can pick up meanings behind things that other people might just gloss over and her imagination can make up the wildest stories with the simplest of details.
Third-Person Sample:
Elfie is walking along the streets of London, wearing her usual attire with a beanie on her head. She likes to take walks around the city every day. It clears her head and you never know what you’re going to see in a place like this. After about half an hour of walking, it starts to pour down with rain. It doesn’t deter her too much though she just keeps walking with her tape recorder in her hand. As she walks she’s paying attention to everything that surrounds her, looking out for anything out of the ordinary. She brings the tape recorder near her lips as her eyes keep roaming the surroundings.
“Yet another miserable day in London, surprise, surprise. Nothing out of the ordinary yet though…”
And she was starting to lose hope that something interesting was going to happen. Sighing to herself she slips the tape recorder into her pocket, stopping to lean against a low wall. It’s still raining but she’s used to it. She looks around to see if there are any coppers about before rolling herself a spliff which she proceeds to light and take a long drag of. As she stands there her mind starts to work overtime.
Elfie had never wanted to leave the small village that she had called home for her whole life. It had mostly been on account of her dad…and her mother. Her mother’s been dead for nearly ten years now but there’s not a day that goes by where she doesn’t think about her. That small village was really the only thing she had left of her mother…but honestly moving to London was one of the best things she ever did. She loves it here, there's just so much more going on and many more people to investigate. She starting with her neighbour, a bat shit crazy woman with about a million cats. Elfie's sure the woman doesn't have a stable mind. She smiles a little, thinking about it, a number of possible theories circling in her mind. Maybe she’s stumbled across another cannibal who kills people in the flat next to hers and feeds body parts to that mangy cat. Of course that’s just her imagination working overtime.
Another reason she's happy to be here? Sherlock Holmes was one of her inspirations to become a Detective in the first place. Of course he’s not real but it’s still nice to be here where all his famous mysteries took place. She takes a drag of the spliff remembering the times she would sit with her mum and watch old episodes of it…the thought immediately makes her sad so she stubbornly pushes it from her mind. Dropping the spliff on the ground she stamps on it with her boots, heading off to her right to see what mysteries London had for her to solve today.
First-Person Sample:
Alright, whoever the hell is in charge here seriously has some explaining to do. I mean what kind of freak just kidnaps people and brings them to this place? I’m sure it’s just great here and all but I’d rather be at home right now. People need me. This is a matter of life and death here. No one is paying the least bit of attention to me, are they?
[She sighs a little]
And another thing, where the hell are all my things? I need my tape recorder. And my stash. I refuse to stay here without either. Honestly, whoever’s in charge here? You do not want to fuck with me. I’m going to figure out what whacked up shit is going on here and I’m going to get to the bottom of it.
[And with that Elfie is gone.]
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E-Mail: ebohan01[at]gmail[dot]com
IM: N/A
Plurk:
Other Characters: N/A
Character Name: Elfie Hopkins
Series: Elfie Hopkins
Timeline: Post movie events when she moves away from the village
Canon Resource Link: Wiki link here
Character History:
Elfie Hopkins is 22 years old and for lack of a better word she's a slacker who lives in a sleepy hunting village in England. One thing that keeps Elfie occupied in this dead end village that she calls home is the fact that she’s a wannabe detective and has been ever since her mother’s death when she was a child which she blames herself for. When she was a young teenager around 13 years old she was out with her geeky best friend Dylan Parker one evening. They had been gone for quite a while and her mother who was worried about them had gone out to look for them. She knew that there was a hunt going on in the village and she was afraid that something had happened to both Elfie and Dylan. Straying too close to the hunting party Elfie's mother was shot and killed by one of the hunters. Elfie has always had her suspicions that it wasn't an accident and this was her first 'big case' to try and find out the motive behind her mother's death...of course this was all just to cover up her own grief and guilt. Her father was completely broken by the events and has never been the same since though he did re-marry to an alcoholic woman who isn’t fond of Elfie and Elfie isn’t fond of her.
Elfie and Dylan occupy themselves in this small village by investigating the local population and upsetting them with their imaginative allegations. Everything changes however when the Gammon family, a group of trendy city dwellers move in next door to Elfie…
The Gammon's weave tales of adventure and seduce the villagers, offering them exotic trips around the world which they're in the business of. Or at least that’s what they’re telling everyone anyway. It's not long before the villagers are jet setting off, heading to bag the top 5 in Africa or heading off a desert to ride camels through the sand. However, these local people never make their flights and they never return to the village. To begin with Elfie is just as charmed by the Gammon's especially the father of the family, Charlie. He wasn't like any man she had ever met before and he seemed to...understand her. Until she gets suspicious again that is. So, Dylan and Elfie together start to investigate the Gammon's life. Bloody violence and pandemonium start in the village and it's not the blood of the animals that are being hunted anymore. Elfie finally uncovers the truth about the Gammon family and it's worse than she ever could have imagined in her wildest nightmares.
Charlie, the head of the family had been a missionary in Papua New Guinea and lived with a local tribe there. As he lived with them he went ‘native’, adopting their customs one of them being cannibalism. It’s in Papua New Guinea that he met his future wife and eventually they had two children a boy and a girl. When they moved away from Papua New Guinea Charlie found it difficult to move away from the life had been accustomed to, influencing his wife and his kids to join in on his diet. For years and years they’ve moved from place to place sending families on these trips only to catch up with them on their way to the airport, kill them and eat them. This is exactly what they have planned for Elfie’s village. There are many clues that point her to the truth and eventually she does find it out. She’s not quick enough to save Dylan’s father or her father and step-mother, all being killed by the Gammon family. When Dylan goes missing she fears the worse and heads to the Gammon house ready to take them out. She manages to kill the children and mother without too much difficulty, finding Dylan in the house and still alive. Then Charlie returns home. She has great difficulty fighting him off and it’s one of the local men, the butcher in the village that ultimately saves them from death, shooting Charlie and killing him.
After the events in the village both Elfie and Dylan decide to leave to go to the city where Dylan has been accepted into university. They leave the past behind as boyfriend and girlfriend to start a new life and a new adventure together.
Elfie likes to portray herself as a kind of a ‘tough girl’ and a rebel. The way she dresses and the fact that she’s likes to smoke a lot of weed indicates that clearly. She’s often getting herself into trouble with the locals of the area and this indicates clearly that she likes to break the rules and doesn’t really care what other people think about her. At least the people who aren’t worth it anyway which in Elfie’s eyes are very few in number. There are very few people that she lets herself get close to except for her only friend in the village Dylan Parker. This shows that she’s an extremely guarded person who could even be described as a bit of a loner. Elfie is also a very stubborn person. Everyone in the village tells her to stop with her investigations and to leave the Gammon’s alone but she doesn’t listen to them. Instead she’s determined to get to the bottom of anything suspicious going on in her neighbourhood. This again shows that she obviously doesn’t really care what other people think about her. She’s not exactly the most cheerful of people either; she even describes herself once as being ‘miserable as fuck.’ As a result there are very few emotions that she shows other than…well, being miserable.
However, underneath Elfie’s tough exterior there is a vulnerable young woman underneath. Even though her mother has been dead for nearly ten years now she’s still broken by her death. The guilt and the hurt that she felt on that day are still as prominent as it was before and it’s the reason that she acts out so much. She also feels unloved by her father and her step-mother but because of the type of person she is she keeps her emotions and concerns bottled up inside. Honestly, Elfie just wants to be accepted by people and she wants people to understand why she does the things she does instead of shutting her out. Her vulnerability is also shown when Dylan gets an acceptance letter from a university in the city. She shows that she’s slightly selfish as she doesn’t want him to go fulfil his dream but stay there with her. However, again she’s only hiding her true emotions which is a common trait of hers especially when it comes to Dylan. Love clearly isn’t something she’s comfortable with expressing and this is shown clearly when it comes to Dylan. He kisses her and instead of admitting how she feels about him she just pushes him away as a reflex. Affection isn’t something that comes easy to her either. When she does finally admit to how she feels for Dylan he mentions the fact they’re now an item and her response is: “Shut up, Parker.” She does smile with him though, showing that she is capable of being something other than miserable on the exterior from time to time.
As Elfie is essentially a wannabe detective there are many personality traits that she has which help her to achieve this detective’s mind. She is extremely good at piecing information together immediately linking the fact that Charlie had gone ‘native’ with the fact they were cannibals. This also shows that she’s an extremely intelligent, observant and persistent person, never giving up on her investigations even if others think she’s just being farfetched.
Abilities/Special Powers:
Though Elfie doesn’t exactly have any special abilities or qualifications to show how intellectual or not she is Elfie has a great detective’s mind and she has an extremely good imagination. Her mind can pick up meanings behind things that other people might just gloss over and her imagination can make up the wildest stories with the simplest of details.
Third-Person Sample:
Elfie is walking along the streets of London, wearing her usual attire with a beanie on her head. She likes to take walks around the city every day. It clears her head and you never know what you’re going to see in a place like this. After about half an hour of walking, it starts to pour down with rain. It doesn’t deter her too much though she just keeps walking with her tape recorder in her hand. As she walks she’s paying attention to everything that surrounds her, looking out for anything out of the ordinary. She brings the tape recorder near her lips as her eyes keep roaming the surroundings.
“Yet another miserable day in London, surprise, surprise. Nothing out of the ordinary yet though…”
And she was starting to lose hope that something interesting was going to happen. Sighing to herself she slips the tape recorder into her pocket, stopping to lean against a low wall. It’s still raining but she’s used to it. She looks around to see if there are any coppers about before rolling herself a spliff which she proceeds to light and take a long drag of. As she stands there her mind starts to work overtime.
Elfie had never wanted to leave the small village that she had called home for her whole life. It had mostly been on account of her dad…and her mother. Her mother’s been dead for nearly ten years now but there’s not a day that goes by where she doesn’t think about her. That small village was really the only thing she had left of her mother…but honestly moving to London was one of the best things she ever did. She loves it here, there's just so much more going on and many more people to investigate. She starting with her neighbour, a bat shit crazy woman with about a million cats. Elfie's sure the woman doesn't have a stable mind. She smiles a little, thinking about it, a number of possible theories circling in her mind. Maybe she’s stumbled across another cannibal who kills people in the flat next to hers and feeds body parts to that mangy cat. Of course that’s just her imagination working overtime.
Another reason she's happy to be here? Sherlock Holmes was one of her inspirations to become a Detective in the first place. Of course he’s not real but it’s still nice to be here where all his famous mysteries took place. She takes a drag of the spliff remembering the times she would sit with her mum and watch old episodes of it…the thought immediately makes her sad so she stubbornly pushes it from her mind. Dropping the spliff on the ground she stamps on it with her boots, heading off to her right to see what mysteries London had for her to solve today.
First-Person Sample:
Alright, whoever the hell is in charge here seriously has some explaining to do. I mean what kind of freak just kidnaps people and brings them to this place? I’m sure it’s just great here and all but I’d rather be at home right now. People need me. This is a matter of life and death here. No one is paying the least bit of attention to me, are they?
[She sighs a little]
And another thing, where the hell are all my things? I need my tape recorder. And my stash. I refuse to stay here without either. Honestly, whoever’s in charge here? You do not want to fuck with me. I’m going to figure out what whacked up shit is going on here and I’m going to get to the bottom of it.
[And with that Elfie is gone.]
