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[Age]: 34
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[Name]: Elizabeth Anne Sherman (Aka: Liz, Sparky)
[Canon]: Hellboy (movie)
[Age]: 29 - Born April 15th 1975 (the year is 2004)
[Gender]: Female
[Canon Point]: The end of Hellboy

[History]:
Hellboy Movie on Wikipedia: Plot
Hellboy 1 Synopsis on IMBD: Plot Interestingly detailed!
Hellboy Wiki: Liz (Live Action Film Section Only)
Biography Info by Guillermo del Toro. This page is a write up, word for word from the special edition DVD. It’s the Biography on Liz that is available on DVD. I typed it up to add to my character info because it gives a lot of her back story that the movie doesn’t show out right.
Comic Book Religions: More for my own reference. Catholic.

For reference points for those who don’t read the links (because I’m sure some of them are annoying):

~Childhood Incident: A quick overview of her childhood. She was born and raised by a loving couple who after some time had trouble and spoke of divorce. Her parents moved around a lot, so she never managed to make or keep friends very long. This might have been a good thing, the moving, as she often had small incidents in school with explosions and fire. By time records made it to a school she had already moved on to the next. Even though her parents didn't blame her for their divorce, she blames herself for it. When she was 11 she had an incident that killed several children and other people, including her mother in a court yard.

~Hellboy, Abe & Broom: She considers Hellboy her oldest friend and after a while her lover. The two share a lot in common, though she has a hard time explaining her feelings for him to him. It scares her to give in like that. She calls him Red or HB.

Abe, who she considers her closest friend is someone easy to confide in. She silently considers him family; really, all three of them are. She calls him Abe or Blue.

Professor Broom, Hellboy’s “father” found her at a halfway house when she was seventeen. He took her in and helped her learn a bit about how to handle her powers. He’s always been very kind and understanding to her. His recent death was a tragic event that helped push her to stay by HB’s side longer. She called him Professor, for the most part.

~B.P.R.D.: The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. Originally directed by Professor Broom the B.P.R.D. is a secret government facility closely linked with the FBI to do research and defense on paranormal activity. Liz works off and on for them as part of Paranormal Researchers Teams.

~The Pittsburgh Incident: This happened in 2002 Braddock Town, PA. Six agents enter a small steel town outside of Pittsburgh to investigate demonic entities. Something happened to trigger Liz’s abilities and though she warned everyone to get out she wasn’t able to hold back the power. A mile radius was exploded around her killing the other four agents, destroying property and causing major fire issues. The only other survivor was Hellboy. She had herself locked away in a mental hospital in an attempt to keep others safe from her.

~Current: Liz, still suffering from guilt over the Pittsburgh incident, ‘runaway’ from Hellboy and the team to sit in a mental hospital and try to feel ‘normal’ there. Hellboy visited often, but she asked that if he loved her at all he’d stay away. Rasputin appeared in her room at the mental hospital and while she slept he helped awaken her dreams of fire, causing her to have an episode in the middle of her sleep, blowing up a wing of the mental hospital she was in.

After that John Myer managed to convince her to come back to the Bureau, but she said it was ‘only for the weekend’. That weekend Professor Broom was killed, a tragic death for Hellboy as the man was nearly his father. She spoke with Abe about staying in case Hellboy needed her; with Abe's careful advice she decided to do so, and even decided to go to Moscow with Hellboy and crew, to help out. In other words ‘just for the weekend’ turned into ‘I’m back’.

Rasputin, alive again, attempted to open a portal to bring 7 gods to the planet. He needs Hellboy’s stone arm to open the portal. Wanting Liz’s power to help amplify his own, Rasputin hoped that he can use the girl to make Hellboy do as he wanted and force the big red demon to open the gates; in the end he succeeded. Through the course of the Moscow trip, Liz was split off form Hellboy and on her own with only John. Trapped in a chamber with monsters she forced John to help her release her anger as well as her burning powers. She managed to set the room on fire but unable to properly control it she passed out. Hellboy, John and Liz were all captured by Rasputin.

Placed on an altar before Hellboy and unconscious, Rasputin sued Liz's life to entice Hellboy to open the portal. When he refused Rasputin then sucked the soul out of her body then told Hellboy that it “lies on the other side of the portal”, and to open it. “For her...” he did as told. Liz was out of it for all of this, appearing to be dead. When the last battle was over John tells Hellboy she has no pulse. HB leaned in and whispered something in her ear that manages to bring her soul back to her and wake up. She appears to accept his love easier after that, the movie ending in heated kiss.

They returned to headquarters where Liz has agreed to stay, yet again joining the group and taking up her spot next to HB and Abe.

As a Note on her History with the BPRD between all this, I am glomping together 'events' from the comics into her 'movie' history, mostly to help round out things for her. There is a little difference here and there but nothing that doesn't work out. If details are needed, please ask.


[Personality]:
A quick overview of Liz would show that she is moody, shy around strangers, and a bit distant. She’s a nice girl though, but she's had a troubled and guilt lined past that tends to make her withdraw a bit. That and she has this longing to be ‘normal’; to fit in. She's a little bit broken, and a little bit confused, somewhat lost but very much trying to get herself on the right track.

She has an extreme case of guilt, as well as survivors’ guilt. There are lots of things in her past that she feels is her fault (and most of the time it was her fault), like her parents divorce or her mothers death, or even the death of so many other people all at once when she was 11. The survivors’ guilt comes from the Pittsburgh Incident where four other members of her team were killed because of the lack of her own control with her powers. Their deaths and the death and destruction of a mile radius around her rests heavily in her mind. That was two years ago. Being raised Catholic doesn’t help either.

Liz dislikes being abnormal and longs to take her place in ‘The Big Out-there’ as she puts it. For the most part she just wants to be normal because she thinks it will make things better some how. To be normal, to like normal things means she can live a good and happy life, right? It takes her a while to realize that she really doesn’t mind being a freak when she has friends like Hellboy and Abe; as Abe said “If there's trouble, all us freaks have is each other” which is starting to sink in now. She’s... happier with Hellboy and the program.

Running away from things has always solved lots for her. She ran away from the projects and care homes she was placed in, she ran away from school, and when Professor Broom found her and took her in she ran away from him as well. Though the difference was with the Professor and his program... she always returned, one way or another. When things get awkward or strange between her and the teams she packs up and ‘runs away’. When the Pittsburgh incident happened, after the cover up of all those deaths and the fires were over, she ‘ran away’ again by checking herself into a hospital.

Even with all her running away habits she is actually a reliable person. If something needs to be done, if she can handle it she will try and get it done. She might not care to work with others often but she can work with a group of people, though it's easier when it's her friends.

She has a large aversion to using her powers. They are hard for her to control (though she is getting better at it!) and is in constant fear of them over taking something again. She's had one too many incidents where her powers have killed people.

In the past year she has gotten better about her problems with people, running away and being what she is. She still however has a bit of a paranoid, closed off personality.

Liz isn’t from a horror setting, though some weird monster like things as well as end of the world scenarios have happened to her in canon. She tends to handle those things pretty well, just staring at it like it’s unbelievable and yet she knows it’s fully believable and ‘why me’. She handles ghosts with relative ease, seeing as she deals with them often enough. Monsters and creatures attacking them? No big deal. Shoot them if they try to bite. Or more accurately, blast them with a blaze of fire to hold them at bay.

She handles the monster setting pretty well, very adaptable and willing to do what she has to to get where she needs to go. Under constant pressure she tends to get more paranoid and uncomfortable. The more uncomfortable she gets the more likely she will close off from people, or explode. One or the other. That being said, I’m hoping to throw her a curve ball with this different and more accepting setting. She won't be used to so many people being fine about her elemental power, and she’s never seen anyone ELSE with a power like this. that in itself is going to help her break out of her shell a bit more. Without Hellboy there she might feel the need to ‘run’ but with no where to run? Well, she’ll have to get used to it.

As for desires and fears? All Liz wants is to be normal, or at least happy, surrounded by people she trusts and loves. Fears she has are simple as losing control, hurting others, being alone (even if she desires to be left alone). Liz fears most of all losing control of her power and hurting others with it. When she does lose control of her powers she blacks out, most the time someone or something has died when these incidents happen. Being locked or trapped in a space that she can't get out (or others can't leave) is also a great fear. With all of that, deep down she doesn't like being alone. She wants to be normal and live a normal life. Being able to stare at a wall for hours, alone and doing nothing is simple and relaxing, but knowing she is alone bothers her. As much as she pushes herself away from others in the end she just wants to be accepted by others.

In the end her greatest fear is loss of control and hurting others because of it. The fear of feeling the burning pull up from her chest and spread out over her body, reaching out and raising in temperature, escalating out of her control. The fear of the fires leaping from her hands, her head and body, igniting the area around her on fire. That feeling of black starting to fill her sight, the throbbing headache and dizziness. Her mind starting to lose its control as it starts to pass out. The fear of waking up in a charred room with smoking bodies littered around her; alone.

In short she’s a bit withdrawn and a solo kind of person because of past incidents, but she really doesn't want to be alone. She’s loyal once someone has earned that loyalty but a bit is easily wounded and it’s very hard to earn her trust back if broken. She will fight for the good but isn't too into fighting for no reason. If someone is getting hurt though, she will step in, especially if they are younger and defenseless.


[Abilities / Strengths & Weaknesses]:
Liz is a Pyrokinetic/Pyrokinesis user. The ability to hold mental control over fire/flames. She can mentally produce fire out of thin air needing no 'perfect' conditions of environment, element or good weather. The fire generally projects from her hands first then surrounds her body in a protective cocoon of super hot blue flames. The color varies by temperature as any normal fire would. At the height of her powers she can destroy a rather large radius around her with a blast of super heated blue flames (this has been recorded to over a mile around).

When on fire she can control where to send it, who and what to burn. She can control it pretty well, expect when her emotions get the better of her. When her emotions get loose she loses control. If she panics or gets too mad she tends to burn too bright and too close, slowly building up only to explode. This explosion can be small and condensed or large and wide. Otherwise? She’s pretty good with her control now. Having been helped along by other fire users in the other place she was at, she’d picked up some form of control here and there.

It does wear her out when she uses too much of it, or if she tries to control too much of it. The bigger the fire and longer she holds control over it the more tired she gets. After all, it’s all mental for her. She has to be conscious in order to do it. If she holds it too long she might faint and drop right after.

There is also the fact that it feels GOOD. Real good. To let the fires take their own, to burn and feel the flutter of life over and through her body. It’s completely delightful and if she lets it slip too far she can lose herself to it, either burning huge and bright until she passes out, or until she lets off an explosion of energy, taking out everyone within a large area, waking up later at the center, just fine.

[Limited Powers]:
Her powers already have limits. Unlike a magic user who throws fireball spells, or a devil fruit user who is made OF fire, she mentally makes and controls fire. She can wear out because of this. Get mentally tired and weak, or be knocked out to kill the fires. She can also be hurt and bleed to death. She is human for the most part with an element living within.

[Other Important Facts]:
Liz is about five foot one, pale, pale skin tone, dark blackish brown hair, worn long. She generally has an athletic body build, small and lithe. Generally she wears a lot of black. Around her neck she wears her auhk on a metal cord that doesn’t melt when she goes all fiery.

On her belt she has several trinkets tucked away for help on missions, as well as a B.P.R.D. issued Glock 22, with two full clips.

[Samples]:
♦ Thread: http://reallybadeggs.dreamwidth.org/7907.html?thread=3451619#cmt3451619
♦ Post: [Voice]

So ah... [a pause as she collects her thoughts. Talking to a journal seems odd but not too strange] ...apparently you all can hear me though this.

Hello.

[a pause and her voice sounds a bit flat. Considering] It seems like standards for ‘normal’ around here are a bit different then they are at home. I was... wondering if there are others around with, uh... elemental problems--ah powers. Powers. Elemental powers. I’m just curious.

That’s all.

[then a moment after, she sounded a bit less then comfortable asking it but] I... should ask if anyone has seen a big red demon running around these waters. Calls himself Hellboy? He’s a friend.

Thanks.