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.
Personality: 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: 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.
Other: Get ready for some English slang and an extremely miserable Elfie especially since she doesn’t have her weed on her. Also she may feel the need to investigate pretty much every person around this place she get ready for some questions.
SAMPLES First Person: 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.]
Third Person: Elfie groans a little as she slowly wakes up from her sleep. She is definitely not a morning person and she would prefer to stay in bed all day if she could but Parker’s usually in her room and waking her up before he heads off to classes in the morning. I guess he just wants to make sure she actually does something productive with her day. I mean Parker is a good egg but that’s one thing about him she doesn’t particularly like. When she opens her eyes she immediately closes them again, the light blinding. After a few moments her eyes open once more and they widen once they realize they’re not looking up at the ceiling of her small room but at the sky. She sits up quickly, looking around her. It’s that that she realizes she’s sitting on the lawn outside a house and in a deck chair.
“Holy shit that must have been some strong stuff we were smoking last night, man…”
She gets up from the chair, staggering a little as she feels a little lightheaded but she quickly righting herself. She looks around once more, eyes squinted as she takes in her unfamiliar surroundings. She walks towards the house, noting that the envelope on the door has her name on it. Her brow furrowing again she takes it off, opening it and reading its contents.
“You have got to be shitting me. Is this place for real?” Maybe she’s still high or maybe she’s dreaming? No, this feels far too real to be either…
She moves to her pocket to take out her tape recorder, almost like an automatic reaction. She wants to record everything running through her mind right now before she forgets it…but it’s not there. Pursing her lips she shakes her head.
“Someone around here has a lot of explaining to do.”
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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.
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Personality:
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:
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.
Other:
Get ready for some English slang and an extremely miserable Elfie especially since she doesn’t have her weed on her. Also she may feel the need to investigate pretty much every person around this place she get ready for some questions.
SAMPLES
First Person:
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.]
Third Person:
Elfie groans a little as she slowly wakes up from her sleep. She is definitely not a morning person and she would prefer to stay in bed all day if she could but Parker’s usually in her room and waking her up before he heads off to classes in the morning. I guess he just wants to make sure she actually does something productive with her day. I mean Parker is a good egg but that’s one thing about him she doesn’t particularly like. When she opens her eyes she immediately closes them again, the light blinding. After a few moments her eyes open once more and they widen once they realize they’re not looking up at the ceiling of her small room but at the sky. She sits up quickly, looking around her. It’s that that she realizes she’s sitting on the lawn outside a house and in a deck chair.
“Holy shit that must have been some strong stuff we were smoking last night, man…”
She gets up from the chair, staggering a little as she feels a little lightheaded but she quickly righting herself. She looks around once more, eyes squinted as she takes in her unfamiliar surroundings. She walks towards the house, noting that the envelope on the door has her name on it. Her brow furrowing again she takes it off, opening it and reading its contents.
“You have got to be shitting me. Is this place for real?” Maybe she’s still high or maybe she’s dreaming? No, this feels far too real to be either…
She moves to her pocket to take out her tape recorder, almost like an automatic reaction. She wants to record everything running through her mind right now before she forgets it…but it’s not there. Pursing her lips she shakes her head.
“Someone around here has a lot of explaining to do.”
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