"It's simple. You're being chased by someone. I can't turn a blind eye to that."
Elaine was a minor character in Code: Realize. She was a woman from Cardia Beckford's past.
Appearance[]
Elaine was a pale-skinned young woman with hair that is tied in a high ponytail with bangs were cut bluntly across her forehead. Her eye and hair color are unknown, though her hair color seems to be lighter than Cardia's. In the anime, her hair was brown and her eyes were purple.
Elaine wore a plain blouse with three-quarter sleeves and a high collar, over which was a pinafore dress with numerous pockets. An "X" pattern and a lace trim were on the bottom of the dress, and she wore a pair of tights or leggings underneath. She had some sort of wristband on her right wrist, and she had a boutonnière pinned to the upper left side of her chest.
Personality[]
Elaine was a kind person who couldn't ignore someone in need. Despite knowing of Cardia Beckford's poison and fugitive status from their first meeting, she continued to offer her help. She never once blamed Cardia for anything that happened to her, even when she would have been safer by turning Cardia away. She was also very trusting, as she believed in Cardia's innocence until her dying breath.
Story[]
Elaine met Cardia during her first attempt to leave her mansion in Wales. Cardia was on the run from the local villagers after losing one of her shoes and accidentally showing them her condition by poisoning the grass beneath her foot. By the time she met Elaine near her home in the forest, her foot was bleeding. Elaine felt the need to help Cardia, who was obviously distressed, and approached to help with her wound. Knowing Elaine would be hurt, Cardia tried to scare her away, but Elaine was not swayed. She insisted that Cardia come home with her, walking over the rocks so that there would be less of a trail of dead plants to follow.
Once healed, Elaine offered Cardia refuge from the villagers. Cardia knew she shouldn't stay, but her loneliness and comfort at being accepted by Elaine and her daughter Etty made it difficult for her to leave. She stayed for some time, helping with Elaine's medicine-making and caring for Etty. After a little while of living with them, the villagers attempted to harm Cardia again when they found her, but Elaine defended Cardia, wanting to prove that Cardia is not a monster. The priest of the village will only accept one thing that has proof. Elaine and Cardia had to be trapped together in a cave for a weeks' time. If they are both alive by the end of the week, the priest promised to stop trying to harm Cardia. Things go well at first, but because Cardia's body occasionally releases small amounts of poison, Elaine began to feel ill.
Elaine passing away in the cave.
Cardia, when realizing these effects of her poison attempts to burn through the rock, reassured Elaine that she will save her and it will all be okay. As Elaine slowly died, she asked Cardia to give a book to Etty. Just as Cardia managed to burn through the rock with her poison, though, Elaine died before she can even see the light come. This and Etty's negative reaction to her after all this is what prompted Cardia to go back to her mansion and accepts the fact that she's really a monster, at least in her own mind, and what caused her mental state and submissive nature in the beginning of the game.
Trivia[]
- Elaine never appears in the normal art style or with a sprite. She is only shown in an art style that makes her resemble a doll. Also, she appears in the anime during Cardia's flashback of her past.
Relationships[]
Etty[]
Cardia Beckford[]
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