'Ella Damaris

Chesterfield Act Registry of the Non-Expressive Database

File #27 Jun 2020 17:26

Summary

Name Coleen Marcella Rozlynn Damaris Aliases Colella DeVil (Social Media Handle) Status Registered Non-Expressive (Class N Non) Gender Female Birthdate December 19, 2002 Age 18 Height 5'8" Build Athletic Eyes Blue Hair Brown Residence Cresting Wave Apartments Employment Student Parents Kaydence Lee Damaris Spencer Carroll Damaris† Siblings None Marital Status Single Children None First Scene Birthday Breakfast Last Scene Profile 'Ella Damaris is a student coming up on the end of her high school career. Currently she's a Scout, plays shortstop for her travelling softball team, and balances worrying about her mother with trying to live a normal teenage life. She has ambitions of becoming a scientist or engineer of some sort. Or maybe a professional translator. Maybe a cop, or a member of SESA. When she's not busy with all of that, 'Ella can be found trying to meddle in her mother's personal life. It seems her attempts to convince Godfrey Wells that he should take her mom on a date finally panned out, sort of. However, Marlowe Terrell's still in the running. Finding out that for months her mother wasn't actually her mother, and it was the months where they got along the best, has been incredibly difficult to unpack. While she's certainly grateful to have her real mother home, she can't help but wish they had that close relationship she somehow managed to have with her impostor. Don't worry. That's not fucked up at all.

portrayed by Kaya Scodelario

Background

Coleen Marcella Damaris was born December 19, 2002 to Spencer and Kaydence Lee Damaris. Her early memories - sparse as they may be - are of her parents being happy together, and with her. They were both police officers, often working opposite shifts, but coordinating days off, and there was no mistake how devoted they were to each other and to their child. All of that changed overnight, Christmas Eve of 2007. 'Ella had just turned five years old when her father was killed in the line of duty. (In reality, his murder was ordered by Daniel Linderman, perpetrated by Kain Zarek, and covered up as a noble death defending someone innocent on the job.) While the loss of her father had a profound affect on her, she is more concerned about what the death of Spencer Damaris did to her mother. The two have a bond like steel, but even steel can bend. When Spencer died, she was sent to live with her mother's parents, Hank and Brittany Delacroix, so she wouldn't see Kay deal with her grief. (Or not, as the case often is.) There would be many more times throughout the years when Kay would send her daughter upstate to spare her from the troubles that plagued New York City.

The biggest shift in 'Ella's world following the death of her father was the shift in Kay's personality. She could still manage smiles for her daughter, but they weren't the same. Even when she kept the girl at home, she was so often absent from her life. Kay Damaris' work for the NYPD became her life, and it warped and changed her in ways 'Ella may never understand. She didn't know that Kay's fear that she wouldn't be able to support her was exploited by the Linderman Group. In exchange for a sizable trust fund with regular deposits, Kay compromised her morals and became a cop in Daniel Linderman's pocket. The descent of that slope drove Kaydence to become distant and depressed. 'Ella could only watch helplessly as her mother seemed to die, but her body remained.

Something changed again when Kay started dating Spencer's old partner, Matthew Parkman, or Uncle Matt, as 'Ella had always called him. Kay finally seemed to come back to herself again. The two were engaged in short order (who needs a long courtship when you've already known each other for years?), but it only lasted eight months. With the benefit of hindsight, 'Ella's aware of the bullet she and her mother dodged. While a part of her will always love her "Uncle Matt," Parkman's infamous rise to Director of Homeland Security is one she's glad they missed. How far her mother would have fallen from that height. With the revelations of the terrible things he was responsible for, she was glad to have him out of their life. It was only losing out on the sister that should have been hers that stung. The death of Molly Walker is still something that hurts 'Ella to this day.

'Ella struggles with her mother's propensity to send her away to stay with her grandparents when things get rough, sometimes lashing out at her for it and calling her selfish, lonely, and bitter. She knows deep down that only one of those things is true; her mother's been alone ever since Parkman pushed her out of his life. Although she has come to suspect over the years that it isn't his ghost that haunts Kay, but the ghost of another man. She's seen newspaper clippings and photographs of a man with shaggy blonde hair, a face of dark scruff, and the devil's smile in a shoebox in the bottom of her mother's closet. She has no idea who he is, only that he must have been very important to her. It's 'Ella's hope that Kay will eventually crawl out of her self-loathing disguised as work ethic and start really living life again. She has no idea how dark her mother's world truly is.

Psych Profile

In spite of tragedy and her mother's tendency toward distance, 'Ella is a remarkably bubbly girl. Part of this is almost certainly owing to the therapy sessions she's been attending since the age of five, giving her a wealth of healthy coping mechanisms. She's popular with her peers and often a fount of cheer. She's also just as stubborn as her mother, refusing to be swayed once she's put her mind to something. The only reason she tends to lose when she and her mother butt heads is because she's the minor child. The day is coming, 'Ella hopes, when she will be allowed to stand up for herself and what she believes in, without her mother's worry holding her back.

'Ella Damaris is an NPC run by Hudson.

Appendices

Logs

Log Icons
Mother's Child	Looking Back	Chalk Dust	reb'Ella
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2018
Date	Plans	Participants
02/01	Leave the Past Behind	Ma
11/05	Birthday Breakfast	Ma
2019
Date	Plans	Participants
10/16	Sore wa Himitsu desu	Ma and Marlowe
12/23	Reindeer and Grinches	Brynn, Dumortier, Elaine, Elisabeth, Faulkner, Godfrey, Harmony, Rhett, and Seren
2020
Date	Plans	Participants
12/25	I'm Not Here	Ma
2021
Date	Plans	Participants
01/27	Reflective Kintsugi	Elaine
02/05	Robot or Alien	Asi

Path Not Taken
Wasteland

Trivia

Known to Most

• Owing to the influence of Yamagato Park, 'Ella is incredibly interested in Japanese culture and tradition. She owns traditional kimono and yukata that she wears during festivals, is learning about tea ceremony, and studies Japanese with a hope of minoring in the language when she goes to college to increase her fluency. Her mother's southern accented inflection when speaks it is a point of continuous dismay.
• Coleen Marcella is her full first name, while Rozlynn is her middle name. This is a curse that was inflicted on her mother (forename: Kaydence Lee, middle name: November) and passed down to her. She is determined to break this vicious cycle of Too Darn Many Names and fully intends to shorten her legal name when she's old enough.
• Speaks with an unapologetic New York accent very much at odds with her mother's Louisiana.
• A serial dater, who she's seeing changes with more frequency than her mother has to re-bleach her hair.
• Identifies as pansexual.
  • Unless someone tries to give her shit for it or any other part of her identity. Then she identifies as the cast iron pan that's about to knock them upside the head.

Known to Some

• Was nearly the step-daughter of Matthew Parkman, Sr. She considered Molly Walker her big sister.
• No, you aren't spelling her name right if you leave the apostrophe off the front, gosh.

Known to Few

• Has never been blood tested to see if she is SLC-Expressive, owing to her mother's concern that she'll be treated poorly or targeted for persecution if she turns out to have an ability. She is registered as Non-Expressive, despite the lack of confirmation.

Gallery

Alts

Kay		Working hard, play hard.
Nicole		Searching for answers in all the wrong places.
Odessa		Making all the same mistakes.
Rue		Picking up the pieces.
Nicole		Escaping the Ordinary World.

NPCs

Caderina		Everything is cherries on top.
Gracie		Took a dive with the swans. Wants to be part of your world.
Hollis		Molding young minds. Unafraid of the dark.
Joey		Talented artist. Sketchy business.
"Marlene"		Hindsight is 20/20. Living on borrowed time.