As with many super-heroes, Elanna Forsythe George does not do well with relationships. This comes from being so sensitive that she experiences everything at once. As it is, she has to work hard to walk down the street knowing what everyone passing her by has had for lunch, or is thinking of their family, business, the affair they are having, or a dying friend. Relationships, even for normal people are difficult enough.
Just like Batman, she has tragedies that mark her. As a child of a broken marriage, she feels displaced, unanchored, and that lingering feeling like somehow she was defective. The evidence was there: she was sent off to boarding school – even if only because she was very smart and her parents wanted the best for her. Succeeding is the only way she seems to get attention from her family.
Those people she holds above herself, such as Beeji and Captain Stewart, she relates in a simple and accepting way, because they are like her; gifted and authoritative, in an unorthodox way. As for Lieutenant Ricky ‘Rick’ – Rakesh, she has trouble deciding if he's just a pal, a potential lover, someone who’s too good for her, or if she's too good for him. Still, despite her overwhelming challenges, she is loyal to her friends and tenacious following through with her challenges.
As a forensic scientist, Elanna is comfortable with ‘Facts & Proof Beyond A Reasonable Doubt’. She’d much prefer to be in the lab, looking at samples, and watching it all come together to point out a perpetrator. That’s a safe and predictable, but sterile existence, perhaps, but Elanna would have been fine with it. However, by now, she also realizes that, having gone through what she’s been through, there would be no growth for her in the daily, drab grind of so-called ‘normal’ reality. Nor would she have the friends that she has made through her nonconformity and adversity.
However, Elanna, being passionate about her career as a forensic scientist, and needing to find some balance, tries to pursue both sides of the equation – with her own special energy and purpose – and thus, she embodies the ‘North American dream’ of having it all – even though, somehow, time after time, she always falls short, since her powers and abilities will never allow themselves to be controlled like that.
N.K. Johel
Just like Batman, she has tragedies that mark her. As a child of a broken marriage, she feels displaced, unanchored, and that lingering feeling like somehow she was defective. The evidence was there: she was sent off to boarding school – even if only because she was very smart and her parents wanted the best for her. Succeeding is the only way she seems to get attention from her family.
Those people she holds above herself, such as Beeji and Captain Stewart, she relates in a simple and accepting way, because they are like her; gifted and authoritative, in an unorthodox way. As for Lieutenant Ricky ‘Rick’ – Rakesh, she has trouble deciding if he's just a pal, a potential lover, someone who’s too good for her, or if she's too good for him. Still, despite her overwhelming challenges, she is loyal to her friends and tenacious following through with her challenges.
As a forensic scientist, Elanna is comfortable with ‘Facts & Proof Beyond A Reasonable Doubt’. She’d much prefer to be in the lab, looking at samples, and watching it all come together to point out a perpetrator. That’s a safe and predictable, but sterile existence, perhaps, but Elanna would have been fine with it. However, by now, she also realizes that, having gone through what she’s been through, there would be no growth for her in the daily, drab grind of so-called ‘normal’ reality. Nor would she have the friends that she has made through her nonconformity and adversity.
However, Elanna, being passionate about her career as a forensic scientist, and needing to find some balance, tries to pursue both sides of the equation – with her own special energy and purpose – and thus, she embodies the ‘North American dream’ of having it all – even though, somehow, time after time, she always falls short, since her powers and abilities will never allow themselves to be controlled like that.
N.K. Johel