Ella Forsythe

Ella Forsythe

 


Following the murder of her parents at age six, Ella was taken by Arthur Forsythe to be raised in Stratford, London. Now 20, she works as an assistant at Canterbury’s Second Hand Books with Amita Rajan, leading an outwardly unremarkable existence. But in her dreams, she’s capable of extraordinary feats; and every night, she’s visited by the enigmatic Damon Spector, who’s teaching her things she never thought possible. Awake, Ella is reserved and unassuming, while in her dreams, she’s assertive, ambitious, and formidable. 

Observed Abilities
Air manipulation
Teleportation

Interviewer: Thanks for sitting down with us, Ella. Ella: Okay. Interviewer: Are you alright? Ella: Yeah. I'm not really used to all this. The Lights. Interviewer: How about if we turn them down. Is that better? Ella: It is, thank you. Interviewer: Okay. Can you tell us a bit about yourself? Ella: Um... Okay. I'm twenty years old. I live in Stratford, London, and yeah, I work in a Second-Hand Bookstore. Interviewer: Do you enjoy working there? Ella: I guess. I mean, it's a job. Interviewer: Do you like reading? Ella: My grandfather pushed it on me kind of hard. I guess it stuck. Interviewer: What kind of stories do you like? Ella: The usual. Fantasy, Sci-fi. I'm not into romance. I like the classics. Orwell, Huxley, Bradbury. Interviewer: You prefer dystopian stories? Ella: You could say that. Interviewer: What do you like about them? Ella: They're more real. They show a side of ourselves we hide from everyone else. Interviewer: We're all one catastrophe away from our own personal reckoning? Ella: Or renaissance. Interviewer: Do you always talk like that? Ella: Like what? Interviewer: Like you're two hundred, not twenty. You sound wide beyond your years. Ella: That's my grandfather. Like I said, he pushed the reading on my pretty hard. Interviewer: What do you think was behind that? Ella: Honestly, no one could ever understand what motivates him. I'm not sure even he knows what's going on in his head half the time. Interviewer: Does he like the same books as you do? Ella: He reads philosophical stuff. Voltaire, Locke. He's big on Milton. Interviewer: Is that sort of thing something you'd be interested in doing for a career? Ella: What? Reading books? Interviewer: Or writing them. You're clearly clever. Did you ever consider going to university? Ella: I didn't like school. Interviewer: Why's that? Ella: I'm... not really interested in talking about that. Interviewer: Alright, do you have any plans for after the bookstore, at least? Are you thinking about the future? Ella: I can't worry about that right now. I have Arthur to look after. He's not well. Interviewer: And you're okay with putting everyhting on hold like that? You deserve a life of your own, don't you? Ella: I don't think 'deserve' has anything to do with it. Interviewer: Surely you have dreams of your own. Ella: Dreams aren't real life. style=

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