Appearance

Ella has a lighter color of black hair, making it a more grey-ish tone.  The tips of her hair seem to fade into a golden/yellow color.  Her hair is long, reaching a little bit above the halfway point of her back.  It isn't only long, but rather thick as well. She usually pulls it back into a ponytail to keep it out of her face, and occasionally, she'll put it into a loose braid.  Her hair is completely straight, and the most she can do with it is make it wavy.  It seems to refuse to hold curls and anything else.  She usually has a few strands around the front of her face that fall out and float over her forehead.  Ella's eyes are a dark brown color, and are a more "cat eye" shape.  She has rather average length eyelashes that are a dark brown, and her eyebrows are a dark brown, almost black color that have a slight arch.  Ella has a more oval shaped face.  Ella usually has a neutral expression, and her emotions at times, are hard to read.

Ella stands around 5'6" in height, and around 134 pounds in weight.  She has an hourglass shaped body, and has is balanced in her leg and torso length/size, both being about average for most people.  Ella has quite a few scars, mostly around her legs and arms, as well as her stomach and back, and one on her neck and jawbone.  She has muscle, though it seems to be mainly in her legs, and somewhat in her arms. She has muscle in her stomach area, though it isn't a lot, so it doesn't show up very much at all.  Ella has rather pale skin, which absolutely refuses to tan.  She doesn't mind that at all, it just really gets on her nerves when she sunburns. Due to her intense training, she has a rather high stamina, allowing her to keep fighting, running, or anything for quite some time...though if her stamina is used to its full extent during some sort of thing, it takes her a while to recover... Ella is definitely better in offense than she is in defense, leaving areas all over herself completely open...though her speed makes up for that.  

Ella has a rather large variety of clothing she wears, though she does have a favorite casual wear for each of the different seasons.  She usually wears a loose, comfortable, brown-black (though it's more on the black side) t-shirt.  The shirt is rather transparent, so she'll usually wear some sort of loose tank-top underneath it, though when she's feeling lazy, she'll just wear it without a tank-top.  She wears jean shorts that are a couple inches long, making them rather short.  They seem to be worn and ripped in two or three places, as well as faded.  She wears simple black sandals and several loose brown bracelets on her right wrist.  Sometimes she'll throw on a couple small ankle bracelets that are the same as the other ones.

During fall, she'll throw on a incredibly pale pink colored, loose, quarter sleeved t-shirt.  She wears a quarter sleeved sweater cardigan over her t-shirt, and black leggings as well. She wears simple, light brown boots as well.

In the winter, Ella wears a simple, pale-ish, cream colored sweater with black leggings.  She wears cream colored boots as well, and usually throws on a brown scarf with it. Sometimes she'll wear a red hat as well, usually when the weather is extra cold.

Personality

Ella, when she is around people she has never met before, or just doesn't really know in general, seems rather...emotionless. She keeps a neutral expression on at all times, not showing the slightest bit of happiness, anger, sadness, or anything else like that.  Most of the time, it's incredibly hard to read her emotions and know what's going on inside her head.  She finds that this comes in handy whenever she is being "interrogated," tested, or something of the sort.  Once she warms up to a person, or starts to get to know them more, she'll start to show and put more emotion into her words and expressions.

Ella is rather cautious of people she has never met before, and it takes quite some time before she'll actually trust them. Because of this, she has hardly any friends because she can't seem to get used to them and is, most of the time, rather cold towards the person.  Though, once she has finally befriended the person, she'll be rather protective over them, not wanting any harm to come their way.  She'll also be plenty more kind toward that person.

Ella is an independent person.  She usually likes to be able to do things on her own, and is easily frustrated when something is too hard for her to complete.  She likes to help people as well, though sometimes when she helps a person, it seems like she just ends up doing it on her own.  Because of her independent side, she learned how to take care of herself at a young age.

Ella tries her best to stay fit and healthy.  She usually goes on runs and hikes and other things to keep her in shape, and most of the time (unless she's eating out) she'll make something healthy to eat.  Because of this, she's kept her healthy and fit status.

History

Ella lived with her mother, father, and brother in a small residential town. Her mother and father could easily support their family with the jobs they had, and they seemed to have no problems whatsoever.  Ella was extremely close with her parents and elder brother, and it seemed as though nothing could separate her from them.

Ella, in her schooling, struggled quite a bit.  She had a hard time understanding the concepts and other things to go with the academic sides of her education.  She did her best anyways, and even though her grades were lacking, her parents were proud of her for trying.  

Though Ella had an outgoing, friendly personality at this age, it seemed as though no one liked her very much.  She had no friends, and no one to talk to. Though normally this should have made her feel hurt or upset, it didn't bug her at all.  Ella didn't care, at her age, if she had any friends.  As long as she had her family, she was fine.

As Ella turned 13, her life took a turn for the worst.  While she was sleeping one night in her home, a psycho serial killer who had been on the loose broke into their house.  Ella didn't wake up until she could hear the screams of her mother in the other room.  When she got up to go see what was going on, she saw her father dead in their bed, and her mother lying on the floor, dead as well.  As the man moved to kill her, her brother, 17 at the time, quickly grabbed her and put himself protectively around her.  He was stabbed to death, and after that, the man moved to Ella.  She tried to run, though he managed to catch her, and did his worst before running off and disappearing in the night.  The police showed up quite some time later, only to find Ella barely hanging onto life.  They quickly hospitalized her, where she stayed for a while until they knew she was completely healed, and they gave her therapy classes as well.  

Her uncle was the one who came to take her in because she had no where to go with her family being dead.  Her personality had completely changed after the event, and she had become rather cold and quiet.  She didn't talk at all to her uncle for quite some time, and her uncle let her be like that, not wanting to set her off.  Finally, one day, her uncle came home with a small bag containing two stones.  Her uncle called them Burst Hearts, and showed them to his niece, letting her look over the strange, gem-like rocks, one containing a Banette, the other a Houndoom.  He told her what the stones could do, and she instantly wanted to use it. Of course, her uncle wouldn't let her right away.  This was when her intense training began.

It was when she was 15 that she had gotten incredibly far into her training, and decided to try it.  She moved to the outside, taking the Banette stone with her, and then commencing the transformation.  To her uncle's horror, it failed, and she nearly died in the process.  She took a long break before beginning her training again, and the next time she tried to use the Burst Heart, she was 17.  She probably had been ready earlier than that, but she was too scared of the outcome.  This time it was successful, and she was ecstatic.  She continued to train herself to further progress herself with the Burst Heart process (or whatever it is), and now she still keeps herself in shape and healthy, not wanting to lose the ability.