Elias the Echidna

Elias the Echidna is a rather solemn and serious person hailing from Ali'ikai, and is the Uncle of River the Echidna, and the Father of two currently unnamed characters. He spends most of his time alone with his own family and is somewhat Xenophobic, however there seems to be an underlying part of his personality that he hides from most people…

Concept and Creation
Elias was first thought of as a completely nameless side-character, who wouldn’t be serving much of a purpose anytime soon. He was basically a minor idea in the back of my head. However, after having some family-related conflict, I needed something to vent on, and I starting developing negative parts of Elias even more. I began thinking of scenarios and story ideas related to him, and after a while he began to evolve into an antagonist-like character. After revealing one of the story ideas I had in mind to KniroAndTito3915 and SigmaAlphaThree, their responses encouraged me to continue working on this character, and I pulled inspiration from plenty of already-existing characters. Yes, he still probably has a LONG way to go and there might be plenty of edits…

Personality
Elias, as mentioned before, is serious, solemn, and grim. He’s anti-social to say the least, and doesn’t appreciate large crowds or gatherings. He doesn’t seem to find much joy in anything. However, after a while it is noticeable that Elias often restrains himself from saying or doing certain things. For example he would stop speaking mid-sentence and immediately switch to another topic, or you would see him clench his fist in anger and quickly release it. He can only hold himself back for so long, and when he does finally break out… he becomes a nightmare to say the least.

Elias only shows the second side of him if he’s furious with another individual or if there’s some conflict involving his family. With this side, there are two layers involved. The top layer is cunning, clever, and knows just what to say to make other people afraid. He tries to intimidate others into submission, however this can dig deeper. If someone resists and ignores all of his threats (or something of the sort), the second layer of this side is shown. Elias becomes aggressive, extremely over-protective, somewhat delusional, and even abusive. He lashes out at others, both physically and verbally, however once this part comes out, he immediately restrains it once some damage has finally been done.

Despite this behavior, he has never intentionally shown this side to his own children, and the only time they’ve seen it was when they were simply bystanders in the conflict.

River the Echidna
Elias’s relationship with River is extremely… rough, and that’s hardly saying anything. To be blunt, they hate each other to the core. She is afraid of him, and he is well aware of that and uses it to his advantage. He shows his worst side to almost exclusively her, and it’s somewhat a way for him to relieve stress (a VERY unhealthy and immoral stress relief though). He has hurt her several times in the past, and because of that their family can never trust the two alone together.

History
Elias was born on Ali’ikai, two years before his brother, Zale the Echidna, would be born. At around the age of 5 or 6 years old, the brothers had lost their mother in an accident, putting an immense amount of strain on him as a child. After all of this, he just wanted to be alone, and thus began to grow an anti-social and distrusting personality. His brother was less affected being the younger one, and as the two grew up, Zale was known as the sarcastic yet understanding child, while Elias was known as the solemn yet mature child.

As an Adult, Elias met another Echidna woman (who is currently unnamed), and eventually the two fell in love and were married. At around this same time, his brother and his wife, Anna, had a child of their own named “River.” Needless to say, Elias thought his Niece was rather odd considering her fur color and Hydrokinesis, but he had no hate towards her at this point. Over the years he grew somewhat distant from his brother’s family and began to focus on his own, eventually having two daughters born a couple years apart.

However, it wasn’t long before tragedy struck. A tsunami had struck Ali’ikai, and while he and his children were alive, Elias had lost his wife in the disaster. He began to grow more stressed, as he had lost both his home and his love, and he sought out refuge with his brother’s family. He and his daughters arrived to them in a complete mess, and of course their relatives had to help. However, Elias had begun to grow a disliking towards River, and at first, he wasn’t sure why, but soon enough the answer became clear.

He began to grow this delusional idea that since she was the only person he knew who had the ability to manipulate water, he began to believe that she was the one who had caused the tsunami, and as a result blamed her for the death of his wife. One day, Elias had caught her speaking alone with his daughters, and he did NOT appreciate this at all. In a delusional fit of anger, he had hit her backhanded in order to get her away from her cousins, as Elias believed he was protecting them. Just moments later, Zale and Anna had come rushing in; Anna escorting the girls away from Elias, and Zale fighting him.

After that he had little to no contact with them, but he well knew that he planted extreme fear within River’s heart, and even presently he still has an unjustified vendetta against her.

Trivial Facts

 * He is the second tallest of my characters, being only three inches below Mandolin the Caribou.
 * Most of his colors were suggested by other users during a livestream.
 * SigmaAlphaThree seems to have an extreme hate towards this character. Not because he exists, but because of what he had done in this backstory.
 * He is somewhat inspired by a certain member of my family, however the traits in their real life inspiration are extremely overexagerrated in the character.
 * He is also based on some fictional villains and anti-heroes
 * It's likely that he does have a mental disease, ASPD to be specific, however this hasn't actually been diagnosed by anyone.