Everyone suspects ELEANOR LOUISE LANE of at least one of the cardinal sins, but in Nevada, the worst sins are bound by blood and this is HERS: BROTHERS OF ICHOR. SHE rolled the dice SEVEN YEARS ago as a MEDIC. Under the desert sun, they claim the act of PHYSICIAN. They’re often mistaken for ELIZABETH OLSEN before those crimson colored glasses slide down their nose. ELLIE better get busy living, or they’ll get busy dying by the ripe age of TWENTY-NINE. There are no second acts in a marked life, and it’s measured out by the melody of FEEL SOMETHING BY BEA MILLER.
DATE OF BIRTH: February 14, 1992
GENDER AND PRONOUNS: Cis Woman, She/Her
CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY [TW CHILD NEGLECT, DRUG & ALCOHOL ABUSE]
On a day known to most as being filled with love, and affection, and warmth… Eleanor Lane was born into a family with everything but. Her mother Camille was an addict simply chasing the next high, and her father could have been any number of men that rotated through the door of their trailer in the coming years. When it came to her father’s identity, Ellie never could get a solid answer from her mother… and eventually, she just stopped asking. It didn’t take long for Ellie to learn the hard way that her mother was not her ally in life; all her mother saw when she looked at her daughter was the amount sent their way by the government each month. The same amount that would be, time and time again, wasted on booze or pills.
As she got older, Ellie saw less and less of her mother. And that was fine by her. She thrived in solitude, choosing instead to focus on her studies, often riding her bike to the local library to bury her head within a book in a means of escaping the disastrous life she’d been thrown into. With such a complicated home life, Ellie’s ability to relate to her fellow classmates struggled, and it wasn’t long before she was pulled from her mother’s custody and thrown into foster care. Ellie suffered through four different placements over the coming years, desperate to keep her head down and hope for the best, her eyes always focused on that magic number 18… when she’d finally be free to spread her wings and become the person she’d always dreamed of being; someone free of her mother and the stain she’d left on Ellie’s young life. Someone who could re-invent herself, far far away from anyone who truly knew her.
But at the age of 14, just as she was about to be moved from one foster home to the next, Ellie’s social worker showed up at her school and pulled her from class. A man had come forward and was claiming to be her father. A man by the name of Richard Fuller. He was well known in Seattle as the owner of several local chain restaurants. Ellie couldn’t believe it; someone normal and someone decent was her father. The story of his relationship with Ellie’s mother was one that she couldn’t believe, no matter how many times he told it to her… it shed light on a time before Ellie’s mother had struggled with addition, when she was young and full of life and wonder. Camille and Richard were together for only a handful of weeks before Richard claimed that she stopped answering his calls and the apartment she’d lived in went vacant. Richard thought it was strange at the time, but being young and busy with his studies at university, he moved on and didn’t give Camille another thought for many years; until an anonymous letter arrived at his home fourteen years later, announcing Ellie as his daughter and asking that he step up and care for her.
And for the next several years, he did. Ellie was pulled from the system and thrust into a life so unlike her own that she struggled beneath the weight of it. Now she had a father, and a stepmother, and a younger half-sister, Claudia. She was pulled from the school she had attended her entire life and placed into a local private academy, where despite her inability to make social connections, she stood out academically. Though she struggled with connecting with her father and stepmother, Ellie and Claudia grew close quickly. Claudia was just two years younger than Ellie and despite the picture-perfect persona she hid behind, she was just as imperfect as Ellie was and from there, the two bonded.
After high school graduation, Ellie enrolled in the local university to begin her undergraduate degree in Biology. Just as she had dreamt of her entire childhood, she was pre-Med, hopeful that she would continue to excel academically and find her way to med school. During Ellie’s second year of university, she was studying in her dorm one Friday night when she received a call from Claudia. Claudia’s words were barely coherent, her speech slurred and loud music distorting anything Ellie could make out. One of the only things Ellie was able to make out was the name of a fraternity at her college— and that made her blood run cold. The fraternity was well known for their raging parties, and with that, came the inevitability of underage drinking and drug use. Considering her own mother’s struggles with addiction, Ellie had never touched alcohol or drugs in fear that it would send her life down the same dark spiral that her mother had suffered.
After the call went dead, Ellie rushed to the fraternity house in search of her half-sister. She found Claudia, as well as two of her underage friends, drunk and barely conscious in an upstairs bedroom at the fraternity. They seemed relatively unharmed, other than the excessive levels of alcohol they’d clearly consumed alongside men that were two or more years older than they were. Ellie loaded the girls into her car and began the drive back to her dorm, where she planned to keep the girls hidden until the next morning when she’d drive them home, sober. Unfortunately, they’d never arrive back at Ellie’s dorm. Just two blocks from her dorm, Ellie sat at a stoplight and once it had turned green, she moved her vehicle into the intersection, where the car was t-boned by an eighteen wheeler running a red light.
Ellie would awake in the ICU days later, hooked up to machines and with a cast on both her right arm and leg. Not long after she awoke, Richard shared the grim news that Claudia and one of her friends had died in the crash. Ellie was horrified, and heartbroken, distraught beneath the grief of losing her one and only friend in life. And then she realized that both her father and stepmother were watching her with identical looks of hatred on their faces; and that was when Ellie realized she would never forgive herself for this, and neither would they.
After the accident, Ellie returned to the same way of life she’d experienced as a child— one of loneliness and solitude. Her father cut ties just months after the accident and after finishing her undergrad in Seattle, Ellie transferred to a med school in Las Vegas, where she began a new life. Ellie has been a fully practicing physician for three years, and though it was once her dream, she no longer takes the same level of pride in her career as she once did. She moves through the motions; wake up, work, go home, sleep, repeat. Ever since being recruited into the ranks of the Brothers of Ichor as a medic, her time with the club is where she feels the closest to alive. The excitement and unpredictability is something she craves, leading to Ellie putting herself in more and more dangerous situations just in an effort to feel something.
ELEANOR LANE IS WRITTEN BY CASS.
