Ooookay gimme ellis and the corpse corporals headcanons I need them to survive the winter
I'M GOING TO TRY AND DO A MINIMUM OF FIVE EACH 🥰
The Corpsemen initially came to Isla Nublar under the guise of different and unassuming professions so as to not spread the inevitable panic that the knowledge of Masrani's hired failsafes were sure to do. No one wanted to think of the Jurassic World venture as capable of failing, so the Corpse Corporals would go out of their way to keep their covers, up until the point where their intervention was required. So Ellis knows them as civilians first, and Corpse Corporals second.
Ellis and Malcolm
Malcolm Drake is not a good man, period. None of the Corpsemen are, but Ellis can feel it especially when it comes to Drake, even when he operated under the cover of a new InGen shareholder.
Malcolm views Ellis as an asset, essential to his team's survival against the Indominus. He issues a protection detail, consisting of Enzo and Clem.
Only wants straight-forward to the point facts, so definitely would not appreciate Ellis' sharp wit and snark.
Battle hardened and brittle, he has little sympathy for anything Ellis goes through. He's very out of touch with what is normal and what is too much for civilians, having been in the business for too long.
Really doesn't give a fuck about anything other than the payload, so he tends to laugh off Ellis' attempts at endearing the dinosaurs to him.
Ellis and Clementine
Clementine first comes to Isla Nublar under the guise of a research assistant to Dr. Henry Wu. She is the first to meet Ellis as she is now, at a paleontology lecture they were both attending. They aren't immediate friends, just acquaintances who would occasionally sit together for all the following lectures they found themselves at, but when Clem is put on security, they bond over being in their respective male dominated professions. They become fast friends after that.
Given the nature of her profession, Clem doesn't have a lot of bonds with people outside of work. Her fellow Corpsemen are the beginning and end of her interactions, them being her family and friends. So she takes Ellis' friendship very seriously. (Ride or die, essentially).
So seriously, in fact, she snaps back against Malcolm The Captain Drake when he pushes Ellis too far.
Clementine also knows how George really is under all that charm, and definitely warns Ellis against him, much to Ellis' amusement.
Worried for her safety, Clem would definitely teach Ellis some self defense in whatever free time they had.
Clementine is Ellis' first success at getting the team to see the beauty in dinosaurs. Clem's religious beliefs at first made her proclaim them abominations, but over time, she appreciates them as living beings and respects that they are innocents, mere victims of their circumstance. She becomes very protective of the dinosaurs after that.
Ellis and George
George had a brief history in poaching following his dishonorable discharge from the military, so he knows a thing or two about tracking. He comes to Jurassic World aptly adopting the cover of a hired tracker for escaped dinosaurs who haven't yet been chipped or are in need of chipping, and it's this skill that also makes him invaluable to the team later. He, alongside Clem, are also the ones who know the most about the dinosaurs, actually taking time to study everything about them instead of just how to kill them. So yes, he regularly quotes both Ellis' and Alan's writings, hoping to impress.
George develops a bit of an infatuation with Ellis. By a bit, I mean a lot.
Doesn't understand Ellis' love for dinosaurs, but tries.
It doesn't work, and he, like Clem, believes that Isla Nublar jeapordizes the survival of mankind, and must be destroyed. Unlike Clem, he is unshakable on this.
Ellis doesn't know if anything he does — from giving her his jacket when she's visibly cold, to going out of his way to not kill a dinosaur they're confronted with (at least not in front of her) — has an ulterior motive or not. No one really does (other than Clem).
Ellis and Hector
The only one to have met Alan Grant before the job. And Ellis, too, for that matter. While he was working for the government, he was invited over for a dinner with the Grants to discuss the potential threat Jurassic World would have on national security following the unfortunate failure of the park before it. Ellis was very young when they met.
For his cover, Hector works as lifeguard and head of security at the mosasaurus water exhibit. Occasionally, he operates the feeding machine. That's how he meets Ellis again after all these years.
He loves hearing about fun dinosaur facts he can tell his kids when he calls them to say goodnight. Ellis definitely gives him some, a new one every day. He's completely taken aback that the mosasaurus isn't actually classified as a dinosaur, but a lizard. They have a running joke where they refer to it exclusively as "the imposter."
Ellis is the only one other than Clementine he's shown a picture of his kids to.
Big Dad Energy™, and very protective over Ellis. Regularly tells her that he hopes his daughter will grow up to be like her, only that his daughter would actually listen to him when he tells her to stay away from the dinosaur island.
Saves extra food for Ellis because although the Corpsemen are used to rationing, he remembers that Ellis isn't like them.
Like Clementine, Hector is quite religious. Unlike Clementine, Hector simply cannot abide dinosaurs co-existing with humans, given that he has children he has to think of. This is only cemented by witnessing the carnage on Isla Nublar firsthand.
Ellis and Enzo
Enzo just really didn't have a brain for those long scientific names and anatomical diagrams. He knew where to aim when he shot, and that was good enough for him. He couldn't tell you a Triceratops prorsus from a Triceratops horridus. Heck, he couldn't tell you the difference between a Stegosaurus and a Spinosaurus, but it wasn't for a lack of trying. So, naturally, he would be in either the information centre or the resort library well late into the night (to prevent any teasing he may endure from his peers) trying to still learn. That's where he first met Ellis; she'd been perusing the books, jetlagged, and hoping to find a good enough read to pass the time.
Enzo and Malcolm have a father-son relationship in that Malcolm practically adopted him after he paid Enzo's bail. He holds Enzo to a much higher standard than he does the others, even foregoing the same "feline" theme of the codenames in favour of "Junior." So immediate embarrassment would arise in Enzo at having been caught out, especially by the woman he knew to be Ellis Grant (who so scornfully peered at him from the website sidebar when his inattentive eyes would drift from the fourth thesis of hers he'd tried to focus on that hour).
But she was anything but scornful when she sat with him. It became a nightly tradition, and it helped him a lot, learning from her directly.
His job at Jurassic World is in the observation deck, so he has eyes on all of Isla Nublar. He takes Ellis there one day.
Because of his deep loyalties to Malcolm, he doesn't speak out against him when he taunts Ellis. But he does later apologize, voice soft, eyes cast to the toes of his boots.
He won't admit it, but security detail with Ellis and Clem is the most fun he's ever had.
The second Corpse Corporal Ellis has managed to convert to the side of pro-dinosaur.
Matching raptor tooth necklaces with Ellis, Enzo, and Clem?
