Profile: Eli Pepper

Personal Data

Name: Eli Pepper
Gender: Non-binary
Pronouns: They/them
Age: 16
Birthday: January 3rd
Ethnicity: White
Nationality: American
Species: Human
Sexuality: Bisexual

Family: Eli is the only child of two loving and supportive parents. Their father makes custom furniture and their mom deals with the customers. Eli’s father’s shop is fairly popular so the family is financially very stable.

Strengths: Extremely talented with handicrafts. Open-minded. Accepting. Determined. Patient.
Weaknesses: Anxious. Easily embarrassed. Easily injured in their small form. Low control over their powers. Occasional low self-esteem.

Appearance and Style: Eli is an androgynous, white teenager. They have short mousy brown hair with a slight wave and freckles. They are slender but not skinny, still having baby fat in some places. Their height fluctuates due to their powers but is generally under 5’4. They pick at their nails so their nail beds are often torn up. They mostly wear jeans with sweaters, t-shirts, or hoodies and typically stick to neutral or cool colors. Their clothes are both simpler and more varied when they are in their handmade clothes for their smaller sizes. Usually it is simple shirts, pants, or dresses made of fun fabric prints Eli has found at craft stores.

Superhero Data

Supranym: Shrinking Violet
Status: Alive. Active.

Metahuman Type: Mutant
Abilities: They can shrink as small as 6 inches. In the future they may learn to gain size instead.

Ravenhold Data

Acceptance to Ravenhold: Application

Class: Four
Power Category: Miscellaneous
Roommate: Frederika

Backstory

Eli was born in Ohio and lived there their entire life. And it has been an extremely normal life. They were born to a loving couple that had struggled with infertility in the past and only managed to have Eli in their early thirties after trying for a decade. They deeply treasure this one child they managed to have and spoiled them a bit, but being good, kind, and open-minded people themselves they raised Eli into a good kid.

Eli got their powers around 8 years ago when they had a panic attack during a school play. They shrunk into their costume disappearing before the eyes of half their hometown. Their anxiety has only gotten worse since and, especially after coming out as non-binary when they were 10, they were heavily bullied. Eli’s shrinking was “too disruptive” in class and so by the time they were 11 they were pulled out of school to be home-schooled.

Eli decided to apply for Ravenhold when they realized they were starting to approach adulthood and still couldn’t properly function in society. They wanted to attend with the main goal being to learn to control their powers, though the more they thought about the more they started to fantasize about becoming a hero. But they gotta learn how to stop shrinking whenever someone besides their parents talks to them first!

Misc Information

• Eli’s favorite colors are purple and gray
• Shortly after they first got their powers and were diagnosed with anxiety they got an emotional support cat
• The cat is a Maine Coon name Angel
• Angel is a very patient, tolerant and sweet kitty.
• Angel has both consciously and unconsciously learned many tasks to assist Eli when they are shrunken.
• Eli sews clothes for their miniature self and has also made a dollhouse full of furniture that they sometimes hide away in when tiny.
• Eli learned to sew after starting home-schooling; their mother wanted to teach them life skills and sewing was the one they took to most easily.
• However, Eli did not take to cooking easily and is a clumsy disaster in the kitchen
• Eli is very close to their parents and their parents are loving and affectionate both to each other and to Eli
• Eli was raised Catholic but their family left their church when the pastor went on a transphobic rant shortly after Eli came out.
• Eli has helped their dad in his shop since they started home-schooling.
• Eli often carves little wooden animals that are really popular with the kids that come to the store.
• After seeing the dollhouse Eli made for themself on Instagram many people wanted to commission them to make one, prompting Eli to turn off their Instagram dms for the foreseeable future.