Elliot 'Elli' Nathaniel Merrick

Elli is genderqueer, though most often is seen in women's clothes. He has an expensive taste and the money to fork out to pay for it all, so it's not uncommon to see him in designer dresses and skirts that cost more than what most people make in a month. He has an almost fanatical obsession with Alexander McQueen and Christian Louboutin, these two labels making up a good bit of his extensive wardrobe. He also believes in showing skin, something he does quite often in short skirts and midriff bearing tops. Sky high heels are his entire shoe wardrobe due to his belief flats are reserved for nuns, ballet dancers and fat ugly people. He's also obsessed with these 'chicken cutlets' that he places in various bras along with makeup on his chest to give the effect he has a more feminine body type.

Elli is vain and spends an enormous amount of time prepping when he goes out to the club. He has a variety of wigs he wears and regularly gets his dirty blonde hair highlighted and extensions put in. False eyelashes and smokey makeup usually frame his light blue eyes that make them seem brighter than they are. He's a fan of baby pink lipstick that enhances his full lips. All in all he's easily mistaken for a female.

Elli is known for his dramatic clothing choices as well as his overly dramatic personality. And even his closest friends will tell you he's a neurotic, selfish person. But he has this wild charisma that makes you want to be his friend but hate him at the same time. Elli is the queen of parties considering he used to help his older cousin at a nightclub back in Manhattan. Elli, having been raised around nightclubs and a psychotic mother, knows you never just arrive. You make an entrance! This is something that has helped him with his persuits at drama over the years, making him a headlining star at many LA clubs as a promoter. He wants to be something, a name everyone remembers. In other words he wants to be famous. And by george he won't hestitate to step on you on his climb up the social ladder. He doesn't appear to honestly care about anyone... well, aside from his sort-of boyfriend Matty. He really is a selfish, impulsive bitch with no regard for human feelings.

But as with every great star he has his share of dyfunctions. Elli is a terrible addict, a habit that started as early as thirteen, and now drugs are his world. He would never call himself an addict, or dependent for that matter, but his heavy use of Ketamine aka "Special K" and Ecstasy (and the occasional snip of the magic powder every now and then) would definitely suggest otherwise. Due to his toxic personality Elli naturally drives people away after a while. In fact the drugs started due to his co dependency issues. Perhaps it's from the fact his father left him at the age of four with an overbearing, psychotic, alcoholic, pill-popping mother. Or maybe it's because he was given 'special attention' by that priest back when he was an altar boy. Or even caused by the fact that his very first boyfriend and first love choose family over Elli. It could even be a mixture of all three. But whatever caused it Elli no suffers from co-dependency and clingyness. This has caused him many heartbreaks over the years and has made him paranoid that everyone will abandon him. Thankfully Elli's guardian angel, Matthew Sinclair, showed up to rescue him, and he's been slightly less clingy lately. He also doesn't seem to understand how badly his lack of monogamy is on Matty, since he sleeps with new boys every chance he gets.

Elliot Nathaniel Merrick was born to Daniel and Elizabeth Merrick, and was to be their only child. Elli's father is a fortune 500 CEO and his mother is an heiress. Elliot was born into a rich lifestyle and has never forgotten that as it shows in his flagrant showing of money now. Elli had a rather average first four years aside from having the worst case of terrible two the staff had ever seen. At the age of four everything changed for poor Elliot. His parents got divorced and his mother became one of the 'hands-off' Manhattan moms, leaving him to be raised by an extensive staff. His mother began even that young to lose herself in booze and self-help books. By the time young Elliot was seven his mother had totally abandoned him, despite living in the same house, for prescription pills. Indeed, addiction is something genetically rampant in the Merrick history. His mom was the pill popping boozer and his dad had an unhealthy addiction to prostitutes and heavy liquor.

Growing up Elliot behaved just as any other spoiled, trust-fund ladened youth by throwing temper tantrums and expecting all eyes on him. Despite being an only child he was also forced into well-scheduled playdates complete with a full itenerary for the kids. His mother would shake herself out of her stupor long enough to catch up on gossip and brag about how Elliot was far advanced in school and already learned the basics of German. Elliot got along exceptionally with the other kids provided he didn't have to share and was the boss, in other words it was a disaster. Enrolled there-after in manners classes he became the prim young heir that any family would be proud of. At the age of eight he already knew place-settings and Elementary II German. His mother sunk back into oblivion and it was left to Alissa, the head domestic, to take on mothering duties. And she remained that way for some time. Elliot began showing signs as early as eight that he wasn't like the other little boys, showing no interest in sports or rough-and-tumble play. Rather, he spent the majority of his time with the girls gossiping and doing their hair and makeup. He picked up his first sewing needle at age ten and began doing upcycles for some of the little girls. That Christmas his mother bought Elliot his first sewing machine and it's been a passion for him ever since.

At the age of ten his mother decided it would be only right for him to be an altar boy at the local Our Lady Of Sorrows Catholic church. He was thrown into the role and did his best to grin and bear it while he secretly hated the feeling of being in a church. Father Rafael decided that Elliot needed special training. Well this only turned out to be a code name for terrible molestation he did to poor Elliot for two years. Finally Elliot stopped showing up, as if his mother would have noticied, but the memory still haunts him.

By his first year of middle school Elliot no longer went by his very boyish name. He began having everyone call him Elli (sounds like Ellie) and openly embraced the fact he was not masculine. He would host fashion shows with the neighborhood girls, have sleep overs that involved a lot of ice cream and oohing over hot new fall looks. He began doing the hair and makeup for the older daughters of some of his mother's staff for events like homecoming and prom. He did his own clothing line for a local upscale shop where they were sold hour within a week. Throughout his first two years of middle school the boys around him adjusted to his feminity but then the bullying started when football season did. Elliot was beaten up on a daily basis and called terrible names for being so dainty. He even had a couple of boys catch him in a bathroom...and well he just doesn't want to even remember it. In order for Elliot to forget he turned to drugs. At first it was a few of the pretty pills his mom left around and some pot when he could score it. Then a friend introduced him to Ketamine, or it's street name "Special K", for the first time and he loved the feeling of sinking into what one would call a 'K-hole'. Ketamine is used by vets as an animal tranqulizer and a friend of his had a parent who was a plastic surgeon using it for some new anti-aging thing.

In his freshman year he got premission from his mother to attend Rosedale Prep in Milan. His mother upon hearing it was a good school and would look good for Elli to go to college (and then become rich sometime after) gave her blessing. Alissa retired that summer and told him she would not be coming back. She said he had become such a strong, talented, amazing person and would become famous some day. After a particularly teary goodbye Elli left for school. He arrived at the new school in a flourish of fabulousness and glitter intent on getting the school to notice him. This proved to be no problem as the kids were gossiping about the new kid who showed up in a skirt and five inch heels for the first day of class. Elli also hooked up with a cousin of his that introduced him, illegally one would add, to the world of clubbing. Elli finally found a place for himself to fit it! It was all throbbing techno, hot sweaty people, and lots of free-flowing drugs.

In the course of two weeks he'd met a new kid named Koty and began experimenting with ecstasy. By the middle of his freshman year he was a full blown party, drug-addict with a boy he was falling for like crazy. Koty and he became a couple and stayed together until the end of their freshman year. By the end of the school year Elli had become out of control with his drugs. He finally ODed in the bathroom of a club his mother's brother owned and was rushed to the hospital. He survived but a week after his release he was shipped to rehab. When he managed to get his mother to get him out he went to visit Koty. Koty's dad caught the two kissing and went ballistic. Koty was forced to choose between Elli and his family, and of course he chose his family. Elli threw himself into the night life to forget Koty, only he forgot that not everyone liked him for healthy reasons. A Lycan got fixated on him and ended up stalking him and turning him one evening after a passionate session in the bedroom. Elli didn't know what happened until the next full moon when he shifted into his wolf form and a friend saw it. Thankfully said friend was also a werewolf and knew what to do.

Elli spent he next weeks moving back from Milan then laying in bed, crying and having his gilfriends come to console him. Elli's friends drug him out of bed to go to a new store that had opened up where he locked eyes with a gorgeous redhead. The boy was Matthew James Sinclair aka Matty (who he later found out was a Lycan from an extensive, old line). He walked over and began talking to the boy who seemed quite interested in Elli's leopard print stilletos. The two exchanged numbers and met the next day for coffee and shopping. Within a week the two had fallen for each other and after three weeks made it official. When Elli's mother decided to send him away for school again, hoping the change would help him, he took Matty with him. The two ended up at Heights Academy in Paris where they started their first day of Sophomore year in much the same way Elli started his freshman year. The two were, and have remained, well known in the school. Though Elli's personality makes it hard for most people to tolerate him.

The two graduated (admid two more ODs on Elli's part), and after one last stint in rehab they decided to leave Manhattan. With Elli's checkbook and Matty's eyes full of stars the two headed for California, eventually landing last year in a large townhouse in LA. Elli was determined to make it big as an actor or a fashion designer. He'd taken up a job as a club promoter and had been moonlighting as the Fabulous Heiress Elli Merrick, though his drug addictions weren't far behind.

Six and a half months ago a particularly nasty drug overdose left him being admitted to rehab once more, Matty (willingly this time) by his side. He was sent to a treatment center in Chicago where his mother forced him to stay with the threat of taking away his money and cutting him off if he didn't. It seemed no time at all before he was back doing drugs again and his mother is refusing to let him come home till he cleans up his act, so he's been living in Chicago for the last month and a half in a very prestigious part of town.

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