Manager Elana Alysha Payne

"I never thought about becoming a criminal, but for you I would." Elana to Harper

Physical Description
Elana towers over most people she meets, at 6'4. She is not curvy at all, with a lean build. Elana had light brown hair and green eyes. Her skin is a lightish brown. She wears glasses and is nearly blind without them. Elana is rarely ever seen without a suit, normally in black or gray or dark purple on special occasions.

Personality
Elana is a bit uptight, very neat and proper. Elana is a perfectionist and sometimes gets upset when she can't make something perfect. She has a hard time with Romantic Relationships, even if she trusts both of the members of said relationship. She's always wary about them and worries too much. However Elana is very protective of her close friends and her family. She loves doing things with the people she loves and doesn't like to be away from them. She's a very hard worker and loves her job. She especially likes working with younger teens and kids, always having liked them.

Backstory
Elana lived with her mother and father in a small town called Green Hallows. Her father was always distant and mostly ignored her and her mother. Elana and her mother were very close and Elana was always looking forward to being in 8th grade as her mother taught that grade at her school. Unfortunately when she was 8, shortly after her little brother Harrison was born her mother succumbed to an illness and passed away.

After her mother's death her father became more harsh, frequently yelling at his children. Elana spent most of her time with her little brother hiding from their father. When she turned 16 she met an older man called Chester. Chester was 19 and quite manipulative. They started dating when she was 17, despite her not having any feeling towards him at all. He told her he could get her away from her father and she was pretty desperate despite not liking Chester very much. That year she left home and moved in with Chester. Harrison and her father moved to Blazing City while she stayed in Green Hallows with Chester.

Chester and Elana's relationship started to worsen when she turned 19. He got angry and defensive when she spoke to any of her friends and slowly cut off her contact with them. Once she snuck out to go see them but he found out and locked her in a closet for a couple days. She had a job as a cashier at a grocery store but he had her paycheck sent directly to his account so she didn't have any access to her own money. Chester kept Elana under his thumb the whole time they were together. He was normally only emotionally abusive towards her, but when he got very angry he'd slap her or lock her in the closet.

When Elana was 21 she discovered she was pregnant. When Chester found out he was furious. She had been on brith control. Not wanting to deal with a baby, he kicked her out and kept the money she had earned. Elana was able to stay at a former friend's house for a week while she called places offering jobs as her current one wouldn't support her and a child and she needed to get away from Chester. She was offered a position as a dragonkeeper at the stationary WIDR facility in Three Sharks City. They payed for her train-ticket and paid the first month's rent on a one room apartment for her.

A couple months later Elana had a daughter who she named Mina. She had a month's maternity leave before she had to go back to work. She found a daycare nearby where Mina went during the days. She was always very excited to go home to her little girl. On the weekends that she wasn't working she'd take her to the beach or the aquarium because Mina loved all things water related. Elana always wanted to buy Mina everything she wanted but she didn't have enough money and it always made her sad. The first thing Elana bought when she had enough extra money was a suit. She felt powerful and in control in suits.

Elana had always wanted to go to college but she was 23 now with a two year old daughter and she could barely get by as it was. She had given up on that dream until a co-worker of hers told her about online classes she could take for a much lower amount. Elana scrapped together the extra money and started online classes. She had to do without sleep most nights and existed on coffee, days were for work, evenings for her daughter so the night was for learning.

When she was 23 she went on a two-day trip for work to tame some Skylight Strikers. She tamed one who she named Torintua. However, she didn't like it because the whole time she was anxious that somehow Chester would find Mina and take her away.

Mina had always had trouble hearing but when she was around 4 it got so bad that Elana had to purchase very expensive hearing aids for her daughter. She had to briefly stop taking the online classes to afford them, but her daughter would always come first. When Mina was 7 Elana finally got her college degree. Around the same time she made friends a co-worker who has transferred from the Courageous. Elana had always heard about the Courageous but never in detail. It sounded amazing to Elana ((And there's no way Chester could get her or Mina on a flyings ship)) and when Mina was 10, nearly old enough to be an apprentice on the ship, Elana lied about Mina's age and requested that both of them and her dragon, Torintua, get moved to the large ship.

Her request was granted and she and Mina have lived on the ship ever since she was 31. When she got to the Courageous she found out that her little brother Harrison had already been there for 7 years. She initially felt guilty meeting him again, she'd always felt a tinge of guilt in leaving him behind but it wasn't like she had really had a choice with no money and no place to stay besides with Chester.

Sadly Torintua died when Elana was 39. Elana loves the Courageous and the new family she made there.

Quotes
"I wish we could steal the kids too."

Friends and Family
Harper Brighton, Admiral, Best friend

Harrison Finch, Head Researcher, Brother

Mina Payne Researcher, Daughter

Tas, Intern, Friend

Ophelia, Apprentice, Adopted Daughter

Astrid, Adopted Daughter

Darrow, Head Dragonkeeper, friend