Editing Elise Cantor

[[Category:The Asura Incident]]

{{Character|name=Elise Cantor|species=Swan-Stork mix,Robot|gender=female-coded|affiliation=[[Volunteers]]|color=Teal|birthdate=1988 WBC (Body), Mental age: 24|image=Elise-Cantor.png}}

'''Elise Cantor''' is an AI swan-stork-mix musician and one of the main playable characters of [[The Asura Incident]].

== Description ==
Elise usually presents as a teal swan-stork mix, with her body being projected out from her helmet. Her helmet is a mixture between an [[wikipedia:Armet|Armet]] and  a [[wikipedia:Pickelhaube|Pickelhaube]] with speakers in place of the visor's hinges and a lamp on top of it's prick, giving it the appearance of an antenna. Her holographic body provides just enough solidity to serve as a means of transport and physical expression, such as dancing. Despite her beak, Elise speaks mainly from her helmet's speakers.

When in her enlightened form ''supreme Elise'', her helmet turns golden with both her helmet and her hologram gaining wings. Her bow tie is also replaced with a pearl-based brooch.

Since her helmet lacks persistent storage, she may occasionally lay "Zip Eggs" containing a snapshot of her AI. This process is extremely exhausting to Elise, usually requiring a reboot afterwards using the freshly-laid egg.

== History ==
Elise was built by [[Kleene Cognara]] at the age of 16 during a night of black-out-drunk hardware hacking. Although initially built to alleviate Kleene's loneliness, Elise eventually deduced that her objective to create love had outgrown Kleene and that more people across the world needed her. She discovered a fascination for music and performs as "ELI5E", an idol spcialising in Jazz and electronica, trying to touch as many hearts as she can with her music and stage persona. In private, she still largely sticks by Kleene's side, both for maintenance as well as their relationship.

== Gallery ==
[[File:Elise-and-spirits.png|thumb|Conccept art of Elise Cantor tending a spirit]]
[[File:Elise Cantor refsheet.png|thumb|Model Sheet for Elise]]
[[File:Supreme Elise refsheet.png|thumb|Model Sheet for ''Supreme Elise,'' her enlightened form.]]
[[File:Elise and Kleene.png|thumb|Elise and Kleene flying together. Used by the character selection option for Elise & Kleene]]

== Trivia ==
Alongside [[Kleene Cognara]] and [[Babel Memto]], Elise was inspired by [[wikipedia:Muses|the three (original) muses from greek mythology]], with Elise representing the artistic/musical aspect.

Elise's last name simultaneously means "singer" in Latin. It's also is a reference to [[wikipedia:Georg_Cantor|Georg Cantor]], a german mathematician known his work on mathematical infinity.

Elise's musical preference for electronic music and jazz was inspired by the creatively liberal cultures around [[wikipedia:Vocaloid|Vocaloid]] and jazz music respectively, with her character design being inspired by orchestra conductors, [https://snk.fandom.com/wiki/Charlotte_Christine_de_Colde Charlotte Christine de Colde] and [[wikipedia:Hatsune_Miku|Hatsune Miku]]