Elsa Bloodstone
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Elsa Bloodstone is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe who first appears in the Bloodstone mini-series of 2001. Elsa Bloodstone was created by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, and Michael Lopez
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[edit] Fictional Character Biography
As documented in Bloodstone #1, twenty years ago Bloodstone met and married a woman named Elise. Elise gave birth to his daughter Elsa, but Ulysses and Elise separated when Elsa was two years old. Ulysses distanced himself from both, and Elsa never knew him as she grew up. Bloodstone trusted Adam the Frankenstein's Monster to give his daughter Elsa a fragment of the Bloodgem in a choker when she was old enough. After Ulysses left, Elise and Elsa traveled across Europe, settling in England where Elsa is schooled. Elsa began to have increasingly frequent dreams about monsters, such as vampires. Eventually she and her mother learned of Ulysses' death, and they flew to Boston to settle his estate.[1]
As Bloodstone begins, Elsa and Elise arrive at Bloodstone House, where they are given a tour by the executor of Ulysses' estate, Charles Barnabas. Exploring the house, Elsa discovers a secret chamber in which she encounters Adam who tells Elsa about her father. Adam gives her the Bloodstone Choker, which attaches itself to her neck. After grabbing a flashing genie lamp, she is transported to Bosnia in the midst of a struggle between Dracula and the Nosferati.[2]
Dracula recognizes the Bloodgem fragment and attacks Elsa, but is blasted away by the Bloodstone Choker. Dracula is then impaled by the Nosferatu, who take him away, while Adam returns Elsa to Bloodstone House. Adam later designs a costume for Elsa, patterned after her father's. The two then have the lamp transport them to Egypt, where they met N'Kantu, the Living Mummy. Elsa later confronts Nosferatu himself, who bites her but is destroyed by the Bloodgem energy in her blood. She and her allies free Dracula who then exposes the Nosferati to sunlight, destroying them.[3]
Elsa lives in Bloodstone Manor with her mother and ally Adam the Frankenstein Monster; she has befriended Charles Barnabus, a pureblood vampire lawyer and executor of the Bloodstone estate. Pursuing a monster-hunting occupation, she begins an online blog to create an electronic encyclopedic reference guide for the numerous monsters and alien beasts in the Marvel Universe (published by Marvel as Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters, albeit written in a very American tone, in contrast to Elsa's English disposition).
In Nextwave #1, the character of Elsa Bloodstone had since joined a team of super-powered heroes. She says she comes from 'a line of near-immortal monster hunters', and has a red gem on a choker collar. She is super-strong and capable of surviving car crashes, and often carries two rifles. She is also English.
[edit] Powers and Abilities
- According to Elsa, she had some of the Bloodgem power via a genetic inheritance from her father, and it was present in her blood, indicating that she didn't only gain power via the Bloodstone Choker, but was born with power. She has an unspecified level of super strength, she has demonstrated immunity to vampire bites, her blood will destroy a vampire if consumed, and the original Bloodgem fragment itself was an anathema to vampires.
[edit] Equipment
- Removable Bloodgem on a choker.
- She possesses a number of artifacts gathered by her father. She possessed a Lamp which contained a Genie Ulysses had enslaved years ago, which served as an early warning system, lighting up during supernatural trouble, and transporting him to said troubles.
[edit] Appearances
- Bloodstone #1-4 (2001-2002)
- Nextwave #1-12 (2006)
