Elvira Character Analysis

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Elvira – (Girl friend of Frank)
A stereotypical white thrash girl, who is addicted to cocaine. A buxom brunette with a lot more to show for, than just her looks, she is irresponsible and very outspoken. Her relationship with her boyfriend (Frank) is not something to be questioned, even though she may seem like an adventurous type, if you lay a hand on her, be sure to find your genitals floating across the river bed. Frank and Elvira are not the pair to be messed with even if he doesn’t seem like much to look at, his business strategies and leadership qualities are some things to be reckoned with. As for Elvira, she is a master manipulator and can always get her way. Even with Frank, but she loves him and often obeys whatever
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She always brings out the wild side in people. Being the girlfriend of a local crime lord, she does the riskiest things imaginable and gets away with it. She has a bad habit of stirring up trouble where it doesn’t belong. As a child school was rough, even with all the street life aside, school is pretty rough for a girl who claims to be the daughter of a crime lord. School life was something out of a comic book for her and when she gets home, her father was right there waiting for her; she had been sexually assaulted all throughout her teens. On her nineteenth birthday she finally had enough, she found the courage to resist and fight back and was able to castrate her father with the help of a razor blade she had hidden between her teeth although she had to do a minor surgery after the horrific dilemma; she knows in her heart that it was worth it. Come from tough times she has learnt to stand on her own two feet and has become fairly good in unarmed …show more content…
She has an amazing arsenal of weapons which you can play with and use to your advantage. Just because she is a girl it doesn’t mean she can’t stand her ground in a fist fight, in fact most of the main characters in the game are terrified of her and never engage her in any way. Though in some cases a dog’s bark is worse than its bite; here we see a bitch whose bite is far worse than anything she would say. There is a mission in which the protagonist, has to fight alongside her, in order to complete the mission you have to kill more enemies than Elvira which is easier said than done. Never get on her wrong side as you are desperately in need of her help, later on in the more complex missions and being able to use her in free roam opens the door to a lot more

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