Eleanor Penn

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Eleanor "Ellie" Penn is one of the identities taken by Echo. She is a hostage negotiator hired to intervene in negotiations between Gabriel Crestejo and Mr. Sunshine, who had kidnapped Gabriel's daughter Davina. She is known for a tough, assertive demeanor. The personality of Eleanor was created from several different individuals

Fictional History

When Ellie was 9, she was kidnapped and held for 3 months, during which time she was raped by a man called "Ghost". She escaped after he threw her in a cold river, thinking that she'd drown. The experience then drove her to becoming a kidnapping and hostage negotiator.

Ellie became a profiler and negotiator, training at Quantico. In the seven years since completing her training, she'd handled 12 successful negotiations.

And then came the Crestejo case. Initially sent to just deliver the money to ensure Davina Crestejo's return, Penn suffered an asthma attack when she saw the Ghost among her kidnappers and they panicked and shot Gabriel Crestejo. Ellie nearly botched the case but persuasion from Boyd Langton made Adelle think otherwise. Topher checked Ellie Penn's file and discovered the reason for Echo's panic attack. The original Ellie Penn killed herself a year prior to the Crestejo case as she never gained any closure since the traumatic experience. Echo, in Ellie Penn's body continued the case. She first persuaded Mr. Sunshine's accomplices to leave but an argument from both parties turned them against each other. Mr. Sunshine died bleeding from a gunshot from one of his accomplices. She since she knew from experience where Davina would be hidden, she found a turned fridge with Davina inside it. The Dollhouse security breached and swept the area. Upon completion of the case, Echo managed to bring closure for Ellie Penn, one that the original couldn't manage to do.

Parameter

A profiler and hostage negotiator with a tough yet calm demeanor.

Lack(s)

• Ellie is near-sighted and asthmatic.

Background

Eleanore Penn was created by Topher Brink, and dialogue suggest that this personality in particular, let alone most (if not all) of the personalities imprinted into the actives are based on scans of real people. This would suggest that someone used to create Eleanore did indeed endure the training she mentions to Gabriel, and that the same person, or someone else may, or may not have successfully handled 12 different negotiations. It is known, that at least one person to create Eleanore was real, and that this person was the true kidnap victim of "Ghost".