Eliza (JP: イライザ Iraiza) is the celebrity diva of New Meridian’s premiere nightclub, Bastet’s Den. She is the mistress of Albus and Horace, and has been host to the skeletal Parasite Sekhmet for untold years.
General Information[]
Eliza is a playable character in Skullgirls Encore. Eliza was the nineteenth possible DLC character for Skullgirls to be revealed in the Indiegogo campaign, at $380,000. Having won the first DLC character vote, she was the third character to be created (after Squigly and Big Band). Her homestage is Bath of Tefnut, however Gehenna also plays an important role in her Story Mode.
She was originally set to be the main antagonist in the Skullgirls sequel.
There are other club singers in Canopy Kingdom, but Eliza is one of the best known.
She is confirmed to be older than Annie, and has been operating under her current guise for the past twenty years.
Personality[]
Eliza is a diva who loves to be the center of attention. Despite running a charity blood drive, she has a greedy side in which she wants to keep the blood all to herself to retain her beauty. Although she prefers to sing on the stage over searching for the Skullgirl, she starts to enjoy the challenge of the hunt when something catches her eye along the way. She is shown to be ruthless to those who oppose her. For example, she killed Cerebella after she refused to back down upon realizing Eliza's true intentions. Eliza and Sekhmet spend many years with one another to the point where their personalities are synchronized and they can act as one being.
Eliza also has a god complex that is supported by her dislike of Trinitism and wanting to be the ruler of the world. Because of the chaos and misdeeds she has done in the past, she was hated by Samson, Leviathan, and even Double. While malicious, she is shown to dislike the prejudice against parasites due to being bound to her own skeletal parasite, Sekhmet. Her adamance of wanting Samson and Leviathan to share her ideal of Theons taking power once more also suggests she considers this prejudice unjust, deeming them deserving of a higher social order. When fighting as Sekhmet, she is very aggressive, sadistic, and feral. Despite those qualities, she does not exhibit any type of abuse towards her servants Albus and Horace.
Eliza is fond of cats. This is likely a reference to how the Ancient Egyptians idolized cats in respect to Bastet, the cat goddess of protection.
Backstory[]
Eliza is a popular singer in New Meridian and is predominately known for her amazing charity work, which are namely, blood drives. Under her lavish appearance, Eliza harbors a dark secret, she carries the Parasite Sekhmet and uses the blood she gains in the drives to make herself young and beautiful perpetually. It did not take long for the Medici Mafia to discover this secret and use it to their advantage and blackmail Eliza. Now she finds herself pitted amongst the other girls in an ancient advent that Samson and Leviathan know all too well.
Story[]
After a performance at the night club, Bastet's Den, Eliza is summoned to meet with Lorenzo and Vitale Medici. They threaten to expose her secret (stealing from her own charity blood drive) if she does not retrieve the Skull Heart for them. Cerebella, eager to please Vitale, is sent along to keep an eye on her, but is constantly at odds with Eliza and her servants, Albus and Horace.
Following the scent of death, Eliza finds Squigly, who has just escaped after a fight with Parasoul. Revealing Sekhmet hidden inside herself, Leviathan recognizes the singer who his host admires so much as a being once known as "Neferu" and "The Crimson Scourge". Eliza attempts to persuade Leviathan into joining her in taking his rightful place as a Theon, but he refuses and a fight ensues. Thoroughly beaten, Squigly and Leviathan retreat.
A new scent of unusual blood leads Eliza to Little Innsmouth and subsequently Ms. Fortune. Realizing that the feline feral contains the Life Gem within her, Eliza captures her, intending to keep the artifact and her "cute little drinking fountain" to herself. Cerebella fights her for this betrayal, only to lose and be killed as Eliza ponders that the world has forgotten the terror she once wrought.
Deciding to claim the Skull Heart, she makes her way to the Grand Cathedral, again following the scent of blood, where she runs into Filia. As with his rival, Eliza tries to persuade Samson into joining her and finding himself a worthy host, but he rejects her offer as he considers her one of the causes of Delilah's death as well as the one made all of mankind hate them. Eliza proceeds to crush them before descending into the catacombs, only to be puzzled by the lack of blood. Marie, learning that she had worked for the Medicis, however briefly, sees this as enough reason to kill her and her servants.
Ending[]
After defeating Marie, Eliza prepares to claim the Skull Heart, but the mysterious artifact addresses her on its own, claiming that it's finally found her. Just then, Eliza's arm is severed by an infuriated Double, who accuses Eliza of murdering "her" children; Aeon and Venus. As Horace and Albus move to defend their mistress, a bleeding Eliza calls Double "Queen Lamia" before sensing something underground. Seeing an opportunity, she tears open the ground and flees to Gehenna, absorbing the ample amounts of blood there. By the time Double arrives, Eliza is more powerful than ever, allowing her to defeat the shapeshifting creature with ease. Having absorbed all of Gehenna's blood, Eliza destroys the Skull Heart, saying "it could have some use to me but now it doesn't matter", and takes her leave. She also states that her issues with the Trinity were some "ancient rivalries" which she thinks "do not matter now".
With the Heart gone and Ms. Fortune in their possession, Eliza, Albus, and Horace return to the Bath of Tefnut to relax and plan for the future. As Eliza begins plotting how to prepare for the Medicis (who she expects will come for her once they realize her betrayal), she is interrupted by the team of Squigly and Filia, their parasites determined to destroy the Crimson Scourge before she can cause any more damage. Irritated but unimpressed, Eliza transforms her chamber into the Bath of Sekhmet before battling and defeating the duo.
With Squigly falling back into death with the loss of the Skull Heart, Eliza has Albus lock up the undead singer and her Parasite back in the catacomb to use as "a crude alarm": Squigly will reawaken when the Skull Heart resurfaces. Eliza then binds Filia and Samson in a blood sarcophagus, planning to kill the former once she has found a more "suitable" host for her fellow Parasite. After this, Eliza decides that her previous "games" have been too small-scale, telling Horace that she'll be going out on her own, she merges with all of the blood she has collected over her life to create a giant figure resembling a lion. Declaring her intent to remind the world who its true leader is, Eliza sets off to destroy the Medicis.
After the credits, Eliza is shown approaching Medici Tower, only to be intercepted by a giant construct made of statue pieces and glowing-blue tendrils. From within the new giant's head, Marie grimly tells Eliza that "this is not over".
Abilities & Fighting Style[]
Eliza's main focus of her fighting style is her blood. She uses the malleability of the blood to turn various body parts into different creatures based off of Egyptian mythology. She also uses her microphone weapon, the Staff of Ra, to deliver damage. Her two bodyguards, Albus and Horace, are eager to assist her in battle by divekicking, throwing her opponents around, and ramming them with lounging chairs. She can also perform a taunt that restores lost health and allows Sekhmet to perform Lady of Slaughter by herself.
Sekhmet is another important element of Eliza. When Eliza is anchored to the Staff of Ra, Sekhmet comes into battle. Whereas Eliza is powerful, but lacking in mobility, Sekhmet is a fast creature that has weaker attacks. Her move list is different to Eliza's and she attacks by performing lunges, inflicting fast slashes using blood-fashioned cutlery and by causing the formation of various blood-made symbols. She also has hyper armor that prevents her from flinching. However, she will transform back into Eliza if her meter (which depletes while in play) runs out or she has been grabbed by the opponent. Although she is capable of performing attacks even when her opponents attack her, she can be stunned for a bit depending on a number of hits she endures. That can put her in peril when her health is low. She also cannot perform a Blockbuster in that state unless Eliza performs a taunt.
She was originally to have the ability to shed blood when attacked, which she would then be able to use in her own attacks or reabsorb to gain health. However, this idea was discarded as it was considered too difficult to implement, especially as she was developing into almost two completely separate characters instead of one. However, in the update that introduced Annie, this ability returned with a few key differences. When Sekhmet is in play, she no longer drains meter, but instead she drains her own health. Every time Sekhmet attacks her opponent, drops of blood spill out. Whenever Eliza comes in contact with the blood, she regains health. If Eliza preforms her taunt, any blood on the field will come to Eliza.
Againts on Sora's Team[]
Eliza joins Xehanort's team with Albus, and Horace especially. She is the mortal enemy of Rokuro, Naofumi, Itsuki, Class 3-E, Velvet, Hayato Akiyama, Korosensei, Felix, Adrien, Luka, Zoe Lee, and most of the other heroes Apparently her gig was blown up by Class 3-E, and the other Heroes along with Dahlia's place which was blown up by them especially Eliza, Dahlia, and the Medici Mafia Troops were shocked that the reason Lorenzo didn't come that Lorenzo was killed by Class 3-E, Rokuro, and most of the other Heroes based on Balalaika's orders, and some There are many other heroes who have done double but Isogai, Class 3-E, and other heroes disguise while they use pseudonyms so that their real names are not known to all members of the Medici Mafia thanks to Kayano, Ritsu, and other Heroes as their mission as invited noble guests, new janitors, and new waiters from Medici Mafia party as invisble spies from Sora's Team for spies until kill some of the most Medici Mafia member that send by Xehanort, and other villains until kill Lorenzo so that She is annoyed because Class 3-E, Naofumi, Rokuro and other heroes are the perpetrators of the explosion Medici Mafia place, perpetrators Saboteurs Medici Mafia place, and they are the perpetrators of Lorenzo's murder, especially Class 3-E, and the other Heroes already know that He along with some of the Medici including Lorenzo are working together with Yanagisawa, Xehanort, King, and other Villains based on the information of Balalaika, Chang, Mirellia, and the other Heroes, Eliza turns out to be the mortal enemy of other heroes such as Filia and Squigly such as Shinichi Izumi, Ken Kaneki, and other heroes who apparently have parasites, especially she surprises him with Double that Migi and Izumi have fused, which lives in Izumi's body, especially Migi lives inside Izumi. which makes him, and Double, annoyed with Izumi, Kaneki, Rokuro, and other heroes, especially since he is the mortal enemy of Class 3-E, especially he is Maehara's enemy after he threw a grenade at his burning face because Maehara thought that he was like Kaho who had messed with him, and other innocent so He doesn't want to deal with Izumi, Rokuro, Kaneki, Class 3-E, and other Heroes, She is Nina Williams' natural nemesis because Nina calls her as stupid brainless cat woman Cleopatra as a stupid creature who makes Albus, and Horace angry to her especially Eliza annoyed by the taunts from Nina who calls her a fool but on the one hand Anna is angry but on the other hand Anna actually sees her too as her especially her hair like Eliza made Horace, and Albus saw her as his Master but Anna was also the one who fired her bazooka at Eliza which made her angry with Anna even though she hated Nina but Anna was helped by her because she sometimes hated her more as her crazy side was considered obsessed especially Ken see her just like Eliza that obsessed almost like Bison especially her front name just like His wife make Eliza surprise that her another version already married then have boy as her son her make her actually like her another version.