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CHARACTER: CANON SECTION
NAME: Elda Marker
AGE: Ambiguous but over 200 (headcanon 233)
CANON: Karin (aka Chibi Vampire in the Tokyopop official English translation)
NAME: Elda Marker
AGE: Ambiguous but over 200 (headcanon 233)
CANON: Karin (aka Chibi Vampire in the Tokyopop official English translation)
CANON HISTORY: Here's a wikia but it meshes up both the manga and the anime (my Elda's specifically from the manga) and is pretty sparse to begin with so I'll just bullet point recap to be safe.
CANON PERSONALITY: The core of Elda Marker's personality is a dual-pronged struggle between loneliness and love, with both poles fueling much of everything else about her. Following the vampire genocide in Europe including the death of her whole family there, she felt isolated and stewed in her own hatred towards humanity and resentment for how much was taken from her. She was saved by James refusing to leave her side and eventually marrying her with the promise she won't be alone again (something she has an, via her children and grandchildren, continues to cling to). While this didn't abate her hatred by a long shot, it did keep her in check enough to allow her to live a fairly comfortable life with that small, growing vampire as opposed to either rotting away in hatred or exploding in rage and dying young, both of which seemed possible in the flashback.
Elda's greatest strength and greatest weakness as a person are more or less the same thing: the woman has a strong feeling of indomitability as she barrels though almost any situation, physical or emotional. While this has not always been the case, as witnessed in her oldest flashback, the modern Elda is someone who can rush into any situation and take control of the room. On the plus side there is the obvious benefit of her tremendous physical strength as well as an ability to take charge of a room and a situation just through sheer force of will and bullheadedness. However, on the other hand there is the downside to this life philosophy. Elda's style of moving things to her pace often results in her disregarding other people's feelings or disregarding facts that she either didn't notice or just considers to be unimportant. In that respect, despite her power and gusto, she actually makes for a very poor leader. It is for this reason she only rarely is the one actually "in charge" during the series.
Elda is the matriarch of the Marker Family, and while for most serious situations in the series Henry (her son) or Calera (her daughter-in-law) will be the ones actually in charge, Elda's age, experience, and power does make her a strong voice. She's actually usually the contrary person in these discussions, approaching problems from an older and more ruthless perspective, often being the one who suggests that they just kill people to remove them as problems or other such extreme measures. The reason for this is twofold: the first is that Elda is old, having lived through the near-extinction of her species two hundred years ago, she walks around with a strong resentment towards humans, half-vampires, and in all honesty a strong distrust of everyone outside of her immediate, trusted family. Glark (one of the antagonists) remarks that their plans could be taken awry the moment Elda gets involved because she hates everyone who isn't a member of her family and would be perfectly willing to see them all die (of course, he's not 100% right, it's his speculation, but it is true that's the reputation she has).
The second, related to that, is that Elda loves strongly. She's still head over heels for James and capable of giggling like a schoolgirl about how dreamy he is hundreds of years later, she was incredibly critical of Calera (something that remains true to this day) because she wanted the best partner for her son, and she dotes on all of her grandchildren. She jumped at the chance to run literally across the entire country to rescue Karin at the end of the series, and is actually able to (until things get more serious) put aside that hatred-born-of-trauma to allow Karin to work out her own feelings towards Kenta (a human) against her "better" judgement. Her love is also overwhelming, perhaps even smothering through. Her grandson Ren is still traumatized by how physical and doting she was on him when he was four and actively avoids her now, and unaware of how much strain it put onto Karin insisted on playing with her all night every night during her first period of awakening in the series.
People, even those same people who she loves and who (generally) love her back, are afraid of Elda on some level in the series, and she repeatedly shows that this is for good reason. The people she loves she smothers and can be fairly possessive of. And it's also shown that the way her affection manifests is often selfish, born also of her mercurial whims, such as when she insisted to Henry that she clean out his ears, forcing him to lay on her lap while she did it - but then the moment she was bored simply jammed the cleaner in and stood to walk away. Almost every (vampire; humans are largely ignorant of her) antagonist or supporting character outside of the family gives mention to Elda's power and ruthlessness; many of the older ones have explicitly been bullied by her at some time in the past, to the point that Karin is briefly able to make one of her kidnappers vacillate by impersonating her grandmother. The moment she meets Karin she's immediately so fascinated by/jealous of Karin's breasts she feels her granddaughter up, and while she doesn't resist when someone stops her, she does pout at being stopped.
Elda has been lonely before, but now pushes past that through force of will and the affections towards and from her family. However, while upbeat and generally fun/funny from the outside, she doesn't make any big attempt to be friendly either. She's a vampire through and through, with all of the arrogance that implies, but at the very least she can be an amusing one if you can survive what she considers amusing.
SKILLS/ABILITIES: Vampires in Karin are very ambiguously stronger than humans for the most part. Like we can infer that they probably are, and a handful actually are presented as being so, but there’s not a ton of evidence they’re as ridiculous as in many other canons. However, Elda is one of the exceptions to that general rule, shown to be able to take control of other people's bats and do ridiculous stuff like keep up with trains on foot via bounding leaps. Starting from that baseline:
- Sometime in the "late 18th century" the Inquisition/the Church (I know) is tipped off by half-vampires the locations of the major houses of vampiredom in Europe and launches a campaign of genocide against the vampires there. The destruction and death is so complete that the survivors band together to flee to another part of the world to escape persecution and execution. They end up traveling towards Japan because it's so far off from all the carnage.
- The first time we see Elda is during a flashback to these events and while we aren't given an age she comes off young-ish during it, having been rescued from the fall of the old Marker family by James Edwards. She's (as far as she and anyone else in the series knows, baring a side-story chapter) the only survivor of her clan. During the boat ride she had a chance encounter with a handful of other people who're plot relevant to the series (such as Daniel Brownlick and Cecelia Armash) but they aren't that important to her personal history. The important part is that they land in Japan and over the course of the trip she becomes closer to her savior, James.
- After they land in Japan, still consumed by grief for the loss of her family and way of life and hatred towards humans for being the cause of it all, Elda starts to strike out and threaten death on random people she encounters as she tries to adapt to her new life. However, by the end of the flashback she's able to pull herself together somewhat because of the comfort and support of James, who proposes to her, and after she briefly questions his intentions, she accepts. For the rest of their lives they are a loving couple and Elda is still crazy about him.
- Chronologically, the next time we see Elda is in 1953 during a flashback about how Karin's parents met. By this time James and Elda have set up shop and live a comfortable life in Japan with their apparently teenage(ish) son, Henry. But James shows up with a young girl named Calera (Armash, though it's implied he hid her family name from Elda) to be betrothed to Henry. Honestly Elda doesn't do much during this flashback because it focuses on Calera and Henry, but her main role is starting her mother-in-law disapproval of Calera and showing how her fury is able to be easily pacified by her love for her family/husband.
- It's worth noting at this point that Elda (and James, for that matter) seem to have entered into a way of living where they periodically go to sleep in their coffins for years at a time because they got "bored of living," only to rise up every now and then to make sure that they're healthy by way of eating blood. On initial appearance it's implied Elda might actually be significantly older than 200ish, but despite her grandiose dialogue I doubt that's the case.
- There's only one or two panels dedicated to this next bit on the timeline, but to flesh it out: it's established that Elda (and James) woke up some 17 or so years before the start of the series (so 1986ish) to hang out with the family before Karin or Anju were born and their older brother Ren was around four. Elda smothered Ren with so much affection that he's traumatized for life, which plays a fairly big role in his backstory. This is also the last major flashback point with her and the last time (chronologically) we see James alive.
- Finally, the series proper! Elda wakes up for the first time about 20 chapters into the series (in 2003) and goes around hunting some humans, getting their blood, and generally causing problems for Karin's life because she looks nearly identical to Elda and the family decides to hide Karin's weird physiology from Elda. Honestly a lot of what happens here is more important to Karin than Elda (because side character) so the gist of what's important on Elda's side: she learns Karin and Anju exist and she learns that Karin has some budding feelings for a human (Kenta Usui) and while she does voice her disapproval, she leaves the choice of how to handle it to Karin herself, noting to herself that she must be going soft to not just kill Kenta. And then finally, at the end of the four chapter arc she goes to give the blood she collected for James to him only to discover that James died in his sleep. She grieves for some time, and then decides to go back to sleep, promising to awake quicker this time to see the choice Karin makes.
- Elda's asleep for another 20 or so chapters, awakening again around chapter 40. It's been several months at this point, and this time she wakes up, checks on what Karin's up to, and discovers that her and Kenta's relationship has progressed. While she does give them time to kiss (which they fail to do) after getting bored and frustrated she drags Karin home and demands to know why a human knows they exist as vampires. Honestly, that plot point is sort of dropped with her accepting Henry and Calera's authority.
- But more importantly, Elda confronts, kidnaps, and (if not for Karin's intervention may have) attempts to murder one of Karin's new supporting characters, a half-vampire named Yuriya. While Yuriya does turn out to have been working for the antagonists, Elda doesn't know this and this is mostly out of her own prejudice against halfbreeds and her desire to punish any other vampire that would dare "invade" her family's territory and thus threaten their interests. Her hand is stayed when Karin admits to Elda that she herself is abnormal too, and the revelation that Karin shoots out blood as opposed to eating it shocks Elda to the core. She's the first to propose the theory that because blood is life for a vampire, Karin's lifespan is probably being limited by this, and in her rush to try and think of if she heard of any relevant stories about blood-making vampires, she sees Anju and is reminded of Cecelia, finally making the connection that Calera is from the Armash family, a hidden clan of vampires that probably know more about strange legends like this. While she sends Calera out to investigate her own family, Elda decides to go back to sleep, to "lay low" after all the trouble she caused Karin this time around.
- The final time Elda wakes up (ten chapters later) in the series is just in time for the climax. To make a long story short the bad guys of the series have kidnapped Karin because of all the conspiracy stuff she had been knocking on last time, and we learn it's possible she didn't sleep the whole time because she shows up with James's diary, which had been in a hidden compartment of his coffin, claiming she'd been studying it. When the rest of the family organizes to go by train to hunt down Karin, Elda launches off by herself. She misses most of the final battle, but shows up at the last second and basically kicks everyone's ass, and as the emotional finale happens she runs off to beat up the bad guys more.
- She shows up back in the series in time for the ending though! Having finally beat up the Brownlicks enough for her liking (January 2005), she returns home to be given a teddy bear by Anju that Anju claims will be a good luck sleeping charm for her (and she doesn't know it but said teddy bear houses the ghost of her late husband James, sealed inside of it by Anju. Elda ignores Anju's attempt to explain that). We don't actually see much of Elda after that though, but she's in the background looking vaguely disapproving/sad when the family erases Karin's memories (spring 2006) of them so she can live a normal human life.
CANON PERSONALITY: The core of Elda Marker's personality is a dual-pronged struggle between loneliness and love, with both poles fueling much of everything else about her. Following the vampire genocide in Europe including the death of her whole family there, she felt isolated and stewed in her own hatred towards humanity and resentment for how much was taken from her. She was saved by James refusing to leave her side and eventually marrying her with the promise she won't be alone again (something she has an, via her children and grandchildren, continues to cling to). While this didn't abate her hatred by a long shot, it did keep her in check enough to allow her to live a fairly comfortable life with that small, growing vampire as opposed to either rotting away in hatred or exploding in rage and dying young, both of which seemed possible in the flashback.
Elda's greatest strength and greatest weakness as a person are more or less the same thing: the woman has a strong feeling of indomitability as she barrels though almost any situation, physical or emotional. While this has not always been the case, as witnessed in her oldest flashback, the modern Elda is someone who can rush into any situation and take control of the room. On the plus side there is the obvious benefit of her tremendous physical strength as well as an ability to take charge of a room and a situation just through sheer force of will and bullheadedness. However, on the other hand there is the downside to this life philosophy. Elda's style of moving things to her pace often results in her disregarding other people's feelings or disregarding facts that she either didn't notice or just considers to be unimportant. In that respect, despite her power and gusto, she actually makes for a very poor leader. It is for this reason she only rarely is the one actually "in charge" during the series.
Elda is the matriarch of the Marker Family, and while for most serious situations in the series Henry (her son) or Calera (her daughter-in-law) will be the ones actually in charge, Elda's age, experience, and power does make her a strong voice. She's actually usually the contrary person in these discussions, approaching problems from an older and more ruthless perspective, often being the one who suggests that they just kill people to remove them as problems or other such extreme measures. The reason for this is twofold: the first is that Elda is old, having lived through the near-extinction of her species two hundred years ago, she walks around with a strong resentment towards humans, half-vampires, and in all honesty a strong distrust of everyone outside of her immediate, trusted family. Glark (one of the antagonists) remarks that their plans could be taken awry the moment Elda gets involved because she hates everyone who isn't a member of her family and would be perfectly willing to see them all die (of course, he's not 100% right, it's his speculation, but it is true that's the reputation she has).
The second, related to that, is that Elda loves strongly. She's still head over heels for James and capable of giggling like a schoolgirl about how dreamy he is hundreds of years later, she was incredibly critical of Calera (something that remains true to this day) because she wanted the best partner for her son, and she dotes on all of her grandchildren. She jumped at the chance to run literally across the entire country to rescue Karin at the end of the series, and is actually able to (until things get more serious) put aside that hatred-born-of-trauma to allow Karin to work out her own feelings towards Kenta (a human) against her "better" judgement. Her love is also overwhelming, perhaps even smothering through. Her grandson Ren is still traumatized by how physical and doting she was on him when he was four and actively avoids her now, and unaware of how much strain it put onto Karin insisted on playing with her all night every night during her first period of awakening in the series.
People, even those same people who she loves and who (generally) love her back, are afraid of Elda on some level in the series, and she repeatedly shows that this is for good reason. The people she loves she smothers and can be fairly possessive of. And it's also shown that the way her affection manifests is often selfish, born also of her mercurial whims, such as when she insisted to Henry that she clean out his ears, forcing him to lay on her lap while she did it - but then the moment she was bored simply jammed the cleaner in and stood to walk away. Almost every (vampire; humans are largely ignorant of her) antagonist or supporting character outside of the family gives mention to Elda's power and ruthlessness; many of the older ones have explicitly been bullied by her at some time in the past, to the point that Karin is briefly able to make one of her kidnappers vacillate by impersonating her grandmother. The moment she meets Karin she's immediately so fascinated by/jealous of Karin's breasts she feels her granddaughter up, and while she doesn't resist when someone stops her, she does pout at being stopped.
Elda has been lonely before, but now pushes past that through force of will and the affections towards and from her family. However, while upbeat and generally fun/funny from the outside, she doesn't make any big attempt to be friendly either. She's a vampire through and through, with all of the arrogance that implies, but at the very least she can be an amusing one if you can survive what she considers amusing.
SKILLS/ABILITIES: Vampires in Karin are very ambiguously stronger than humans for the most part. Like we can infer that they probably are, and a handful actually are presented as being so, but there’s not a ton of evidence they’re as ridiculous as in many other canons. However, Elda is one of the exceptions to that general rule, shown to be able to take control of other people's bats and do ridiculous stuff like keep up with trains on foot via bounding leaps. Starting from that baseline:
- Elda is shown to be very stealthy and acrobatic, able to nimbly move herself around Karin’s school by doing flips, scuttling up walls, diving into the shadows, etc. She’s still spotted here and there but only for a moment and gets the jump on more than one character while she’s doing it to attack them for their blood. Her general body language throughout the series also reinforces this idea, showing her crouching or sitting in ready frog-like positions a lot, and she seems to have a casual relationship with shoes.
- Elda is one of if not the physically strongest vampires in the series, at least by implication (her son might be stronger being as how he comedically lifts a tree at the end, but she does still save him). She’s also the only one who has a maxed out “vampire skills” stat in the data book (though admittedly the databook plays things for laughs, given it’s a shojo series; her other maxed stats are “love for husband” and “love for family”), and either way the point is that the woman is physically stronger than she looks and exudes a strong threat of violence. Also her long lady fingernails are apparently supernaturally hard, because she threatens to use them as if they were claws/talons numerous tims, including flexing muscles in her fingers.
- And on the subject of vampire skills! In Karin those include being able to control bats for the purpose of reconnaissance, getting a large group together to fly, projecting other abilities through the bats, and generally harassing people. Elda has exceptional bat-control as compared to pretty much every other vampire in the series, as seen from her collecting a swarm sufficient to block out the rising sun for a bit when they storm the Brownlick mansion. Vampires can also erase memories (usually only of the last few minutes/hours without risk of simply erasing someone's mind entirely, though Elda threatens to "make someone think they were four" once or twice. And then on a final understated note vampires have a superior sense of sight, or at least night/dark-vision and a superior sense of smell.
- Blood affinities are the preferred tastes of vampires in Karin. They don't refer to blood types or anything (though the health of an individual or their diet/blood type can affect texture and taste some) but rather a person's emotional state or overall being. Different vampires are attracted to different things: for example, Elda's son Ren is attracted to stress. So particularly stressed out individuals smell delicious to him, whereas someone on cloud nine without a care in the world would smell bad. When a vampire feeds on someone's blood (directly, this can be moved past by using a syringe or something) in addition to draining blood they also drain the affinity temporarily. So going back to Ren, a woman he feeds on will feel her stress lessoned and perhaps be able to think clearly and positively for as long as the effect lasts (usually a week or so depending on how much blood is taken). Elda's blood affinity is never outright stated in canon but by implication (and my headcanon) she's attracted to emotional weariness/maturity. So basically middle aged people smell delicious o her but particularly youthful people don't.
- And I suppose finally vampire weaknesses: vampires in Karin burn up from the sun, their superior night vision means that they are sensitive to bright lights (it's shown Karin's parents don't even really like to turn on lightbulbs in the house), and their strong sense of smell means they don't like particularly pungent things like garlic or onions. However, outside of those most other vampire weaknesses technically don't apply. I say technically because, as Henry says, "a stake through the heart would kill anyone" - vampires in Karin are strong and somewhat supernatural, but they are protrayed as being more mortal than in a lot of other canons, most likely able to be killed through blood loss or gunshot wounds or etc and certainly shown to be able to die of old age if they don't maintain themselves with blood. Also as a vampire she can't taste anything except blood, it all tastes like ash to her.
CHARACTER: AU SECTION
AU NAME: Elda Marker
AU AGE: 40
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: She doesn't keep her fingernails or hair as long as she does in canon when she doesn't have supernatural poise to keep them in order. Her hair is shoulder-length now, and a light brown color. Her eyes are similarly different; a dark brown color. While still petite, she's not as much as a waif in canon due to needing to actually build muscle mass (so basically the different of being 5' 90lbs in canon to 5' 115ish lbs here). Oh, and obviously in Recollé she's a human, not a vampire.
AU NAME: Elda Marker
AU AGE: 40
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: She doesn't keep her fingernails or hair as long as she does in canon when she doesn't have supernatural poise to keep them in order. Her hair is shoulder-length now, and a light brown color. Her eyes are similarly different; a dark brown color. While still petite, she's not as much as a waif in canon due to needing to actually build muscle mass (so basically the different of being 5' 90lbs in canon to 5' 115ish lbs here). Oh, and obviously in Recollé she's a human, not a vampire.
AU HISTORY: Permission of relevant characters had been achieved before now!
AU PERSONALITY: Being as how Elda is a lonely 40 year old human woman instead of a lonely 200+ year old vampire, there are several key differences to how her personality plays out in the AU. The most obvious and direct of which is that she better engages with the world: in canon, Elda basically interacts exclusively with her family due to the nature of vampire society and the need to keep secret from humans. In Recollé she's actually an aging socialite who will attend galas and plays and such, even if she might consider herself a step apart from most people.
Also, being human, she can't be as domineering or as threatening of violence as she is in canon. While in great shape and a firm advocate of self-defense courses, she is still a five foot forty year old woman and thus knows how to be at least a little bit more diplomatic than canon, more one to be haughty and use the implied threat of litigation and the money she has as opposed to her physical strength. And for that matter, knows far better when and how to pick her battles than the often impulsive Elda Marker of canon. The end result is that she's more diplomatic, civil, and (because she is human, after all) aware/acknowledging of social customs.
In Recollé while she does have a family (her adopted son, Toshirou) she doesn't have any (close) blood relatives left and she's never been married, something that eats her up inside to this day. Much like in canon that sense of loneliness weighs on her at her worst, and she pushes past it by way of caring for cats (a substitute for her bats from canon) and by doing absolutely everything she can for her son, perhaps more than he even wants her to. She does still yearn for a greater romantic connection though and (again, at her worst) sometimes wishes she had biological children. So it's a toss up on which iteration is more consumed by her darker emotions.
Speaking of darker emotions, Elda Marker in this AU has no one she really hates in the way she hates humanity and the church in canon. So while both iterations have loneliness as the core thing eating at them, this Elda Marker in Recollé is far more likely to have it manifest as at worst spite and melancholy as opposed to anger and seething hatred. Thus, she's more likely to mope than she is to threaten someone's life or something.
Other than those nuances, she's much the same wrecking ball of a person as ever!
- Elda was an only child, and had a great relationship with her older parents growing up. Spoiled and born into wealth, she wasn’t unpopular in school but she didn’t make many great, lasting friends out of her time in school due to self-imposed distance and attending a private school (if there is none of that in Recollé proper, she likely went to a boarding school out of the city). She grew up in the same manor that sh lives in now, large and imposing, clearly designed for far more people than even lived there when her parents were around.
- With an awareness that she would never need to hold a stable, real job Elda pursued her passions through her youth and into her twenties. This meant that she went to a lot of parties, she pursued various hobbies, and when she finally did go to college she hopped between numerous majors, collecting a handful of irrelevant minors and half-finishing a few degrees before finally finishing a nursing degree. She didn’t want to bother with the pressures of med school proper when she didn’t need to, though she is a certified phlebotomist (one of her most common on-again jobs).
- All of her life Elda Marker has worked numerous jobs when it fancied her and pursued romance when it fancied her, particularly after she finished her degree in her mid-20s. However, a combination of unfortunate circumstances and exacting standards meant that she never found someone she was content with calling “the one.” With her parents aging (having had her when they were quite old to begin with) she felt an increasing self-imposed pressure to have a family and a life. Perhaps that same stress resulted in things continuing to not work out for her. Finally, more to have someone in the house than anything else (once her parents had died or moved into a home), she realized that she could look into adopting, to leave some sort of legacy.
- That manor feeling lonelier and lonelier each year with only cats as companions. With the threat of becoming a crazy cat lady by the time she hit her early 30s she began fostering kids. The most lasting and successful of these is Toshiro Hitsugaya (toshiro) whom she adopted a decade ago at age five. Toshiro is her beloved son who she dotes on and pushes all of her affection on, both for better and worse. Thereafter, she dedicated her life to making the boy’s life as comfortable and pleasant as possible.
- One unintended consequence of his adoption (though she would never say she regrets this) is that her dating life got even less fantastical. Aging through her thirties and caring for a child meant that she had less time to dedicate to a social life outside of that and just met less people. Once Toshiro was more like a preteen she got back into the game so to speak, but not despite wanting to, she’s not really found anyone she’s happy with, let alone content to picture spending her life with. This is what led her to sometimes go on dates with a “friend” she knows from various galas named Albert Wesker (manufactured) more to just have fun than anything else. She’s aware they aren’t long term compatible, but it is some adult companionship.
- Three years ago she was fostering a boy named Silver Bells (feistytrader) and had for almost a year when on December 20th (Toshiro's birthday) the boy showed up with an Xbox as a gift. Knowing the by had no means to afford that himself, Elda scolded the boy and in the process of trying to give her second "son" discipline a shouting match ensued that resulted in Silver running away to live in the streets until he was rehoused. That's still a painful thing for Elda to this day, and while Silver comes around to mow her lawn or bring her more cats or the like sometimes, she's still deeply hurt and angry about it all.
AU PERSONALITY: Being as how Elda is a lonely 40 year old human woman instead of a lonely 200+ year old vampire, there are several key differences to how her personality plays out in the AU. The most obvious and direct of which is that she better engages with the world: in canon, Elda basically interacts exclusively with her family due to the nature of vampire society and the need to keep secret from humans. In Recollé she's actually an aging socialite who will attend galas and plays and such, even if she might consider herself a step apart from most people.
Also, being human, she can't be as domineering or as threatening of violence as she is in canon. While in great shape and a firm advocate of self-defense courses, she is still a five foot forty year old woman and thus knows how to be at least a little bit more diplomatic than canon, more one to be haughty and use the implied threat of litigation and the money she has as opposed to her physical strength. And for that matter, knows far better when and how to pick her battles than the often impulsive Elda Marker of canon. The end result is that she's more diplomatic, civil, and (because she is human, after all) aware/acknowledging of social customs.
In Recollé while she does have a family (her adopted son, Toshirou) she doesn't have any (close) blood relatives left and she's never been married, something that eats her up inside to this day. Much like in canon that sense of loneliness weighs on her at her worst, and she pushes past it by way of caring for cats (a substitute for her bats from canon) and by doing absolutely everything she can for her son, perhaps more than he even wants her to. She does still yearn for a greater romantic connection though and (again, at her worst) sometimes wishes she had biological children. So it's a toss up on which iteration is more consumed by her darker emotions.
Speaking of darker emotions, Elda Marker in this AU has no one she really hates in the way she hates humanity and the church in canon. So while both iterations have loneliness as the core thing eating at them, this Elda Marker in Recollé is far more likely to have it manifest as at worst spite and melancholy as opposed to anger and seething hatred. Thus, she's more likely to mope than she is to threaten someone's life or something.
Other than those nuances, she's much the same wrecking ball of a person as ever!
AU Stuff Workshopped Out: