Eli McKnight

Eli McKnight was a young lad to be taken into the hidden Magic Academy known as Avalon Academy. He is the first half-blood Sorcerer to be schooled there; the underdog of the school and treated as trash. But is the most hard-working and gifted student there is, but unknown to all the faculty and students… destined to be the next Sorcerer Supreme.

Characteristics

 * Name: 'Elijah' Eli M. McKnight
 * Alias: Mister E, Mr. E
 * Age: 16
 * Hair: Brown with Black Streaks
 * Eyes: Brown (green when using magic)
 * Likes: Roller blades, skateboards, surfing, action/scifi movies, Fitz and the Tantrums, kung fu films, magic, Dr. Mystery (big fan of his work), lobster and shrimp, Salem (familiar)
 * Dislikes: Being called useless and worthless, Diana Cavandar (formerly), Casilyus, Skelemaster, cowards, stuck-up nobles, anchovies
 * Family: All deceased, Natalie McKnight and Prof. Stephen Porters (guardians), Salem (familiar)

Casual
Eli is a fifteen-sixteen year old Caucasian male with a small muscle build, brown eyes, a pale complexion and eye-length, styled brown hair with black streaks from his sides to his back.

Background
Elijah ‘Eli’ McKnight is the son of two unknown parents, but raised by his older cousin, Natalie (whom he calls big sis, since they grew up together) in a small village in the mountains of England. Even as a small child, he lived pretty much alone in the guest house, with Natalie coming to care for him during her breaks while studying in Wales. While there, he befriended a young girl named Anya, a little girl the same age as him who helped him study, and even gave him his first gift outside of his family: a wrist chain. Eli was enchanted by the famous celebrity magician named Dr. Mystery, and was inspired to be a magician. Something Anya teased him on never becoming… and terrified Natalie to no end on her forbidding him to do. When asked why, nobody would tell him, merely stating that there was no such thing as Magic.

When he was seven, he changed his mind on magic forever. A horde of demons appeared and attacked his village, petrifying anyone that they caught into stone statues. Just as one demon was about to attack Eli, Dr. Mystery appeared just in time to save him from receiving a fatal dosage. With a few strikes and a powerful spell, he destroyed all of the demons but the village was already in ruins, and mostly everyone was petrified. When the battle was over, Dr. Mystery cast a spell on the boy to make him forget this horrible event.

After the incident Eli, Natalie, and Anya were moved to a village in Wales, which was occupied by the Order of St. Arthur, which told rumors that magicians and magic users were responsible for the destruction of such a village. Though Eli forgot all about it, stated that there was no such thing as magic, as he immersed himself in studies of physics.

As he got older, Eli was more of a cynical person, not believing in things such as magic, monsters, etc.; he was fully believed in that the world was just as it was in the flesh and that there was nothing else.

Until the day came when he was accepted into a school of Magic Users called Avalon Academy.

When he refused more than enough letters, one of their professors came over, Prof. Stephen Porters. The boy scoffed at the man’s beliefs, until Prof. Porters gave him a ‘first experience’ with the mystic arts. Though the boy had trouble grasping it, as the professor stated he would give him time, but only three days, to which that would be when the school semester would start for him. Talking to his sister about it, she stated that she wanted to protect him for so long on this, as he asked why, to which she replied that he was a first generation half-blood magic user, as his mother was a Sorceress and his father an alchemist, to which Eli mumbled that it explained why he was so good at chemistry and physics. She encouraged him to do this, as it might give him a better life, and to make the world a better place for magic users.

Eli met with Prof. Porters the next day, as they supplied him with some things for his stay at the Academy for the next six years. Once there, Eli was a bit amazed at the place, as well as the various magics going around. But soon began to feel like it was much like high school in the nromal world, as well as the fact that those with pure blood seemed to just rub the superiority in lower-class magic users. And the fact that he was half-blood, or foul-blood as everyone else put it, made him like a leper among them.

But despite all that, he had gained friends among others, such as Ronal Wheezles, Lotte Yanser, Sucy Mahabavah, Jackie O’Neil, Wong, and even his familiar, Salem. But his time in school would not only reveal his deep past connection, but also change not just the world of magic, but himself, as he learns the true responsibilities of magic, as well as his own destiny.

Personality
Unlike the other students, who follow the rules, he questions them and doesn’t believe in them fully. In fact, he challenges them, but learns and teaches the others that in order to defend the rules sometimes they have to bend them.

Eli has shown extreme determination, a useful trait as he would never give up on his friends. He spent most of his time training and studying; remained outside of Blinkus’ front door for five hours after being initially thrown out, then spent most of his time studying and improving his abilities, even going as far as studying while sleeping through Astral projection. He even allowed himself to be killed countless times until Destiny gave into his demands.

Through his training with magic and alchemy, Eli gained a newfound appreciation for the natural order of things due to his studies of the Mystic Arts and became more humble. However, this was not to say he was a completely changed young man; he retained a cocky attitude when dealing with people and things, as seen in how he behaved when he went to borrow books from Prof. Finneland. This, coupled with his inquisitiveness and willingness to break rules, made him an odd one in Avalon Academy and constantly an eyesore to many of his peers, including some of the faculty as well as the academy’s youngest star pupil, Diana Cavendar. However, due to this nature of his, he was also more willing to compromise and be somewhat flexible with his principles, quickly accepting that Shang Tsung broke his own rules to do what was deemed necessary to protect the world, and he had to be willing to do so himself, which, when combined with his natural talent in the Mystic Arts, had Tsung name him as the Future Master of the London Sanctum, despite his relative lack of training and inexperience.

Having being a student in physics, Eli is a pacifist and tries to avoid hurting people, as it goes against who he is and would feel his soul would be torn until there was nothing left of him. He was disgusted by his actions in killing a Death Bringer, stating he wanted to learn magic to save lives, not take them. However, neither Shang Tsung, Finneland, or Mordu were especially sympathetic towards this, with the former stating he was learning magic to save one life (his own) and the latter calling him a coward for lacking the spine to do what has to be done, which in times, proves to be somewhat true. Nevertheless, Eli accused Finneland and Mordu of lacking imagination and claimed it was possible to take other options, a claim he ultimately proved correct by defeating Hadrok for the first time without killing.

Ultimately, Eli has always had good intentions, despite coming off as an antisocial or a troublemaker. During his talk with Shang Tsung before his death, he admitted that his fear of failure is what pushed him in his studies, both physics and magic. However, Shang Tsung stated that his fear is exactly what kept him from greatness, as well as learning the simplest and most important lesson of all; it's not all about him. Eli took this very much to heart, and when he faced Hadrok, he showed strong selflessness, allowing himself to be killed over and over in order to keep Hadrok trapped in the time loop so mankind could live and came to stop fearing failure.

Despite his tremendous maturity, Eli maintains making sarcastic comments and jokes when talking to others. Whilst he compensates his lack of experience by further using the powerful magical relics at his disposal and his intelligence allows him to imagine unorthodox solutions to problems, Eli has also learnt to comprehend his limits and despite his success at the hands of Hadrok’s defeat, he has begun to realize the natural order should not be entirely disturbed. This was his second greatest lesson to learn - that time is beyond even his control. However, his flexibility is his greatest strength in this regard: something the older witches and wizards, such as Finneland, find as a sign of weakness and foolishness, believing there is only one way to do things.

Eli's imagination and intellect has given him a vastly flexible personality, so much so the former Headmaster, Shang Tsung, could never see exactly what his future would be, only possible paths he would take. Due to his inquisitiveness, Eli is easily able to adapt and teach himself lightyears ahead of even experienced sorcerers. Once he started to get the hang of his sorcery studies, he began to teach himself and was able to learn at an accelerated rate.

Powers

 *  Eldritch Magic Manipulation
 * Astral Projection

Skills

 * Photographic Memory
 * Martial Artist

Equipment

 * Combat Mage Outfit
 * Wrist Chain Talisman
 * The Reaper Cloak: Sometimes called the Cloak of Levitation or the Cloak of Invisibility, it can do both in helping the user fly without a broom, and to go invisible or 'to go unseen by Death'.

Familiars

 * Salem
 * Salazar

Relationships
Eli's Relationships

Voice Actor
Austin Tindle