Elizabeth Sterling

FALL FROM GRACE 
She wasn’t sure how she got here, with the form of a demi god whispering in her ear trying to convince her to let him inside of her, but nonetheless she was faced with this force that promised he’d just be using her body to hide. She was reluctant at first but he finally got his way, sealing the deal with a kiss and suddenly she felt an all-consuming power taking her over. Her mind was going dark under the power of the demi god, as if she was no longer the primary inhabitant in her own body and she was being shoved aside for someone far more powerful. She could feel the power coursing through her veins but she could not dare to control it. She was fading, being pushed back into the dark recesses of her own skull when suddenly the feeling subsided and she felt power coursing through her veins. Her form was done writing on the ground and she opened her eyes. Where was she? She had no clue. This wasn’t her home. Had she be kicked out of the only home she knew because the devilishly tongued demi god seeking refuge? It appeared that way. The demi gods anger influenced her “I WILL MAKE YOU REGRET THIS MAYARIA!!” she shouted at the sky for no reason in particular. Her once pure white wings became dingy gray and she witnessed as they turned black as night. She was a woman scorned and intended on using her newly attained power to exact revenge.

THE SNAKE IN THE GARDEN
Beelzebub was quick to realize the control she had over people's mental state. It was when the foresaken demon from Eden needed help corrupting the first humans that she put it to good use. Turning into one of her favorite forms, a snake, she coiled herself around the woman and was carried into the Garden of Eden. It was here that Lilith spoke the words to tempt innocent Eve while Beelzebub in snake from used her powers to make sure the woman was envious of what she was told not to touch and take the apple. After the deed was done, she slithered away from Lilith and to safety where Jophiel could not touch her. 

PAGEANTRY
In Ancient Greece Liz tried to get beauty pageants started. It was for men and created Envy among them. It would later inspire the story of Alexandros the goat herd having to choose between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite for the most beautiful goddess. Pageants worked well to create Envy but not well enough. She'd come back to this plan later. 

THE WIDOW
Throughout history, Beezlebub‒known as Elizabeth for the purposes of human comfortability‒has married many men of vast fortunes despite her distaste for marriage. She was known to let her marriages got on for a year‒two at most‒before she used her envy to manipulate another man into killing her husband, absolving herself of the murder while keeping her claim on the fortune any one of her husbands had left behind. She has not married in a century and a half. The last name she uses is the name of her last husband.

THE DEVIL'S DEALS
Liz has sought to be well connected and during the Elizabethan Era while a part of Queen Elizabeth's council is when it came to it's pinnacle. However, anyone that came to her would have to pay a hefty price, usually involving another favor. Sometimes she would have someone killed if they didn't follow through on the deal. Asking Liz for anything was much like selling your soul to the devil.

DEVIL'S TRILL SONATA
With an envious plan in mind in 1713, Liz came to a man, using her powers to make him see her as classic devil that people pictured. In the dream like state he was in she played the violin, the song weaved with her power of Envy. The man would later use what she played, telling a tale of how the devil came to him, and created a song. Little do people know the song itself is laced with the deadly sin of envy and causes all who hear it to feel it.

LITTLE DEMON
No one could be quite sure of who the father of Liz's child was and no one would be surprised if Elizabeth herself didn't even know. But either way, she didn't care to be in contact with the demon that had left her with child. She raised Zander on her own in Chicago, not that he truly needed much raising being a demon child. For the most part during this time, the world saw little of her influence of Envy but it was short lived when Zander was merely two years old. Her power resurfaced shortly after with full force and the world became green with envy once again. Though she was never a reckless or bad mother, she never kept her power in the world hidden from Zander.

ANOTHER ATTEMPT
With several attempts to start various forms of pageants under her belt, Liz gave one last big shot at it in 1921 with the Miss American Pageant. It worked wonderfully too and with little to no effort created envy among the girls participating in the competition. From there dozens of pageants sprung forth for all ages. Liz sat back and watched as people envied one another and was even more thrilled when the world began to envy the pageant winners. 

THE ACCORDS
Zander, merely four, had been told not to leave the house when the Angel showed up much to Liz's disdain. Nonetheless she heard the woman out, though her vicious glare never subsided. The angel told her to be thankful for the world Mayaria had sent her to and this made Elizabeth laugh foolhardily, "You want me to be thankful for this hellhole the damn goddess sent us to?! She abandoned us and I will make her pay!" her temper reared its ugly head. The Angel continued to tell her, repeating again that she would lose herself to the demon. Liz's thoughts briefly traveled to her son, losing to the Demi God would destroy her completely, leaving him without her. For once Liz's logical mind won over the Demi God's poisonous thoughst and made her reluctantly agree to the terms of The Accords, for now at least. The world wasn't quite free of Envy just yet.

PRESENT DAY
Between Devil's Trill Sonata and her son using her name without her knowledge, it appeared the Envy had never left the earth and the Archangels had noticed. From the time The Accords were enacted to this very day, Elizabeth has received many a visit from the angels she loathed. "I've done absolutely nothing. Apparently humans are for more self destructive on their own and don't need my help after all." she would repeat to them all, proclaiming her innocent because she really hadn't used her powers. What she had noticed was that the Envy followed her son around and she suspected he was using her name to cause it in others. She was admittedly proud he could pull off such a feat without the use of the powers she held, though she didn't know his purpose for making others envious. However, finally wanting to get back in the Demon Lord game she moved to New Orleans, where she could use Envy to poke and prod at both sides of the uneasy treaty going on there. New Orleans was going to blow up and she wanted to be there to tempt and witness it. When her son showed up on her doorstep recently she welcomed him with open arms, happy to see her son once again, and was looking forward to what Envy he might strike up while there.