Naturally, Ellie is a young behemoth of a kangaroo. Standing approximately 625' tall (plus or minus a couple of inches!), within the city she lives, she's an unfathomable giantess. How big is she, for a frame of reference? An average two-story house would be smaller than her toes. A public bus could drive along her finger. Even tall trees would only manage to graze her ankles.

She appears to have grown up a good distance away from the average-sized civilization, even if she never seems to want to talk about the specifics of where she came from, save for insisting it was warm and sunny. Unlike the others of her particular giant species, she ran into a small little research encampment that had built itself up at the edge of her peoples' territory...and, also, unlike the others, rather than deeming them a nuisance and stomping their puny little town flat, she eagerly offered to relocate them all a -bit- further away from her less tiny-people-minded relatives, even to the extent of gathering their equipment up in her hands and hefting it miles away.

In a gesture of thanks, a young Ellie was allowed to sprawl along the forest, carefully listening to some of those researchers' stories about the city they lived in, and some of the fiction they'd read. And...that's, Ellie Altara learned about superheroes...

It's been a few years since her first contact with a small, technologically advanced society. And likewise, it hasn't been that long since she tried to move into the nearest big city. While her first attempts to stomp into the middle of these tiny, tiny structures proved utterly disastrous, she's since been considerably more careful about observing her tiny surroundings before taking a few delicate footsteps. When the entirety of your bulk risks flattening an entire city block when you trip, after all, and you're inclined not to harm those tiny people scrambling away from your toes, you tend to use a little more caution!

Luckily, Ellie didn't have to worry about her absurdly titanic size for long. Those same researchers she'd met in the nearby forest, having meant to study the titanic creatures and how they lived, and...as a result, they'd constructed a particular piece of technology meant to 'reduce' the threat they faced in case they ran into one of the less friendly titans. And 'reduce' here was pretty literal, too. They had created a shrink ray strong enough to effect the very genetics of a gigantic creature of effectively any size; as long as they could apply a particular energy to something like a giant's bloodstream, they would be able to, albeit slowly, shrink a giant down to a manageable level. When they introduced this to Ellie, while extremely hesitant, she ultimately allowed them to test this new device on her...with incredible results.

Ellie was baffled to find herself hip level with any one of the researchers, was incredibly shocked to find that most things were now terrifyingly -huge- to her. She...didn't often encounter things larger than her, but...now -trees- seemed like unfathomably tall, baffling things! And what the heck was this weird 'grass' stuff...?

...But this did open some doors. Though it took some convincing (and several more tests to get used to the idea of actually being...you know...'average sized'), she was allowed to keep the shrinking device as a sort of gift of thanks. After all, it was a prototype, and what danger would it be to give the curious, enormous rooess something that made her more managable? They managed to accumulate the materials to change what was once a crude beam into something akin to a wrist-band, and then...

'Ellie Altara' arrived in the city a few days later, standing roughly 4'8" (because who's going to mistake a half-pint rooess for the 625' giantess that crushed an industrial facility that one night?). Though she had -no- idea how these tiny societies worked, and was still getting the general hang of being small. With a little assistance, she managed to enroll in school, find a small but comfortable living space, and grew accustomed to actually, y'know, -having- to chew food rather than just swallow it whole.

...And, of course, let's talk about that 'superhero' thing.

Needless to say, after protecting an assortment of researchers from what was undoubtedly going to be complete annihilation at the hands of her own family, the stories they told her about larger than life heroes that protected those weaker than them from threats beyond their power caught her interest. After all, SHE was larger than life, right? And she totally protected tiny people from threats beyond their power (more of her, to be specific). She COULD be a superhero. Just, she had to have a proper secret identity, right? People probably wouldn't let her do her vigilante work if they knew she was the giantess that accidentally flattened part of the nearby coast...

The shrinking wristband opened up a lot of doors. As did the smooth, purple body-hugging suit she managed to get her hands on, that seemed to be able to match her size and fit underneath her clothes. Oh, and those goggles. Where did those gigantic night-vision goggles even come from? Seriously!

Though she still has yet to decide on a proper monkier, Ellie, at the very least, does her best to help the citizens of the city when they're in need. All she has to do is reverse the effects of that nifty little wristband she has, and she can expand from her reduced little 4'8" state all the way up to her natural 625' size! Big enough to delicately apply a few relative drops of water to a burning building, massive enough to assist with derailed trains, nudging them back on their tracks, and huge enough to combat any dangerous giants that happen to stumble into HER city to start something!

...Well, that's the idea. There are -still- some kinks to work out on the darn thing...

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Thiiiis delightful character pic was done by Heibi (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/heibi/), who does some astonishingly adorable micro/macro stuff, and...just cartoonish stuff in general. Seriously, they're awesome.

This is one of my -few- super-huge-giant characters! I should note that I've got a real soft spot for giants who are extremely attentive/interested in the smaller world. Honestly, someone huge interacting with a tiny society on their terms sounds like an adorable concept to write about in general...