Eleanor Waverley

Eleanor, a character in The Haunting of Braidwood Manor book, is the eldest child of the Waverley children. She is also one of your love interests. She is first seen in Chapter 2.

Appearance
Eleanor has long, brown hair in a braid, brown eyes, and fair skin. She wears a maroon and black gown with a black choker that conceals the open wound across her neck. Her modern outfit consists of a gold necklace, a black top, and a gray cardigan.

Personality
Eleanor is seen as mature and responsible, as she is in charge of taking care of all her younger siblings. She is very formal and polite, and her siblings all view her as a mother-figure. She is also shown to be kind, as she allows your character to stay at the manor. Eleanor has difficulty telling others hurtful things, as shown when she begs your character not to reveal to her siblings that they are ghosts.

Eleanor is shown to be easily flustered if the player chooses to pursue a romance with her. Making the right dialog choices causes Eleanor to stutter and blush easily while improving the relationship between Eleanor and your character.

The Haunting of Braidwood Manor

 * Chapter 1: Nightmares (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 2: Out of Time
 * Chapter 3: Lock and Key
 * Chapter 4: Behind Closed Doors
 * Chapter 5: Secrets
 * Chapter 6: Confessions

Clarissa Waverley
Clarissa is Eleanor's younger sister. The two seem to get along. Clarissa views Eleanor as more of a mother than a sister.

Thomas Waverley
Thomas is Eleanor's younger brother. They tend to bicker.

Simon Waverley
Simon is Eleanor's youngest brother. Thomas comments that Eleanor babies him because he is the youngest. If you don't spend diamonds to get Eleanor's key, you enlist Simon's help to steal it from her. He manages to get it by pretending to be sad after a fight with Thomas, causing Eleanor to hug him.

Your Character
Your Character meets Eleanor at the beginning of Chapter 2, when your character learns that she was the one who carried her to the room to rest. Eleanor allows Your Character to stay at the manor under the condition that Your Character doesn't tell her siblings that they're all dead or leave your room at night. Eleanor is revealed to be a possible love interest if the player makes the right choices. In Chapter 3, there is an available love sequence between your character and Eleanor if the player has enough diamonds. Your Character and Eleanor share their first kiss during this interaction. In Chapter 4, Your Character can choose to spend the night with Eleanor in order to get her key to open the door to the cellar.

Eleanor pushes Your Character out of the ghost dimension after her mother is set free, however Your Character can get back in by apologizing to Eleanor for not listening to her. At the end of Chapter 5, Your Character offers to tell Eleanor her biggest secret in order to try to get Eleanor to tell her siblings the truth.

Rose Waverley
Rose Waverley is Eleanor's mother. They have a hostile relationship, as Rose Waverly calls Eleanor "wicked", while Eleanor refers to her mother as a "monster". It is later revealed that Rose was the one who murdered Eleanor by slitting her throat after Eleanor found out Rose poisoned all her siblings. Despite Rose asking for forgiveness, Eleanor angrily tells her she'll never get to reunite with her children again. Despite the long amount of time since the murders happened, Eleanor feels personally betrayed by Rose's actions and refuses to understand or forgive her.

William Waverley
William was the father of Eleanor, Clarissa, Thomas, and Simon. When you go visit the graveyard with her in Chapter 3, she says that he was a good father when she was still alive. She considers him to still be part of her family, unlike her mother.

Trivia

 * Eleanor is shown on the cover of The Haunting of Braidwood Manor.
 * The name Eleanor is of Hebrew origin, which means "God's light".
 * The surname Waverley is of English origin and means "Quaking aspen".
 * She shares the same name as Eleanor Harlenay from Veil of Secrets, Eleanor Rys from The Royal Heir series, and Eleanor St-Claire from Crimes of Passion.
 * Eleanor states that she was fifteen years old when the family left England.