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Elsie was a young girl who came from a poor and often homeless family, frequently suffering from neglect and physical abuse on the part of her mother Dee and stepfather Frank. After Frank and Dee claimed a derelict townhouse in Brooklyn as a squatters' residence, Elsie was frequently sent out of the house and would draw on the sidewalk outside the ruins of an old school. One day, a man named Jerry approached her and warned her that the school, St. Estes', had been the site of a massacre years earlier and that people sometimes went missing around it. Disregarding Jerry's warnings not to stay there past dark, Elsie sought shelter in the ruins when her drawing was destroyed by some drunk college students and it began to rain.

While exploring the ruins, Elsie encountered the Carnage symbiote, which attacked and bonded to her. Returning home, Elsie began conversing with the codex of Cletus Kasady - the serial killer responsible for the St. Estes' massacre, and who had been the symbiote's original host prior to his death. Quickly indoctrinated by Cletus, Elsie killed the three college students and skinned Frank's dog Bamf, hanging the bloody pelt in the closet. The next morning, Dee overheard Elsie talking to Cletus and confronted her, relived but annoyed that her daughter had what she assumed to be an imaginary friend. When Frank discovered Bamf's corpse the following evening, Elsie gleefully revealed she had killed the dog, mocking her step-father until he attacked her - accidentally setting the house on fire. Saying that Cletus promised her that Frank and Dee would never hurt her again, Elsie transformed into Carnage and devoured him. Dee investigated the commotion and attempted to flee, horrified by Elsie's Carnage form, but Elsie dragged her back into the flames and burned her alive.

The next day, Elsie returned to St. Estes to draw on the sidewalk and was approached by Jerry, who had been worried by her sudden disappearance. Elsie tried to downplay Jerry's concern but dropped the ruse when he noticed her burn scars were gone and she revealed she knew his name when he'd never told her. Elsie revealed she knew that Jerry was one of the few survivors of the St. Estes' Massacre before transforming into Carnage to kill him.[1] Elsie subsequently became the subject of an urban legend, a monster-infested girl rumoured to prowl the halls of the ruined orphanage -- which was reshaped by Cletus into an extension of himself via the Extrembiote.[2]

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