Eleanor is highly intelligent, and taught herself how to reconstruct electronics. However, she disobeys her mother constantly, sneaking out to see rapture, and disabling the security systems her mother installed. At first, Eleanor is stand-offish towards others. During one of Eleanor's frequent escapes, she met a boy named Pat, and got into a fight with him, making his nose bleed in the process, but eventually became his friend. In a later Eleanor mentions that she had a childhood crush on him.