Time for a random lore dump on Elpis!
A young lady in her early twenties, she has an odd translucency to her form as if an incomplete illusion she possesses feline features in the form of a pair of cat ears and a tail in the same hues as her hair. Her pale silver, almost pure-white hair is tied in a pony-tails just slightly off to the left, a small silk top hat of the color of the darkest nights is worn, angled to the right as it rests upon the feline ear situated there, obscuring it and adding to the asymmetry. Upon the a simple necklace string of titanium that she perpetually wears, there is a stylized pithos, adorned with a central square gem the same shade of vivid azure as her eyes. The rest of her fashion sense varies significantly. Generally, she is a horrible chef, though she is able to cook cheeseburgers, her favorite food, rather well.
The pithos is in actuality an anomaly, it is the current form of Pandora's box with its dimensions and mass distorted as to allow it to be worn, in actuality the space held within it is equal to that of the volume enclosed by a coffin. Locked from the inside with an embargo lock crafted by the Grim Reaper itself, ensuring that upon its use, the tomb of a box could never be escaped unless unlocked from the inside and preventing anything from perturbing its contents. Resting within it, Elpis' corpse lies. Killed. Asphyxiated. She is the only one inside the box yet she did not kill herself and there is nothing inside the box that could have killed her. Hence, what killed her must have then been removed from the box yet in order for that to have happened, the lock must have been undone and left as such. Yet it remains locked and the coffin sealed. Yet she also remains alive within the box, coexisting with her corpse, for until the box is opened, neither possibility may reign. Until the box is opened she is both dead and alive. Only when that box is open, are contents its contents decided. Yet if that may only be unsealed from the inside... and Elpis is unwilling to in life and unable to in death, then it shall never open. Thus this phylactery remains an eternal jewel, projecting a representation of the 50% chance of life, one manifested from the sadistic razors of suffering and held in the form of one filled with hope.
Elpis = LOL Cats + Schrodinger's Cat + Pandora's Box + Lich + Closed-Room Murder + HMRC Diplomacy + Obligatory Anthropomorphism