Tally’s mother. Ellie is a middle pretty and to Tally, seems like the perfect mom. She encourages Tally to work with Special Circumstances and seems to genuinely believe that Shay is in danger. Later, as Tally learns more about pretty surgery, she begins to understand that both of her parents probably behave the way they do because that’s how they’re programmed to think: the brain lesions caused by the operation make them incurious and accepting of whatever the government says is correct.