.:[Name]:. Adeline "Addie" Hartz
.:[Age]:. 19
.:[Gender]:. Female
.:[Place in the Underworld]:. Assassin for hire
.:[Description]:.
Addie has shoulder-length, light grey hair that frames her heart shaped face. She has a fair complexion and large, blue-green eyes that give her a look of innocence.She has some scars, but few are recent. Despite her profession, there is usually a genuine smile on her face. She is of about average height, standing at 5'6. She has a toned build and weighs about 120 pounds.
Due to a mutation she got when she was first on the streets, she has large, grey, fox-like ears and a grey, bushy tail tipped with white. At night, her eyes change from those of a human to those of a fox, giving her excellent night vision and her canines become longer and sharper. Because of her mutation, she also has excellent balance and agility, and her hearing and sense of smell are superhuman.
During the day, her usual attire is a light, short sleeve shirt and knee length skirt. At night when she has a job, she wears a long, black coat that opens at her waist and
goes to her mid-thigh. The coat has a deep hood to hide her light hair with openings for her ears. Under this she wears a dark colored shirt, thigh length tights, and dark boots that reach the middle of her shin. All of her clothing is well worn and usually there is more patched than not.
For work, she carries a Beretta Tomcat pistol with a silencer that is kept on a belt around her waist, hidden inside her coat and a long dagger for when she needs to get close and personal with a target.
.:[Personality]:.
Addie acts differently in different circumstances. When on a job or getting information, she seems cold and harsh. She will not mess around in any way, and her goal is to get the job done and get out. She is efficient almost to the point of being unfeeling, and carries every job to completion without hesitation. If there is a threat to herself or those close to her, she will ruthlessly eradicate it immediately.
When not working, she is much more relaxed and light hearted. She is on the quiet side, not very talkative unless she is spoken to first. She has a good sense of humor and laughs easily. She likes to tease those she knows well and is moderately sarcastic. She has a great love for sweets and will often go for a dessert after getting paid. There are few that are close to her that she treats like family and she prefers it that way. Living in the Underworld has made her tougher and more untrusting than she would have been in an easier life.
.:[History]:. Addie was born to a well off family and always had everything she wanted. She was very sheltered and protected. Confined was more how she saw it. She was given lessons in everything from foreign language to martial arts and shooting. Her father gave her the Beretta Tomcat pistol as a present for her thirteenth birthday since she was a talented shooter by that time. However, despite having everything and being in a rich family, she was not able to find happiness. She felt confined and restricted, never able to go out without being closely watched, and she had no real friends. She always felt that she had disappointed her father because she wasn't the son he wanted.
Since her parents were unable to have children, they ended up adopting a boy from an orphanage. Addie, feeling like she was no longer a necessary part of the family, left to find the freedom and independence she desired. She ended up in the 'Underworld' living in a seedy motel, and, though she tried to conserve her money, she was soon penniless. She was determined not to give up and return home and she got a mutation for money.
That money ran out as well and she ended up living on the streets before she, or more specifically her gun, caught the interest of a female assassin known as Emma. Once Addie proved that she was skilled with the gun, as well as with combat, Emma began to mentor her and eventually gave her a silencer. Several years later, when Addie was seventeen, she had learned all she could from Emma and began making a name for herself as an assassin of the Underworld.
((Other: My favorite book: Hard question, no fair! There are too many. I guess The Tenth Power by Kate Constable. It is the third book in the series. ))
