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【More Than Just A Pretty Face...】
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple”
☞Full Name☜
Adelaide Mathilde DuBois
☞Nicknames☜
Addie, Ads, Mattie
☞Birthday☜
April 14th
☞Age☜
16
☞Ethnicity
American/Spanish/French
☞Gender☜
Female
☞Sexual Orientation☜
Bisexual
☞Hometown☜
Paris, France
【Be On The Lookout For...】
“Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.”
☞Height☜ 5'7"
☞Weight☜ 125 lbs
☞Eye Color☜ Blue
☞Hair☜
Blonde and long. Naturally wavy, Adelaide likes to straighten it occasionally.
☞Body Type☜
Adelaide is slightly above average in height and naturally thin, possessing long arms, legs and a short torso her body resembles that of a dancer. Her figure is a bit under developed but she doesn't see anything wrong witht hat considering she's only just sixteen and there's still plenty of time to grow.
☞Special Markings☜
Adelaide has a few scars picked up from her time on the street.A long jagged one beneath her left shoulder blade from a knife in the back after a theft gone wrong.
One across her left ear from a fall when she was four years old. Rebellious even then, Adelaide fell through a glass table that she'd been told to keep off of. Luckily her only injury was a few minor cuts and a clean slice through her ear. If you ask Adelaide she'd say the most painful part was the stitches.
One large and web like, still healing wound on her lower abdomen from a gunshot wound received during the raid of the hideout she shared with Jamal and the rest of her gang.
☞Extras☜
Tail? Animal ears? Wings?
【Behind The Mechanics】
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
☞Likes☜
+ Being barefoot
+ Being Left alone
+ People who are even keeled emotionally. Depressed or manic people are exhausting to be around.
+ Sweets
+ Small animals, not like bunnies or kitties. More like snakes and lizards and fish.
+ Baking
+ Things that are new
+ People who don't expect anything from her
+ Traveling, usually backpacking or by train
+ Intelligent conversation
+ Word and logic games
+ Waking up early and staying up late
☞Dislikes☜
+ Overly sweet people
+ Sour foods
+ Being expected to act a certain way because of her mutation.
+ Being talked to like a child. She might be one but she's lived the life of an adult for the last six years. Patronizing her won't get you anywhere.
+ Having to abide by someone else's rules.
+ Sad movies and romantic comedies
+ Talk Radio
+ Cold weather
☞Habits☜
Adelaide is a smoker and has been for the past four years. She hasn't had any parental or authority to figure to keep her from it and if you ask her all the people she knew back home smoked so it's no big deal.
Continuously counts her steps and avoids cracks in the pavement.Something that she's just always done out of habit or stress or superstition. Adelaide isn't usually aware she's even doing it.
Adelaide is a habitual flirt, treading lightly into Lolita-esque territory. She'll flirt and use her mutant ability to manipulate people into doing and giving her what she wants. She doesn't always tend to be age appropriate in these endeavours but she has also never gotten physical with anyone.
☞Fears☜
Humans. Adelaide's adoptive, human parents kicked her out to fend for herself when she manifested her mutation and when she was finally getting ahead, going somewhere... here came the humans to rip it out from underneath her. Not to mention shoot her in the stomach while they were at it.
Being emotionally vulnerable to anyone. She's the one with the control over people's emotions, the ability to bend or manipulate them any way she chose. Not the other way around. It terrifies Adelaide to think of herself at the mercy of anyone else's emotions, something she hopefully doesn't have to worry about.
☞Aspirations☜
Adelaide wants to see more of the world. having only lived in and around Paris she feels like the world just got a bit bigger since her move to the U.S.Hopefully, once everything was safe again for people like her, she could find her way to the other continents.
After she's had her fill of traveling Adelaide dreams of once again going back home and seeing her adoptive parents once again. Just one little visit would be all it took...
☞Secrets☜
+ The mutants Manuel Alfonso Rodrigo de la Rocha and Cordelia Frost, two of the most powerful empaths ever known are her true parents. After a brief affair the two had during a summer in Europe, Cordelia fell pregnant and knowing how her strict and cruel family would react stayed in Paris until the birth of her daughter who she promptly gave up for adoption.
+ Is a pretty regular shoplifter. Adelaide sees something she likes and takes it and will often use her power to make people look the other way while she does as she pleases.
☞Disabilities☜
Has been diagnosed with Conduct Disorder, the precursor to Antisocial Personality Disorder. Basically Adelaide is what most people would call a budding sociopath. Someone who is impulsive, reckless and has no no remorse for any of her actions. Always quick with an excuse and ready to blame someone else she's not above using any type of manipulation to get what she wants.
Also had quite the substance abuse problem back home, having been quite strung out on the designer drug Kick before the vents of M-Day. Currently Adelaide is sober but not through any real want. She got shot and sent to America, there really hadn't been a whole lot of time to establish a connection yet.
☞Personality☜
Adelaide DuBois is always a tiny bit sarcastic, on edge and dismissive. It's a defense mechanism that's she's cultivated over the years in order to protect herself. Having only been ten years old when she was thrown out into the streets, Adelaide learned quite quickly that showing any weakness to anyone was a quick way to end up taken advantage of. She's quick to zone in on other's people's emotional weaknesses and exploiting them to her own gain without any qualms. She feels no guilt or shame for the things she's done or has had to do in the past to get by. Adelaide did what she had to do to survive and she used the skill set nature provided her which was to lie, cheat and steal.
The parisienne tends to rely on a Lolita-esque image. Heart-shaped glasses, lollipops and bare feet and the young blonde is always operating under a shroud of mystery, never revealing much about herself or making up complete lies to amuse herself. Not always sullen and somber, Adelaide can be quick to laugh and spout off a joke sometimes at another person's expense. She can be deceptively charming, naive and innocent, knowing that it serves her purpose to be seen as a nice, normal sixteen year old girl.
【Armed And Dangerous...】
“Persuasion is often more effectual than force.”
☞Mutant Alias☜
Persuasion
☞Mutation☜
Empath - The ability to read, project and manipulate the emotions of others.Something she inherited from both of her parents.
☞Mutation Capabilities☜
Adelaide is capable of reading other people's emotions and manipulate them as she chooses.
+ Able to plant emotional states into other people's minds. For example: Causing a person to think they're deaf, blind, old, young.
+ Can alter their perceptions to make a person believe they're conversing with someone other than Adelaide.
+ Can psionically sense the emotions of others and control one emotion at a time, affecting many targets in the same area during that time or controlling the emotional states of multiple victims one at a time.
+ She can change the amount of control she has over others, such as a slight emotional push or complete emotionless autons who listen to her every wish.
+ Is adept at being able to tell if another is lying by sensing their emotions. It is extremely hard to fool Adelaide who is quite skilled at seeing through deception and through to the real emotion behind any situation.
☞Skills☜
+ Is an adequate cook and loves to bake. It's the one of the many domestic skill she enjoys.
+ Adelaide is a skilled thief. Preferring to shoplift she has also picked pockets and participated in several muggings. Girl's gotta eat, right?
+ Master manipulator
+ Quite skilled with knives, her preferred way of defending herself. Finding guns to be a bit scary and complicated for her tastes.
+ Excellent seamstress/designer. Adelaide has always loved making her own clothes and coming up with her own style, partly due to neccessity considering she's been on her own for the last six years.Though she's been homeless and squatted in all manners of places she's always managed to look clean and presentable.
+ Loves to sing and though a bit on the weak and thin side, the soprano has a surprisingly pretty voice.
+ Is fluent in both English and French and has a general understanding of some German.
☞Equipment☜
+ A pair of small, quite sharp knives she nicked from a passing acquaintance.
+ Sewing kit
+ Locket engraved with the intials of her birth mother C.H.F.
+ A small collection of designer sunglasses, scarves and bags. Mostly stolen.
☞Weaknesses☜
+ She is continuously bombarded by the emotions of the people around her, and must fasten on a single, strong emotion to protect herself from being overwhelmed.
+ Hates to accept help and thinks it makes her look weak. Is especially wounded right now since she's recovering froma gunshot and in the care of the school whether she likes it or not.
+ Isn't very strong physically, though she tries and makes up for it with her speed. Adelaide would be soundly defeated in a fight by anyone who had any real training.
+ Is incapable of trusting anyone even those who legitimately want to help the young mutant.
【A Glimpse Into The Past...】
“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”
☞History☜
Adelaide was the product of an intense, short-lived affair between Emma Frost's younger sister Cordelia, and Emma's former student Manuel de la Rocha. Both were empaths and bonded over it, traveling to Europe together for a summer they parted ways in the fall and soon after Cordelia realized she was pregnant. Knowing how her family would react she decided to remain in France under false pretenses until her child was born and then place it up for adoption. Cordelia might have been a lot of things but she knew that the last thing she wanted for her child was to be a Frost, a curse that she didn't wish upon the innocent life growing inside of her.
Going through a reputable agency, Cordelia found a lovely young couple who desperately wanted a child of their own. After several months of getting to know her baby's future parents, Cordelia finally went into labor giving birth to a tiny, healthy, blue eyed baby girl. Having held her infant daughter only one time, Cordelia signed the papers thrust in front of her and left the hospital, never looking back.
She was named Adelaide Mathilde and was doted upon by both of her parents, given anything and everything she could ever ask for. Her mother treated her as if she were a doll, buying her massive amounts of clothes and accessories and to most it seemed as if Adelaide had quite the privileged life. Which she did until her mutation manifested.
Being the daughter of two powerful empaths it was a pretty sure bet that Adelaide would have a mutation of some sort and it was revealed when she was nearly ten years old that she was afflicted with the same ability. Empathy. Adelaide was constantly bombarded by the emotions of everyone who surrounded her and not knowing what was happening, the child felt like she was losing her mind. It wasn't until she was in school and the mass of emotions became too much for Adelaide to bear that she realized she could gain control of them. Shutting everyone's emotions down simultaneously she effectively made the school a group of emotionless zombies. Which caused quite the scene when parents started arriving to find their children and their teachers drooling and wandering around aimlessly. When asked why she did it Adelaide could only say that all she wanted was some peace and serenity.
Her parents were horrified. Their sweet darling doll of a daughter was a mutant...a freak that could read their emotions and control them. Their paranoia, fear and anger was palpable and Adelaide was pretty sure there was going to be a change on the home front. They'd send her away to boarding school and never let her come home for holidays. It was just a bit more drastic than that. Physically thrown from the only home she'd known in her ten years, Adelaide was suddenly thrust into adulthood. No longer able to trust most adults or humans, she refused to go to anyone for help.
The determined young girl began to test the limits of her mutation, using it to survive in her day to day life as a homeless orphan. She had food, clothes and was usually warm and dry. After gaining a bit of a reputation as a pickpocket she was "adopted" into a local gang of mutants where she met Jamal. At thirteen she'd finally found a place to call home, a family of sorts. They all pitched in and pulled their weight and so what if the things they did were slightly illegal...no one got hurt...not until the riots started.
Adelaide was asleep when they broke into the hideout. The shouts and screams of her friends reverberating through the mostly empty warehouse. Onto her feet immediately she instinctually began to run for an exit, confused as to what was happening. It was then she heard the gunfire and smelled smoke. Someone had set fire to their home, which would go up like a tinderbox, not to mention they were gunning them down as if they were at war.
Adelaide was being overwhelmed by the plethora of emotions washing over her. Pain and fear, not to mention a sick excitement. Feeling nauseous she fell to her knees and retched, climbing shakily back to her feet she began to scramble down the stairs momentarily catching sight of Jamal, a sliver of hope beginning to take shape as she caught sight of her friend. That's when she felt her abdomen explode in pain. Tumbling the rest of the way down the stairs, the confused sixteen year old touched her stomach and pulled back a bloody hand. Before she could make heads or tails of what happened to her she was in Jamal's arms being carried to safety. Together they watched the warehouse burn and their friends along with it.
After patching Adelaide's wound up as best they could they set off together in search of actual medical care, knowing that Addie was slowly bleeding out. Finally finding a hospital who would treat Adelaide the authorities informed the pair that they were soon to board a plane set for America. Apparently there were only a few mutants left in the world and for their own safety they were being sent to the States. Something Adelaide wanted no part of but since she was technically a minor she had no say and since Jamal was more than ready to get out of Europe she decided to follow along meekly for now. Most likely biding her time to make a break for it.
【Just A Little Extra...】
“ I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”
*All Optional*
☞Theme Song☜ The Abandoned Hospital Ship - The Flaming Lips
http://youtu.be/qXHmLJFd434
☞Family☜
Adoptive Mother - Helene DuBois
Adoptive Father - Rene DuBois
Birth Mother - Cordelia Frost
Birth Father - Manuel de la Rocha
Aunt - Emma Frost
Uncle - Christian Frost
☞Fashion☜
The fashionable mutant hails from the fashion capital of the world and is very aware of trends, labels and what looks good on her. Always daring you'll rarely see her in the same thing twice.
☞Thoughts on Humans☜
Adelaide has had enough of humanity for a lifetime. After manifesting her mutation she was put on the streets and eventually hunted down and shot because of it. All because humans were scared of what they didn't understand.