"Unfortunately you can't hear me, but if you could, I'd tell you to fuck off and stop staring at me like I'm a charity case."
Arcadya Raene Shadows-Sayco
Nick Names
People tend to shorten her name to Cady(Katie), simply because itâs easier to say. She absolutely hates it. If her name is shortened she prefers Ayda(Aid-e-uh). Those who are close to her sometimes call her Rae, but you better know her well before you call her that.
Age
Twenty-one
Role
Arthur Saycoâs Adopted Daughter
Hair Color:
Jet Black
Eye Color:
Ice Blue
Height:
5â3
Weight:
115 pounds
Tattoos:
None, although she really wants one.
Piercings:
None
Scars:
-HERE-
Likes
Reading|+|Playing Piano|+|Climbing up in trees|+|Drawing|+|The Active|+|romance novels|+|Gothic Victorian style things|+|Cats|+|being included|+|being treated normal
Dislikes
The Bleeders|-|not being able to talk|-|people judging her|-|being alone with her thoughts|-| her past|-|being thought of as a child
Hobbies
Playing Piano|*|Reading by the pound|*| Drawing
Fears
Loosing her father(Arthur)|/|The Bleeders finding her|\|Seeing her real father
Family Tree
Father, Derrick Shadows (Current Age 44)
Mother,Cadence Black (Age 22 when murdered)
Half Brother, Fallen Shadows (Age 17, currently a bleeder in training)
Bound
Type Detail
She will be bound to Dante Jones, but will not know it until she meets him officially. She cannot speak, she has never been able to speak, as far as anyone knows she is a mute, but she will be able to speak once she is bound. Adya has the power to hypnotize people through playing the piano, if there is a piano nearby beware. Once in the hypnotized state, the person becomes paralyzed inside their mind able to hear, see, and feel everything going on around them, but unable to do anything about it. She doesnât have to touch the piano to play it, she can control the keys of the piano with her mind.
Characterâs Thoughts
Being Hunted:
I was too young to remember what it was like to be hunted, but Iâm well aware of what itâs like hearing the stories from all of the Actives who have come through the doors of Sayco Manor over the year, it sounds less then pleasant and I wish they would stop hunting us.
Arthur Sayco:
Heâs my father, well not by blood but in every other sense of the word he is. I owe him everything, he gives so much and asks nothing in return, he is truly a hero in my eyes, anyone who thinks otherwise obviously know nothing about him. I could listen to his stories forever, he has the most interesting stories about war, love, and everything else. I just wish he wasnât so protective, then again he has good reason to be.
The Bleeders:
Bringing up bad memories for all of us, I donât remember much about my first encounters with of course I was only a child. But, the Bleeders who stop in at Mr. Saycos every now and then are wicked men, dressed in all black with their shinny guns, always threating father, waving their guns around as if they actually have sway in our home. They are terrible excuses for human beings.
Humans:
In all honesty Iâve never meet a human, besides the Bleeders. I just know that father isnât fond of them and he tells me they are no better than the bleeders, they just choose not to participate in slaying our kind. So as far as Iâm concerned their just as evil as the Bleeders, they just seem to sugar coat things.
Being raised by a southern man, Arcadya is very polite and well-mannered while around others. Though she doesnât exactly like being a well-mannered young lady. If it was up to her, sheâd be a wild child. Due to the fact that she canât communicate through speech as a normal person would she tends to be withdrawal from everyone and she tends to stay to herself more or less because she feels out of place, even with her own kind. But, donât mistake her withdrawn, loneness as being shy, sheâs not at all shy. In fact those who know her well say there kind of glad she canât talk, because sheâs a little spit fire. She is able to communicate with very few people, Arthur being one of them, she is able to communicate with him through touch due to the father, daughter bond they have. If she is touching him she can speak to him. The only other person they know of that she can communicate with is one of her close friends Jayce, she can communicate with him if she puts him under her hypnoses. Arthur believes this is due to the fact that Jayce has a similar ability.
Adya absolutely adores playing the piano, it is where you will find her most of the time. If she could talk she would tell you, she plays the piano because it blocks out the millions of thoughts in her head. Sheâs honestly surprised she hasnât gone insane yet, seeing as most the time the only person she has to talk to is herself. Adya doesnât talk about her past, ever. She lets people believe that she is Arthurs real daughter, the only people that know of her past are Arthur and Nathan. She believes that if they knew who her father was they would treat her differently. Adya can be sweet or she can be sour, it all really depends on her mood. She can have quite the sassy attitude and hates taking orders from anyone aside from Arthur. Needless to say, she can be a handful. After all she is the daughter of a Bleeder.
History
Arcadya was the product of a forbidden love affair. Her mother Cadence an Active, Spirit-walker, her father part of the very organization sworn to kill The Active, her father, Derrick Shadows, one of the very best Bleeders. He had a reputation for being brutal when it came to the active. Yet when it came to Cadence he was in love with her. Soon the young women became pregnant by the well-known Bleeder and Derrick was able to hide her for five years, he kept his lover and daughter safe, but his haply ever after soon ended. Somehow the Bleeders had found out. Derrick hid Arcadya, but Cadence wasnât so lucky. Derrick had one choice kill his lover and remain a Bleeder or they would kill her and he would go to prison. Five year old Arcadya watched from under the bed as her father brutally murdered her mother.
After the bleeders left, Derrick found Arcadya asleep under the bed, her cheeks stained with tears. At that moment he wanted to kill himself. He had to take his daughter away from all of this, he knew the one man that could help, Arthur Sayco. He took Arcadya to Sayco Manor, Arthur welcomed the two with open arms, even though Derrick was a bleeder, Arthur knew something was very wrong. With a simple pat on Arcadyaâs head and a flash of memories, Derrick didnât have to explain anything, because Arthur already knew. After a long discussion, Arthur agreed to take the little girl in and raise her as his own. After tucking his daughter in and giving her a bitter sweet kiss goodbye on the forehead, Derrick Shadows disappeared into the darkness, leaving his baby girl in the care of the very creature he vowed to rid the world of.
Arthur raised the girl, calling her Adya and giving her his last name so the bleeders would not suspect. Adya had blocked out the bad memories from her mind. She knew Arthur wasnât her real father, but as far as she was concerned he was. She didnât hate her father, Arthur had made sure that she didnât resent him. Arthur had known Adya was an Active from the very moment heâd seen her, despite the fact that she couldnât speak he was able to communicate with her, when other couldnât. Everyone wondered why she couldnât speak, Arthur would defend her saying she simply hadnât grown into her voice yet. It wasnât till her early teen years that she learned about her ability to put others in a hypnotic state as well as the fact that she could play a piano without touching it.
Only Hope||Mandy Moore
I give You my destiny
I'm giving You all of me
I want Your symphony
Singing in all that I am
At the top of my lungs I'm giving it back
Stand My Ground||Within Temptation
Things I thought I put behind me
Haunt my mind
I just know there's no escape
Now once it sets its eyes on you
But I won't run,
Have to stare it in the eye