★ INFORMATION

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basics NAME Adrienne Peters CANON Original AGE 42 PLAYED IN duplicity LINKS kinks | permissions | overflow

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★ GAMES

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duplicity ARRIVAL February 20, 2023 STATUS Submissive HOUSING Prime Manor CONTRACT Contracted ASSETS link

★ TLDR

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★ FIRST IMPRESSIONS

★ VISUALS. ~5'4, slender, green eyes and shoulder length blonde hair (a light natural wave to it that she often curls) and green eyes. Adrienne is very unassuming and prefers to be unnoticed, fond of slightly oversized jumpers, jeans and ballet flats. Typically, the only time she doesn't have sleeves in her outfit is if she's dressing to impress (or bed). She's a little underweight and toned from a lot of walking and hiking, in pretty decent physical shape. Adrienne will claim that she's 5'5 but she's not.
★ VOICE. Raised bilingual, where German started as her dominant language, Adrienne's voice changes as fluently as the language she's speaking, particularly between German and English. In English, her midwestern accent has softened a lot from the years she's been out of state (midwestern tones but generic). In German, she grew up hearing her mother's St. Galler-Dütsch, and adopted the sound when she spoke. Her French and Arabic are more accented (German, than American).
★ SMELL. Often clinically clean, with her soap and shampoos a more natural fragrance, and a lighter rose or "springtime" perfume.
★ DEMEANOUR. Adrienne is typically friendly if very closed off personally. She sometimes lacks filter and will ask really inappropriate things but she's quick to apologise and do it better. She's kind, very direct, avoids anything she doesn't want to deal with and is a worrier.
★ OTHER. Adrienne has a surgical scar across her stomach and will pull away from any conversation about it (link not a real scar). Name pronunciation: Adrienne (Aloisia)

★ QUICK NOTES

★ born in Minnesota in 1977 (August 3, a Leo) to a Swiss-German mother and American father
★ parents were killed in a home invasion when she was 15, her aunt took her in so Adrienne had to move to Oregon
★ attended medical school in New York before being placed for her residency (pathology)
★ has spent a period of time with Médecins Sans Frontières
★ does not like being called Addie

★ magical and supernatural beings exist in her world. She's aware of this, accidentally finding out one of her friends was a vampire helps. She tries to remain relatively in the dark about it (aware but lacking details)
★ typically overconfident and bossy but kindhearted where it counts, though mistakes and loss tend to hit her hard
★ has a latex allergy and hayfever which also causes some stomach sensitivities to certain foods

★ cw for: ptsd, trauma, alcohol abuse, death, and medical-related things. any can be opted out from in discussion in tags (Adrienne isn't big on sharing)

★ SKILLS

★ MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE. a trained pathologist, Adrienne is knowledgeable in studying and diagnosing diseases found in cells, masses or tissue samples. With a medical degree, she is trained in first aid, patient care, and wound treatment. During her time with Médecins Sans Frontières she stepped a little away from pathology and practised more general care, focused on patient care and treatment.

★ LINGUIST. Adrienne is fluent in English and German and is conversational in Arabic and French.

★ HISTORY

Adrienne's early life started fairly boring, being born in Minnesota to Swiss-German and American parents, an only child whose most exciting adventures were the infrequent trips to Switzerland to visit her grandparents. Life changed for her when she was fifteen when, whilst sleeping over at a friend's house, two men broke into her home, killing her parents in the invasion. The invaders were never caught, and Adrienne was taken in by her aunt, though unfortunately also had to relocate to Oregon where her aunt lived. Though her first few months there were miserable and difficult (including her), she completed school, broke the heart of the first boy who tried to love her, and worked through the summer. She'd applied for a chemistry degree at one of the community colleges, working part-time as she studied.

After graduating, Adrienne took the next steps as a new chapter of her life, trying to close the book on the pain of her teenage years. She was studying medicine in New York, spending half of that time studying in a bar, sporadically working in said bar, and meeting the person that would end up being her best friend (Julia). Their friendship took a while to settle in, Adrienne's bossiness clashing with Julia's calmer voice of wisdom, but somehow, their conversations kept coming together until they never stopped. Adrienne stayed in New York, starting her residency in pathology, on track to being known as a skilled pathologist with a good eye for detail. Her "quiet" (busy) life ended up taking a hit when she fell pregnant, in the third year of her residency (a couple of one-night stands turning consequence) and against what the other residents would have said was sense kept the baby. Her daughter (Isabella) was born in June, the hospital daycare saved her when she returned to work, and despite some struggles, Adrienne completed her residency, continuing her studies to specialise in a fellowship in pediatric pathology.

Though Adrienne tried to keep her life simple and quiet (refusing to fall in love, raising her daughter, spending more time at home), the world decidedly was not as simple. Though she thought she knew her best friend, Julia had kept a secret since they'd met: she was a vampire. She was shocked, somewhat afraid, though despite the glimpse of danger something accepted it -- not easily, she refused to speak to Julia for months, though half a bottle of wine and a curious text ended up bringing their friendship back. Adrienne had rules, though they eventually eased as she became comfortable again except for one: she loved her friend, but she didn't want to know more than necessary about that world. She wanted safety. So Adrienne knew that vampires, magic, and more creatures than she cared to ask about existed, but details didn't cross her path. At least until she jokingly asked Julia a question when she was stuck analysing a cell sample and it hit a little closer to the supernatural than she expected, but those were the exceptions.

Things calmed down, years passed, and then Isabella became sick. It was a slowly progressing illness, months of testing that felt more torturous because she couldn't help, though no answer came, not one in time. The diagnosis came too late for Isabella to recover, and Adrienne took her loss hard. Her sabbatical lasted longer than planned, though in her spiral, the days weren't noticed. Eventually returning to work, her usually friendlier bossiness was snappier and her confidence was pushed to an extreme, more reckless than anything: no one died, her work was still careful enough (and checked) that her patients were safe, though reckless driving leading to her being injured in an accident gave her a time out. Surgery, physio, and seeing a mandated therapist started getting her the help she needed. Her grief slowly started being worked through, her drinking cut back, and she started a plan of where to go now.

This plan involved a real sabbatical from work and volunteering with Médecins Sans Frontières. Adrienne needed space and physical distance from her pain, and it gave her hope, a potential purpose that she could do something to help. Though she signed up for a year, Adrienne stayed with Médecins Sans Frontières for two years before returning to New York. Despite the distance and healing that she'd begun she didn't know whether this would be enough to help her settle back into her life. So Adrienne stayed in New York for a few months, catching up with friends, and touring the hospital, working temporarily in the ER, but the more time she spent there the more old memories and pain surfaced and all she wanted to do was run. But she missed home, feeling torn between the two: doing more to help with Médecins Sans Frontières or trying to get her life back? Each day felt both easier and harder and again all she could do was take it one day at a time.

★ PATHOLOGY

★ PATHOLOGY. Pathology is the study of how illnesses and diseases work, aiding with diagnosing and treating diseases, analysing patient samples and developing new research and treatments to fight diseases. Pathology is split into multiple different subspecialties depending on what is being analysed -- pediatric pathology, Adrienne's subspecialty is part of surgical pathology (examinations involving surgical specimens, such as biopsies of tissue and tumours).

★ PEDIATRIC PATHOLOGY. Pediatric and perinatal pathologists specialise in how diseases affect babies and children, with symptoms and presentation often different to how they affect adults or diseases that only affect children. Though working mostly behind the scenes, pediatric pathologists can often have contact with the children and families. As well as examining tissue samples, pediatric pathologists also perform autopsies and placental examinations.