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PLAYER INFO

Player Name: Kerry
• Player Contact: pm
• Player Age: 32
• Permissions: Here.

CHARACTER INFO

• Character Name: Adrienne Peters
• Character Age: 42
• Character Canon: Original Character
• Canon Point: September 2019

• Character History:

Adrienne was 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 when she was fifteen when her parents were killed in a home invasion. The invaders were never caught, and Adrienne was taken in by her aunt, though she had to relocate to Oregon. Though the next months were difficult she completed school, broke the heart of the first boy who tried to love her, and worked through the summer, starting a chemistry degree at one of the community colleges.

After graduating, Adrienne took the next steps as a new chapter of her life. She was studying medicine in New York, spending half of that time studying in a bar and meeting the person who became her best friend (Julia). 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 and kept the baby. Her daughter (Isabella) was born in June 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, 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. Adrienne had rules: 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.

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. The answer 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 became pushed to an extreme. She was forcibly stopped when bad weather led 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, it wasn't enough to help her settle back into her life. She stayed in New York for a few months, catching up with friends, and touring the hospital, but the more time she spent there the more old memories and pain surfaced and all she wanted to do was run. So Adrienne signed back up, knowing that she could offer more help with Médecins Sans Frontières, more than she could currently in New York.

• Character Personality:

— KINDHEARTED: Though she can be bossy and brash on the surface, Adrienne has a good heart at her core: she knows what pain is and doesn't want others to feel that pain. At work, her heart is seen in her determination, her dedication to finding answers to the children whose cases cross her desk, or the gentle words she has when face-to-face with a patient or family. Her words are her strength to others over physical affection, listening, and trying to find the best thing to say to make someone feel better. As for the children she works with they see the softest side of her, a softness that is reserved just for them: a mother who wants them happy and unafraid whilst their ills are cured.
— LOYAL: Though Adrienne has more recently burned a lot of bridges, not wanting the people around her to see her broken, there have been people in her life that are hard to shake and it's for reason -- she's been there for them, they're returning the favour. At her best, Adrienne is an excellent friend, kind and caring and good at listening. She will always be there for someone when they need her even if they don't realise it. Even now, at a lower point, Adrienne's loyalty is still there -- she'll listen and be a friend even if she's not feeling great, the few people she still has she keeps close to her and she cares.
— PROTECTIVE: Adrienne has been through a lot of pain in her life and it's this pain that tries to make sure the people that are around her, the people that she loves are spared similar pains. Adrienne protects people either with her manner, kinder to them but harsher to anyone cruel to them, or by her actions -- she became a doctor to help, heal and save people, protecting them from pain by helping injury or figuring out an illness. It's why she specialised in pathology, wanting to understand disease and heal at its core.

— AVOIDANT: Adrienne has a problem with connecting to people, not because she can't but out of a refusal to do so. Whilst she's friendly and kind, particularly in her work, many of her friendships and the people that she knows are surface friendships: she avoids letting people in and really getting to know her. Some of this stems from the loss of her parents -- she'd been hurt and didn't ever want to feel this again, almost being afraid of letting people in only to be hurt by them. After her daughter dies this ends up magnified: it's no longer just an emotional connection to others that she avoids but her own emotions, not processing her grief, trying to bury it and in the end only becoming reckless. She pulled away from a lot of people, hid behind 'I'm fine' and isolated herself in her pain. Outside of emotions, Adrienne will avoid anything she really doesn't want to deal with, maybe accepting that it exists but u-turning away from the topic if it gets too close to it, incredibly obviously changing the subject from it. Trying to get her to touch a topic she's pulled away from tends to be hit with refusal or denial. Or a little rudeness.
— OVERCONFIDENT: Confidence is usually a bonus, though too much confidence can lead to someone being more impulsive sometimes arrogant-seeming or even reckless. For Adrienne, it's mostly the first issue -- she has a strong belief in herself, in what she knows or just that she's right that she hates waiting for the proper chain of events to happen, wanting to get around it to get to the end. Her confidence ties in with her bossiness, she knows (believes) she's right so she tells people what they need to do rather than listening to another solution. Her confidence does mean that she misses things, sometimes overlooking the small detail or misreading the room. At her worst, her confidence makes her reckless, almost believing that nothing can bring her down, recklessly fearless -- "it hasn't happened yet, I'm fine, it won't happen" (except it does).
— BOSSY: It's a confidence thing and a little bit of a power thing, even if Adrienne doesn't have the power in a situation. She's gotten good at telling people what to do, what should happen or what she thinks needs to happen, even if she's not in charge. Adrienne's learned that sometimes the person in charge doesn't have all of the answers and if she does she's not the most subtle about going about it, telling people what needs to happen rather than explaining what she thinks. She's not apologetic about it, not when she believes she's right (unfortunately, she usually is) and the only thing that tends to save her is that she manages not to be rude about it. Though she's good at giving orders she is also a team player, and good at following directions -- if she believes in it, if the task feels wrong or feels like it wastes time then she's more than happy to disagree with it and try and demand a different path. And it is a demand.

• Character 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.

• Character Inventory:

— ITEM ONE: a worn, folded photo [of her and her daughter]
— ITEM TWO: a basic first aid kit
— ITEM THREE: her worn hiking boots

• Important Notes:

• Writing Samples:

— SAMPLE ONE: Here
— SAMPLE TWO: Here

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