Adelaide Koenig
Nov 26, 2011 23:53:25 GMT -5
Post by Dr. Adelaide Koenig on Nov 26, 2011 23:53:25 GMT -5
[/i][/size][/right]The Basics
Name:Dr. Adelaide Alexandria Koenig
Nicknames: Ada, Addy, or whatever you decide to call her. That is, as long as you’re not a student.
Age:35
Orientation: Heterosexual
Desired Rank/Job: Counselor/Therapist (psychologist)
Powers: Empathy
Play By: Cate Blanchett
The Details
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Any Piercings? ears
Any Tattoos? Two koi fish, one on each ankle. The fish on her right ankle is facing down, and is black except for a white spot on its head. The fish on her left is facing up, and is white except for a black spot on its head. Put together, they would make a yin-yang. (Something like this:4.bp.blogspot.com/-IwYaR7GslS0/Tibx9BYDDAI/AAAAAAAACAY/N5-g9a65nXA/s1600/yin_yang_koi_tattoo_design_by_ash_night_k.jpg)
Any Scars? none
General Appearance:
Adelaide has a body-type that most would call athletic. She is fit and toned due to her religious running schedule, though most would not see this as she hides her body under work attire. What people do see is her slender limbs and neck, her small wrists and ankles, and her long, skinny fingers. In addition, she is not particularly “well-endowed”, so at times she appears slightly sickly or underweight. She stands at a height of 5’6”, though she usually appears taller because she typically wears high-heals.
Adelaide’s most prominent facial feature is her bright, blue eyes that seem to glow especially in sunlight. She has rose colored lips that are neither thin, nor plump, framed by the beginnings of laugh lines. Her high cheek bones, slightly long nose, and angular chin give her a regal appearance. In addition, she has pale skin that rarely shows any blushing, and blonde hair. Recently, she has seen some grey strands, but her hair is so light no one would notice unless they were close enough to check her for lice.
Adelaide’s normal work attire could be called “business wear”. She seems to have a slight obsession with collared button downs in pastel shades and white. She also owns many pairs of dark-colored slacks and kakis. On occasion, she wears a pencil skirt. She always wears heels, not very high heels, or flats, and if they are any other color than black, she’s in a good mood.
Personality:
To strangers, a first impression of Adelaide may not be a positive one. Some see her as snooty, or stuck-up, and truthfully she does behave in such a manner towards people she believes are ignorant, or ill-intentioned. She has always had a certain knack for reading people especially now that she has mastered her powers. She spends most of her time as the reserved observer, the fly on the wall, so to speak. She is not usually outgoing, nor is she a popular person. In fact, she sometimes comes off as “anti-social”. Therefore, some are reluctant to approach her.
This is not to say that Adelaide is not capable of being social. On the contrary, those who get to know her find her friendly, caring, trustworthy, and generous. She does enjoy making others happy, at least those she feels deserve favors. She normally favors small groups to chat with or “hang-out” with. However, occasionally she will join a larger party, though that course of action may only be due to her enjoying people watching.
On that note, Adelaide is in love with studying other people and places. Give her a chance to experience a new culture, and she will learn most everything there is to know about it. There is just something about people – the way they behave, and the reasons behind their behavior – that has always fascinated her. The information she finds might anger or disturb her, but she still digs for answers until she can dig no more. Money never really mattered to her. She only wanted a career that would make her happy, something that would challenge and satisfy her intellectually.
Lastly, Adelaide, like many, wears a mask for most of her peers. On one hand, she is a very good listener for anyone with a troubled heart. On the other, she has trouble trusting people enough to divulge her own emotions and certain pieces of her past. She does not like to burden others with what she thinks is meaningless drama that she can handle by herself. Even if she is wrong and the emotional strain she feels is almost unbearable, she hides everything. In fact, she has become rather good at it. Those who know this are only those that are very close to her, or those who have found out how to read her. Both are rather difficult goals to achieve without the appropriate powers.
Your Vices
Likes:
-dark chocolate
-white wine
-Jagermeister
-caffeine
-the color blue
-music
-autumn
-mountains
-precipitation
-a good read
-football (soccer)
-Queen (yes, the band)
-a good intellectual discussion
-running
-studying other cultures…really human beings in general
Dislikes:
-bigotry
-selfishness
-greed
-cliques
-drama (in social situations, not theatre)
-gossip
-conflict
-religious fanatics and/or conservatives shoving their ideals down people’s throats
-people who deal in absolutes
-vengefulness/vindictiveness
-those little pickles they put on your burgers at fast-food places
-tomatoes
-needles
-math
Strengths:
-work ethic
-intelligence
-music (she is a fair vocalist, though she’d never admit it, and pianist)
-understanding people (besides by the use of her abilities)
-holding alcohol (she can still drink many men of her age under the table)
-succeeding in her job/helping her patients and others who come to her
Weaknesses:
-work ethic (though it has brought her success, she is a bit of a workaholic)
-alcohol
-conflict (she is most definitely a pacifist, and she does her best to steer away from fights)
-people crying (of course, she’s seen it in her office, but she’s never really gotten used to it)
-being emotionally detached (she’s never been able to submit to the totally objective strategy some of her colleagues have employed, and she believes that being sympathetic toward her patients makes her a better therapist in some ways)
-math
Fears:
-failing to help her patients
-old age/becoming unable to live autonomously/being a burden on others
-dying alone
-her weight
-spiders
Secret:
-She’s generally hard on herself in her work and her appearance.
-All doctors and psychiatrists eventually have that one patient that they feel they failed. Adelaide’s was a teenage girl named Mary Newman. Mary ended up committing suicide (see History). Adelaide has not spoken of this case to anyone outside the Newman family since the girl’s funeral.
Family Ties
Father:Arthur Koenig - deceased
Mother: Maria Koenig - deceased
Siblings:none
Any Other Important People:a deerhound named Bear
History
Adelaide was born to Arthur and Maria on the 5th of January. The couple had had several failed attempts to have a child despite fertility treatments. When they finally had a daughter, they were thrilled. Adelaide was born healthy, and was raised in a bustling city where both of her parents worked. Both were already into their thirties, but they managed nicely. Her father was a banker, and her mother worked at the art museum and sold her own paintings on the side.
It was shortly before Adelaide’s tenth birthday that her parents split up. Somehow the serious, conservative nature of the banker father and the fun-loving, liberal manner of the artist mother had conflicted too much for too long. Having a child that was fully on the liberal side only made matters worse. Arguments about how Adelaide should be raised, how her parents should behave, among other things erupted more and more after Adelaide started school. When the divorce papers were drawn up, the arguments had become more heated and much more frequent. It was Adelaide’s mother that decided their daughter should no longer be exposed to this. Though each parent found the split hard, they knew it was best. Adelaide stayed with her mother, with regular visitation rights for her father.
Despite this trying time, Adelaide soon discovered her powers and began attending Hammel after her doctor suggested the school. She excelled in everything academic, and in mastering her powers. She enjoyed humanities most, an interest that spurred her onto making her later career choice: psychologist. Truly, she worked exceedingly hard to reach her goal. She graduated at the top of her class and earned a degree quickly. She then worked her way to receiving her doctorate.
It was during college that her life took a few turns for the worse. Her now elderly mother died after falling down a flight of stairs, and her father followed a few months later following a stroke. Adelaide had to find something to do with herself to keep her mind off these events. Now in her twenties, she had her PhD and was searching for a job. She found one in the same city she was born in taking a huge number of patients. They were glad to have a young, new face to assist.
For a couple years, Adelaide saw success in all of her patients. She began using her powers more, and discovered that this gave her an advantage over her colleagues. She finally felt accepted, though she still never told anyone about her powers.
During her third year at this firm, Mary Newman (mentioned in Secrets) became Adelaide’s patient. Mary’s parents were concerned for their daughter because the teen had recently started experimenting with hard drugs and self-mutilation. Adelaide had seen many patients in the same/similar situations, so she assumed she would be as successful as she normally was. She was very wrong.
It was not that Mary didn’t want help. She talked to Adelaide about everything. The therapy simply never worked for her. Every time she entered the office, Adelaide was almost over-come by the sadness Mary emitted. She tried desperately to convince Mary that she wasn’t alone, that she herself struggled with this kind of loneliness. But there was simply nothing Adelaide could tell the poor child to make her understand, and the medications her parents were pumping into her system seemed to help little.
On the day of her last appointment, Mary simply thanked Adelaide for her kindness, and left. Adelaide thought she sensed a hint of some other emotion from Mary that she hadn’t before, but could not place it. The next morning, she received a call from Mary’s father. Mary had hung herself in her bedroom. She was eighteen. At the funeral, Adelaide finally placed the emotion: resolve. Mary had come to the appointment knowing what she was about to do.
Adelaide left the office a couple weeks later. She couldn’t face her co-workers. She couldn’t even look at the couch Mary sat on. She eventually found Hammel Institute and immediately applied for the position there with the hope that she could make a difference in the lives of the gifted students there.
Roleplay Example
(From a different site under an Avatar theme)
Oh, no – Adelaide was usually not the type to rush into a life-changing decision. However, on this particular occasion, she had in fact already been searching for something profoundly life-changing – anything to give her a better future, a new start. She wanted something bold, exciting, perhaps dangerous. This was exactly what she needed - an event that would completely alter the flow of her life.
Lately, she had this feeling of helplessness, even worthlessness. Her life seemed to have changed too many times in the past few years, all for the worst. There was the parents dying, then her fiancé leaving without warning, and don’t forget the girls she found him with. All she ever wanted to do was find a nice job, settle down, live a relatively normal life, whatever that meant. But it was clear to her now that normality was not the goal she should be striving for. In order to stop her trend of unfortunate events, she would now do something so drastic even she surprised herself: sign-up for the return trip to Pandora.
She knew full well the danger involved…or at least she liked to tell herself she did. The first trip had failed. And she was suddenly crazy enough to jump on-board another potentially folly voyage? Of course. Why not? There was nothing left for her on Earth, and the whole planet was going down the tubes anyway. Better to go out blazing on a far away planet than rotting away at home.
And so, here Adelaide was, striding toward a large ship waiting to shuttle passengers onto a larger ship that would somehow get them to Pandora. The area surrounding the ship was chaotic and noisy. Passengers were boarding, staff was doing last minute checks, luggage, and other items were being packed. She held in both her hands the handle of a large suit case, and wore on her back a stuffed backpack. It was a miracle she managed to stuff all of her wardrobe and any other processions she simply could not part with into these bags. She was even able to sell her apartment for some extra money before leaving. She was ready, but perhaps it just was not hitting her yet – the fact that she may never see Earth again, that her new home would be Pandora the next time she was standing on firm, natural ground.
At this thought, Adelaide paused. A pensive expression crossed her fair face. This might be the last time she breathed Earth’s oxygen, felt Earth’s breeze blow strands of blonde hair into her face, felt Earth beneath her feet…
“And good riddance…” Adelaide muttered bitterly to herself. When all that this planet held for her was a boring, lonely future, an economy gone to hell, and a polluted atmosphere, it was hard to say anything positive about it. Internally however, she did feel a small pang of sadness. She was trying to fight it off, to deny any sentimental feelings she had for this place. Yet they were there, whether she liked it or not. Truly, she should not have expected any different. After all, here was where she had been born, raised, loved, deceived, forgotten…She had experience Life here.
Adelaide took a deep breath. That was the most farewell this place would receive from her. Now she was ready. She continued her original path toward the ship, the ship that would start her on her journey to this fresh start, to Pandora.
What About You?
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Name: Just call me Addy…or whatever.
Age: almost 20
Experience: I’ve been out of it for a while, so I’d say about 5 years.
How Did You Find Us? found you on RPG directory
Ready To Play?DUH
