Adele Couteau

Full Name- Adele Elise Couteau
Gender- Female
Age- 35
Date of Birth- 24 Aug., 1976
Sexual Orientation- Heterosexual
Location- New York
Celebrity Claim- Marion Cotillard
What should we call you?- Momo
Play anyone else?- Conall St. Albans, Felicia Rahal, Khalidah Rahal
Have You Read the Rules?- i have to tidy my room first

Personality-

Adele is a very precise individual. Some would say that she's borderline obsessive-compulsive. Her mind is very compartmentalised; every thought has its place, and everything has to be organised. She generally keeps her emotions to herself, and is very well-studied and astute.

She learned at a very early age to invest her money well. Rather than go out and spend her allowance on frivolous things like most girls her age, she had her own bank account (albeit a joint account) by the time she was six. Her parents raised her to believe that finances and self-sufficiency were incredibly important, and became very well-versed with numbers and such in her youth. By the time she was in her teens, at the request of Willard Kensington, a family friend and investment broker with a knack for predicting money-making trends in the stock market, she had begun to invest her work earnings into various commodities.

Although she is not a risk-taker by any stretch of the imagination, she enjoys playing the stock market and views it as being similar to a game of chess; it is not something that can be won at easily without thinking out every possible move.

By and large, Adele has little to no compassion for anyone (except for a remote few). For the most part, she sees humanity as a large group of pawns at her disposal. Even though she is a doctor, and doctors tend to show at least a little empathy, that is a word with which she isn’t all that familiar. People generally dismiss her coldness as an extension of her profession, which is known for being clinical, methodical, logical, and calculating.

She has a sadistic streak, and enjoys causing other people pain in order to learn more about how the brain copes with it. She sees nothing wrong with experimenting on her patients with or without their knowledge. She does it for her own benefit so she can learn the full extent of her abilities which have evolved a great deal over time.

Adele has a very linear mode of thinking and takes orders and instructions very well. Because she is a doctor, her work is something that must be dealt with in a linear fashion. There is little to no room for error when it comes to medicine, and thus every possible situation and outcome must be thought out. She also takes her interpersonal relationships quite seriously, though most of the time she is simply content to use people until they are no longer of service to her.

In terms of leadership, Adele prefers to work behind the scenes rather than in the line of fire. Instead of risking her own skin, she is quite content with using her silver tongue to manipulate people to do things for her. Her patience is unparalleled, and it is rare for her emotions to reach their boiling point unless she feels threatened. A tried and true Southern woman, she holds politeness, manners, and respect to a very high standard.

Likes-

• Art
  
• Causing pain
  
• Classical music
  
• Experimenting on others
  
• Watching people bleed
  
• Investing money wisely
  
• A good glass of expensive wine
  
• Her Lotus Elise—touch it without her permission, and she will kill you.
  

Dislikes-

• Disorganisation
  
• Crooked picture frames hung on walls
  
• Dirt
  
• Stepping in chewing gum
  
• People with poor hygiene
  
• People with bad manners
  
• Slow drivers
  
• Anxious, unpredictable people
  

Strengths-

• Intelligence
  
• Thinks in a very rigid, organised manner
  
• Has an incredible amount of patience and is not easily wavered or upset
  
• Is good with numbers
  
• Silver-tongued – she can sweet talk just about anyone by being polite and charming.
  
• Commits herself to her causes with passion
  

Weaknesses-

• Organisation – if everything isn’t in its place, or isn’t in a place where she can readily find what she needs, she goes a little nuts.
  
• The enjoyment she gets out of inflicting pain sometimes causes her to lose focus on what she’s really supposed to be doing.
  
• Fear of uncertainty -- She likes to have things planned out to a T. Her fear of uncertainty goes hand-in-hand with her indecisiveness. When things in her life are uncertain or cannot be predicted with accuracy, it causes her anxiety.
  
• Not trusting of others. She knows that she always has ulterior motives. That means that everyone else around her has ulterior motives as well, no matter how honest they may seem.
  
• Indecisiveness. People usually mistake this as her being stubborn when it reality, in Adele's mind, she needs to think up all possible outcomes before setting foot down a certain path. Because every path needs to a different path like a gigantic Möbius strip, it is incredibly difficult for her to make decisions.
  
• Vengefulness – If she feels that she has somehow been wronged by someone, she will go out of her way to exact revenge upon them. It might take days, months, or years, but she will always come back with a vengeance to nab someone when they least expect it. Vengefulness is something that gradually eats away at her mind like a cancer and gradually consumes her thoughts until the vengeful act is finally committed.
  

Skills-

• Acting – Feigning emotions and lying just seem to come naturally to her. She will act in a certain manner in order to manipulate someone and win them over to her side (and will probably turn on them just as quickly).
  
• Writing in shorthand. Real shorthand. It was a skill that she had to pick up on medical school because she refused to buy herself a laptop until after she graduated. If she hadn’t learnt shorthand, there was no way she would have been able to pass any of her classes.
  
• Housekeeping and redecorating. She tries to go for that avant-garde, art nouveau kind of look. Housekeeping-wise, cleanliness is next to godliness. Everything gets sprayed and dusted and put away daily. She can’t stand seeing a pile of dirty clothes laying on the ground, or odds and ends strewn about all over the place.
  

Flaws-

• Psychological: Lack of a moral compass. Despite being a doctor and having to adhere to the Hippocratic Oath, Adele prefers to heed its words only when it happens to benefit her. She would willingly kill someone if given half a chance to do so. She doesn't need to have a reason to kill someone; in the name of science, sometimes sacrifices have to be made. Or in the name of her own sanity, sometimes sacrifices need to be made. Whatever the case may be, karma doesn't exist as far as she is concerned, and "good" and "bad" are simply words with no real meaning. As long as it serves her best interests, she has no qualms about crushing other people in her path in the most vile of manners conjured by her very active imagination.
  
• Physical: Moderate haemophilia. Both of her parents possessed the gene for the trait, and she wound up with it. Her mother was a carrier, while her father had the actual disease. She has to be careful not to injure herself and needs to make sure that she has access to blood from donors for transfusions, or access to lab-created clotting factors to make sure that her blood clots properly.
  
• Mental/Emotional: Adele is relatively apathetic about everything. Almost everything. She really couldn’t care less that the patients she sees on a daily basis are in pain. She’d just as soon throw them in to oncoming traffic just so she could measure the trajectory of their brain as it came flying out of their skull. She might be a doctor, but even so, she generally does not have her patients' best interests in mind. Her rather clinical, unemotional, cut and dry view of the world makes her a hard person to be around as she is very hard to relate to.
  

Abilities/Powers/Skills-

Primary Power: Bodily Integrity Alteration

With this ability, Adele is able to affect each of the body’s major systems.

Circulatory System

Adele can affect the transmission of chemicals through the bloodstream. For example, she can increase a person's endorphin levels to give them a spontaneous burst of strength. She can also use this ability to stop a person’s blood in their veins or severely increase, decrease or otherwise regulate their blood pressure. Altering the integrity of someone’s circulatory system would allow her to harden arteries, create or destroy embolisms or other obstructions in the blood. Her control of the blood also allows her to reduce or increase the amount of blood and/or clotting factors and plasma in someone’s body to aid healing or staunch blood loss.

Digestive System

She can speed up her own digestive processes or those of other people, thus having an effect on their energy levels. This ability could also be used detrimentally to force someone’s liver to produce toxic amounts of bile, or cause someone’s stomach to erupt and digest the contents of their viscera. Adele is also capable of slowing down the digestive process, thereby conserving energy for later use.

Endocrine System

This ability enables Adele to increase or decrease the amount of hormones in a person’s body. For example, she could give someone a burst of adrenaline to temporarily make them stronger. Hormone levels also play an important role in the experience and interpretation of pain by the central nervous system. An increase in hormonal levels—such as that experienced by women in labour—will make someone more resistant to pain whereas a decrease would leave them more vulnerable. Hormone imbalances in the brain can also produce such mental issues as depression and psychosis. Adele is capable of controlling each of these things to a certain extent: she can bolster or reduce someone’s hormone levels to make them more resistant or receptive to pain and can induce brief bouts of various mental ailments such as schizophrenia and psychosis.

Integumentary System

The integumentary system includes everything from skin to fatty tissue as well as the connective tissue which binds the organs together. She is able to increase the density or elasticity of any of these bodily items, thus giving her the ability to make someone’s skin more durable to attacks of a physical nature.

Lymphatic System

The lymph nodes control the body’s immune response. Increasing the strength of the lymphatic system would be beneficial to the immune system. Decreasing the effectiveness of the lymphatic system would leave someone more open to invasive bacteria and illness. The lymph nodes are also responsible for the transportation of fatty acids around the body once they are absorbed by the digestive system. Enriched lymph fluid known as chyle is what keeps cells “fed” and therefore functioning.

Muscular System

This particular system (aside from the nervous system) controls the body’s movement. Using this aspect of her ability, Adele could take control of someone’s muscles and cause them to seize up, or she could use it to ‘puppeteer’ someone around by grasping control of their movements. Seeing as how the heart is a large cluster of muscle tissue, Adele could either stop someone’s heart from beating, or she could make regulate their heartbeat to increase stamina and endurance.

Nervous System

The nervous system of the human body includes both the central nervous system (brain and spine) as well as the peripheral nervous system (ganglia, nerves, and various sensory neurons). The nervous system is affected by several biological factors such as neurotransmitters, neurochemicals, and hormones.

She can also affect the level of neurochemicals in a person’s mind. With this ability, she is capable of inducing extreme states of pain or euphoria in others via the manipulation of the neurotransmitter levels in their brain. It is possible for her to affect an individual’s nervous system to the point of shutting it down completely (effectively putting someone into a comatose state), or causing her subject to fall into a fit of seizures.

Reproductive System

The human reproductive system produces several important hormones necessary to sustain life or the creation of life:

• Andosterone—similar to testosterone, but has weaker effects.
  
• Oestrogen—Helps the eggs to mature inside the follicle and is necessary for the formation of a healthy endometrial lining for a foetus.
  
• Follicle stimulating hormone—in women, stimulates the formation of follicles containing an egg inside the ovaries. In men, this hormone stimulates the production of sperm.
  Gonadotropin releasing hormone—in women, signals the pituitary gland to release the follicle stimulating hormone which instructs the ovaries to form a follicle and release an egg. In men, this controls sperm production and testosterone levels.
  
• Inhibin—released by certain cells in men when there is not enough food available to feed developing sperm cells. This hormone also regulates the release of FSH and LH.
  
• Luteinising hormone—in men, this stimulates testosterone production. In women, it regulates the production of oestrogen.
  
• Progesterone—is present in the female body from the beginning to end of a pregnancy.
  
• Testosterone—stimulates secondary sex characteristics in men, is associated with the sex drive, aids in the formation of sperm.

These hormones each have an effect on our moods. High levels of either oestrogen or testosterone can lead to emotional instability, aggressiveness and irritability. A lack of one or more of these hormones in women can lead to painful endometriosis and polycystic ovaries as well as dysmennorhoea. Men can be affected by enlarged prostates and other painful disorders. Adele could increase or decrease the abundance of any of these hormones to a rather nasty extent. By tinkering with the female hormones, she could spontaneously induce a period or a miscarriage. If she were to increase the level of testosterone in a man or a woman (women have a certain amount of testosterone in their bodies just as men have a certain amount of oestrogen) they would become irascible and possibly violent.

Respiratory System

Control of the respiratory is also tied into her control of the muscular system and the circulatory system. This aspect of her ability would allow her to increase someone’s lung capacity (e.g., they would be able to hold their breath for an extended period of time without risking brain damage), or she could use it to force the air out of someone’s lungs. It is also possible for her to control the amount of blood gases which pass from the lungs to the blood stream (mainly nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide). Cutting off the gas permeability of the lungs would result in dizziness and eventual fainting.

Skeletal System

Self-explanatory. Just as she can do with skin, she can increase the density or the fragility of someone’s bones to give them the density of titanium, or the porousness of a sponge. Control of the skeletal system enables her to control a person’s movement and works in lock-step with her ability to command the muscular system.

Urinary System

Kidney stones are by far the most painful and excruciating little collection of minerals ever made. The pain from these stones is completely debilitating and effectively makes someone wish that they were dead. Adele can induce these stones in a person’s body by collecting their body’s minerals and making them calcify together in the tiny tubes of their kidneys. Trying to pass a kidney stone is like trying to push a watermelon through a straw. If it suits her, she can also make someone wet their pants and lose bowel control, which provides her with an easy way to make a retreat. On the flip side, she could also fill someone’s bladder to the point of bursting without allowing them to relieve themselves. This can result in reflux nephropathy where urine is forced back through the ureters and into the kidneys, which can significantly damage them.

Secondary Power: Biological Energy Reading

Her secondary power is intertwined with her primary ability. All of the body’s systems require some form of energy to fuel them (food, electric signals from the brain to the rest of the body, blood carrying oxygen and nutrients to muscles/organs, and so on). With biological energy reading, Adele is able to diagnose precisely where someone is experiencing pain or discomfort (by reading the energy patterns in the brain), whether their veins or arteries are blocked (by mentally charting the circulatory pathways through their body), and whether any of their vital organs have been injured or are suffering from some sort of disease. Once she has come into contact with someone’s unique energy (usually by touch), she is able to trace their energy signature over a distance—similar to the manner in which a bloodhound tracks a scent.

Limits-

Primary Power: Bodily Integrity Alteration

The following applies to every bodily system:

• If she is in physical contact with someone, the effects will be much more potent.
  
• The ability is sight-based. If she loses sight of you, she can’t do anything.
  
• In the same vein, if she is knocked out or otherwise loses her concentration, the effects will cease.
  
• If suddenly jolted out of concentration, she risks having her ability backfire on herself.
  
• She can only control one system at a time, otherwise it becomes much too taxing.

Circulatory System

She is no Daniel Linderman. She cannot completely restore a dead person to health by manipulating their blood, nor can she return a handicapped person to a non-handicapped state or anything of the sort. The only thing she really can do healing-wise is increase the clotting factors already present in someone's blood to make wounds scab over. The larger or more multiple the wound(s), all she can do is temporarily staunch the bleeding before her own energy starts getting sapped.

Endocrine System

These effects are only temporary. As with all of the body’s hormones, their effects taper off eventually. She can grant someone excess strength for short bursts at a time (roughly thirty seconds), but she is unable to maintain their heightened or lowered hormone levels indefinitely.

Integumentary System

She is incapable of making someone’s skin and/or other bodily tissues completely impenetrable. They would be durable enough to withstand a bullet from a fair distance away, but would not be able to withstand a bullet shot point blank.

Lymphatic System

She cannot create bacteria or “induce sickness” like a nosokinetic. The only thing that she can do with regard to the lymphatic system is increase or decrease the strength and effectiveness of someone’s immune system and immune response. She is unable to give someone an illness like a cold or a flu, though she can make them more susceptible to it by virtue of tinkering with their immune system.

Muscular System

The more extremities of a person that she is trying to control, the harder it is for her to maintain her concentration. It is much easier for her to control one or two extremities (an arm or a leg) than it is for her to control three or four of them. The more extremities she attempts to gain control of, the more taxing it is on her own body, and the easier it is for the individual to break away from whatever it is that she is trying to get them to do.

Nervous System

She cannot make a sane person permanently schizophrenic; the effects of her tampering with neurochemicals lasts only as long as she wants it to and then wanes within minutes. While she can induce such things as seizures and paralysis, these only last as long as her concentration allows.

As far as manipulating the nervous system goes, she can only work with whatever hormones are biologically available in the person’s body. She can’t “invent” new hormones or neurotransmitters that exist in other animals but not in humans.

Reproductive System

She cannot make someone become pregnant whether by parthenogenesis or some other means. For example, she can’t combine two sperm in a man’s scrotum and make him give birth out his urethra unless he happens to be a certain Patrick MacDudelookslikealady in which case she can plumb a great deal of Solidus spooge into his anus and make a magic mpreg clone babby. But seriously, she can’t make a person pregnant by look at them because she isn’t Conall.

Skeletal System

The same limitations as the muscular system apply here regarding movement. While she can make bones denser or more porous, she cannot make them indestructible. At most, she would be able to prevent major breakages, reducing them to mere hairline fractures. If someone were to fall from a great height that would normally kill them (such as jumping off a roof), they would still sustain a great deal of injury. This ability is more potent if she is in physical contact with her subject.

Secondary Power: Biological Energy Reading

This does not grant her the ability to siphon off energy from her subjects. It is mostly a passive ability which needs to be called upon in order to diagnose problems or get a “read” on someone. She cannot use this ability to heal mortal wounds or restore depleted energy to someone’s body. The only way for her to pick up on someone’s unique energy signature is through touch.

Once she has sampled someone’s energy, it becomes like a scent to her. She can track it, but the further away it travels, the more difficult it becomes. While it is entirely possible for a bloodhound to track a scent for over 100 miles, Adele’s range isn’t even half that. She needs to be able to focus on the energy’s particular flavour and be able to distinguish it from the several other biological energies permeating an area. In addition, she cannot pinpoint precisely where someone is; she is only able to give a general location.

Appearance-

Adele has long brown hair, straight as a board, which she usually keeps tied back or clipped up. When she's in a mood to look good, she'll curl it so that it takes on more of a wavy, full-bodied appearance.

She comes from a short family and stands at about 1.5 meters (5 feet) tall with heels. Adele has a slight frame which looks like it could blow away in the wind. She tips the scales somewhere around 45 kilogrammes soaking wet. She has penetrating brown eyes, calm demeanour, and faces the world in a cool and collected manner. She keeps herself very well-groomed for professional reasons and is a bit of a neat-freak.

Dress-wise, she likes to stay professional-looking outside of her line of work as a doctor specialising in the treatment of pain and pain disorders. She enjoys the finer luxuries of life, Louis Vuitton bags, nice Italian leather heels, and pressed and ironed Armani dress suits for women. She is definitely a woman of highly-refined tastes, and is always on the search for a good bottle of Domaine Romanee Conti or Chateau Mouton-Rothschild.

Her closets are colour-coordinated and are separated into spaces for skirts, slacks, and button down blouses. Her condo in Texas looks much the same way.

As far as Adele is concerned, cleanliness is next to godliness. She always maintains a professional appearance both in style and in language. She rarely has a foul word to say about anyone. She is well-mannered and polite and has found that having such a personality generally works in her favour because it prevents people from accusing her of any wrongdoing. She has a Southern accent (which she usually tries to hide, unless she’s being drunk or emotional), and presents herself to the public as very much a lady of fine taste.

Alignment- Bad
Team Affiliation- Rogue Society
Birthplace- Bossier City, Louisiana
Mother- Evelyn Couteau (nee Maigny), 53 years of age, still living, news reporter for CNN, Conditioning/Truth Inducement. Evelyn was a production manager at a local news station in Bossier City for a number of years before giving birth to her daughter. She seemed to have a natural gift for persuading people to do things for her – or to not do things at all. This definitely worked to her advantage in the competition-heavy field of network broadcasting, and gave her an edge over the competition. She could beat out any of them with her silver tongue.
Father- Vincent Couteau, 53 years of age, still living, retired haemotologist, Precognition. Vincent was a haemotologist at Cornerstone Hospital in Bossier City, Louisiana. At the hospital where he worked, he seemed to have quite a gift for predicting when problem patients would show up, or when a surgery suite would need to be made ready. He retired from working at the hospital a year ago after many years of dedicated service and instead opened up his own small private practice where he works a few days a week just to keep busy. He was the first to diagnose Adele’s haemophilia disorder, and sparked her interest in joining the medical profession.
Siblings- None.

History- Adele was born in the early morning of a hot summer day on 24 Aug., 1979.

Adele had a relatively normal childhood. From a young age, her parents noted that she had an uncanny ability to absorb knowledge, and it wasn’t unusual to find her in her father’s study, trying to teach herself how to read a page out of Grey’s Anatomy. She had no other siblings and was quite happy as an only child. Despite the fact that there were times when her parents’ work seemed to eat into their lives (such as when her mother kept getting shipped overseas to report on stories in Bosnia), her childhood was relatively stable. Her family never moved out of her childhood home; in fact, the first time she’d ever moved was when she started to attend university in Louisiana.

Her parents raised her to have a deep appreciation for knowledge and were incredibly exacting when it came to her education. She was always one of the top students in her class. Anything less than an A was unacceptable in Adele's eyes. Her intellectual strength soon alienated her from her peers and she immersed herself in her studies. She was never really a physical person, and thus did not participate in things that teens typically participated in, such as full-contact team sports; if someone ran into her too hard, she risked internal bleeding due to her haemophilia. A knee scrape or a bloody nose could turn into a hospital visit and a blood transfusion. Because of this, it severely limited her social interaction with people of her own age, and she missed out on learning some very valuable life lessons.

Like every child, there were times when she did get banged up, scraped, and scratched. But for reasons which baffled even her haemotologist father who’d initially diagnosed her haemophilia, something seemed to be keeping her bleeding in check. Sometimes. Once when he’d been training her to ride a bike without training wheels, Adele lost control of the two-wheeled contraption, and cut her knee upon the gear chain as she fell. Vincent’s immediate thought was to rush inside, grab his car keys, and drive her to the nearest hospital. But when he returned to retrieve his daughter from where she’d been sitting on the sidewalk recovering, he found her staring at the bleeding wound. It had since stopped bleeding down the front of her leg—

--at least until the sound of his footsteps broke Adele’s concentration and she looked up at him. Then it began to bleed anew.

At a young age, she realised that she was different from everyone else. When she was upset about something, she would channel that energy towards their family pets. Usually a cat or a dog, though this was Louisiana, and keeping snakes as pets certainly wasn’t unheard of. It seemed as though whenever she got angry, one of their seemingly healthy animals would suddenly keel over and die from a blood clot or a stroke. Though it took her a few years, she caught onto the pattern of anger and the subsequent demise of their pets, and began to experiment with just what she could do. Needless to say, unlike the other houses in their neighbourhood, the Couteau household always had a severe lack of rodents and other fauna freely roaming about . . .

In her early teens after having saved up a few thousand dollars from her allowance, birthday and various monetary holiday gifts from relatives, Adele decided that she wanted to try her hand at the stock market. Her parents put her in contact with an old family friend named Willard Kensington, whom they’d known for years as an investment broker when he’d been living not too far from them in Bossier City. Following Adele’s birth, both Evelyn and Vincent named Willard and his wife Mary as Adele’s godparents. Willard had since moved to New York with his wife so that he could cater to the “high rollers” who frequented the floors of the Stock Exchange. Still, he always had time to give his god-daughter financial advice.

Adele had an odd fascination with the stock market since she was a child, and enjoyed its “ordered chaos,” as her father called it. At Willard’s behest, she invested her money in various companies and followed the ups and downs of the stock market with the passion of a frenzied football fan. She invested a substantial amount of money in a few companies during the nascent stages of the dot com craze in the mid 1990's, withdrew her money at Willard’s request (he seemed to be able to predict when things were going to take a turn for the worst), and just barely missed out on the dot com collapse of the mid 1990s. Rather than keep her money in something as unpredictable as the stock market despite his knowledge of its many ins and outs, Willard suggested that she distribute it more evenly into other investments such as precious metals, government-insured bonds, and biomedical stocks. Because of her early and educated investment decisions, Adele enabled herself to become independently wealthy with a rather large disposable income at her beck and call.

Throughout her young life and her teen years, Adele was always very socially awkward and kept few friends. She never learned how to maintain healthy interpersonal relationships. She is very particular about who she allows into her circle, and sets rather high standards. Growing up, Adele was an intense perfectionist.

She attended college and majored in pre-med at Tulane University, then took a semester off to prepare for her MCAT. Having delved into studying for the exam, she pulled off a 43 on her MCAT, and received S’s on both of her essays. Coupled with her GPA and her time spent working with various pain specialists on a probative thesis regarding experimental treatments to increase pain resistance, she earned an acceptance to the medical school at NYU. There, she began to specialise in pain treatment and, more specifically, how the hormones and chemicals induced as a reaction to pain were carried through the blood stream to the major nerve centers of the body.

Although she’d known of her ability for years, she opted not to focus on it while doing her university studies, as her studies were enough of a distraction. While she was in medical school and it was her responsibility to become more intimately acquainted with the inner-workings of the human body, Adele decided to once again begin experimenting with what she knew she could do. If someone came to her while she was interning and complained of pain, she found that she could take it away with a touch. Individuals with rheumatoid arthritis began to experience a near-reversal of their symptoms. Being a studious type, and needing an answer for every questionable thing, Adele hit the books, determined to discover just what had happened to cause their feelings of pain to cease.

She eventually ran across the book Activating Evolution by Dr. Chandra Suresh. While reading it, she began mulling through events in her mind. She’d known that she could take away people’s pain, but what if she could increase it? What was the extent of her ability? Could she do other things with it like control her own bleeding? This was something she didn’t want to try on herself first.

At the hospital where she interned over her breaks, she pretty much had free reign. When she wasn’t shadowing her doctor and learning the tricks of the medical trade, she could often be found in the morgue, testing out just what she could do. Through months of trial and error, extensive note-taking, and research, she discovered that she had the ability not only to unclot dead, clotted blood, but that she could also transform it into other bodily substances. She could also affect the level of hormones in an individual’s bloodstream as well as the level of neurotransmitters and neurochemicals in their minds. Adele was careful to keep all of her research closely under lock and key, and took some of her experiments home with her (albeit under slides, and in pint bags of donated blood and plasma).

She knew better than to record her experiments on the computerised lab equipment in the hospital, and instead talked her parents into loaning her several thousand dollars for a research project – which was partially true. The office room in her apartment had been set up as a clean room where she examined blood under slides and kept track of her ability's advancement.

From there, she moved onto testing her abilities out on live subjects. Well, live subjects who were close to death, at least. That way if they died, well, no one would have questioned it because they were terminal. She began to start seeing people then as a means to an end to perfect her ability and moved from dead subjects to nearly dead subjects to healthy individuals coming in for routine exams. After a few years of constant training and thought, her ability had evolved to the point where she no longer had to be in bodily contact in order to access it; she just needed to be within the same vicinity. But she had enough clarity of mind enough to know that she couldn’t have too many “accidents” at the hospital or else fingers would start being pointed. Doctors were many things; one of the many things they were not was stupid.

Very quickly, Adele’s compassion for the betterment of the public vanished as she devoted herself to studying how far she could extend her ability. She'd been apathetic to people’s situations for quite a while now, though she hid her apathy under a heavy sheet of sweet Southern bedside manner. Sometimes, she would bring a person’s blood to a fever high enough to break down the proteins in their bodies, then drop it to a point of hypothermia, just to see how their bodies would react so she could measure the levels of what chemicals were released, and in what amounts. Once they were close to death, she would relinquish her control, and the medical community was never the wiser. Other times, she would turn a patient’s blood into liver bile and watch as their skin grew severely jaundiced. She would drug patients with bleeding ulcers into a deep coma and would turn their blood to stomach acid, then change it back before they died. The deaths resulting from those experiments were written off as ruptured ulcers that had sent stomach acids flowing into the body cavity.

She completed her residency two years ago and opened up her own pain clinic in New York City proper where she lived until recently.

Some months ago when she was getting off work, she ran into a young man whose name she later learned was Ryan Alcroft. The two of them were ambushed by a pair of Company agents in the parking garage adjacent to her practice. After a high speed chase and what she thought would have been just a torrid one night stand—she was pleasantly surprised when the young man seemed to have taken an interest in her.

Not long after they met, the Company was once again sent after them. This time, however, they were prepared, and the two Company agents did not stand a chance. Ryan took part in killing one of the agents, and the two of them discarded the bodies on a ferry bound for Staten Island.

After having dated for several months, the pair eventually moved in together into Adele’s Upper East Side condo, and she managed to talk Ryan into joining Kiros Monroe’s Rogue Society.

The two of them have since visited London and Saint Tropez, and presently live together in a condo on South Padre Island.

Anything else?- (any other important information we should know?) N/A

Sample RP-

Henoch-Schönlein purpura was what was written on her patient’s chart. Leaky and enflamed blood vessels in the joints, kidneys, skin, or digestive tract. The man sitting on the exam table before her didn’t show any outward signs of the disease; rather there was blood in his urine, which meant that he was most likely suffering from painful kidney damage.

Adele rolled up to him on her chair as she assessed the results from his urine sample. Kidney damage wasn’t something that she could reverse with conventional prescription drugs.

“So what’s the damage?”

“The damage is, Mr. Dobbs, that after your last bout of pneumonia, you developed a case of Henoch-Schönlein purpura.” Her voice had a Southern lilt to it.

“Sounds pretty serious.”

“It’s manageable. But based upon the results of your urine sample, it appears as though you have a bit of kidney damage. I’m unable to tell just how bad it is without running further tests.” He was a very kind old man. She really didn’t want to hurt him. Besides, this wasn’t the proper venue.

Adele put her hand on his knee and looked him in the eye, focusing on removing the toxins in his blood running through his kidneys, attempting to reverse the damage that had been caused. She could tell that he’d been in pain when he’d walked into her office. Under her small hand, she felt the muscles in his leg tense up and relax as the pain was released. Apparently his kidneys had been pretty badly damaged. “I have a feeling that you’re going to be just fine.” Adele smiled at him and released his knee a moment later. “I’m going to write you a script for Cytoxan. It’s an immunosuppressive drug that will tell your body to stop attacking itself – that’s what’s creating all the swelling.”

After writing him the script, she escorted him to the front desk of her office. “You should start feeling the effects of the medication within 48 hours. We can set up another appointment if you aren’t feeling better by Wednesday.”

She returned to her office and took out her laptop. Opening a document that appeared to be a research log, she typed the following:

Prescribed for the patient Cytoxan. Unknown as to whether it will reverse kidney damage.

Adele closed the program. Unknown, indeed, she thought to herself. She knew the drug wouldn’t do a thing.

She’d given him the disease when he’d been in the hospital with pneumonia. A person’s body was most susceptible to getting Henoch-Schönlein purpura following a severe upper respiratory or lung infection. All she needed to do was to have his blood attack the fluid around his joints and under his skin. The kidney damage was simply an added benefit

She’d given it to him, and now she’d taken it away.

She looked forward to the inevitable phone call that would come sometime within the next week where Mr. Dobbs would tell her about how thankful he was that she’d cured him. People were just predictable like that.