Current Adra

Adra, over the years

First Transformation: 1608, Jamestown

The first time that Marlene becomes unbalanced, it is an overall excruciating process, as her energy began to dramatically shift. On the 10th anniversary of her parents' death, Marlene is kidnapped and nearly beaten to death by two slave traders. Left bloody in the woods, Marlene is able to sap enough energy from the surrounding Earth to make it back to town. Once there, she finds the two men drinking outside a pub. She uses Alchemy to suck their life energy from their bodies, killing them. This act is one of the great taboos of Alchemy, and her body, unable to handle the dark mark of the deed that she had done, begins to dramatically alter her so she is unbalanced, and dark. It is after her transformation that she adopts the name Adrasdos Dark, from the Greek "Adrastus", the King of Argos well-known for being able to survive against the odds. His name is also synonymous with "inescapable". Adra remained unbalanced until 1644, when Cain forced her to return to Gaia, where the Jämvikt military subjected her to energetic rehabilitation. 

During this time, Adra only kills one man- someone who was abusing his child. Most of her time is devoted to learning different forms of Alchemy. 

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Second Transformation: 1815, England

A few weeks after Cain announced that he wants to divorce Adra, she gives birth to her first child brought to full term- her son, Adrian Romanić. The grief that she experiences following the death of her son sends her into a spiraling depression, and eventually she begins to experience "blackouts" where she is unbalanced. Eventually, she does not recover from one of the blackouts, and she becomes permanently unbalanced again. It is during this time that she begins to go on killing sprees, unlike her first period of being unbalanced. Most of the time, she just murders people in cold blood- she wears a mask to hide her identity and kills murderers, rapists, and slave traders. She quickly becomes known in the press as the "Black Angel of London". She is turned in to the leader of the English Sanctuary in 1825, and is imprisoned. She became balanced in 1837 whilst in her 17th year of her 20-year sentence, after a young pregnant nurse succumbs to wounds to that another inmate inflicted upon her. 

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Third Transformation: Gaia, 1899

Following the Third Great Alchemist War and fall of the Jämvikt Republic, the authoritarian Mörkan government passes the Unwarden Acts, which require citizens to pass on any information regarding the whereabouts of Jämvikt military leaders from the War. It is during the nest two years that most of the Jämvikt resistance leaders and wartime generals are executed. Adra is turned in by Hydra in 1896, but is spared from the ethnic cleansing of the Raijis Alchemists, as well as execution due to her ability to go from balanced to unbalanced states. In an effort to understand Adra's energetic state, Mörkan rulers order experiments to be conducted on her- one of which permanently stains her irises ice blue. One experiment eventually pushes her back into an unbalanced state, and she escapes from her prison one week later, leaving a massacre behind her.

This third unbalanced period is marked by her perfection of the use of poison to kill her victims, as well as an interest in cannibalism. She turns away from the vigilante killing that she was accustomed to during her last unbalanced period, instead murdering innocent people on her own whims. She meets Orion in 1902, and they are lovers until 1919. In 1921, Adra becomes balanced again during the Roaring 20's, when she is nearly killed by an inebriated driver in a car accident. 

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Fourth Transformation: Blogland, 2014

Following the birth of her daughter, Cara, Adra entered postpartum depression. This depression made her relive the events of eight years prior, when she was a slave in Italy. She experienced "black outs", similar to the second time that she became unbalanced. Due to a combination of her constant attempts to remain balanced, along with the help with her romantic interest Alastair Cruciatus, Adra soon succumbed to her unbalanced state. During this time, Adra is perhaps at the most ruthless and murderous of her unbalanced periods, as she kills tenfold as many people as she did in the previous three sequences combined. Most of this is due to her aid in the destruction of Gaia, which resulted in a loss of billions of people. She remained as such until May of 2015, when she trapped herself in Hell in an attempt to save Alastair's life. She returned from hell balanced again, albeit scarred. 

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I hope this was enlightening to you!

Avatars, Part 1

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Hydra:

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Eritan:

Language, Again

Adra is proficient in using many more tongues.

Alastair's is one of them

Language

Adra is language proficient in many tongues.

She knows, in order of plate she learned from:
Ancient Languages: Akkadian, Sanskrit, Sumerian, Latin, Aramaic, Egyptian Coptic West Eurasian Plate: Estonian, German, Finnish, Swedish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelige, English, Italian, and Greek. East Eurasian Plate: Russian, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin Arabian Plate: Hebrew, Arabic (FusHa, Shaami, Saudi, Kuwaiti, Iraqi) Central Asia: Akkadian, Sumerian, Sanskrit, Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Urdu Indian Plate: Tamil, Bengali, Lahnda African Plate: Afrikaans, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Bedouin Arabic, Berber, Fulani Somali Plate: Swahili, Somali, Oromo, Malagasy N. American Plate: English, Awawak, Cree, Tuscarora, Kalaallisut, Dakota, Ojibwe, Navajo, Cherokee, Inuktitut S. American Plate: Nahuatl, Quechua, Aymara, Q'eqchi' Mayan, Portuguese, Spanish Australian plate: Dhuwal, Roper River Creole, Palawa kani

Victoria Hayek

Born a few years before Adra, Victoria has always been conflicted. She loves her in a sisterly way, but has always carried regret about her younger sister.

Victoria was in her teens when her parents died, and, since Adra was still young, she was forced to give up her future: she was engaged to a man whom she loved deeply, but had to break off the engagement in order to care for her little sister.

It didn't help that the two frequently fought. Victoria blamed Adra for ruining her future, and harbors a deep resentment. But their bickering turned into full-out blame-fest, where they often tried to spite one another.

Adra often felt betrayed by her older sister, and their resentment has lasted for most of their lives.

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Adra's Gestation 2

Something that Adra never told Alastair?

She has had three miscarriages from him, actually.

She worked hard to keep the others a secret.

Richart de Craon

was the blacksmith who took Alastair in as his apprentice. When Alastair ran away, his parents never knew, and honestly his community was mostly glad to be rid of him, but Richart was actually fond of the boy and saw it as his personal failure that he lost his apprentice. He set out to look for him, but never found him.

Adra's Gestation

Adra has given birth to three children: Aleksander, Cara, and Adrian.

However, she has been pregnant seven times (including the aforementioned three). The first three of the remaining four were Cain's children. The first instance, he had pushed her down a flight of stairs, causing her to lose he child. In the second instance, she drank a weak acid that caused her to miscarry. Finally, the third instance with Cain's kin was when Cain brought her to a clinic.

*as a note, the three of those four all happened before Adrian's pregancy; Adrian was the first child that Adra managed to carry to full term, and that is partially why Cain left her.

The fourth instance, the child was Alastair's, but she was unable to carry them to term.

When Adrian was born, she was under the impression that he was a stillborn. She carried this guilt up until recently, when she discovered that Cain had managed to revive the boy, and raised him without her. It was when Adrian came after Adra seeking revenge from feeling abandoned did she realize that her first son was stil alive.

1585

Adrasdos Dark-Cruciatus was born as Marlene Hayek in the middle of the snowy woods of Estonia. She was born on the 6th of January, the youngest of three children. Her older sister, Vikta/ Victoria, and her older brother Antony/ Antoine/ Antonio, cared for her after her parents died in the war.

Etienne Poisson

When he was very young- only about 4- his older brother was burned at the stake because someone had caught him doing magic. Each member of the family handled it differently, but he was taken in by the idea that he had to hide or perish, so he married a woman who knew about magic but thought it was evil, and let her take the reigns raising their child. Later he came to deeply regret the way he isolated Alastair in an attempt to keep him safe, but by then he was dying and could do nothing about it.

Canon Alastair

Alastair has considered, multiple times, shifting back into his original body and just living like that. He thinks it would be a lot better for Niccolò (which is true- it would be), and likes the scars he used to have. But he's afraid of what it would do to his control of the names, and very afraid that Adra wouldn't find him attractive anymore- or at least not as much as she does now.


Alastair's first language was French, and his second was Latin, which he learned from a very young age as it was considered the scholarly language of the time. Once he became an apprentice, he taught himself English as his third language, because it was considered to be dirty and almost barbaric at the time.

Highschool!Alastair

High school AU Alastair is secretly really mad that Leo did better than him on the Chem titration lab by 2 points.