CIVILIAN . KOVALENKO, ADELINE

Adeline Grace Kovalenko

Helpful. Uncaring. Patient.

Most people call her Addie.

Eighteen

September 13, 1994

Female

Bi-curious, prefers males but has never really had a chance to date.

Civilian

N.E.E.T

Not in education, employment or training. A result of a sad, sad situation where Adeline convenient 'forgot' to hand in college applications on time. Woops. She's searching for a mundane job for now.

Appearance

Adeline's hair is golden blond colour that falls around her shoulders when she lets it down. It's often messy and full of tangles as Adeline stopped caring about her looks a while ago, and doesn't even bother to straighten out her bed hair anymore. Dark circle surround her eyes, evidence of her constant lack of sleep. Her eyes themselves are something of a grey, green, teal, blue colour. The kind you can't really tell just what it is, and tends to look different under different lighting. Her expression at best looks bored and at worst looks annoyed. She's not good at smiling or laughing which tends to put people off at the first few meetings. She has a sharp angular face which can look pretty to some and pass as just average to others. But really, she stopped caring.

At five foot eight, Adeline is pretty tall for a girl. She has a medium frame, small breasts and wide hips. Aside from her height there's nothing too remarkable about Adeline. She inherited a good portion of her sister's closet, though some of the stuff Adeline seriously doesn't even know how to wear. She's not exactly coordinate with clothing and will wear strange combinations of maxi skirt and baggy sweater. She usually just likes to wear some t-shirt and shorts or jeans, whatever is suitable for the weather, although she does have quite a liking for maxi skirts and dresses because she finds them comfortable to lounge around in. She'll mostly avoid bright colours though, because she finds those are just too annoying to look at.

Personality

At first glance Adeline seems cold and distant. Constantly pessimistic and bluntly honest. She just doesn't see the point in lying, although other people might readily care to disagree. She is pessimistic to the point it's a disease, ready to complain and anything and everything should she be allowed the chance. Not to mention, she rarely if ever smiles. She might crack a sarcastic joke here and there but people have a hard time figuring out if it's really ok to laugh or not, because Adeline never laughs at anything herself. She might comment on how she found something funny, but many find it hard to believe. People from high school would say that though she has a hard exterior, she has very kind and helpful heart. While the latter is true, the part about being kind could be debated. In fact, Adeline would be the first to argue against it.

Adeline is addicted to helping people. Seriously, she will go all out in aiding those who ask for her help, no matter who they are or what their problem is. As long as what it is they need help does not harm what Adeline would consider an 'innocent' person, she has no quells about doing whatever it takes to help that person to achieve their goal. And even when an innocent person is involved, she still might do something to help the perpetrator although she'll be reasonably less enthusiastic about it. Whenever she engages in a task, especially when it to aid others, she's extremely persistent at her task. She won't give up until the very end, or when the other person gives up, since at that point it wouldn't be her business anymore.

Despite her quirk for helping others out Adeline by no means is actually a caring person. In fact she's pretty indifferent to other people's suffering. She'll only help you out if you explicitly ask or accept her offer of help, otherwise she really couldn't care less. The reason for which she helps others is a rather selfish one, it's basically a way for her to minimize the guilt over a certain event in her life by receiving other people's thanks. In fact, Adeline would even help someone enact vengeance. Of course she'll propose an alternative as doing something like that would soil her reputation but that's something that she'd be willing to sacrifice.

Adeline is as patient as a rock. Especially when it comes to other people aside from herself. This trait has a bit to do with just how forgiving she could be towards others. She doesn't mind waiting on others. And will help them with whatever it is they need help with for however long needed. Since she's also pretty indifferent to her own self, it's not like she's desperate for her own time. With her patience and forgiveness she would rarely, if ever express frustration towards others. She appears to be constantly calm and level-headed.

It should probably be pretty obvious by now that Adeline cares little about herself. Though the reason she helps others is in a sense selfish, for that reason she is willing to sacrifice any and everything. The reason behind this mainly lies in the self-loathing. At this point she has simply accepted that she is responsible for her sister's death, and feels disgusted with herself being unable to even look at the last words left to her by her older sister.

Lineage

Kovalenko is Ukrainian, no Adeline is not Ukrainian. At least that's what she'd say when asked. Her family on her dad's side were Ukrainian immigrants in Canada in some point in time, but her father was born in the Province of Quebec. He later moved to the States on business reasons where he met Adeline's mother who is a 3rd generation American Italian. To keep things simple, Adeline just goes with white American.

Adeline's only fluent language is English. She knows a bit of French and can hold a very simple conversation. However her high school French teacher isn't a very big fan of that hint of a Quebecois accent. Oh well, she still aced that class anyways.

History

Firstly let's talk about Adeline's parents.

Her parents both came from a rather poor background and spent their lifetimes struggling up from the lower echelons of society. Despite both of their rather busy working hours, the family was never able to afford an above average sort of lifestyle. And though both mother and father had busy working schedules, it wasn't like they didn't have any free time at all to take care of their two children. But with the buildup of all sorts of stress, they often choose to spend their free time doing other things instead of taking care of baby Adeline, and a good portion of responsibility fell onto big sister Claire.

Claire was basically Adeline's surrogate mother and her role model, nothing short of the center of the baby sister's world. Fourteen years Adeline's elder, the older sister was very beautiful, something that would eventually landed her a few modeling jobs here and there. On top of that she had a melodic voice and a touch for making art and music. In Adeline's eyes there was no better musician than her dear big sister. She was also kind and patient, and every other definition of loving, perfect even, to the young Adeline.

When Adeline turned ten, her sister finally moved out of their parent's house. Claire's visits got shorter and rarer as time went on; as there was obvious tension between their parents and Claire's choice of life and her decision to pursue a musical career. At first Adeline was extremely sad at her sister's decision to leave; but as time went on and Claire continued to become more and more estranged, Adeline's sadness turned bitter. How could her sister leave her with these stupid careless guardians? Just how was she going to deal with this huge hole Claire left in her life? But despite her anger towards her once role model, Adeline still really loved her sister, unable to do anything less than express her affection whenever her sister would actually come and visit. But those only became more and more scarce until finally, Claire stopped coming at all.

Meanwhile, Adeline's parents doted on her. The reason being, was that unlike her sister Claire, Adeline did exceptionally well at school. It wasn't so much for the fact that she was some sort of genius, but simply because she had much better work ethics than her older sister did at such age, which was pretty much thanks to Claire's guidance and parenting in the absence of their parents. Unlike Claire who later focused herself on music rather than academics, after her sister left, Adeline's focus in her academics only strengthen, as it became a sort of way to take her mind off of all her other stresses. Of course, Adeline wasn't entirely pleased with the way her parents doted on her either. Adeline wanted her sister's love and care, not extra birthday money from her dad or pointless praise from her mother. It only made her even more bitter how they would often talk down Claire, and praise Adeline on something she wasn't even proud about.

But after almost a year of no contact, when Adeline was thirteen going on fourteen, a new form of communication between the two sisters started to established. And that was with the exchanging of letters. By disguising the name of the sender, Claire was able to send and receive letters from her little sister. Finally it seemed like the two sisters were able to find stability in their relationship. Unfortunately stability is ridiculously difficult thing for a young teenager going through the chaos that is puberty. Claire wasn't just Adeline's surrogate mother, she was Adeline's idol. She wanted to be beautiful like her sister. She wanted to sing like her sister. She wanted to draw like her sister. But unfortunately, Adeline was always a bit lacking compared to her sister when it came to creative talent. For a while she would often embarrass herself in school, wearing poorly applied gaudy makeup and mismatching clothes, showing off her off key singing. At first she was simply ignore the bad comments, but as the bullying escalated, it became impossible to ignore. Her self confidence started to deteriorate. Finally realizing she wasn't even anything remotely close to that perfect image of her great older sister, Adeline once again became bitter. She stopped replying her sister's letters; even though they would keep coming.

Another year would pass before the two sisters would finally meet again. Though this time it was at Claire's funeral. A car accident, Claire behind the wheel, blood alcohol levels way above the law. Completely surreal. It didn't sound like Claire at all. At least not the Claire that Adeline knew. Well whatever the ridiculous reason(s) that drove Claire to be this state, it wasn't like it was Adeline's fault or anything, right? At that point, Adeline was much too numb to really comprehend the magnitude of the situation. It's not like she spoke or seen her sister recently. Those letters that kept coming, she never opened them. She wanted to believe that the Claire that she knew, abandoned her even though it was really Adeline that abandoned Claire, and the Claire that died that day, was not the Claire that Adeline knew. Because really, Claire was perfect wasn't she? She would never do something as reckless and stupid as drinking and driving. Adeline spent as long as she could in this sort of estranged state by focusing hard on her studies. Always over excelling, trying out for as many clubs as she possibly could.

Of course it wasn't just Adeline that had to cope with Claire's death. While her father never quite resumed the role as Claire's father figure and therefore was much less affect by her passing, the same can't be said about her mother. The woman started to act strangely after the death of her eldest. Adeline, still too busy coping with her own grief and locked into her school activities, did not really notice her mother's behaviour and even if she did, it was unlikely she would have cared much at that point. So it was a bit a surprise to the girl when her mother came up to her a few months after Claire's death and told the girl;

"You killed her, you killed my baby, Claire."

Which; of course made no sense whatsoever, because obviously Adeline had nothing to do with Claire for months before her death. Apparently though, it was the contents of the a letter Claire sent that lead their mother to putting the blame on Adeline. The woman had always been fishy about those letters and one day got a hold of one and opened it herself instead of giving it directly to her younger daughter. Of course, Adeline wasn't expecting the situation at all, as she hadn't even been opening any of those letters. But even so, the accusation itself, rather than the person giving the accusation was what shocked Adeline the most. Deep inside, Adeline knew that somewhere in those unopened letters held the answer, or at least part of the answer to what it was that lead Claire to her death.

But she was too scared. Too scared to peek at the last words of her once dear sister had for her. Too scared of what she might discover in there. What if, just what if, it really was her fault? Now that the thought was now constantly haunting her mind, focusing on her studies was no longer valid way for Adeline to quell her grief.
It started out with just tutoring. Before Adeline cared little about tutoring others in academic courses, feeling it wasn't worth her time to help others who were obviously not paying attention during class. Even when she did explain things to people or 'help' them, it was always short and brief and she never gave much of an effort to elaborate. It's hard to really understand when or why she really started to indulge people with her tutoring. Perhaps it was the brief thank you's that unconsciously drove her, but soon enough, she was giving anyone and everyone extensive tutoring sessions if they were to ask.

At that point her peers were much friendlier to her as she took up the role of mentor to them. It was only natural that they started to as her to help out with other things as well and Adeline would always be more than happy to comply. People's dependence on her and their gratefulness is what drove Adeline to keep on taking on tasks for other people's sake, no matter how overworked she was. It was a way for Adeline to comfort herself; that somehow helping others would redeem her just enough to move on to the next day. And thus began Adeline's helping addiction.

Soon enough, Adeline was getting a lot of praise for her kindness; which thus begged the question; was she really kind? At first Adeline would ignore such compliments as flattery but as they kept coming in, it made her really think about her own motives for helping others out. All she was really doing was using the reward of aiding others to erase some of the guilt of her sister's death and not even being able to read her last few letters. Adeline's bitterness towards herself would never erase but she still continued to help others as it was the only way for her to move forward.

Eventually, around the senior year of high school, Adeline found herself more involved with people's personal issues and not just helping around with mundane tasks. By then her grades began to fluctuate as she began focusing much less on her academics and more on the people around her. Although, since many people relied on her for her academic skills, in a way that was what rescued her from straight-out failing. But by then people were going to her for all sorts of things aside from just tutoring. She found herself helping her peers deal with their boyfriend problems, peer pressure problems, family situation, all sorts of things. She would always do her best to aid people in finding some sort of solution to their problems no matter how petty or how idiotic it may seem in her eyes.

To say the least, Adeline's parents weren't very pleased to find out that their daughter "forgot" to complete to college applications before the deadlines. Woops. Of course expecting that their daughter would be on top of her academic life, they did not think something like this would happen and thus didn't bother to check up on the matter until it was too late. Adeline thinks there's always next year. And hey she could find a job and earn some money before going into college anyways. However in truth she has little to no desire to continue her education. Because c'mon, college is hard. She'll never be able to satisfy her desire to help people out drowning in tests and studies right? Ok, Adeline does feel a little bad about the situation but hey, it takes a lot of time and effort committing yourself to help a young pregnant teenager with an abusive boyfriend. Seriously.

So now Adeline is what you'd qualify as a NEET(not in education, employment or training). She'll really need to find a job soon at risk of being kicked out of the house. Her mother rarely talks to her anymore and even Adeline is concerned about the woman's behaviour towards her. Her father is obviously not entirely happy with Adeline's current situation so she's in a little bit of a bind. But she can't help it, because if she didn't take the time to around helping others then she wouldn't even be able to live with herself.

Trivia

* Adeline doesn't like animals, anything that can bite or peck. After getting pecked at by friend's a pet bird, scratched by a stray cat, she seems to just have only bad experiences when it comes to fur and feathers. She's also scared of big dogs, not that she'd ever admit it though.

* Adeline claims she only needs 3 hours of sleep a night. That's probably another contribution to her crankiness.

*Of course it's not like helping people and school work fills up her nights so much that it's the reason why she sleeps so little, actually she takes that time to indulge in her hobbies which include watching stupid youtube videos (not that she'd ever admit to this) and reading shitty romance novels (she knows they're bad but she can't help liking them. Yes she likes Twilight. No she will not admit it.)

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