Character Name: Adelaide Grainger Age: 22 Birthday:May 29th
Personality:Above all else, Adelaide believes in forgiveness and kindness. She's never had to try very hard at either, so finds it difficult to really get her head around others who can't do it so easily as she can. She truly feels at her best when she's in service to others. She'd probably have become a nun if she had any religious leanings. (As it is, she finds beauty in the iconography of religions and would love to go around visiting the churches and mosques across Europe/The Middle East - this is a dream that will never happen, because Adelaide is pretty incapable of saving money.)
She mothers her younger siblings a lot (which isn't all that surprising) but she also does it a bit with other non-related younger people. In social situations she's shy and not good at making friends - she tends to just make them through the ones she already has. She'd prefer to follow than lead. She's super good at maths, but doesn't have much use for it. (She had no interest in actually studying maths further than high school)
Adelaide has deep feelings about Michel de Montaigne ('Not being able to govern events, I govern myself' is one of her quotes to live by), The Smiths, and Bronte heroines.
History: Born and raised in London, Adelaide is the oldest of four siblings (who are, from eldest to youngest: Darcy, 19; Billy, 16; Kitten, 14). When Adelaide was sixteen she was in the backseat when someone, high on coke, crashed into the family car. Her mum was killed on impact, with her dad dying from his injuries soon after in hospital. Adelaide was in a coma for almost a week and the whole fun thing left her with minor brain damage that causes excruciating headaches on occasion (and regular old painful ones quite often), scars all up her left thigh/side of her torso, and a slight limp.
After the crash, all the kids were sent to live with their grandparents and attended the same schools (read: Phoenix High). During the trial against the other driver, Adelaide got to know him and forgave him for the accident, and now she writes to him in jail. After starting writing to him, to starting writing to other prisoners as well. Currently she's got four prison penpals.
She spends a lot of her free time doing for others: She reads to old people at a hospice, she collects for charities, she works in a soup kitchen, she volunteers at a primary school. Obviously she's not doing all these things every week, but most of the time she can be found doing something. Her friends jokingly call her Saint Ada. (Not that she likes anyone calling her Ada, but in that circumstance she allows it. It amuses.)
She's still living with her grandparents while she attends London University, studying Anthropology and Sociology.