Topic: A is for Addie

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-01-28 17:11 EST
OOC Note: Inspiration for this came from the ABC Challenge on Polyvore created by the brilliant Fio Helston. I elected to do an alphabet of sorts for Addie now. As such, these will be various Poly sets relating to her, her life, and the people in it. Included will be an explanation and sometimes related links but unless otherwise specified, this is all considered OOC knowledge only. It isn't meant to be used in play unless your character specifically has a reason to know any of it. Strictly for entertainment purposes only.

While you're at it, check out the Rhy'Din Group on Polyvore or some of the other ABC threads I've seen so far here and here. Also, shameless plug for Claire's ABC's here.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-01-28 17:20 EST
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A is for Adelaide Victoria Alcar, the heroine of our story today. At 19, almost 20, she is not a girl but not quite yet a woman (Thanks Britney Spears). The older version of Adelaide Alcar came back on her own time line, two and a half years ago when she was seventeen years old after her own time was ripped apart by nefarious forces (Oo spooky). In the time she has been in this Rhydin, she has loved and lost, lived and learned, and other L words that won't get used later on in the alphabet posts.

Anyways. Yes. This is 26 posts worth of Addie ABC's. Title courtesy of her childhood, in which Kruger Allen told the cadre of kids a story that all began with "A is for Addie"...

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-01-28 17:21 EST
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B is for Baking, one of the few things that Addie is really, truly passionate about. Cookies, cupcakes, cakes, pies, everything in between. You name it, she'll make it. Currently she runs an operation called Sweet Cheeks on Demand out of her kitchen rather than a proper bakery location. Maybe that'll change some day!

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-01-28 17:23 EST
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C is for the Caelum Twins, Averia and Alexander. As an only child, her godsiblings were the closest thing that Addie had to actual siblings. Often referred to as her "cousins" despite there being no blood relation, the trio were essentially raised together, building a bond that held fast even when distance (and eventually time) separated them.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-01-28 17:24 EST
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D is for Dueling though Addie seems to be spending less and less time there. The realization that her dueling career and other aspirations were at odds has made for quite the conundrum.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-01-28 17:25 EST
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E is for Empty.

"It is both a blessing
And a curse
To feel everything
So very deeply.?
― David Jones


Sometimes everything can also be nothing at all.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-01-28 17:26 EST
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F is for Fred & Freya. How both of her favorite pets ended up with F names, Addie isn't sure. It's not like she named either of them, but upon getting each of the canids, it was hard to argue with their given names and they just sort of stuck. Freya was a gift from her mother when Addie was only ten months old. The direwolf was Addie's constant companion until both Freya and Addie's mother were killed when Addie was eleven. Fred was given to Addie by Tara Rynieyn. As the "runt" of the litter, the little Cerberus wouldn't have otherwise made it in the dog-eat-dog (no pun intended) realms of Hell. Fred looks mean, but really the hellhound is quite docile though protective of Addie and her friends.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-01-28 17:27 EST
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G is for guitar, of which Addie has many. Though she had only played casually up until she met Michi, the habit was quickly formed after a few garage jam sessions and the rest is Trash history.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-01 09:33 EST
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H is for the Hollows. Home to the likes of Romeo MacKenzie and Xzavier van Bokkelen, the Hollows is tucked away into an oft forgotten corner at the edge of Westend. Hardly luxurious, it is a nightmarish Cabrini Green that sees its inhabitants live and die by the whims of the harsh streets of the city.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-01 09:34 EST
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I is for the In Between. A self explanatory name, it's the space between realms and times. It's often inhabited by the souls of the departed as they make their way to their final resting places and it is the one place that Addie can reach out to them before they're gone for good.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-01 09:35 EST
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J is for Junkie. It wasn't intentional but addiction never is. It started small time, you know, a fix here and there to help her sleep, to get rid of the nightmares, to help her function properly after Sandy's death and resurrection. They seemed like good reasons at the time and the benefits outweighed the risks. Until they didn't.

Clean (for now), it'll likely be something Addie struggles with for some time to come.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-01 09:39 EST
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K is for Kruger. Sometimes family is what you make of it and that doesn't have to mean blood relation. Family is who is there for you and Kruger has been there for Addie as a surrogate father of sorts for longer than she can remember.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-01 09:49 EST
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L is for Lifeweaver, a designation for a subset of practitioners gifted in the art of lifeweaving. Lifeweaving is the ability to bend the life forces of both the living and the dead. Some treat it as a form of necromancy but often those that use it for such endeavors are instead called Deathweavers by the more pure users of the arte. Many Lifeweavers use their talents for good and many times they can be found as healers and doctors or medicinepeople that use these skills to help the afflicted. Every practitioner with the gift has to choose which side (Life/Death) that they align with, a decision that cannot easily be undone and is most often made around the witch's 21st birthday. Addie comes from a long line of Lifeweavers and though her education was interrupted when she was 16, the decision of how to proceed is still looming as her 21st birthday looms only a little over a year away.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-01 09:49 EST
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M is for Michi D'Artainian and Misery Postu, the two best friends that Addie could have ever asked for. They are beyond explanation save for #SquadUp

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-01 09:50 EST
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N is for Nikolai. Temporally displaced as she is, most of Addie's friends have only known her for the few short years she has been in the current time. One exception came in the form of Nick Allen. He too doubled back on his time, searching for Addie at the behest of Averia. Ultimately such a decision resulted in his death at Addie's unwilling hands, leaving Addie void of any tie to home once more.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-01 09:52 EST
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O is for Order of Orion. The Order is a subset of an overarcing group known as the Diavule Eterna. All of these covens seek to fulfill a prophecy foretold by the prophet Elisheva; "As soon as the sun turns dark, a chosen child?s death shall bring forth the rise of the forgotten and a new dawn of faith. It shall be then, when the dead walk once more, the Order shall bring forth a rise of a new god and a blessed age."

To the farther northern reaches of Nosgoth?s Dark Eden region, the Eternal Rain were the monsters of legend, often used as story fodder for misbehaving children and campfire tales alike. There was no proof that they were real save for the stories of olde so nobody thought that they could possibly have a hand in the uprisings that spread throughout the realm nor the unrest that followed, the clans turning upon one another despite having lived in peace for hundreds of years. The war began, brother against brother, friend against friend, until all of Nosgoth went up in flames. So intense was the conflict that it was easy to miss the young women disappearing one by one. All between the ages of 16 and 18, there seemed neither rhyme nor reason to their disappearances save for the queer fact that their names all began with ?A?.

Elisheva told of the coming of a child chosen to bring the rise of the new age. They called it the Age of Ava. Elisheva?s followers believed this meant the child?s name was Ava and as such, they began identifying any child born between the winter solstice of the Elishevan Year 1000 (Earth 2013) and the winter solstice of the Elishevan Year 1002 (Earth 2015) with the name of Ava. It took them nearly ten years from that point to locate them all but once they had, they did everything they could to get ahold of them, including kidnapping them or killing their family members. Along the way, the search was broadened to the possibility of rather than Ava, it was meant to be AVA. Initials rather than a name. While it widened the search, it ultimately narrowed the pool to fourteen girls.

At the peak of the Purge, all fourteen were taken by the Orion Order and held until they could determine just which young woman was their Chosen. One by one they were tested and each one was broken. Their ruined bodies were buried in unmarked graves to cover up the atrocious travesties of that which had been inflicted upon them. With one remaining, they were certain she was the one they were looking for but before they could complete the rituals required, she was rescued. From there, she disappeared completely from the realm and as such, the Diavule Eterna has been searching for her ever since.

That remaining girl was Addie and after nearly two years of looking, they seem to have found her. What're the bets on her escaping their grasp for good?

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-03 09:46 EST
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P is for Party. Whether on the road, at Michi and Addie's Seaside house, or Misery's Dockside Manor, there's nothing that the BFF Squad does better than that.


Official TRASH party thread.]]

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-03 10:04 EST
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Q is for... Quem di diligunt adulescens moritur. He whom the gods love dies young. Coincidence, providence, cosmic alignment... whatever you might want to call it, there should be a word for those destined to die in their prime. Addie will be among them if the Order of Orion has their way.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-03 10:05 EST
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R is for Romeo & Raven. Two drastically different people though both are incredibly important to Addie.

Raven Ekia Youngblood is Addie's mother. Where Addie came from, Raven had died with Addie was only eleven years old, so having Raven here now is certainly a bit of an adjustment. Mindful of the temporal implications, Raven has still made an effort to reach out and support the older version of her daughter. She's a smart and vivacious woman with a talent for healing others, always quick with a smile and a dose of positivity in an otherwise drab world.

Romeo on the other hand isn't someone Addie knew back home. Originally an acquaintance known only from her Pizza Express delivery days, they ran into each other in the Annex a few months later. It was hardly love at first sight after Ro stole Addie's wallet, leaving her to hunt him down in Dockside to retrieve it. At some point that changed, though when, Addie couldn't say. Since July, Addie and the brawler have been mostly inseparable.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-03 10:11 EST
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S is for Seaside, the location of the infamous BFF HQ. When the Squad isn't partying down at the Dockside Baronial Manor, they're usually found at Michi and Addie's 2.5 story Seaside home. Bought outright thanks to a little finagling of Cookie Keeper and Tour money, it boasts 3+ bedrooms, a small pool, and a garage that doubles as a recording studio with a crash pad upstairs for those who pass out after the raucous parties thrown by the crew.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-03 10:32 EST
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T is for TRASH, Rhy'din's favorite all grrrrrl rock band. What started as a three piece garage ensemble made up of Michi D'Artainian (Bass/Vocals), Misery Postu (Drums), and Addie Alcar (Guitar/Vocals) eventually added a fourth member with Scarlet Knight (Keyboards). With 5 EPs and one full length studio album, Trash has fast become one of the better selling girl groups in the realm. Known for their brash (and sometimes controversial) lyrics, their hard hitting play style, and their party girl personas, it's easy to see their appeal.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-07 11:55 EST
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U is for Undressed. Only seventeen when she started modeling for Silverblood Bloodlines, Addie's modeling career began demurely enough. As she got older and more daring, the looks became more bold and risque. She has walked in Rhydin Fashion Week two (soon to be three) years in a row, was featured in the Rhydin Wedding Faire fashion show, and has posed for several of Rhydin's prominent designers. Eventually she hopes to break into high fashion and couture modeling and it's said that a possible jewelry partnership may be in the works.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-07 11:55 EST
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V is for Vogue, one on the list of many aspirations Addie has. It represents her hopes, her dreams, and her goals as she grows and changes. A Vogue Rhydin cover is at the top of the list, tied with a platinum album, and her own line of bakeware.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-07 11:56 EST
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W is for Witchcraft, an art that flows through Addie's veins, cultivated by several years of pagan based education but left unfinished by her abrupt departure from Nosgoth. Most of her talent comes from her mother's side (See Y for Youngblood) though that's not to say that her father's line offers nothing. Raven's side is more nature based, focusing on the ways in which the world intertwines with itself and how that potential can be used in the craft. With proper guidance, she could have been a formidable practitioner but that all sort of fell to the wayside when her mother died and Nosgoth went up in flames.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-09 09:38 EST
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So it's a bit of a cheat but X will be for ex boyfriends. Or one in particular. Kane was one of the few people to know Addie before her time in this Rhydin. Sent back with her and tasked with her protection, they eventually became something more than that. He was her first love, her first partner, and at one point, her best friend. As things so often do for teenagers though, when Addie found out how much had changed in this timeline and that they'd like never get to go back home, she ended things with him. He didn't fight her on it and left, leaving her to pick up the pieces of what she had broken. While her closest friends might try to blame him for Addie's heartbreak, she's typically quick to point out that it was her fault things ended to begin with. Some part of her will likely always love him even if they've both moved on.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-09 09:38 EST
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Y is for Youngblood, the line from which Addie descends on her mother's side. It is a name forsaken by Addie's mother, given up at the age of seventeen when she left her home under her mother's maiden name of Ekia. For a decade Raven has been estranged from her father, her mother having passed a few years before Raven's departure. A signature mark of the Youngblood line comes in the form of brilliant, preternaturally sapphire blue eyes, a shade often found only in the clearest gems. Passed through the line, this trait originated before Quinten's time though he claims it is a marker of their ever-present power and potential rather than their lineage. A cruel, unforgiving man, Quinten valued power over anything else, including a relationship with his daughter and the granddaughter that he doesn't seem to know about. Raven knows the day will come in which the High Mage seeks her out, it's just her hope that she can maintain her distance long enough for her daughter to grow up without his influence.

Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-02-09 09:39 EST
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Z is for Zack Alcar, Addie's father. Separated though she may be from her original time, she still holds out hope that someday she'll be reunited with him. The proper him, not the version in this time.