Adrenita Casselotta

'I want that new world that's built on love, not hate. I'm not sure that I will belong in it. But it has to be made.'
Adrenita Casselotta is a player character in the Shattered Union campaign. A proud member of the Cobrian Union.
==Physical Description==
Plump and shapely. Built both for strength and grace. Nita's white hair is always curled in ringlets, her dresses always ruffled. Nita has black eyes, with sunny yellow sclera. Big yellow llips. Her china white skin is decorated with a yellow splotch over her right eye, black spots on her right cheek, and black spots and stripes on her arms and legs. She has gills on her neck, and black fins on her forearm and calves. She has replaced her right arm with a Clockwork prosthetic built by the fabulously skilled Fenric Strand, shiny and painted black, with gold knuckles and fingertips, and gold flower designs painted all over it. The inside conceals a sawn off shotgun. Her hand bends out of the way on a hinge in preparation to fire.
==Personality==
Graceful, playful. Bold, flirtatious. Sisterly. Loves dancing, fighting and drinking. Would like you to think she's never asked permission a day in her life. Secretly self conscious. Capable of humility and quick to apologise but she doesn't like to dwell. Vengeance is her love language, she doesn't like to pursue it for herself but she would quickly pursue vengeance on behalf of a friend, and would melt from happiness if someone committed vengeance for her.
Nita has immense hatred for Calamar and its soldiers, and tries not to draw too much attention to what she recognises as a bias at the Council meetings. She wants Isle Cobre to be a refuge for everyone and feels her hatred makes her the wrong person to shape it. At the same time, it's fine that killing makes her feel better so long as her sword is pointed where it helps her friends and allies, isn't it? She can survive the war first, and find a replacement for it later. A better, more constructive one. Later.
==Background==
This is an angelfish elfblood with no family to tell her where she came from. Ever since she could remember she grew up in Calavierus as an enslaved kitchen maid. Until the house had money troubles, then she was sold to a circus and ended up a circus acrobat. Until she was a teenager, when a rich man bought her as a gift to be a maid and companion for his daughter. Graceful for others. Talented for others. One to be confided in, and never to confide. She had behaved herself for twenty years. Twenty years too long, she decided. She dreamed of a blaze of glory.
Gossip told her of Adrenita Casselotta, a disinherited rich girl that had gone into hiding, who was rumoured to have taken a great sum of money along with her. A social pariah so scandalous to be seen with that nobody was left to care if she was replaced by a lookalike in a stolen dress. Specifically, our little angelfish plus a fashionable veil and a lot of powder. She impersonated Adrenita, she crashed a party every day and had a marvellous time of it.
The disgraced name still came with enemies, and our Nita's brief paramour turned out to be an assassin. He shot her.  She didn’t expect her life to last long, but it still hurt. What was worse, he had figured out she was a fake but wasn't about to tell whoever was paying him.
Nita stumbled away and hid on a boat, which was then stolen by a motley gang of runaway women with whom she fled Calavierus and joined in many acts of piracy. Together they created the Palace of Sin, a brothel ship ran by the workers, for the workers. Since then the mantle of Captain has been swapped around back and forth, and landed eventually upon Nita. A few of the original crew still sail with her today.
Adrenita continues to keep her stolen name to this day out of stubbornness and spite.
==Relationships==
=== Marigold ===
Nita is madly in love with Marigold and wants to have their weird little babies. Update: Nita proposed to Marigold weeks before the Battle of Calavierus it was awesome
=== Vari ===
Nita and Vari were great friends and war buddies, she admired their artwork, but most of all their fierce pride, kindness and honesty. Nita felt safe around them, but still kept them at arm's length because of her guilt for lying about who she was to somebody so rightly proud of who they were. She friendzoned Vari then belatedly figured out she was actually crushing on them, after they died a horrible death. She hopes to someday be as proud and as honest as Vari was.
=== Inigio ===
Good friends. She enjoys their custom of  playfully competitive conversations in which they try to weasel personal stories out of each other. Nita has told him many, many lies, and some very sensitive truths between them. Despite her more balanced intentions, Nita at times finds herself judging her countryman for his conquistador background. Overall she thinks of him as a true, if not always tactful gentleman, and hopes to work up the guts to speak to him as herself someday.
=== Lang-Fe ===
There's been times Nita thought Lang-Fe was an honour-obsessed maniac trying to get everyone killed. There's been times Nita thought she might have been quick to judge, and she's mellowed out quite a bit lately. If she had to pick she'd call her reliable.
=== Eria ===
Nita has a sisterlike relationship with Eria, or at least hopefully will again. They bonded first over Eria saving Nita’s life multiple times at Isla Oro and aiding in her amputation, and then being in trouble over murder of the innocent together. Offending her once with some poorly chosen lines was enough to lose Eria's trust even after all of that. Nita regrets this and hopes they can make up. Failing that, she trusts that Eria will be okay.
=== Carlos ===
Nita hopes Carlos eats and sleeps soon.
=== Kazharayal ===
Wow, yet another relationship characterised by admiration and guilt. She enjoys Kaz’s company, appreciates how he took a bullet to the head for her and then directed Xochi and Eria in the amputation that saved her from certain death while he was injured from that first thing, and would love to fight by his side again. Shame she let him down with the murder of the innocent thing. He’s somebody she feels she can’t live up to, but admires and would protect again, using the power of murder. There’s a problem here isn’t there. Nita believes that it can be navigated.
=== Xochi ===
A cool dude who's always got her back. Nita enjoys Xochi's company, and would trust him with her life again.
=== Fenric ===
Thanks for the arm you're the absolute best
=== Amicus ===
Although they never spent much time together, Nita admired Amicus' integrity, and the patience he showed to people most others wrote off. In the council disciplinary hearing over the time she was complicit in the execution of prisoners, Amicus was one of the only people Nita was actually listening to. Nita was touched that Amicus offered his body in his will to be used for her prosthetic arm. Although his will could not be carried out, since his remains were irretrievable, she does think of him sometimes when she looks at it. 
==Skills & Abilities==
==Trivia==
* Nita hates pelicans on a visceral and irrational level. She knows she's too big for a pelican to try and eat her, but she finds their beady eyes unnerving.
*Personally, Nita does not consider eating fish to be wrong, because she is an angelfish elf-blood and real angelfish sometimes eat other fish.
*Adrenita has a pet lavender hognose snake named Empress that likes to hide in her hair, as Empress' scales and Adrenita’s hair are about the same colour.
*The way the sawn-off shotgun inside her wrist works is directly inspired by Guts' arm cannon from Berserk. Just prettier and more clockworky.
*The Palace of Sin is covered in vines of beautiful tropical orange flower blossoms. They have to be pruned away from doorways and the rigging but it's totally worth it.
*The Baron of Porta La Neve rewarded Adrenita with the title of Lady for helping rescue him from prison and defeating his impostor. This is an empty title due to the made-up nature of Nothindrian nobility but it sounds fancy so Nita flaunts it anyway