Adeline Covey

**Relationships:** | Quinton Reed (Ex-boyfriend)

Her clothing is often considered preppy, as she often goes to school wearing skirts and blouses, or dresses matched with blazers, aiming to look as professional as possible. At parties, she prefers a more casual look (compared to her normal outfits, anyway), but she rarely wears a jeans-and-shirt combination -- after all, Adeline always tries her best and would never settle for anything simple, or in her mind, *less*.

However, growing up rich, she can also be insensitive and oblivious towards her peers who aren’t on the same socioeconomic status, so she isn’t the most inclusive. This poses a problem as she is the Student Council president; she isn’t seen as an approachable leader but rather a no-nonsense authority figure.

Adeline is extremely opinionated and can come off mean even when she doesn’t mean to be, but deep inside she’s just a scared little girl who wants to please her parents, and especially herself. She tries to mask her own insecurities (not being good enough, not being paid attention to) by pushing people away and never accepting help, which leaves her more vulnerable to herself and eventually, makes her lose friends.

Years later, Adeline is a highly intelligent, overachieving and extremely wealthy young girl. As the academy’s top student, she constantly balances many extra-curricular activities (including being the Student Council president), but is particular towards the writing organization, Scheherazade (she would have applied for Dimitris in the screenwriting department, but she was afraid that they would make her perform as well, and Adeline admits that she is not the best actor or performer. She prefers to stay behind the scenes). She is confident, calculating and would stand up to authority when no one else could, showing her determination and courage. With her fiercely competitive nature, Adeline doesn't demand anything less than perfection.

Despite presenting herself otherwise in school, Adeline often isolates herself and has not developed any meaningful relationship with her peers, save for a few. Communicating through means of sarcastic and quintessential language, Adeline is a critical observer, conscious of her capabilities as well as her peers', using their unawareness to her advantage. However, she is severely underestimated these days, because she was the part of the reason that the joint art and writing organization formerly known as Baudelaires had to diverge into two separate organizations after a messy breakup with her then-boyfriend for a year, Quinton Reed.

Adeline tends to volume her ideas and opinions more frequently as compared to her fellow organization members, which is why it came as a shock to all of them when Harper St. Jude was claimed as the head of the Scheherazades as opposed to her. Despite being sure of herself, she does show some insecurity when it comes to her inferiority complex, no matter who she is dealing with. This manifested in the falling out of her friendship with Harper, and part of the reason why she and Quinton Reed eventually broke up. Her goal before graduating high school is to snatch the superior title from Harper, and to pull back the Scheherazades with the Caravaggios, their rival artist organization, all for her ultimate recognition (although she insists that it's wholly for the sake of solidarity, companionship, and equality). She feels responsible for bringing the group back together, since it was her petty quarrel with her ex-boyfriend Quinton that tore the Baudelaires apart.

It was clear to both parents that Adeline was a “momma’s girl”. In fact, Freya was more present in Adeline’s life growing up because Callahan eventually started his own production company which kept him out for late hours. Freya was the one who took care of Adeline completely; reading her stories before putting her to sleep (which piqued Adeline’s interest in telling stories of her own), playing with her, braiding her hair, dressing her up, and everything else in between. However, people in the entertainment industry saw Freya’s talent and wanted her to try acting to see if she would be effective at it. After years of starring in movies, TV shows, and commercials, Freya Covey became a household name and Adeline would be left alone with the housekeeper.

Adeline was 10 years old when she met **Mo Chou** (whom Adeline calls “Mo” endearingly), who was years older and wiser than her parents. She ended up doing the things that Freya used to do for Adeline, and until now she’s still closer with her than either Freya and Callahan. Mo is the person who teaches Adeline about the real world, especially on how to be more sensitive towards people who weren’t born to be as lucky as she is in life. And while she’s still struggling to be inclusive with others not in her socioeconomic group, Mo slowly teaches her to be good.

Adeline began having an inferiority complex mixed with abandonment issues when she started high school because she never expressed interest in what her parents were doing and therefore was afraid that they wouldn’t see her value until she did something that made them proud, and she often feels like she has to win her parents over so that they eventually start paying attention to her again.

Harper was Adeline’s best friend (or at least as close to a best friend as she thought she could get), because they shared the same humor, and the same passion for writing. Even though they had different specialties in the field, they were able to improve upon each other’s work. He was also one of the few people Adeline felt like she could open up to, and they would go over to each other’s houses to talk and hang out. Despite their friendship, their individual problems translated to friendship problems and they had a falling out in late tenth grade after Baudelaire fell apart. Their friendship deteriorated completely after Harper became president of the new writing organization, Scheherazade.

Rozu remains to be Adeline’s close friend until now, and arguably the only one Adeline has left. The fact that Rozu is from the rival organization doesn’t come up often; she and Adeline barely talk about it unless they really have to. Rozu is the person Adeline can vent about her grievances to, especially when it comes to her Student Council duties. Despite being a very busy girl herself, Rozu also reminds Adeline to take a step back and relax when she needs it. This has been consistent in their friendship ever since they met five years ago.

It was also five years ago when she met **Quinton Reed**, even before Adeline found out he was going to the same school as her. Quinton comes from a family who is prominent in the art scene, and because Adeline’s family is big in the entertainment industry, they met at a benefit gala, where both families also conversed and had talks about becoming business partners one day. Both families thought that having their children stay in touch would be beneficial for both parties, so they made sure that Adeline and Quinton would be classmates every year. However, it seemed that even without any of the parents stepping in, Quinton and Adeline were already becoming close friends.

Their relationship was complicated; they were both highly competitive and Quinton would always annoy Adeline, so they would often fight, but when it comes to serious family issues or Adeline’s self-esteem issues, Quinton always had her back. They eventually got together in ninth grade when Adeline made the first move (but Quinton had already harbored feelings for her even before Adeline admitted them to him and to herself), and it was healthy for the most part until tenth grade, in which they had an intermittent on-off relationship. They eventually broke up for real the summer before eleventh grade, which is around the time Adeline went to rehab for her alcoholism.

Despite knowing **Axel Falkov** for most of her high school life (and the fact that he was also a childhood friend of Harper, Rozu, and Quinton), he and Adeline never got along, let alone even have a conversation together. Quinton never liked him, so Adeline avoided him as well. Apart from that, Axel being in Dimitris reminded Adeline too much of the life that her own parents led, therefore believing that he was exactly like them.

One skeleton that Adeline is keeping in the closet is the fact that she slept with her English teacher **Theo Charleston** in the past, which became one of the reasons that Baudelaire separated into two. Quinton threatened to tell the headmaster about it, and she didn’t realizes that the teacher was using her until it was too late. Theo left the school before he could get fired.

* She eventually became an alcoholic after causing the rift between Baudelaire; she still had Harper during that time, but during her last month in rehab, Harper visited her to ask her to become co-head of the new org, then she realizes that he ended up being head even though he knew how badly she wanted it, which eventually led to them hating each other.
* Because her parents are prominent in the entertainment industry, she has always despised anything related to acting which is why she hates Dimitris.