Violet Addaway

**Violet Addaway** (born 19 August 1996) is a female metahuman of Albionite nationality. She is a full time Abigail, formerly working alongside her seniors Catherine Amy Vidicer, Reagan Ivers and Akio Ishikawa. She participated in the raid of the A.C.F. Viola, where she, Ivers and Ishikawa, alongside Abigails Retherford and Ashworth, independent contractor Ryuju Saeki, and the police attempted to bring Vidicer into custody.

## Appearance

Addaway is a short English woman with bleached white hair and electric blue highlights. She is athletic and muscular, and has an indeterminate but vaguely Australian accent.

## Personality

Addaway is boisterous, mocking, and impudent. She was unkind about Sophia Ashworth's appearance and constantly disparaged Evelyn S. Retherford's abilities. However, she has also shown herself to be capable of great attachment to individuals that she considers herself to be indebted to, or whom she deeply respects, as was the case with Catherine Amy Vidicer.

## Abilities

### Supernatural Abilities

Addaway can affect relativity for herself and any objects she is in contact with. She can either accelerate or decelerate herself in relation to the rest of the world. When she accelerates herself, everyone perceives her as moving more quickly than she actually is, and the light emitted/reflected by her body is blueshifted. When she decelerates herself, she is perceived as moving very slowly, and the light that she emits/reflects is redshifted. Both applications of her ability tax her stamina, with greater degrees of acceleration/deceleration affecting her more strongly.

Relativistically accelerated bullets will be fired at greater "speeds", while accelerated computers will perform operations at a faster pace. Decelerated individuals will perceive the world around them as moving more quickly than it actually is. Relativity-shifted objects besides Addaway herself will slowly return to baseline over the course of seconds to minutes to hours, depending on their distance from Addaway and their size. Relativity-shifted objects have their kinetic and thermal energy adjusted in tandem with the speed at which they move through time. An accelerated block of ice may feel warm, or even scalding to the touch, whereas a decelerated pool of magma may only be lukewarm.

Notably, accelerated objects carry less kinetic energy than their velocity relative to the baseline would imply, as their speed is illusory; they are moving quickly not physically, but temporally. Thus, while an accelerated bullet may seem to be travelling 5x faster than normal, it would still only be as impactful as a regular bullet. Conversely, decelerated objects carry more energy than a person might assume. If a bullet (not the entire cartridge) is decelerated by a factor of ten, it will take longer to be ejected from the barrel, and will be acted upon more strongly, and for a greater duration, by the force of the powder. Thus, its muzzle velocity would be less than usual, but its actual kinetic energy would be incredibly high in comparison to a normal bullet.

Addaway is theoretically capable of freezing time altogether. However, she has yet to learn this technique. Attempting to accelerate herself to speeds above a factor of base 10 (10x objective observer's timescale) result in her "slipping" past that point and accidentally starting to move backwards through time. She can, however, accelerate nonliving objects to rates that exceed that number considerably, which she applies in combat by accelerating the decay of radionuclides such that they effectively "detonate". In a sense, she can also emulate the decaying ability of Catherine Amy Vidicer by causing an object to age several hundred years within a few seconds.

Addaway can also fully reverse the flow of causality. This allows her to travel back in time. However, only the timeline which occurs after she has already travelled through time can ever be observed. Thus, before she makes use of her time travelling ability, she will always see an entropically reversed version of herself appearing first, and performing whatever actions she is going to accomplish in a few seconds, when she reverses relativity for herself.

Due to the nature of moving backwards in time, Addaway can coexist with multiple versions of herself.

There are several unintuitive inferences and inevitabilities that one can draw from the nature of Addaway's form of time travel, which greatly affect the strategies that she employs, and the ones which others can use against her. These concepts are too numerous and too complex to communicate efficiently, but the gist of it is that Addaway benefits from exact knowledge of the future, the ability to place effect before cause, and control over temporal dynamics during any fight. However, a discerning opponent can reap different but equally powerful rewards regarding aftermath before effect, and can adjust their goals in combat in order to compensate for Addaway's guaranteed survival until her time-displaced selves are resolved.

### Skills & Expertise

* **Physical Conditioning:** Addaway, even without the use of supernatural abilities, was significantly stronger than Evelyn S. Retherford, and was able to fracture several of Ryuju Saeki's bones with simplistic strikes to the chest and shins. She personally attributes this to the state of being better than her enemies, but her peers agree that it is due to a combination of anabolic steroid abuse, epinephrine injections, an overactive sympathetic nervous system, an incredibly rigorous exercise schedule, and a trained ability to bypass common neurobiological barriers which prevent humans from exerting all of their strength.
* **CQC Expertise:** Addaway was an extremely gifted swordsman, able to effortlessly disarm opponents at close range. Her unarmed combat skills were also significantly above the norm, utilising a combination of boxing techniques, high kicks, and dodges, which allowed her to fight on equal footing with much larger, and theoretically stronger opponents.
* **Misdirection:** Having picked up the technique from her old mentor Vidicer, Addaway practices an evasive form of movement in combat which constantly redirects her opponent's attention; whereas Vidicer used this to mask the placement and nature of outgoing attacks, Addaway uses it to completely overwhelm her opponent and to paralyse them with indecision, allowing her to attack or flank them unimpeded. Retherford was able to adapt to Addaway's style of fighting after some time, however, due to having fought and adapted to Vidicer already, and because Addaway passed over several opportunities to kill Retherford. She noted that Addaway employs the same tactics and maneuvers over and over again, with no variation whatsoever unless her opponent forces her to do so.
* **Marksmanship:** Addaway is capable of using a gun, but is a relatively terrible marksman, barely scoring above the minimum required values to qualify as an Abigail.
* **Pain Tolerance:** Addaway can shrug off bullet wounds and puncture wounds to vital organs without any noticeable loss of concentration or cognitive faculties. Wounded sections of her body also fail to exhibit the same loss of motor control and tremoring that injured regions of Retherford's body experience, even though Retherford is seemingly much more psychologically resilient than Addaway.

## Possessions

### Equipment

* Prosthetic arm which resembles a long glove
* One-handed sword
* Album Tempest (Snow-59 bullpup AR)

## Biography

Addaway was born in the United Kingdom, Leeds, in 1996. During her adolescence, she was a self-employed monster hunter and stalker, gathering artifacts and the cadavers of megafauna from the anomalous remains of England. Later in life, on her 19th birthday (in 2015) she was employed by the Abigail Institute, where she met Catherine Amy Vidicer and her associates. Addaway quickly became Vidicer's protege, and learned a great deal under the squad leader, who left the team in 2018.

On the 29th of May, 2020, she was sent alongside Evelyn S. Retherford, Sophia Ashworth, Ryuju Saeki, Akio Ishikawa, Reagan Ivers, and an undisclosed number of policemen to detain Avery Fames (Vidicer's criminal alias) aboard the A.C.F. Viola. There, Police Captain Epley Ledeshire ordered his men to disconnect the ship from its tethers and to take to the air, and then to fire upon Avery Fames; he had been hired by Kimolia to kill Vidicer so that she would not be able to incriminate Fabian and Kimolia with her testimony.

Addaway participated in the subsequent massacre, during which an overwhelming majority of the police presence aboard the ship was wiped out, with the remainder going into hiding or surrendering. At this point, Ivers suggested taking the Viola and flying away with it to some place beyond Albion's jurisdiction, so that Avery could be allowed to live, far from Kimolia and the authorities. The other members of their group who had worked with Vidicer in the past, those being Reagan Ivers and Akio Ishikawa, agreed.

This brought them into conflict with Retherford, Ashworth and Saeki, all of whom had their own reasons for wanting to kill or detain Vidicer. Addaway, Ivers and Ishikawa fought against Retherford's faction and were ultimately defeated. Addaway surrendered, and Retherford's party killed the unconscious Vidicer.

Addaway survived the incident and, due to significant internal support from the Abigail Institute, and the fact that their testimonies were considered more reliable than those of Retherford's faction, while also accidentally corroborating Captain Ledeshire's falsified account of events aboard the Viola, was not prosecuted for her participation in the plan to help Vidicer become a fugitive. Ivers and Ishikawa tendered their resignations from the Institute soon after the incident, the former citing emotional distress and the latter a conscientious objection to the Institute's handling of the situation. Addaway, however, stayed with the intention of becoming one of the most distinguished Abigails and metahumans of the age -- something that her superiors, and Retherford, mused was fairly likely to occur.

Addaway later met Retherford in the park, where they made small talk. Addaway shared a cigarette and revealed that she was engaged.

## Trivia

* While Vidicer was something of a parallel to Retherford vis a vis their vocations and abilities, Addaway is a foil. Retherford benefits from planning around and creating circumstances that counter her enemies' abilities well in advance, and is extremely weak in a direct confrontation. Addaway is strongest when she takes her opponent by surprise, and specialises in outfighting them with a set of powers and mundane skills that are much more effective against someone who hasn't dealt with them before. Further, while Retherford lacks interpersonal connections and is consistently dour and neurotic, Addaway is outgoing, romantic, and spirited.
	+ Had Retherford not already fought Vidicer several times in the past, and had Vidicer not passed her knowledge onto Addaway, Retherford would not have had a preexisting bank of knowledge regarding Addaway's CQC techniques, and would have been overwhelmed and killed almost as soon as Addaway travelled backwards in time.
* Addaway smokes the Parliament brand of luxury cigarettes, as opposed to Retherford's much cheaper Marlboros.