Hadley Harper

> "Yeah, haven't you heard? I'm good at fucking my way up to the top!"
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> Hadley Jane Harper, OC7, Challenge 0

### Hobbies

Dancing, Playing Piano, Drinking Wine, Riding Electric Scooters, And Looking At Sunsets, Sunrises, And Stars

## Personality and Skills

Hadley is a rather quiet individual, and when she does speak, it is typically only with close friends and in snarky comments. She likes to keep her emotions hidden to keep from getting hurt again. She is an incredibly talented ballerina, and dance is what she pours all of her emotions into. In addition to dancing, she is also good at playing the piano and at sewing, and she is fluent in both Russian and French.

## Appearance and Face Claim

Hadley is 5'6" tall and very skinny, potentially too skinny, which is a figure she needs to maintain in order to qualify to dance in pas de deux dances with her ballet company. She has wavy brown hair that falls just below her shoulders, and striking green eyes. Her faceclaim is Antonina Vasylchenko.

## History

### Pre-Selection

Hadley was born on 3 November, 2099, in Harpers Ferry, Allens, to Mason Harper, a caricature painter, and Betty Lou Potter, a former ballerina. Four years after Hadley was born, her younger sister Paisley was born. The Harpers never had much money, but they were all very close with each other, which is what mattered more to them. From a young age, Hadley showed great talent at ballet, and when she auditioned for a spot at the prestigious Kirov Academy of Ballet in DC, Allens, at the age of twelve, she received a full scholarship to finish her schooling there.

Unfortunately, before Hadley could begin at the Kirov, the house she had grown up in burned down in a house fire, of which Hadley was the only survivor. At the hospital after the fire, Hadley was informed by a social worker that she would be able to live and study at the Kirov during the school year and attend summer intensives elsewhere when school was out of session, which was an offer that Hadley gladly accepted.

She then began her education at the Kirov in DC, where she befriended fellow student Evgeny Lebezheninov, who was five years older than her. Evgeny showed her the ropes and helped her forge her path into the world of ballet before he graduated to the corps de ballet of the Allens Ballet Company. Through him, Hadley also met his younger brother, Ivan Lebezheninov, who was four years younger than Hadley, and had been diagnosed with leukaemia. Knowing that Evgeny was Ivan's sole caretaker, and caring for both of them deeply, Hadley decided to take matters into her own hands and help them out financially in any way she could, even through prostitution. At the age of 17, Hadley graduated to the corps de ballet of the Allens Ballet, and by the age of 19, she was already a featured soloist, and had done multiple pas de deux dances with Evgeny. Her most notable performances have been in Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, Don Quixote, and Cinderella. Throughout her ballet career, Hadley also sustained multiple injuries, namely to her hip, but she never allowed those injuries to prevent her from practicing or performing.

When news of the selection broke, Hadley decided that it could be a good way for her to get more money to send back to Evgeny and Ivan for Ivan's medical treatments. Evgeny tried to refuse Hadley's aid, claiming that she was throwing her career away, but Hadley refused to listen to him, and filled out the application anyway. After being selected, she insisted on giving any money she got from the process to Evgeny, which he attempted to refuse, forcing Hadley to go behind his back and get his bank account information so she could ensure the checks were deposited there.

### The Selection

On her first day in the selection, Hadley befriends fellow Five MJ Reyes, and later on the next day she befriends fellow Five Sienna Abbott. On her birthday, which is her first day at the palace, she also befriends Prince Eaton Schreave, and his cat Semple. She had some difficulty dealing with the upper caste girls initially, but things get better for her as time goes on.

Prince Damian and Hadley do not hit it off in their first interview. In fact, the interview leaves Hadley feeling rather confused, which she confesses later to Eaton when they talk in the library. This is the first moment when Hadley and Eaton begin to open up to each other and develop their friendship. Hadley continues to develop friendships with the other girls, such as Adria Mariano and Marcie Moran.

Damian and Hadley have a terrible first date. He takes Hadley to see a ballet, which makes her miss dancing even more than she already does. They argue the entire time. Hadley later rants to Eaton, who attempts to help her make mac n cheese. This is when she opens up to him and tells him about her family's death, and how dance and Evgeny and Ivan are all she has left. Hadley and Damian do eventually make up, and he takes her on a do-over date to the rooftop, where they reach a mutual decision to give each other some space. Later, when Hadley and Eaton bump into each other in the music room, Hadley mentions that she's never seen snow in person before, and Eaton offers to take her to the mountains. Hadley excitedly agrees, and they almost kind of flirt, but then she leaves.

Hadley's debate topic ends up being health care in Illéa, and she debates against Soraya Mafi-Foxglove. The debate is moderated by Princess Ainsley. After the debate, Soraya invites Hadley to a sleepover, but Hadley politely declines, since she is going to the mountains with Eaton the next day. Eaton and Hadley start out enjoying the day in peace, until they attempt to shove each other over into the snow, which turns into a discussion about self-defence, and then entitled men in DC. This is when Hadley's past in prostitution comes to light, but Eaton does not judge her. Hadley falls asleep on the car ride home.

The Christmas season is quite odd for Hadley since she's not used to really celebrating it. On Christmas Eve at the ball she has a few glasses of champagne, and her and Eaton end up wandering outside. They talk a little more, and he tries and fails to convince her to go to a doctor for her hip. They then go inside and exchange Christmas gifts. Hadley gets him a book on the history of Harpers Ferry, and he gets her a binder filled with scholarship opportunities for universities, as well as a letter of recommendation for university applications from his Aunt Ainsley, who was impressed with Hadley's debating skills. They then walk into church holding hands.

During family week, Hadley is visited by Evgeny and Ivan. Her and Evgeny argue in front of literally everyone they talk to, and Ivan looks worse than when Hadley left Allens, but he blames it on the chemo. Eaton meets Evgeny and Ivan and gets bad vibes from Evgeny, but once Evgeny and Ivan leave Hadley and Eaton discuss the possibility of her going to a doctor for her hip, and she reluctantly agrees so long as he comes with her, which he promises to do. She cries, then they argue, and then Evgeny comes back and he and Hadley walk off together. Hadley thanks Ainsley for the letter of recommendation.

Once civil war is declared, Hadley grows worried for Eaton, and goes to his office to check on him and convince him to go to sleep. She makes him promise not to die because she can't lose him, and he agrees. During the attack itself, Hadley leaves the guards trying to escort her and MJ, to go find Eaton. She finds him in his office, being strangled by a rebel. Hadley tries to hit the rebel with a pointe shoe, and MJ tries to blind him with her juul. Eaton is able to break free from the rebel. The rebel then tries to strangle MJ, and after a short back and forth with Eaton, Hadley shoots and kills the rebel. Hadley, MJ, Eaton, and Lucianna then run through the tunnels to a safe room, where Lucianna angrily calls Hadley a prostitute. The group are freed by guards, but Hadley flees the medical wing before anyone can examine her.

After the attack, Hadley finds out via phone call from Evgeny that Ivan has taken a turn for the worse, and goes to Eaton's office to see how he is doing and to tell him goodbye. The two get into a nasty fight, but quickly make up. Hadley cups his cheek, and Eaton kisses her palm, and they promise to keep in touch once Hadley leaves Angeles.

### Post-Selection

She dies ~~peacefully in her sleep at the age of 83~~.

## Relationships

### Family

Mason Elijah Harper (father, deceased)

Betty Lou Potter (mother, deceased)

Paisley Ann Harper (sister, deceased)

### Friends

Evgeny Lebezheninov

* FC: Andrey Kupchenko
* 27 years old at the time of the selection (bday: 22 February, 2094 in Moscow, Russia)

Ivan Lebezheninov

* FC: Aiden Flowers
* 18 years old at the time of the selection (bday: 8 July, 2103 in Moscow, Russia)

## Quotes

> “You and Ivan are the closest thing I have to family, so it’s my responsibility too. I’m not about to lose either of you, especially not if there’s something I can do about it.”
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> Hadley Jane Harper, OC7, Challenge 0

> “I just don’t get why we have to waste our tax dollars on a media pageant, when they could be going into something like subsidized health care.”
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> Hadley Jane Harper, OC7, Challenge 0

## Trivia and Notes

* Hadley prefers cats to dogs
* Her Hogwarts house is Hufflepuff
* Her favourite type of wine is syrah
* She's a scorpio sun, cancer moon, scorpio rising
* Her MBTI is ISTJ-T
* Her enneagram is 6w5
* Her favourite song is Burning by Sam Smith