Adele Martin

## Appearance

Adele is an adult woman with pale skin, brown eyes, and straight white hair. In Adele’s initial design (S1-3) her hair is in two french braids. She wears some basic eye makeup, soft pink blush, and pink lipgloss. Her main outfit consists of a pair of basic white heels, a sky blue pencil skirt and blazer with a white undershirt, and a pearl necklace.

In Season 4 and 5, her design is altered. Her hair is down, and she doesn’t wear any lipstick or blush. Her main outfit now consists of a pair of black sneakers, black faux leather pants, and a dark red silk button up.

## Early Life

Adele Doyle was born in Owanta, Apparleton to a middle-class family. Adele always has a passion for debate and writing, and had a great future ahead of her as a lawyer or politician. However, in 582AC, her potential was spotted by Steven Martin, a politician who had lost his ability to run to lead Apparleton due to sexual assault convictions. He paid Adele's family 500 kelsh (469,000 USD) to marry Adele off to him and make her run to lead Apparleton, paying off Krogon to rig the elections and force her to win. Once in office, although Adele held the title, Steven made all of her decisions for her, forcing her to practically allow him to completely lead the state.

## Seasons 1-3

In 592AC, Adele found letters sent to her husband from Aiorchai and The Rose Union. She sent her own letters back, connecting with Aiorchai. Adele and Aiorchai both knew that Adele was powerless to help The Rose Union, even though she wanted to. That year, Adele took several trips to "visit her family" whom she no longer talked to, when she would go to Braishire and escape her political and marital life, having fun with The Rose Union. Rose Union member Aya Kyris described one of Adele's visits with "She was talking a mile a minute, took her top off in public, fucked multiple strangers, and then drank so much she threw up. Aiorchai held her hair back over the toilet."

Steven soon became suspicious of Adele, as she had never visited her family in previous years, and banned her from going without him. Adele wrote another letter to Aiorchai, describing the situation. Shortly after the next letter was sent to Steven, Aiorchai went missing. Adele was forced back into her usual routine of worshiping the very ground Krogon walked on and using her debate skills to shut down anything Jiang Tao had to say. After the assassination of Krogon, as Tao was attempting to plan The Mortem Trials, Steven demanded Adele stand her ground and not make peace with Tao, or even read the letter with information on the trials which Tao had given her.As The Rose Union Apparleton Riots began, Steven encouraged Adele to sue Rifka Ahmada over this, which Adele insisted Ahmada had no connection to. As Adele was woken up to evacuate her home, she ordered bodyguards to remove Steven from the premises, as she addressed the mob from her roof before setting her own home on fire in an act of defiance against practically everybody. On her way to Sutas in the car, The Rose Union broadcast began, with Micah reading Aiorchai's letters. Within these letters, Adele found the contents of the final letter that led to Aiorchai's death, simply phrased "We fucked your wife."

After Steven saw Adele react to this letter as if she was in trouble, he confirmed it was true and the two began fighting again. While driving through Xivita, Adele got out of the car and discovered the true meaning of operation Xivita. She took a few pages from a working log before her husband dragged her out. While in the penthouse in Sutas he took her to, she wrote the listed names down on her leg and attempted to call Jiang Tao through the phone, which Steven had cut the wire to. The following night, she snuck out of the penthouse and ran to a phone across the street, which she used to call Jiang Tao and reveal the meaning of operation Xivita to her. As she was reading off the list of names, Steven caught her and dragged her back to the penthouse. In the end, Adele Martin survived the destruction of Mortem as she was ducked behind the fridge in the penthouse kitchen to shield herself from being beaten by her husband, which saved her from being killed by the shockwave. She left the penthouse, taking a car and boat from the garage with a stranger who also survived, and getting to the water, saving many other people including Cassandra Chivelto from drowning.

Once the boat was organized with Jiang Tao leading the group, Adele confronted her, angry that Jiang Tao had taken her information from the names read on the phone call, but did nothing to help her as she had pleaded Tao to send someone to save her from her husband. She was pulled aside by Lili Bean, who offered her another option.

## Seasons 4-5

After landing on Ithemba, Adele Martin rejected the offer to stay in a temporary free shelter, and traveled to Oruso to register with The Second Stage, where she began working whilst writing her own book. She assisted in overthrowing Keherna, earning the trust of the Second Stage leaders as instructed by Lili while getting in contact with Cyrus. Adele didn’t care much for Cyrus’ leadership, but didn’t care to put in the effort to change it.

Adele informed Cyrus of the new position Jiang Tao had been granted by Gier Relix, and was introduced to his idea of killing Jiang Mei. Adele didn’t approve of the idea, and voiced this, but Cyrus didn’t care. During Mei’s murder, after Cyrus mistakenly told Adele that he was no longer broadcasting himself to the abandoned lab, Adele accidentally revealed Cyrus’ identity, not even knowing the connection she had exposed. During the storming of Totoma, Adele happened to not be near her fellow officers as they negotiated their terms of surrender and ensured their freedoms after the war. Adele was arrested and sent to prison, where she continued her writing, eventually publishing her best selling autobiography from behind bars.

## Quotes

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> * “You want my house, huh? You want to burn it down? Well guess what? You can’t fucking have it! This is my house! And I earned it! And I hate it! And I’m ready to send it to hell!”
> * “A man I knew once told me, ‘This is a fucked up world, and what happens happens, and we can’t undo that.’ He was a man who thrived in chaos and running for his life, he never had the same experience as us. And then he died.”
> * “But the people I will tell you of, are the people that have the right to their story being told, some more than any of us. Because it’s what they deserve.”
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## Trivia

* Adele kept her ex-husband's last name, claiming that he didn’t give it to her, she took it from him.
* Adele Martin is aromantic, something she didn’t realize until her 30s because she didn’t care for her husband regardless.
* Adele originates from “Ticket To Paradise,” a story based on a very vivid dream I had. Her name has not changed since her creation.