Adalind Schade

* Human
* Wesen

**Adalind Schade** (born April 14, 1985) ("Map of the Seven Knights") is a Hexenbiest who first appeared in "Pilot". Nick Burkhardt first noticed her outside a jewelry store where she momentarily woged into her Hexenbiest form. She resigned from her job as a lawyer at Berman, Rautbort Law before leaving Portland, ("Woman in Black") and temporarily returned to the law firm nearly four years later. ("Inugami")

## Personality

Adalind is very poised and graceful, and also one to do anything for those she loves. However, as a Hexenbiest, she was also treacherous, seductive, manipulative, uncaring, and highly intelligent. Following the loss of her powers for the first time, ("Love Sick") she became more ruthless and vengeful, and although still arrogant and poised, she was well aware she was a lot weaker. She showed an uncharacteristic vulnerability when she kissed Meisner on the cheek while thanking him for saving her life. She has shown a lot more emotion since she gave birth to Diana. After she originally agreed to give her baby to Stefania after she gave birth, she was very protective of Diana and careful about who she let hold her when she had her in her possession. She has also been equally as protective of her second baby. When she learned that Sean Renard handed Diana over to Viktor, she ended up breaking down crying in the middle of a street once she realized Viktor had already left with her daughter. ("The Law of Sacrifice") She was extremely upset with Renard initially and worked with the Royals for some time in order to get Diana back. However, when Kenneth and the Royals essentially were finished using her and used Juliette's help to find Diana, she reached out to Renard, Nick, and Nick's friends to both help them "cure" Juliette and seek protection. She showed some selflessness on her part by suppressing the very abilities she had worked so hard to regain. ("Headache")

When she suppressed her powers, she displayed more of her caring side, along with empathy, specifically towards Nick after she learned that his mother had been killed. ("Cry Havoc") She expressed regret over her past actions that hurt Nick, and she no longer had any desire to regain her powers as well. Nick and Monroe talked about how much she had changed, with Nick also adding that she had turned out to be a great mother. ("Map of the Seven Knights") Adalind feared what would happen to her way of thinking and her personality when the suppressant wore off, as well as how Nick would react, so much so that it took her several weeks until she finally worked up enough courage to tell Nick that her powers had returned, despite advice from Rosalee and Renard to do so sooner. ("Into the Schwarzwald") ("Lycanthropia") ("The Taming of the Wu") Since her powers have returned, she has still maintained her feelings for Nick and her children, caring deeply about all of them; however, she was forced by Black Claw and its leader, Conrad Bonaparte, to take Kelly and leave the loft and Nick, which she viewed as being a way to protect both her children and Nick. ("The Taming of the Wu"). Despite Renard's attempts to try to win her to his side, Adalind has remained loyal to Nick, resisting Renard's advances towards her and the attempts of Diana to get them to be together, as well as refusing to betray Nick when Bonaparte asked her to tell him where Nick lived. She further tried to contact him by phone and asked Wu to relay to Nick that Kelly was fine and that she loved Nick, and she later used Diana to contact Nick to warn him that Black Claw was closing in on him after Bonaparte used his powers to force Adalind to tell him where the loft was. ("Bad Night") ("Set Up") ("The Beginning of the End")

## Physical Description

In her human form, Adalind is a beautiful woman in her early 30's. She wears designer clothing designed to accentuate her natural beauty. Before her Hexenbiest form was suppressed, she used to go to extraordinary lengths to maintain her complexion, including applying leeches to her face to keep her skin pale. She is below average height for a North American white female and has blond hair. In her Hexenbiest form, she has the decaying, weathered skin of a corpse with white hair. Although some teeth are missing, the others are all in good condition.

## Hexenbiest Abilities

Adalind has displayed multiple abilities throughout the series.

* **Telekinesis**: The ability to move objects with the mind.
* **Pyrokinesis**: The ability to manipulate fire/heat.
* **Psychic Persuasion**: The ability to manipulate someone into doing a certain action. She is also proficient at casting spells, to which she credits her mother for teaching her.
* **Zaubertrank**: Adalind is skilled in the making and using of zaubertränke.
* **Writing Manipulation**: Adalind was able to remotely alter the writing in a note she left for Nick.

Adalind also possessed some form of a connection with Eve due to Eve's former identity as Juliette. ("The Taming of the Wu") It is believed that this connection was established due to the fact that Juliette turned into Adalind with the Verfluchte Zwillingsschwester in order to help restore Nick's powers, and she turned into a Hexenbiest as a side effect. ("Highway of Tears") ("Chupacabra") Adalind was able to sense when Eve was hurt and dying. ("The Beginning of the End")

## Relationships

* **Nick Burkhardt** - Nick and Adalind first met when Adalind tried to assassinate his aunt. ("Pilot") Following that, Adalind treated Nick with contempt and tried to force him to give her his key. However, Nick stripped her of her Hexenbiest powers. ("Love Sick") The two mutually loathed and hated each other for quite some time afterwards. Nick is also the father of her son from when she tricked Nick into sleeping with her to take away his Grimm powers. ("Blond Ambition") ("Bad Luck") ("Iron Hans") After Adalind reached out to Nick to seek protection and also offer him a way to possibly help Juliette, Nick managed to put aside the hatred he had for her, and they developed a bit of a truce initially. Since that time, they have come to better understand one another a bit better, with Nick telling Adalind that nobody would take their child from her and Adalind also showing empathy for Nick after his mother died. ("You Don't Know Jack") ("Cry Havoc") Since moving in with Nick and relocating to a loft, Adalind has expressed her gratitude to Nick for him taking care of her and their son, and she has also told him that she wishes she could take back everything she did to him when she was a Hexenbiest. They have even started developing romantic feelings for one another, although both admitted that it would be better to wait until they are certain that they both want to pursue that any further. ("Eve of Destruction") When Nick decided to leave for Germany to look for the treasure that the map of the keys led to, Adalind was worried that there was a chance he might not return, so she told him she loved him, and, for the first time, the two knowingly and intentionally slept with one another. ("Key Move") Adalind feared for their relationship after her powers returned, and she has lamented numerous times over the obstacles that seemingly keep cropping up that endanger their relationship. She had a difficult time telling Nick that her powers had returned and acknowledged that they had a "communication problem," but she eventually managed to work up the courage to tell him. She still cares for Nick since she became a Hexenbiest, but she was forced to leave him and the loft with Kelly when she was given a dangerous ultimatum by Black Claw. She left a note for Nick and expressed that she left the loft in order to protect him. ("The Taming of the Wu") She even used Diana in order to contact Nick and warn him that Black Claw members were coming to kill him. ("The Beginning of the End") When Nick was about to go face Zerstörer, Adalind went up to him and told him to be careful. They kissed, and for the first time, Nick told her he loved her. Sometime after Zerstörer's defeat, she and Nick got married. ("Zerstörer Shrugged")

* **Catherine Schade** - When Adalind still had her powers, she was close to her mother, but her mother distanced herself once she lost them. She still cared about her mother, as evidenced by her desire to find out who killed her. She was able to get some closure with her mother when Catherine's casket was dug up. ("You Don't Know Jack") Adalind's decision to become a lawyer was driven by her desire to prove to her mother that she was not like her. ("Into the Schwarzwald")

* **Sean Renard** - Prior to the series pilot, Adalind had a relationship with Sean Renard. ("Love Sick") Even after they broke up, she remained close by, working for him, and possibly for the Royals, with which Renard is associated. All that remained of the relationship was severed when Renard cast her off as "just another pretty girl" after Nick stripped her of her powers. She and Sean later had a one night stand, partially due to a spell he gained from breaking her curse on Juliette, and she gave birth to his daughter. Their child has connected them since and nearly was the impetus for them to get back together again, but after Sean made her think he had given her back to the Royals, their relationship has not been nearly as close. Adalind had mixed feelings about what he chose to do, but for awhile, she did not hold the grudge towards him that she initially had. That said, Adalind was wary of trusting him, particularly when Renard contacted her regarding there being a way to get Diana back. ("Silence of the Slams") She was concerned Renard would use Diana to get to her somehow, and Renard ended up having her meet him a parking lot, where she was drugged by a Black Claw agent and taken to another location. Despite being reunited with Diana when she regained consciousness, she shot Renard a disapproving look, emblematic of the distrust in their relationship. ("Good to the Bone") When Adalind was forced to leave Nick in order to protect her children, Renard was of the mindset that Adalind was in a position of weakness and was obligated to be with Renard, but he quickly found that Adalind had no interest in pursuing a relationship with him and that she had fallen for Nick. Adalind has since said that Renard is not her type and that, ultimately, she could never be in love with him. ("Bad Night") ("Set Up")

* **Hank Griffin** - At the behest of Sean Renard, she started a relationship with Hank because he was the partner of Nick Burkhardt. The relationship was purely business after she tried to kill him ("Love Sick") and had him attacked by Hundjägers. ("Season of the Hexenbiest") After learning about Nick and Adalind's unborn child and that she had a possible way to help Juliette, he understood why Nick was protecting her and also helped look after her.

* **Eric Renard** - After losing her powers, Adalind moved to Europe where she quickly started an intimate relationship with Eric Renard. She worked for the Royal Family in Vienna, as evidenced by her visit to Portland as an employee of GQR while seeking Nick's Key. Adalind manipulated Eric using her beauty and charm, but was at the same time fearful of the prince, knowing he was a very dangerous and powerful man. She seemed to have developed feelings for Eric, as she shed a tear of blood when she heard he had been killed. ("A Dish Best Served Cold")

* **Frau Pech** - Adalind was very respectful of the elder Hexenbiest and took her advice regarding her pregnancy. That is until Frau Pech sought to control the child, and Adalind then conspired with Stefania Vaduva Popescu to kill her.

* **Stefania Vaduva Popescu** - She was introduced as the Queen of the Schwarzwald Gypsies by Frau Pech and entered into a contract with Adalind for her unborn child in return for her powers back.

* **Juliette Silverton** - Juliette and Adalind met and apparently became friends after a double date with Hank and Nick. She infected Juliette with L'esprit ailleurs using her cat as an agent. When Juliette awoke from her coma, Adalind used their friendship to learn about the existence of the trailer. After Juliette recovered, Nick told her about Adalind's part in her illness, and she despised Adalind for what she had done. Juliette's hatred for Adalind only grew after she learned that Adalind took away Nick's powers by having sex with him, disguised from a spell to look like Juliette. ("Blond Ambition") In getting Nick's Grimm powers back, Juliette suffered a life-altering side effect and became a Hexenbiest, something Adalind had not foreseen. Juliette's hatred gradually turned into bloodlust, and Juliette nearly killed Adalind on more than one occasion. ("Trial by Fire") ("Hibernaculum") Adalind already feared that Juliette would kill her by the time Juliette learned that Adalind had become pregnant with Nick's child. When she found out that Juliette had been killed by Trubel, she felt terrible for Nick but was happy such a great threat to her had been eliminated. ("Inugami")

* **Eve** - However, those concerns were only brought to the forefront of her mind once again when she learned from Nick that Juliette was still alive, but with a new identity; Eve. ("Clear and Wesen Danger") ("Eve of Destruction") When Eve visited the loft for the first time unannounced, Adalind was shown to be very nervous, if not rather fearful of her, and Eve warned Adalind that if she hurt Nick, she would come for Adalind. ("Inugami")

* **Viktor von Konigsburg** - After Eric Renard's death, Viktor kept her as an employee of the Royals and spied on her. Viktor sought to take possession of her and Sean Renard's daughter, Diana, and he manipulated Adalind into taking Nick's Grimm powers away. Adalind trusted that he would help her get Diana back, but Viktor was eventually recalled to Vienna when the King became impatient with how long it was taking him to do so.

* **Theresa Rubel** - Their first encounter with one another was actually when Adalind was disguised as Juliette, leaving a pretty negative first impression of Adalind in Trubel's mind, especially considering what Nick and Juliette told Trubel about her. Trubel's opinion of Adalind only worsened when Nick's powers as a Grimm were temporarily taken away from him because of Adalind. Much to Trubel's surprise when she returned to Portland, ("Headache") Adalind was now being protected by Nick and the gang, along with being the mother of Nick's child. When Trubel found Nick in the loft he was now living in with Adalind and their son, Adalind took the opportunity to reach out to Trubel and try to mend things a bit, though Trubel was still protective of Nick and a bit unsure of Adalind's intentions and feelings towards him. ("Wesen Nacht") Overall, she had been slower to warm up to Adalind than others in Nick's inner circle, but after Adalind was forced to leave Nick, and he confided to Trubel that Adalind had told him that she loved him, Trubel acknowledged that said she didn't even need to say it since her feelings for him had been pretty obvious. ("Bad Night")

* **Rosalee Calvert** - Adalind's first impression on Rosalee was not a good one, and it was before the two had even met. Rosalee had to clean up the damage Adalind had caused with her Zaubertrank to both Wu and Hank, ("Love Sick") and soon after, Rosalee had to work quickly to come up with a concoction that would momentarily deal with the spell that Juliette had fallen under after getting scratched by Adalind's cat. ("Woman in Black") ("Bad Teeth") ("The Kiss") However, the dynamic between Adalind and Rosalee briefly changed after Nick's mother showed up in Portland with Adalind, who now had a daughter, and Rosalee and Monroe helped provide Adalind a place to stay. ("The Law of Sacrifice") Again, Adalind later turned to Rosalee for support when Diana was taken away from her. ("Nobody Knows the Trubel I've Seen") While Adalind has often looked to Rosalee for support, albeit as a last resort at times, the feeling hasn't always been mutual. Adalind certainly didn't help her own cause when she took away Nick's powers, ("Blond Ambition") as this prompted Rosalee and the gang to figure out a way to restore them, which in turn caused Juliette to turn into a Hexenbiest as a side-effect. With Juliette growing increasingly bitter and becoming a very dangerous threat to Adalind, Adalind had no other recourse but to turn to Nick and his friends for help, and Rosalee made the tough decision to help Adalind make a suppressant for Juliette while they protected Adalind and her second, unborn child from Juliette. During this time, Rosalee and Adalind made amends, with Adalind proving that she had changed by testing the suppressant on herself. ("Iron Hans") ("You Don't Know Jack") After taking the suppressant, Adalind and Rosalee started to bond a bit more as Rosalee continued to help protect her, and when Adalind gave birth to Kelly, Rosalee was there to look after Adalind when Nick couldn't be there. At one point, Adalind told Rosalee that she was the only friend she had. ("Clear and Wesen Danger") The two built trust with each other while Adalind's powers were suppressed, to the point that Adalind trusted Rosalee to look after Kelly, and for a brief period, Rosalee was also the only one who knew that Adalind's powers had returned. Since then, Rosalee has had to be a bit more cautious of Adalind, particularly after some warnings from Eve, but Adalind still treats Rosalee as a friend and trusts her.