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full name: Adrian Left Hand
goes by: Adrian. Occasionally Addie.
age: 27
gender: female (cis)
sexuality: pansexual or two-spirit, depending on who's asking
role: the pathologist
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playlist:
✗ Reminders - Radical Face
✗ loud mouth - tiLLie
✗ I Love My Friends - Foster The People
✗ Love For Long - Jenny Owen Young
✗ Which Witch - Florence + the Machine_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________appearance: Adrian has long dark hair, brown skin, and brown eyes. She keeps her hair long, though she's
not a strict follower of Lakota tradition when it comes to cutting it. She's been out of the state for so long,
and she's left behind a lot of her heritage in an attempt to fit in better in her field. She does like wearing
traditional beadwork, though, and in recent years she's tried incorporating it into her wardrobe more often,
partially out of guilt for all the years she spent trying to fit in with white people. Now that she's back home,
especially, she feels a little less pressure to be so meek about it. She dresses fairly outdoorsy - practical,
durable clothes in neutral colors - when she's not on the job or out in the field, but when she's working in a
lab or other medical setting, she tends to just wear plain scrubs.
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personality:
pos. traits: intelligent, observant, driven, brave, honest
neutral traits: unorthodox, workaholic, competitive, curious, introverted
neg. traits: arrogant, pessimistic, blunt, pig-headed
Adrian has always had an incredible memory and a knack for noticing things other don't. She'll remember
anything you tell her, for better or for worse. Her memory comes in handy in her field, where there are
literally thousands of different kinds of organisms that can cause human disease or obscure the ones that do.
It also helps her a lot in pathology, as her recall of human anatomy is excellent. Despite her intelligence,
she's had to fight like hell to get to where she is. Her age, race, and gender have all made it that much harder
to get into a good job, but she's done it, and she's damn proud of it. Her pride has turned into arrogance over
the years, though, and she often assumes she's the smartest person in the room. She doesn't always let on,
knowing when to keep her opinions to herself, but that part of her brain is a lot harder to control when she
hasn't had her coffee. Some of this arrogance is a front, though. In general she hates admitting when she's
wrong, because she's constantly second-guessing herself. She can't stand feeling like she might have made the
wrong call, and she tries to run away from those feelings by staunchly defending any decision she makes. It's
caused her trouble in her relationships more than once, and she's aware that, as someone who's so dedicated
to people telling the truth, that her behavior is pretty hypocritical.
She's not a total jerk, though. It's not always apparent, but she does care a lot about people, and she cares a
lot about her people. She'll do anything - has done anything - for her friends, though these efforts
combined with her belief that she always knows what's best or right have also caused friction before. She's a
competitive person, with both herself and others, and sometimes she just doesn't know when to stop and
leave well enough alone. It makes her a very dedicated worker, though, and a very loyal friend.
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history:
Adrian has always been intelligent, though what she choses to do with that mind has varied wildly over the
years. Born and raised in Hot Springs, she grew up hiking in the woods with friends, playing in the creek, and
bringing bugs and frogs home to her family. Her younger brothers, Chase and Shaun, were always more than
happy to help her on these quests, much to their parents' chagrin. As she got older, she found new ways of
frustrating her parents when bugs and frogs didn't interest her anymore.
It's not that Adrian had a bad relationship with her parents. They were never abusive or neglectful, but they
weren't perfect. She often felt like they didn't understand her, and they often pressured her to excel in
school and be the well behaved oldest daughter. Her father talked a lot about her "potential" and how he
wouldn't let her waste it. As she hit high school and the pressure just kept ramping up, she pushed back more
often. She didn't understand why she wasn't allowed to screw up and have fun like other kids, so she went out
and found trouble under her parents' noses whenever she could, just to blow off steam once her school work
was done. (She may not have liked her dad's attitude, but that didn't mean she was going to fail on purpose.
Even if she resented her parents, there was still a part of her terrified of disappointing them.)
Adrian's troublemaking tendencies finally got her in over her head when she was 17. As a teenager she hung
out a lot with Alex and [Mechanic], and they would often go goof off in the woods at night on Alex's family's
land. One of those nights in question, after attending a baseball game, the trio found a body in the woods.
The body belonged to Ethan Anderson. There was no question about it when they saw him. After all who didn't
know the mayor and her family?
Mayor Anderson had two sons, Theo and Ethan, and though Ethan was never in school with Adrian, she and the
others had seen him around before with the other Andersons. In particular, they'd seen him with his mother
when she and Alex's father were both running for mayor. It had been a bitter, contested election, which didn't
exactly end with a graceful concession and a firm handshake after the ballots were counted. Everyone knew
that Alex's father didn't exactly like Mayor Anderson, but none of the three teens thought he'd been bitter
enough to literally kill her adopted son over it.
Whether he'd done anything to Ethan or not, the fact remained: his body was on the Clarke family land. Afraid
that either Alex's family was going to get framed or they really had done something to Ethan, the trio
decided they wouldn't report the body. Alex objected to the idea of moving the body and throwing it in a
nearby lake, so they just covered it up and left, but later both Adrian and [Mechanic] agreed that covering it
up wouldn't be enough. Without Alex's knowledge they moved the body and dumped it elsewhere, thinking that
would be the end of it for a while. However, the body surfaced not long after, launching a long and drama filled
investigation in which all three of them were arrested and questioned multiple times about the murder. In the
end, their appearance at the baseball game saved them. The charges, even the charges of tampering with a
crime scene, were dropped, but The Trio, as they were referred to, were forever associated with the case, a
case which remains unsolved.
After her parents got the arrest scrubbed from her record, Adrian was eager to leave town. Even though she
knew she and the boys hadn't killed Ethan, the town was still divided on it. When she left for college, she
was happy to start over somewhere where no one had ever heard of this case. She went to school and got a
Master's degree in epidemiology and pathogenesis and landed a job with the CDC.
She gives 100% to her work, and she loves every second of it, but this case has brought up some feelings she'd
been trying to avoid. The murder case from ten years ago still haunts her, and she's been struggling the past
several months to keep it together. She thought she was over the fear and guilt she felt back then, but of
course, she's never worked through those feelings, so sometimes they can't help but bubble to the surface.
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𝐈'𝐦 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭,
𝐨𝐫 𝐈'𝐦 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭.
𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡
𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.
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trivia:
- A member of the
Oglala Sioux Tribe,
while she may have
grown up in Hot
Springs, she has
plenty of family
members who still
live on the Pine
Ridge Reservation.
- Still has nightmares
about Ethan. During
the investigation,
they were at their
worst, but they had
slowly stopped over
the years. However,
now that she's home,
she's been having
them again.
- Not much of a
drinker. Her uncle
was an alcoholic and
as she's gotten older
she's decided she
doesn't want to go
down the same road.
- Likes board games
and video games
where you solve
puzzles. Does not
understand the
appeal of first-
person shooters.
Will rag on Fortnite
as a scam all day.
- A terrible cook,
but she knows how
to bake. It's just
chemistry, after all,
and she's very
meticulous about
it. It really pays
off, though. Her
desserts are to
die for. Sometimes
she'll bring stuff
in to work and
leave it in the lab
break room, often
anonymously. No
one would believe
her if she owned
up to it. She's not
the "brings baked
goods to work to
be nice" type.
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𝐒𝐨 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫
𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞
𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐲 -
𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞
𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞
𝐟𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐞.
𝐒𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧
𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐈
𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝
𝐨𝐮𝐭
𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥.
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈...
𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭
𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩.
