Character Adrienne Halver Fel

[Adrienne Halver Fel]

ADRIENNE HALVER FEL

Age	Early 60s
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Height	176 cm | 5'6"
Weight	56kg | 123 lbs
Force Sensitive	No

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Adrienne Catrine Halver Fel has a face that looks like it belongs somewhere refined and expensive, even in bad lighting. She wear fine bone structure, high cheekbones, a decisive jaw softened by time. The presence of wrinkles is a testament to some inner strength, or perhaps just stubbornness, as if they prove that she spent decades holding her expression while lesser women would have unraveled.

Her eyes are pale blue and measuring, equal parts direct and assessing. Her hair is blonde, trending now towards silver, kept in a neat bob or swept back in a simple but elegant twist. She never looks fussy or casual, even off-duty. Adrienne's wardrobe is a collection of immaculate tailoring, severe angles, clean neutrals, and minimal but excellent jewelry.

Adrienne's default bearing is calm and appraising. She's polite, almost compulsively so, until that strategy becomes untenable. She rarely interrupts someone else when speaking, but is prone to interrogating positions after being presented. She rejects theatricality and embraces containment in her expression and gestures and emotions. When she shows an emotion, it is deliberate and tactical.

INVENTORY

TBD

PERSONALITY AND BELIEFS

Adrienne is competent, unsentimental, and exactly. She is capable of affection, but distrusts it, especially in public, because it is a thing to be exploited. She employs dry humor, understated and sharp, and some kind of patience, though how much she brings to bear depends on the context. Perhaps her most driving character trait is ambition; she needs influence the way ordinary people need oxygen.

A convert to the cause of Fel Imperial ideas, Adrienne is an illustration that there is no zealot like a convert. She has become fanatical in her protection of and devotion to the Fel Empire's ideologies, particularly on behalf of her late son and now her granddaughter. She recognizes the power of symbolism in times of crisis in its ability to align incentives enough to prevent complete catastrophe. But symbols are dangerous, and must be held -- and wielded -- by adults. Adrienne doesn't romanticize hereditary monarchy, but treats it instead like a mechanism of continuity and stability.

STRENGTHS

• Systems Brain: A holdover from her time in Brentaal IV's trade economy, her native language is in logistics, institutions, incentives, and other systems.
• Networked: Adrienne knows people, people who know people, and the people they know. She is good at tracing a path to find someone who owes a useful favor or allegiance.
• Presence: Her stillness and composure, even during crisis, tends to read to others as authority and competence.
• Manipulator: Adrienne is perfectly willing to use her granddaughter Marion as a means to ends -- namely, her own.

WEAKNESSES

• Control Bias: Adrienne believes every situation has a lever if you're competent enough to locate it, but that's not always true.
• Impatience: She can alienate potentially useful allies by displaying her impatience with perceived slowness or incompetence.
• Wear and Tear: Into her sixth decade of life, her body occasionally reminds her of her fallibility: headaches, knee pain, the occasional shoulder pain, some indigestion.

HISTORY

Adrienne Halver was born on Brentaal IV to a family of wealthy and politically-connected trade magnates. She grew up around trade law disputes, port authorities, politics, and the power of logistics. The Halvers were not the largest name in the room, but it was always somewhere in the paperwork, with fingers in multiple pies. They were a family that understood compliance and judicial processes, the politics of logistics, and how to undermine each. As a young woman, she entered the commerce-security world, dealing with customs intelligence and threat analysis.

Later, she transferred to Imperial intelligence, where she became a talented intelligence analyst, later an agent handler, and eventually a department head for counter-intelligence. She met Marek Fel, a decorated Imperial Army officer, a member of a very junior cadet branch of the Imperial family, and they married a little over a year later. Adrienne married Marek with fully open eyes; she didn't expect a fairy tale. What she sought was security, continuity, and influence. And for a time, that's what she got.

Even after that iteration of the Empire went by the wayside, Adrienne was a fierce protector of the Fel name. Her son, Toren, became her pride and joy, her biggest asset and her largest liability. When her husband died, Adrienne relocated to Chandrila to be nearer her son and granddaughter -- proximity to her daughter-in-law Corrine was less an objective than something to be endured -- where she maintained an underground network of Fel loyalists, Imperial sympathizers, and others who might be useful when the time came. When Toren died, Adrienne turned her attention primarily to Marion, the extension of Adrienne's own legacy.

With the rise of a new Imperial effort, Adrienne has positioned herself as in at the ground floor, once more expertly maneuvering a Fel -- Marion -- as part weapon, part shield, part meal ticket.