✿ Adah Komchén✿
{ ”Just stay in your lane. Don't be an idiot, and we'll all make it big.” }
| Name |Adah Maria Komchén
| Nickname |To friends and acquaintances: Madchen, Adde
To customers, associates, and business partners: Gehenna, Sheol, The Christian
| Date Of Birth |10/31/1988
| Age |29
| Sexuality |Gay as hell
| Relationship Status |Single
| Occupation |Owner of 'Don Juan's (Strip club)'
Co-owner of 'Blackie O'Donnagan's Arcade, Slots, & Shots' (Blackie's)'
Drug trafficker/supply (Weed, Narcotics)
| In Depth Appearance |Adah is a slight, but figured woman, with a relatively small bust contrasted with an almost hourglass, athletic lower frame. She stands around 5' 4", and is never seen in anything but skinny jeans. Typically dark blue, occasionally black, never acid wash. She tends to wear casual tops, neutral colored button downs or t-shirts, layered with cardigans or zip up hoodies. She had a large collection of scarves that will typically match her pants. Of note is her hair, shaved on one side, and her jewelry-- which, while understated, is always shiny and plainly authentic. Diamonds are her friend, and she prefers necklaces, earrings, toe rings, anklets, and time pieces, all respectively diamond studded, all casually hidden beneath her more causal dress. She had no tattoos, and does have a diamond tongue and navel piercings. Her eyes are inky black, and she is always wearing black cowboy boots-- an homage to her late father.
| Quirks & Habits |She doesn't cook-- or visit restaurants. Instead, mostly relying on meals prepared by her grandmother to sustain her-- often visiting the woman several times per day.
She keeps a fiercely tight belt. She rarely flaunts her salary at others, instead preferring to save and invest. She's certainly biding her time, putting away thousands for something. But she's tight lipped as to what. She wears expensive jewelry to contrast with her rather plain manner of dress, but she has a tight control on her impulses, and doesn't buy enough to put her out. Her largest expenses stem from gambling, and her visits to strip clubs.
She doesn't smoke either-- her asthma is incredibly sensitive. She can hardly run without breaking out in fits of coughing. On bad days, just the smell of smoke is enough to trigger a violent attack. As such, she always carriers a high strength inhaler-- it's unclear how long she'd last without it.
She has weekly therapy sessions. Though, she hardly tells anyone about this. She's been seeing her doctor for years, and despite the breech in professionalism, considers the woman one of her only friends. Regularly buying her gifts.
| Hobbies |Travelling: Immersing oneself in other cultures is her favorite thing to experience. Brighton can be a fishbowl, and it's good to leave every now and then, and remind yourself there's a whole world outside of her little, insignificant drug running business.
Chess: It's cliche-- but a game with oneself is a good time to consider next moves in life, she finds. She does it quite frequently.
Strip clubs: A weekly vice. She considers it therapeutic, since she's unlikely to meet someone she'd click with anywhere-- at least she can satisfy her more carnal desires regularly.
Reading: She almost always has some young adult mystery, or romance novel on her person. Her favorite series is Game of Thrones. She has not seen the show.
Gambling: A less than weekly vice she takes part in. More to honor the legacy of her surrogate father, than anything.
| Likes |Uppers: Her drug of choice-- from coffee to coke. Though she worries she may be developing a reliance, like her mother.
Soul food: Her grandmother, true creole from Louisiana, makes collards and grits better than anyone Adah's ever met. Adah hardly eats anywhere that isn't her grandmother's house.
Music: Adah likes the instrumentation of bands like The Smiths, Joy Division, and Depeche mode, as well as the lyricism in most rap. Though she likes pretty much all of it, from country to mariachi to polka.
Games: Growing up in Brighton-- one had to take to arcade games. She's gotten good at them, and even today, they hold a place in her heart.
Planning/strategy: It's how she's able to operate so seamlessly.
Those who earn her respect: Like her late father. And Blackie, her late surrogate father. Those who can demonstrate strength through intelligence, to her, are always worth listening to.
| Dislikes |Unpredictable situations: Any situation where she feels variables are unexaminable, make her intrinsically uncomfortable.
Stupidity: She doesn't not stand fools. Anyone who doesn't take her sound advice, to her, can't be a smart person.
Boredom: Time not spent on a task is time wasted. Even if that task is merely for satisfaction of the self.
EDM: She likes all music, except EDM. Which has no soul.
The 24 Hour News Cycle: It's an opiate given to the masses that the pigs use to instill fear in her populace. It's a big point of contention with her grandmother.
Violence: Especially unnecessary violence. She believes compromise is always the smarter choice.
Law Enforcement: The pigs would just love to put her away. Luckily,
her criminal versatility means she doesn't even have a record. They don't actually know who they're looking for.
| Fears |Addiction: It runs in her family. She has participated in any number of vices, she has become attached to some more than others-- she may simply have a taste for some drugs, behaviors... and women-- while she might be borderline addicted to others-- she's certainly developed quite a reliance on cocaine in her coffee to function daily. And doesn't mind indulging in party drugs to help move along her deals.
Vulnerability: It's part of the reason few of her relationships last more than a few months. She has a desire for connection to others, but the idea of letting others into her head scares her, however much she wants to connect. This is also why she works at her image-- she doesn't want to experience the vulnerability many women feel at night. She wants desperately to surpass her slot, as someone who should be afraid.
A Meaningless Death: She isn't sure what she wants to build. But she know she wants to leave something behind. She doesn't know how she's going to get from Boardwalk dealer to Pablo Escobar-- but she wants it. It's not death she fears, per se, just historical insignificance.
| Personality |A lack of affection from her drugg-addled mother and the perceived abandonment by and subsequent death of her Father have melded Adah into a very affectionless individual. She later came to idolize her father, upon relaizing the many sacrificed he made for her, and her family-- and obsessed with showing her compassion in a similar fashion. She doesn't say "I love you," instead-- she'll buy you the most expensive brand of clothing you like, and set up fund in your name. This means she's reserved... and has extreme difficulties in her relationship with others, and with others.
To combat her depression and talk through her aspergers, she self-medicates with sample sof the drugs she funnels into Brighton-- and sees a therapist weekly. Her personality is resolute, and she doesn't deal well with those who refuse to try and look at every situation, through every lens possible.
| Abilities |Localized neuro-electrochemical theft: Adah's, unlike most abilities, ability is to simply create generally favorable conditions for her to act in by manipulating people around her. It doesn't have any real offensive capabilities, besides causing long term bodily damage to those it might effect for extended periods, by making them more susceptible to disease, depression, and suicide.
Adah's ability dramatically reduces the aggressiveness of those under its effects.
Manifesting as an invisible telekinetic field, that can travel as far as 25 meters from Adah. Her ability's effect travels through water in the atmosphere and numbs the human limbic and nervous systems, by stealing away a tiny electric potential of 0.07 Volts per second. This is an otherwise negligible current, however, continued exposure to this effect, when activated, is said to reduce a person's will to fight.
Any feeling of aggressiveness will be reduced, as the longer they remain effected by her ability, they become more agreeable, compliant, and eventually sadder. The lack of electro-chemical energy in the target's system, will also reduce their reaction time-- someone under the full strength of Adah's ability, will see the world delayed by several seconds-- allowing Adah to appear to be moving at superhuman speeds. Ironically, though, Adah's ability indirectly increases the fighting prowess of its victims, as they eventually become so depressed they ignore pain and fear, and are focused on their own misery-- meaning that while they become easier to attack, they are much harder to kill.
Electrokinesis immunity: Interestingly, Adah is also immune to electrical damage-- likely a resulting feature of her ability, and the telekinetic cloud surrounding her.
| Limitations |Considering Adah's ability is only able to rob one's system of 0.07 Volts of neuro-chemical electric energy per second, it may take Adah's ability several seconds, to minutes, to possibly even hours, to actually noticably reduce someone's reaction time.
People tend to become more agreeable to Adah's demands almost immediately after being under her influence, so long as they enter her field without excess aggression. Those who are charged up, take much longer to calm down, before reaction time reduction can even begin.
Adah's ability requires moist atmosphere to work effectively-- on particularly dry days, her ability is much weaker-- only being able to rob one's system of 0.03 Volts per second, and her range becomes halved.
Her use of her ability is obvious, as when she turns it on, the whites of her eyes glow with sick, white electricity. And as someone with a range of only 25 meters, she is at a distinct disadvantage in outdoor settings.
| Place Of Origin |Brighton native, daughter of first generation American immigrant
| Background |Sometime in the 60's, two men named Juan Komchén and Blackmoore 'Blackie' O'Donnagan meet and become friends. They are men shunned by society. Juan can't return to America, and Blackie can't return to Scotland.
They put their criminal talents to use in Brighton-- Brighton in it's prime-- and starting from nothing, but two bar stools, they resolve to become kings. Juan is capable muscle, often following Blackie's instructions to a T, because of how in tune they are. Blackie is quick-witted. He's the brains-- longterm planning isn't his strength, but he's gifted at improvisation.
20 years later, and things are looking good. Juan has done some time-- but Blackie's put enough together to buy the two a bar. They become the Co-owners of 'Brighton's Best: Slots & Shots' it was going to grow into something amazing. Were they going to go legit...? That might have been smart. Blackie has twins on the way--
and Juan just started seeing a girl from the Church. But the boys never claimed to be smart. For a time, they're merely dimebag pushers, they're still just grunts, operating in the shadows. But they're getting ready to make their move. The thing that draws them to each other... is a desire for more. They continue growing, seeking power. They will be kings.
1988. Adah Maria Komchén is born on Dia de los Muertos after a shotgun wedding held a week prior-- a priest threatened to kill Juan if he didn't make an honest woman out of his daughter, a pale, modest Briton named Mary. She didn't leave much of herself in Adah-- shes the spitting image of her father, Mary names her after the biblical Adah, Juan lies and says the middle name is in her honor, and mother Maria-- it isn't. She's baptized the day of her birth, and soon after attends the Dia de los Muertos proper. Blackie's twins play with the squishy baby, while the father's smoke cigars in their bar. Juan's mother is moving from Louisiana to help with the baby-- he's wanted to move her up here for years. Things are well.
1999. Adah sees Blackie more than her father. Her mother, raising her a good christian girl, obsesses over her whenever her grandmother can't step in to impart some wisdom of her own. Her mother, Mary-- while once a good mother, has developed a habit-- as Juan is in and out of prison, seeking to expand his and Blackie's influence on Brighton. Blackie tries to impart the lessons of youth he wishes he got. The value of patience, planning--
tries to impart the perseverance and strength her father has in her. Her grandmother reminds her the importance of a homecooked meal. After the year 2000, her mother is almost never around. She's raised by her grandmother,
Blackie, and the twins. She consistently is top of her class, despite her tumultuous home-life. Blackie adopts a girl to give himself another shot at parenting, seeing his Twins as less his sons than Adah is his daughter. This causes a rift between Blackie and his wife, but she ultimately relents, though her relationship with the girl is cold, Mariko is an expansion of their kingdom. Adah and Mariko, despite an age difference, become fast friends.
2003. Juan is killed in a fire-- the bar-- 'Brighton's Best'-- is burned down. Blackie's family were the targets-- and his wife, and the twins were the targets, and Juan dies trying to save them-- Mariko, however, survives, but is permanently injured. It was part of an attack on Blackie, following his take-over of the trafficking into Brighton. For a time-- he becomes paralyzed. Adah, not knowing how to express herself in anyway outside of her work, graduates early. After reading what her father was really working for in his will, she develops an admiration of his ability to work for those he loved, guilty she never appreciated his love while he was alive. A girl with little friends, and blind ambition, Adah takes up residence with Blackie and Mariko, helping him recover from his loss and figure out next steps. She begins selling weed, to support herself. Mariko disproves.
2008. The generous sum that her father left for her in his will, combined with Blackie's own savings. Is enough to open a strip club, 'Don Juan's'-- darkly in his honor. Blackie wanted Adah to be completely legit-- but she begins using the club to expand into harder narcotics, she's more in charge than him at this point.
Blackie, feeling some pride-- settles into an advisory role-- feeling the pride in her, he wishes he could feel in his own sons and now daughter. Mariko, growing from her adoptive father, attends boarding school.
2010. Blackie dies peacefully in his sleep one cold winter morning. Within months of his passing, Adah opens 'Blackie's.' And again turns to her studies to deal with her grief. After leaving competent managers in her businesses, she dedicated 5 years to travel and completing her post-secondary education. Mariko returns to Brighton for a time, eventually fading away again, from the place that had caused her so much pain. She decides to volunteer in South America. She and Adah date for a time, before she goes to South America. Considering how much like sisters they are, they both agree it's a huge mistake and they'll never repeat it again.
2015. Adah returns to Brighton. Settling into routines of therapy, deals, strippers and occasional vacations. She's resolved to follow her father's dream, on hr own terms. She dreams of power and influence. Mariko has been in and out of town, an accomplished nurse in her own right. They repeat the mistake again. Mariko contiues to leave and return, 'finding herself.' Adah continues to fail in love and succeed at business. She starts sampling products to increase her efficiency in the field.
2017. A storm one night leaves Adah (and Mariko-- though Adah doesn't know this) with... abilities. Like a light switch, she can make people calm and sluggish. She wordless begin utilizing this ability, ultimately uncontrollable 'who' it effects, and how 'strong'-- to it's highest effect, like a master strategist-- without comment.
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