Daniel Reaving
Thirty Thousand Club
Name:
Adelaide Shayera James
Nickname:
~ A.J - most common, easiest.
~ Ade [ad-i] - second most common, used especially to woo her
~ Birdy - when certain people's want to tese, annoy, or play at Adelaide, they will not be afraid to call her this. However, her father used to call her this when she was young, because he wanted to remind her of her mother, so it strikes a nerve everytime.
~ Lady - she doesn't like this one very much, but if one of her team members doesn't feel like calling her HawkGirl when they are out and about then it is safe to call her Lady. This is obviosly least common.
Alias:
HawkGirl
Age:
19
Job: none
Student - Senior in Highschool - [last year of highschool]
Team:
Young Justice
Allignment:
Chaotic Good
Relationship Status:
Single and Ready to Mingle
Birthdate:
25th May 2081
Sex/Gender:
Female
Sexuality:
Heterosexual II Heteroromantic
Related Former Heroes/Heroines:
Shayera Thal - Great-Grandmother - Justice League
Ethnicity:
English/Caucasian [on her father's side] - American/Thanagarian [on her mother's side]
Accent:
English, often laced with American. It depends on the word
Appearance:
Adelaide is a pretty well built young girl, with toned muscle and a height of 5'9. Her hair is almost waist long and a shade of deep brown, that can easily be mistaken for a deep red or orange, especally in the sun, which she takes from her grandmother. It is also naturally quite wavy, with a crimped look. Her eyes are brown like her father's, and her skin is a dark olive tone, consistent with her mother's slightly darker tone and father's pale tone. Adelaide keeps a good posture, necessary with her wings.
Adelaide's wings are 16ft in length from wingtip to wingtip, portuding from her shoulderblades [an extension of them] and take the appearance of an Eagle's wings. They are a mix of cream and white feathers, grey appearing in some places.
Adi tends to wear simple clothing when she is out and about, or at the tower. Due to her passion for machinery a regular strappy top/singlet and jeans with her signature hoops earrings will suffice, [it creates less havoc with her wings] shoes always, or most of the time consisting of lace up boots.
P.S: the goggles [apart of her hero suit due to fast speeds and air] and gloves, and all that soot.
Definitely not uncommon for her.
To top off her main choice of clothing if ever she leaves the security of the base, she will pull on her one and only coat. This was gifted to her by her mother last she saw her. It's collar and patterning as shown below are identical to her's, with the only difference being the length.
Adelaide's coat is ankle length and is a perfect cover for her wings, which unfortunately, she cannot conceal without a covering, so her coat is just perfect. On occassion a feather will fall from beneath her coat when she is out in public, but if she is with the others someone usually notices, or she will. It has never been a big deal, and she has never had a case of someone noticing enough to question her.
Apart from her casual clothing, she does of course have her "hero suit."
This suit has some bionic/technological features, such as the wrist guards and the "mask" over her face. Her suit has a sort of rustic colour scheme, which she thinks ties in with her love of machinery [it's in the brown and red's and gold]. It is form fitting and apart from the few Nth metal [armored] peices [good due to her "fragility"], it is mainly made of leather and synthetic weaves. The suit has a synthetic cape of sorts that hangs and dips between her shoulders blades/her wings. The mask shown here is actually a breathing apparatus. As a result of her having wings she can fly very high up, as high as she would like. But, what her meta state has not done is give her a gift to withstand the lungs and/or ability to breath at such high altitudes. After nearly falling to her death from breathlessness some few years ago, she has equipped an over the mouth breathing apparatus which allows her to pump oxygen freely at any altitude. [Note that the sheer state of the (mask) one pictured is unlike her's, instead her's is a plain matte black colour]. The last vital peice to her hero suit is of course her two Nth metal battle staves, which she can holster, one on each leg, when she is not utilising them.
Personality:
Adelaide is a pretty happy, witty and sarcastic girl. She always wants to live life to the fullest, as well as she can, for as long as she can. She appreciates the people in her life, at least as much as she will let herself, and very rarely betrays a person's trust. That is, on purpose. To fully understand Adelaide, you need to get close to her. It's not so easy, but make one wrong move and you may never see the light of day again. With Adelaide, you need to tread lightly, especially around the subject of being a bastard child to Hawkwoman and a mortal man. No matter how forgiving people know she is, or she says she is, innocent looks can fool. All her life, Adelaide has had to fight for what she wants unless her grandmother demanded it for her, so she knows boundaries and knows that you gotta take what you get. Adelaide is respectable and mature, and once again, despite all these things, she does have the ability to act like a complete child. Ade is all over the place. One moment a wild card, next moment a leader, and before you know it she won't talk to anyone. Be patient with this Gemini figure, and you will appreciate her friendship.
Strengths:
~ As is typical for someone on a team like the Justice League, she considers her friends one of her greatest strengths. She grew up without a mother, and her father was hardly present, so always having her best of friends at her side, makes life far easier than it has ever been. She would do anything for her teammates to keep them safe, and cherish's them always. They are the one's to keep her fighting.
~ Her suit offers more strength than she has normally, and that is, a strengthened durability which she does not have normally. Cut's and scrapes aren't common in her suit. They are, out of it.
~ Her wings offer protection sometimes. They can be resistant against far or near far bullets [only], keep her from the rain, she can cover others, and so far, they like to act as an extra set of arms to swing punches.
Weaknesses:
~ The fact that her wings did not come with a lung capacity for high alitudes, means that if she is to ever reach a altitude too high for her to take, she will most likely loose the ability to breath, won't be able to cope, etc, and will end up fainting, and evidently, faling from the sky, helpless. It has happened once before and it may happen again. This caused her mother to make an urgent plea for a help, and with some direction from her daughter, Adelaide was gifted with a mask that allowed her to breath high up. [The mask does contain Nth metal] Adelaide just hopes it doesn't. It is explaied further in the Power section.
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Likes:
~ Fauna - especially birds and cat's [ironic huh?]
~ Flora
~ Chuppa-Chupps
~ The feel of wind through her hair
~ The Internet
~ Dancing [Ballet especially
~ Trap music, but also classical, jazz, swing, some elctronic, alternative, pop; i'll stop here
~ Staff's. [She practices with her own, every day]
~ Machines/Engines/Cars, stuff like that. Her father got her into it. So, if you need something fixed, why not call her?
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Dislikes:
~ Abuse
~ Being told she cannot do things, and I mean the bigger things, not when she is told she can't have the last peice of cake
~ Seafood - just, no.
~ Eating birds - that is, of any kind. Chicken, goose, duck, turkey, etc...
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History:
Adelaide was born as a "bastard child" to the daughter of Shayera Thal [Hawkwoman] and a mortal Englishman named Nathan James. Of course, Shayera's daughter was married to her still current husband when Adelaide was conceived, but after being manipulated through her mind and going a-wall [she left for Earth], the woman took it upon herself to have a fling; an affair. Next thing she knew she had to find that man again, and tell him what they had done. Lucky for Adelaide the man was respectable, and her mother was unable to take Adelaide back with her, Adelaide's mother was forced to leave her child with the man she thought she "loved", for a week. He took it upon himself to raise her. However, as time went on, the man grew bitter. As a young girl Adelaide beleived her mother to be dead, and lived peacefully with her father, and occasionaly her extremely superficial grandmother. She attended a balet school not far from her home and quickly became the definition of a two-face. The good kind of course. By day she was a roaring tom-boy, obsessed with machines and staff's, and by night she was a delicate ballerina, who's intent was to just, dance. Her impressive skill as a dancer was somewhat short lived however. One day whilst at a practice, her friends noticed that her soulder blades were oddly more defined then they has ever seen them. It was highly noticeable and soon enough the teachers were questioning her, beleiving she had become skinnier, and doubting her father's care. The day after she returned for another lesson, and her father joined her. She had told him what the teachers thought, so he decided he would investigate their accusatons himself, even if he knew what he dreaded was happening to her. The lesson started off normal, no real questions being raised by Adelaide's friends. An hour in her back started to ache, and small screams filled the classroom from behind Ade. Abnormal movement came from beneath her skin. Nathan had her out of the studio in record time.
By the time the father and daughter returned home Adelaide was in terrible pain and rushing into the house. Before she knew what was happenning she was sprawled out in their large backyard, arms holding her up from being flush against the ground. Her skin broke and soon enough two full wings spilled from her back, growing at an alarming rate and leaving a mucus mixed with blood all over the grass and her uniform. Long story short, she got her wings that day, and her life was never the same again.
if you ever find her dancing, it is best to leave her in her own world. She is dancing to relieve her pain.
Powers:
Wings: Adelaide possesses the superhuman ability to fly by means of her natural wings, which span 16 feet from wingtip to wingtip. Fully feathered like a bird's, and eagle to be exact, the wings have a very flexible skeletal structure, enabling her to press them to the back of her torso and legs with only the slightest bulge visible under her usual coat/clothing. She flies by flapping his wings, as a bird does. She can reach a top speed of Mach 1, so far.
Aerial Adaptation: Almost all of Adelaide's entire anatomy has naturally adapted to flying. Her bones are hollow like a birds, making her weigh far less than usual for a woman of her strong build. Her body is virtually devoid of fat and possesses greater proportionate muscle mass than an ordinary human does. However [weakness] her eyes are not adapted to withstand high-speed winds which would hurt the average human eye, so she has to wear goggles, the same ones she wears about the tower and during her machinery hours. Also, were she fully adapated she would possess a special membrane in her respiratory system to enable her to extract oxygen from the air at high velocities or altitudes. This is why she uses her breather/mask. Her mother did hope she would develop this ability as time went on, but she has grown far less confident.
Peak Human Strength: Due to her body's natural mutation, Adelaide possesses greater physical strength than an ordinary human equal to her in body weight and can lift about 500 lbs, this helps alot with lifting heavy machinery and the works.
Weapons:
~ Just like her mother, Adelaide has two Nth metal weapons, created specially for her. As a gift and "reward" for making onto the team, her mother had these made for her. She gifts them to her when she drops her off at Mnt. Justice. And boy is she in love with them. After she recieves them she is often seen cleaning them and maintaining their tip top Nth shape. Unlike her mother's they possess no special abilities. She simpy uses her skills.
~ She utilises her basic hand to hand training among her use of staves, aswell as her wings. She uses her wings to push, shove, sweep enemies off their feet, etc.
Other:
~ She really loves Potato. Especially the seasoned oily, baked yummy, delicious, holy crap, ones.
~ She has always wanted a bird of her own. And not an eagle or a hawk like you would expect. She has always wanted a beautiful tropical bird, a parrot or the sorts.
~ Adelaide can speak Spanish quite fluently. Her grandmother arranged lessons from only the best.
~ When her feather's fall off/if a feather is about to fall off, it will turn shades into a raven black
~ When she goes to bed and after she has a shower she always put's her hair into two perfect braids either side her head. That way it is wavy/curly when she takes them out.
Theme:
Hey do you want to start out with me? I was gonna have neria enter the planet and I was wondering if you'd like to find her ^-^
I'm all for it. 
" *proceeds to most likely fuck your life up*
