Madeline Chevalier

Madeline Chevalier

OOC
Member name: Pastel
How you found us: Ad jumping
Other characters: Clara Elric, Reid Llwellyn, Wendy Griffin.
Roleplay experience: Several years.
Activity level: High
Code word: Verified by Bee.



Basics
Full name: Madeline Renee Chevalier
Gender: Female
Age: Eighteen
Divine Parent: Poseidon
Powers: Hydrokinesis, Communication, Geokinesis.
Playby: Lyndsy Fonseca

Personality
General personality:

Unlike most children of Poseidon, who tend to be turbulent like river rapids, Madeline's personality follows a very different doctrine: "Still water runs deep". For being a daughter of one of the Big Three, Madeline is very unassuming. She doesn't stand out in a crowd, instead prefers to work behind the scenes like a benevolent puppet master. She very rarely speaks but is very well versed body language. Her actions usually speak louder than her words but the rare times Madeline does speak it is a good idea to listen to what she has to say. Madeline was born with a mental disorder called "Chromesthesia" which means she sees sounds as colours, more specifically she can see a person's voice. When she was very young, Madeline was subjected to horrible therapies that made her very adverse to speaking and supposedly 'cured' her of her. Instead, Maddy developed a severe aversion to the colour of her own voice and never tells anyone about her illness. As much as she is still ashamed by her Chromesthesia, Maddy really adores the variety of colours and patterns she can see in a person's voice. Her first impressions of person are usually based on the colour of their voice.

While Madeline's upbringing lacked a lot of normal childhood experiences, she certainly learned much from her mother. Ophelia Chevalier was a borderline sociopathic woman who pigeon-holed Madeline into being a perfect, little lady who was seen, not heard. As a result of this, Maddy is a cultured woman. Raised in Quebec, Canada she has a strong French upbringing and can easily blend into a city metropolis or a small, country town. She is composed at all times and gives off a holier-than-thou aura with the way she walks with her head held high and French accent to anyone who bothers to pay attention. Even the way Madeline normally speaks shows her rich background and she sometimes purposefully dumbs down her vocabulary to blend in better. When Maddy came back from her time at the 'special hospital' her sentences were choppy and awkward but her mother quickly straightened out that problem. Now she speaks likes she is constantly spouting poetry rather than normal conversation. Madeline's educated background has made her a fairly sophisticated thinker. She has an ability to think out a complex issue with a depth that is difficult to achieve as a person with ADHD and dyslexia. Madeline's overall urbane image makes her a clearly refined woman with an upper class background.

Madeline is a very self-reliant person and isn't very used to playing with a team of people. Even after eight years of living with other demigods, she would prefer to do things at her own pace. This also relates to Maddy's perfectionist nature. She is a very tidy person with a 'everything has its place and everything must be in its place' attitude. Its a coping mechanism to help her deal with her dyslexia and ADHD. In order for Madeline to keep good grades in school, she developed a very specific system of writing notes and reading textbooks to over come her dyslexia and ADHD. Maddy has always been a very studious and hard working student. She enjoys learning new things, but hates learning things for a letter grade.


Likes: Long baths, puzzle games, sword fighting, technology, talking to horses, people watching, photography.
Dislikes: Being unclean, being in the limelight, lizards, eels.
Goals: To be able to speak freely about her weaknesses without judgement.
Fears: Being electrocuted; breaking her promises; hospitals.

History
Claimed?: Yes
Camp experience: Eight years
Mortal parent: Ophelia Chevalier
Other relatives: Derek Lacroix (step-father); Damian Lacroix (step-brother); Theodore Lacroix (step-brother); Matthias Lacroix (step-brother).
History:
The Chevalier family settled several kilometers on river from Quebec City hundreds of years ago. They were direct descendants from France and were boasted their wealth by building an ancestral home near the banks of the St. Laurent river. The Chevalier family owned the docks all along the stretch of the river, from Quebec city to Montreal. The people jokingly call them the "Rulers of the River". Ophelia Chevalier was the renown princess of the family. She was the youngest of three children and grew up the free-spirited, attractive bachloress of the city. Her favourite past time was managing the docks along the river, and was most commonly seen on top of her boat, sailing along the river all day. It was Ophelia's love of the river that caught Poseidon's attention initially. He watched Ophelia from afar with some curiosity until one night her boat hit some rocks and capsized. Poseidon rescued Ophelia and brought her back to the shore. Poseidon easily seduced the young girl and she invited him back to her house.

Ophelia gave birth to Madeline Renee Chevalier in the last few days of winter in the city. The first three years of Maddy’s life were relatively normal. Ophelia went on to marry a man and have several boys with him. She tried to pass of Maddy as her husband’s child, but everyone was always very skeptical of that fact. When Madeline was three, it became obvious to her family that she was not like most children. Ophelia took her daughter to the family doctor and she was diagnosed the girl with dyslexia, ADHD and a mental disorder called Chromesthesia. It is a form of Synthesia that mixes sound with colour. In Maddy, it manifested as her being able to see the colour of a person’s voice most commonly and she frequently associated a person by the colour of their voice. Ophelia took her daughter to a ‘special doctor’ as she explained it to her daughter to help cure her of her condition. She dropped Maddy off at the ‘special hospital’ before promptly leaving without so much as a second glance back at her daughter. Madeline was kept in a sparse, white room and was ordered by the doctors that she was under no condition allowed to talk or make sound. Even the doctors wouldn’t talk to her, they took to writing everything down for her to read. At first Maddy defied their orders out of confusion more than rebellion but several sessions with the doctors and some electro-shock therapy changed her mind. Every time she made so much as peep or someone made a sound around her, the doctors would punish her. They kept asking her ‘Do you still see the colours?’ and every time Maddy said ‘Yes’ they would continue on with their punishments. Madeline eventually figured out that the doctors were not trying to cure her. Instead they were forcing her to deny the existence of the colours altogether. She fought against the treatment from her doctors for a long time but eventually, the lack of sound (and thusly colours) and the punishments worse her down until Madeline was nothing but the shell of the colourful little girl she used to be. The doctors returned her to her family with a prescription for birth control pills that they claimed would help her control her condition but in reality just made her nauseous and dizzy. Ophelia was all icy smiles and faux-joy that her daughter was returned to her ‘cured’.

But Ophelia could not be more wrong. Madeline’s time in the hospital severely stunted her. She learned to hate the sound/colour of her own voice to the point where she stopped talking unless completely necessary. She would go entire weeks without so much as uttering a word. She became a ghost in her own home and created her own self-imposed isolation barred her from the world outside. Previously, Madeline spent every day down by the river but now water felt like a cold reminder of what she should have been cured of. Instead, Madeline stayed inside her home and took to learning the piano, ballroom dancing, sewing and other mother-approved hobbies. When she finally began school, her problems just began to worsen. Being dyslexic and having ADHD made her school life horrible. The teachers were never very patient with her disorders and claimed it to be ‘laziness’. Ophelia began to contemplate bringing Madeline back to the hospital before she threw herself into her school work. Madeline was terrified of going back to the hospital so she struggled for hours with her school work every night and usually drove herself into crying herself to sleep with the pure frustration. Eventually Maddy found a way to work through her dyslexia and ADHD to help her with her school work. The only thing that seemed to give her any peace of mind was a nice warm bath with plenty of bubbles. Her only escape from her hellish life was photography. Madelineblack roomr own blackroom in one of the spare bedrooms and loved going out into Quebec city with her camera. She spend hours wandering the streets, just watching people move about with their lives.

Things didn’t get much better for Madeline until she finally ended up in Camp Half Blood. After an unfortunate run in with a flock of Stymphilian Birds, she managed to stumble her way down south to Camp Half Blood. It didn’t take very long for Poseidon to claim her either. Being a daughter of one of the Big Three, speaking French as a first language, having Dyslexia, ADHD and Chromestheisa, and Maddy’s unwillingness to talk made fitting in to Camp Half Blood very difficult for her. But it was still a much more positive experience than what she had at home. The other demigods at camp shared their stories with Madeline and she eventually found a way to fit in with them.