Claiming:Camp/Adelaide de Bourbon

Character Name:

Adelaide de Bourbon

Godly Parent:

Apate

Mortal Parent:

King Henry II of France (1519 – 1559)

Species:

Demigoddess

Sex / Gender:

Female / Female

Sexuality:

Bisexual

Current Age:

479 (actual)

25 (physical)

Appearance:

Her FC is Elizabeth 'Liz' Gillies.

Personality: A bit distant, Adelaide keeps herself at arms length from most people, unwilling to let people get particularly close to her. Adelaide, despite her frosty exterior, dearly loves her friends. She is fiercely loyal and devout to her beliefs, and especially to her patron goddesses; Eris and Apate. Adelaide also tries to retain a regal air, keeping her short temper on a long leash.

History: The King Henry II of France was bored. Many could tell. He did not love his wife, Catherine de Medici. He could not be with his love, Diane de Poitiers. As Diane insisted he lay with Catherine to produce heirs to the throne, Apate laughed. Amused at what Aphrodite had done to the king, and to please Eris, Apate descended from Olympus, donning the guise of Catherine. If she stirred a child with the king, and left it there, it would be absolutely scandalous, and sure to incite some discord.

And so, Apate, wearing Catherine's face, seduced and enthralled the king into their bed, laying with him. Months later, weary after another argument with Catherine, Henry II found a babe upon his headpillow. Confused, he lifted the baby up, noticing a note near the pillow. As he read the exquisite french calligraphy, his eyebrows rose further and further. A Deity? He slept with a goddess? Was this some kind of joke? It would explain why Catherine did not seem to swell with child.

Eyes widening, and skin paling, he realized the child was a bastard. Catherine would not accept it, nor would Diane. He had to act, and quickly. Unable to kill his child, Henry gave the child to the lady Antoinette de Bourbon, a powerful Duchess of Guise. Antoinette, realizing the power she would gain, eagerly accepted the child, naming her Adelaide. It was not known how she convinced Claude, her husband, to accept the child, but he did.

It was not a loveless childhood. Adelaide was a jewel of the court, always helpful, always trustworthy. One of her life-long friends would be the Mary, future Queen of Scots, the maternal granddaughter of Adelaide's adoptive mother. Adelaide was not particularly liked by her closest brother, Rene, for he felt she stole the affection he rightfully deserved from his parents. Doted upon, Adelaide was tutored in politics, the fine and performing arts, astronomy, agriculture and practically every other skill needed of a young lady.

She was in particular doted upon by her grandparents, Marie of Luxembourg, the Countess of Vendôme. In fact, so much so, that Marie wrote within her will that Adelaide was decreed to be her immediate successor as 'countess' upon Marie's death. Adelaide, the picturesque little lady, gracefully accepted the further lessons she was required to learn. She would later become heavily embroiled within the French Court, coming into opposition against Diane de Poitiers, and supporting Catherine de Medici.

At the age of 11, Adelaide found herself confronted by a large hound with eyes of crimson, and fur of night. Horrified, she was helpless as the creature stalked towards her. It was only due to Antoinette's clever thinking, impaling the hound upon a glittering, bronze sword, that Adelaide survived. Relieved, Adelaide asked how she knew she was in trouble. Antoinette thought of the letter the King had given her so long ago, and replied with "A Motherly Intuition."

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