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ASDAValueMilkAge: 19
Appearance (pictures or description, or both): Maddie’s face is lean and slender, with a small cluster of freckles gathered around her slim nose. Her eyes are a yellowy green, and her eyebrows have been finely plucked. She has a sharp chin, broad forehead, and a wiry neck. Maddie has raven hair that has been cut short for practicality. She has a skinny build, with faint curves, and a surprising amount of muscle for someone with such delicate features. Her body is fairly toned, with a hint of softness.
Madeline dresses in a fashion that would be considered tomboyish by most (partially due to personal preference, and partially due to personal preference), often clad in a grey trench coat, similar to the one worn by most of Rapture’s police force.
Personality: Cool, calm, and collected on the surface, Maddie is unhinged, maniacal, and otherwise sick in the head. A volatile young woman with an aptitude for violence, Miss Hollinghurst is an amoral individual, possessing a complete disregard for the rights and feelings of others. Impulsive and aggressive, Madeline has a history of behavioural problems, vicious outbreaks, and sadistic tendencies.
While not perhaps someone most people would wish to be aquatinted with, Madeline’s lust for a fight, coupled with her drive to get things done and combat skills make her a formidable asset to Ryan’s security force.
Backstory: Maddie was born in Liverpool, England, initially being raised by a family that were troubled in both the psychological and financial sense. Madeline’s father was a dockworker who put in multiple shifts, before spending all of the day’s earnings on drugs and booze, and then going home and beating his mother and his baby girl. When he was particularly irate, daddy Hollinghurst would lock young Maddie in her room for days on end, accompanied by several fresh bruises and scars for good measure.
The young girl grew up without friends or siblings, and spent her leisurely time catching rats and birds in traps that she’d set up about the family’s home, before breaking their necks once she’d claimed her bloody prizes.
The start of the Second World War saw Madeline evacuated to Devon, where she was taken in by the eccentric Doctor and Mrs Blackwood. The radical change in lifestyle took some adjusting to, but Madeline quickly became very fond of the pair, liking them a great deal more than her birth parents. The Blackwood’s tutored young Maddie, and she soon fell in love with the vast expanse of books that were available in their homes library, after the Doctor had taught her how to read and write.
Despite finding life more enjoyable, Maddie continued her old hobby of capturing and torturing animals, up until one fateful evening where Doctor Blackwood caught the young girl in the act. Fearful of how he might react, Madeline was rather surprised to the find that her foster father was not so much horrified by what he found as he was fascinated, taking an even greater interest in young Madeline. The Doctor begun to develop a physiological profile of Madeline, based off of both behavioural observations and interview sessions he held with her, diagnosing her with several different personality disorders, as well a plethora of psychopathic tendencies. Rather than try putting her in therapy or giving her medication, Doctor Blackwood instead encouraged her to take her urges out animals, in an attempt to placate the “darkness” inside her, and make her less of a threat to other humans.
Taking a fondness to his adopted daughter, Doctor Blackwood begun to pay for Madeline to be tutored in several extra-curricular activities, buying her lessons in everything from art, literature, and ballet, to fencing, marksmanship, and martial arts. While she really took a shining to the combat based activities, Madeline still immensely enjoyed the less-aggressive classes.
Madeline spent the duration of the war under the Blackwood’s tutelage-growing especially close to the good Doctor, as they bonded over their butchering of woodland animals-and grew to become a rather intellectual and competent young woman, becoming somewhat forwards thinking for someone with such an arsenal of mental defects.
During the course of the war Madeline’s birth farther was conscripted into the army, ending up being killed by friendly fire, while her mother died during the Liverpool Blitz. With no parents to return to, Maddie remained with the Blackwood’s, living out her idealistic lifestyle within Devon.
Unfortunately, even in paradise the sunsets.
One of Doctor Blackwood’s former patients, Edgar Burgan, broke into the Blackwood estate in the dead of night, slipping into their mansion without being detected. Unhinged and completely unstable, Edgar butchered the Doctor and his wife in their sleep, only missing Maddie because she was in the basement fiddling with her rat traps.
With no other immediate family, Madeline was sent to America, to stay with Mrs Blackwood’s brother, a man known simply as Sullivan.
While Maddie did not get along with Sullivan quite as well as she had done with her foster parents, there was a mutual respect between the pair, the man occasionally sharpening the young girl’s combat skills, as well as teaching her a few new tricks of his own.
Unbenounced to Madeline, Sullivan was Andrew Ryan’s personal head of security, and when the Rapture project was put into motion Sullivan was expected to go with Ryan to his shinning city.
Rather than demand that Madeline accompany him, Sullivan offered her the choice to either go with him to Rapture, or be set up with another family and live elsewhere. Having no further attachment to the surface world, Maddie agreed to go with Sullivan, looking at it as a chance for a new life.
Madeline adjusted surprisingly easily to life under the sea, enjoying the feeling of isolation that came with living in Rapture.
One evening, Ryan was hosting a high society dinner for his associates in the Rapture Central Council, and Sullivan attended, taking Madeline with him. When the topic of what lengths Ryan’s security forces should go to was raised, Madeline became extremely vocal about her opinions, proposing several methods on how to keep people in line, much to the dismay of Sullivan. However, Andrew Ryan became rather fascinated with all that Madeline had to say, listening intently and even prompting her to continue as she mouthed off about different ways to make a man forcibly submit.
After the Dinner, Ryan contacted Madeline, informing her that he was building an elite team of “Sharks” to help keep Rapture clear of “parasites”, and offering her a role within his special squadron. Maddie instantly excepted, and soon begun training under the tutelage of one of Ryan’s top enforcers.
Now that talks of uprising have begun to drift about the slums, Madeline has been given the task of keeping tabs on the growing threat of the workers unions, being authorised to respond with extreme prejudice if the situation demands it.
Mad Maddie has been set up with an apartment not too far from the Rapture docks, giving her a keen view of the goings on of the lower classes, and a network of informants to feed relevant Intel back to her.
Any other notes: One of Andrew Ryan’s “Sharks”, Madeline is a formidable opponent, despite her instabilities, possessing great skill for someone so young.
