Post by adrini on Jul 7, 2014 22:38:34 GMT -5
Adrien Rivers
Vice President of Queen Industries
Former relationship with Jansen, Mother of Shado.
Best Friend and Sister of Moira Queen
Adrien Rivers was the youngest daughter and child of Betty an George Rivers. The family, always poor, lived in one of the less well off parts of haven. George was a city worker and her mother was a high school dropout who took up homemaking after having Adrien's oldest brother Kevin at age 15, he was followed by five additional siblings.
Adrien was often ignored in the house and at the young age of 11 took the offered membership in the ranks of the court of Owls. She brought in money to her family doing odd jobs, like her siblings. Excelling at pick pocketing and and stealth she quickly gained notice and began training by higher members. This allowed her enough income to move out of her family home, which had long since become unbearable, and move into a middle class apartment in the good part of town.
At 15 she became part of an infiltration team where she met the mysterious Jansen. The two became a very effective team, easily filling the top roster for information theft. The same year, as she had to attend school as part of her cover, she met 14 year old Moira Cafferty. The two clicked almost instantly. Meeting Moira's middle class family was the first stable and supportive influence in her life and Moira's parents quickly took the teen in as a second daughter.
Still owing a loyalty to the Owls Adrien took higher and harder jobs as time went on. Over the course of the next few years she grew close to the partner she worked with everyday and the two became involved. She finally broke and told her best friend of her double life after Moira found her parkor gear during a sleep over. Moira kept her secret, but wasn't happy with what her friend was forced to do.
At the age of 17 Adrien found herself pregnant, but did have to admit she was better off then her mother had been. Jansen was an attentive partner, the owls gave her a break for the duration, and the Cafferty's more then filled whatever void might have been left. Rebecca, who would later be known as Shado, was born and the small apartment became a home to the young family, it always seemed to be filled with visitors.
Adrien became disillusioned with life in the owls, wanting something better for her daughter then she or her mother had achieved. She graduated from high school, a first for women in her family, and at her graduation party she was given a card telling her that Jansen and the Cafferty's had built a college fund for her. She would start in the fall.
It was just after her graduation from college that Moira bumped into the rich and very hansom Robert Queen. Noticing immediately that the two going to work out she resigned herself to life in the haven and wished her friend well. When Moira decided she would only move to Star City with her fiance if her best friend came with her Adrien had to make a choice. The Owls were already training her daughter and wouldn't part with her, if she left she left alone. It was painful, but she had to get out.
Settling in Star City, where Robert took her on as his assistant, she quickly became part of the new family as first Oliver and later Thea were born. She missed her own child, but the two Queen children clung to her as "aunti Adie" and she never lacked for affection.
Vice President of Queen Industries
Former relationship with Jansen, Mother of Shado.
Best Friend and Sister of Moira Queen
Adrien Rivers was the youngest daughter and child of Betty an George Rivers. The family, always poor, lived in one of the less well off parts of haven. George was a city worker and her mother was a high school dropout who took up homemaking after having Adrien's oldest brother Kevin at age 15, he was followed by five additional siblings.
Adrien was often ignored in the house and at the young age of 11 took the offered membership in the ranks of the court of Owls. She brought in money to her family doing odd jobs, like her siblings. Excelling at pick pocketing and and stealth she quickly gained notice and began training by higher members. This allowed her enough income to move out of her family home, which had long since become unbearable, and move into a middle class apartment in the good part of town.
At 15 she became part of an infiltration team where she met the mysterious Jansen. The two became a very effective team, easily filling the top roster for information theft. The same year, as she had to attend school as part of her cover, she met 14 year old Moira Cafferty. The two clicked almost instantly. Meeting Moira's middle class family was the first stable and supportive influence in her life and Moira's parents quickly took the teen in as a second daughter.
Still owing a loyalty to the Owls Adrien took higher and harder jobs as time went on. Over the course of the next few years she grew close to the partner she worked with everyday and the two became involved. She finally broke and told her best friend of her double life after Moira found her parkor gear during a sleep over. Moira kept her secret, but wasn't happy with what her friend was forced to do.
At the age of 17 Adrien found herself pregnant, but did have to admit she was better off then her mother had been. Jansen was an attentive partner, the owls gave her a break for the duration, and the Cafferty's more then filled whatever void might have been left. Rebecca, who would later be known as Shado, was born and the small apartment became a home to the young family, it always seemed to be filled with visitors.
Adrien became disillusioned with life in the owls, wanting something better for her daughter then she or her mother had achieved. She graduated from high school, a first for women in her family, and at her graduation party she was given a card telling her that Jansen and the Cafferty's had built a college fund for her. She would start in the fall.
It was just after her graduation from college that Moira bumped into the rich and very hansom Robert Queen. Noticing immediately that the two going to work out she resigned herself to life in the haven and wished her friend well. When Moira decided she would only move to Star City with her fiance if her best friend came with her Adrien had to make a choice. The Owls were already training her daughter and wouldn't part with her, if she left she left alone. It was painful, but she had to get out.
Settling in Star City, where Robert took her on as his assistant, she quickly became part of the new family as first Oliver and later Thea were born. She missed her own child, but the two Queen children clung to her as "aunti Adie" and she never lacked for affection.