History InformationHistory: Before 650:Born in Germany into a German Japanese family, her mother's name was Eva Balfour where as her father was Yuuto Watanabi. Eva was a stay at home mom and spent many afternoon's next door with the Hayner's; both families were quite close. Where as the father was a busy man, he worked in some company that never seemed important enough for Addie to remember. She was young back then. During those days she'd spend all her time wandering and exploring the area in and around their little rural town, which is where her love of wandering came from. But when not in school, or wandering, say on a rainy day! Admir Hayner [the next door neighbour's son] who was usually always around Addie, so it was no change from their wanderings, but they'd spend the day in the Balfour's kitchen. You see, Eva Balfour was an amazing cook and her baking skills seemed to be unmatched by anyone! Well, as a child, your mother's food and baking is always best, right? Things were good! Why wouldn't they be? School, fun, friends, good food, happy times for all!
Though all good things eventually have to end, though it all began with simple arguments that seemed to span over a few months. It started with the company her father worked at being closed down, and continued slowly as Mr. Balfour fell down in the dumps he slowly grew an addiction to alcohol. With his new dependence on alcohol the arguments slowly began to increase until they happened every night. The talk of divorce soon became more frequent, causing the young Addie to fear being parted from her best friend. She had been hearing more and more about the divorce, and soon the day of the finalization was there. It was the day before her Birthday when things were finalized, it was decided that she'd be going with Watanabi. At the time Addie didn't know that that meant leaving Germany, Admir, and her mother, but it still troubled her a great deal. The girl was in the Hayner residence watching a movie with Admir while waiting for lunch when she got the news, the news of who won the war of custody. It was her father, Mrs. Hayner kind of expected as much since Eva didn't really have a job. It was probably a really hard thing to explain to an eleven year old, to tell the girl that she'd be leaving everyone important behind; and that she had no say in the matter. But worst yet, she was leaving on her birthday to go to Japan, why? Because her father's job would begin two days later, it seemed he really pushed that. Ruining a little girl's life, taking her away from her mother, best friend, and the beauty of the little rural town. For what? Watanabi got a high paying job from an old university friend, which just kind of sealed the deal with the child custody; the one with the money gets the kid.
She spent a majority of the night packing, crying and pleading with her family; she didn't want to leave. To the discontent of Mr. Watanabi, they would have to leave a little later, which really annoyed him. But, the last thing he wanted is a crying little brat for the entire plane trip to Japan; that would be horrible. They waited until noonish before getting ready to head out, Addie was miserable. Why? Well, her mum was staying in Germany, but to an optomistic twelve year old, she told her mother she'd visit. Which was never going to happen. The girl was reallly sad about leaving her and Admir, especially since she hadn't seen him at all that day. Just as they were about to get in the taxi and head out to the airport; he made his grand enterance. He and his mother were running towards them, across the front yard, they had something in had, what was it? It was a preasant, a going away/Birthday presant. It was a photoalbum with all the happy memories of their little town and of course family and friends, a letter.. Which was just a piece of paper that said: You better not forget me! and a gold bracelet, with a verse about stop friendships engraved across the surface, and their names engraved on the band. Sadly, years have cause the worse to fade, all that remains are their names on the band.
Addie's mother's Surname was Balfour, which was the name that she kept. She loved her father, but she wanted to hold on to a bit of her mum. Her father's surname was Watanabe. So Yuuto Watanabe was a little hurt by the fact that Addie did not wish to share his last name, even though by court rule it was indeed Watanabe; she'd just never formally introduce herself that way and eventually when she got into school and was able to fill out most of her own paper work, she'd write is as Balfour.
Addie was enrolled in a school by the president of the company that hired her father, though to her discontent it wasn't exactly a warm feeling school. Especially since she didn't really fit in with people because she looked different and because of her social status. Her family wasn't rich, it was a broken family, and Addie's father had obtained the job because he was an old friend of the president. All of those factors lead to Addie being picked on by her classmates. At first she just ignored it, but in the letters Admir suggested standing up for herself. Well, he said that and that he'd go over there and fix things. But of course standing up for herself only seemed to make things worse. Being picked on by people is never fun especially when its all day in school, eventually anyone would lose their temper and fight back.
Addie had grown tired of the people in the school, fighting back verbally never seemed to work and she couldn't figure out why she even bothered. Addie started to change, slowly becoming a little more confident and her patience slowly left her. Soon when someone said something foul to her, she shoved them out of her way or something along those lines. Slowly turning a little more violent as the time progressed. But of course, her 'father' never noticed things, partially because he was always busy working or getting home late. So, Addie had a small apart ment to take care of, it was kind of lonely, but was was not without her comrade. To fill the void of silence, that was once occupied by the chatter of happy friends and family, she turned to music. It slowly took over her life, without it she'd probably become rather violent without restraint. Music was her escape from people, from their words, their harsh actions, and her own thinking. But anyways! Starting to fight back against the people who always seemed to be attacking her to say the least, Addie started to skip classes, she got into trouble for fighting on school grounds; which really didn't make her father happy at all. Sadly, the man never had time to deal with it properly, disciplining the girl didn't work, grounding her didn't work either [she never really left the house, unless to go shopping for food, to go to the sewing store or things like that.. no outings with friends]. The guy was stuck and no one seemed to know why she was beign such a trouble maker, after all no one ever bothered to ask.
When the German-Japanese girl did decide to show for class, it was because her father would drive her or someone else from the company would pick her up. But anyways! When it happened, it was just one of those days, it was hot, the uniform was unbearable, the people were annoying. Addie had been out in the courtyard during the lunch break, listening to her music. Someone was stupid enough to to take her MP3 player, insult her family, comment on her looks, and a few other things. But with the music gone, Addie couldn't hold herself back; she was so very angry. After all, if anyone mentions her family state and various other things that are not worth mentioning, it would make someone mad right? It wasn't the other person's business, now was it? Well of course it drove Addie a little over the edge, which is how she ended up in St. Paragon's Secondary School. The girl that smashed her MP3 player ended up feeling the wrath of an angry Addie, the girl ended up in the hospital nearing death due too being viciously attacked and pressed charges against Addie who had various other complaints and suspensions for fighting on school grounds. Mind you, the past fights never landed anyone in the hospital.
650:Addie didn't really spend a lot of time at 650, she had gotten there only a few short weeks of the attack from the paladin. But of course, nothing really interesting happened, just the same stuff a different hole in the ground. Well, she did manage to meet once nice person.. who she couldn't quite see but knew was there. Also some other person, he was an okay guy; but she hadn't seen him since. Addie had attended St. Paragon's up until the attack, where she had joined those hiding in the AI core room. On the Day of the battle Addie had been sleeping, only to awaken to loud noises, of course she did the first thing she could think of. She hide, rushing to the AI core room, well she had not intended to go to that room, it was just the first and most safe looking. She did not wish to get involved with a battle after all, since she probably wouldn't be able to defend herself well. The battle ended with great amounts of casualties for the both school and the attackers, but she and the other students hiding in the AI room were saved. Once again the girl was faced with the question whether or not to be sent to prison or attend a special school.
Point Hope:It was cold.. But there were people, which meant that she'd have to interact with him; which didn't sound fun at all. But sadly, she didn't get to be a cold jerk; for the most part they seemed okay to her! But sadly, she didn't really talk to them much, well not sadly! Oh well, their loss right? Point hope managed to turn her attendance around, she'd go to class and once in a while talk to people; she still did all her homework. High school, you meet people, are ignored, you are hated, you a liked, you are forgotten about, you love. She did them all, well kind of. But during her stay at Point Hope, she met a very nice young man, admitted to liking him and recieved his feelings in return. Though, it was time for a change, she had to go. A fresh start without an angry mind would be a wonderful thing, plus it would give Addie a change to travel just a little. Something she always wanted to do, but knew to well it wasn't possible. Though, the girl couldn't help but hope she'd run into him again; hopefully she'd not have been forgotten.
But it was time to head to Public High School #259 in California! A place much warmer then Point Hope Alaska.
Though, her time at 259 was much longer, perhaps filled with a little more fun. After all, she was really able to make a connection with the people around her. Able to make friends, to get stronger, and to learn a little more about all she had missed out on. Addie was always a little more energetic, making up for lost time. But she made good connections to people, even if she was older than them. It was all good. She managed to graduate and pick up a little German girl, who is kind of treated like a daughter.
Addie and Torrin traveled to San Diego together and begin their new adventure!!!
