State Dossier: Avril Dardenne

Portrait of Avril

Basic Information

Birthday: 17 Pink ◯ XX34

Height: 165 cm

Eye Colour: Brown

Profession: Gardener

Department: Ministry of Culture and Tourism

STATUS: HONOURED CITIZEN

Associated Playlist

Trope Index

  1. Born in a Burial Shroud: carries the immense weight of her family’s legacy and political expectations from birth.
  2. Gilded Cage: her privilege is a prison of duty, surveillance, and performance.
  3. Reluctant Heir to a Bloody Throne: grapples with her mother’s atrocities while tempted by their power.
  4. Trauma as a Tactical Advantage: pain and imprisonment harden into tools for survival, not healing.
  5. The Aesthetics of Authority: finds identity in the symbols of power, even as she rebels.
  6. Agnostic Rationalist (Under Duress): clings to logic as a lifeline against chaos and the irrational.
  7. Body as a Battlefield: surgery, injury, and scars reflect the war within her own form.
  8. The Unreliable Narrator of Her Own Life: her truths are skewed by trauma, propaganda, and denial.
  9. The Disappointing Prodigy: raised as a successor but painfully aware of her lack of talent.
  10. Privileged Guilt & Obliviousness: uncomfortably aware of her distance from the people she claims to represent.
  11. Duty-Bound Romantic: love is filtered through goals, approval, and politics first.
  12. The Idealist Cynic: wants to believe in revolution but sees too much of its flaws to commit blindly.
  13. Trauma-Response Perfectionism: obsession with control as an outlet for pressure.
  14. Daughter of the Revolution / Its Sharpest Thorn: both a product of and a threat to the system that made her.

Identification

Full Name: Avril Dardenne

Citizenship Status: Honoured Citizen (nominal score 10/10; sustained through parental influence, now eroding)

Affiliation: Ministry of Culture & Tourism (gardening assignment, largely symbolic); Youth State Defence — former high-ranking member (inactive)

Date of Birth: 17 Pink Moon X34

Place of Birth: Nyctosia

Current Residence: Lumeni, World’s End (cohabits with Irina Kareylina — an unsuitable attachment)

Physical

Height: 165 cm (average, presents as smaller in person)

Eyes: Brown

Hair: Long sandy-blonde; often styled in braids or ponytails

Dominant Hand: Right

Notable Marks: Porcelain jaw prosthesis with silver indentations and integrated dentition; porcelain right hand/forearm (bio-integrated). Additional traces include calf graft scarring from an earlier firearm accident, a crescent scar at the ankle, and some residual stiffness in the forearm following fracture.

Psychological Notes

Core Driver: Persistent, pathological need for maternal approval.

Self-Perception: Considers herself a coward and fraud; incapable of original thought, preferring imitation or parody of others.

Coping: Suppresses affect; obsesses over menial tasks as substitutes for conviction; seeks validation from authority figures; reckless substance use and confrontations when cornered.

Conflict: Sentimental attachment to nature opposed by conditioning toward obedience and punitive action. A desire for domestic stability with Kareylina is at odds with her compulsion to prove worth through spectacle.

Profile (Current): Resilient when directed, but volatile. Exhibits hypervigilance, nightmares, and emotional numbness consistent with post-trauma syndrome. Impulsive and unstable, with an addictive temperament.

Strengths: Stubborn persistence and capacity for focus under supervision. Relentless when given clear instruction.

Weaknesses: Collapses under criticism; poor emotional regulation; reckless when shamed; substance misuse history.

Relationships

Betrice Dardenne (Mother): Central fixation. Approval sought constantly, returned with criticism and eventual disownment. Her mother’s influence defines every action.

Mathieu Lebret (Father): Warm, affectionate figure but irrelevant to shaping her direction.

Irina Kareylina (Partner): Volatile attachment. Provides her with stability she cannot provide herself; emotional dependency is absolute.

Jowan Liscoumb (Mentor): Held in awe, fear, and devotion. She interprets guidance as intimacy; attachment remains, despite withdrawal of attention.

Drago Deban: Brief source of validation; romantic tension ended with his death, leaving her more isolated.

David Kriens: Deep mutual antipathy. Their conflicts shaped several operational failures.

Olivia Berna: Transactional relationship. Despite suspicion, she relies on Berna’s interventions.

Basile (Cat): Only uncomplicated bond; sentimental attachment verges on the excessive.

Notes & Addenda

Firearms: Basic training from father; inconsistent under pressure. Formerly fixated on custom pistol “Hero” (destroyed); currently issued standard sidearm.

Language: Native Ordean; reverts to Leronien under stress.

Asset Assessment: Once promising by pedigree, now compromised by volatility and instability. Resents authority but craves it in equal measure.

Operational Status: Duties suspended; no longer shielded by parental standing. Increasingly a liability rather than an asset.

Risk: High risk of defection, dissidence, or self-destruction. Relationship with Kareylina is the critical variable in determining outcome.

Recommendation: Close surveillance. Detainment remains an appropriate contingency should behaviour diverge further from State interest.

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