Adeline Light

Adeline Light (or Addy, as her friends call her) is the daughter of the princess from “The Light Princess”. Cursed to not have gravity, Addy is eternally optimistic and has her head in the clouds. A loyal person, she feels obliged to follow through with her story and regain her gravity so as to relieve the burden her curse brings to people around her. Hence, in the Destiny conflict, she is a royal.

Personality
“Is it a bird? Is it a fay? No, it’s Addy Light here to make your day! Even though she is cursed to not have gravity, Addy is never down in the dumps. While this cheerful princess can be flighty and does not always have her feet on the ground, she is definitely the light of the party. Just make sure her attention doesn’t drift away!”

Sociable and cheerful, Addy is a people-people through and through. She is friendly to everyone, and doesn’t care about things that detract from her rosy world view (such as the rumour that rebelling will cause people to go poof). Hence, she is not prejudiced against rebels, and reaches out to them as well.

Motivated by the bonds she forms with people she interacts with and meets, Addy tries her best to make people around her happy. While this may usually be a positive character trait, it can also be a flaw as she cannot fully comprehend the weight of negative events that occur. She thinks that people should always be as happy as her, yet does not recognise that this may not be what they want or need. As a result, she can also be viewed as pushy and inconsiderate.

Though this may be unexpected to acquaintances or even friends, Addy is actually a pretty sad person. When she gains her gravity in water and becomes more serious, she tends to identify her weaknesses and think back on mistakes she missed out in the day. This can also cause her to view herself overly critically when she is in the water, and forget the reasons for her flaws out of it, leading to a perpetual feeling of always being lacking when on dry land. She views her story as a way to finally improve herself, and maybe even feel complete.

Hobbies
As the next Light Princess, it is a given that Addy would be fond of swimming. When she swims, she regains her lost gravity and feels complete. Though people have asked her to join the school’s swimming club, Addy refuses to do so, claiming that there is too much commitment.

Addy is also part of the Royal Student Council, and enjoys the creative process of planning an event. However, she can be fickle and tends to blow off the responsibility of executing the event. Oftentimes, the onus falls on her cousin, Ting An, to carry out her duties or to force her into the water to regain her seriousness.

Appearance
Addy is a pretty short girl around the same height as the Wonderlandians. She is quite also tanned and somewhat muscular due to her regular swimming activities.

When dry, Addy’s hair is blonde, but when she is in the water, it darkens to a reddish brown colour. Though she likes the aesthetic of braids, she doesn’t bother to do them because she can’t be bothered to be still for a long enough time to braid her own hair.

How the Story Goes
A king and queen had a daughter after many years, and the king forgot to invite his sister, Princess Makemnoit to the christening. Unfortunately, Princess Makemnoit is a spiteful and clever woman, and after arriving without an invitation, causes the princess to have no gravity.

“Light of spirit, by my charms, Light of body, every part, Never weary human arms— Only crush thy parents’ heart!”

As the princess grows up, she never cries and is unable to see the seriousness of situations. The court philosophers are unable to propose any solution which the king and queen would adopt.

Soon, it was learned that the princess regains her gravity in water, which led to the proposal that the curse would be broken if the princess cried. In the meantime, a prince came across the princess swimming and thinking that she in drowning, tried to rescue her. The princess scolded him for doing so, and the prince falls in love with her. The prince and princess go swimming constantly.

When Princess Makemnoit learns that the princess loves the lake, she sets to drain it, as well as all water in nature. As the lake drains, the princess becomes sickly and despondent. It is later discovered that in order to stop the lake from drying up, a living man has to block the hole the water is escaping from.

The prince volunteers on the condition that the princess accompanies him while the lake fills up. While initially unfeeling, the princess eventually desperately saved the prince after he almost drowns. She brings him to her old nurse, who is a wise woman. When the prince finally awakens the next day, the princess falls to the floor and cries. The curse was broken and it rained, filling the kingdom once more with water. Princess Makemnoit died when lake water flooded the cave she lived in.

How does Addy come into it?
Addy was the first born of the king and queen after many years of attempts, and likewise was cursed to lose her gravity. Unfortunately, the queen did not have any siblings and Addy’s aunt had passed away years before she was born, so her parents had to consult Headmaster Grimm and the philosophers for her curse.

Addy’s views on her story
Addy is a royal, as she wants to become more grounded and anticipates the character growth she gets at the end of the story.

While she is not looking forward to some parts of the story (namely the loss of her lake and the possible death of her cousin), she is still willing to go through the story to gain her gravity as she feels bad for people around her that suffer due to her flippant nature. She assumes that her cousin will survive the lake flooding, and won’t be in distress throughout the story.

What Addy doesn’t know is that the events do no have to play out exactly as her story suggests for her to gain gravity. The requirement to break the curse is for her to cry, of which there are myriad devastating methods for that to occur.

Family
Addy’s parents are endlessly patient and put up with her whims and whimsy, and one can even argue that they spoil her. The reason why she is able to care for others is because of her cousin, who remembers to keep her in check.

Her view on her destiny is partially influenced by her parents, as they believe that going through the story was the only way her mother could become more sensible.

Since her aunt died in a freak accident before she was born, Addy’s parents had to consult Headmaster Grimm and the court philosophers. Following the advice given, they adopted a child to fill in the role of Princess Makemnoit. The child grew up to be her cousin, Ting An, and as they grew up together, they were almost like sisters. Addy adores her cousin and feels bad for constantly relying on her help.

Addy has a lot of younger siblings, but since they are much younger and she is usually as mature than them, their relationship isn’t very sibling-like. Of course, they still have fun and play games, but Addy feels a lot more comfortable with her cousin.

Friends
Addy is a pretty sociable person and befriends people from both the Royal and Rebel sides. While she can be irresponsible and earn the ire of her group mates, she makes it up with her creativity and ideas.

Even though Addy makes friends easily, they find it difficult to get to know her better, as she doesn’t open up and share her troubles (if she even realises that she is bothered). The only one who knows her hidden sides, including those she is not aware of, is her cousin.

Pet
What better animal suits a princess with no gravity than a flying horse? Ms Peggy rescues Addy when she is too high for others to retrieve, and loves to play fetch with Addy, except Addy is the ball and the game is done in the sky.

Romance
While Addy is infatuated really easily, she loses interest in the person almost as quickly. She prefers to pay attention to her friends and family instead. Presently, she doesn’t know who her prince will be, so she doesn’t really care about what happens to him or what he’s doing.

Outfits
Due to her lack of gravity, Addy needs to have multiple long ribbons on her person, which she throws to people to reel her in when she floats off. She likes light fabrics like chiffon and always wear shorts under her dresses to prevent unfortunate accidents if she floats off. She also has a fondness for heavy shoes made of solid bronze or gold, which can anchor her to the ground.

Trivia
🎈Addy Light = A delight, which Addy is, to people around her.

🎈Line can also be read as Lynn, which means “lake”, a nod to her story.

🎈Addy really loves musicals, especially Wicked

🎈Addy’s personality type is ESFP.

Quotes
"What is my favourite type of tea? Gravi-tea"

- Addy ordering at Wonderland Haberdashery & Tea Shoppe