Hypnosis Doesn't Work Like That!/Adelaide Spenser

The main character in Hypnosis Doesn't Work Like That!.

Adi is egotistical, and sure she's smarter than everyone else.

She has a few triggers, instilled by different hypnosis files:

• "Adelaide" - makes her act out all her baby behaviours (chapter 1)
• "If I was a baby I would ________." - Self-trigger only. Creates a new baby behaviour (chapter 1)
• "What baby behaviours do you follow?" - Makes her list all the behaviours she's following. (chapter 34)

Education

• Seems to be aiming to study some kind of media course (chapter 66-68).
  • Wants to do a proper academic study on the evolving role of literary reviews over the years
    • That's how she started the hypnosis thing
• Is pretty good at maths
• Not so good at literature, because she tends to reach too far for abstract interpretations of a work, and miss the surface layers
  • Learned a little from Toni, even if she won't admit it
• Might have had a different course mentioned earlier; if I find that I need to correct it

Relations

• Best friend: Britney
• Friend / admirer: Toni
• Mother: Nyxoriña Spenser
• Father: Aiden Boone
• Little brother: Garfield
• Nemesis: Belle Carter

Family background

Adelaide was conceived before her parents really had a stable relationship. It was a kind of on-again/off-again thing, which means that they were only about 90% sure that Aiden was really her father. This never mattered when she was young, because he did his best to be a good father and never raised the question. But her dad was married to his job, and always seemed a little detached from his family. Eventually he left, choosing his job over his family. He invites both Adi and Garfield on holidays two or three times per year, but they always seem to go to places that don't interest Adi, and he's never willing to schedule around other people. He'll take a week away when it's convenient for his work, and expect the kids to skip a week of school or whatever to be with him. Adi decided when she was thirteen that she cares about her education enough to start turning him down.