"In Life's springtime days, Happiness has escaped me. The truth, I dared speak it, and these chains are my reward." -- Beethoven, Fidelio
"Put on the costume, and the face in white powder. The people pay, and laugh when they please." -- Leoncavallo, Pagliacci
COMING SOON
COMING SOON
"You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there." -- Maria Callas
Odile Addington Devereux was born to Cecily Addington, an Addington cousin who spent much of her twenties in the eastern seaboard of the United States, and Jean-Marc Devereux, formerly the French ambassador to the United States. They moved to Paris after his tenure in Washington D.C., where Odile was born several years later. She has two other siblings, an older brother and a younger one.
She was an intelligent child and for most of her life was rather bookish up until she started taking ballet, which boosted her confidence. Much of her childhood was spent hopping back and forth between France and the United States, and spent summers in Gray Harbor. She has always been familiar with the strangeness surrounding her family, and is not unfamiliar with the Dreams that plague the town. She discovered her own abilities when she was seven years of age and maintained a proficient grasp on it for most of her life - due to the geographical distance, however, she is not as adept at her Glimmer-based talents in comparison to her local relatives.
She auditioned successfully for admission in the Paris Ballet Conservatory, for which she performed. She is an avid fan of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, and was thrilled to take up her namesake's role in the Conservatory's production in her final year. It was, and remains, her true passion, but despite her determination to pursue the art, her parents threatened to disinherit her if she didn't push forward with a career in law, medicine, finance or politics, noting that they "indulged her long enough." While sore about it, she dutifully acquiesced and enrolled in the University of Paris for Art History and Business. She later entered the University of Cambridge to study law, obtained her LLB, and was called to the bar of the United Kingdom a few years afterwards, and worked at a few prestigious Square Mile firms in London as an associate before obtaining an LLM in Tax Law.
She moved to New York in her late twenties after accepting an in-house counsel position at Goldman Sachs, and then later at Blackstone Group, a major investment firm, taking advantage of her dual citizenship.
When the news of Margaret Addington's abdication of the reins of the family to her grandchildren, and the death of her brother, Thomas, reached her far-flung second cousin, Cecily managed to convince her only daughter to return to Gray Harbor to assist the family's new hierarchy in navigating their business assets. Ever the dutiful daughter, Odile complied, moving back to Gray Harbor in the Fall of 2021.
She is slender and clearly sophisticated, if not just for these visible efforts in bringing vintage glamor back to more modern times. Odile Devereux doesn't look older than her late twenties, with hair blacker than night, usually pulled in a neat coiffure to emphasize the sleek, elegant lines of her face, neck and shoulders. Her eyes are of a blue so pale, it straddles the line between striking and disconcerting...if anyone ever sees them anyway, given her preference to wear hats that shadow most of her alabaster complexion, and large sunglasses that take up nearly half of her visage. Pearls and bold lip lacquer add vibrant spots of color to her otherwise monochromatic palette. She is typically dressed in the latest fashions.
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2021-09-21 - Count Abildgaard, I Presume
The newly arrived Addington consigliere wastes no time reviewing the family assets - including an impromptu audit of its charitable donations.
Ravn, Odile
2021-09-20 - Of All the Gin Joints In All The Towns In All The World
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Easton, Odile
2021-09-20 - The Carousel's Curse
The carousel's resident admirer meets an Addington recently arrived from elsewhere.
Conner, Odile