Madeline Hexlen

Madeline was once an ordinary girl with dreams of attending university and becoming a marine biologist, her pale blonde hair catching sunlight as she walked the hallways of Riverside High, her golden eyes bright with possibility. Everything changed the autumn she met Lucuis Crowe, a mysterious transfer student whose obsessive devotion felt like love at first, though it quickly twisted into something suffocating and inescapable. She discovered too late that the boy who claimed to worship her had built that altar on a foundation of violence—that his previous life was stained with secrets he'd buried along with at least three bodies, each murder rationalized as necessary to keep her "safe" and "his." Trapped by her own fear and a love that had curdled into Stockholm syndrome, Madeline found herself saying vows in a courthouse with a boy who wasn't even his real name, both of them shedding their identities like snakes molting skin. Now bearing the surname Hexlen alongside him, she exists in a strange purgatory between victim and accomplice, her golden eyes dulled to the color of old coins, her pale hair now a shroud rather than a crown. The happiness she once knew has been replaced by a suffocating intimacy built on lies and blood, and she walks through her senior year as a ghost haunting her own life, wondering if she's still a hostage or if she's become something darker herself.

Strength

10, modifier 0

Dexterity

16, modifier 3

Constitution

14, modifier 2

Intelligence

14, modifier 2

Wisdom

12, modifier 1

Charisma

18, modifier 4

Whispers of the Past

Madeline can target one creature within 60 ft. to make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On failure, they take 3d8 psychic damage and are frightened until the end of their next turn.

Veil of Shadows

As a bonus action, Madeline can become invisible until the start of her next turn or until she attacks.

Suffocating Love

Madeline can grapple a target within 5 ft. as an action. If successful, the target takes 2d6 psychic damage at the start of each of their turns until they escape.

Haunting Presence

Madeline can impose disadvantage on saving throws against fear for creatures within 30 feet.

strength

0

dexterity

3

constitution

2

intelligence

2

wisdom

1

charisma

4

Psychic