Appearance:
Ridley is described as being a blonde with Dark Caster Gold eyes, tending to usually wear provocative clothing and has hot pink strips of highlights in her hair, who is almost always sucking on a red lollipop.
Character Name: Ridley Duchannes
Age: 19(as of Beautiful Redemption)
Attributes/Powers:
Skills/Powers
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Siren: Being a
Siren, Ridley has the main power of seduction, seducing practically anybody she wants(so far, only Ethan has been shown as able to resist her powers) and can put them into a spell-like trance which makes them beyond attracted to her, to a point where they practically worship her. Using this, she can get information out of them among other things. Her trigger is a red lollipop, and she can control multiple people at once.
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Siren; Passive: As a Siren, even without her lollipop, people feel attracted to/infatuated with her due to the alluring aura she puts off, making seducing or flirting with them quite easy.
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Mind Control: As stated prior, being a Siren allows Ridley to put people into a trance. This is known as 'persuasion', or
mind control, literally taking away a person's free will.
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Kelting: Ridley has been said to be able to Kelt; a form of telepathy that only works with fellow Casters.
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Ethan has been shown to be the only one who can -only barely- resist her powers when he is able to barely withhold an important piece of information from her in
Beautiful Creatures, even though it "took everything he had in him not to."
-Attractive: Duh.
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Easy to talk to: Ridley's powers make her feel alluring to everyone, and she gives off an aura that makes people feel compelled to talk to her and tell her things.
Weaknesses
-Lonely: Despite the constant tough act and faking she needs nobody, Ridley is, in fact, lonely; demonstrated near the end of Beautiful Chaos
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Limited Access: Her mind control requires she must have a red lollipop to use it, and it doesn't work terribly long range. People she uses it on must be remotely nearby.
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Dark: When Casters are Claimed for Dark, they slowly begin to lose their humanity. To become evil, and oftentimes go insane. Ridley is terrified of this, and it could happen at any time.
Personality: She is extremely flirtatious; hitting on every guy she sees and uses them to her advantage; such as when she and Lena were kids and Ridley was getting the hang of her Siren abilities, she would often have boys do her homework and help her out of sticky situations. She is shown to be extremely cocky and rebellious and manipulative. She often just uses others to get what she wants out of them and appears to be rather unfeeling.
History: Ridley is the daughter of
Delphine Duchannes and
Barclay Kent and sister of
Reece Duchannes,
Ryan Duchannes, and
Larkin Kent. She and Lena lived together and were very close to another, practically like sisters. However, on her sixteenth birthday, she fled the town; knowing she was going Dark(and not wanting to hurt Lena or her family).. Something Lena had suspected, since Ridley's behavior was becoming darker and she had slowly becoming more rebellious.
After this, she wasn't seen by Lena or the rest of her family up until she shows up unannounced at Lena's house(with Ethan in tow, having used her powers on him). As a Dark Caster, and a Siren, she can make anyone do anything.. as long as she's armed with a red lollipop. Link, despite her crude behavior and her initially having used her Siren powers on him, truly falls in love with her. Despite his love, Ridley returned very little of the same feelings towards him; having an on-again, off again relationship with him.
Despite her mistreatment of Link, Ridley felt something she thought may've been love towards him.. But refused to admit it out of fear of showing such emotions. She worked for Lena's mother, Sarafine, for a good couple of years up until the middle of
Beautiful Darkness. After helping Ethan find Lena, she found herself stripped of her powers and Siren abilities. After this, she refused to live life as a mortal longing for her old Siren abilities.. and is rather harsh towards Link, who, despite her continued mistreatment of him, remained in love with her.
She vanished from the story of Beautiful Chaos after witnessing Link and Savannah share a kiss, but later returned for one final appearance, now returned to her Siren form after "begging for forgiveness and all that." She snuck into an empty hallway to see Link with hopes of convincing him to spend one last night with her before taking off and out of town, but was rejected by him. Heartbroken at Link's rejection of her, Ridley vowed to never see him again, actually holding back tears, and fled from the room with a red lollipop rolling on the floor behind her.
However, she returned later in the novel; only to help Lena, Liv, and Ethan.
She also reappeared in the next novel, Beautiful Redemption; finding herself rescued from Abraham Ravenwood(who had her bound up in chains and a cage) by Lena. It was less than pleasant.. As Ridley maintained her tenseness in Lena's presence, but the two slowly began to relax around each other again.
It's shown not much later that Ridley does, in fact, care about Lena. This was demonstrated when the Siren pulled away Ethan, threatening to make him her 'slave' if he 'so much as thought about hurting her cousin'. She also later calmed a little around Link, but still felt hurt in his presence.. Though she admitted indirectly to caring about him.
At some point after this, Ridley wound up at Coalition for reasons unknown.. Agreeing to face the archdemon solely due to the fact it'd "Give her something to do". Of course, after having a little run-in with a certain Glader at the Headquarters.
Canon: The Caster Chronicles
Other Info: I shall place the reason why Ridley is with Teresa in this section in the next couple days.