Adelina Amouteru

Adelina Amouteru is the protagonist of Marie Lu's The Young Elites. Affected by the blood fever as a child and left as a malfetto, Adelina now possesses the power to create illusions out of nothing.

Appearance
Adelina describes herself as having deep olive skin. She has only one eye, her right, as her left eye was removed due to infection from the blood fever. Her hair, although originally black, was turned a "strange, ever-shifting silver" (US hardcover, p. 4); her eyelashes are the same color. Her fourth finger on one hand (unspecified which hand) is crooked due to a break that never healed properly.

History
Adelina grew up with her sister Violetta and an abusive father; her mother was claimed by the blood fever when she was a child. She was often tormented by her father, who hoped to reveal some latent malfetto power; it is revealed in The Young Elites that this power was suppressed by Violetta's efforts. In one such attempt, he broke her fourth finger, which never healed properly.

At sixteen, Adelina overhears her father discussing selling her off as a mistress to a noble family; on this night, she runs away from home. When her father pursues her, she creates her first illusion, which startles the horse into trampling her father. On her scheduled execution day, she is rescued from the Inquisitors by the Dagger Society.

Relationships

 * Violetta Amouteru, sister
 * Enzo Valenciano, early relationship