Mandy Wilkes

Madeleine "Mandy" Wilkes is one of the main characters of A Few Cruel Twists of Fate and a student in 11-Socrates.

Background
Mandy was born on March 10, 2000. She was enrolled in The Newheart International School (TNIS) and became close friends with Lucas Zafkiel after finding out they shared the same taste in anime, music, and video games. She was known for constantly having the latest scoops on all the gossip in school, and she put her skills to great use. She later founded a Literature Club and became its President, becoming in charge of the school newspaper, but later disbanded it after the mysterious disappearances of some of its members.

Appearance
Mandy is of average height and physique. She wears her hair in a high ponytail and likes to wear ribbons, bows and badges, especially a large pink bow behind her hair. Her NCPS blazer is adorned with pins and badges from the different organizations and clubs she's joined, in addition to some that she herself designed for fun or got from others.

Personality
To be added

Powers
Mandy is a normal human, and possesses no known extraordinary, superhuman abilities.

Abilities

 * Journalism: It constantly surprises everyone just how many secrets Mandy knows about them, even if they didn't tell her themselves. Mandy uses this to her advantage as well as her many connections to get the latest scoop on everyone, even if she isn't involved in any drama. Her reason? Information makes you powerful. She proved to be quite a skilled journalist as she became in charge of the school newspaper, confidently interviewing students and faculty around the campus and searching for the next big story.
 * Writing: Mandy is a natural-born writer, founded her school's Literature Club, has dabbled in hero/villain fan-fiction, and even founded the Literature Club in her school. However, most people find her fan fictions very off-setting due to their NSFW nature, tackling themes of bondage, manipulation, and violence.

Limitations & Weaknesses

 * Lack of Social Awareness: Mandy's behavior and aura are so eccentric that most people stay away from her.

Equipment
To be added

Trivia

 * Mandy has two known fanfictions that she herself has written: 'Outside the Box', and 'A Slip of the Tongue', which can also be read as additional story material.

WARNING! HEAVY SPOILERS AHEAD!
"This is not for the faint of mind!"

WARNING! 'A Few Cruel Twists of Fate'' is planned to be a slightly long-running series, and the following details can contain spoilers ranging from belonging to early in the series to much later. While these details are subject to change, heavy spoilers still lie ahead.'''

You have been warned.


 * Mandy is the surprise main antagonist of Volume 1, directly working with Jamie but not necessarily sharing motivations. After her defeat at the hands of Riley and the rest of 11-Socrates at the end of Volume 1, she is imprisoned, and continues to be a recurring antagonist throughout Volume 2 and 3, albeit mostly passive.
 * She is horribly injured and disfigured by Volume 2 onwards after Connor visits her in prison, interrogates her, and beats her half to death. She is kept alive by numerous machines.
 * Mandy is revealed to be 1/10,000 Ultimordian, meaning that her Ultimordian traits are very recessive and subtle. She is an empath-psionic, possessing control of centipede-like brain parasites called Psychopedes that latch on human spinal cords, feed on dopamine, and act as relays between Mandy and her hosts, allowing her to access the hosts' brains, thoughts, and emotions, as well as give commands.
 * Ribbons are one of the main aspects of symbolism of A Few Cruel Twists of Fate, and appropriately enough, Mandy is the strongest personification of the running theme of control (or lack thereof) and inescapable fate that the characters go through. Mandy is usually seen wearing ribbons and bows, and playing with them on her fingers, resembling how a ventriloquist would have strings on their hands allowing them to control their puppets with them. The characters are also seen linked to red ribbons in promotional material, with Mandy's poster later revealed to have all the ribbons leading to her, symbolizing her control over them, as well as how ribbons symbolize intertwined fates and how Mandy is 'controlling' their destinies by controlling their lives.
 * The one other confirmed additional story material for Mandy, 'A Slip of the Tongue ', is unlocked after her reveal, detailing one of her first attempts at Psychopede mind-control, which went horribly. Her own Side Story series, VILLAINIFICATION I, II, and III, are written like a journal of her experiences and attempts trying to brainwash and manipulate her classmates to turn on each other.
 * One of the most unsettling aspects of Mandy's character is that her character does not go a dramatic change before and after her big reveal - she acts almost exactly the same after the protagonists realize she's the culprit and her cover is blown, meaning that there is no difference between her personality before and after the reveal and implying that the only thing she had to hide at all was her crimes - the Mandy you knew was always the Mandy who turned out to be the psychopath.
 * She does, however, become prone to fits of insanity after her LXR overdose after e xperiencing its effects so frequently and for long durations of time from her drug-induced victims, who she shares the experience with (the Psychopedes act as a hive mind, so Mandy experiences all of the LXR-induced effects from all active hosts simultaneously, making her addicted to it).
 * Under the effects of an LXR overdose, Mandy mutated into a large, grotesque, half- human, half-Psychopede form. What was once her body is becomes a lifeless corpse hanging from the head of her new form. She has a large segmented, centipede-like body with each segment possessing a pair of legs.