OOC Chat.
Ygraine has Title 3 and Remembrance 2, giving her strong ties to the Dreaming and the Court. So Adrian working his way up the food chain, with her support, could be a fun thing to play out. So don't buy Knight unless you want to. I agree, a bit of a shared history could be lots of fun. Honestly, I didn't focus on her earliest years, so can write anything up we want. Here's what I wrote up for the High King:
History
Ygraine was born Elaine Jones into privilege but didn't put much stock in it. Oh, she enjoyed being one of the IT crowd, but the popularity of a school's queen bee was somehow hollow to her. She wouldn't trade it for being at the bottom of the social ladder, but at the same time there was nothing she was doing that mattered. This ennui held her in its grip until the grief she experienced at her father's death sent her into a dark but thrilling Chrysalis. The emptiness in her heart left by his passing demanded she find that thing that made life worth living. Her Sidhe soul offered her an answer, a quest of epic proportions. Yes, the world was Banal and without any real color, but only if she chose to accept its limitations and feeble joys. If she devoted herself to changing it, fundimentally, lived to upturn the givens and create something wild, wonderful and cleave only to her passions; well THAT would be a life worth living.
Ygraine took up that challenge and felt something old and true come over her. This fight she'd sworn to win in somewhere more real then the place lives happen in. She found herself a figure of grace, power and beauty bedecked in finery beyond her old imaginings. She felt a new, yet ancient, kind of energy flow through her as shades of the past taught her things she'd always known. Thus began her life anew amongst the Kithain.
Ygraine made a progress through the courts, looking for kindred spirits but more often finding herself in the company of small minded "Nobles" who mistook cruelty for power and petty diversions as joy. She took great pleasure in tossing stones in their glass houses and taking from them the things they mattered most. Thus she earned a few enemies, most notably Lord Edward of House Gwydion, now a Count. Were it not for her habit of throwing herself at the true dangers that threatened Kith and Kin she would not have been tolerated, instead her heroism earned her titles and the respect of those who valued deeds over posturing. She's built a small network of friends by proving herself thusly and has earned the respect of those who know her name 'despite' her House.
So Aidan probably knew her as one of the popular girls in school who disapeared for a year after her father's death to return and climb almost effortlessly to the top of the social ladder. She had a bit of a reputation for throwing EPIC parties, getting into wild adventures and in her senior year especially, challenging the powers that be and the schools traditions openly. Since he went through his Chrystalis after school, perhaps he never quite knew she was Sidhe, but definitely remembers her...
Yes, I love that Aidan is vital to the whole foster home venture as it helps establish the essential parts of his character and gives him a spotlight to step into.