The V O I D wrote:
Amelia lives mostly in the Narrows, which is one of the poorer communities in Gotham and is rife with gang violence and such. She operates throughout Gotham. Of course, her building is rather... secure, usually by people rather thoroughly enthralled by her power.
Despite the fact she can barely tolerate the chaos of the Narrows, she lives there precisely because no one would suspect someone like Edict to live in a place like that. In her civilian guise, she was a 'mute' waitress at a restaurant elsewhere in Gotham. She communicates by notepad, mostly, since it is most likely a common civilian will be able to understand that better.
Of course, her handwriting is in perfectly sized and written cursive, as though she'd typed the words into the notepad's paper.
With the money she's earned (read: stolen from gangsters) and such, as well as her powers, she could easily live the 'high life' - but that's what people would expect. Just because she hates chaos doesn't mean she's going to allow herself to be caught by being predictable.
She isn't a waitress anymore since she almost got caught. Now, she mostly lives as Edict.
Wow, that's really interesting. I can see you've thought a lot about your character!