Post by Karina Mikhailova nó Valerian on Sept 13, 2009 16:18:39 GMT -5
Name: Karina Nataliya Mikhailova nó Valerian
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Height: 5’7”
Race: half D’Angeline, half Ruskovian
Home Province: L’Agnace
Natale: 9th week of spring
Appearance: Karina is a beauty with golden brown hair that softens her high cheekbones. Her eyes are a light, almost apple green, and her lips are full and sensual, set against creamy white skin. She developed later in her teens, leading to small breasts and a slim silhouette.
History: Karina’s mother Nataliya was born in Ruskovia. During a turbulent year for the realm, her husband was tried and executed for crimes against the Crown. Nataliya fled south, eventually finding her way to the City of Elua. The first years were difficult, as money was tight, Nataliya had a hard time learning D’Angeline, and the culture of Elua’s love wasn’t easy to accept, but the woman was determined to stay in such a beautiful place.
Just as things were getting easier, Nataliya discovered that she was pregnant. The birth was easy, on a cool floor in the middle of the Night’s Doorstep one late summer afternoon. Karina was a beautiful mixture of her mother’s exotic looks and her D’Angeline father’s angelic blood. Nataliya was overjoyed, as she’d never had a chance to have children with her husband, and raised her daughter on her own for five years, teaching her both D’Angeline and Ruskovian. Then the wheel spun around once more and money became scarce for the pair. With a heavy heart, Nataliya reluctantly cleaned Karina up and took her up to Cereus House.
From the age of five to nine Karina lived in the foremost house of the Night Court, learning the manners and grace of an adept. Jasmine had expressed interest in purchasing her marque at the customary age of ten, but when Karina was nine, an incident altered her future. A pair of bullies decided to pick on Karina’s impure blood, but instead of fighting back or fleeing from their abuse, she lay on the ground where they had pushed her with a dreamy look in her eyes.
So it was Valerian where she found herself. Nataliya found it difficult to accept that her daughter had been transferred to such a House, having just come to accept the more mainstream Houses only years before. This made it doubly difficult for Karina as she was trying to accept these desires herself, for it strained the close relationship that she had with her mother. But eventually it all worked itself out, and Karina settled into her new home and became very popular after her debut with a circle of patrons who delighted in psychologically controlling and tormenting the young woman. Karina made her marque just before her twentieth natale and was offered the position of Second of her House not long after that. The joyous news was overshadowed only a month later however, as her mother Nataliya passed away during the plague that swept through the City in the first year of Queen Sabrina’s reign.