BIOGRAPHY
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Evgenia "Zhenya" Daniilovna Starkova was born Evgenia Daniilovna Kazakova in Volgograd, Russia, to Yulia and Daniil Kazakov. However, two months after Evgenia's birth, her parents had a huge fight that resulted in Yulia promptly booking a flight to visit her sister in America - and taking baby Zhenya with. Daniil got home from work that evening to find both his wife and their daughter gone, though Yulia had decided to leave a letter explaining where they had gone and why so that her husband wouldn't completely panic. So, Zhenya spent the first year (plus a couple months) of her life raised by her mother and her Aunt Taisiya in America. During that time, Yulia and Daniil divorced and Yulia changed her name back to her maiden name, Starkova; she changed her daughter's from Kazakova to Starkova as well. She moved with Zhenya to Edinburgh, Scotland, a few months after the divorce was finalized, in order to have more space from Daniil. Yulia gained Scottish citizenship six years later, as did Evgenia.
Evgenia's mother, an avid sportswoman, started introducing her to various sports, and playing them recreationally along with her, at a young age. Evgenia was three when she started playing football [aka American soccer] and hockey, four when Yulia introduced her to ballet and rugby, and five when figure skating joined the list. Other sports followed over the next couple years, but what truly stuck was figure skating. Zhenya was indifferent to football, despised rugby and volleyball, and preferred not to swim - but ballet and hockey had captured her attention from the very first day. "There's something missing," she had complained to her mother after her second day of ballet class. "Just like hockey." A few months later, Yulia took her daughter's feedback - she loved being on skates and loved ballet's emotion and artistry - and hit on figure skating. Zhenya was obsessed from the start, and skating became her main focus as Yulia placed her in learn-to-skate lessons and eventually found a private coach. When she went to visit her father in Russia for the first time at the age of seven, Zhenya packed her skates and guards, training clothes, and water bottle and demanded Daniil take her to the nearest rink. He preferred to drill her in multiplication tables and the Russian language, but even he - a primary school physical education teacher and former hockey coach - had to admit that watching his daughter skate was a true treat.
When Zhenya was nine, Daniil moved to England to be closer to her. Yulia wasn't pleased at that, nor his request for another visit, but Evgenia decided she wanted to see her father again and agreed to travel to stay with him for two months. During her stay Daniil met a Russian-English woman, Susanna, at the rink with Zhenya; Susanna gave Zhenya pointers on her Ina Bauer that she had picked up from watching her nephew skate and introduced Zhenya to said nephew. After Zhenya returned home to Scotland she received a letter from her father and one from Susanna, establishing two long-distance pen pals. Shortly before receiving her Hogwarts letter around two years later, she went back to England for a couple of weeks to attend her father's wedding to Susanna. She continued to skate in domestic competitions, aiming for a place on the British junior international team when she turned thirteen, but at eleven years old received her Hogwarts letter. This has completely derailed Zhenya's intended skating career, though she is absolutely determined to find a way to train year-round . . . even if she has to do it by herself, sneak around, break rules, and overcome countless unforeseen obstacles in order to do so. Figure skating is what she loves most. So what if she's something called a "Muggle-born witch"? Surely "Muggle-born witches" can manage such a feat.
Upon her arrival at Hogwarts, Evgenia was sorted into Hufflepuff. She certainly fits among the badgers, what with her stellar work ethic. It has yet to be seen whether she will forge any lasting friendships, but she certainly has found a place to potentially belong [though she grumps to herself about the lack of a skating rink].

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