Annika Milanova Novikov Koldovstoretz

꧁HISTORY꧂

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Her adopted fathers, Viktor and Leonid, took Annika in when she was just a baby. Their good friends Milan and Ol’ga, (her biological parents who had gone to Koldovstoretz with her fathers), had found out they were pregnant at a very bad time. Neither of them wanted to have kids, nor did they have the money. So, when they had Annika, they gave her to Viktor and Leonid as a sign of kindness and their friendship. Unfortunately, their baby didn’t get to see them much as they soon had to move to Brazil not long after she turned one year old as a result of Ol’ga’s niece being admitted to Castelobruxo.

As much as it bored her, she was raised on all wizard culture and nearly every aspect of her life was magical. She was rarely disciplined and almost never punished by her two loving parents. They let her have mostly free reign over her life, apart from basic child safety rules of course. Because she was homeschooled, there weren’t lots of opportunities for social interaction. So, to offer some new opportunities for Annika, her parents signed her up for lots of sports and activities. A Wizards Chess tournament, music lessons, even a Gobstones club. This led her to make lots of new friends, her naturally social exterior coming out in full swing around other people.

However, with lots of new friends also came lots of new people that weren’t so fond of her. Because of her curious and sometimes blunt behavior, she’s made quite a couple enemies. For example, one time during viola lessons she was tasked with a duet with another student. This other student, Irina, had a very prominent mark on her left cheek. “What’s that?” Annika would ask. “Is it a rash? Are you breaking out?”

“No, stupid! It’s a birthmark!” Irina would yell. Annika was young, so she didn’t understand what the problem was or why their teacher would always scold her about proper manners, but she always felt bad about it. She never liked when people weren’t fond of her.

Her first instance of magic came when she was around eight years old. During a pureblood dinner party, she snuck away from her fathers to hang out with some of the other kids. Most of them were around her age, some older.

There were about 4 other kids she found there. Among them, the oldest was a boy named Grigoriy. He was ten years old, with big round glasses, black hair, and and he did not like Annika. He thought she was rude and incompetent, thanks to his parents jaded relationship with her family. So, naturally, when she arrived he began making rude comments and glaring at her. Every time she tried to communicate and make conversation with the other children, Grigoriy would whisper rumors and insults about her and tell them not to talk to her.

Her breaking point was when she finally turned angrily to the boy and scolded him. “Hey! Will you quit it, you big headed oaf?! I don’t know what I did to you, but cut it out!” she yelled. Grigoriy scoffed, and completely ignored her! What a jerk. She lost her temper and before she knew it, the frames of the glasses on his face magically shattered into a million tiny little pieces. He screamed and the glasses fell from his face onto the floor. He began crying and that’s when the adults came over.

Thankfully, Grigoriy wasn’t hurt and no one got so much as a scratch on them. And although her parents were upset with her for making a mess and scaring the boy, they were ecstatic that she finally had her first magical experience.