Anichka Volosin
Name: Anichka Volosin
School: Durmstrang
Year: Second (Durmstrang Third)
Status: PurebloodAppearanceReducioAnichka is a little short for her age (4"6'), with green eyes and fair skin. Her brown hair is normally parted down the middle and frames her face, running down to her shoulders. Anichka is an avid jogger and hiker and it shows in her physique.PersonalityReducioAnichka has always been a bit of a tomboy. In the small pureblood hamlet she lived in, she liked to hang out with the boys, playing outside and learning sports. She is shy and doesn't say much until she feels comfortable around someone. This quiet and seemingly detached nature may make her seem cold to some people, but it's just a screen she puts up to protect herself. Once people get to know her to be friendly and studious. She seems overly serious because she doesn't fully understand the concept of humor, her parents always being straitlaced and serious.History
ReducioAnichka was born just outside Chaplynka, a small municipality in the Kherson Oblast of the Ukraine. Her father, Danilo, is a potion brewer who has his own shop which he runs out of his home. His focus is in healing potions and he takes his potion making,as with his life in general, very seriously. Her mother, Ionna, is three years younger than her father. They went to school together but didn't really know each other until a few years later. Ionna is a magizoologist and just happened to meet Danilo as she was tracking a rare animal. Anichka has two younger siblings: Diana (9) and Mykola (6).
While they lived in an insular hamlet of about two dozen wizarding families, they were not completely ignorant of the outside world. They liked to keep aware enough just to know what was going on around them (also a matter of necessity lest they grow suspicious that their neighbors are wizards). Anichka was born shortly after the Russian Annexation of Crimea. She spent her first two years living in this same hamlet but completely unaware of the muggle world around her. When Ionna became pregnant with Diana, they decided that living close to such a volatile area was not good for their children. They elected to move to Finland before Anichka could learn enough of her original home to miss it later.
When she was three, her family settled in Ylitornio in Western Finland, just a few kilometers from the border with Sweden. Unlike much of Finland, Ylitornio is unlingual, so as her parents were learning Finnish, so was she. Due to the transition, her first language is Finnish. As she grew older and her parents told her of the family history, she also began to learn Ukranian and Russian, however she only has a basic knowledge. She started learning English at 8 so she could go to school. She's at least able to function and interact, but she has yet to master it.
Her family settled into a small wizarding community and life was much the same as it was in the Ukraine. Her mother traveled throughout Scandinavia researching the magical fauna of the area, and her father ran his potions shop out of their home and was the primary caregiver and teacher of the children. As she grew up, she was transfixed by the other wizarding children flying around low on their brooms (she herself was not permitted to fly) and that was what she was most excited about learning about once she started school. She had a couple of close friends in her new home but she did not have a large circle of friends.First Instance of MagicReducioAnichka's first instance of magic occurred when she was six years old. She was running through the woods by her house and she tripped over a tree root and fell head-first onto a rock. The force of the impact should have cracked her skull but instead, she bounced off the rock and instead slammed into a tree. Her only injury was a bruise from where her head hit the rock but beyond that, she was fine. When she arrived home, her father asked where she had gotten the bruise and she told him what happened. She was confused because while he admonished her to be more careful, he was beaming. When she asked why, he informed her that her magic had revealed for the first time and that she was a witch.
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Anichka Volosin
Is your character a Broom Racer? Yes
Is your character a Quidditch Player? No
Is your character a Duelist? NoStats: STA 9 | EVA 8 | STR 5 | WIS 6 | ARC 4 | ACC 8Abilities:
Lovely Creature
ReducioThe genetics of the Volosin family had always been very strong. They had been resilient to illness, intelligent, and very good looking. Anichka's mother Ionna stands at 5"9' and had the perfect frame. She did not have an ounce of fat on her and she had the most beautiful, electric eyes that drew people to her. Her father is a mount of a man who stands at 6"6'. He is very muscular (a product of him working out every day and chasing his children around the house day in and day out) and has a beard that everyone agrees is absolutely glorious.
In addition to having the fine genetics of her family, Anichka has also been blessed in the looks department both by biology and her lifestyle choices. As a product of her upbringing, Anichka eats very little in terms of sweets and candy. She does enjoy them, but she practices the self-discipline her parents taught her and eats them in (what some might say) extreme moderation. At school, she follows the type of diet her family instilled in her. She eats a lot of vegetables and lean protiens. While she enjoys crisps and mash, she avoids them as she knows she's not supposed to have them. She prefers water to pumpkin juice (although she does love butterbeer, she drinks it rarely).
Anichka's lovely form is also helped by her lifestyle. When she's not in class, she makes use of Durmstrang's expansive grounds. In keeping with her activites at home, she loves to run and hike around the grounds. Even in the cold, sometimes barely lit winters, she still runs and hikes around the grounds. This helps to make her even more fit. As she learned to fly she also started doing that more and more (sometimes even 'borrowing' the school brooms at night). If she could read her textbooks while hiking through a forest or soaring through the air, she would.
To bring the whole effect together, Anichka went to great lengths to ensure that she always looked her best. Every time she gets up, she puts great care into her hair and makeup, making sure each is perfect in the mirror. She also makes sure she picks a suitable and nice outfit, ensuring that it is unblemished and fits perfectly.
All of these factors fit together to make Anichka stunningly beautiful. Her natural beauty draws attention to her whenever she enters a room and her peers find it difficult to take their eyes off of her. She is truly, a lovely creature.
Poison Resistance
ReducioAnichka had received her fair share of shapes and bruises through her youthful adventures. It was just a fact of life that someone was outside and running through the woods as much as she did was bound to occassionally take a tumble. Another hazard of playing in the woods, she quickly learned, as different stings, bugbites, and even sometimes snakebites she received throughout her adventures. These always hurt and made her uncomfortable. On one occasion, her reaction was severe enough that she actually started to have visual hallucination in the forms of colors and shapes as she made her way back. Every time she got back home her further would give her whatever she needed to stop the reaction, and also did his best to educate her on different animals and insects and the different venoms some of them produced. On the one hand, he would've kept her inside all the time if he could so he didn't have to worry about her. On the other hand, she knew she was a child and he needed to simply let her be a child. He would supervise her, and sometimes he would take her on hikes with her, but the fact was that he knew she would sneak off on her own sometimes, but she always did as he asked, coming home before dark.
This practical experience and the education her father gave her made her very adept at spotting dangers when she was running or hiking. Her father instilled in her that with plants, animals, and insects, as with most things in life, there would always be dangers and things to avoid, the most important thing was knowledge, and using that knowledge to make yourself as safe as possible. Knowing what she knew from his teachings, she had an excellent understanding of the effects potions, venoms, and poisons could have on a person, and so was very adept at understanding if she was under the influence of any of them.
This knowledge, coupled with her superior metabolism thanks to her genetics, was put to the test at the end of her first year at Durmstrang. While she was on one of her midwinter runs, Anichka tripped over a dimly lit root and felt. When she hit the ground, she felt a brief stinging pain on her arm but thought nothing of it as she was wearing layers to deal with the cold. A few moments later, she realized that whatever she had fallen on had pierced her layers and she was having a reaction to something in her system. Her vision had started to become blurry so she sat down and took a long drink from her water, calming herself. Thanks to her experience, she was able to take a few deep breaths and carefully make her way back to the castle and up to the hospital wing safely.
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