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[color=blue][b]Name[/b][/color]
Alina Sanford

[color=blue][b]Gender[/b][/color]
Female

[color=blue][b]Age[/b][/color]
20

[color=blue][b]Sexuality[/b][/color]
Whatever the plot demands.

[color=blue][b]Nationality[/b][/color]
English

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[color=blue][b]Appearance[/b][/color]
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Alina is not an especially intimidating figure. She is short even for an adult woman, with a very delicate frame and rather pale skin, accompanied by bright jade eyes and black hair running down past her shoulders. The impression is furthered by a slight slouch, and a general lack of life to her expression in most situations; it is as though she is, not strictly attempting to avoid notice, but rather not motivated to make herself noticed. Her outfits, usually sharing a monochromatic and/or washed-out tone, only heighten this impression.
Her appearance is mostly the same in the World of Fog as in the material world. The main difference is that her hair grows longer, down to the backs of her knees, and seemingly shimmers with a deep blue iridescence when it moves.

[color=blue][b]Height[/b][/color]
5' (152 cm)

[color=blue][b]Personality[/b][/color]
Alina is a relatively quiet person. She keeps to herself, she does her work, and she socialises as necessary. It is, however, hard to suggest she has any true friends - she's an introvert, and not inclined to large gatherings, or even small gatherings realistically speaking. She does, of course, have her interests, but they are largely personal - reading, video games, playing the guitar, studying European history, that sort of thing. As it happens, her true passions are history, and [i]especially[/i] music; it is something she has dreamed of mastering for years, taking her talents to the world with her expert string skills and vocal talent! What a way to live!
But this is not what she is doing. Part of her feels she cannot do so - that she would just fail, that she's not good enough to become famous in that way, and she'll never succeed if that's the path she chooses. Even so, she enjoys it far more than what she's taken as her course in university, but in a way finds herself trapped by that, that she has to follow that path now that she's taken that course. That she has no choice, and no control, a defining feature of her life it seems - and a highly depressing one, at that.
This negativity is exemplified by her Shadow: a glorious, fabulous reflection of who she wants to be, constantly telling her that she [i]can't[/i] be that person. She goes the way she's been told, because that's what she's been machined into; she's worthless and interchangeable if she does, yet she's bound to fail and fall if she doesn't. Cogs cannot escape the machine of their life's course - she was born without control, she cannot gain control, and so she'll die without control. The only control she might have is...

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[color=blue][b]Persona[/b][/color]
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[h3][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leir_of_Britain]Leir of Britain[/url]
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King Leir of Britain is said to have portioned land to his two eldest daughters, who fawned over him, and left his youngest with nothing despite her being the favourite, as she did not pay him the flattery of her older siblings. The husbands of his eldest promptly took his remaining land from him by force, and his two elder daughters repeatedly cut down his knightly retinue when begged for help. Left with one, he fled to France, but managed to send word to his youngest daughter, who ensured he was properly clothed and outfitted with a large retinue of knights. He received audience with France's king, who promptly declared him regent of France, with the Frankish nobility vowing to restore him to his throne; he, his youngest daughter, and her husband ultimately succeeded in restoring his power, and he ruled for three more years before his death. Truly, Leir of Britain became a pawn of Fortune late in his life, to experience such wild swings of luck.

[color=blue][b]Skill[/b][/color]
Leir of Britain primarily makes use of the element of Wind, frequently using either physical blade strikes or razor wind slashes to attack with. Less evidently, he can also briefly manifest a retinue of knights from the wind to send at his foes... though how many he can manifest at once varies wildly.

[color=blue][b]Equipment[/b][/color]
Melee: [i]Hasta[/i] - A type of spear with origins from before the Roman Republic, two meters in length, made of ash with an iron head. Of course, Alina's is just a recreation, but as an example of history, it's quite nifty.
Ranged: Thompson submachine gun - It's a Tommy gun, specifically the M1928A1 model. With a drum magazine holding 100 rounds and 1500 RPM, it's very good at sending bullets in a rough direction. Hitting things accurately? Not so much, especially with a build like Alina's.

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[h3][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlil]Enlil[/url][/h3]
Patron and chief god of the Sumerian city-state of Nippur, Enlil is held to be the eldest of the Annunaki, the judges of Fate. According to Sumerian culture, he was vital to the world's creation, separating heaven and earth to make the latter habitable for humanity, and watching over mankind as a benevolent and caring father figure. At the same time, he was often described as a "raging storm" or "wild bull", was responsible for seducing the goddess Ninlil in various false guises, and even as the prime Annunaki does not control them. Lord of Fate he is; Master of Fate he is not.

Enlil, almost literally, translates from ancient Sumerian as "Lord Wind". Fitting that he commands the winds so readily, as ranged slashes, concussive blasts, and even floods and electrical storms. Like his predecessor, he too can manifest his comrades from the storm - but again, he is not the master of the Annunaki, merely its foremost member, and neither is their support guaranteed.
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[color=blue][b]Education[/b][/color]
BSc Chemistry, Year 2.

[color=blue][b]Biography[/b][/color]
To say Alina's life has had little control on her part is somewhat accurate. More precisely, she has rarely been given the chance to make decisions for herself - even as her older brother was given more leeway. It is likely that her grandparents had a large part in this, over-present in their children and grandchildren's life as they were: on her mother's side, Grandpa and Grandma Hadleigh were always very traditional, insisting that the kids had to do things "the good old-fashioned way", even if these were less effective than modern methods; whilst from her father's side, Grandad Oliver was somewhat soft-souled, a poor counterbalance to Granny Sanford's controlling behaviour, and a trait that ultimately affected her father's attitude too.
Suffice to say, the three eldest forced their opinions on Marigold, Marcus, and ultimately Alina and Jonas a lot, the Hadleighs often contradicting the Sanfords and vice versa. It never came to physical abuse, but where Jonas, already seven by the time their influence ramped up, found he resisted their commands at every turn (subtly supported by his mother, it transpired), Alina, only two or three, turned out to be far more like her grandad - kindly in theory, easily pushed around in practice. In the end, she didn't get a say in her secondary school, the GCSEs she took, or even her sixth form education. And after all, "Those artsy-fartsy lessons don't mean anything in today's world." "You need a real technical degree to find work." "You're not skilled enough in music to play in a band." "You only have so many years, and you need to use them effectively."
"Never give up on your dreams." The only positive influence she had was not enough in a tide of nay-sayers and manipulators.
In the end, she got somewhat of a chance only when Edith passed away. She had been insisting on a university close to where the family lived, so they could "keep in touch". Instead, Alina chose to go to Thames' Edge University - at least an hour's drive away, if not two or more depending on traffic, and far further than her aging grandparents could reach. Even so, old habits died hard, and her mother's parents insisted she continue down a STEM course. Chemistry it was, then. September 2018 rolled around, and she left without so much as a word, only keeping in touch with her mother and, for a time, her grandad, until he too passed on, to far more distress on her end than her granny's demise.
The year was very stressful for her. She failed to make friends, mostly kept to herself, and arguably developed some strange tastes in her relative isolation. All that time, she kept on asking herself: why am I still taking this course? She didn't enjoy chemistry, and she was average at best when it came to its execution. But she found she couldn't get out of it. She tormented herself, telling herself she had to - she'd never be good enough to do what she really wanted, after all. But none of it helped: she felt lost, adrift, a cog in an expansive machine spinning freely. Purposeless. She hopes this coming year will change that... but she doubts it.

[color=blue][b]Affiliations[/b][/color]
Marigold Sanford (née Hadleigh) - Mother.
Marcus Sanford - Father.
Jonas Sanford - Older brother, firstborn child.
Nicholas and Arthricia Hadleigh - Grandparents, mother's side.
Oliver and Edith Sanford - Grandparents, father's side. Deceased as of May 2019 and December 2017 respectively.

[color=blue][b]Relationships[/b][/color]
To be elaborated on.

[color=blue][b]Character Theme[/b][/color]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNB4Cy4mftI[/youtube]
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