Greta ✦ 17 ✦ The Prima Ballerina

❝𝒜𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒹𝑜𝑒𝓈 𝒾𝓈
ℬ𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀 𝓂𝑒 𝓃𝑜𝓌❝

- ℬ𝒶𝓈𝒾𝒸 ℐ𝓃𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓂𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 -
full name ✦ Greta Adelaide Von Müller
nickname ✦ None, though she considers her name spoke with an English accent a crime

age ✦ 17
zodiac ✦ Gemini
faceclaim ✦ alana champion

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personality ✦
How does one describe Greta? Simply put, people find her to be a little nuts. She’s incredibly charming and adorable, making everyone melt to their knees when they see her smile. Some call her a siren because of that smile. But this is one side of Greta, and some say it’s a fake. They say the real Greta is cutthroat, harsh, and cruel. She’s willing to do anything to succeed, and it’s true. She won’t deny it. Her sweetness is only skin deep. Beneath it is a young woman capable of nearly anything. Her dedication to her one love- ballet- is admirable to most everyone who knows her. The places it takes her to, including drug use and violence, however are not as positive. Besides that, she’s incredibly perceptive and naturally keeps track of everyone’s movements and moods. While Greta can seem shy, she’s able to make friends quickly and easily. People are naturally drawn to Greta. Her smile, her quirky sense of fashion, her belief in witchcraft, and the way she holds herself like a Shakespearean queen holds people’s attention and adoration. Plus- everyone finds her little German accent adorable!

background ✦
Born in Berlin, Greta grew up a happy child, with all her dreams supported by her loving parents. She only had one dream, however, and that was to become a prima ballerina. Beginning to study at the age three, she was found to be a prodigy. Greta became a massive success in the ballet world almost immediately, attending the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg at the age of 12, two years earlier than most. However, when she moved to Russia, she was questioned by the CIA, and it was then that she learned about her family. Thankfully, she’s managed to avoid much of the scrutiny it should cause, primarily due to the fact that her ballet skills outshone her parent’s past lives. Therefore, it came as no surprise when by 15, Greta was asked to tour with the Royal Ballet as their guest, visiting over 20 countries in a matter of weeks. She was not star, but she was the understudy for Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, and on the last night, she got to experience the thrill of the black feathers, the ballet shoes, and the freeness that came with the role. The director said that it was one of the best performance she had seen, especially for a young girl like Greta.

It didn’t last long, however. By the time Greta turned 16, the pressures of the industry had poisoned her. She became highly competitive, turning to pills and steroids in order to make her faster, stronger, and more focused. The people around her started noticing a change in Greta. She became more irritable, cruel, and downright envious. Her tarot readings were becoming more ominous, and people stopped seeing her as the quirky little waif they knew and loved. They worried for her, and she responded to this concern with a slap, literally and figuratively. It all came to a head at the World Ballet Competition. Her strongest competitor, Yerim Lee, fell on her foot and broke her ankle. The culprit was found to be the shoe, which had threads cut from the ribbon so it would tear when she went on pointe. No one could lead it back to Greta, and rumor has it there is still a pair of scissors sitting in an evidence locker in Russia. Because of this, Greta was expelled from Vaganova Academy, though under the guise of poor performance and use of enhancing drugs (which wasn’t off base, and the drug test proved as such). Still, most people don’t know about her involvement with Lee’s broken ankle. It was perhaps the threat of who her parents are that kept word from spreading.

Now, Greta Von Müller attends Heathcliffe Academy, a strong step down from Vaganova. She’s on the outs in the ballet world, and she’s determined to prove herself once more. Greta continues to attend dance classes, and she has plans to intern at another school near Heathcliffe. She just needs to find her way back to the simple love for ballet, the type she felt on stage that night when she was 15. It’s been two years, and she still can’t find her way back.

family ✦
Adele Von Müller - mother

Leon Von Müller - father

Both of Greta’s parents lived in East Berlin during the time that the Berlin Wall was up. However, they managed to travel to the United States during 1988, touring D.C. and New York City. Because of this, and the strong Soviet connection their parents (Greta’s grandparents) had during the war, Greta’s parents were arrested on Wall Street and taken in for questioning. There was nothing they could legally hold the couple for, but that didn’t stop them from using “extraction techniques” to torture them. However, Greta’s father managed to contact the Russian Embassy and receive help in returning to their home country. Ever since then, they’ve been terrified to return to the United States, and thus, Greta has never step foot on American soil. It’s also why when she began attending school in Russia, she was questioned by the CIA. Even after all these years, they assume her parents were Russian spies.

Which, to be fair, they weren’t wrong. Besides Greta’s prodigal talents, her parents are also coders for the U.S.S.R., known for their unbreakable cyphers. They were most active during the Cold War, and it wasn’t until 2000 that they retired from being coders for the Russian government. However, they do assist in other decoding, such as for murders and such. Still, they were commended for their efforts to help the Soviets by traveling to the U.S. to pass along important information to the actual spies, and for that, they are elite enough for Greta to make it into Heathcliffe.

Rumors ✦
-Well, of course, Greta’s supposedly the Tonya Harding of the ballet world
-Also rumored to be a spy, like her parents
-Thought to have gone to rehab and that’s why she’s no longer attending Vaganova

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mannerisms ✦
-Dream-like in how she speaks; think Luna Lovegood
-Always has a cigarette in her mouth
-Hates shoes, so she’s usually wearing socks

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urstyle set ✦ urstyle.fashion/styles/2820051