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[b]Name[/b]: Alina Sanford
[b]Age[/b]: 20
[b]Arcana[/b]: X - Wheel of Fortune
[b][url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/watamote/images/c/c3/Tomoko_V1_Avatar.png/revision/latest?cb=20190827064301]Appearance[/url][/b]: 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.
[b]Personality[/b]: 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 very many true friends - she's an introvert, and not inclined to large gatherings, or even small gatherings realistically speaking, with only one person she regularly speaks with. 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.
[b]Bio[/b]: 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 Jonas 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 Marigold's side, Nicholas and Arthricia 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 Marcus' side, Grandad Oliver was somewhat soft-souled, a poor counterbalance to Granny Edith'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 middle school, high school, or even her college qualifications. 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 to make her better, nor enough for her university education to be anything less than scientific. But with his passing and the associated grief, it was just enough for her to insist upon a university far from the rest of her family - all the way down in Texas, as a matter of fact. Yet with Thanksgiving gone, she has yet to find any enjoyment in her subject of choice.
[b]Scars[/b]: Three of her four grandparents have been historically controlling, demanding, and ultimately detrimental to her will and motivation. 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. Or so she's been led to believe, at least.

[h3]Metaverse[/h3]
[i]A proud warrior in his youth, and keen to be fawned over in his age, the King lost everything and gained it back as the winds of fate threw him between his daughters.[/i]
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