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[CENTER][h1][color=#CC0000][b]Upyr[/b][/color][/h1][hr][h3][sup][sup][color=silver]Alexandra “Sasha” Nikolaeva Kuropatkova  [color=#CC0000]◼[/color]   February 21 (19)   [color=#CC0000]◼[/color]   Female[/color][/sup][/sup][/h3][sup][color=silver]“Some are touched by greatness. Most will only leech off it.”
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[COLOR=#CC0000][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]▼ A P P E A R A N C E:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][CENTER][sup][color=silver]“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy[/color][/sup][/CENTER][INDENT][INDENT][IMG]Image of Character[/IMG][/INDENT][/INDENT][indent][b][color=#CC0000]//STATS:[/color][/b]
[indent][B][COLOR=SILVER]◼ HEIGHT |[/COLOR][/B] [i]185cm  -  6’1”[/i]

[B][COLOR=SILVER]◼ WEIGHT |[/COLOR][/B] [i]55 kg to 86 kg  -  121 lbs to 190lbs[/i]

[B][COLOR=SILVER]◼ BUILD |[/COLOR][/B] [i]Emaciated to buff [/i]

[B][COLOR=SILVER]◼ HAIR COLOUR |[/COLOR][/B] [i]Blonde[/i]

[B][COLOR=SILVER]◼ EYE COLOUR |[/COLOR][/B] [i]Grey[/i]

[B][COLOR=SILVER]◼ 'VOICE' TEXT COLOUR |[/COLOR][/B] [i][color=#CC0000]#CC0000[/color][/i]

[B][COLOR=SILVER]◼ OTHER |[/COLOR][/B] [i]Barcode tattooed on the back of her neck and her right wrist. [url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3c/08/ca/3c08ca3a6737b6a62eeb40a12c6ec61c.jpg]Russian double headed eagle tattoo on her back.[/url][/i][/indent]
[b][color=#CC0000]//DESCRIPTION:[/color][/b]
[indent][i]Due to the nature of Alexandra’s Metahuman abilities her appearance  is not something that’s easy to nail down. If she, by her own words, hasn’t “fed” in a long time she will appear very pale, sickly and on the brink of starvation. A gaunt face, sunken eyes, straw-like hair and barely any meat on her bones would be clear giveaways that she’s very low on her charge. On the contrary, when Alexandra is high on charge she has an almost perfect physique. Her face will appear fuller as her skin gains a much healthier color, her hair will regain its volume and her physical build becomes much more powerful. 

Alexandra likes to wear baggy clothes that cover as much as possible. Hoodies and cargo pants are her go-to attire. She pretty much always wears a [url=https://i.pinimg.com/236x/7a/8d/75/7a8d759fdd1b1c77f506cd989bfcbfa5.jpg]telnyashka[/url] whenever she has the chance, as a reminder of where she came from. Alexandra also has a thick Russian accent due to her only leaving her home country very recently. She keeps her blonde hair at a relatively modest length, reaching down to her upper back, and usually styles it into a bun or ponytail.
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[COLOR=#CC0000][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]▼ B I O G R A P H Y:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][CENTER][sup][color=silver]"The more comfort you have the less courage there is."[/color][/sup][/CENTER][indent][indent][i]Alexandra Nikolaeva Kuropatkova was born into a life of great wealth and privilege. She was after all the only child to one of Russia’s many oligarchs, a lesser one called Nikolai Ivanovich Kuropatkin. Not that she saw him much, as he blamed her for the death of her mother, who died during childbirth. Something Nikolai would never fail to remind the little girl of during the rare times he visited her.  Alexandra grew up in a highly protective environment in St. Petersburg, as her father insisted that she’d be homeschooled by private tutors and have nannies to constantly watch over her.

While her early childhood was fine, Alexandra would develop a lot of health related issues when she hit puberty. Her constitution became very weak and she would often be bedridden for extended periods of time due to a lack of energy. These issues only exacerbated as she got older. At some point her body started to reject all types of food, no matter the shape, no matter what it consisted of. Doctors couldn’t find out what was wrong with her until, on her 16th birthday, an incident occurred.

The bedridden Alexandra had to be made presentable for her birthday, her father demanded it. So one of her nannies, Maria Petrovska, came in to check on the emaciated girl. However, as she reached out to check Alexandra’s temperature, something happened that would change Alexandra’s life course forever. Maria screamed out in pain as she touched Alexandra’s forehead, who looked on in horror as she saw her old nanny paralyzed by a sudden pain. But what shocked her most was that she felt… good? Better than she could remember ever feeling. Another caretaker intervened as she tore Maria away from her. She barely looked like the woman she’d been mere moments ago, frail and weak, much like how Alexandra looked. That was when she noticed that her vision had become sharper, her grip in her hands stronger, her ailments gone. And most notably; her hunger was finally sated.

As would later turn out, it seemed that Alexandra’s Metahuman ability appeared to allow her to absorb the life force of other living things. The downside was that this also seemed to be the only thing that could sustain her from this point on, as regular food would immediately be rejected by the body.

Ever the opportunist, Nikolai Kuropatkin wasted no time in exploiting this newfound Metahuman asset. As it turned out, Nikolai had connections everywhere, including in extremist circles who wanted to cleanse Russia of its corrupt and decadent government by any means necessary. Amongst them was an organization called Velikiye Volki (The Great Wolves), which aimed to achieve this goal through the use of Metahuman attacks on Russian society. Nikolai curried favor with this group by offering up his only daughter, as a symbol of his dedication to the cause. And the meek Alexandra went along with it, happy to finally be given this opportunity to make her father proud.

Based near the city of Vladivostok, the next 2 years Alexandra - together with a group of similarly aged metahuman patriots - would be mentored by Boris Ilyich Suvarov, a former FSB officer known as The Captain. Under his tutelage she would learn the basic capabilities of her powers and eventually she’d learn  to make physical contact with living things again without immediately absorbing its lifeforce. Besides helping her with her powers, The Captain also taught her basic military training which included things like bivouacking and sambo, a Russian martial arts form. He also instilled in them a great pride for their cause: To rid Russia of all the corrupt traitors and instead bring respect, honor and glory back to their beloved Motherland. 

For the first time Alexandra could remember she finally felt wanted somewhere. Amongst the Velikiye Volki she felt like she finally belonged and she saw her fellow Volk comrades as the family she never had.

Things were already set in motion by the time Alexandra reached her 19th birthday. Some of the other Velikiye Volki cells across the country had started some of their attacks, causing panic in the country. Branded Metahuman terrorists by the government, they swore they’d do whatever it takes to root out the Metahuman threat. And they would greatly reward anyone who helped them crackdown on the Velikiye Volki. Alexandra’s cell hadn’t been called upon to do their patriotic duty yet. They were deemed too young to risk their lives. Even as they lost contact to the other cells, there would be no call to arms. The Captain forbade them to do anything risky.

Alexandra was called into The Captain’s tent on a stormy night. A night that would stick with her for the rest of her life. He calmly explained their situation to her. It turned out that there had been a traitor in the Velikiye Volki. That traitor was none other than Nikolai Ivanovich Kuropatkin, her father. He had used Alexandra as a bargaining chip with the Velikiye Volki to learn the location of every cell’s base of operations, pretending to be a supplier of much needed goods that his conglomerate could procure. Now that the price offered by the government was big enough he had decided to cash in and gave up all of the known cell locations. It was only a matter of time before the Vladivostok cell would be hit as well.

But The Captain had a plan. Nikolai wasn’t the only one who had connections. He had made contact with an American colleague Thomas Lynch, a former NSA officer who went into the private sector to work for some organization called Aegis. Lynch could guarentee the kids of the Vladivostok cell safe passage into the United States on one condition:They would have to be separated upon their arrival on American shores and be processed into their Metahuman Rehabilitation program, the so called Ju-V program. The Captain, however, would stay. For now at least.

With false passports in hand, the last remaining intact Velikiye Volki cell of Russia snuck out of the country, right under the government’s noses. Waiting for them in Seattle was Thomas Lynch, who would give each of the cell members a new ticket and a personal Aegis handler for the trip. As faith would have it, Lynch had been assigned to accompany Alexandra.

Destination: San Francisco.
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[COLOR=#CC0000][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]▼ M O T I V A T I O N / O B J E C T I V E:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][CENTER][sup][color=silver]"Let our noble wrath boil over like a wave."[/color][/sup][/CENTER][indent][indent][i]Alexandra is confused about her current situation. All she had known before was either her sheltered life at home or the supportive environment of the Velikiye Volki basecamp. Now she is cast into a foreign country with a culture that seems almost alien to her. This is why she’s trying her best to keep her head low and attract as little attention to herself as possible. Due to her current status of being on the run she is very suspicious of strangers, especially those who seem to act selfishly. Reacting in a sort of “Why are they nice to me? What do they want from me?” way. But while keeping her head down is her immediate priority and her current situation is still messy, her long term goal is crystal clear: To avenge her comrades and put her father’s head on a spike.[/i][/indent][/indent]

[COLOR=#CC0000][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]▼ A B I L I T I E S / S K I L L S:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][CENTER][sup][color=silver]"Your pain is my gain."[/color][/sup][/CENTER][indent][b][color=#CC0000]//ABILITIES:[/color][/b]
[indent][B][COLOR=#CC0000]◼ Life force absorption |[/COLOR][/B] [i]Alexandra can absorb the life force of any living object, as long as she has physical contact with said object. In fact, she completely subsists on this life force. The more powerful the living thing, the more “sated” she will be. In theory she could absorb entire acres of grass to survive, but a few seconds of Metahuman lifeforce would yield far more “energy”. (And it’s tastier too). The absorption is not instant, but Alexandra can regulate the speed at which she absorbs the life force of something. This speed ranges from barely noticeable to the subject, to extremely draining where regular humans will wither away before your very eyes. Needless to say that the latter option is extremely painful for the subject. Feels like taking a warm bath to Alexandra though.

[indent][B][COLOR=#CC0000]◼ Physical Boost |[/COLOR][/B] [i]Alexandra can apply this “energy” in a multitude of ways. While the primary one is obviously remaining alive, there are some party tricks that she can pull. The more energy she has, the more her strength and reflexes increase. While she won’t be juggling cars around or dodging bullets, it would still be clear that her feats would be very hard for a non-metahuman to rival.
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[indent][B][COLOR=#CC0000]◼ Healing |[/COLOR][/B] [i]Another trick she has up her sleeve is channeling the life force to a specific area of the body. While this is a rapid drain on her life force reserves, she is able to greatly accelerate the healing process of most injuries. The usage of this ability is not just limited to her own body, as Alexandra is able to use her own reserves to heal the injuries of others.[/i][/indent][/i][/indent]

[b][color=#CC0000]//SKILLS:[/color][/b]
[indent][B][COLOR=#CC0000]◼ Sambo |[/COLOR][/B] [i]Best described as judo with boxing and a bit of wrestling, Sambo is a Russian martial art that’s also officially adopted by the Russian Armed Forces. Alexandra was trained by The Captain in this martial art. While far from an expert, she knows enough to be able to hold her own in a fist fight.[/i][/indent]
[indent][B][COLOR=#CC0000]◼ Survival Training |[/COLOR][/B] [i]Based in the far east of the Russian Federation, the  Velikiye Volki camp was surrounded by the vast wilderness of the Siberian taiga. For this reason it was deemed essential that all of the recruits would be taught survival skills for if the worst case scenario came to be.[/i][/indent]

[b][color=#CC0000]//LIMITATIONS:[/color][/b]
[indent][B][COLOR=#CC0000]◼ Physical contact |[/COLOR][/B] [i]Alexandra needs to make physical contact in order to be able to absorb the life force of whatever it is she’s trying to “feed” from. This mostly means skin to skin contact. All but the thinnest of fabrics will be able to stop her from absorbing the life force of whatever it is she’s currently targeted.[/i][/indent]
[indent][B][COLOR=#CC0000]◼ Energy reserves |[/COLOR][/B] [i]Alexandra’s body basically acts like a container for the life force that she absorbed. The more life force she has the more mass she gains, until a certain point when she’s reached her cap. Think of it like eating until you fill your stomach. Conversely, if she excessively consumes her energy through whatever means her mass will decrease, to the point where she’ll eventually look like a walking corpse.[/i][/indent]
[indent][B][COLOR=#CC0000]◼ Physical Boost |[/COLOR][/B] [i]The physical feats that Alexandra is able to perform would be just barely above peak human ability. Like being able to, with quite some effort, squat the weight of a horse. This is of course completely dependent on whether she has enough energy left in her reserves.[/i][/indent]
[indent][B][COLOR=#CC0000]◼ Healing |[/COLOR][/B] [i]While the healing of tissue damage isn't much of an issue, grievous injuries will be a much bigger drain on Alexandra’s reserves. Broken bones or damaged organs take a significant amount of energy and also concentration. She isn’t going to be able to heal a broken arm in the middle of a fight for instance, as she will need to fully concentrate on healing said arm. She is also unable to reattach dismembered limbs or regrow them in any way. Once they’re off, they’re off for good. [/i][/indent]

[b][color=#CC0000]//WEAKNESSES:[/color][/b]
[indent][B][COLOR=#CC0000]◼ Only human after all |[/COLOR][/B] [i]Anything that kills a regular human is probably going to end Alexandra too. Bullet to the head? Yeah, that’ll do it. Falling off a skyscraper? Gonna end up like a pancake. Gas, drowning, decapitation… It’s all still gonna kill her as easily as anyone else. [/i][/indent][/indent]
[indent][indent][B][COLOR=#CC0000]◼ Energy starved |[/COLOR][/B] [i]Alexandra [b]needs[/b] a regular intake of life force as much as regular people need to consume food. If she is kept away from any living thing she will slowly wither away, becoming a frail and sickly individual until she eventually dies a painful death not too dissimilar to one caused by regular starvation.[/i][/indent][/indent]

[COLOR=#CC0000][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]▼ N O T E S:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][indent][b][color=#CC0000]//SUPPORTING CAST:[/color][/b]
[indent][B][COLOR=SILVER]▼ ALLIES[/COLOR][/B]
[indent][B][COLOR=#CC0000]◼ [I] Boris Ilyich Suvarov “The Captain” |[/I][/COLOR][/B] [i]“The father I never had. He taught me everything I know. I owe him my life, if it were not for him I would probably be dead in a ditch in Russia by now. His current status is unknown, but I pray to God that our paths will cross once more soon.”[/i][/indent]
[indent][B][COLOR=#CC0000]◼ [I] Thomas Lynch |[/I][/COLOR][/B] [i]“My Aegis handler and a personal friend of The Captain. I am unsure how to feel about the man. He has been a helpful but distant man. Suits me perfectly.” [/i][/indent]
[B][COLOR=SILVER]▼ FRIENDS[/COLOR][/B]
[indent][B][COLOR=#CC0000]◼ [I]TBD |[/I][/COLOR][/B] [i]Test[/i][/indent]
[B][COLOR=SILVER]▼ ENEMIES[/COLOR][/B]
[indent][B][COLOR=#CC0000]◼ [I]Nikolai Ivanovich Kuropatkin |[/I][/COLOR][/B] [i]“Oh dearest father, I hope you’re enjoying the spoils of your deceit. Because it will make the moment all the sweeter when I take it all away from you. When we meet again - and it will happen - I will make sure to let you suffer as much as you made my comrades suffer. Just like how you leech off of our Motherland, I shall drain you of your last ounce of strength. This I swear, with the Almighty as my witness.”[/i][/indent][/indent]
[b][color=#CC0000]//STOMPING GROUNDS[/color][/b]
[indent][B][COLOR=SILVER]◼ Russia |[/COLOR][/B] [i]Primorye (Mainly Vladivostok and its surrounding areas)[/i][/indent]
[b][color=#CC0000]//PARAPHERNALIA[/color][/b]
[indent][B][COLOR=SILVER]◼ The Captain’s vodka flask |[/COLOR][/B] [i]“A gift from the old man, a memento of better days.”[/i][/indent][/indent]


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