Name: Aleksandrina 'Sasha' Ivanova
Species: Witch; Silver Witch. Has specialised her power with a connection to the Moon. She is at her strongest when the moon is full, but can also draw a lot of power from things in the natural world that have a connection to the Moon. For example; flowers that bloom in moonlight (such as jasmine, which is more potent when it has bloomed under a full moon), the ocean (as the tides are controlled by the pull of the moon) and wolves (were and non).
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Mental Illness: Schizoaffective disorder. Some schizophrenic symptoms such as hallucinations and voices but these occur only during the full moon when her power is at its strongest. The rest of the time her symptoms are limited to severe bipolar and manic depression.
Appearance: Tall, slim, in a careful diet kind of way rather than an athletic kind of way. Even before her imprisionment she was not fond of exercise (rather; overfond of naps). She has long brown hair that frizzes in the wet and curls in the damp, which she allows to hang loose and tangle easily though she is careful to comb it out at least with her fingers every morning and evening. Her eyes are pale blue and naturally sharp when it comes to expressing emotions, good or bad. Lanky limbs, rounded hips, and stretch marks from a series of growth spurts that came late because of magical influences and came swiftly because her body realised that it was time to catch up. She never quite grew into the breasts that her hips suggested she would gain, and she was always a little bitter about it when compared to her more voluptuous older sister.
Sasha bears four tattoos on her body, three of them counting as ritual markings from time spent with her coven. One of them is a crescent moon on the back of her neck that marks her out as a member of her particular Moon Witch coven. A floral vine design that was given to her in a Midwinter festival in which she successfully encouraged a jasmine vine to bloom out of season, wrapped around her left ankle. There is also a feather on her right side from her sixteenth birthday/first bloodletting ceremony, and two lines of script in her native Russian along her right wrist.
History: Born as the younger of two girls to a human mother and a warlock father. Middle class suburban home, father had retired from practising magic at the behest of his wife and worked four days a week as a labourer. Mother was severely anti-magic, despite the natural talents that both Sasha and her sister showed from a young age, worked five days a week as a primary school teacher and had a reputation as the school staff member with the most complaints from a parent for scaring their child.
Sasha was frightened of their mother, her sister was not. Both parents were born and raised in Moscow, Russia, but migrated to a less strict country shortly after the birth of elder daughter Olga, where Sasha was born three years later. It was the magic that assisted them to make the change and the magic that allowed them to stay unnoticed for many years, although the truth was not known by their mother until after the girls began to take an active interest in the powers.
When she was older Sasha had little to do with her family, choosing to spend time away from them as much as possible to escape the glazed, manic look that appeared in her father's eyes whenever she spoke of magic, and the hateful look in her mother's. Olga also travelled, and usually sent a postcard once a month to Sasha to tell her where she has been. She was there on one of her brief visits when the manic symptoms began to show on a major scale and it was Olga who ultimately contacted the institution about taking her in when she began to be a danger to herself and others because of the erratic form that her magic was taking.
Personality: A harsh mother has given her a harsh temperament, and a penchant for losing her temper in a violent manner. She is patient around the full moon, and restless when it is absent. She has always been an extrovert, thriving when surrounded by friends and fellow witches, so captivity does not suit her. It makes her restless, and bitter, and angry. She is convinced that she is well and so does not see when she is mad.
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual. (Insatiable.)
Fears: Sunlight. Irrational, yes, but there is a strong part of her that believes that sunlight will physically hurt her if she comes into contact with it. The fear originated with a hex that her witch sister put on her when she was twelve years old, which really did burn her in sunlight, but only for a period of forty-eight hours. The hex was what drove her to specialise in Moonlight and though the fear was not irrational for many years it grew until it influenced her psyche enough to become so.
Capabilities: Witch. Basic telekinetic powers and elemental control, strength varying on the strength of the moon. More complicated and complex magic requires incantations and physically constructed spells. The clearer the mind the more effective the spell, drugs and alcohol cloud her and have been known to influence her to miscast or fail entirely.
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OOC Notes:
Species: Witch; Silver Witch. Has specialised her power with a connection to the Moon. She is at her strongest when the moon is full, but can also draw a lot of power from things in the natural world that have a connection to the Moon. For example; flowers that bloom in moonlight (such as jasmine, which is more potent when it has bloomed under a full moon), the ocean (as the tides are controlled by the pull of the moon) and wolves (were and non).
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Mental Illness: Schizoaffective disorder. Some schizophrenic symptoms such as hallucinations and voices but these occur only during the full moon when her power is at its strongest. The rest of the time her symptoms are limited to severe bipolar and manic depression.
Appearance: Tall, slim, in a careful diet kind of way rather than an athletic kind of way. Even before her imprisionment she was not fond of exercise (rather; overfond of naps). She has long brown hair that frizzes in the wet and curls in the damp, which she allows to hang loose and tangle easily though she is careful to comb it out at least with her fingers every morning and evening. Her eyes are pale blue and naturally sharp when it comes to expressing emotions, good or bad. Lanky limbs, rounded hips, and stretch marks from a series of growth spurts that came late because of magical influences and came swiftly because her body realised that it was time to catch up. She never quite grew into the breasts that her hips suggested she would gain, and she was always a little bitter about it when compared to her more voluptuous older sister.
Sasha bears four tattoos on her body, three of them counting as ritual markings from time spent with her coven. One of them is a crescent moon on the back of her neck that marks her out as a member of her particular Moon Witch coven. A floral vine design that was given to her in a Midwinter festival in which she successfully encouraged a jasmine vine to bloom out of season, wrapped around her left ankle. There is also a feather on her right side from her sixteenth birthday/first bloodletting ceremony, and two lines of script in her native Russian along her right wrist.
History: Born as the younger of two girls to a human mother and a warlock father. Middle class suburban home, father had retired from practising magic at the behest of his wife and worked four days a week as a labourer. Mother was severely anti-magic, despite the natural talents that both Sasha and her sister showed from a young age, worked five days a week as a primary school teacher and had a reputation as the school staff member with the most complaints from a parent for scaring their child.
Sasha was frightened of their mother, her sister was not. Both parents were born and raised in Moscow, Russia, but migrated to a less strict country shortly after the birth of elder daughter Olga, where Sasha was born three years later. It was the magic that assisted them to make the change and the magic that allowed them to stay unnoticed for many years, although the truth was not known by their mother until after the girls began to take an active interest in the powers.
When she was older Sasha had little to do with her family, choosing to spend time away from them as much as possible to escape the glazed, manic look that appeared in her father's eyes whenever she spoke of magic, and the hateful look in her mother's. Olga also travelled, and usually sent a postcard once a month to Sasha to tell her where she has been. She was there on one of her brief visits when the manic symptoms began to show on a major scale and it was Olga who ultimately contacted the institution about taking her in when she began to be a danger to herself and others because of the erratic form that her magic was taking.
Personality: A harsh mother has given her a harsh temperament, and a penchant for losing her temper in a violent manner. She is patient around the full moon, and restless when it is absent. She has always been an extrovert, thriving when surrounded by friends and fellow witches, so captivity does not suit her. It makes her restless, and bitter, and angry. She is convinced that she is well and so does not see when she is mad.
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual. (Insatiable.)
Fears: Sunlight. Irrational, yes, but there is a strong part of her that believes that sunlight will physically hurt her if she comes into contact with it. The fear originated with a hex that her witch sister put on her when she was twelve years old, which really did burn her in sunlight, but only for a period of forty-eight hours. The hex was what drove her to specialise in Moonlight and though the fear was not irrational for many years it grew until it influenced her psyche enough to become so.
Capabilities: Witch. Basic telekinetic powers and elemental control, strength varying on the strength of the moon. More complicated and complex magic requires incantations and physically constructed spells. The clearer the mind the more effective the spell, drugs and alcohol cloud her and have been known to influence her to miscast or fail entirely.
Miscellaneous:
OOC Notes:
