Liliya

LILIYA

Real Name: Liliya Leonidovna Tkachenko
Alias:
Identity: Secret
Age: 17
Species: Human


Physical Appearance:

Liliya is about 5' 9" 134 lbs. She has fine features and is very fine-boned; combined with her tall build she looks delicate. However, Liliya is in fact quite strong for a girl her age, and very lean; a product of having to work hard every day to scratch a living out of the windy highlands of Siberia. She can carry a deer out of the woods and has helped build houses, so she is by no means weak.

Liliya is an albino -- her skin is incredibly pale, almost pasty. Her hair is fine, and platinum blonde -- a very sheer white color, almost translucent. It's fine but thick and long enough to reach her belly button.

Her most arresting facial feature is her eyes -- as with most albinos, she has extremely pale blue eyes; because of her genetic condition, however, this blue is semi-translucent, allowing light to reach the blood vessels in her iris. The combination of red and blue give her a pale purple eye color. (This is documented in real life.) Her thin face makes her eyes look even larger, thanks to optical illusion. 

Liliya prefers to wear layers of loose, concealing clothing. Loose jeans, a tank top, a t-shirt or two and a hoodie, sometimes with a spring jacket on top, is what she most often wears. She always keeps the hood up and keeps her head down to shield her eyes from the light. Photosensativity is very common among albinos -- she wears sunglasses on even cloudy days, but for the most part she just avoids the light in general.

She does not like being touched and maintains a very tight silhouette, head down, hands gripping her elbows, shoulders stooped; almost like she's trying to curl herself into a ball.

No matter what language she speaks, she has a thick Russian accent.

Personality:

Liliya is not a bold or assertive in any way. She is very timid and incredibly shy. She has a kind of innocence about things that is compelling but strange and definitely weird. Due to her powers (See POWERS) she is very prone to just staring off into space, fascinated by something only she can see or hear. She has no sense of what is okay to share and what isn't -- she often blurts out very personal details of those around her without warning. To be fair, she doesn't know why these things are so personal and she asks after these out of curiosity. In fact, she is insatiably curious but her timidity and strange nature make it hard for her to understand things unless someone is patient with her. Her sense of boundaries is very very vague -- she's adamant about the sanctity of a person's mind, and never entering it unless granted permission; but at the same time, she has no idea why someone is upset when she asks a personal question which she doesn't know is personal. Needless to say, she's very confused very easily.

She always speaks softly and with compassion, but immediately clams up if someone engages her in too loud and brash a manner. She'll pull her hood up, fold her legs to her chest and hide her face in her knees.

Liliya is very quiet and withdrawn and most of the things she says are cryptic and unsettling, or responding to something others cannot hear or see. She has a habit of staring at people in a piercing way, as if she's stripped away all their layers and can see into them. She's really quite spacey most of the time, snapping into the present situation with unsettling intensity at the drop of a hat. She's curious about everything and will ask deeply personal questions without hesitation, simply because she doesn't know that what she's asking is such an intimate topic.

Underneath all the strangeness and timidity, though, there is a young girl that delights in new things and simple pleasures. If you can get through her shell and establish a genuine bond with her, she's very clingy and protective. She's also much more open and comfortable with those she trusts, allowing herself to act like a normal girl her age, but she'll always be an introvert. She likes being with people, however, and more than anything she likes making people feel good. When they feel happy, she feels that and it makes her happy and it's a joy she describes as unlike any other. She is truly compassionate in all things she does and when she causes hurt or discomfort, is extremely guilty and self-punishing for it.

Make no mistake, she is not a shrinking violet. When faced with conflict, she will do her best to run and hide; if unable to do that, she will try and talk to them, disarm their hostility. Liliya has a calm, inner confidence that she simply doesn't assert very often. Only when she feels uncomfortable or unsafe does she really withdraw from people. When everyone else is panicking, she'll be the one that keeps a calm head and organizes the chaos. She doesn't panic or frighten easily and faces danger with a steady resolve that is rarely expected.

Cruelty absolutely inflames her when she sees it and she responds with rabid anger. A startling viciousness comes out as she retaliates against the person she sees inflicting senseless anguish on another. She has a side to her that is very much like a rat in a corner -- when she's got nowhere else to go, she fights hard and dirty. Though she is a pacifist, that's does NOT mean she abhors violence -- she comes from a very harsh environment. Violence is necessary to survive in nature, but she'd prefer to avoid it altogether.

Powers:

Psychic: Liliya is a potent psychic but incapable of any telekinetic or precognitive powers. She is a powerful medium and telepath, possessing a clairvoyant gift that is a mixed blessing.

• Clairvoyance
  
  This is her most potent gift and one she cannot ever turn 'off.' Liliya can see spirits and ghosts the way normal people see cars and dogs and she can always tell them apart. She can also see 'auras', like a fingerprint of the soul, and can tell a fair bit about a person merely from its color, behavior, size, texture and sound.
  
  She can also see ghostly figures flanking each person -- everyone has these, bar none. She calls them echoes. These 'echoes' are people who are incredibly important or very influential to the person that has them. They are not the real people, not even ghosts or spirits -- they are a spiritual projection formed by the person that has them; like an indelible stamp that shaped a person in some very deep and important way. For example, a young child might have echoes of her parents, or of her dog and best friend. These echoes can and will change as a person moves through life and they are shaped by new experiences and relationships. Most people have two or three echoes, but some have more. Everyone has at least one.
  
  Liliya's clairvoyance is so powerful she also has the rarest form -- claircognizance, or 'knowing' things. It is the ability to know things without being able to explain why you know them. For example, she might pick up a piece of knowledge -- this person hates the smell of peaches, lets say -- but doesn't have any context for it. So she'll ask about it and this is why she asks so many strange and unsettling questions that are often incredibly personal. These snatches of information are picked up entirely by accident -- she cannot help but 'know' them and it often confuses her. If she truly concentrates, she can glean more but still lacks a context.
  
  This power has nothing to do with whether or not a person has mental blockades -- she doesn't acquire the information from a person's mind. It just comes to her unbidden and totally at random.
  
  Liliya also has visions, often no more than a 3-7 second flicker, as a result of her clairvoyance. These things are always memories of those around her and they come without warning. Only very strong memories can force themselves on her and are more likely to happen if the person around her is emotionally charged. This is directly tied to her psychic empathy. When this happens, Liliya might repeat what is said in the memory or voice the inner thoughts if they are especially strong, despite who is present. (NOTE: of course, due to the very nature of such outbursts, if any, it will be agreed upon and pre-planned with other players before use. Think of it as a character development device.)

• Psychic Empath
  
  Liliya can feel the emotions of others around her as if they were her own. If someone is happy, she feels their happiness. If someone is sad, she feels their sadness. This power cannot be 'turned off'. She doesn't know the cause of the emotion -- like why they are sad -- but when combined with her claircognizance and telepathy she can guess why they are feeling that way with unsettling accuracy.
  
  Whenever she 'feels' someone's negative emotion she tries to help them by saying something she's picked up from her claircognizance, like saying 'red velvet cupcakes.' She doesn't know what the red velvet cupcakes have to do with anything, she just knows that her friend loves them and misses home and the two are somehow connected. If she doesn't know how to help someone, she'll find someone who does and will blurt out how a person is feeling without warning, usually by quoting or describing something she 'heard'.
  
  Needless to say, it's pretty discomfiting when she does this.
  
  Liliya automatically 'dampens' the intensity of other's emotions but this gets harder the more people there are. She purposefully avoids large crowds because of this.
  
  People CAN defend against her habit of knowing their surface thoughts by focusing intensely on something specific or thinking of nothing. This usually prompts her to ask why they are thinking about tomatoes/that song/a brick wall, etc

• This does not require her to 'get in your head'. In fact, she describes it as being the exact opposite and it's everyone else that's in her head. It's like everyone is broadcasting their emotions and she is a very powerful receiving antenna.

• Retrocognition
  
  Sometimes, Liliya will get fully-submersive visions of the past of the area she is standing in, or from a person she comes into contact with. These are random and can vary in strength from ghostly, super-imposed figures, to a completely immersive experience as if she were there. It may even be her taking the role of the person that the experience belongs to.
  
  She cannot control these visions.
  
  A subset of this power includes 'object reading' -- touching an object and knowing things about its past, things that happened around it, or things about the person it belongs to. With meditation and intense focus, she can glean a great deal of information and/or associations this way, and sometimes establish a to a real-time connection to the owner of the object if they handled it very recently. (Like using a toy to find a lost child.)

• Telepathy
  
  Liliya can speak mind-to-mind as easily as breathing. In fact, she often prefers to speak this way, as this is how she grew up with her parents. Liliya can speak mind-to-mind with someone whether they have psychic talent or not. She uses it so casually that sometimes she doesn't know when she's speaking verbally or mentally. She will respect others wishes to not do it, though, and will only speak telepathically if invited or under extreme duress. When speaking mind-to-mind, Liliya can always understand and speak in that person's language. Language is merely a vehicle for thought and telepathy effectively bypasses the need for verbalization.
  
  She can also hear surface thoughts at random and these often make her giggle. Women are far more 'talkative' then men. These are the little thoughts that zing through our minds all the time without our noticing; its a lot like an extremely crowded cafeteria. You simply cannot pick out one conversation from it all. It's too chaotic and all telepaths must learn to filter it out automatically. Liliya mostly tunes them out entirely and when in a city or around a lot of people she must put up her own mental barriers to block these out.
  
  Only really powerful surface thoughts come to her clear as bell if she is not actively 'speaking' to someone. For example, if a person gets angry at someone but visibly holds themselves back from saying anything, Liliya will hear it clear as day. And she might blurt out, "That isn't what you promised me yesterday, you bastard." Cue a lot of uncomfortable coughing and avoiding eye contact. She doesn't try to hear these; it's like her empathy, they just ram into her mind. This is tied to both her empathy and clairvoyance.
  
  People can block her out though this usually requires a mental discipline and training that isn't common, but can be acquired through a bit of effort -- Liliya will even help people develop this mental shield if they ask. In fact, she appreciates it when people put up a barrier and keep their thoughts 'in' (she doesn't see it as her moving into their minds; to her, it's everyone else reaching out), especially if there are a lot of people around. It makes things 'quieter' and allows her to know people slower and in a less confusing manner. This does not hinder her clairvoyant vision or claircognizance, however.
  
  If a person is actively 'blocking' they can always feel when she is trying to talk to them. It's been described as a mental itch that really wants to be scratched. Note that a person must be actively blocking -- unless another psychic put up mental blocks in their brain, a mental shield more or less requires a small bit of effort. It's rather like holding a door closed with one hand so it won't swing open because of a broken latch. The effort required is small, but still required.
  
  Liliya can and will bust through mental barriers if she has to (or at least TRY). This kind of assertiveness is not natural to her, so that only happens in an emergency or if she's panicked. It's best to think of telepathic conversation as like using Skype: You send a message and then listen for a return. There's no 'getting in your head.' It requires a bit of conscious effort on both parties.

• Pain Transfer
  
  This is one of the more 'combative' mental abilities she has. Liliya can transfer pain from one being to another. Since Liliya can feel others' pain, she doesn't do this lightly and must be enraged (see PERSONALITY) to use it, or protecting herself or others.
  
  This doesn't actually remove pain from the person feeling it -- however, the person receiving their pain feels it just as intensely. This includes Liliya, making someone feel her pain -- even if she has to hurt herself to do it. Obviously, being an empath, she is reluctant to use this ability, since she gets double feedback from both the person feeling the pain, and the person she's sending it too. It hurts.

• Psychic Bomb
  
  Not as dramatic as it may sound, but it's very effective. Over the course her life, Liliya has learned to filter out the mental 'static' that is the random and fleeting thoughts that go through peoples minds every day. Again, like the cafeteria analogy, she's just tuned it out. Otherwise, it'd be a cacophany of scents and sounds and thoughts and emotions racing through her mind to the point of driving her mad.
  
  A psychic bomb is when Liliya forces that extrasensory perception upon another person. They are slammed with dozens of thoughts and sensations of people nearby and it's overwhelming to the senses. It only lasts for a few minutes, but in this time the person is so overcome by hearing and feeling everything of those nearby, they cannot focus on doing anything themselves. This is used as a last ditch effort by Liliya to get away. However, it is very exhausting for her to perform because she's developing a psychic connection to many people all at once.

• Psychic Camouflage
  
  This is related to her perception alteration and suggestion powers; it borrows a from both but belongs to neither.
  
  Liliya uses this to pass below all notice -- she'll simply project the thought that the room is empty, that she is dim and covered in shadow, that she is far too boring to be noticed. Because it is so subtle and the polar opposite of drastic, it always works. People don't think to look for an albino girl they don't expect to see. So when she alters their perception of her presence into something incredibly dim and boring, it's going along with their thoughts, not against them, and thus its success. It'd be another matter entirely if she tried to MAKE them see something different; in this case, she's actually going along with their own inclinations.
  
  This renders her perceptually invisible -- rather like telling the brain to not record the visual data that is her. She has been able to veil herself and one other person but they must be very close together, preferably hugging. This also requires a great deal more concentration and the more people she tries to hide, the much harder it is to do.
  
  Because she's relied upon her psychic camouflage to survive for most of her life, it is incredibly good and very subtle. Thus, it affects even the strongest minds. (However, once they are aware of it, it's much easier for them to see through it.) This is her automatic defense as well -- if she is feeling even slightly uncomfortable, she will broadcast the 'you can't see me, I'm not here' aura to everyone within range. The person still sees her -- the brain just never really forms that visual data into a moment of recognition. It's literally like hiding in plain sight.
  
  People's eyes and attention just slide over her. She's made herself so nondescript as to be beneath noticing. They must specifically be looking for her to find her and even then it's like trying to bring an extremely blurry image into focus. When they stop focusing on her, after a few minutes they don't even notice she's there again, thinking she'd left the room or walked away when they didn't realize. They do not forget she exists, they merely lose track of her. HOWEVER, she is easily still seen via cameras or digital displays -- if there's no mind to suggest 'you don't see me' she will be seen.

• Dream Walking
  
  Liliya can insert herself into a person's dream state, so long as they do not have psychically-placed mental barriers. This can be applied for a variety of reasons. Let's say someone has been in a coma for ten years -- Liliya can step into their dreaming landscape and walk around. She cannot change anything. She is basically just an observer with a voice. (Think of it like the movie 'The Cell', where a psychiatrist enters coma patients minds/dreams to engage in therapy.) All she can do is explore the dreamscape and talk to the person's self-manifestation within that dream -- IF she can find them. The only person who can actually change the dream is the dreamer themselves, and Liliya CAN help them do that -- if they are willing to try.
  
  She can also enter a person's dreams to impart a message or give a warning. It will have that kind of fuzzy, dream-like quality to it, but the subject will be remember whatever Liliya told them.
  
  She can use this ability to jolt someone awake, but it's a crap-shoot if they've been knocked out. It could work or it could not.
  
  If someone nearby is having a particularly vicious nightmare and Liliya is asleep as well, it's possible she'll get 'pulled' into the nightmare unwillingly. Her crystal pendent always comes with her and it can transform in any number of ways. It is her guide, her sword, her shield. It's the one part of the dream she can control at will and it can be used to alter parts of the dream itself, but very slightly. It's difficult to do.

• Animal Empathy and Control
  
  Liliya is incredibly sensitive to all thoughts and feelings -- animals included. She loves animals and says they are all inherently 'innocent'. Their thoughts are very small and simple, whereas people's are loud and tangled. Animals seem to sense a loving soul in Liliya and they immediately take a liking to her. She can calm even the meanest guard dog in a few seconds and soon have a trained attack dog licking her hand like a puppy. Even she isn't sure how it works; she just lets them 'know' they are safe and won't be harmed and they warm to her quickly.
  
  If needed, Liliya can control animals as well. From birds to lions, she can control their minds and see and hear through their senses. It is not painful and the animals aren't even aware of her presence. She spent a great deal of her childhood doing this, mostly with small birds -- when she says she knows what it is like to fly, she means it.

• Medium
  
  Liliya can see and communicate with ghosts, spirits and other entities. She is sensitive to angels, demons, and everything in between. She can even summon a spirit to her if she really tries, but this always has mixed results (as so many things do, with the ghostly realm.) She can drive evil spirits away through sheer force of will, though she has the advantage because she is alive. She can talk to them and hold conversations with them, often trying to get them let go of the past and find rest. People or places or things can be haunted and in such case, she always tries to help get rid of the angry ghosts.
  
  Liliya can always distinguish between a ghost/spirit/other entity and the real world. This includes those creepy visions she may pick up through her Retrocognition. Doesn't fool her for a second -- but that doesn't make it seem or feel any less real.

Abilities:

• Master in Tracking and Trapping
  
  Having lived in the Siberian wilderness nearly her entire life, Liliya design traps and capture game better than any survivalist. Tracking skill level: Aragorn.

• Master Wilderness Survival Skills
  
  Includes knowing how to make a shelter, build a fire, filter water, what plants are edible and which are poisonous, how to farm the land, tanning skins, making clothes from tanned pelts, how to make tools and weapons, how to treat snake/bug/animal bites and bind wounds, how to cut trees, how to avoid dangerous wildlife, how to store food, how to treat exposure..... Basically, everything you need to know and do to survive in the wild with just a knife.

Weapons/Equipment:

• Diamond-Drop Crystal Prism
  
  This crystalline prism is in the shape of a diamond drop, like what you find on chandeliers all the time. About 3 inches long. It has the heavy weight of genuine lead crystal and when held up in the light, it casts thousands of rainbows.
  
  Liliya wears this on a scrap of string around her neck and uses it to induce a hypnotic trance to focus her powers. When in a particularly vivid nightmare or dream, she uses it as a focus to ground herself and to assert some kind of control over the dream world -- like unlocking a closed door. In her own dreams, (and she can get some real doozies) she can use it to transform into anything. Mostly, she uses it to point the way 'out' of the dream.
  
  Somehow, for reasons even she can't explain, Liliya is incredibly attuned to this crystal. She can always find it no matter where it is -- she says it has a 'song' she can always hear. If this crystal is a continent away, she will know what direction it in (but not the exact place/city, just the direction.) She could put it on a truck, have said truck drive into the city, and be able to locate the truck with unerring accuracy.
  

• Hunting Knife and Hatchet:
  
  Old and worn, this knife has been sharpened many times but has withstood the test of time and use. It's Liliya's personal utility knife, given to her by her father. She used it for every day chores, like skinning, setting traps, and so on. The manufacturer's stamp is almost totally worn away.
  The hatchet is finely made and also worn from much use. The blade is kept very sharp and it can chop off a branch with one good blow.
  

• Tarot Cards:
  
  Given to her by her mother before she left, these cards are handmade and painted with exquisite detail. They are gorgeous, using metallic paints and enamels to make the imagery startlingly realistic. Some are beautiful and others, incredibly unnerving.

History:

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union started seriously researching what most consider supernatural or paranormal areas of interest. 'Pseudo-science' at its best. In particular, a controlled-breeding eugenics program was established to produce naturally gifted and powerful psychics. This program was top secret and ran for a few generations, all in an attempt to get an edge on the Soviet Union's enemies.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, all order went out the window. The most secret documents were either lost or destroyed. Officials were killed in the revolution and all the people in the psychic eugenics program suddenly found themselves in the wind.

Most of these people fled as far as they could from the chaos, fearful of their abilities making them a target -- for either the bloodthirsty mobs, or a ruthless new regime. Liliya's parents were among them, and she was born not long after the collapse.

For many years, this little 'colony' of psychics lived off the land, a hard and isolated life, but also a very safe one. Liliya grew up learning how to live off the land the hard way, with no advanced technology and no need for medicine since many in her little village were gifted with healing abilities.

Five years ago her father, an incredibly powerful precog, was given a startling vision: Darkness was coming. A threat beyond imagining would endanger the entire earth and his daughter would be the one to go out into the world to bring light where it was needed. She would help warriors in their fight and in two years time, she would be taken from them.

After consulting every spirit, spectral guide, and even beseeching an angelic messenger, the vision was confirmed -- a war was coming and Liliya, for whatever reason, had been Chosen to aid the fight. Knowing better than to try and alter the lines of fate, the village decided to prepare Liliya as best they could for the world she would be soon thrust into.

They tried to teach her English, what little they could recall from their spy days. Unfortunately, much of their knowledge of English has faded and what they were taught focused on details like satellites, troop movements, and other details that spies are tasked to find. They also let her walk in their memories of cities, the people, the sounds, the buildings. However, those are still cities from the 70's.

When the day finally came, Liliya was transported by the Seer to a random corner of New York City. From the Siberian wilds to the urban jungle in the time it takes to walk through a doorway. It is here where Liliya first realizes she was not nearly prepared for the strange new world that needs her help.


Weaknesses: 

• Brain Over Brawn
  
  Liliya is strong and healthy from a hard life working to survive in Siberia. You had to carry your weight if you wanted to eat. She can use a hatchet very handily and knows her way around a knife as well. That said, however, Liliya is NOT confrontational. No matter who you are, she approaches with a smile and compassion. Even if you're a villain.

• Withdrawn and Shy
  
  Liliya never commanded a bold or assertive personality. She was always quiet and prone to distractions through her gift. Her 'family' (including the other psychics that escaped, not just her parents) was a small group who understood her gifts and she never felt uneasy with them. She lived with an easy kind of grace and a half-there attention to the world that was just accepted.
  
  Now she is thrust into a world full of people, with their thoughts screaming at her nonstop and she feels like she is always under assault from the sheer multitudes of thoughts cramming into her mind. This has done nothing to bring her out of her shell and in fact makes her even more jumpy, shy and slow to trust. Liliya has a habit of darting away when confronted and hiding wherever she can.

• Raised in the Wilderness
  
  Liliya was born and raised in the wilds of Siberia. She has never been to a major city before. She doesn't know what a phone or a car or Facebook is. She's never had a latte or a Pop Tarts or tasted chocolate. She had seen some of these images from the minds of her family, but never really understood what they were. Now she's in a world that's totally alien to her. She has no idea what a phone is, no clue about modern lifestyle systems. She's utterly baffled by social structures that seem to want to keep people apart and alone. She's very much a stranger in a strange land.
  
  Further, Liliya cannot let her mind just stay wide 'open' as she used to in Siberia. There's simply way too many people. She must hold back the range of her powers to a very small radius, about 30-100 feet, depending on how many people there are.

• Completely. Naive.
  
  Liliya is a complete outsider to the modern way of life. She takes things at face value and is utterly clueless about things we take for granted. Like money. Fashion. Traffic jams. TV. Fast food. With her curiosity she asks about everything she possibly can. This also means she'll ask about things she doesn't realize are inappropriate or sensitive. She can be easily duped by just about anyone, and doesn't know enough to realize when something is suspicious. She also has no idea who infamous villains are and will approach them just as easily as anyone else, simply wanting to help them feel better.

• Weakness to Insanity
  
  Liliya cannot tolerate insanity, TRUE insanity. Everyone has issues -- but very few people are straight-up crazy. Whenever her mind touches that of an insane person, she feels crippling pain and cannot focus on anything. All she wants to do is run away. All she can do is scream. She has utterly no control or influence on crazy people.

• Fear of Imprisonment
  
  More than anything, Liliya fears being in a cage. She grew up surrounded by nothing but open land and sky and freedom all around her. Even walking down streeths lined with skyscrapers makes her feel nervous. Enclosed spaces are even worse and she feels like she's getting cornered. This means a bathroom better have a window in it, or she'll leave the door open.

• Fear of Being Alone
  
  Much as Liliya cannot bear the mental overload of being in a city, at least she can shield herself from the majority of it. But she cannot ever fill in the empty silence made by total isolation. Liliya can always 'hear' people around her, even if they are sleeping. She's always had the presences of others surrounding her, and she's become so used to it, she feels naked without it there. In total isolation, with no one in mental range, she'll scream and scream and scream just to fill the silence. As it is, she desires to be close to people but not too close -- someone in the room is enough for her.

• Emotional Powers:
  
  Liliya's powers are dependent on her emotions, for now. (Eventually, she will grow out of this as she gets older and more experienced, but that's a long way off.) If she is experiencing a very strong emotion -- fear, anger, desperation -- her powers will be much stronger and incredibly hard to resist. However, this is temporary and the enhanced qualities immediately recede.
  

Other Information:

• Her mental 'range' is a 50 mile radius -- obviously, this isn't feasible in a city.

• She can tell whenever someone is lying, so long as that person is not a sociopath or insane. This doesn't make her a truth detector -- she can only 'feel' the mental twinge when a lie is deliberately told. If a person says something that isn't true, but they BELIEVE it is true, she wouldn't be able to tell that they just lied.
  
  

• Rather good at playing the ocarina.
  

• She can hold multiple telepathic conversations at once and can always identify someone by the 'sound and texture' of their mind. She can also hear something think to her if they simply focus a little mildly and form a sentence in their mind.

• She loves cute animal things, but is embarrassed to admit it.
  

• Her favorite animal is the Siberian Tiger. She had a 'pet' one back home, named Gavriil.
  

• She often appears to act much younger than her age because of her complete innocent approach to the world. She wears her heart on her sleeve and gets hurt, not understanding why no one else does as well. To her, it just makes sense to be open and honest so that old wounds can heal.

• Is actually quite religious, nominally Eastern Orthodox (her family didn't take many books with them, but one very well-worn Bible was carried the whole way) but if you talk to her about it, she's got some very strange insights into the whole matter. Most of these insights don't make much sense and are due to her psychic gifts.

• She loves to dance and bake. She's rather good at cooking as well, and delights in using new spices.
  

• Scarily accurate with Tarot cards.