ooc information
PLAYER: ellie
CONTACT: pm, nereids. feel free to hit me up for my discord!
ETC: currently on est time! i work from home so my schedule is on flux, most of the time. i'm most active during nights and when i can sneak in tags during the weekday. i'm a big fan of boomeranging when time allows for the stars and schedules to align, so always feel free to nudge me if you want to boomerang/slowmerang a thread!

ic information
CHARACTER: alina starkov
CANON: shadow & bone (tv edition)
CANON POINT: mid ep 8, specifically right after novosibirsk is swallowed by the fold
INFO:

local orphan & cartographer gets thrust into a position of power that she never wanted, is considered an Actual Saint by the world, becomes Human Sunbeam. alina comes from fantasy russia (ravka), a country split in two by a dark rift known as the fold, only to discover she's the answer to destroying said rift. alina is ravka's prophesized sun summoner, born with the ability to wield light, on a journey of self-discovery as a result of being pushed into said power, in your archetypal Chosen One story.

alina's relationship status with her role in the world can be summed up as It's Complicated. as for alina herself: she's an outsider who has always felt lonely and ostracized, and recently has a lot of pain and distrust over being used for her power & betrayed by the people she once trusted. she's scrappy and a little guarded, stubborn and strong-willed, while also riddled with self-doubt and a whole heaping of sarcasm. but! she's also incredibly loyal to those she's managed to befriend, compassionate, and tends to be sunshine both literally and figuratively — though some of this is used to cover up her own grief.

at the heart of her story, alina is searching for somewhere she's safe and accepted and belongs, for who she is more than what she is.

(also important to note: has a tendency to be a feral gremlin and reckless idiot.)

REGRET:

being found and captured by kirigan before she could claim the stag's power for herself (and the destruction that occurred in the fold and the lives lost, as a result of her mistakes).

CR WISHLIST:

— despite being a hero type, alina can mesh well with morally grey types when their plights are sympathetic — and can easily be fooled by morally evil/selfish types that hide it well, because of her naivete. always open to corruptive/bad influences that alina is stupidly convinced to trust.

— friends! alina gets on best with other outsiders & misfits. i'm also very invested in building deep cr with these relationships; alina does get along well, but has issues with opening up more deeply to people and a whole shitload of trust issues when it comes to people showing her kindness/sympathy because it's been 1) rare in her life 2) when it wasn't rare, it came with ulterior motives.

alternatively, building up allies as a means of protecting herself.

— i also am open to negative cr, especially when it comes to clashes over ideological differences or forcing characters who don't like one another to team up and start accidentally relating to one another more than they'd like to. which is very niche but!! negative cr is interesting to me in general, but only when there's good reasons for it and the relationship itself has many layers to it. c:

— alina has a tendency to be drawn to mentor figures as well, and she's working on getting stronger, so ?? combatants who can continue to work on her training, other power-wielding people to continue improving on her sun summoning, etc.

— for the most part, though, i prefer organic cr and just sort of seeing where it leads us on its own.

RECAP:

alina has been here since the very first mission, in which she ... spent nearly all of it locked up in a magical prison because she got caught snooping. she helped to defeat cheruvia in the brass devil mission by blasting her with light and then falling through the floor, and continued her reckless streak into the third mission in kilnan by feeding the orb, which had the consequences of her holing up in the infirmary.

also found the princess and mentally adopted her along the way by relating to aureliah's plight too deeply.

during scorpion's bend, alina was a liability due to pulsefire reacting strongly to her status as a lamp. for the most part, she was content to live in her own world and ignore the orb, despite the complex feelings she's stirred up in herself — truthfully, she deeply regrets pulling welford from his illusion after it was made clear he's fated to suffer an eternity alone. welford's fate has triggered a lot of complex feelings she isn't, at the moment, addressing.

in sedorum, alina debated the morality of being sorted into heaven vs hell & the fallout of her own mistakes in trusting the wrong people. additionally, she put her back behind entr'i to start viva la revolution in hell, and was made a commander in the sedorum army. during the final log, she helped to take down v'rizz.

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