Diana Vicktoriya Maksim ●

[Diana Maksim]

Name: Diana Vicktoriya Maksim Age: 27 Gender: Female Sexuality: Bisexual Faction: Criminal Occupation: Bounty Hunter Playby: Fairy Tail, Lisanna Strauss Traits Positive Outgoing Musically Inclined. Favors a tennor saxophone Optimist Independent Intelligent Outspoken Determined Resourceful Tough Negative Aggressive Socially Distant unless challenged or interested outside of family Feminist Impulsive Over Protective Judgemental Competitive Quick Tempered Vengeful History Diana was the first of the Maksim biological children to be born in the United States. She was born on February 15th to much fanfare and hoopla of their parents Adam and Irine. Her parents dreams of a better life in America were coming true as their hard work paid off in abundant fruits of their labors. It was easy in the non-oppressive free market system of the USA. A dream and hard work was all it took to succeed with the already proven ventures they practiced in Russia. The Maksims were a hard working couple who while extremely busy building their new lives, still found the time to instill their values, ideals, and work ethic in Diana as she grew up. Even as a young child she was made responsible for making her own bed and picking out her own clothes, sorting her laundry and other tasks. She was taught to always put forth her best efforts in whatever she did, and to finish things she started. It wasn't long before another Maksim was born, and Diana's parents started adopting children. Diana treated her adopted brothers and sisters no differently than she did Nik or Yulia. As their family grew Diana followed in the footsteps of her older brother in caring for the others siblings to ease the burden on him and their parents. This did not mean that Diana did not have an otherwise normal childhood. She had her big brother Nikolai to look after her. She never had the problem of "Being the only girl" so to speak since he always entertained her and played with her for the first few years before Yulia was born. So much so that she thought he was her big sister for years until it became rather obvious that he was "different" in some ways. However, the realization that "Nikol", as she called him, was actually a boy and not a girl would lead to the development of feminism traits in her. She never actually accepted him as a boy, and sees males in general as inferior to females. This attitude further changed Diana in the years ahead as she became more competitive and challenged her peers to prove that her views were correct. In elementary and even junior high school, everything was normal for the most part. Diana was seen as outgoing and dedicated. She was a role model for the other students. Honor roll every year. Into a wide range of clubs and activities. There didn't seem to be anything she couldn't excel at. She loved music, it seemed to be something hereditary since most, if not all of the biological Maksims, and even the adopted, had a talent. But there were other things she was into that was not main stream. She liked to work out. She also took archery and marksmanship lessons, and joined a mixed martial arts school Once Dina got into High School, her obsession with proving herself started to take its toll. She insisted on joining the previously predominant male sports like Football and wrestling. There were no facilities for girls in place, but Diana had her mind made up and so her family's threat of a lawsuit to force admittance and compliance with civil rights mandates did not make her very popular with the coaches or jocks. To make things worse, everyone underestimated diana's resolve. Diana humiliated and showed off quite a few of the boys so that she became a target, not only the opposing teams, but her own team members. As strong as she was for a girl, she was no match for vindictive and sexist boys and found herself intentionally hurt on purpose on many occasions while the coaches looked the other way. Diana would not quit, however, so one day she found herself faced with a group of masked youths. It didn't take a genius to guess they were probably some of the ones she'd humiliated and they'd banned together for revenge. She was alone in the gym after staying late as she usually did to work-out. She was on her way to the girls locker room and showers when they cornered her. When they tried to jump her, she surprised them when she rushed forward and kneed the biggest of the four in the groin and balled him over with a shoulder shove. Her quick wit made their surprise attack fail. She would have gotten away if he was the only one. She ran and screamed for help, but the locker rooms were bellow level and the boys had made sure to close the doors so no one would hear her. She wasn't fast enough to make up for their numbers, even as she managed to dance out of their grasps at first. Others surrounded and grabbed her, and again, if it had been just two, she might have stood a chance. She took the first few blows well, and kicked and punched, landing more than her share of blows, but she'd never been hit like that before and found herself reeling. Her own blows were light in comparison to the males. She wasn't strong enough in the end. Diana was a girl, after all, and though taller than most and in very good shape, it was just not enough. Even the Mixed martial arts she'd learned was not enough against so many. They rushed her and drug her down punching and kicking her as she tried her best to protect herself. When she went into a fetal position to protect her face, they took it as a sign that she was beaten. She almost begged for them to let her go, but when two of them began undoing their pants as another tried to pull at her sweat pants. Diana screamed realizing that they meant to rape her and lashed out in anger. The Judo portion of her mixed martial arts and wrestling saved her then. No matter how hard they tried, they could not hold down the wildcat that was Diana. As long as she could get her hands and legs on them, she was able to break their holds and used their weight against them as they tried unsuccessfully to hold her down. They gave up on the idea of rape when she'd kicked two more of them in the groin. No longer in the mood, they resumed her beating and left her bloody and unconscious. The attackers were never caught. Diana's list of who they could have been was a mile long, and there was no evidence and no witnesses. Diana changed after that. She developed anger issues, mostly towards males. She returned after being out on medical leave for a week refusing to transfer out of the school as mom and dad wanted. She became angry when anyone tried to talk to her about it. They agreed to let her stay, but only on the condition that she quit the football and wrestling teams. She reluctantly agreed. She would not be bested and forced to leave the school. She could not exact her revenge otherwise. In addition, other changes started to happen as the time passed. Frequent fights, verbal and physical, and Suspensions. Her grades slipping to borderline failing. Unknown to her younger sister Yulia, part of the reason for the violence was Diana protecting her behind the scenes. Some wanted to get to Diana by attacking her younger sister when she started High School. Diana wouldn't allow any such thing. She relentlessly investigated every rumor and dealt with each threat. With her problems at school, and parental pressure at home demanding she do better, Diana continued to become increasingly frustrated. She was not very social to begin with. More of a lone wolf. Getting the reputation of a rogue and a troublemaker compounded her social problems. Finding herself increasingly isolated, she turned to the only peers who seemed to appreciate her point of view, if not to simply take advantage of her. Diana's new friends were part of a makeshift "gang" of unruly girls for lack of a better word. Diana used them as well. She got even with each and every one of the boys who she thought had a part in hurting her. Thanks to her new friends, it didn't matter that the boys started walking in pairs and then groups. Diana called on the gang and the boys all got what they deserved and more. She didn't have them fight for her, but they took care of the ones that were not her target while Diana herself fought, though if she was loosing, all bets were off. And not just once either. Diana's thirst for vengeance could not be quenched. None would admit to being targeted and terrorized by girls so Diana and her friends got away with their deeds more times than not. When a national gang recruited her friends into a real gang, Diana became indebted to the girls in the gang for their help and was trapped. She'd have to work off her debt by participating in gang activities until her debt was satisfied. She took part in more than a few Illegal activities, which she either successfully kept from her family, or were "taken care of" by her older brother Nik and Yulia in secret. The last straw came after her senior year. Having taken care of part of the reason she was frustrated, Diana managed to graduate by working hard and making up a lot of the work she missed. The gang was cool to this. They did not hinder her efforts to graduate. However, after she graduated they called in their debts. Diana was arrested on a botched robbery of a financial institution. She wanted to get out of that gang and took on a risky en-devour that promised to settle her "debt", so to speak. It had to be successful in order to be binding. Mistakes were made, however and in the end all she could do to end her plight was sacrifice herself. When the cops showed she acted as a decoy and let herself get caught and take the rap while the others made a clean getaway. Diana simply kept her mouth shut like she'd gone mute. No one could get caught or the deal was off. She said nothing. Not a word to the police or anyone, aside from sarcastic remarks. Not even her parents could get her to disclose what happened. She simply shut everything off. It wasn't till Nik came in having left on emergency leave from college and confronted her that she broke her silence since he threatened to let her go to jail unless she said something and explained herself. If found guilty she could get 20 years total. She cried then. She told Nikolai everything. She said she'd done it for him. For her family. She promised it was to quit the gang and turn her life around. Nik was in the middle of law school and called in some favors to have a friend take her case. It was not difficult to declare a mistrial and move for an acquittal. It was impossible for the prosecution to convince a jury that Diana had committed the crime by herself. In fact, other than the fact that she was caught there and implicated herself, there was no evidence whatsoever tying her to the actual deed. She was there as the gang's security policy, after all. The feds and state dropped the charges rather than be humiliated by cross-examinations. They had the burden of providing proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Years passed and Diana eventually gave up on college. She just couldn't stand being around the silly students and their "party life" nonsense. Nothing the college offered was appealing to her, and the law enforcement route Nikol kept trying to get her to pursue was too restricting. Too many laws and rules to follow. She knew it would be too constricting to her style. The most peculiar thing happened shortly after. A being claiming to be a God approached her and offered to grant her a single wish. She scoffed at first and turned and started to walk away while she blurted out "Like, make me stronger and faster than men?... Whatever you're smoking, snorting, or shooting up that's making you thing you're a god... Get a refund. Its a bad batch." She turned to laugh but found it had gone. Vanished right before her eyes. She went to bed that night and jumped out of her skin the next morning when she was awakened by a snow leopard cub. But it wasn't the leopard itself that startled her. It was the fact that it talked. And it knew her name. She named her Artemis, and Arty had quite a bit to say about the new tattoo-like mark at the nape of her neck and what it could do. A few months later Diana took a clerical job with a bail bonds company that was right across the street from the courthouse she was almost sent to jail from, ironically enough, and found her calling as she watched the local bounty hunters walk in daily with fugitives in hand. It was perfect! She could kick arse catching bad guys without having her hands tied as cops did. A license to be bad. She waited for the group of three she favored to walk in the next day and asked to join. They laughed, of course, which was a big mistake on their part. Diana's quick wit and gang experienced smart mouth had them hot under the collar when she insulted their manhood's and called them all cowards.... using some rather colorful words to get her point across. They took her up on her offer to step outside, thinking to humiliate her and teach her a lesson. However, the laugh was on them when she took them all down, and even made the youngest of the group cry for his mamma. With that, she was in. They taught her what they knew, got her licensed, and put her to work. Insignia Level 1 Insignia: A double bow with arrow on the nape of her neck. Drawing a "D" on it with her finger activates her power. Familiar/Companion. (Passive): A white snow leopard kitten with blue eyes which Diana named Artemis follows Diana around. The cat taught Diana how to use her gift and is there to warn her if she is in danger of exceeding her limits. Artemis is visible to all, but like a hologram, has no substance or physical body. She is capable of briefly taking on the form of an adult leopard. While others can only hear normal cat sounds from Artemis, Diana seems to understand her as if she was speaking English. The cat, however, understands English perfectly. Excelsior 2x -Level 1-: Upon touching her insignia, Diana's normal abilities double in intensity. Be it strength, agility, speed, etc. Diana can double her abilities for 15 minutes at a time before needing to rest and replenish. Increased ability requires increased metabolism which burns her stores of energy and she needs to eat and (or) sleep to replenish her stores before being able to use her ability again. In addition she is prone to heat exhaustion and dehydration since her body generates double the heat and sweats that much more to try to cool itself. Limits include 300lb max lift. Enhancement also includes her emotional state, which makes the ability an archiles heel at times. An example being anger. If she is already angry or becomes angry while under the influence of her gift, she may find herself making rash decisions or being completely blinded to reason or morality as if berserk and may do something she would otherwise have not. Trying to use her gift before she can fully recover will result in loosing consciousness shortly after due to not having the energy stores to burn. OOC OOC Name: Widget How did you find us?: Nai Other Characters: ---

[Neko]

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