Tatiana Maksim | Law ●

[Tatiana Maksim]

Name: Tatiana Dominika Maksim Age: Eighteen Gender: Female Sexuality: Demiromantic Gray A Faction: Law Occupation: High School Student / Cashier Playby: Vocaloid, utatane piko Traits Positive Moral Confident Expressive Loving Kind Perceptive Humorous Negative Overly Opinionated Loud Antagonistic Sarcastic Obstinate Proud Clingy Coming someday \o/ History Valerian Markov was a young Russian immigrant who managed to make his way to America looking for a better life. At the tender age of eighteen, the young man had somehow managed to enter the country and get his citizenship. He did so, perhaps, by less than legal means, entering with a rather large group of Russian immigrants. The people who helped him into the country assured him he could pay them back later, assured him that they would give him time to find a job and get settled before they came for their money. Perhaps if Valerian hadn’t romanced, and promptly impregnated, the daughter of one of these men they wouldn’t have been so lenient with his debt. As it was, though, Lora managed to convince her father to allow her to marry Valerian. He was put to work for the family company for an indefinite period of time, and forced to settle down before he even saw the end of his teen years. Whether wooing Lora to get off his debt was planned, or whether it was a ‘happy’ accident, no one can ever be sure. Valerian kept this information to himself, and he treated his new wife kindly and warmly. The two fell in love before the birth of their eldest son, Vadim. Vadim would not even been three years old before his younger sister, Tatiana, was born. Tatiana would never be told about the sketchy way that her father entered the country, nor would she be told about the less than ideal circumstances revolving around her parents’ marriage. Just as children are supposed to be, she was kept blissfully unaware of the darker things in life. Her biggest worry was Vadim stealing her toys, but she proved to be just as fierce as her elder brother as she aged. The children got into intense fights often, but they loved and protected one another as well. Their parents were proud, and their grandparents bought them presents often. In many ways, their life was ideal. School would begin for the girl right on time, and despite her initial excitement, she would soon learn that it wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. She was too rough for most of the girls, and the boys wanted little to do with her. Her eyes also seemed to be a point of interest for the children, with many of them choosing to make fun of her for them. She had an extremely difficult time fitting in, and before she had even been in school for six months she was begging her parents to home-school her. Her mother was all for it, however, her father disagreed. He sat her down and gently explained that she couldn’t run away from things just because they were hard. He told her things would get better, she just had to be strong and give it time. These words, some of the last she ever heard her father speak, would stick with her for the rest of her life. It would be on that very night that the young girl’s life would be turned upside down. They were driving home after going out for dinner when a deer jumped out in front of the car. Her father swerved to miss, the car went off the road, and the next thing Tatiana knew, she was waking up in the hospital. The news that her family was dead distressed the young girl more than words could possibly convey. In one night, she lost everything. Everything went from perfect and warm to cold and painful in the blink of an eye. Discussions on where she would go, on who would keep her, were extensive. Her mother was an only child, her father’s family was back in Russia. Her grandmother had died two years previously, and her grandfather’s mental health was failing. It became clear that there was no immediate or even extended family that was willing or able to take her, and therefore she was placed in an orphanage. Life at the orphanage wasn’t so bad, really, or at least it wouldn’t have been, except she became the object of bullying there as well. Even though literally no child there had someone willing to take them, they picked on her for it. Perhaps it was because she was new, perhaps it was because she kept them up all night crying, maybe it was just because kids are cruel. Tatiana will never know what caused those children to want to pick on her, but at first she was too numb to really care. She barely ate, she barely slept, and she only left her bed when she was forced to. It took her nearly two years (and uncountable therapy sessions) before she came back around to herself a bit. The first thing to come back to her was the last piece of advice her father gave her. Determined not to let him down anymore, Tatiana refused to be the object of bullying anymore. She defended herself fiercely, pushing bounds often enough that she made the other children scared of her. Rather than befriend any of the children who had picked on her previously, Tatiana took in children who were new to the orphanage. Most of the time these children were younger than her, frailer, they needed protection – and she provided it. She didn’t want to see anyone go through what she’d gone through, and she taught the kids to protect themselves as well. Years would pass in this way, with several of these children getting adopted. She had a mix of emotions each time. Sadness because she would miss them, happiness because they had a new family, and jealousy because she didn’t. She never thought that anyone could replace her old family, but at least having someone would be better… wouldn’t it? The girl would quickly become a bully, justifying the way she treated the children who weren’t under her protection by saying they were bullies. And, at first, it really was only the other bullies that she picked on, mostly the ones who had picked on her. However, as months and years passed, her morals degraded even more. The children that she took in were quickly becoming bullies as well, or doing anything to make themselves useful to her. By the time that someone expressed interest in adopting her, she had already decided that she didn’t want to be adopted. She was happy where she was, with her friends. She knew how life worked in the orphanage, she was comfortable there. However, before she knew it, she was meeting the Maksim family. Tricks like pretending she could only speak Russian didn’t seem to put this family off at all, since they were actually from Russia as well. This was, perhaps, what caused her attitude to change a bit. The accents, the hair colors, the stories, everything reminded her of her father. She eventually opened up to them, Adam and Nikolai especially, and allowed herself to be tentatively excited about joining their family. Her behavior improved tenfold as the adoption process went through – she didn’t want to do something to make them not want her. The other children she had gathered around her didn’t seem to understand, and they were bitter. They turned their backs on her, and the last of her time spent in the orphanage was lonely. Adjusting to life at the Maksim household wasn’t too very difficult for her. She had to get back into the habit of making her own bed, cleaning her own room, and doing her own chores, but it felt like home. She’d had to do all of those things before she went to the orphanage, and she actually felt like an individual with her new family. Sure, there were a lot of them, but she never just felt like another mouth to feed. She always felt loved and accepted, and she rather quickly grew to love them as well. Perhaps she was a little clingy, and she did turn into a bit of a mess if she didn’t know where someone was, but she was never made to feel bad for these things and with love and support she was able to move on from them for the most part. The girl still rather loved picking fights, however, she never degraded back into being a bully again. She didn’t pick on people, and surrounded herself with friends who didn’t mind her harsh nature. She got into plenty of fights, some she started and some she didn’t, but they were always fair fights. She didn’t prey on the weak, and she always let the other person throw the first swing. Somehow, in her mind, that made it okay – even if she goaded them into it. She got into trouble plenty of times, and was obviously reprimanded at home, but it would take years for her to calm down any at all. She was a junior in high school before she stopped goading people into fights every other week. What caused her to calm was, arguably, maturity. Whatever it was that caused her to want to fight with people lessened, and she mostly got her kicks through verbal arguments. Her grades began to improve as she decided that she wanted to be a doctor someday. She wanted to save people, as many people as she could. Maybe she could keep families together that way, and she would be able to take care of her own family better anyway. She delved into her to studies, managing to maintain A’s in all of her classes by the time her senior year rolled around. The college application process for her took place around the same time as the event, and she wished to be accepted at all of the colleges she applied to. Obviously the evented narrowed her choices down to two, but Barclay had been at the top of her list of schools she wanted to go to anyway. She was granted her power and her insignia appeared thereafter. Insignia Level 1 Psychic Navigation – Level One – Tatiana’s power gives her the ability to know where any object or person is at any given time. She has to have already met the person or touched the object for her power to work, but after that she can get a general idea of its location no matter where it is in the toybox. She doesn’t know its exact location, but she is able to get close enough that’s it’s a simple matter to find it once she goes to the general location. The power drains her energy rather quickly, so typically she can use it for about ten minutes. After that, she has to wait several hours before she can use it again. To activate her power, she simply needs to touch the insignia on her ankle and think about what she’s wanting to find. Her insignia takes the form of a compass on the outside of her right ankle. Vera – Passive – Tatiana’s passive takes the form of a blue-throated macaw. The macaw isn’t any different from any other bird, it doesn’t seem, except she always returns to Tatiana at the end of the day and she doesn’t need to be kept in a cage. Extra Literally anything extra. If you want to go into more detail about anything above, add trivia/etc to the character, then please do so. Likes/Dislikes- anything that you wish to go into, you can put it here. OOC OOC Name: Ellie How did you find us?: Nai <3 Other Characters: mercy kill.

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