ROMANOVA, Aleksandra

[style= text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;]Aleksandra Irina Romanova

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NAME: Aleksandra Irina Romanova
AGE WHEN TURNED: 19
AGE: 124
GENDER: Female
BIRTHDAY: 20th of December
STATUS: Queen
PLAYBY: Bryce Dallas Howard

CREATOR: Nadia Ulyanova
COVEN: Achaphen, lead coven

MOTHER: Katarina
FATHER Joseph
BROTHERS: Leonid, Anatoly, Sergei, Pavlov
SISTERS: Svetlana,
EXTENDED FAMILY:
PETS:

Not a towering figure in the least, Iris stands at a meager five feet six and lacks the imposing build often inherent to leaders. She possesses fine, feminine curves and is pale as the snows of her homeland. Reputedly, the queen of Achaphen has a lovely, everlasting smile yet men and humans of any kind often comment on her ability to petrify with her green eyes alone. Her face is somewhat stern looking, with thin eyebrows and slightly elevated cheekbones. Aleksandra's fiery red curls tend to be pulled up as befitting of her aristocratic background, yet her true loyalties are represented by the hammer and sickle that have been tattooed onto an unmentionable part of her physique. The queen's attire usually consists of a simple, fashionable dress. Lastly, Aleksandra despises jewelry and cosmetics and hasn't been witnessed donning such products since the turn of the twentieth century.

Dominant, arrogant, stubborn, uncompromising and completely uninterested in compromise - Aleksandra was made queen by virtue of not only her intellect, but her ruthlessness also. She is incredibly patient and reasons that, given the right circumstances, her day will come eventually and that, if something refuses to happen today, it surely will happen tomorrow. To Aleksandra there is a touch of sadism, an innate love for witnessing the anguish of others that will often express itself in the queen's treatment of her of her underlings. Though often cold and calculating, the queen of Alaska is fierce and will rise to any challenge if only to prove her dominance over her underlings. Many have tried to pry the territory from her cold hands and she has drained many a prominent competitor, be them human governors or ambitious fledglings, dry in full view of her companions.

Those ignorant few fledglings who expect her to exhibit such qualities as kindness and humanity will find Aleksandra to be sadly lacking and while she does possess some degree of compassion and aforementioned, it is often reserved for her inner circle. Born of Russia, her personality was molded by the October Rovolution of 1917. To this very day, Aleksandra remains an unrepentant Bolshevik and a militant opponent to what she identifies as the greed of the bourgeoisies. Her hatred of capitalism and the world's financial elite has translated into the extreme environmentalism that runs parallel to her bolshevist ideals, this, in turn, has fueled her appetite for destruction and chaos.

BIRTH PLACE: Moscow, Russia, Russian Empire
CHANGED: Russian Revolution

Born into a prosperous household in the late eighteen hundreds, Aleksandra was the lastborn child of a line later confirmed to be dying. As the Tsar's niece, she never had anything to want for. While the Russian people suffered under Nicholas II, They were well cared for. Yet much was expected of them in return. Aleksandra' brothers each served in the Imperial Army while her elder sister had long since found herself confined to the binds of marriage. In all this, Aleksandra turned out to be the rebel, the prodigal child unable to silently accept her fate. From the day she was able to talk to the day she left home Aleksandra was the bane of her mother's existence, ever defying the woman's wishes and expectations of her as she did whatever she wanted to do.

Wanting to pursue an education, she was coldly rebuffed by her parents who wanted to do unto her the same thing they had done to her sister. Aleksandra left home at the age of seventeen, traveling by train from Moscow to Saint-Petersburg where she hoped to escape the wrath of her family. For the next two years she studied art at the city's university. She gained a reputation for brilliance rather quickly, yet vampirism ended her steady rise. Aleksandra doesn't remember much of that dreadful night, only her maker's name and the woman's face. She was abandoned soon after, an irreversible mistake left to die at dawn. Aleksandra survived her first years by virtue of her self-determination.

Times were changing, however, and in the year 1917 the constitutional monarchy that had governed Russia for little over a decade was brought to an end. Aleksandra went on to fight with the Red Army and, using the full extent of her vampiric abilities, rose through the ranks with ease. She was promoted to politruk, a political commissar, in 1918 and was assigned to lead the dreaded Fifth Rifle Division. As a leader, she inspired dread and both the White Army as well as the civilian population lived in fear of her brutality and lack of fair conduct. Not once did the concept of mercy cross her mind, they were the enemy. Following the Civil War, Aleksandra was by employed the newly founded Cheka, the Soviet secret service, and its successor, the GPU. During her time with the latter agency, she became instrumental in devising the Gulag system.

Seeking new horizons, Aleksandra left the Soviet Union in 1934 and, settling in Alaska, became involved with vampire society there. By 1944 she had established herself as the sheriff of Achaphen's Area 12, which she ruled in the same fashion as she had conducted herself during her time with the USSR's secret police. She began to systematically drain any who dared raise their voice and she rapidly developed an addiction to the blood of her fellow undead. Such was her reputation that the territory's king took note, and summoned her to his court in Anchorage. Upon realizing the man was younger, Aleksandra giggle internally. She then refused to take her orders from a child no older than herself. With superior speed Aleksandra moved in for the kill and drained the king of his lifeblood, her signature move, in full view of anyone. She then staked him before setting herself upon his throne. The year was 1949.