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Name: (Galina Tolemos
Nickname: Peace Miss Tolemos, occasionally Lina
Birthdate: Cannot recall
Race: Immortal
Sex: Female
Age: Anywhere from 200 to several thousand years though she's uncertain due to her peculiar slip through time and space
Occupation: Teacher of Race and Culture
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Weight: 143 lbs.
Height: 5'8"
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Clothing: Galina seems to have a semi-formal, classy sense of style and is mostly seen in long, sweeping skirts and long sleeve shirts. Notably, her skirts are made in such a way that she's still able to move quickly without tangling her legs in them or having their weight hinder her. She can be found in dress slacks from time to time as well.
Piercings/Tattoos(if any): A black design on Galina's lower back, she claims it's the sign of her house but no one's ever gotten a good look at it.
Personality: At any time she is encountered Galina seems to exude a naturally soothing aura. Her warm smile seems to draw others in and she is all too happy to offer a cup of warm tea, guidance and sound advice to anyone who seeks her out. She takes her job as a teacher very seriously and will patiently explain and break down something if someone doesn't get it at first. Should her students need her aid her door is always open, she exists in a perpetual role as 'mother'. Occasionally there is wanderlust in her eyes and she will become distant until, at last, she disappears from the campus for a time to see the world beyond in all its beauty. That is no lie, but it is not the whole truth either.
When provoked Galina will show her true colors, her ruthlessness and wild nature, the brutal efficiency and terrifying intellect that will all too happily tear you apart word by word, piece by piece until there is nothing left of your mind and body but a tattered shell. She will not stand for betrayal, if you dare to stab her in the back there will never be no second chances.
Hobbies: Brewing tea, polishing her sword, sewing and a few other domestic hobbies, training, fighting, adventuring and maybe even the occasional 'treasure hunt' for fun
Likes: Galina loves starry nights, heights, plunging her blade into an enemy and, above all, tea. To attempt to take away and/or touch her tea is to beg for the end of your life with great fervor; she will pick up the nearest heavy object and pound you to a bloody pulp with hit.
Dislikes: She's not too fond of being underestimated or being trapped in enclosed spaces as well as being stuck in one place for too long*.
*too long= no one knows exactly how long that is, she has such a terrible concept of the passing of years that it's almost appalling
Fears: She's lost her whole world once and isn't keen on doing it again.
Bio: Are there truly words to describe another world, another time, another place where the very concept of peace was the product of some naive soul's imagination? Any way to explain how, since birth, she was raised to become a killer? How would one go about explaining that the blood running through the streets was as common as the rain that arrived to wash it away? That, for many years and ever after, the woman that would be a teacher, a guide, a 'mother' was -perhaps still is, should she find her way back- one of the most feared beings to pain the pages of Britain's history?
There is not, never will be, a way to describe the wars she thrived in for centuries, perhaps even milleniums, at a time. But she will try to explain the times in-between. How, when Europe finally found some semblance of peace, it became possible for the children to wander the streets again. How she would spend the first few decades of that time in lazy peace until, at last, she became sick of it all and sought to find her own excitement. How she traveled the world time and again, each passing century only bringing newer and more interesting things as well as the occasional war where she would gladly indulge her craving for battle. How, as time changed as it was wont to do so too did she and eventually her steps lead her to 'home' where her kin remained. And how the time spent there was simple and peaceful once again, that when she left she was not ready to go. That, somehow, standing on one of the docks at the port took longer than she had expected and that when she turned around to face the town, the world was different.
The search for answers was fruitless. Her family, her home and history was gone. The Victorian Era of 'this world' had been a peaceful time, not the red painted world that she'd known. Immortals remained, but the house of Tolemos was no more. And with nothing left to her she wandered again. Time passed and she found her way to a castle and there, at last, made a home. She could come and go as she pleased and wasn't that enough for happiness? Trust was a gift not easily given, but there were people here she could rely on in some small way and though she couldn't put a name to the place she wanted to 'belong', she wouldn't mind teaching what she knew. There were other adventures in the world, after all, than the ones that took you walking.
Skills/Abilities: ❅ Galina is an extremely talented swordswoman and has wielded her faithful blade, Caelum, since the days of her youth. Having spent her days in war after war, her skills are nothing to be laughed at and her uncanny flexibility and acrobatic skill serves to astonish and confuse her opponents.
❅ The only form of magic Galina ever bothered to learn was wind elemental. She uses it mainly as a supplement for her blade work, creating shields and extending the length of the blade and the like. Aside from this she can also use it as a concussive blast, gather oxygen to her to allow her to breath and even shield others from a distance though in the case of the last the power of her barriers is severely weakened depending on distance. She is not necessarily exceptional in this area, just very good at using what she has; Caelum was made specifically for the purpose of channeling her wind magic.
❅ Her mind is her greatest weapon, able to get her out of situations where strength is not necessarily key. She has the accumulated information from the entirety of her lifespan along with all that she's managed to read and collect over that same amount of time. Though not in possession of eidetic memory, she is very good at calling up info when she needs it.
Weaknesses: ❅ Technology is at the top of the list. Galina hasn't the faintest clue how to handle a printer, computer, etc. She generally destroys whatever form of technology she comes into contact with, including the sturdy flip phone she carries (basically the only thing she knows how to use).
❅ Understandably, more solid forms of magic like, for instance earth are more difficult for her to combat.
❅ Galina's grasp on hand-to-hand combat can best be described as being able to throw a punch but not much else besides. In other words, she's atrocious.
