Name: Dana Alina Ishild Klein
Nickname: Spatzi - by her mother, Picaninni - by Alan
Age: 20
Birthday: August 3
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Heterosexual (ignoring her experimentation in college)
Nationality: German by birth, but raised mostly in Denmark
Eye color: Green
Hair color: Dirty blonde
Skin tone: Pale like her brother
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 147 lbs
Body build: Remarkably slim considering her hobby
Talents: Biology, talking to Alan (which is harder than it looks), speedeating
Flaws/Disabilities: Anything involving her brother, she has to be a part of. If he got hurt right in the middle of a huge final, she'd leave in a heartbeat to make sure he's okay. He's her only sibling and she rarely gets to see him, so he's one of the most important things in her life.
Occupation: College student/Competitive eater
Major/Minor: Bioengineering/Biomathematics with a sub-minor of Astrobiology
Secrets: She says that she never has to work out because of her good genes, but Dana runs three hours a day and eats very little unless she's training. Her body is a well-oiled machine, she likes to say, but the slightest miscalculation could ruin her potential career.
Likes: Spending time with Alan
Training for competitions
Watching American television
Not being back in Germany or Denmark
Dislikes: Germany
Denmark
Alan's new boyfriend (she doesn't trust him with her precious big brother)
Other competitive eaters (they're so rude to her!)
Salads. Just any salads.
Fears: She's not really afraid of anything, but the one thing Dana could never handle would be if Alan pushed her out of his life like he did her mother.
Personality: Born a spoiled brat of two young models, the only thing keeping Dana from being a total princess is her big brother. From an early age, he took a semi-active role in her life, disciplining her when she misbehaved and praising her when she did well. It was due to his interference in her childhood that she grew to become a somewhat well-functioning adult. She's rather spunky for a girl of her upbringing, choosing to be unlike Alan when it comes to her parents and not allow them to pay her way through school. Instead, she works hard to train herself to win speed-eating competitions, becoming a well-known champion and paying students loans back with very little interest.
Bio: Dana's parents met while her mother was still married to blood diamon tycoon, Aldrich Brandt. Forced out of the house while pregnant with her lover's child, the young German model married again just before she gave birl to a beautiful baby girl. She and her lover, Osgood, settled down in a small, rural area of Denmark after raising Dana in the great city of Munich until she was four. They live there still, leaving every now and again to act in a movie or walk a runway, sought-after even in their mid-forties, especially Ava, Dana's mother, who is referred to as "Blue-Eyes" in her profession. Growing up in this type of household, the only real stability Dana ever felt was when her big brother Alan came to visit her. It was never when there was anyone else in the house, Alan's blind hatred for their mother and her father too great to let him see them for very long, but he always watched over her until they returned home.
Alan cared for Dana as a parent would their child, even when he was too young to really understand what being a parent was like. He fed her, played with her, protected her from the bullies at school, and comforted her when it thundered and she was afraid. Everything her parents were far too busy to do, he would step in. Around the time she turned sixteen, however, Alan began to visit less and less often. He was working in a lab now, a very important position for the young physicist, and didn't have time to fly back and forth. She called him every moment that she could, despite the distance, and although he was usually very busy, Alan never missed one of her calls.
When she started high school, Dana realized that she couldn't live off of her parents' money forever. They wouldn't be rich forever. This in mind, she knew she had to come up with a way to pay for school.
It was around this time she was introduced to the sport of competitive eating.
Training for three years, Dana was in her first competition when she was seventeen, winning third place and six-thousand dollars. There was money to be had in this sport, she now knew. She finished high school and enrolled in university, all the while earning more and more titles until she was a champion at the age of twenty. But it wasn't enough. She needed to spend time with her brother.
The moment summer vacation started, Dana packed her bags and headed for the academy where her brother now worked, determined to spend all of her time off with him. They'd spend far too long apart, she thought. Now it was time to be together once more.
Family: Osgood Klein - Father
Ava Rosenthal Brandt Klein - Mother
Alan Brandt - Half-brother
