Vladlena Savitskaya
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| Vladlena Vladimirovna Savitskaya | |
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| Biographical Information | |
| Born | 19 September 1991, 26 |
| City of Birth | Anadyr, Russia |
| Blood status | Pure-blood |
| Physical Information | |
| Gender | female |
| Height | 5'9" |
| Hair Colour | Brown w/ highlights |
| Eye Colour | Green |
| Skin Colour | Fair |
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| Education | |
| School | Durmstrang Institute |
| Class of | 2010 |
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Independent, perfectionist, disciplined, logical, collected and brilliant, Vladlena is a meticulously analytical witch with a sharp tongue, an intense focus, and with little to no passion or emotion. Cold and bordering on heartless, she's an ambitious genius with little patience for person-to-person interaction, and even less for incompetence. She has charisma without charm, wit without warmth, and knowledge without tolerance.
History
Vladlena's childhood is undeniably the source of the structure and control in her life. Her father's family, Russian pure-bloods, has been in charge of a reserve in northern Russia that houses several Romanian Longhorns and a handful of Ukranian Ironbellies for generations, and has contributed generously to Durmstrang in the past, in the form of monetary gifts as well as hard to get magical ingredients from dragons. Her mother was a Romanian pure-blood witch with strong relations to the Romanian dragon reserve. Their marriage was arranged by Vladlena's grandparents and is purely political for the sake of strengthening each family's power in the field. Her parents don't even live with each other—they visit by Floo and regularly discuss the business and new techniques, and once a month have a formal family dinner at her father's mansion, where, once again, the sole topic is furthering their prestige and mastery of their profession.
Those dinners were really the only time Lena saw her parents. She spent her daytime hours with nurses and governesses, drilling her in language, etiquette, dragonlore, and subjects like arithmancy, ancient rune theory, and Russian magical history, which she was required to dutifully recite to her parents at dinners. The Savitskays strongly emphasized independence and self-sufficiency—a staple for living in the frozen, isolated north of Russia—and to encourage this, frequently changed her governesses so as to avoid an unseemly attachment to an employee. They did the same for her younger brother, and the siblings rarely interact to this day. Vladlena was raised on a very simple premise—the best sibling would inherit everything. Period.
Vladlena was the first child born to the couple, to their sort of subdued dismay, as both had been hoping for a son. They got one eventually, five years down the road, and Vladlena's interaction with her younger sibling has been limited.
Never one prone to fear or outbursts, Vladlena's early manifestations of magic were witnessed only by the House elves—wreathy, smoky dragons from her fireplace around age seven, flying around her room as entertainment in the cold Russian nights. Not ones to really listen to House Elves, by the time anyone in the family noticed (they began actively seeking signs around age nine), she had some measure of control over what she was doing, and most notably her magic seemed to be shutting her governesses up, much to the pleased and proud amusement of her parents, who immediately took over her training in a more aggressive manner. She saw more of her mother in the two years before leaving for school than she had her entire previous existence.
The transition to Durmstrang was easy, as it was astonishingly similar to her disciplined childhood. Competitive, impersonal, cold, and with the sense you were constantly performing for some higher power. The ease of her transition made it easy for her to establish herself quickly, and her attitude and intelligence have kept her there. She took up two disciplines in part as a challenge to her younger brother, but mostly because while her parents expected her to focus on Tangibles—and, in particular, magical creatures, her interests truly lay in becoming an Enchantress. She hasn't recognized that motivation, yet, and it's hard to say if she'll ever openly admit it.
