I hadn’t done this yet since I wanted to focus on the bio and get her in before adds, but [
cue Mario Kart tunes] here we go! This is Yuliana Ivanova who started out life as a snow maiden only to realize she was a zimadevushka, which is a Russian take on the Japanese Yuki-onna: A snow creature who, after tricking someone into the deep snow by charming them, lets them die of the cold and, in this case, cannibalizes their corpse (which not all Yuki-onna are said to do, but there’s at least one story that does). Granted, she doesn’t do it
all the time, but it has made her a rich woman throughout the years since she fled her village in the 1890s, bouncing from one location to another while eating a rich suitor here and there and ditching their skeletons in the most frigid snows she could find.
Cue up to 2023, she is living in Manhattan, posing as a socialite since what better to be when you don’t really have to work, and enjoying all that western life has to offer
except the summer months when she’d rather be a hermit somewhere frozen (akin to zimaduveshka hibernating in the summer, but without all the sleeping). There’s a more in-depth biography
here with abilities and weaknesses included!
That said, she’s open to all sorts of lines! I haven’t dropped them into the bio yet (read as: I’m lazy, but not forgetting), but she’s close friends with
shvybzik and former roommates with
sofa in a Princess Bubblegum and Marceline fashion (cold-blooded creatures and snow hags don’t make the best of thermostat agreements), and I’m so ready to figure out how to connect her with others! Friends, foes, historical connections even though she is on the younger side of expansive ages, former flings and romances that ended either good or bad, other social elite to wine, dine and have a good time with, etc. And if we can’t figure something out preemptively, we can definitely throw characters at the organic wall and see what sticks!