Romy Lebedeva

"“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”""― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black"Romilia Alexeievna Lebedeva (born Sinaida Dmitrievna Ivanova) is a former member of the Charodeyev Cabral, born as a Belarusian orphan during the Great Northern War. She was accused of witchcraft in her village of Rsha now apart of Orsha in which she was burned alive, her then lover Nina Muzyka took her bones to Baba Yaga and asked her to resurrect her lover in exchange for her soul.

Romy after many years would eventually marry Joanna Wagner and have two children together named Alfred and Nina. She would also adopted and raised Rocket and Memphis after Agrippa died.

Natural Abilities
Vedmak Physiology - Through Baba Yaga's resurrection spell and using her own blood to bring Romy back from the land of the dead she then became a Vedmak in which Baba then taught Romy how to control her powers. In her previous life, Romy was an Esper with the ability of psionic intuition which she still has.


 * Superhuman Durability - Romy could resist a degree of damage without being harmed by it, at least to extent to be stricken with a sword to the chest and recover immediately after removing the sword.
 * Teleportation - Romy could teleport to any destination at any given time. When teleporting, she often did it in a uppish fashion, gracefully waving her wands for effect or simply by clicking her fingers.
 * Telekinesis - Romy is able to push several individuals with a shift gesture of the hand.
 * Psionic Intuition - Romy can sense when something is about to happen, before it does or have knowledge of any given subject through paranormal means or actions. This allows her to sense and predict attacks.
 * Mind Control Immunity - Romy claimed that Vedmaks were immune to the form of mind control used by witches. However, Catharina was able to mind control Romy into freeing her from a binding spell by telepathically communicating with her.
 * Immortality - Since her awakening around the first half of the nineteenth century and hasn't aged since, possessing some form of Immortality.

Skills

 * Spell casting - The ability to cast spells and enchantments through rituals, incantations, meditation and the use of magical properties, resources and spiritual energies for a variety of affects.
 * Glamour - The ability of cast illusions to trick people's perception.
 * Wish-granting -
 * Potion Making - The ability to brew and concoct potions, remedies, and elixirs that have supernatural properties.

Possessions

 * Pendant - Romy wears the pendant that Nina used to wear that carries the symbol for the god Kurwaichin. He protects the lambs during the lambing season and continues to protect them until they mature.

Etymology

 * Romilia is the feminine form of Romilius which is the Roman family name derived from the mythological name Romulus that means "of Rome" in Latin. In Roman legend Romulus and Remus were the founders of the city of Rome.
 * Alexeievna is the feminine patronymic form of Alexei which is the Russian form of Alexis which is from the Greek name Ἄλεξις (Alexis) meaning "helper" or "defender", derived from Greek ἀλέξω (alexo) meaning "to defend, to help".
 * Lebedeva is the feminine form of Lebedev which is from Russian лебедь (lebed) meaning "swan".
 * Sinaida is the German transliteration of Belarusian Зінаіда and Ukrainian Зінаїда of the name Zinaida which is the Russian form of Zenaida that is apparently a Greek derivative of Ζηναΐς (Zenais), which was derived from the name of the Greek god Zeus. It means "life of Zeus" in Greek.
 * Dmitrievna is the feminine patronymic form of Dmitri which is the Russian form of Demetrius that is the latinized form of the Greek name Δημήτριος (Demetrios), which was derived from the name of the Greek goddess Demeter which is possibly means "earth mother", derived from Greek δᾶ (da) meaning "earth" and μήτηρ (meter) meaning "mother".
 * Ivanova means "daughter of Ivan", and is the feminine form of Ivanov. Ivan is the newer form of the old Slavic name Іѡаннъ (Ioannu), which was derived from Greek Ioannes, the Latin form of the Greek name Ἰωάννης (Ioannes), itself derived from the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן (Yochanan) meaning "Yahweh is gracious", from the roots יוֹ (yo) referring to the Hebrew God and חָנַן (chanan) meaning "to be gracious".

Trivia

 * Romy believed growing up that she was quarter-Moorish on her mother's side.
 * After spitting in a tube she discovered she is of Belarusian, Rutul, Mator, and Russian descent.
 * She is a lesbian.
 * Her favorite meal is salmon solyanka with sliced of brown sourdough rye bread and two baked pirozhki with mince meat, mushroom and onions.
 * She is also addicted to pickled foods; like gherkins, ginger, radish, diced radish kimchi, and plums.
 * She does drink the juice from the pickled jars.
 * Romy speaks several languages including her native Belarusian. She also speaks Russian, English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian and is learning Mandarin.
 * She suffers from retrograde amnesia since coming back from the dead.
 * She has had plastic surgery.
 * Romy is a bad dancer and does not enjoy it.
 * Romy hates cigarettes and ghosts.
 * She snores and is double jointed in her elbows.
 * She is very fashionable and spends most of the money she earns from kills on trendy clothes.
 * Romy wears a ring on her right thumb that is engraved, "The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them".
 * Romy likes hip-hop and classical music.
 * Her "familiar" is Bartok, who is an albino bat.