Vasilisa Alyona Verano

Captain Vasilisa Alyona Verano-Buenviaje (née Verano y Bonifacio; born 04 October 2027) is the main protagonist and narrator of Flight Time, the seventh novel of the FLIGHT series. She is part of the wealthy and famous Verano clan, one of the richest families in the Philippines, and the second child and oldest daughter of Nikolai Xavier Verano and Mayumi Phoebe Bonifacio. She is the younger sister of Viktor, and the older sister of Valentin, Veronika, Vladimir, Valeriya, Vladislav and Violetta. Though she and her siblings are licensed pilots, she took flying as her personal choice of career and works as an A320 First Officer for their family-owned airlines, Malyari Air. Wanting to experience romance, she formed a "friends with benefits" contract with her college best friend, Adrien Josef Buenviaje, a ramp agent and later her husband.
== Biography ==
=== Birth ===
Vasilisa's conception was planned, when her parents decided after her older brother's, Viktor's, first birthday that it was time for the latter to have a younger sibling. Roughly three months later, her mother found herself pregnant.
Vasilisa was born on the early morning of 04 October 2027, a month and a day before her older brother's second birthday, at Hôpital Necker-Laennec Enfants-Malades, Paris, France to Nikolai Xavier Verano, Chairman of the Verano Group of Companies and President of Verano Development Corporation, and Mayumi Phoebe Bonifacio, President of Malyari Air. Like that of her older brother's, she spent the first three months of her life in France, and celebrated the holidays in the country as her grandparents, aunts and uncles visited upon her birth.
Along with her parents and Viktor, they flew to the Philippines after the holidays, when she was three months old, and a few days after arriving, Vasilisa was christened on 15 January 2028 at Santuario de San Antonio Parish Church at Forbes Park, Makati, Philippines, and was followed by a reception at the McKinley Ballroom at Alethea the Fort, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Philippines. Her godparents were Engr. Dante Harris (her father's friend from UCL), Atty. James Aiden Chávez (her father's paternal cousin), Engr. Marvin John Macaraig (her mother's maternal cousin), Roza Rafale (her mother's college friend), Capt. Rylie Celerina Guinto (her parents' batchmate from WAA), and Yuliana Ximena Verano (her paternal aunt).XXX
A few months later, on April 2028, when Vasilisa was roughly seven months old, along with her father and older brother, they accompanied her mother when she was invited to be the guest speaker for her high school alma mater. Her father had handled and carried her all throughout the event, having to attend as well to that of her older brother in the process. According to her mother's former high school teachers, she was a cute, beautiful and bubbly baby girl.XXX
During the tenth anniversary of her parents' batchmates' graduation for their flight training, she was noted to have a close relationship with Dylan Kalev Martinez, who was the one on her same age. Their friendship would later be the cause for everyone around them to consider that they might end up together in the future, but both had been intent on keeping their friendship instead. She was regarded to also watched over her younger brother Valentin in the process, filling the shoes of being his older sister quite too well already despite her age.Flight Line
For her first birthday, Vasilisa received a 3% share of her father's stocks of the Verano Group of Companies as a custom among the Verano family. Though it was expected to grow by age, it had remained as an equal share of her like that of her older brother and younger siblings; and she was bound to personally own it when she turned eighteen years old.
She had an older brother Viktor; and later on, she had eight younger siblings, two were miscarried: Valentin, Veronika, Vladimir, Valeriya, Vladislav and Violetta; she and her siblings roughly had a two-year age gap in between.
=== Education and career ===
Like her older brother, Vasilisa spent her early days mostly in Paris, France; only heading to the Philippines during a few events and holidays. For nursery until second grade, she attended the British School of Paris; before transferring to the International School Manila in the Philippines for third grade until eighth grade as her family settled in the country around that time. Like her father and older brother, she attended the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland from ninth grade until twelfth grade. About the same time, during summer and holidays, Vasilisa took her flight training in their family-owned Malyari Air Flight Training Academy in Pampanga, Philippines; finishing the course all the way to A320 for roughly two years.
Due to her interest in flying and wanting to be an airline pilot, she insisted to remain in the Philippines and followed the same steps as her mother by attending PATTS College of Aeronautics for university, in hopes that her stay in the country would also help her continue gaining flying hours and remain current. During college did she became close friends with Adrien Josef Buenviaje, for being the only one friend and classmate of hers who saw her beyond what her family name of being part of the wealthy Verano clan, despite also receiving countless courtships that she always rejected and denied.
Upon graduation, Vasilisa joined their family-owned airline, Malyari Air, as their youngest A320 First Officer. Despite the immediate jump, Vasilisa had wanted to be treated as any newly employed. Additionally, being guilty of her managing to be part of the airline industry as an airline pilot immediately after graduation, she asked her parents to offer an additional ten flight training scholarships and assured position as a pilot of Malyari Air among her batchmates, compared to the usual ten that were granted every year from the PATTS graduates since Malyari Air's fifth anniversary. Though Adrien was offered the same, he declined which Vasilisa noted to be one of their major fights because he was being stubborn of not simply taking the offer.
=== Contract with Adrien Buenviaje ===
== Personality ==
Vasilisa was credited to be the most interested in beauty products and fashion compared to her sisters, which brought a question among the family to whom she was influenced with as her mother was also known to be simple despite being along with the trend; and could be because of the influence of her paternal aunt and maternal aunt over the matter, who were known to always follow the latest fashion trend. Despite it, Vasilisa was known to be organized, practical, and level-headed with a strong sense of responsibility; traits that she mentioned made her a better pilot. Additionally, she had a robust work ethic as she didn't tolerate laziness, incompetence and disobedience to rules and authority, despite being rather outspoken and blunt.
According to her family, she was so dedicated and hardworking that she sticked to the status quo, and never tolerated being considered different; resulting for her to bear the same number and irregular duties of being a pilot despite being openly having the choice to choose schedules that would benefit her. She was also known to have a strong moral compass that according to Viktor, only her youngest brother Vladislav could break, being one with the stronger moral compass between the two of them. Even though she came out stubborn and had difficulty with emotions, she was regarded by the family to be loving and protective of them.
== Physical description ==
Ever since she was a baby, it had been evident that she resembled her mother, which had became prominent growing up that many considered her to almost be the carbon copy, except that she was a little tanner as attributed to her exposure on duty as a pilot and having to do 360 walkaround inspections. Even though she preferred wearing makeup, though not a full one, she was still regarded as a beautiful woman with a slim figure and was about the same height as her mother. She inherited her mother's dark brown hair with hints of gold when hit by the sun, and round dark brown eyes. She usually kept her hair loose in a blown-out curls, and despite preferring to wear her pilot's uniform with pride, she also opted to the latest fashion trend while remaining classy and old-money.
== Skills and abilities ==
Vasilisa, like her siblings, was privileged to explore a variety of sports, and learn instruments and languages. Like their parents, Vasilisa was also a skilled pilot, and was skilled in photography and modeling. She was an athlete and played a variety of sports like that of her siblings such as archery, badminton, equestrian, golf, karting, shooting and swimming; and also played baseball, cycling, table tennis, tennis and volleyball. She also knew how to play the cello, guitar, piano and violin. She was also regarded to be a great cook, which she was surely trained by her parents. Like her siblings, she was also taught martial arts such as Judo as some sort of self-defense. Additionally, Vasilisa was a polyglot, having able to speak and understand English, Filipino, French, Russian, German and Italian fluently almost like a native.
== Possessions ==
== Ancestry ==
* Father: Nikolai Xavier Verano y Alcántara
* Mother: Mayumi Phoebe Bonifacio y Cadaval
* Sibling/s:
** Viktor Alexander Verano y Bonifacio (m. Aelia Cyrille Alvarado y Guinta)
*** Achilles Mikhail Verano y Alvarado
*** Alcyone Maria Verano y Alvarado
*** Aeneas Maxim Verano y Alvarado
*** Alcmene Marta Verano y Alvarado
** Valentin Alexei Verano y Bonifacio (m. Camille Soleil Vannier)
*** Aelius Ivan Verano y Vannier
*** Aether Ilya Verano y Vannier
*** Amarente Inna Verano y Vannier
*** Amandine Irina Verano y Vannier
** Unborn brother/sister (I)
** Veronika Aleina Verano y Bonifacio (m. Riccardo Inigo Dell'Agnello)
*** Aloisio Danil Dell'Agnello y Verano
*** Augusta Diana Dell'Agnello y Verano
*** Albus Dominik Dell'Agnello y Verano
*** Aquiliana Daria Dell'Agnello y Verano
*** Aldrik Dmitri Dell'Agnello y Verano
*** Almir Damián Dell'Agnello y Verano
** Vladimir Andrei Verano y Bonifacio (m. Serena Cordelia Garcia)
*** Acacius Leonid Verano y Garcia
*** Anastasie Liliya Verano y Garcia
*** Arsione Lidiya Verano y Garcia
*** Arsenios Lavrenty Verano y Garcia
** Valeriya Aksinia Verano y Bonifacio (m. Maksimilijan Hervé Walsh)
*** Anraí Sergey Walsh y Verano
*** Aisling Sofia Walsh y Verano
*** Aoife Shanna Walsh y Verano
*** Aodhán Stepan Walsh y Verano
*** Aedh Stanislav Walsh y Verano
** Unborn brother/sister (II)
** Vladislav Arkadi Verano y Bonifacio (m. Kaia Charlotte van Staveren)
*** Artair Yakov Verano y van Staveren
*** Aliza Yekaterina Verano y van Staveren
*** Alvar Yuri Verano y van Staveren
*** Aliya Yelisaveta Verano y van Staveren
*** Adair Yefim Verano y van Staveren
** Violetta Amaliya Verano y Bonifacio (m. Reece Kian Domínguez)
*** Arleen Eleonora Domínguez y Verano
*** Arawn Eduard Domínguez y Verano
*** Armelle Evelina Domínguez y Verano
* Spouse: Adrien Josef Buenviaje y Fernandez
* Issue:
** Aamir Konstantin Buenviaje y Verano
** Arianne Klara Buenviaje y Verano
** Aurore Kristina Buenviaje y Verano
** Astride Klavdia Buenviaje y Verano
** Ademar Kirill Buenviaje y Verano
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* Vasilisa's full name is Vasilisa Alyona Verano y Bonifacio.
** Vasilisa is the Russian feminine form of the name "Basil", which comes from the Greek name Βασίλειος (Basileios), which was derived from βασιλεύς (basileus) meaning "king".Behind the Name: Vasilisa and Basil (1) Hence, the name "Vasilisa" means "queen" or "empress".
** Alyona is originally a Russian diminutive of the name "Yelena", a Russian form of the name "Helen", which is the English form of the Greek Ἑλένη (Helene), probably from Greek ἑλένη (helene) meaning "torch" or "corposant", or possibly related to σελήνη (selene) meaning "moon".Behind the Name: Alyona, Yelena and Helen
** Bonifacio is the Italian and Spanish form of the name "Bonifatius" or "Boniface" which meant "good fate" from bonum "good" and fatum "fate".Behind the Name: Bonifacio and Boniface
** Verano means "summer" in Spanish.Ancestry: Verano
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