Veronika Alina Verano

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This article is about **Veronika Alina Verano, the fourth child and second daughter of Nikolai Xavier Verano and Mayumi Phoebe Bonifacio**. You may be looking for **Vasilisa Alyona Verano, Valeriya Aksinia Verano, or Violetta Amaliya Verano, her sisters**.

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## Biographical Information

### Birth

03 October 2031
Paris, France

### Age

19 (in *Flight Data*)
22-23 (in *Flight Code*)
20 (in *Flight Time*)
23 (in *Open skies*)
24 (in *Contrails*)
26-27 (in *Gyroscope*)
23-27 (in *Azimuth*)
23-32 (in *Slipstream*)
30 (in *Crossbleed*)

### Also Known As

* Vika (preferred nickname)
* Alya (by her family)
* *Babochka* (butterfly; by Nikolai)
* Alina, Lina, Nika, Ver (by his friends)

## Affiliation

### Nationality

Filipino
French (by *jus soli*)

### Occupation

* Student (former)
* Junior architect of Verano Development Corporation (former)
* Project architect of Verano Development Corporation

### Residence

* Carmona, Cavite, Philippines
* Makati, Philippines
* Paris, France

### Affiliation

* The British School of Paris (former)
* The British School Manila (former)
* International School Manila (former)
* Institut Le Rosey (former)
* Politecnico di Milano - Leonardo (former)
* Verano Group of Companies
	+ Verano Development Corporation
	+ Malyari Air
		- Malyari Air Flight Training Academy (former)
* Bonifacio family
* Verano family

## Relationships

### Sibling/s

* Viktor Alexander Verano
* Vasilisa Alyona Verano
* Valentin Alexei Verano
* Unborn brother/sister (I)
* Vladimir Andrei Verano
* Valeriya Aksinia Verano
* Unborn brother/sister (II)
* Vladislav Arkadi Verano
* Violetta Amaliya Verano

### Issue

* Augusta Diana Presta
* Albus Dmitri Presta
* Aquilina Daria Presta
* Aldric Danil Presta
* Almir Damián Presta

### Other Relative/s

* Julian Verano (paternal great-grandfather)
* Serafina Braganza (paternal great-grandmother)
* Alfonso Cadaval (maternal great-grandfather)
* Epifania Cadaval (maternal great-grandmother)
* Julius Roel Verano (paternal grandfather)
* Maria Anastasia Alcántara (paternal grandmother)
* Richard Bonifacio (maternal grandfather)
* Carmen Cadaval (maternal grandmother)
* Dmitri Xerxes Verano (paternal uncle)
* Yuliana Ximena Verano (paternal aunt)
* Miguel Perseus Bonifacio (maternal uncle)
* Moises Percival Bonifacio (maternal uncle)
* Margaret Psyche Bonifacio (maternal aunt)
* Salvatore Presta (father-in-law)
* Clarice Galiano (mother-in-law)
* Aelia Cyrille Alvarado (sister-in-law)
* Adrien Josef Buenviaje (brother-in-law)
* Camille Soleil Vannier (sister-in-law)
* Serena Cordelia Garcia (sister-in-law)
* Maximilian Hervé Walsh (brother-in-law)
* Kaia Charlotte van Staveren (sister-in-law)
* Reece Kian Domínguez (brother-in-law)

*among others...*

### Significant Other/s

* Ricardo Inigo Presta (husband)
* Amando Pinelli (ex-boyfriend)
* Carlos Alvarez (ex-boyfriend)

## Character Information

### Appeared on

* *Flight Data*
* *Flight Code*
* *Flight Time*
* *Open skies*
* *Contrails*
* *Gyroscope*
* *Azimuth*
* *Slipstream*
* *Crossbleed*

### Face claim

Alina Zhytielieva

Arch. **Veronika Alina Verano-Presta** (née **Verano y Bonifacio**; born 03 October 2031) is the main protagonist and narrator of *Contrails*, the second spin-off story of the *FLIGHT* series. She is part of the wealthy and famous Verano clan from the Philippines as the fourth child and second daughter of Nikolai Xavier Verano and Mayumi Phoebe Bonifacio. She is the younger sister of Viktor, Vasilisa and Valentin, and the older sister of Vladimir, Valeriya, Vladislav and Violetta. Like her other siblings, she is a licensed pilot. However, she is gifted in the arts like her father, resulting for her decision to be a licensed architect and joined Verano Development Corporation, the family company's real-estate firm. A class reunion during a mutual friend's wedding resulted for her to reconnect with her old flame, Ricardo Inigo Presta, who is also an accomplished architect and later her husband.

## Biography

### Early life

During her older sister's, Vasilisa's, third birthday, her mother informed her father of her fourth pregnancy, which was met with an equal excitement for her parents as usual. However, her mother miscarried the child roughly two weeks later after having a very high fever, which was later noted to be due to her mother's anemic nature. Her mother's previous pregnancies were considered to be miracles to not be as sensitive as it had been; however, successive pregnancies were predetermined to be conflicted due to anemia, resulting for a much careful and riskier pregnancy. The incident resulted for her parents to suffer a setback, especially to her mother, who've lamented the loss greatly. Three months later, in celebration of her father's thirty-third birthday, an Antarctica Cruise was set-up for her parents to embark. The journey mended them together to try for a child once more.

A few days before her mother's birthday, her father confronted her mother about the possibility of being pregnant again, resulting for her mother to reveal that she had known for roughly two weeks already but had been in denial of the possibility and was fearful of making him excited once more and later lose it once more. Both of her parents had been much more careful and attentive to ensure that the baby would be born healthy like her older siblings.

Veronika was born on the early morning of 03 October 2031 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; and was christened on 27 December 2031 at Santuario de San Antonio Parish Church at Forbes Park, Makati, Philippines, before being followed by a reception at the McKinley Ballroom of Alethea the Fort, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Philippines.

She had four older siblings, one was miscarried: Viktor, Vasilisa and Valentin; and later on, she had five younger siblings, another one miscarried: Vladimir, Valeriya, Vladislav and Violetta. She and her siblings roughly had a two-year age gap in between. At birth, Veronika had her own fair share of stocks from the Verano Group of Companies, the same as her siblings, which she was bound to personally own when she turned eighteen years old.

## 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
	+ Vasilisa Alyona Verano y Bonifacio (m. Adrian Josef Buenviaje y Fernandez)
		- 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
	+ 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)
	+ 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. Maximilian 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: Ricardo Inigo Presta
* Issue:
	+ Augusta Diana Presta y Verano
	+ Albus Dmitri Presta y Verano
	+ Aquilina Daria Presta y Verano
	+ Aldric Danil Presta y Verano
	+ Almir Damián Presta y Verano

## Relationships

### Romances

* Ricardo Inigo Presta
* Amando Pinelli
* Carlos Alvarez

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* Sisters
* Children
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## Trivia

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* Veronika's full name is **Veronika Alina Verano y Bonifacio**.
	+ **Veronika** is a form of the name "Veronica" in several languages, which is a Latin alteration of the name "Berenice", the spelling influenced by the ecclesiastical Latin phrase vera icon meaning "true image". The name "Berenicce" is the Latinized form of Βερενίκη (*Berenike*), the Macedonian form of the Greek name Φερενίκη (*Pherenike*), which meant "bringing victory" from φέρω (*phero*) meaning "to bring" and νίκη (*nike*) meaning "victory".
	+ **Alina** is the short form of the names "Adelina", which comes from a Germanic name that was derived from the element *adal* meaning "noble"; "Albina", which is the feminine form of the name "Albinus", a Roman cognomen that was a derivative of the name "Albus", a Roman cognomen meaning "white, bright" in Latin; and others that end in *alina*.
	+ **Bonifacio** is the Italian and Spanish form of the name "Bonifatius" or "Boniface" which meant "good fate" from bonum "good" and fatum "fate".
	+ **Verano** means "summer" in Spanish.

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## References

1. ↑ Behind the Name: Veronika, Veronica and Berenice
2. ↑ Behind the Name: Alina, Adelina, Albina, Albinus and Albus
3. ↑ Behind the Name: Bonifacio and Boniface
4. ↑ Ancestry: Verano