Inari Pollari

**Full Name**: Inari Piritta Pollari

**Nicknames**: Nari

**Pronouns**: She/Her

**Orientation**: Demisexual/Heteroromantic

**Birthday**: January 15th

* Pirate: 26
* Modern: 22

**Height**: 5’8”

**Body Type**: Athletic - Lean, Defined Muscle

**Cup Size**: B

**Hair**: Platinum blonde in colour, Straight and Fine grown out to her shoulder blades

* Currently purple and pink in the modern timeline

**Skin Color:** Fair, Sunkissed from living in tropical climates

**Eye Color**: Grey

**Tattoos and Piercings:**

* Three ear lobe, helix, and tragus piercings - Modern (lower lobes in Pirate)
* Tongue Piercing - Modern
* Nose Piercing - Modern
* Fox Tattoo on her Right Ankle - Modern
* Geometric Planetary Tattoo on her Spine - Modern
* Rose Tattoo on her Lower Stomach and Hip - Modern
* Underboob Decorative Henna Tattoo - Modern

**Occupation**:

* Pirate: First Mate on the Retribution
* Modern: Piercer/Receptionist at Duke’s Gold Tattoo Parlour/Tattoo Parlour Owner

**Family**:

* Mother - Fiona Pollari
* Step-mum (in every way but legal) -  Astrid Takahashi

**Unofficial Cousins:**

* Shepard Khan
* Lindsey Clerk
* Lexi Koskinen
* Jayla Walker-Diaz
* Amy Xiong

**Hometown**: Oulu, Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland

**MBT**: ESFP-A

**Likes**: Romantic comedy movies, most food but especially sweets, and self-defense training and conditioning that allows her to knock out assholes who anger her

**Dislikes**: Most men but primarily misogynists, anyone messing with her friends, and anyone who tries to patronize her

**Strengths**: She is strong physically, mentally and emotionally which makes her a formidable person to face in most any situation. She does not back down from her convictions and she’ll fight tooth and nail to see something through, and her loyalty to her friends and family makes her fight all the harder. In addition, she has a stomach of steel.

**Weaknesses**: Self-reflection does not come easily to her. She can be her own worst enemy when her emotions are in turmoil. While she gives good advice to others, she rarely follows it herself. She is also clumsy with others emotions.

**Past Partners and Crushes**:

* Jeremy Nurmi (first boyfriend; Modern)

## **Biographies**

### **Pirate Universe**

**The Pre-Pirate Years:** Inari was born in the port town of Oulu, Finland. Her mother, Fiona Pollari, worked as a prostitute at a brothel and became pregnant by a client. Inari never knew her father. Fiona did everything in her power to give her daughter the best life that their circumstances would allow. There were several other children her own age in the brothel and the group grew up being protected from the realities of their life.

Inari always had a lust for adventure that her friends lacked. She liked to go watch the ships in the port and imagine what might be out there beyond the life she had been born into. She hated the way her family was treated by the owner of the brothel, and yet she was helpless to do anything about it. Her own days of freedom were numbered and the same was true for all of her friends. One by one, they were all pressed into service as they came of age. For Inari, this happened at age 12 and it went on until she was 15 years old.

**Life at Sea:** At age 15, Inari was standing outside the brothel along with one of her best friends, Shepard, watching the boats by the pier to seek some relief from their lives. The two of them talked about what they would do if they could pick up and take off to live another life far away from their current one. Inari, as she often did, spoke of leaving it all to find freedom where she could be what she wanted to be free from any and all men. It was then that a boy stopped and asked her why she hadn’t done that. Inari expected him to ask for their services, but instead he offered to help her run away. She almost called him crazy until he told her how he had just joined a privateering crew and that she could come along with him if she wanted to. She hesitated until Shep told her to take the leap. He promised to tell the others where she had gone, so she could escape before she was missed. Inari knew at that moment that she might never get another chance to go, and so she agreed to run. The boy introduced himself as Sebastian and the two of them ran for the pier.

Her time on the ship had a rocky beginning. While taking on a cabin boy was acceptable enough, a cabin girl was unheard of and that meant that she had to go on the offensive to prove to every man on that ship that they had to respect her or face the consequences. It was a long and arduous road, but with the help of Sebastian, she earned the respect of the crew and that control over her own life she had longed for.

Several years later when Sebastian suggested a mutiny, Inari saw the opportunity to make something great happen. She encouraged the remaining crew to vote for Sebastian and was more than happy to take her place beside him when he accepted the new position. With that move, Inari found herself exactly where she had longed to be as a child. She had near complete control over her own life, the respect of the crew and her captain, and a life of adventure. Though she found herself missing her family often, she didn’t dare to go back. She feared for them all, but she feared for her own freedom and that made her too ashamed to admit out loud. Luckily for her, Sebastian had his own demons back home that he was reluctant to face and so they never returned to the port town. Someday, she told herself she would go, but not until she was certain the brothel owner was dead.

Their lives became far more interesting the day that their crew docked in America and Sebastian met the captain of the Morbid Eel. Inari watched the whole shit show go down with a roll of her eyes as the two set to arguing almost immediately. Though she didn’t know it at the time, that brewing rivalry would define much of the years that followed for the two of them.

### **Modern Universe**

**Childhood**: Inari was born in Los Angeles, California to Fiona Pollari. Fiona left her home in Finland chasing after love, but soon found herself stranded alone in a foreign country with no home to go back to. Inari never knew her father, and she never wanted to. He cut contact with Fiona when he learned that she was pregnant after he made it clear he wanted nothing to do with her or the baby.

Fiona took up stripping to make a home for herself and her daughter in America as it was one of the few jobs that offered her a decent wage without the need for a college degree or a work visa. It was there that Fiona met Astrid, a young Japanese American working her way through college, who told her about the apartment building that she lived in with a landlord who was willing to accept rent payments in cash without the usual application process. Fiona jumped at the chance, and it was the first lucky break of Inari’s young life.

In their new apartment, Inari had her new auntie Astrid directly across the hall from her, and a few years after that, she met her first friend down the hall. Shepard was the same age as Inari and ecstatic when he met another child his own age in the building. The two quickly became good friends, and their exploits led them to befriending the other children in the building. First, they found Lindsey, the excitable girl on the floor above them who loved dolls and insisted on joining the two of them for an outing to the park. Then there came Jayla who was out searching for frogs after a heavy rain shower on the sidewalk by their building, and Amy, who Shep invited after nearly a month of admiring her very cute dresses. The last to join their group was Lexi when he moved in with his uncle after the tragic death of his mother.

The group were soon inseparable and they brought their families together so that the whole building began to feel less like an apartment complex and more like a big house filled to the brim with family.

Inari relied upon her friends and her unofficial relatives during those early years. Fiona did her best as a single mother, but she was determined to give Inari a father and that exhaustive search put a strain on their relationship. She brought home man after man trying to find the one who would agree to be a father to her little girl and a supportive spouse to herself. Inari grew jaded as she reached middle school, and was weary of all men after so many came into their lives only to wreak havoc before her mother went back out to find another. Inari spent most of her time at her friends’ apartments so that she could avoid being home.

**High School**: Life changed dramatically during Inari’s freshmen year. Many of her friends and their families moved during that year, and that meant she no longer attended school with her closest friends. Inari had no issue making new friends, but she was upset that her support system had moved farther away. The only close friends in school who remained with her were the Fuentes brothers who she had befriended in grade school.

Inari made the best of it all as she made her rounds about the school, but there was one person in particular who intrigued her. A new student had come from Finland and had the rumor mill working overtime. What began as simple curiosity about her own heritage soon became serious concern for her new classmate who seemed incapable of going a single day without getting himself into trouble. She sat down with him at lunch one day and found that the violent reputation was nothing more than a ruse to keep people away. In no time at all, Sebastian had become one of Inari’s closest friends and someone she would come to rely on.

Between taking care of her new friend and maintaining her friendships with her farther flung friends, Inari had little free time, but that didn’t stop her from dreaming of romance. She turned many boys down at school as she thought all of them were immature idiots and she wanted nothing less than the best. That was when she met Jeremy. They met at Inari’s first job working at a Starbucks during her sophomore year of high school. He was a junior in college and utterly charming. From their first interaction, he had her entranced with his jokes and his good looks and his aspirations to become a chemist like his father. Before long, they were openly flirting and he asked her out on their first date. Their first month together was like a dream. He brought her flowers and took her on spontaneous dates and recited poems to her that he had memorized. Already, she could hear wedding bells in her head, but then he began to push her boundaries.

Though she found him attractive, she did not feel ready to do more than the sweet kisses that they had exchanged. Jeremy was not happy with that answer. He continued to be sweet, but he complained more and more about her frigidness and how she was hurting him by refusing to take their relationship to the next level. The tactic worked. Their relationship went downhill after that. He continuously pushed her for sex and she found herself growing colder every time that she gave in. By the beginning of her junior year, Inari had enough and the two broke things off. Inari found her faith in men as a whole broken after that and she quickly regained her reputation as an ice queen which would follow her into adulthood.

**Post-High School**: In Inari’s final year of schooling, her mother came to her with exciting news. She was dating again, and it wasn’t another man but rather her Auntie Astrid. Inari was shocked at first, but quickly grew excited. Astrid had been one of the few constants in her life and was easily one of the best people Inari could imagine joining her family officially. It was excellent timing as Inari planned to move out and into an apartment with Sebastian as soon as they had graduated.

Inari threw herself into work and school during her first years of independence. She intended to get herself a business degree and quickly made plans with Sebastian to start a tattoo shop together. It worked out perfectly as Inari wanted to work for herself and Sebastian wanted to pursue his art on his own terms. She busied herself getting through as much of her schooling as quickly as she could while also earning her half of the rent payment which left her little time for friends or dating. Her free time evaporated completely when her mother and Astrid announced that they intended to be married. The remainder of that year became a hectic mess of classes and wedding planning with nearly no time for Inari to breath.

She survived it all with grades intact and a successful ceremony at the end of it all, but she had little time to rest. Mere weeks after her life had settled down, Sebastian lost his boyfriend and found himself in a mental health crisis. For the next several months, she focused on her best friend and ensuring that he was on the road to recovery. She decided to switch to part time schooling in order to finish her degree. It would take longer, but it left her with more time for her friends and family. A few attempts were made to date in the years that followed, but overall, Inari decided she didn’t need that sort of drama in her life when she had so many other issues to cover.

### **Elemental Universe**

**Early Years**: Inari was the second of the elemental heirs to be born. Her mother, Fiona Pollari, conceived her with her then husband whom she had been betrothed to at a young age as was custom for the Pollari family. Fiona cared very little for him, but felt she had no choice about him. Their marriage might have gone on long enough to become bitter were it not for his untimely death a year after Inari’s birth. Rumors flowed about his death and the circumstances around it, but Fiona took her newfound freedom and began to break away from her family.

Fiona started a new life for herself and her daughter. Inari grew up with unlimited access to the world around her and this included the opportunity for her to bond with her fellow elemental heirs as a child. Inari spent many happy afternoons playing River, Sebastian, Calliope, and Chris as a toddler which went on until Valto Tuisku stopped Sebastian from attending their play dates. Inari kept in touch with River and Calliope, but she lost touch with Sebastian and Chris. Even then, she had limited contact with her other two as she grew older and life grew more complicated.

**Growing Up**: Her own abilities manifested when she was nine years old which meant she had training in addition to her schooling. She insisted on attending a public school at that time and it was there that she met and befriended the people who she would come to view as family a few years after. Shep, Jayla, Amy, Lindsey, and Lexi had grown up in the same neighbourhood and all attended the school that Inari had chosen, but it was Shep who befriended her first. He wasn’t intimidated by her station in the least and Inari loved that about him. The two quickly grew close and he introduced her to his other friends who were only too happy to adopt her into their group.

As fate would have it, they were connected to another important person in Inari’s life. Shortly after Inari turned eleven, Fiona told Inari about her new relationship with her girlfriend, Astrid Takahashi. Astrid had come into their lives when Inari was only seven, but she was only a family friend at the time. It had taken several years before Fiona realised that her feelings for the other woman were deeper than friendship. Both the press and the extended Pollari family lost their collective minds when the couple came out publicly, but neither Fiona nor Astrid let it deter them. Inari was only too happy to see her mother happy and to have Astrid move in with them. It filled the hole in their home that had been left after their relatives were cut off.

Unfortunately, the ties were cut quickly enough. When Valto Tuisku suggested that the elemental heirs ought to be betrothed to foster better relations between their regions, the Pollari family lept into action and pressured Fiona to take his offer and secure his son’s hand for Inari. The Tuisku family was their preferred family to link themselves with due to the negative press around River Perez and the perceived radical policies that Bianca de la Rosa had implemented in the past.

Fiona gave in and took the deal which made Inari very upset. She had no intention to marry someone she had only met as a child, and she set out to tell Sebastian just that. She had expected him to fight her or dismiss her opinion just like his father, but she was pleasantly surprised to find that Sebastian was relieved by her declaration. The two of them quickly became friends and worked out a plan to pretend they both accepted their engagement in order to keep their families off of each other’s backs until they were old enough to cut ties with them and do as they wished. Fiona approved of their plan and vowed to help them with the ruse.

With a new friend and a newfound sense of freedom, Inari set out to find what she really wanted out of her love life. She flirted with a few of the boys at her school and some of the interns who worked in her mother’s office, yet none of them clicked for her. She refused to settle for anything less than the butterflies that she had always dreamed of. That was until she met Jeremy. He had taken a job as her mother’s assistant and it wasn’t long before she was smitten with him. He brought her flowers and little gifts, and he complimented her endlessly while amusing her with his little jokes. When he finally asked her out on a date, she nearly fell over herself to say yes. Everything played out like it had in her favourite movies until he invited her back to his apartment. There he pressured her into sex and that quickly became the new norm of their relationship. Jeremy pushed her for more until Inari felt that she had to avoid the office to have even a little time to herself. Fiona noticed and coaxed Inari into confessing what had happened. Jeremy was fired on the spot and Inari officially broke up with him.

Inari stopped seeking out men after him. She decided to focus on her duties and her friends, and she pushed off working through the destruction Jeremy had left behind. It worked well enough until the day that Valto caught her and Sebastian discussing her love life and he learned about their plan. The breach quickly blew up into a huge mess as Valto called a meeting together to rearrange the matches.

## **Trivia**

* Go to karaoke song - “Kings and Queens” by Ava Max - Any power ballad by a woman will get her on her feet.
* First app in the morning - Spotify so that she can wake herself up before attempting to interact with any other human beings.
* Most played Spotify playlist -  'Bow to the Lionesses' - her collection of girl power ballads and other kickass music that she can strut to.
* When it’s hot out in the summer, Inari usually goes for underwear, but she'll walk around topless with a makeshift bra/bindings in the pirate universe as a compromise. However, she's more about dealing with the heat than she is about decency.
* Around Christmas time, Inari catches Chris when he falls off the ladder doing the lights, because she's muscled AF from doing kickboxing with Seb, and he of course makes the quip, "I...fell for you." After which she promptly dumps him on his ass on the ground.
* Inari tends to keep to herself, but she has nothing against hugs from her friends and family. As her boyfriend knows, she likes to be the one to begin any intimacy through the occasional spontaneous gesture on his part is appreciated. Strangers (especially men) who try to touch her will find themselves on the ground.
* Inari spreads out on her bed, even when Chris is there, usually with one leg hanging out of bed. It's all part of the delicate process of finding the perfect temperature.
* Inari hates horror in general, but costumed people are what gets her screaming. A seemingly cute, childish fear except that she generally doesn't hide from them so much as she goes in for a throat punch. Never take her to a haunted house.
* For his first birthday as her boyfriend, Inari decided to take pole dancing classes to surprise Chris. She kept it up for the health benefits.
* Inari taught all of the kids some basic self-defense. Kickboxing is good but she made sure they all knew how to disarm an attacker from multiple angles and how to flip people regardless of their weight or size
* Inari gets her period pretty consistently and always has cramps for the first three days. She needs meds and chocolate, otherwise her temper will boil over faster than Seb's in traffic on a festival weekend. Touching largely depends on whether a good back rub will help the pain or only increase it which is why Chris waits for her to give him the signal to help her out. Usually, it's wisest to leave her be until the worst of it is over, and then try the more hands-on helping methods. She tends to do a lot of binge-watching during these weeks if only to keep herself still enough to curl up with a hot water bottle.
* Inari loves buying dorky shirts for her friends as gifts even if few of her gifts are ever worn. Buying for River is her favorite because she knows they'll actually wear the shit that she finds. Seb does occasionally pull out the ones that are more snarky than awkward for him.
* Inari has a well-used vibrator. Just because she’s demi doesn’t mean she’s dead.
* Inari knows self-defense and occasionally spars with Seb when he asks, but she prefers going for runs to keep in shape. Typically she disappears early in the day before breakfast to go on a jog.