Ursula Romanov

Nura Amin (Mentor)

Wilbur Coulomb (Mentor)

Ava Abernathy (Sire, Best friend)

Ursula Romanov was born to an ordinary, though somewhat tight-knit family. While she was quite naturally talented in the sciences and other technical subjects, this relationship with her family was the true highlight of her childhood. Her mother and father were her primary sources of emotional support, and they had a very close relationship. She also had two siblings, though she was only close with her younger sister, Jaqueline. Her other sibling was an older brother, named Jordan. While they always shared a cordial relationship, Jordan was clearly the black-sheep of their family, and was often absent at family functions.

It was during her (Somewhat difficult) highschool years that she would first encounter kindred, though she wouldn’t know it. While searching for a job to work in the afternoons after school, Ursula stumbled across an ad in the paper for a “Cashier and Night Auditor” at the local Crossroads Bookshoppe. While Ursula wasn’t familiar with the bookstore personally, she had heard it was one of the only sources of Occult literature in the city. That seemed interesting to her, so she pursued the ad. It was at the Crossroads that she would unknowingly meet two Primogens of Oklahoma City: Nura Amin (Banu Haqim) and Wilbur Coulomb (Ministry of Set). These Primogens were the primary benefactors of the Bookshoppe, and had primarily staffed it with young kindred from their coteries for many years. As their coteries have dwindled in recent years, they were forced to hire human part-timers such as Ursula to help out. Ursula would thrive working under Wilbur and Nura’s tutelage, and would become quite well versed in both chemistry and occult practices.

When Ursula was in her first year of college, her parents were killed in a tragic accident. While visiting a family member undergoing serious surgery, her parents became trapped in the hospital by a fire on the lower levels. Before the fire department was able to cease the fires, the majority of the lower floors were filled with hellish inferno, including that floor which held Ursula’s parents. They perished in the blaze, leaving their three children orphans. Jordan, being the oldest surviving child of their estate, became the primary benefactor after their deaths.

While Ursula attempted (Poorly) to continue her university studies after the death of her parents, she mostly used these months to wildly party and drown her sorrows in the murky underworld of the city. While she wasted her last few chances at a normal life, her estranged brother used the money their parents left them to care for their sister, Jaqueline. It was not long before Ursula made new friends on the local nightlife scene, including… Ava the Gangrel. Ava and Ursula got along well right off the bat, and struck up an unlikely friendship. For every wild idea that Ursula could think of, Ava has always been willing to try it out with her. Their friendship, however, would soon take a dramatic turn.

It is entirely possible that without the intervention of Ava Abernathy, that Ursula Romanov would have died in an alley in Oklahoma City. On one unlucky night, at a dance club in Oklahoma City, Ursula caught the eye of the wrong man. While dancing on the dance floor, Ursula noticed a strange figure watching her from the corner of the club. A bit creeped out by this inexcusable behavior, Ursula quickly explained to Ava and slipped out the back door of the club. Unfortunately for her, her stalker had keen eyes. Following her out into the alleyway, the strangely intense man quickly approached her, almost at a half run. As Ursula first began to run in earnest, he caught her, and she felt something sharp slice her throat in a wide gash. For a moment, he held her as she bled. Then, her attacker heard a noise coming from the bar exit and hastily fled.

With perfect timing, Ava Abernathy emerges from the dance club, worried for her friend Ursula. She’d taken a few extra moments to drink and say goodbye to any other friends at the club, but in the end followed after Ursula. She was worried about a creep after all, and shouldn’t have to walk home alone. As she exited the club, she is immediately greeted with the loudly sobbing and squirming Ursula. Her friend’s throat was mostly opened, with unthinkable amounts of blood pouring from the wound by the moment. With every moment crucial, and not knowing how much time Ursula had to live, Ava made the difficult decision to turn her friend into a kindred. While this process immediately seemed to heal Ursula’s wounds, it also led her to fall unconscious. She continued to lay unconscious for many days, to the point that Ava thought she was likely dead. On the 5th day of her condition not changing, Ursula awoke a vampire. Not a full vampire, though… From the very moment of her awakening, she felt more alive than any kindred could have ever felt. Ursula was a thin-blood.

Ursula was turned about 15 years ago.

Somewhat grumpy and eccentric, though not unkind.

Ursula lived with her family for most of her young life, but rented a cabin on Lost Pines Park grounds the year she graduated from high school. This gave her privacy from her family, and space to grow different plants in her garden. She delighted, and she still does in unlife, in cultivating the most impressively unique garden of any in Oklahoma. She has always been a botanist first, and a scientist second. After her parents death, she rarely returned to her family home.