Nikita Astrug-Marchenko

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> ### Full name
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> Nikita Lili Astrug-Marchenko
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> * Nikki (nickname)
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> ### Birth
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> October 27th, X945MC in Old Camelot, Southern Albion
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> ### Age
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> * 30 (as of X975MC)
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> ### Species
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> Human
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> ### Gender
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> Female
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> Red
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> Turquoise
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> ### Height
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> 6'1" ft
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> Alive
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> ### Family member(s)
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> * Mary Astrug (mother)
> * Pasha Marchenko (father) †
> * Eleonora Astrug-Marchenko (younger sister)
> * Aelita Astrug-Marchenko (niece)
> * Oscar Astrug-Marchenko (adopted nephew)
> * Milena Astrug-Marchenko (niece)
> * Talia Astrug-Marchenko (niece)
> * Niklaus Morgenstern (nephew)
> * Marie-Rose Corvin (maternal youngest half-sister)
> * Alex Astrug (maternal uncle)
> * Simone Astrug (maternal first cousin)
> * Sloane Astrug (maternal first cousin)
> * Minerva Astrug (maternal grandmother and third cousin once removed) †
> * Vincent Astrug (maternal grandfather and third cousin once removed) †
> * Evangeline Astrug (maternal grandaunt)
> * Nymphadora Astrug (maternal grandaunt)
> * Kuzuma Marchenko (paternal uncle) †
> * Grisha Marchenko (paternal uncle)
> * Eleonora Kapela (paternal grandmother) †
> * Mikhail Marchenko (paternal grandfather) †
> * Petro Marchenko (paternal great-grandfather) †
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> * Happy Haumann (boyfriend)
> * Nate C. Blythin (ex-boyfriend, now friends)
> * David Morgenstern (husband - estranged, abusive)
> * Noah Morgenstern (ex-affair)
> * Bastian Morgenstern (ex-affair)
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> “Some flowers do not belong where they were originally planted.”
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> ― Giovannie de Sadeleer
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**Nikita Lili Astrug-Marchenko** is the oldest child and daughter between Mary Astrug and Pasha Marchenko, the older sister of Eleonora and the oldest half-sister of Marie-Rose.

Nikki married David Morgenstern after only a year of dating. Three years into the marriage, she separated from David and took a teaching position at her alma mater.

## Appearance

Nikita has an oval-shaped face with high cheekbones, a button nose and a long neck. She has curly red hair that she wears long and round turquoise eyes with long eyelashes. According to Rosie, Nikita is soft and cute while Eleonora is harsh and striking.

Unlike her mother and sister Rosie, Nikita has a more athletic and skinnier frame with smaller breasts but has very long legs. She is also very tall which she gets from her father Pasha.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Mana Manipulation** - Nikita has a shallow mana pool as such her mana usage is limited. As such Nikita cannot generate water but can manipulate and control the water around her or available to her.
	+ **Water Manipulation** - She can control great volumes of water to a very high degree, lifting 10,000 gallons of water. She can dry himself and items (such as a lighter) underwater as long as she holds onto it, extract water from petrified seashells, create oxygen bubbles underwater for people who cannot breathe underwater, propel himself through water, summon waves that can easily sink ships, as well as control water in order to make it explode or use it to grab something.
		- **Water Empowerment** - When in contact with or in the presence of water, Nikita gains a disproportionate amount of superhuman clarity, strength, speed, agility, and endurance.
		- **Water Solidification** - Nikita can harden water into an almost solid shape by increasing the surface tension of the water. She can use this power to walk on water and create a strong water shield, and on two instances she can hardened the water into giant hands that followed and imitated the movements of his own hands.
	+ **Empathic Precognition** - Depending on the emotions she is surrounded by or in contact with it can trigger a vision to happen in which she may have peaks of the past and future. This comes in the form of a painful headaches that she describes as "*an anvil crushing your skull*".

## Etymology

* Nikita is the Russian form of Niketas which is derived from Greek *νικητής (niketes)* meaning "winner, victor".
	+ Nikita is also derived from Sanskrit *निकेत (niketa)* meaning "house, habitation".
* Lili is a variant of Lily which is the name of the flower, a symbol of purity. The word is ultimately derived from Latin *lilium*.
* Astrug is a variant derived from Provençal *astruc* "lucky", ultimately from Greek *aster* "star" and thus having the extended meaning of "born under a good star". It was generally given as an amuletic name and sometimes used as a translation of Hebrew Mazel Tov and/or Gad which means "fortune, luck" in Hebrew.
* Marchenko is the Ukrainian variant of Marko which is a form of Mark in several languages. Mark is the Latin form of Marcus a Roman praenomen, or given name, that was probably derived from the name of the Roman god Mars which is possibly related to Latin *mas* meaning "male" (genitive *maris*).

## Trivia

* Nikita is associated with the Ace of Cups.
* According to the Databook(s).
	+ Nikita hobbies are knitting, listening to music, surfing and playing board games.
	+ Her favorite meal is a roast chicken with steamed green beans and simmered pears.
		- Her second favorite meal is black pudding with fried potatoes and soda bread.
	+ She dislikes persimmons.
	+ Nikita is a fan of Fleetwood Mac, Bananarama, ABBA, Shakespears Sister, Joy Division, Nirvana and the Psychedelic Furs,
	+ Her most precious possession is