Nikita Astrug-Marchenko

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> ### Full Name
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> Nikita Yashoda Astrug-Marchenko
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> * Nikki (used by everyone)
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> ### Birth
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> October 27th, 1991 in Old Camelot, Southern Albion
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> ### Age
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> * 30 (as of 2021)
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> ### Species
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> Witch - Halfblood
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> ### Gender
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> Female
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> Ash blonde
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> Turquoise
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> 5'10" ft
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> Alive
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> ### Family member(s)
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> * Mary-Rose Astrug (mother) †
> * Pasha Marchenko (father) †
> * Eleonora Astrug-Marchenko (younger sister)
> * Aelita Astrug-Marchenko (niece)
> * Milena Astrug-Draganova (niece)
> * Talia Astrug-Draganova (niece)
> * Niklaus II Morgenstern (nephew)
> * Marie-Rose Corvin (maternal youngest half-sister)
> * Alex-Rose 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)
> * Kuzma Marchenko (paternal uncle) †
> * Mykhail Marchenko (paternal grandfather) †
> * Leonora Marchenko (paternal grandmother) †
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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 Yashoda Astrug-Marchenko** is the oldest child and daughter between Mary-Rose Astrug and Pasha Marchenko, and the older sister of Eleonora and the older half-sister of Marie-Rose.

She was previously married to David Morgenstern a cousin of Lux, their marriage was reified with toxicity and was one of the reason's Ele stopped talking to her sister among other things.

## Appearance

Nikita has an oval-shaped face with high cheekbones, a button nose and a long neck. She has curly ash blonde 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

* **Witch Physiology** - Nikita is a witch, which essentially just means she a regular human with extra features such as the ability to use magic (specifically), can sense magic and has a longer life span then a human.
	+ **Emotion Magic** - Due to her magic binding spell being recently unbounded, Nikita has discovered that she can manipulate the wide spectrum of emotions via touch though she is trying to find a way to not do that. She mainly uses it to calm down people who have been angered, to end a situation peacefully.
		- **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*".
		- **Emotion Reflection** - The ability to reflect emotions and/or memories back onto a person or onto another being.
	+ **Water Magic** - All water magic involves moving and shaping a body of water to the user's desire. By simply levitating a large mass of water, practitioner can move water anywhere they wish, even parting it under the surface of a lake or sea, allowing them to walk along the bottom of a basin without the need to swim. These large bodies of water can also be used as weapons, either by shaping them into gigantic whips, swung repeatedly at a target as a snake-like body, formed momentarily into a razor-sharp edge that can cut through even metal, or simply dropped onto an opponent to smother them or put out a fire. On the sea or ocean, practitioner can be used to create giant maelstroms.
	+ **Divination** - Nikita knows the magical ability to gain knowledge through indirect means, as she can use tarot cards to predict what may happen.

## 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".
* Yashoda is made up of यश (*yash*) meaning "fame" or "glory" and दा (*da*) meaning "one who is giver". Yashoda is the foster-mother of Krishna and the wife of Nanda. She is described in the Puranic texts of Hinduism as the wife of Nanda, the chieftain of Gokulam. According to the Bhagavata Purana, Krishna was born to Devaki, but Krishna's father brought the newborn Krishna to his cousin Nanda, and his wife Yashoda. This was for his upbringing, as well as to protect Krishna from Devaki's brother, Kamsa, the tyrannical king of Mathura.
* 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 number "2" in reference to the tarot card the Priestess.
	+ She is also associated with the Queen of Cups.
* According to the Databook(s).
	+ Her hobbies are listening to music, flower arrangement and knitting,
	+ Nikita's favorite meal is black pudding with fried potatoes and bread.
		- Her second favorite meal is a shrimp po'boy with fries.
	+ 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