Leandra Kourakis

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**Leandra Malayna Eleni Abril Kourakis** is a witch and a full-time student at Mythical College. She is currently the most prominent member of the Kourakis-Alberghini Family. She is the girlfriend of Alec Walker and the friend and ally of Kurt Kelsey and Lucifer Dane, currently living with them.

## Description

### Appearance

She has long, curly dark brown hair that falls to her mid-back or slightly above, usually. She has an oval-shaped face, a strong jaw and a pointed chin. She has slightly rounded almond-shaped eyes of a warm brown hue. She has eyebrows that are almost S-shaped, angled softly. She has a roman nose, slightly bird-like. She has wide, slightly bottom-heavy lips, the peaks of her cupid’s bow widely spaced from each other.

She has broad shoulders and wide hips for her size. She has a warm, tanned, olivine skin tone. Other than the general piercings in each lobe of her ear, of which she has two in her right ear, she has a pierced navel. A small silver moon charm hangs from the end of the piercing.

## Biography

### Pre-RP

Leandra had a relatively happy childhood. She was beloved by her parents, even if only for being their only daughter. From the moment she could speak, her mother introduced her to tarot; at six years old, Leandra received her first deck. By the time she was nine, she was fluent in the language of the cards and had started carrying them everywhere with her. When she was twelve, she bought a second deck, the one that she currently carries. She’d wanted a deck of cards that she’d chosen. Ever since she was fourteen, she’s been consulting the cards at key moments of uncertainty and conflict in her life. She can also be known to make a dollar or two off of readings, if she’s desperate enough. But she never much enjoyed giving readings; there’s too much lying involved. She likes her tarot honest. Most of her clients, she’s found, do not.

It was at fourteen that Leandra began to realize that maybe her parents weren’t always right. Maybe her mother’s teachings were inherently flawed. Maybe there was another way to live, a way that was outspoken and wild and delightful, like her cousin. She began planning her own rebellion: what she would say, what she would do. By the time she was sixteen, she was hardly spending any time at home; she would tag along with her brother, Cal, when he would go out to parties. It was at one such party that she found herself cornered and restrained by a boy at least a year older than her, and she had a moment of doubt. Maybe her mother had been right. Maybe she should just stay home and wait to be married off and stay home some more. But the doubt only served to anger her more.

She grew more impatient at home. When she was seventeen, her youngest brother came out as being gay, and was shunned by the family. Leandra disagreed with the general sentiment, however, and sought out Cal even when told to avoid him. His disownment from the Kourakis family had been the last straw for her. She decided that, the day she turned eighteen, she would get as far away from her family as possible.

But her eighteenth birthday came, and she couldn’t afford to leave. She scrounged up what money she did have and did what she could afford to do: she got a belly button piercing, knowing that it would infuriate her mother. And it did. In consequence, her mother resolved not to pay for Leandra’s college education. And so Leandra spent a year working herself to the point of exhaustion, accumulating two and three part-time jobs at a time. She would sing and dance in the streets, in shady bars, in hole-in-the-wall restaurants. And, finally, she was able to afford college tuition.

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## Relationships

* Family
* Romance
* Friends

* Stavros
* Maria
* Vincenzo
* Kenyon
* Ezekeil
* Callistus
* Alana

Stavros Kourakis was born in Greece, but immigrated to the US in pursuit of higher education. Now a skilled engineer, he considers himself the provider of his family, and expects, quite arrogantly, that his children be grateful for him. He has always been particularly doting and permitting towards his daughter, however, and encouraged her to branch out from her mother’s teachings. Though Leandra doesn’t feel particularly emotionally close to her father, she does appreciate him for making her feel acknowledged and respected.

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Maria Antonia Kourakis (n. Alberghini) has a rather tempestuous relationship with her daughter. Born and raised to believe that her place, as a woman, was to be complacent, she did her best to teach her daughter these same lessons. However, when Leandra began to rebel against the conservatism with which her mother raised her, their relationship grew more strained. Despite this, Maria loves her daughter very much, and wishes most to see her happy. After all, it was she who taught Leandra everything that she knows about magic and tarot.

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Vincenzo “Vince” has always considered himself to be his sister’s protector. However, this just gets on Leandra’s nerves more often than not, and the two spend a lot of time bickering. He often tries to use his age (he is 28 years old) to prove that he knows better than she does, but Leandra usually has only to point at her second-eldest brother to prove him wrong.

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Kenyon “Kenny” considers his sister to be something akin to a maid, it seems. Leandra hates visiting him, as he’s proven himself to be quite supportive of her mother’s “training” of her. But Leandra visits anyway, because he’s her brother, and she hopes to one day show him that women are more than objects. Alas, that day has yet to come, and Leandra is beginning to lose patience with her brother and his seven years of age more than her.

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Ezekeil “Zeke” has always been disdainful. He’s the black sheep of the family, his mother fondly calls him. He keeps to corners, the quiet, and doesn’t speak much. Leandra can more than respect that, and though the two aren’t particularly close, there is a sort of mutual understanding between the 23-year-old and his sister.

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Callistus “Cal” and Leandra understand each other on a level that their other siblings will never reach. For where Leandra was pushed away from her family for being a woman, her youngest brother was disowned for being gay. And though Maria has warned her daughter to stay away from “that devil child”, Leandra continues to speak and offer her support to Cal. She considers him her closest immediate family member.

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Alana Kourakis, daughter of Marinos Kourakis and cousin of Leandra, is a spitfire. She rejects the ideas of her aunt, Maria, and is unashamed of her blunt, brutal honesty. She has taken her cousin under her wing, especially after Leandra spoke out against her mother, and has proclaimed herself Leandra’s guardian angel. She is two years older than her cousin, just a year younger than Leandra’s youngest brother, and is already married to a man named Ivano who owns a goat farm in Italy.

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* Alec Walker
* Paris

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* Kurt Kelsey
* Lucifer Dane

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## Trivia

### Fun Facts

* Leandra's mother tongue is Italian.
* Leandra dislikes pears.
* When Leandra was thirteen, she wanted to dye her hair electric blue. Her mother forbade her from ever dyeing her hair.
* Leandra got her belly button pierced when she turned eighteen as a form of rebelling against her parents and their traditional ideals.

### Behind the Scenes

* Leandra was originally the placeholder main character that Lark played as when playing the visual novel The Arcana. Her introduction to the Mythicalverse was an expansion of the character into a fully-realized individual, and did away with most of the connections to the visual novel, bar the tarot cards.

## References

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