Dimitri Petrov/Lore

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## Early Life

Born in the year XXXX, to the parents Lada and Sergei Petrov, Dimitri grew up in the city of Qrul in Sruiding on the planet Epitol II. She has two older siblings, 14 and 17 years older than her. For multiple years, Lada could be described as a more distant mother but her behaviours were most likely due to her post-partum depression she had suffered after giving birth to Dimitri. She raised her decently, having the help of her husband and children occasionally. Dimitri and her mother had a generally strained relationship from the start, the depression having lingered for multiple years. Due to this, she tried to become closer with her father who was not a good influence on her in retrospect. Her father got her interested in weapons, but especially guns and knives, as a way to make her a hunter. He later realized that she was quite obedient and purposely used that to train her into what should have become a great soldier. Because of her father's choice of how he socialized her, she was quite ostracized from the other kids at her school and in her grade, she never took any of it to heart since she had a more independent kind of mindset. Her father, while she grew close to him, wanted her to be something important to Arctis and that meant having her degrade and be mean to women while her father would make disgusting comments about people in the stories she heard from other kids, that those people were "wrong" or "freaks of nature" and she subconsciously picked up those thoughts. Her mother never knew what she was being taught to think via her husband, she was very dependent on her while Dimitri lived under her roof. Her older siblings had moved out quite early in her life, while fostering no real relationship with her as she was too young for them to validate cultivating a relationship with their younger sibling. Growing up with that mindset, Dimitri had no genuine friends, she had people she would sit with at lunch and study with but it never went past the school hours. These same kids often made fun of her behind her back, even though they all exhibited the same kind of independent mindset but hers was more obvious and ostracized her for that exact reason, though she didn't really show any emotion toward it. During her early high school years, Dimitri had started to have very foreign feelings about her body and how it didn't look right. It took her around 4 years to realize what these feelings were. When she finally accepted those feelings and started to understand things she could do to alleviate them, her body started to physically change. One on night during her X year of high school, she had transformed into a werewolf hybrid, something which was familiar with some people on her planet but they were mostly stories the other kids told each other to scare each other. After she de-formed, she kept it a secret from her entire family, knowing what would happen if they found out. The day after her first transformation, she became more resolved to finish school early, which she had already been on track due to her intelligence in school. After her transformation, she was continually harassed by Arctis recruiters attempting to get her to join their military cause, even though she denied their requests every single time as she wasn't interested in perpetuating such violence regardless of her upbringing. Throughout all of her years of primary schooling, Dimitri had always been at the top of her class if not the top student and was easily able to graduate early at 17 years old, two years younger than when her classmates typically would graduate.

### After leaving Epitol II

Dimitri, during the years it would take for a ship to reach the inner core, she had successfully moved to the Inner Core, though it was noted the time it took her was significantly less than the length a mission (i need to check). She moved to Waxavon II which was a massive change from the scenery of Epitol II. After a year of living there, she had successfully transitioned, both physically and socially. During the transition while handling legal papers, she had decided to keep her birth name. As her mother had named her and she wanted to keep that part of her life instead opting to take her father's name out, leaving her with one less middle name. Three months after her transition had completed, she had received full acceptance to the Kietune University in ███████, on Waxavon II. She had received full aid from the local company Suncrest, who liked to help aid potential future scientists in their career journey. She felt a little suspicious about why Suncrest specifically aided her, especially since she was supposed to be unknown here in the Inner Core but hadn't questioned it too hard early on. Unlike her previous schooling, Dimitri was less publicly ostracized by her classmates. She was able to have more luck at making friends, having made some genuine friends that she would properly consider friends. Within her first two years at college, she had been able to ace her classes and was near the top of her class for both years. Right after her 20th birthday, Dimitri cut off any contact she still had with any of her family, finally having severed her ties with them for good, though she would have regrets about this later on in her life. A year later, while in class, she had met her future partner Alexei Rostova. They had met while Dimitri was 21 and Alexei was 24. They had started dating 7 months after initially meeting, mostly due to Dimitri's lack of understanding her own feelings. It has been noted that their first few years together were quite normal and calm, aside from a few months after their second anniversary. Dimitri's mother, Lada, had gotten sick and her family had reached out to her, the only time they have breached the no contact that was seemingly decided on between them.