Inna Petrov

**Inna Petrov** was a participant in the Fourth Nonary Game.

## Appearance

Inna has a lean build with aged pale skin and thin white-blonde curly hair that reaches her shoulders. She also has pale blue eyes.

## Personality

She comes off as hardened and blunt, she’s honest but she isn’t rude and uncaring. She wants to support people and help them get out of shitty situations like she was once in, she’s empathetic and does truly care about others but she doesn’t put up with bullshit and excuses.

Inna was addicted to gambling for years and years, saying that she’s letting fate take its course and decide everything for her. She developed this way of thinking when she was younger, she was extremely nihilistic, jaded by her experiences. Inna is still a strong believer in fate, but she realized that there's ways to take control of your own fate and use it to change things for the better.

## Backstory

Inna hasn’t ever really known any luxury or stability in her life. She never had a father and her mother was an absent addict who’d rather be intoxicated than provide for her daughter. She worked starting at age 14 to be able to provide herself with the essentials and was barely able to get by. Since she had to spend all her days working and was constantly moving around due to unstable housing, she was never able to play and make friends with kids her age. She was homeless multiple times in her life, and often went days without eating. Inna’s mother died when she was 18, and it hardly affected her since she never had a relationship with her mother. She worked full time often illegally, finding jobs wherever she could. Any job she could find, she took. Inna was constantly in and out of shelters, she eventually made enough to be able to afford rent for a rundown apartment.

Over the years she had to find any way she could to make money, and eventually started gambling. She began to care less and less about everything, she would have winning streaks and gamble even more. She decided to let everything be decided by fate, causing her to act more risky. In her late 20s, her addiction became extreme and out of hand, she eventually lost everything. Unable to pay rent, she lost her apartment as well. In and out of shelters again, she found a job at a local diner. It was small and a bit rundown, but she enjoyed the atmosphere and the owner was empathetic and let her work. The owner took care of her, giving Inna a place to stay and food to eat until she was able to pick herself up and become stable on every level. Inna spent everyday working in the diner, and eventually became the head chef and started running the place. She was able to pull herself out of the hole she dug herself into, financially and mentally. Inna wanted to support others around her, as many of them have struggled as she has. She started donating meals to shelters and letting those who came to her diner pay what they could, if anything. Her struggles throughout her life left her sturdy and hardened, but she doesn’t want anyone else to live how she has. Inna cares for others, and often takes in people and trains them to work in her kitchen. She gives them food and work, as long as they are willing to put in the effort to build themselves up and fix their lives.