Pulkheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikova

"Who's the smart guy that left 'is stinkin' boots 'here!?"

**Pulkheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikova** is a protagonist in A Bizarre Adventure and a member of the Crystal Guardians. She is also Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov's elderly sister.

## Personality

Pulkheria is a very open and relatively carefree person, often putting other people’s needs before her own. She has monstrous intellect, but not to the level of Yukito or Seredy. However, she has a big temper and not that much patience, something she is very ashamed of. Simply put, she is prone to violent behaviour against people that are on her nerves but is quick to apologise. She has a good sense of reasoning and justice, often going against criminals with her wits about her. Pulkheria is very respectful of other people’s social boundaries, as she herself prefers to keep personal information personal.

## History

#### Backstory

Pulkheria was driven out from her birth country along with her younger brother, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, due to human warfare. Even in the country they fled to, they've had to struggle with scarce food and resources.

#### Obtaining "We Cast A Shadow"

One day, after a failed attempt to try and mug a rich old lady, Pulkheria found herself cornered in an alley with at least three police officers outside. Right before she could be discovered, Pulkheria found herself quite literally sinking into the shadows. She took advantage of this and successfully managed to escape custody. She’s managed to somewhat fit into the rest of society, only stealing when she sees something that she wants her hands on.

## Abilities

#### Stand

Pulkheria's Stand, **We Cast a Shadow** (a reference to Maurice Carlos Ruffin's novel ***We Cast a Shadow: A Novel***).

**The Hands in the Dark:** Much like Black Sabbath, which can only appear in shadows, We Cast a Shadow allows Pulkheria to hide within darkness of objects as if it was water. Pulkheria does have to hold her breath whilst hiding, so she can only go about sixty seconds continuously until she must surface again. Pulkheria can also use general darkness as a temporary boost, enhancing the capabilities of a single limb for 3 minutes. Finally, the stand can create non-functioning 'shadow' decoys of objects held by Pulkheria.

**The Shadow's Shadow:** We Cast a Shadow can create replicas of anyone, even Pulkheria, within shaded areas that can be used to hypnotise someone temporarily to do Pulkheria's will. The replica masks go away once the victim encounters light, or they are destroyed by an outside force.

**Mark of the Shadow:** If needed, We Cast a Shadow can form itself into an overcoat to disguise it and Pulkheria's appearance. When worn, the Stand applies its stats to Pulkheria regardless if they are wearing the overcoat or not. At any given time, the stand can look in the opposite direction of Pulkheria (it has the same vision capabilities of the average human) and alert them whenever there is a nearby threat.

### Stand Stats

**Destructive Power:** B [C when exposed] [A when enhanced]

**Speed:** B [C when exposed]

**Range:** E [B for replicas] [C for enhanced limb]

**Staying/Durability:** A [C for replicas]

**Precision:** C

**Potential:** B

## Trivia

● Her name comes from a character from Fyodor's Dostoyevksy's novel, Crime and Punishment. The same goes with Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov.

● Oddly enough, in Crime and Punishment, Pulkheria is Raskolnikov's mother instead of an elder sister.