Tanya Etranzi

Eleonora Petrenko (grandmother)

Alexei Etranzi (brother)

Marcus Logan (step-father)

Julian Logan (step-brother)

**Tatyana Kendra "Tanya" Etranzi** (Татьяна Кендра "Таня" Этранжи) is a Ukrainian-American MMA fighter and member of the Contra Defense Force. She joined the Jumpers being a part of a human team of martial artists who squared up against interspecies opponents before being recruited to be the close combat and martial arts expert of CDF. She later becomes Lindaria's vessel.

## Biography

### Early Life

Tatyana Etranzi was born in Odessa, Ukraine a few years following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Her father, Nikolay Etranzi, was a high ranking government figure in the Ukrainian SSR and was displaced once the country was declared an independent state. Following the dissolution, Nikolay slowly became more violent and abuse towards his wife, Sofiya Petrenko, and Tatyana. As a result, Nikolay was forceful in her upbringing, enrolling her in ballet and violin classes against her will. She has an older brother, Alexei, who has a similar mindset to their father and often bullied Tatyana much to the dismay of their mother.

Following a violent drunken rant from Nikolay, Sofiya divorced him and fled Ukraine with Tatyana and her mother, Polish-born Eleonora Petrenko. They immigrated to the United States when Tatyana was age 8 and settled in low-income housing in Brooklyn, New York. Sofiya had no higher education and worked at a grocery store to provide for her mother and daughter. At school, Tatyana was mocked at for her thick Eastern European accent and her poor grasp of the English language. Some days walking home from school, she would get jumped by a group of school boys looking to tease her even more about her heritage and language skills, often resulting in her coming home crying to her grandmother.

Coming home from school one day, Tatyana learned of a self-defense class being taught in the neighborhood and wished to enroll in hopes of being able to defend herself from her school bullies. Due to her family's financial troubles, they weren't able to afford the classes. Instead, she would secretly watch from the window of the building, trying her hardest to mimic what was being taught without being seen by the instructor. She also decided to start going by "Tanya" in order to make her feel more American and to assimilate more with American life, in attempts of leaving her childhood in Ukraine behind her.

After weeks of eavesdropping on self-defense classes, Tanya attempted to try what she learned on her bullies after one of them tried to steal her backpack. In retaliation, the boys fought back and left Tanya bruised as her backpack was successfully stolen. This altercation caught the attention of Marcus Logan, the instructor of the self-defense school. After learning about Tanya peeking in on his classes, Marcus took Tanya under his wing and began to mentor her in personalized lessons he would hold in his house after school when he wasn't teaching his formal classes. He would later meet Tanya's family and learn of their situation, and would invite them over for dinner each Sunday. Marcus quickly became a father figure to Tanya as for the next few years, he would move on to teach Tanya different fighting styles before getting her in contact with an acquaintance of his looking for someone with her kind of potential; Jack Louis, an interdimensional martial artist agent associated with the Jumpers looking for a new client.