Galina Hamilton

> Gentle of mind, strong in heart. A person of great virtue, she
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> —

**Galina Hamilton** (née **Vladimer-Prescovich**) (b. 27 January, 1961) was an Latishana refugee and Queendom of Roses war hero, the second eldest daughter of Boyar Aleksander Vladimer-Prescovich and Boyare Anastasia Vladimer-Prescovich and one of the many younger sisters of the magician Minerva Trappola. During her childhood, she became seriously ill with a family illness, broke off contact with the outside world and refused to have contact with people outside of her own family members.

She married a merman General and war hero of the Coral Sea, Vortigen Hamilton and they have three daughters, Giana Hamilton, Viviana Hamilton, and Antonella Hamilton, as well as six sons, Leonardo Hamilton, Lorenzo Hamilton, Matti Hamilton, Tommaso Hamilton, Gabriele Hamilton, and Francesco Hamilton. However, with the death of Minerva, Galina became the secondary guardian of her nephew, Ace Trappola, who was only an infant then. Her children were all born sickly at birth and due to her constant fussing over them, she spent little-if-any time with Ace, who only remembered her being an almost always absent guardian.

In 1991, when Antonella and Gabriele finally began their years of schooling at Night Raven, Galina was enraged to learn about Ace's troublemaking behavior threatening to come up to Night Raven and scold him herself. In 1997, Galina traveled to the Coral Sea in order to broker a deal with Jade Leech's parents in order to allow her youngest child Francesco to remain with the Leech family as she felt uneasy leaving her youngest on his own while she attended to her work.

After the events of chapter 10, her children began to get married to some of their fellow classmates from nations around the world and she had many grandchildren. Through her nephew's marriage to Mitsu Kamikaze, she had two great-nephews, Kazuha Xiao and Thelem Chongyun Kamikaze, the former named after her late cousin-in-law, and a great-niece, Minerva Thelema Kamikaze, named after her late older sister.

She was the favored sister-in-law of Eileen Hamilton, Marjorie Hamilton and Ginevra Hamilton, who showered her in presents and gifts whenever she came to visit them. Najma Viper becomes a member of the family's manor staff after Galina offers the Asim family an outrageous amount of money in order to gain Najma's freedom from servitude. Eventually, she is adopted by a minor noble family directly underneath the Hamilton's (the Hamilton family being their liege lords) and becomes a student at the famous Imperial Jade Academy in the East, graduating rapidly with accomplished honors.

By the time that the MC and the rest of their companions travel to the Land of Scalding Sands, Najma is visiting her family members—this is when Jamil learns about Najma earning her freedom from servitude and of her new employer—Galina, whom she describes as perfection itself. Not wanting Najma to leave her sickly son and daughter's side, Galina provided them with an entorague of armed guards in order to protect all three of them, as a gesture of goodwill towards Najma.

## Biography

### Early Life

> Growing up we never had much conviences I remember — as refugees fleeing from a fallen nation, we traveled constantly seeking aid and everywhere we sought aid — people laughed in our faces and decried our troubles as troubles of privaleged people. They threw stones at us, which cut the faces of the younger children and threw slurs at us. Those people lived to regret those stones when our parents made waves on the international stage as company owners and shamed them. Good riddance I say.
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> — Galina regarding her's and Minerva's childhood

Galina, much like Minerva, was born to a prominent Boyar family, the Vladimers, though later on in life, she was adopted by Boyar Aleksander Vladimer-Prescovich and Boyare Anastasia Vladimer-Prescovich, two of the last members of the Imperial House of Vladimer-Prescovich, on 30 January, 1961. Her family lived in Prescovich, capital city of the Latisha Empire before the empire's collapse along with it's fellow nations on the Zaki continent. She had no older or younger siblings, being the only child and thus the heir to the family's fortunes. At the age of 4, she witnessed the collapse of her homeland and their fortunes by association which led to them becoming refugees. The events of the third and final great disaster five hundred years prior, had greatly destabilized almost all of the nations still left on the Zaki continent and other continents around the world, including even the aftermentioned Island of Sages. While living in the slums of the Sunlight Savannah, she became friends with other refugees from the Latisha Empire such as: Clelia Angelos, daughter of the former Imperial court chamberlin of the Latisha Empire and Silvana Athanasiou, daughter of the former Commander of the Imperial Guards.

## Trivia

* Galina grew up in the slums of the Sunset Savannah with Ruggie's late mother Bahati Bucchi (née **Zubira**), a member of the noble House of Zubira who lost her status after eneloping with a commoner Hyena from the slums.
	+ When asked about Bahati by Bahati's son Ruggie, Galina states that she was a woman strong in mind, body, and heart, logical to her very core and a loving daughter, sister, wife, and mother.
* She is stated to be a close family friend of the Bucchi family and often returns to the Sunset Savannah in order to visit Ruggie and his grandmother.
	+ She often sends Ruggie packages of food and drinks, with Ruggie considering her to be like his own biological mother (having heard only stories about her).
* Galina has stated that Ruggie learned [[]], the language historically used by the House of Zubira directly from her.
* In the historical records of the Land of the Scalding Sands, she has been named **Al-Abaddon** (Sanskrit: अल-अबद्दोन, "The Destroyer"), due to her actions during the last cataclysm war. Arlecchino, an avid historian of that specific period, describes the younger Galina (then only 25 years old) as a "charismatic person" who traumatized the world by resorting to excessive actions in order to neutralize an evil that would have killed millions of people, citing her to be worthy of respect. The people of the Land of the Scalding Sand view her involvement quite differently and have consisiently referred to her as an unlawful usurper.
	+ In the modern era, those oppressed as servants of rich merchant families in the Land of the Scalding Sands, view Galina as a international heroine and consider her to have been their ancestors' savior. Najma Viper, a member of the subordinate Viper family, calls her an inspiration for females everywhere.
* Her children cite her formidable reputation as the reason why their fellow classmates at NRC (Night Raven College) don't bother them, fearing the retaliation of Galina due to her reputation as a war hero among other things.
* Due to the sickly conditions of her eldest daughter and son Galina believed that they both needed caretakers, offering the Asim's a quite generous amount of money to purchase Najma's freedom and hire her on as a member of the Hamilton Manor staff. It is noted by Najma that this plea for Najma's freedom was accepted despite Galina's reputation in the nation.
	+ Najma lives in the Hamilton Manor taking care of her eldest daughter and son when they are home from break but returns to the campus of NRC (Night Raven College) with them, in order to properly care for them.
* Najma describes her as a fair employer and is shown to be quite happy to go along with her demands, even happily taking her employer's children with her when she visited her family members in her homeland.
	+ Galina views Najma quite affectionally and is noted to have given her the Eastern name of Focalor for her own usage, while the minor noble family gave her the status of heiress, as they had no surviving children that could inherit from them.