Alezhja Malkin

Alezhja Cicyon-Malkin (c. 1978 - December 1998 GHC) was a Kikikan student who became trapped in Kalubio during its civil war between the Equalwi Royal State and the Reformist Alliance. She was eventually taken prisoner by the BBA and forced to lead their Supersoldat program by Ballaiy Luvvar. Following the Kalubian operation to raid a BBA facility in north Bathole, she narrowly escaped a BBA purge and went into hiding.

Alezhja proved to be a vital asset in the Apocalypse Incident, supplying UKM and KFAF forces with vital expertise used to contain the threat. As her sanity began to deteriorate, she desired to have a child to carry her family line (a major component of Sovietese culture, especially in Kikikoa). At the end of the Apocalypse Incident, she dies shortly after giving birth to her daughter, Jenna.

## Life

### Early Life (1978 - 1987)

Alezhja was born in Zelnygrat, Kikikoa. She had been fascinated by life and the body since she was a child, and wanted to become a doctor.

### Arrival and Stay in Kalubio (1988 - 1990)

She was seventeen when she was accepted into the prestigious Fenikorre Medical Institute (FMI) in Nuvobokur as a research student. Here, she became friends with Sylvie Amurä-Kharkof, one of the few other mixed Kajin in attendance. Both agreed to take part in a foreign aid extra credit campaign to south Kalubio. While advised against going due to tensions in the wake of Kalubio's first election, many still insisted on going and it was permitted to go forward.

The class arrived in Calubiu on July 9th 1988 GHC. Shortly after the assassination of Aiza'ak Katzjung on August 15th, they were instructed by the FMI to returnto Kikikoa to avoid violence. Their return shuttle was delayed by covert UKM intervention, which Alezhja found out to be in order to negotiate with Kalubian operatives regarding a classified project. After being caught overhearing the conversation discussing the deal, she was pursued by UKM coverup agents and fled. The next day, a framed terrorist attack killed several classmates, and caused Kalubio to become quarantined. Shortly after, the Equalwi invasion of Unifijž would ignite the war, leaving her totally stranded.

Several other students were being hunted by BBA mercenaries for unknown reasons. With Alezhja already in hiding, she managed to reach Wourvilla before being picked up by SPAU resistance fighters, including Katherine Felidow. They agreed to help her return to Kikikoa and hide her from the BBA on the condition she help treat their wounded. With no other options, Alezhja agreed.

Alezhja was eventually handed over to Joseph Rodenski and evacuated to Calubiu. However, with the BBA holding most of the region on lockdown, she was still unable to leave Kalubio. Shortly after, Alezhja was captured during a daring BBA strike on Calubiu.

### Forced Work for BBA (1990 - 1998)

Being a distinguished honours student, Alezhja caught the attention of Ballaiy Luvvar himself, who reveals he has a background in medicine. He threatens her to direct a program designed to create super soldiers with specializations. Once again, Alezhja conceded, and was escorted to a covert facility in Equalwi. After learning Sylvie was in hiding though, she began to plot their union and escape.

While working on the super soldier program, she met a kidnapped Kikikan doctor: Peter Vankori. He alleged he had been sold to the BBA by corrupt military officials. Alezhja began to fall for him, efforts that were initially rebuked but eventually became more accepted.

Upon learning of the involvement between Alezhja and Vankori, Ballaiy took a special interest in threatening Peter to motivate Alezhja in her work. Deadlines were tightened, research was hastened, and slip-ups began to occur. In 1997, Alezhja was ordered directly to Bathole to oversee matters regarding a subject: Joseph.

Recognizing him from Wourvilla, she began to work secretly with Joseph to cause a sabotage of the project, freeing both themselves and the other POWs present (unbeknownst to them, including Connor Felidow). While their plan never came to fruition, a KFAF raid did liberate the facility. Alezhja once again fled to avoid being purged by BBA.

### Apocalypse Incident and Death (1998)

Towards the fall of the BBA in late 1997 GHC, insurrection began to break out among the kidnapped Kikikans. In early 1998, several prototypes were set against the BBA enforcers in a facility riot. After encountering specimens in south Kalubio during her journey to Calubiu, Alezhja tracked down Joseph Rodenski, who was a friend of Föcan Reinder Stuhy. Alezhja convinced them to assist her in containing the subjects before they could cause widespread damage.

The three of them eventually encountered Ballaiy Luvvar, who reveals he had planted a double at the base in Jericho. While nearly killed by Joseph and Reinder, he agreed to held them neutralize the super soldiers on the condition he be allowed to leave Kalubio alive and never return. His terms were reluctantly accepted. The four of them join forces to fight through mobs of biologically-advanced Goldblut soldiers. During their crusade, Alezhja discovered Peter had committed suicide following the riot in the Equalwi facility, as it was being overrun. After reaching the facility ruins and finding his body, she began to experience vivid hallucinations.

Luvvar eventually sacrificed himself for the other three to escape a nuclear detonation in a shuttle, after warning of another project happening in Kikikoa. Alezhja led the group to Kikikoa to handle the potential outbreak. She is finally reunited with Sylvie in Nuvobokur.

Alezhja, Sylvie, Reinder, Joseph, Hamlin Zoller and Katherine formed team Alfa-Reaper and were tasked with termination of renegade subjects. Weeks into their operations, Alezhja revealed that she was pregnant, though unsure of the father. Her mental state had gotten drastically worse, revealing she had suffered trauma since the first wounded she saw in Wourvilla, and that it had worsened during her work. In a drugged ramble, she admitted she her plans to commit suicide aad that she was confident Reinder was the father of her child.

In December 1998 GHC, while assaulting a supersoldat stronghold, a wounded Alezhja finally gave birth to Jenna Stuhy-Malkin. She succumbed and died shortly after seeing her daughter, and Reinder promising to have her safely raised.

## Appearance

Alezhja is a Sovietese Kajin. Her skin is pale, and her hair and fur is a silver-blonde. She has icy blue eyes, and a lean, fox-like tail.

## Personality

While often detached from her Kalu-blood compatriates and cold demeanor towards her BBA superiors, Alezhja displays occasional bits of scathing wit to hold her ground. She is highly intelligent, and seldom reserved about letting it show. While she is a survivalist, she does go great lengths to protect her close allies, as shown with Peter and Sylvie. She is also shown to be less stern when with her fellow students and not under pressure from the BBA or Institute guides.