Josephine Van Rensselaer

Josephina "Josephine" Van Rensselaer is a 2023-introduced and all-around/fiction-only character. She are the daughter of Lada, goddess of love, beauty, spring, harmony, bliss, infatuation and order and the spirit of the awakening earth, from Slavic Mythology, and currently attends Ever After High through the Mythology Program. In the destiny conflict, she is on the Royal Side, since she wants to keep her legacy alive.

## Character

### **Personality**

Josephina may seem like the kind of girl who receives a room full of flowers and chocolates on Valentine's day that will last her up to Halloween. She is usually quite an extroverted and friendly girl, though she does filter what she does and doesn't accept in her group of friends. She has a distinctive and fierce unpredictability that many struggle to decipher, one moment she may be smiling to your face, the next she might be trying to take your head off. But in truth, Josephina is a girl who has been raised to put her duty as a caretaker above all else. She has always had strong maternal instincts, although it's evident she rarely applies them. Even as a child, she was always so attentive towards children and often knew exactly what to do in order to see that they were taken care of. But that doesn't mean she is avert to her more distinctive side. Ever since childhood, Josephina has gone out of her way to break every single rule in the book, effectively pissing off almost everybody in her life, especially the nurses that worked in her orphanage. Her anger can be as gradual and swift as a plague, or as destructive and explosive as a powder keg. Luckily, that only applies to people who get on her bad side. She is naturally quite intimidating, due to her steel glare and iron fist. She can make decisions quickly and effectively, often based purely on her intuition. Moreover, her intuition makes her dislike fake or forced things, such as small talk or white lies.

So if you're going to lie to Josephina, you'd better not - she'll see right through you. She is armed with a sharp tongue and a sharp mind, one which she never hesitates to exercise for the benefit of herself, though she won't be reluctant to use it for the use of others. This then comes to her honesty; which is brutal, to say the least. If she doesn't like you, she won't hesitate to say it. Her honesty is sometimes seen as cruel, but she doesn't give a damn. Often denies she is a good leader, despite her admirable ability to rally up a troop against seemingly insurmountable odds. Josephina has a boundless passion, one which can take people by surprise. It's perplexing how determined she can become when setting her mind to something, and her loyalty to her task is often ruthless. If her task does not get fulfilled to the purpose she wants, often to its fullest, all hell will break loose. This makes it hard for her if things don't work out - she has proven how self-condemning she can be if things go wrong. Many people underestimate how intelligent and passionate one girl can be, to a fault that is, and she is always willing to use that to her advantage. She is nice, kind and very happy. She´s what could be called a social butterfly and a bit bubbly. She tends to want to help people and tries to help them if they feel down. She can also be described as hopelessly optimistic and believes there is good in everyone. Josephina is kind and treasures her friends, caring for them.

### **Appearance**

Josephine is described as a beautiful seventeen year old girl of Ukrainian descent. She is described as having smooth light tanned skin, light brown curly hair that reaches a little ways past her shoulders, and brown eyes. Josephine is often seen wearing a yellow long-sleeve shirt, navy blue polka-dotted skirt, gray leggings, and brown boots

### **Hobbies and Interests**

#### Singing

Josephine likes to sing, and she's rather good at it. Josephine loves to sing traditional Ukrainian songs

## Myths

### **How does Josephine fit into it?**

Josephine, as the daughter of Lada, is destined to be apart of any myth her mother was in

### **Viewpoint on Destiny**

Josephine is a royal, because she wants to keep her mother's legacy alive

## Powers/Abilities

### Lada Kid Powers

* She is able to encourage growth and fertility, and even take away those qualities and gradually drain a landscape of its vegetation to fuel herself, in a small region of space.
* She is generally fueled by a presence of healthy or fertile vegetation, and can leech off of those qualities should she require energy. This can cause a landscape to suddenly become blank, withered or dead.
* She is able to inspire a feeling of affection, love, obsession, infatuation, admiration or general favoring in someone or a group of people.
* She is able to detect chemistry, affection, obsession or love between a couple or group of people, and can even detect problems, improvements, or complications in a relationship.
* She is innately able to sense the location of various plants with superhuman precision.
* She possesses the ability to quicken or hasten the cycle of how a plant grows.
* She is able to detect how fertile the land around her is, and can either take away or increase a level of fertility in an area or region.
* She is able to tell when crops or produce are ripe for the picking, or when it will be ripe.
* She is able to hasten or slow the influence of growth in an area: in minutes, a strawberry bush can have it's branches hung down with glistening, plump berries, but the next minute it will be reduced to a mere shrub of shrunken leaves and rotten, putrid fruit.
* She is able to induce an appearance of beauty in herself or a person, but only briefly.
* She is also able to change and alter her own appearance, and the appearance of others, but only very briefly.
* She is able to induce the negative effects of pregnancy, childbirth or labor on a group or an individual, which can send someone to their knees, reeling with absolute pain and anguish, should it be used against them.
* Josephina's voice is able to cause plants around her to flourish, blossom and grow rapidly should she use it.
* She is able to read or detect the emotions of people around her.
* She is able to curse people or cause conflict by inducing an intense infatuation/feeling of affection and love in between two people or a group, therefore causing a massive conflict should it go on for too long.
* She has the power of Zoolingualism, the ability to communicate with and understand animals.
* She can use sunlight to gain energy, similarly how plants use the sunlight to induce photosynthesis and produce their own foods.
* She is stronger in direct sunlight or places that are abundant in plant life.
* She has some affinity with children.
* Since her Mother is seen as a guardian over children and women, Josephina's is quite good at taking care of kids, despite her hatred of people who assume her as a matronly figure, as it reminds her of her time in Odessa

### General Abilities

* ADHD: Like all demigods, Josephine has incredibly enhanced/supernatural reflexes and durability that able her to analyze an opponents fighting style and defend herself when fighting against someone.
* Disarming: Josephine has an innate nimble agility, and has become incredibly skilled in disarming any opponent she may face as a result.
* Fighting skills: Josephine is very skilled at fighting in battle
* Resistance: Josephine is able to resist the persuasive powers of children of love and beauty deities, such as Branwen (Celtic), Aphrodite (Greek), Venus (Roman), Milda (Estonian), etc.
* Persuasive: Josephine is generally trusted by a wide variety of people, who tend to feel some sense of trust once they first meet Josephine. She can persuade people to do what she wants merely by talking pleadingly .But if there's one thing you need to know about Josephine, it's that you should never trust her outright - a mistake an absurd number of people tend to make.
* Sword usage: She is very skilled at using a sword
* Superhuman Strength: As a demigod, Josephine is much stronger than the average mortal
* Superhuman Durability: As a demigod, Josephine is more durable than a regular human being
* Superhuman Agility: As a demigod, Josephine is more agile than the average mortal
* Superhuman Reflexes: As a demigod, Josephine reflexes are greater than the average mortal
* Ukrainian: Being born and raised in The Ukraine, Josephine speaks fluent Ukrainian
* Slavic Languages: Josephine is fluent in a couple of Eastern European languages, those being Romanian, Ukrainian and Russian, however she can also read and translate ancient Slavic runes, scripts and texts in an almost unnatural manner.

## Relationships

### **Family**

#### Lada (Immortal mother)

Josephine loves her Mother enough to respect her. She certainly doesn't have any resentment for her, but she still can't forgive and forget the little effort her Mother instigated to help her out of what may have been her potential despair and death. Lada prefers not to address Josephein's contradictory feelings, often ignoring anything that Josephine will imply whenever she offers something to the goddess' name, or prays to her. As much as the girl admires her Mother, the two have scarce love for each other, and can only safely love one another through actions of respect. The only indication the two are vaguely affectionate of each other is Lada's gift of an enchanted dagger, bestowed on Alessandria when she first arrived at camp and was claimed.

#### Jane (Mortal Mother)

Josephine is very close with her mortal mother and often writes to her. Josephine does miss her a lot, and wants to visit Odessa to see her again

### **Friends**

#### Ambrosia Church (Daughter of Sól)

Josephine and Ambrosia are also really good friends. Josephine and Ambrosia love to do karaoke with each other and other things and they are often seen hanging out with each other, along with Hannah.

#### Hannah Schuyler (Daughter of Flora)

Josephine and Hannah are also really good friends. Josephine and Hannah love to decorate the camp with flowers and other things and they are often seen hanging out with each other, along with Ambrosia

### **Romance**

Josephine identifies as Biromantic-Asexual and is currently single

## Class Schedule

**1st Period:** Matchmaking

**2nd Period:** Alchemy

**3rd Period:** Biology

**4th Period:** Plantology

**5th Period:** Animals'n'Monsters

**6th Period:** Mythology

## Quotes

"I really do my best to try and see the good in people, but seriously... some of you are making it so damn hard"

"I'm not going to cry over this. I did that in my car on the way here."

"I've found that there's bravery in being soft"

"If there's no kind people in the world, be one yourself"

"I have the attention span of a rock."

"Ambrosia! Hannah's panicking and I am *not* qualified to deal with it!"

"Will I get over this? Mm, no, but life still goes on."

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## Trivia

* Both Josephine and Marko were born in Odessa
* She has a very strong liking for pastries and cakes, especially sweet ones, such as mulberry pie (one of her favorites). As a child she would often steal pastries from a nearby bakery in town, and usually get away with it due to her persuasiveness.
* She has a scent that lingers around her: usually it smells faintly of mulberries, roses and even wine in some cases, despite that fact she doesn't drink.
* Both she and Ambrosia have opposite color pallets in their clothing
* She was inspired by Peggy Schuyler from Hamilton
* Her middle is Aphrodite, after the Greek Goddess of Love