Stella Ivankova

Stella is a human Hunter and the lead character of Aerd\_Gander's works. She is the "Young Wolf" in this setting and was a formative member of Fireteam Lykaios, along with her compatriot Caines-4.

## Stella Ivankova

### Aliases

"The Young Wolf" "Captain" "The Reaper" "Lykaios 1" "The Ding Ghost"

### Affiliation

The VanguardCrota's BaneCayde's HuntersFireteam Lykaios

## Appearance

Stella stands at 5'5" (165 cm) and has blonde hair and blue-grey eyes. She wears white face paint in the shape of slash marks down her face, calling back to her first death by a Devils Captain's Arc Sword

## Personality

Stella is an eccentric to the core, who masks her pain and loss behind her joyous veneer and unpredictable antics. At the same time, she is deeply compassionate and thoughtful, often questioning her own morality. Incongruously, though, she is prone to bursts of rage against perceived personal enemies, Savathun, the Scorn, and the Hive chief among them.

## Pre-Guardian Life

Captain Ivankova was believed to be a starship captain who was meant to fly one of the Colony Ships of the Exodus program. Before joining the program, she is thought to have piloted civilian starships alongside her trusted navigator, Caines-4. She presumably died in the process of moving refugees into the Cosmodrome at the beginning of the Collapse.

## Rebirth and Embarkation

Stella was resurrected for the first time in the Cosmodrome and was immediately met with opposition from local Eliksni forces aligned with the House of Devils. After many deaths, she found a museum within the Cosmodrome celebrating Old Russia's space flight program, and a quote from Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, refreshed her will to fight on.

Upon finding her ship several days later, and escaping from a Devils Archon, Stella finally forged her way to the city. Soon after she met Caines-4, the Exo Warlock who would go on to form Fireteam Lykaios with her. Some portion of his Exo memory recognized her, or at least, someone like her- with the scraps of her memory and his, they forged a basic understanding of who they had been, along with a fast friendship. When they made their way to Mars at the behest of Uldren, Prince of the Awoken, they found a newly resurrected Awoken Titan, Ceri Oswald, who rounded out their fireteam fully. The three would go on to uncover the secrets of the Sol system together. They destroyed the Black Heart, stopped Crota's rampage, put down the aspiring Kell of Kells, Skolas, forced the abdication of the Taken King, and cleared the plague that ended the Iron Lords in the Cosmodrome.

## Triumphs Shattered

Stella, along with Fireteam Lykaios, charged the Immortal upon Ghaul's initial invasion of the Last City. As the group made progress through the bombing bay, Ceri made a final stand to allow them to make the final push, and when the Traveler was caged, she used the last of her Ghost's Light to save Stella and Caines' lives- before falling to her death, leaving nothing but her Mark behind.

After making her escape through the City's dark-shrouded streets, Stella and Caines-4 set out into the wilderness, and met Hawthorne, who took them across the ocean to the EDZ- where they would find the Shard of the Traveler. Stella hesitated for some time, not certain whether it was worth it to take the risk of falling prey to its potentially corruptive influence. Her indecision was shattered when she witnessed a duel between Cabal warriors over her deceased ally's Mark- giving Stella the drive she needed to finally make a push for the Shard. Upon reclaiming her Light powers, Stella lingered a while to help the refugees at the Farm, and attempted to help another Guardian reclaim her Light- but the Titan was unfortunately unable to regain her power. She and Caines-4 directed the crestfallen Titan back to the Farm, but she would not stay there long.

After a mission in the mines of the EDZ, where she helped the Farm reestablish planetary comms, she learned that another group of Vanguard holdouts were holding out on Titan- she took Caines to aid them, all while hoping against hope that maybe, just maybe, Ceri had somehow made it out of the City.

Throughout the rest of the Red War, Stella continued to search out her friend- but quickly began to lose hope. She and Caines led a dual-faceted operation to overwhelm the Orobas Vectura, the capital ship piloted by Thumos the Unbroken, where she finally faced off with the Cabal Centurion whom had stolen Ceri's mark. She then killed Thumos, stole his personal Thresher, and charged the Almighty, disabling its star-consuming weapon in time for the joint Civilian-Vanguard force that retook the City. Once the skies were safe from the threat of the Almighty, she and Caines joined the charge and once again mounted the Immortal, finally ending Ghaul, and looking on as his soul, empowered by stolen Light, was dispelled by the Traveler.