Czarina

* Mutated
* Human

> What a RUSH! That was so satisfying, I'm the best!
>
> - Czarina upon taking down Liza.

**Anastasia Gregorevich** aka **Czarina** is a character who appears in the HydroVerse series of comics and was created by xMonsterGirlsHideout.

## Appearance

Anastasia Gregorevich resembles a Caucasian female with hazel-coloured eyes and black hair, she is also considered beautiful by many. During her time in jail, Anastasia sported a red leather jacket and jeans, she also wore her hair in a ponytail. When she got out and attempted to improve her life, Anastasia decided to dye her hair a shade of dark blue and let it down, here her hair was messier.

In the mutated form of Czarina, she undergoes a horrific transformation into a mostly emaciated pterodactyl-like creature with massive, razor sharp wings and sections of exposed bones. She has blue skin and purple eyes.

## History

### Early Life

Anastasia Gregorevich was born within the incredibly poor slums of Norilsk, Russia where she and her family struggled immensely.

Going into her teenage years, Anastasia was discovered by a modelling agency and thus she spent a few years as a model. With her career reaching a higher value, Anastasia was promised with a bright future of modelling in New York City. Upon moving there after the death of her parents, Anastasia was abandoned after being replaced with a new model, devastating her and leaving her with no home.

Not wanting to deal with financial struggles again, Anastasia turned to breaking into peoples' houses and pawning items to gain money.

She became a wanted criminal after some time, and she decided to move away. Deciding to continue her burglary deeds in a new area, Anastasia moved to Downpour City where she began getting involved with the Downpour Crime Syndicate and gained a new friend named Jess. Eventually, Anastasia and Jess were both arrested and put in prison for their crimes.

After being arrested for her suspected involvement in a series of murders, Martha Crawford was brought in to the prison and was subsequently placed in the same cell as Anastasia and Jess. Anastasia and Jess decided to tease their new cellmate, which eventually caused Martha to transform into Liza and kill Jess. Liza happened to spare the horrified Anastasia, and proceeded to break out of the prison successfully.

### *Martha/Liza Chapter Five*

After seeing Jess' grim demise at the hands of Liza and realising how close to death she could have been herself, Anastasia decided to rent an apartment and attend therapy to help put an end to her home-invading days.

Anastasia eventually completed the program but was unfortunately chosen by Natalie Norcio as a guinea pig for a new serum. Natalie had taken Anastasia to a Darkstar Facility, and proceeded to give her a modified reptilian serum that contained the blood of Isla de Reptilia's previous leader, Sassy.

After being given the serum, Anastasia underwent a horrific transformation into a winged creature that eventually decided to call itself Czarina. Together, Czarina and Natalie hunted Martha and Liza down in San Francisco where Czarina eventually found a helpless Martha and attacked her.

Czarina lifted Martha into the sky and dropped her onto a roof, injuring her and causing her to begin transforming into Liza. As Czarina landed on her, her eye began glowing purple and caused Martha to become stuck in mid-transformation.

Czarina left to notify Natalie of her new ability, and the two set out once again to find and kill Martha. The two eventually found Martha and attacked again, following her down into the subway.

Both Czarina and Natalie ruthlessly attacked Martha, with Czarina using her wing blades to critically injure Martha before Natalie lands the final blow with her knife. With Martha left bleeding out on the ground, Czarina and Natalie return to their hideout but unbeknownst to them Martha finally managed to complete her transformation into Liza.

Liza followed the duo to their hideout and began to fight them, but Liza is gravely injured once again by Czarina who ruthlessly slashed at the Reptilioid with her wing blades. When Liza reveals to Natalie that she had saved her nephew years ago, Natalie has a sudden change of heart and decides to spare Liza. Czarina, thinking this to be a sign of weakness from Natalie, decides to leave and become her own person without Natalie holding her back.

### *Martha/Liza Chapter Six*

After some time, Czarina made her way to the small town of Rockshore where she began preying upon innocent people on the outskirts. When Margaret and Mary Jane take refuge inside a building under construction with the orb, they are attacked by Czarina and subsequently hypnotised into becoming her goons.

Using the orb Czarina managed to track down and attack Martha in her own house, succeeding in pushing her victim out of the window and onto the ground. Czarina then used her talons to pin Martha to the ground but a vision from the orb causes Martha to transform into Liza but this proves to be futile.

Czarina then hypnotises Liza and sends her into a hallucination where she comes across the severed head of Cassie, the undead Gila, and Natalie Norcio. After regaining consciousness, Liza finds herself being carried above Rockshore by Czarina and is then tossed onto a roof below.

As Liza gets up, Czarina begins harnessing the power of the orb and its power courses through her entire body. Liza attempts to attack but she is then apprehended and beaten down by Margaret and Mary Jane, Liza then leaps at Czarina but her arm is caught in the pterodactyl's jaws before she is slashed upside the torso.

Czarina then blasts Liza with an energy beam from her mouth which further damages her enemy, but Czarina is then tackled by Martha's newly-transformed brother Eric. Eric manages to take the orb from Czarina which depletes her power, Eric then jumps back onto the roof to meet with Liza.

As Liza and Eric talk, Czarina reappears and slashes at Liza before she is struck a few times by Eric, Liza also sneaks in a slash at Czarina's side which draws blood. Czarina smacks Eric onto another rooftop and flies towards him, pinning him down with her talons. Unbeknownst to Czarina, Eric had passed the orb onto Margaret which enrages Czarina.

Preparing to attack, Czarina launches herself towards the worried Margaret before Liza jumps towards Czarina and the two come into contact with each other. Although Czarina manages to bite down on Liza's arm again, Liza manages to crawl into position and bite down on Czarina's neck which causes them both to plummet into a rooftop below.

Liza gets up and looks upon the bleeding out Czarina who vows that she will never submit, and that she hopes Natalie will finish her off one day. Liza then viciously drives her hand right into Czarina's chest, and rips her heart out which finally puts an end to Czarina's reign of terror.

## Personality

Even as a human Anastasia was a cold person due to her promised future crashing down on her, she put up a front that she was proud of the home invasions she took part in and stealing peoples' belongings. However deep down inside, Anastasia was ashamed of herself and her close call with Liza in prison made her want to better herself. That she did, becoming more shy than before and very regretful for the things she had done.

When she was transformed into Czarina, Anastasia became a lot more arrogant and believed to be much stronger than everybody else. This would eventually lead her to seeing herself above Natalie's leadership, and going solo. Czarina's arrogance only worsened as she came into contact with the orb of Isla de Reptilia, which gave her god-like powers and fuelled her ego.

## Powers & Abilities

### Hypnotism

Czarina's signature ability is her hypnotism, which activates when her eyes glow purple. This ability started off as a strange ability that caused Martha to become stuck in mid-transformation for a small amount of time.

In later times, this ability shifted into being able to hypnotise people into different states such as a simple trance or turning them into Czarina's personal minions. These strange abilities that Czarina possesses could be a result of Sassy's own DNA being mixed into the reptilian serum that Anastasia was given.

### Hallucinations

Another type of ability Czarina's glowing eyes have is having the capability of causing a person to have hallucinations which are generally made from peoples' fears and even enemies.

### Wing Blades

One of Czarina's most dangerous abilities are her incredibly sharp wing blades, which she uses to slice at Liza's skin in most of their confrontations. This ability proved to be near-fatal, as enough blows from these blades caused Liza to fall unconscious for a while.

### Teeth

At first, Czarina did not make much use of her teeth but began using them to catch Liza's attacks and cause damage to her skin.

### Talons

Czarina made good use of her sharp talons a few times, especially when she used them to pin Martha to the ground and critically injure Eric later on.