Viktoria Konstantinova

Queen of the Assassins. 25.

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Viktoria is a woman of two substantially different demeanours, dependent on her company and situation. The first, the one seen by the greater majority of people, is the assassin's facade – cold, as if she is watching life go by from a great height, everyone and everything else so small and insignificant from her bird's eye view – while the latter, seen by very few indeed, is the spring in her step brought by her job. The enjoyment of having such power, if you will, the flamboyance and flair to her. Either way, one thing that is indelibly obvious about the woman is that there is this intensity about her. Something greater, that nobody knows. Justification? It's certainly not regrets, those are something she's never had the luxury or hindrance of ( dependent on somebody's perspective on the matter. ) The reason she was sorted into Thunderbird is simply because of her love of the experience.

What's the 'experience'? Travel. Her love of the artisan and the aesthetic, and acquiring the means to have it. Finding and infiltrating the right social circles. Why not the other houses? She doesn't have the noble intentions of the Wampus – she is, at heart, inherently selfish. And while the intellectual does pique her interest, it's not for the same reasons as those who belonged in Horned Serpent. And, well, given her proclivity to violence and her profession, Pukwudgie would have just been wholly inappropriate. It's often hard to tell what she's really like, given she has so many different faces based on what pleases someone. Or what incites them to anger. Or simply what keeps her from being caught. It really depends.

What is certain, though, is that the deadly calm seen by others is not what is within. Within herself, Viktoria is incredibly tumultuous, and she thrills in forcibly dragging others along for the ride.

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Polina Zvereva was a relic of a large family. A family who were either famous or infamous for something or the other. The latter clause of that life was something Alian Konstantinov could relate to. And the reason he couldn't relate to the first? He had never had any siblings, and both of his parents had "disappeared" mysteriously shortly after his third birthday; he was raised by his uncle, who would never tell him any more other than that his parents were a pair of Aurors who had an interesting perspective on the justice system and, indeed, justice itself. The Konstantinovs and Zverevs both were pure-blooded families, so it's certainly unsurprising that it was the Russian school of magic, Koldovstvoretz, that pushed the husband-and-wife to-be together. It is likewise unsurprising that Alian, who had experienced little of family, might want a big one. Polina wasn't initially keen on the idea, but acquiesced later upon seeing precisely how important it was to him.

Alian and Polina had no less than sixteen children, of which Viktoria is the first. The middle one. How did the parents garner the money for such a large family? Firstly, there was a considerable sum on account of Alian's uncle; and secondly, Alian got into politics. There was a surprising amount of money to be had in that profession if you knew where to find it. Now, they say that the eldest child is for a time the most spoilt, but she was followed quickly by her younger sister Karina – two years later – who would prove to be, rather than a hindrance, the greatest of partners in crime. Two years after that, she didn't find herself quite as fond of the twins, Mikhail and Yuliya, and beyond that, it's really just Dmitri – fourteen years her junior – who she would put her neck on the line for.

Polina, the fashionista, begrudgingly fulfilled the life of carer until she abruptly decided the eldest of the siblings were old enough to "assist" with the childcare. Unfortunately Viktoria and Karina were perhaps the worst childcarers, ever. This is all the more apparent when you consult the pie chart of time spent with their younger siblings versus time spent with each other, and this only grew more lopsided as they, too, grew.) Viktoria's first magical sign made itself known at the age of five. She threw a girl off a wall she was clinging to, and if that's not a sign of her temperament, it would be hard to tell what is. Magical signs were more repetitive and deliberate, and retained their tendency toward violence, though this was nothing they could prove. They simply hoped that once she began to attend Ilvermorny, this would assist her in reining in her more angry energies. Unfortunately, they were wrong.

When she stepped up to the Gordian Knot it didn't take long at all for the House of Thunderbird, the adventurers, to claim her. At Ilvermorny she quickly got mixed in with what one might call the darker crowd, until her sister Karina joined her (and promptly joined that same crowd.) She quickly made a name for herself, her desire to dominate essentially rendering her the "head bitch in charge" of her year.

Honestly, it's a miracle she never got expelled from the place, and never came near titles such as House Representative or Quodpot Captain, but the titles given to her by her peers are prize enough. Upon graduation, she left with several of her peers, which is where her training for her current profession really kicked off. Where she learned her Legilimency skills. (But nobody knows that, at least, nobody but her and Karina.) After a while, when Karina and she had both grown bored of their new company, they left – and decided to start something on their own. Its private name is 'Nighthawks', after the painting.

Since then, she supposes she's rather been the bane of Auror departments. But some of them are cute and fun to mess with.

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