Name: Maria Ivanova
ID: 71232459
Rank: D2
Year: 1
Nationality: Russian-Filipino
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Appearance: Her head, neck, and shoulders are full of flawless grace, but her back, belly, and limbs are covered in long, ugly lines of scares, and her hands and feet are even worse, with memories of torn skin and badly-healed blisters deforming them beyond her age -- thus, she's most always completely covered up, though her experience living in a tropical country has made her practically immune to the heat.
Fighting Style: No belts in the school of arnis she learned, but her rank is roughly equal to that of a first degree black belt. Her training was mostly focused on weapon-fighting, particularly with the baton, the spear, and the knife, though her masters' style also had a rather unusual emphasis on grappling.
Powers: Nothing, for now.
Background: Maria developed very little interest in anything as a child -- perhaps a foot in fine arts here, a hand in fighting there, a tongue in music here, an eye in biology there, but never any concentrated efforts to become, well, someone. She never needed to become someone, anyway -- though her parents were divorced, her father, some big Russian oil magnate, always kept a keen eye on her and her mother's bank account, for reasons which, judging by the constant fights her mom and dad got into every time they met, were beyond her.
Of course, her mother had other plans, and at the age of seven, she was practically kidnapped by her mother, and taken to some private island in the hidden reaches of Southeast Asia to learn the ancient Filipino martial art of Arnis, of which her mother was both a master and born to a family of masters. This resulted in the flourishing of a lot of Maria's natural talents -- her speed, her coordination, her incredible flexibility, her unnatural invulnerability to pain, and ever her singing, what with her kiai being well-known for its, er, creativity -- but of these, the greatest to develop was her absurd sense of vengeance, most of which she directed at her mother.
At the age of fourteen, however, after more than a thousand attempts at the pettier forms of vengeance, such as messing with her mother's clothes, unhealthily flirting with her fellow students, sneaking alcohol into the family island, and using real knives in practice matches with her mother, she realized that the only way she was truly going to fulfill herself was if she put a permanent stop on the whole of her mother's designs, and so she devised a plan. Every year, on the day of her birthday, her father would be allowed to visit the island, and he always came partying on his liner-sized yacht -- the plan was, to put it simply, to sneak herself onto her father's yacht, and hope she wasn't found until the nearest port.
The day of the celebrations and came, and, well, everything went to butt early on. In fact, everything had gone to butt ever since she was 'kidnapped' by her mother -- her father, she didn't have the mental grace to realize, had actually agreed with her mother's plan, and, hearing of a certain school for special students just like her, added to it, choosing to make it more, er, international. He arrived not on his party-boat, but on a helicopter, and he wasn't the one who left the island the next morning.
And of course, first thing she learned in fight school's its first rule:
don't fail fight school.
Personality: The great conflict between her father's spoiling love and her mother's brutal discipline naturally caused Maria to develop a lot of personality. She can be very moody, at times irritable and withdrawn, at times irritable and all-out, but, at least by her own admission, she is not depressed -- press that analysis on her, and she'll definitely show you she's not depressed. She's also prone to doing a lot of wild things, at least outside of business she doesn't deem serious, but these wild things, she never acts on with conviction; when she does deem something serious, she gets real determined, though at the same time much more conservative. As for what she would most likely deem serious, well, seeing as this is her first independent contact with the outside world, she's decided to make the most out of her current situation....