Anya Petranova

[Anya Petranova]

Basic Information:
Full Name: Anya “Annechka” Naddiya Petranova
Age: 20
Birthday: September 25th
Location: Lived in Moscow, Russia, until she was adopted a few months ago and brought to live in New York with her new family.
Orientation: Straight
Marital Status: Single

Appearance:
Born as a mutt, a mix between a Frenchwoman and a Russian man, she looks more like her mother; but still retains her some of her father’s features. Her hair blonde hair is stringy, but soft, and is kept in such a way that she feels to be aesthetically pleasing to people - especially men. Her skin is pale and a bit coarse, especially in her hands, from constant, tedious handiwork. She has a few scars here and there; but, they’re not as noticeable as they used to be back when she was younger. She’s very short, standing only at a stature of 5’3”, and is extremely petite and emaciated looking. Her eyes are brown and searching, and her smile, when she wears it, is very sweet and tender. She’s always very shrunken in her posture, as if trying to make herself seem smaller than she actually is.

Personality:
Anya is very, very submissive. She’s placid and flexible; but not below being able to speak for herself when she needs to. As a Russian girl, she is strong and stone-faced, and able take pain and discomfort without showing so much as a flinch; but, when she’s alone, she’s entirely afraid and weakened. She’s very good about not being able to speak for her wants when she knows that the other person doesn’t want to hear them, so, in essence, Anya has a very strong shell she keeps herself cloistered in. Anya is very kind hearted and very willing to help when she is able. When she was a child, when she was just learning to walk, she loved helping her mother around the house. The trait carried on into her adulthood, where she aspires to one day be a mother, and perhaps even a doctor.

Anya’s downfall is her temper. She’s very easily offended and angered when the wrong thing is said, or if someone pushes a subject that she doesn’t wish to speak of. This is especially apparent when she’s with strangers, so it’s very hard for her to make friends. She’s more stoic when she finally does make acquaintances, however, and tries her very hardest to not lose her temper.

Being in the situation that she’s in, Anya has a lack of education. She was forced to leave high school in her freshman year to “work”, and so lacks the book smarts that most people of her age should have. She’s a bit of an autodidact; but, self teaching can only get you so far, especially in Communist Russia. Her mother sometimes gave her books to read, and that’s the only place where she excels. She can read at a very high level, but is severely inept when it comes to subjects like math, history, and science. When it comes to English, Anya can speak enough to be understood well enough, but her fluency is far from. She still doesn’t understand some words that people say; but, she strives to learn the language so she can communicate. Being unable to communicate is something that extremely frustrates her.

The only real talent that Anya has is being able to make herself look pretty. She has a knack for singing, but she hardly ever does now, because she no longer enjoys it as she used to when she was a child. It’s a very rare phenomenon to hear her sing, but it’s not an all that unpleasant experience. If she practiced more, she could develop a real talent. She’s not all together spectacular, but she’s a good girl, none-the-less.

Aside from her girlish wiles, she was trained from her early teens to be a prostitute, and it still shows. She doesn’t discriminate with whom she flirts with, and the notion has become a product of compulsion. She prefers older men, since they were the ones that treated her the most kindly while she ‘worked.’ She has a hard time understanding that that isn’t what you do in proper company, so it gives her a bit of social ineptness that she must overcome if she can function in society.

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[Anya Petranova]

Background Information:

Communist Russia (even though the Soviets have fallen) is a harsh place, filled with harsh people. If you don’t learn how to survive, you never do. Anya had to learn that when she was young. Born to a loving mother and a less than loving father, her childhood was peaceful and happy. Being an only child - since the restrictions on their apartment only allowed them to have one - Anya was lavished with attention from her state at home mother. Her father was barely around, working a factory job to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads. Anya never wanted, since she had all she could ever want. Life was good, even though it wasn’t showered in decadence.

Then, Anya turned twelve, and her father got laid off from his job.

The government provided her father with another job, working labor on a farm, but it didn’t pay as much as his factory one had. Money was very tight and sometimes they’d go nights without food. When Anya’s father realized that they would have to move into a smaller home in Rostov if he couldn’t get more money, he formulated a plan that would change Anya’s life forever. Her father knew *people* in Moscow, people who were willing to pay him for his daughter’s services.

That was the day Anya became a prostitute. At first, Anya was very displeased by this, and would come home on nights where she would lock herself in her closet and not come out until she was forced to go to school. She always felt dirty and ashamed, but somewhere in her heart she decided it would be alright if it meant her family could thrive. Her father never hit her, and never abused her, and her mother always loved her. Who was she to complain?

She worked this way, balancing home and school in tandem, until she was fourteen and her father took her out of school so she could “work” full time. Those were some of the worst years of Anya’s life, decked in shame, degradation and disgust. But she lived. To the men she turned tricks to, she was known as "Annechka," and was one of the business' favorites. That gave her a sense of pride, which could keep her smiling, even though she was unhappy. Occasionally she would be taken to the doctors of Moscow to treat whatever “illness” she contracted (the doctors nicknamed her “Lucky”, since the most she contracted where minor STDs that could be cured). But when it came to treating the physical damage she would endure from abuse, they were less than willing to comply to get her treated. Eventually, when Anya turned 20, her pimp and father were arrested when the government got word of a child-prostitution ring within the city. Anya was taken and examined, and was given the opportunity to live with a family in America that was willing to harbor her while she was treated, and possibly give her the opportunity to go to school again. She took it, and now remains in New York.

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[Anya Petranova]

Extra:

• Has a lot of malformed bones in her wrist and legs, since they were broken and never treated properly.
  
• Possibly has tuberculosis, she needs a proper diagnosis for this.
  
• Clear of STDs, at the moment.
  
• Most of her trauma is psychological, suffering deeply from PTSD and sexsomnia.
  
• Will introduce herself as Annechka out of habit.
  
• It's possible that she has illnesses that she's unaware of; but she'll have to be diagnosed on an array of things before anyone can be sure that she's "healthy."