ใ EAT THE RICH ใ
ใ NAME
ใ Tatiana Barinova
ใ AGE
ใ Twenty-two
ใ GENDER
ใ Female;
she/her pronouns ใ BLOOD TYPE
ใ Amaranth
ใ NATIONALITY
ใ Starch;
The Grain Kingdom ใ OCCUPATION
ใ Noble;
insurgent group operative ใ SEXUALITY
ใ Bisexual
ใ SPEECH COLOR
ใ #e52b50
ใ PERSONALITY
ใ+ Ambitious + Integrous + Independent + Clever + Selfless
- Idealistic - Untrusting - Dishonest - Obstinate - Dogmatic
ใ STRENGTHS
ใTatiana twists the truth with ease, and is able to craft convincing lies at the drop of a hat. Over the years, she has learned to manipulate others, too. She is quite clever, and mops up information like a sponge. She knows how to present herself well, and to disguise herself when necessary. She is sneaky and often manages to get into places and things she shouldn't be able to. Tatiana has spent many hours riding horses for fun, and a result is quite skilled at it.
ใ WEAKNESSES
ใTatiana has almost zero physical strengths. She is passable with a dagger and can throw an alright punch, but that's where it ends. She has no weapons training, and she would be lying if she said she could last in a fight. She often overlooks things in the pursuit of her overarching goals, and can often lose sight of the here and now in preference of her ideals. She's also impulsive, and tends not to think through important actions.
ใ APPEARANCE
ใTatiana Barinova is a graceful young woman with blonde hair and startlingly blue eyes. She is straight-backed and oftentimes has a pleasant look on her face- yet it is one devoid of any real emotion. Her outfits and hairstyles often match the current fashions of nobility.
5'4" โ 162 cm
HAIR COLOR โ BLONDE
125 lbs โ 57 kg
EYE COLOR โ BLUE
ใ PREFERENCES
ใ+ Freedom to do what she would like
+ Radical change
+ Talking to other people
+ Riding horses
+ Motivated people
+ Sweets
- Being idle
- Unjust laws/policies
- Other nobility
- Bees
- Betrothals
- Selfish and lazy people
ใ BIOGRAPHY
ใTatiana is the daughter and second child of a major noble in Starch- one with large tracts of land and massive amounts of money and influence. The Barinova household is an influential household in Starch, and Tatiana has been expected to act the part for most of her life. She was mostly raised as a noble child is. Anything she could possibly want was given to her. When she found her love for horses, she was taught to ride properly and bought several beautiful horses and tack. She was raised in luxury, and only had to play the part of noble for most of her life. And she did, and it was done well. Nowadays, Tatiana is expected to make a good wife to a Starch nobleman- maybe even a foreign or domestic royal. She's well-bred enough for it.
However, much of her childhood is shrouded in secrecy. Tatiana is an illegitimate daughter. Her mother is the duchess, that much is true. However, her father is an indentured servant on a farm somewhere in Starch. She doesn't know who or where her father is, only that he is not a noble and that, in turn, makes Tatiana not a true noble either. This was revealed to Tatiana when she was twelve. Her father had gotten angry at her one day and told her that she was not his true child. Tearfully, she went to her mother and demanded an explanation. Apparently, in a rash decision, her mother had had relations with a servant father. It was a foolish decision, she explained, but one that had produced her. Tatiana's 'father' realized that the baby his wife was pregnant with was not hers shortly after, but they resolved to disguise it as a legitimate noble instead of sullying their family reputation. Of course, things were never the same between the two again, but they managed it. There are only extremely unfounded rumors floating around about Tatiana being illegitimate- due to silly reasons, such as how her father treats her with coldness, and how her eyes don't quite match either of her parents.
Being told that she was not in fact a noble upset Tatiana extremely. Yet, for some reason, instead of even further encompassing herself in noble life, she began to rebel. She learned how to sneak around, how to lie and manipulate. She started by pulling mischief around the estate, but realized her heart wasn't in pranking. So, she began to sneak out. She socialized with servants, went into the local village on her lonesome. She quickly learned how to masquerade as someone she wasn't, to flirt. And she found that she liked peasants. Since she, a girl who was supposed to be perfect all the time, wasn't a true noble, what did it matter? She made fast friends with many of the other teenagers around town, and got up to varying amounts of mischief with them. It was
fun. She hadn't quite realized how restrictive noble life was, how much she had been expected to do and say and maneuver around. Of course, she still loved some aspects of her life- privilege made her a happy girl. She loved to ride horses, something that wasn't commonplace among peasants. But more than that freedom, it taught her something.
Life wasn't fair. Peasants were treated radically different than nobles were in Starch. Peasants were forced to slave away on farms and do the work of the nobility for them, while they simply sat in their estates and profited from it. Tatiana, although raised a noble, was disgusted by this realization. Of course, she had known that this was happening her whole life, but it was suddenly real to her. She wasn't quite a noble but not quite a peasant, either, and the polarization between the two lives came clearly to her. So she resolved to someday do something about it. Someday. When she could.
As she got older, her nighttime sneaking out got less and less. Her mother and father were starting to expect more of her. They began preparing for a marriage, to be a wife and a mother. She didn't really enjoy this. After secretly enjoying her freedom for a few years, she was loathe to give it up to become what someone else expected of her. She still had her dreams of freedom for everyone- and that included herself. As her nighttime sneaking out decreased, it also became more important when she did it. Led by her friends in town, she joined a group of sorts. A militarized group of Starch peasants. They were angry, and sought justice and equality for the people of Starch. They wanted to overthrow the government. At first, Tatiana thought this idea ridiculous. But as she continued to attend the secret meetings, she started to sympathize.
Then, about two years ago, an actual revolution did happen in Starch. The militia was excited by this- they thought everything could change! There would be equality, freedom for all. But that did not happen. Rather, the new king killed many nobles who sympathized with the old king. The Barinovas themselves narrowly avoided execution by pledging fealty to the new king and offering up much of their wealth to them as a gesture of good faith. The new king didn't make things better for the peasants of Starch, and the revolutionary group that Tatiana had fallen into was angry. And Tatiana found herself angry, as well.
Shortly after, she revealed her true identity to the leaders of this group. She narrowly avoided being murdered by pledging her fealty to their cause. As they had been seeking out spies and noble influence, they reluctantly accepted her help. She's mostly done small things for them since- telling them information they would otherwise not know, helping to plant spies in noble households across Starch, and more. Recently, her family received an invitation to a masquerade ball in the Drink Empire. Her parents were planning on turning down the invitation, as they are too busy to go and her older brother is too busy as well, but Tatiana volunteered to go as a representative for her family. She has ulterior motives, of course- the militia wants her to spy for them at this masquerade. And she will.
ใ TRIVIA
ใโค Tatiana has a mild allergy to tree nuts.
โค She has three siblings, all legitimate. There is Viktor (25), her eldest brother and the heir to the Barinova lands; Nikolay (17), her younger brother; and Ekaterina (15), her littlest sister.
โค She has many prospective husbands lined up, but tries to avoid the topic of marriage as much as she can. Her priorities lie elsewhere, such as in revolution.
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