Name: Irina Lyubashenko
Grade : College Senior
Age: 21
Birthday: November 18
Gender: Homosexual
Category: Student
Class: College; Forensic Science; Criminalistics
Appearance Description: Irina keeps her black hair in a neat, short bob. She is 5 feet and an inch tall, which has everyone questioning whether she really should be in college or not. She perpetually has a drowsy half-smile on her face, even when she is explaining in detail how someone was murdered by a construction beam. Her dress sense has been described with the question "So who died?" All of her dresses are black and prim, or very dark shades of color. (There is no reason for this. She just enjoys creeping everyone out.)
Personality Description: Irina at first seems like a pleasant person to be around, though she doesn't speak much and falls asleep occasionally. She speaks in a dreamy voice, and always has her head tilted curiously to the side. When presented with a question, she would most likely answer correctly, clearly and concisely and go right back to sleeping or daydreaming or whatever it is she even does in her head when she stares off into space. She is very rarely annoyed, and responds with gentle sass while her face tells everyone that she’s about to sleep. During the rare moments that she s irritated, she “lets the crazy light up her eyes." When the topic shifts off normal things and towards things like murder investigations, her eyes light up and she talks at length. It gets worse when the topic shifts to the morbid. She knows way too much about how people die and will talk at length about it, with excitement. She is easily fascinated by all sorts of gore, and occasionally collects taxidermy. She has a pickled goose heart at home, as well as a few dried birds, but she left them all in Kiev.
Powers: Irina can smell and hear deaths that happened previously, as long as she is in the same room that the crime had occurred. Death to her smells thin, bitter and rather powdery, coupled with the circumstances surrounding the death (e.g. if someone was buried alive, she would smell soil and rust; this makes murders like strangulation a tad more complicated). She can zero in on one particular death and its circumstances, in case two have happened in the same room. This has given her an edge in crime scene investigations with the police, and enabled her to solve nearly 60% of cases alone, 30% with the aid of the police or outside sources. Since hunches aren't evidence, the scents and sounds she can detect would never hold up in court, and she has to use evidence to explain what exactly happened.
Biography: Irina was born in Kiev, Ukraine. She never knew her mother, as she died while giving birth to her, and spent all her time with her father, who was a coroner. While her father was at work, all she had for company was books. Mostly medical books that she couldn't understand, but she also had a few storybooks. Every once in a while, she would go out to stroll alone. Her formative years were rather lonely, but she didn't mind too much.
As she grew older, she began to understand more and more of her father's books. School was rather quiet, as she spent most of her time with a book and a dictionary, trying to figure out what "postmortem putrefaction" meant. No one really wanted to go near the girl with the book about dead people, unless they were desperate for help in Science.
During fifth grade, in early spring, Irina was walking home from school, and stopped by a river near her house. While leaning over the bridge and watching the water, she suddenly caught a scent. It wasn't a bad smell, but it was enough to pique her interest, and enough to make her accidentally drop an autopsy book into the river. She left the bridge and went to the edge of the water, where the scent got stronger. She tried reaching into the river, but the water was quickly getting too deep for any real exploration. So she grabbed a tree branch and started poking through the water. She felt something large and unmoving in the water.
A construction worker passed by and asked 11-year-old Irina what the hell she was doing in the water. She explained that her things fell in the water, so the man went into the river to fetch it with a shovel. He picked up the book, but the mass in the water bothered him enough to recover it. The mass turned out to be a corpse wrapped in several layers of airtight plastic bags and tarp.
The police were summoned. The corpse was that of a 17-year-old boy who had gone missing a few weeks back, during winter. It was hypothesized that the boy was dumped into the river while it was frozen, so that it would remain undiscovered for some time. Irina and the construction worker were summoned for the case of another 17-year-old, who was charged for the victim's murder.
At the stand, everyone expected a scared, confused little girl, but Irina acted as though this were another show-and-tell session in school, with a half-smile on her face. It was a bit suspicious; this girl seemed unperturbed by the idea of death, or discovering a corpse. No one was about to accuse an 11-year-old girl of murder, though. When Irina left the stand, the unease in the courtroom was "so thick that one could taste it," one of the jury stated. The accused soon switched to a guilty plea, and was arrested. Far from being jarred by the court's reaction, Irina was fascinated by it.
She dived even deeper into the realm of the morbid, discovering what else squicked people around her. Everything from taxidermy to crime scenes to mental illnesses was her domain. She even snuck into crime scene investigations every once in a while, the scent of death hanging in the air like smoke. She would leave notes for the investigators in neon pink paper, pointing to vital clues and information. It drove the investigators mad.
She was caught when she was 16. It was a case of several bodies buried in a field. She was marking the spots with little pink flags when a detective caught her and apprehended her. She explained what she was doing, and convinced them to dig up the places she marked with their corresponding depths before throwing her into a cell. When they did, they came up with the rest of the bodies, including the last two that Irina failed to mark before getting caught. She was let off with a warning, though Lieutenant Colonel Goraya took an interest in her ability to detect corpses, and her talent for criminalistics.
Irina was soon taken under Goraya's wing. Though technically she was only the Lieutenant Colonel's consultant, they were known as the Two Hands of the law; Goraya was the law, and Irina was the truth. Other people referred to Irina as "Goraya's tracking dog." It irked her so much that she perfected an insane look to give people when she was pissed. While she questioned Lieutenant Colonel Goraya's intentions in giving her an informal space on the Militsiya force, she said nothing.
Goraya even assisted Irina and her father in writing an application for a four-year B.S. diploma at the University of Bradford, U.K. He also referred her to the Yorkshire police, who were as impressed as the Kiev militsiya with her talent. She stayed in the UK for two years, until she got a letter from Starlight Academy. Goraya hesitated, but grudgingly allowed her to go to Manta Carlos and transfer all her academic credits to Starlight Academy. He didn
t refer her to the Manta Carlos police force, possibly intentionally.
Additional Information:
Irina loves cooking. Don't worry, the only thing that is safe from her morbid touch is her cooking. She also likes cute things, and hates being referred to as a dog.
Grade : College Senior
Age: 21
Birthday: November 18
Gender: Homosexual
Category: Student
Class: College; Forensic Science; Criminalistics
Appearance Description: Irina keeps her black hair in a neat, short bob. She is 5 feet and an inch tall, which has everyone questioning whether she really should be in college or not. She perpetually has a drowsy half-smile on her face, even when she is explaining in detail how someone was murdered by a construction beam. Her dress sense has been described with the question "So who died?" All of her dresses are black and prim, or very dark shades of color. (There is no reason for this. She just enjoys creeping everyone out.)
Personality Description: Irina at first seems like a pleasant person to be around, though she doesn't speak much and falls asleep occasionally. She speaks in a dreamy voice, and always has her head tilted curiously to the side. When presented with a question, she would most likely answer correctly, clearly and concisely and go right back to sleeping or daydreaming or whatever it is she even does in her head when she stares off into space. She is very rarely annoyed, and responds with gentle sass while her face tells everyone that she’s about to sleep. During the rare moments that she s irritated, she “lets the crazy light up her eyes." When the topic shifts off normal things and towards things like murder investigations, her eyes light up and she talks at length. It gets worse when the topic shifts to the morbid. She knows way too much about how people die and will talk at length about it, with excitement. She is easily fascinated by all sorts of gore, and occasionally collects taxidermy. She has a pickled goose heart at home, as well as a few dried birds, but she left them all in Kiev.
Powers: Irina can smell and hear deaths that happened previously, as long as she is in the same room that the crime had occurred. Death to her smells thin, bitter and rather powdery, coupled with the circumstances surrounding the death (e.g. if someone was buried alive, she would smell soil and rust; this makes murders like strangulation a tad more complicated). She can zero in on one particular death and its circumstances, in case two have happened in the same room. This has given her an edge in crime scene investigations with the police, and enabled her to solve nearly 60% of cases alone, 30% with the aid of the police or outside sources. Since hunches aren't evidence, the scents and sounds she can detect would never hold up in court, and she has to use evidence to explain what exactly happened.
Biography: Irina was born in Kiev, Ukraine. She never knew her mother, as she died while giving birth to her, and spent all her time with her father, who was a coroner. While her father was at work, all she had for company was books. Mostly medical books that she couldn't understand, but she also had a few storybooks. Every once in a while, she would go out to stroll alone. Her formative years were rather lonely, but she didn't mind too much.
As she grew older, she began to understand more and more of her father's books. School was rather quiet, as she spent most of her time with a book and a dictionary, trying to figure out what "postmortem putrefaction" meant. No one really wanted to go near the girl with the book about dead people, unless they were desperate for help in Science.
During fifth grade, in early spring, Irina was walking home from school, and stopped by a river near her house. While leaning over the bridge and watching the water, she suddenly caught a scent. It wasn't a bad smell, but it was enough to pique her interest, and enough to make her accidentally drop an autopsy book into the river. She left the bridge and went to the edge of the water, where the scent got stronger. She tried reaching into the river, but the water was quickly getting too deep for any real exploration. So she grabbed a tree branch and started poking through the water. She felt something large and unmoving in the water.
A construction worker passed by and asked 11-year-old Irina what the hell she was doing in the water. She explained that her things fell in the water, so the man went into the river to fetch it with a shovel. He picked up the book, but the mass in the water bothered him enough to recover it. The mass turned out to be a corpse wrapped in several layers of airtight plastic bags and tarp.
The police were summoned. The corpse was that of a 17-year-old boy who had gone missing a few weeks back, during winter. It was hypothesized that the boy was dumped into the river while it was frozen, so that it would remain undiscovered for some time. Irina and the construction worker were summoned for the case of another 17-year-old, who was charged for the victim's murder.
At the stand, everyone expected a scared, confused little girl, but Irina acted as though this were another show-and-tell session in school, with a half-smile on her face. It was a bit suspicious; this girl seemed unperturbed by the idea of death, or discovering a corpse. No one was about to accuse an 11-year-old girl of murder, though. When Irina left the stand, the unease in the courtroom was "so thick that one could taste it," one of the jury stated. The accused soon switched to a guilty plea, and was arrested. Far from being jarred by the court's reaction, Irina was fascinated by it.
She dived even deeper into the realm of the morbid, discovering what else squicked people around her. Everything from taxidermy to crime scenes to mental illnesses was her domain. She even snuck into crime scene investigations every once in a while, the scent of death hanging in the air like smoke. She would leave notes for the investigators in neon pink paper, pointing to vital clues and information. It drove the investigators mad.
She was caught when she was 16. It was a case of several bodies buried in a field. She was marking the spots with little pink flags when a detective caught her and apprehended her. She explained what she was doing, and convinced them to dig up the places she marked with their corresponding depths before throwing her into a cell. When they did, they came up with the rest of the bodies, including the last two that Irina failed to mark before getting caught. She was let off with a warning, though Lieutenant Colonel Goraya took an interest in her ability to detect corpses, and her talent for criminalistics.
Irina was soon taken under Goraya's wing. Though technically she was only the Lieutenant Colonel's consultant, they were known as the Two Hands of the law; Goraya was the law, and Irina was the truth. Other people referred to Irina as "Goraya's tracking dog." It irked her so much that she perfected an insane look to give people when she was pissed. While she questioned Lieutenant Colonel Goraya's intentions in giving her an informal space on the Militsiya force, she said nothing.
Goraya even assisted Irina and her father in writing an application for a four-year B.S. diploma at the University of Bradford, U.K. He also referred her to the Yorkshire police, who were as impressed as the Kiev militsiya with her talent. She stayed in the UK for two years, until she got a letter from Starlight Academy. Goraya hesitated, but grudgingly allowed her to go to Manta Carlos and transfer all her academic credits to Starlight Academy. He didn
t refer her to the Manta Carlos police force, possibly intentionally.
Additional Information:
Irina loves cooking. Don't worry, the only thing that is safe from her morbid touch is her cooking. She also likes cute things, and hates being referred to as a dog.
