My favorite lady I have been playing in a Vampire the Masquerade game we have been playing the last few months. I finally made a proper reference sheet, though this is one of two as I want to make a second one with other details! As for Marina... she has been through hell and back so to speak.
Marina was born in Finland in 1895. Her family fled from Finland in 1904 for a better opportunity in the US (NYC) and to escape Russian controlled Finland where a revolution was occurring. As Marina grew older she worked in a factory that produced metal for firearms and with that grew to be a strong lady due to the work. In that time she met Martti Winefride Brant at a social party one evening who became her boyfriend when she was 18 and soon married him not long after. The couple would go on to have two children: Oliver (born 1917) and Saana (1919). Right before her death at 28 that her husband has went out one night friends. When he returned home, she would discover that he was a newly embraced "vampire" and turned on Marina. Unknown to Marina in the panic of fighting for her life desperately, she experienced her First Change before her death and her embrace.
Upset and confused on what had happened when she "woke up", she made the difficult choice of leaving her children in the care of her brother. Marina would very quickly discover she was not just a vampire... she was an abomination and one that had no control over herself. She could no longer stay in the city as she was shunned from both sides of her supernatural state.
Marina would spend years staying on the outskirts of her family, little contact made with them. Travelling around as a drifter, Marina would come across many people but gripped with the struggle of figuring out why Martti left her on her own and why she was cursed. During her travels she would find out the tragic event of Saana sudden disappears in California. The distraught mother attempting to locate her daughter with no signs and having to accept she was long gone or dead.
Marina still looking for answers to her werewolf origins, would eventually bring her back to Finland right in the middle of WW2. Unlucky, Marina would cross paths with German vampires forces who captured her, tortured her and made her into a weapon they used in the Siege of Leningrad. Hitting the lowest of the low, becoming the beast of raw power and rage.
Paths would twist for Marina as at the end of the siege she would find herself dragged back home to the US into the hands of the Camarilla where her memories were tampered/sealed with by an unknown individual. Marina from here would only remember her vampire state and that she was in the city because of her family, her descendants.
In the most recent, Marina returned back to NYC after hearing her great-granddaughter Ellen died in a tragic car accident, feeling that she needs to be close to her family again as their protector. She would live among the homeless population of NYC until that one fateful day where she met her coterie and more importantly Ingrid Fugita.
