the valley of the shadow of death ,

[November Connolly-Sakahrov]

FLINGER | SHIFTING

yay, new board. i needed one. shush.
yeah, it was a matter of time. it's impossible for me not to keep making characters. although i have a new rule - make one, delete one. i have too many as it is. and i have two characters brewing, but i'll talk about him more later. sad news is, i'm deleting max. yeah, camilla curse strikes again. xD she never really got off the ground, and was more like my other characters that i ever wanted. so, she's going. it makes me sad, because i love her and her story, but yeah. i'll put a few of her traits into other characters. i might be using camilla again anyway, so shush. but this means the first flinger i have in mind. she's still in heavy development, but i got excited so i'm posting info. woo.

KSENIA HANA SAKAHROV !
SEVENTEEN , MOVED FROM KEIZER , MAFIA TIES , COMPLEX QUEEN ,
you know, it didn't have to happen this way ,

PROFILE: - at the end of the day, has a good heart
- has a complex for almost anything
- too worried about what people think
- a little odd
- used to be miss queen bee popular, not anymore
- people here probably think she's too weird
- secretive
- likes to know the details of everything
- bubbly and fun
- little self-worth
- gets bored easily
- adventurous
- about to be in for it

i have big secrets with her brother, who has no info posted. and i want it to stay that way. xD it makes me feel powerful. shut up. i need that in my sad existence.

meet ksenia sakahrov. name sound familiar? it is the russian side of the mafia twins, river and november. she is their cousin on their father's side, although has only been involved in their lives for a short time. nothing ever would have happened if her family had just stayed the fuck in europe. everything was ruined because victor sakahrov had to know what his brother was doing over in ireland. he had never been to ireland in his life - and now he was dropping everything and moving there. he didn't know why. if he didn't have to find out, nothing would have ever happened.

what happened? well, you aren't going to know yet, are you? no, you are.

part of it happened on july thirteenth, 1992. that was the day another part of this mess was brought into the world. she was named ksenia, after her grandmother. ksenia hana. she thinks it's because hana kahovich could never look her father in the eyes again. but no one else knows that. no one knew anything was wrong now; everything was perfect. ksenia was born to victor and stana sakahrov in moscow, russia. her father always told her he wanted her to be born in the motherland - where the rest of her family had been born. well, whatever. you got your wish, dad. as soon as ksenia was old enough, her and her parents moved back to belgrade, serbia, where they had established themselves a life before moving back to moscow shortly after stana got pregnant. it was a happy city, contrary to all of the chaos surrounding them. if you didn't get involved in the chaos, your life was good. her life was good. born to a financial manager and realtor, how could she not be? ksenia sakahrov was raised in a comfortable environment in a happy little suburb in southern belgrade.

it was only when the shit hit the fan did everything begin to unravel.

nothing would have happened if they had just shut the fuck up. she was never told what shit hit what fan. only that her father, vladamir, was in a hell of a lot of trouble. it wasn't worth the risk having family like that around. so they relocated - the keizer, oregon. sound familiar? it should. valkyrie's own sutton family is from there. now, nothing of interest happened in keizer. for all things saked, it was boring. ksenia grew into a lovely young lady. she was cute, blonde, perky - she fit in just fine. her parents were happy and stable, they fit into the bubble just perfectly. all's well, i guess. things are better when it's like that. whatever victor did to fuck everything up was forgotten. they turned into the perfect all-american family with funny accents.

i would be lying if i said anything happened while living in keizer. the most interesting thing was ksenia's lack of loyalty to her supposed best friend. not fun. but when your normally cheeky father drops his cell phone, looking paper white, and telling his wife they have to go the next morning? your bubble kind of gets burst. the connolly-skahrov clan were making waves. apparently people were pissed. no one ever told her anything. all ksenia knew was that she had better pack up her entire bedroom before three-thirty the next morning, or she was going to have to leave everything. they didn't even put the house up for sale. one morning, the entire sakahrov family mysterious disappeared onto an airplane going god knows where. welcome to a sudden emergence in life in valkyrie, california, miss.

okay, so that didn't make much sense. that's how it's supposed to be. at this point, ksenia knows nothing. just that her extended family is fucking weird. so everything is blurred and doesn't make a lick of sense. good. a lot of her needs to be developed, but i have the basic ideas in my head. personality wise, her character will deepen in time xD

[Caroline Sutton]

gah another amazing asia creation. i adore her. i think she and carly are going to be closer than close despite her getting all distant when carly got pregnant.

so here's how i see it. they were super closer throughout there time in keizer. carly was the youngest head cheerleader and idk if ksenia was a part of that, regardless i'm thinking these to pretty much ruled the school. i had carly written in as one of those queen bee types as well before and maybe they kind of 'ruled' together? then things got all screwy when carly got pregnant. she got kicked off the team and people started treating her like a pariah. maybe to not lose her status ksenia did the same even though she didn't want to? like after it came out that she was pregnant carly would walk up to their usual group of girls, focusing on her best friend, and ksenia ended up being all catty to her just to keep it up with the crowd? you know, peer pressure and all. maybe during her pregnancy ksenia sees the way people treat her as she walks down the halls, giving her like a 5 foot space between her and the crowd. she feels bad and wants to do something about it but can't because the whole school is watching just her now?

idk how much you like that idea depending on her personality and all, but it's a possibility. carly will probably be pissed when she moves to valkyrie but seeing as how ksenia's the only person she's known since she was a kid she'll uncharacteristically warm back up to her pretty darn quick? that's the way i see it at least. maybe then ksenia confesses that she wasn't being a bitch because she didn't care, she was doing it to not lose her status and carly understands? this has really turned into a rambling mess so i'ma try to stop xD.

dunno who else will plot with her but her and carly are my top priority as far as plotting goes. so we'll see who else fits once you get a better feel for her. hehe i can't wait for these two to take over va. it'll be a riot.

[Shay Anderson]

hellz to the yeah. she's still in development, but i think she'll become a more stable character once i play her. yay! they're going to be so epic.

no no, that sounds perfect to me. i imagined ksenia as the exact same. queen bitches together, woo. ooh, ksenia totally should have been a cheerleader, too. we can use images from that scene in TVD when caroline basically kicks elena off the team xD but anyway. maybe after she gets pregnant, and everyone finds out, that's obviously the time that ksenia starts to distance herself. how did carly get kicked off? just the other team members voted her off? if so, maybe it was ksenia telling her all cold and distant bitchy-like. like how tristan would do it xD anyway. regardless of how she felt, ksenia's much too insecure and paranoid not to follow the crowd. even if she wanted to reach out - i'm assuming they had the epic close friendship, not the shallow one a lot of girls have - if that met become a leper, too, she never would have. that sounds epic. like, as the months went on and things got worse for carly, she stops being so catty and they exchange a few sorta sad glances. or, ksenia would look at her with concern from the middle of their old group. woo. this is so win.

well, it's happening now, haha. it fits perfectly with ksenia's personality. ooh, that sounds good. she'll be grovelling so much. we need a first thread, all awkward, wanting forgiveness. aw, i like that idea. make for a really cute thread. maybe before she tells her, things are a little awkward, if they try to fix their friendship? then it's all quiet, and she confesses. and then enter epic re-bestieness. carly should introduce ksenia to her world now xD without the queen beeness, and all that's happening with her family, she's gotten something of a reality check. she's just plain weird now, haha. so she'll be looking for a new scene to hang in.

totally my top priorty, too<3 i'm so excited. we need to plot them extensively. just because. :] i'll hit you up in the c-box. yay!

[Magdelena "Maggie" Corinthos]

gah i love her. i can't wait til you make her. and you know i can be persistent xD we're plotting these two to death. and of course ksenia's going to be dragged into the new "quad" when carly gets forced in.

i think we're official with the trio2.0 +1, carly, maeghan, wrynn, and ksenia. ooh that's one hot grouping. the new generation of va watch out! hehe.

[Wrynn Giovanni]

whoooooo! so, i know i'm like probably really late in saying this, but i LOVE ksenia! her name, her face, everything. i'm excited your candice accola is finally coming into life. hee hee and, yes, 'quad' FTW!

i definitely think there can be some rather dramatic stuff between ksenia and wrynn. first off, wrynn is close to carly now, and she's not usually threatened by other girls, but maybe she gets a bit jealous that ksenia and carly were friends back in the day? so there's a bit of frenemy-ness going on when ksenia first shows up? after wrynn gets over that, i can totally see them having issues b/c ksenia's family is entangled with the russian mob, right? obviously, the whole giovanni versus russian mafia would be a bit... complicated. lol wrynn's a diehard gio girl so maybe, depending on how loyal ksenia will be to that part of her story, they could have a falling out over that too or it could bring them closer together. wrynn could be like the one person that understands the mafia family issue. heh

in the long run, i could see them being good friends after they work through all of their drama. great friendship isn't easy, right?! lol by what you've put about her personality, the whole 'adventurous, bubbly' stuff, she and wrynn are a lot alike, so i think they should go through a rough patch and then finally be like "you know, we're like WAY too much alike NOT to be close" and then they're over it. ha i like drama way too much. xD

[Regan Turner]

Well hello my midnight amiga, how might you be? good? good. Anywhoozle, I was just around these parts and thought I'd give my two cents worth for my dear Ksenia. I do approve of her. and we must plot her and regan because I said so. So basically Carly is Regan's best friend here in valkyrie, so it is just natural to meet up with her kaizer one, right? that was what I thought. Anyways, Regan would probably be nice to her, you know because of Carly but he would probably be avoiding her, he's not much of a bubbly person. It sort of annoys him actually. But eventually he'll warm up to her.

Hmmm, who else could we plot? Well, I have this character brewing, because I need to make another girl according to my thread tracker, (it goes, girl, guy, guy, girl...etc, so weston and jesse are both nearly finished, so I need a girl.) I'm undecided about her specifics, but I think she and Ksenia will get along. I'll give more info about her later on, when I'm done the specifics. Weston is old, Audrey might get along with her, but I'm not promising anything, because she's like regan and isn't particularly fond of bubbly personas.. except audrey really doesn't like them, at all, so she won't make an effort to be nice, because she's a ho like that. Fair will be nice to her, because it's fair, she's nice until pissed off. Jesse would like her, because Jesse likes everybody, and he's the class clown, he's gotta, lol. We could plot them somehow. and, that is all that's coming to me at this moment. So if you have any ideas regarding any of my brood, just hit me up with a PM... because they make me feel special. =]

[Ksenia Sakahrov]

how much complaining have i been doing lately? yeah, exactly. so sometime this week, i decided i was going to focus on a lot of my character issues. while still are quite up in the air, i finally decided one. i'm going to delete remy. horrible, i know. i love her character to death, i love using odette. my muse has always been there, but she's just never really taken off...a few plots here and there, but nothing ever really happened. besides, whenever i've had muse for her lately, it's gone into november's application. and y'know what? they're so alike, it's pretty creepy. so, i decided she's getting kicked to the curb. i really want to focus on november and make her one of my central characters, since she's a bunch of characters molded into one. if anyone was still interested in continuing similar plots like i had with remy, i'll shove november into them xD so yay. now, i've been complaining about a few new screamers, too. well, i gave in. my new rule is to delete a character, make a character. so nothing is really changing. i like this dude.

CHRISTIAN DAMIEN CONNOLLY-SAKAHROV !
TWENTY-TWO , IRISH MOBSTER , SOUS CHEF , A BIT PSYCHO,
i did what i had to do to avenge her ,

PROFILE: - highly trained mafia soldier
- ruthless
- holds a real darkness
- likes to cause trouble
- cunning
- obviously dangerous, like the rest of his family
- heartbroken
- holds no loyalty when it comes to some people
- damaged
- vulnerable deep down
- kind of crazy, caused by depression

there was always they dropped everything and crossed the globe, to some insignificant town in california. no one ever expected them to ever speak again. and then, the next day, they are off boarding a plane together? something was definitely up. you see, irish twins november and river connolly-sakahrov went nearly two years without saying a word to each other, not a single thing. the only reason he stepped out from the shadows was because he wanted to protect her. she was too young to kill someone. if she hadn't by then, as river had several times, there was no reason that she should have to anytime soon. it didn't matter who pulled the trigger. it was done, completed. finished. it was over, and they could go back to their lives. well, i guess they could have if it wasn't their older brother who caused this mess in the first place.

you see, he had been as estranged from his siblings as they had one another. if it weren't for the odd surnames, you would never have assumed they were even related. connolly is one of the most common names in ireland, you know. there had been three or four connolly's in his classes growing up. it was a bit annoying, really. but he only approached november because he knew she could do it. she would have no choice. he had saved her life before, and she owed him. you see, despite being apart of the mafia - which, as you know, is the definition of familial loyalty - he didn't care. not when it came to her. he knew who killed her, he knew why. he just couldn't prove it. who could? someone more important than him decided that candice wasn't worth it anymore, so he innocently slipped into her life, snatched her, and disappeared from it. that was the way they worked, he knew. the people the mafia kidnap just fade into thin air. most of the time, you don't even notice until it's too late. it was more like she went on vacation, when he arrived back at their apartment that afternoon and she was gone. it wouldn't have taken anyone as sharp as christian to know something had gone wrong. discovering her body, pristine as a sleeping beauty, with a single bullet hole through the back of her neck, right at the base. execution style. who else does that? it didn't take very long to put two and two together, for him to figure it all out. that's when he chose to break this unofficial vow of silence between the rest of his family. he approached her because he couldn't do it himself.

see, the irish mafia is made up of more than the selwyn family. they are just the ones who run the rest of the world, who tell you when to die and when you should kill. there is a small society underneath them, as there is in any organized crime. the connolly clan rested somewhere in the middle, blurring the lines between insignificant as a fly, and noteable for their level of peril. they existed in this small society just as every other family did; they had their petty drama, their days of mocking the boss. it was just like any other job, only with deadly concequences. believe it or not, there was as much juvenile dislike shared between people as any other workplace. just because there had been no order for candice gallagher didn't mean someone couldn't give themselves the order. no one at the top of the chain was even aware until said shooter wound mysterious dead, sloppily shot on the sidewalk late one rainy evening.

confused? once christian discovered who ended her life, he broke. she was his world, his everything. the love of his life if you want to be cliché about it. she was the reason he never really got down into the dirt to play. have you ever been around someone and you know you have to live up to something in order to deserve them? she was perfect. he was the farthest thing from it. no matter what she said, he had to be a better person so he could even contemplate being her equal. but that all died the day she died. that last breath was the last breath of christian connolly-sakahrov. he was heartbroken, destroyed. the very thought of living the rest of his life without her? off the table. it didn't matter that this petty inner-'company' drama was going on; he was going to respond. which is why he approached her, november. through the grapevine, she was the cunning bitch. it was all his fault that she stood on the sidewalk, barely visible under the dying light of that lamp post, holding a shiny .09 milimetre to the back of his head. he heard she cornered him in the middle of no where, a perfect plan executed in order to make his death clean and frameable. it was just the fact that she couldn't pull the trigger than ruined everything. that was the reason shawn whoever ended up with a sloppy bullet in his chest, with blood staining the sidewalk. christian had approached her because he knew she could be the one to make that bastard pay. she just failed him.

because of river's sloppy rescue of his sister - what was he even doing there that night? - things were dangerous. just because november had made the trail leading to them untraceable, didn't mean the power families wouldn't take notice. it was no one's signature, yet no one had any reason to want shawn dead. it was a matter of time before things could get messy. with the level of mess november was making at the time, it was going to be a hell of a lot quicker. so, he had to follow his younger siblings to california, where they chose to lay low while still active members of the irish mafia. something about foreign connections, what with several members of the selwyn family landing down in valkyrie, california. it made sense. he had to make sure they didn't mess anything else up.

so yeah, that was a hell of a lot longer than i originally planned. oh well. you love me anyway. xD it's pretty vague, yeah, but that's really the only interesting part of christian's history. his personality was destroyed the day candice died; it's become his obsession to not obsess over her. he loved her that much. right now, he's just continuing on being an angry, ruthless little soldier. he's masking that as the sous chef at the inferno, one of valkyrie's most presitigious. he attended culinary school, yo. so that's pretty badass. now...post! you'll plot with him, you know. you have to<3

[Channing Whitaker]

first of all -drools- colin is hot. i've always loved him cuz he's my former soap baby like josh duhamel and justin bruening and i'm glad you're using him. his story on melrose was crap but at least he got his face out there. btw, never should have run off with ashlee, shame on the writers for all eternity for that one. but anyways, down to business.

sarai would be terrified of him. she's had bad experiences with mobs and she doesn't want to have to get involved in another. since he sounds like the type to be prone to accidents, playing with knives for a living? oh and fires too? maybe they meet in the hospital? i dunno what much could happen there but if you get an idea, let me know.

maggie aw my little crime baby, i love her. she's unknowingly mixing herself up with the selwyns so why not christian too? can't remember what we said about her and the twins either. but we should do something there. j.r. probably wouldn't like him just because he's dangerous and he really doesn't want his sister around that stuff.

carly i can't imagine he'd meet her unless he came to bad seeds and watched her dance? though i have no idea when he'd get time for that seeing as she'd be dancing while he was busy at inferno, so it's unlikely. but still, i'm always up for something.

rowan i know she's like the epitome of maturity and innocence but for some reason i could see rowan being like that person christian can talk to? she's not involved in anything and she's in no way judgmental so she'd be like a shoulder for him without needing a reason. could be a decent friendship there?

graham isn't mixed up in that kind of life so he probably wouldn't know him.


well i hope this helped, though it's a little short, but still. let me know if you think of something better. :]

[Daphne Hayes]

here i am! ok so, yeah, i'll be blunt about it, but character issues do suck, but you kind of just have to go with what will make you comfortable again. it'll be sad to see remy go, because brett will cry the only family member she liked left her. are you just going to say she moved away?she just to get the logistics with brett down. anywayyy, onto christian!

who is gorgeous and awesome, and irish. <3 if you're creating a mobster that's auto-plotting with gios. though luca hates the irish, since christian isn't directly related to the selwyns, it would be interesting if him and christian were on good terms. not really friends but kind of like, on the same level if that makes sense xD violet would hate him because that girl hates everyone that isn't her family xD but it'd be interesting if they met. no ideas though, sorry. and paolo... he should get himself in a bad situation where luca has to come in and be like. 'yeah, you're not touching this one.' ... idk, randomness going on in my head right now.

as for others that aren't my crime families. i have wyatt and riley who are... men. xD they can be friends xD i don't think any of my high schoolers would really associate or meet him unless it was on accident, but yeah. brett would try and sex him xD so mostly my adults would be most useful. =D i know... i barely helped out.

[Shay Anderson]

woo, thanks for replying, you guys<3 i have a feeling he might be a little bit difficult to plot with, but i'm liking him. so yay. xD

RUBY !

i love your crime kids xD we should totally plot the connolly and the corinthos' in some way. it would be fun. they're allied with the gios, right? well, that won't make for playing nice all the time. i don't think we properly plotted anything out with maggie and the twins, just floated a few ideas. but we definitely should. i'm not sure on her positioning on everything at the moment? my kids are just arriving in valkyrie, so they're wide open for everything. although i can say that november isn't going to like maggie, enemy or not xD she's so focused on the business aspect of everything, she forgets to have fun. really doesn't know how. and then there's maggie being the smart one and knowing how to have a good time, too. definitely not her type of person. oooh, i like the idea of plotting rowan and christian :] they're so opposite, it would just work. she would remind him a lot of candice, too. and not in the way that would make him want to kill anything. more like...i dunno. just looking at her interacting with people, and being all haunted and stuff. it's happened to make before, rofl. anyway. after a bit of time, he would definitely be open to a friendship with her. he's not that bad of a guy when he isn't on mafia mode. since most people don't know about that, he seems more like the angry, stubborn chef dude. and those traits run within the culinary world, believe me. -eye roll- hehe. but definitely. i think that would be fun. we should expand :]

LAINEY !

i know :[ i miss remy already. but i feel a little bit better about it. yeah, i'll probably just say that she randomly picked up and move to los angeles or something. got an opportunity to intern at an ad agency or something, since that's what she wanted to do.

yay for auto-plotting! since they're more of a reality now, we gotta plot the gios with the connolly's properly. oooh, i like that idea. luca is one of the only kinds of people he wouldn't want to shoot in the face, haha. since they aren't overly high up on the hierarchy, none of the connolly's really know what's happened between the gios and the selwyn's. in fact, they probably haven't even interacted with any of the gios overseas simply based on the fact that they aren't important in the grander scheme of things. anyway. it makes sense to me xD sort of civil to one another, i guess. completely normal during the day, but if they ever ran into each other on a job or something? christian would have respect for him. sort of hesitant to mess up luca's personal jobs because he doesn't really hate him, or he at least knows him xD aw, haha. christian hates everyone, too. he doesn't really like his own family a lot, but what can you do. if they ever met and she knew he was part of the irish, that would be interesting. he'd know who she is, and what happened to her, but none of the details. be confused about it xD oooh, that would be fun. he'd be hesitant to even see paolo. new kids and he's a snob. i like your randomness, though :]

yay for men being friends xD they can drink beer and yell at the television, hehe. rofl, if brett tried that, he'd probably give in. look at her. <3