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Sterling Mishina (Lucy Durante) - Sterling - 03-21-2019
Sterling (Lucy Durante) Mishina
Age: 14
Origin: Moscow
Occupation: Student
Psychological description
Sterling is a good kid. She plays the violin in the school orchestra, is a half back on the varsity soccer team, and maintains straight As. But she doesn't know what she wants to be when she grows up. Sterling doesn't have many friends in school, most people call her a nerd despite her athleticism, but she doesn't much care.
Physical Description
Sterling has grey eyes, a pale complexion with a lot of freckles, and straight red hair. She doesn't look like anyone in her family, and it wasn't until recently that she found out why - she was adopted.
Powers & Supernatural Powers
Channeler
Current Strength Level
1
Potential Strength Level
37
Channeler Experience Level - New (not yet)
Reborn god: Nephthys (Egyptian)
Biography
[[ Sterling does not know the following history ]]
Sterling was born Lucy Durante to Chadwick and Helena Durante. Chad was brother to Bryan Durante, and he was born into an organization called The Atharim. But when it came time for Chad too choose he forsake the life. Killing for the sake of killing was not his thing. He didn't bevel their dogma. His father and brother disowned him. It was a big scene that lead to Chad running as far as he could from his brothers - he ran all the way to Moscow.
Where he met a local girl, got married and they had two kids. Chadwick Jr and Lucy. CJ was three years old when his little sister was born.
But it was also that same year that the Atharim came for Helena. Lucy was in the NICU suffering from sever heart failure and then miraculously Lucy was well. The Atharim came, but it wasn't just any one, it was Bryan. He'd caught wind of his brother's folly - marrying a reborn god!
Bryan Durante killed his brother, his sister-in-law and his nephew before the heat became to hot and he had to flee back to America or risk being caught on foreign soil under murder charges. Lucy Durante fell through the cracks of the Atharim due to her limited life span and Bryan's abrupt departure from the country.
When Lucy's parents turned up dead, she immediately became a ward of the state and put into the foster care system.
Lucy was quickly adopted by Slav and Ia Mishina and given the name Sterling because of her eyes. Two years later Ia gave birth to a son, Vlad. And a year after that a daughter, Ilana.
[[ The remainder Sterling knows. ]]
Sterling looked nothing like her family and it was something she was self conscious of as she grew older. By 14 it had become something she spoke about often. Ia sat down with Sterling at an ice-cream shoppe.
Sterling ordered her favorite flavor - bubble gum and they sat down at a table. Her mother was acting strange.
"Darling," Ia said to her, "You know your father and I love you very much, right?"
"Of course. What's this about mama?"
"I don't know how to tell you this, Sterling, baby. So I'll just come out and say it. Your father and I adopted you when you were a baby."
"What?" Sterling shouted drawing a discerning eye from her mother and the crowd around her.
"We love you. But I wanted you to know that's why you are different. We don't know anything about your parents, only that they were American."
"What else do you know?"
The conversation was fueled by anger and hatred and Sterling stormed out of the shoppe and wandered the neighborhood for several hours before she returned home to find her favorite meal, and her family all waiting on her. They all told Sterling they loved her, and that they understood her anger. And they'd give her all the space she needed, but they were here for her.
Her anger fled, she wasn't mad at her family. They had loved her, lied to her her whole life, but they loved her.
After dinner in her room, her father knocked. "Sterling, I have something for you." He said quietly through the bedroom door.
"Come in."
Her father opened the door and came in holding a sealed envelope. "This is everything we have on your birth. The name you were given, and the names of your family and the reason you were put up for adoption. It's not a pretty picture to paint for a teenager, but it is what it is. We love you."
Slav left her with the envelope and Sterling stared at it lying on her pastel colored comforter before she picked up her wallet and called her best friend Risha. If anyone would understand it would be her.