Diana Nevidal "The Door"

в—Џ Appearance:

Eyes: Black, narrow

Hair: Black, stiff; shoulder blades length

Leather: Olive

Height: 152В cm

Body build:В Slim

The contrast inВ appearance between Agatha and her husband was aВ usual subject ofВ jokes byВ friends, acquaintances, and other random people. The already frail-looking girl looked even smaller and more defenceless against the backdrop ofВ Mount Arthur.

With her looks, she would have been nothing but endearing, were it not for the heavy, cold stare of her black eyes, as black as the night itself. That gaze could not only stop a hand from reaching to pinch Agatha’s cheek, it could twist it, and the brute would find himself twisted and broken on the cold floor.

в—Џ Clothing style: Feminine, economical

Agatha loves dresses. This wardrobe item is the only thing in which our heroine does not prefer minimalism. While all of Agatha’s trousers, T-shirts, shirts and sweatshirts can fit effortlessly on one small shelf, dresses are so numerous that there is nowhere else to hang them – some have to be stacked and even crammed together.

в—Џ Age:В 24

InВ both appearance and age, our heroine is quite young. Seeing aВ boy ofВ three next toВ her, people with no sense ofВ personal boundaries rush toВ label her as aВ brat with no higher education and no goals inВ life. They immediately see aВ girl who came toВ her parents with aВ baby inВ aВ belly some day after school. Or who married aВ man with her belly.

It doesn’t occur to these ignorant people that Agatha graduated school with flying colours at sixteen and university with a red diploma at twenty.

She got married at twenty as well, and eventually gave birth at twenty-one. And all this with an education, work experience and aВ lot ofВ ambition.

в—Џ Birthday: 31В October

Zodiac sign: Scorpio

People do not like Scorpios and Scorpios are well aware ofВ it, even if they themselves are not particularly passionate about horoscopes. The way Scorpios react toВ this dislike varies: they can be both resentful and angry.

But Agatha had always thought this attitude towards her zodiac sign was aВ real sign ofВ character weakness. So, instead ofВ worrying about it herself, she tolerated such reactions with aВ certain amount ofВ pity towards such people.

Education: Incomplete Chemical and Biological Sciences major, complete one inВ Management

After saying goodbye toВ school life, Agatha enrolled at the university inВ aВ big city. She lived inВ aВ dorm, was studying hard full-time, so the most convenient part-time job for her was at aВ bar nearby. Since she got into biochemistry, she also enjoyed mixing ingredients inВ containers at her new job, so the work went well.

She was so enchanted byВ this field that after her first year, she left science and transferred toВ another field ofВ study: management. This is the field inВ which she was destined toВ excel.

Job: Manager inВ aВ cafГ©

With the help ofВ her connections inВ the bar business, Agatha got her son into kindergarten at the age ofВ two and started work herself. She also found aВ couple ofВ useful contacts at work, so for aВ little over aВ year now she has been running aВ cafГ©.

As she was aВ mother now, working inВ aВ cafГ© seemed aВ more acceptable option than going back toВ the nightlife.

Agatha has an iron grip on keeping her establishment clean and tidy. Not all the employees are thrilled with the new management, but the angry looks and sighs don’t bother her. For herself, Agatha knows that her strictness is a necessary measure. That she may be harsh, but she is fair.

Additional skills: Many practical skills

Being a thorough person, Agatha acquired a couple of new skills during her maternity leave. First aid, driving, a couple (hundreds, I think?) of books on pedagogy and psychology, cooking for the baby – that’s where it all started. There’s more to come.

Archery, shooting guns, and at the same time a course in cooking chocolate from scratch and baking cakes. It didn’t end there, and the only question she had in the process was why she hadn’t learned all this before. Except that there were no courses in plumbing and electrics, much to her disappointment.

If it were not for the arrival ofВ her son, our protagonist might soon have toВ be found somewhere inВ the middle ofВ Siberia, undergoing aВ survivalist course. After all, there is no telling what and when inВ this life might come inВ handy.

в—Џ Outstanding personal qualities:

Rationality: Between the call ofВ the heart and what dictates the brain, Agatha always relies more on the organ that was originally meant toВ make decisions. On the brain, inВ case it requires clarification. This does not mean that she is insensitive and heartless, but reason should always take precedence over emotion, inВ her opinion.

This kind of approach and solid logic made Agatha an impossible conversationalist and even worse wife – Arthur has to live with someone who almost always turns out to be right, or at least can prove it calmly and logically.

Observation: Any incident, even the smallest one, requires serious analysis. And in order to do that analysis, you need to be able to notice the small details and see the big picture. Watch and you’ll see – Agatha likes this simple philosophy.

Calculating: Agatha always tries toВ think through as many things as possible ahead ofВ time. She tries toВ think ofВ and be prepared for everything. More than once her practicality and prudence have been seen as profit motive and as taking advantage ofВ other people.

Oddly enough, this negative opinion is usually held byВ outsiders who would have had nothing toВ take from them, even if Agatha had wanted to. Agatha has had and continues toВ have aВ wonderful, at least friendly, relationship with all the В«usedВ» people. Networking[7 - The concept ofВ networking is based on the so-called six-handshake theory.] is what she calls her alleged В«commercialismВ».

Minimalism: Our heroine prefers minimalism in everything. Minimal clothing, minimal gimmicks, minimal furniture. In a cluttered space, Agatha gets stuffy and cramped. She also gets uncomfortable in crowds – the exception was working in a bar, but there was a bar that separated her from the clutter of bodies and tables in the hall.

Steel: Due to her toughness and stubborness, Agatha can be perceived as an ’iron lady’. With her subordinates, this lady is unwavering and stern. But people forget that steel is one of the most flexible materials. Steel can be as cold as it is scalding hot. As hard as it is fluid. Despite her cold head, Agatha is no stranger to intense feelings.

And most importantly, you can try to bend steel with your hands, but you’re unlikely to break it. Such strength of character would be the envy of many. No matter how many times life threw buckets of stones at her, every time our heroine rose again.

Agatha’s family has a legend that their ancestor was Genghis Khan[8 - A great ancient military leader, founder and first great Khan of the Mongol Empire, who united the disparate Mongol and Turkic tribes. His proper name was Temuchzhin.] and, frankly, that would explain a lot.

About how theyВ met

When Agatha was in her third year of university, she was still working in a bar. One day, a new employee joined their team and started showing an unequivocal interest in her. Neither the flowers he gave her, nor any gifts, nor the guy himself were really her type. A «come to my place and let’s watch a movie» was out of the question. A couple of months of futile attempts later, he decided to go all in.

Since none ofВ the standard tricks worked, Romeo decided toВ do something unusual and invited Agatha toВ aВ medieval tournament at the renaissance fair held byВ re-enactors and LARPers inВ one ofВ the parks.

Agatha thought it would be aВ good idea toВ expand her horizons and network ofВ acquaintances, so she agreed. The suitor was immensely pleased with himself until they went on this В«dateВ».

The girl was polite but reserved. She was more interested in the event itself than in this poor man’s feeble attempts to put his arm around her waist without being squeezed into the ground with her ice-cold gaze.

The suitor decided to make another move and invited our heroine to meet some of the participants in the tournament – he was acquainted with several of them, although he was not a regular participant in such events. He knew just a couple of people, knew which part of the park they were preparing for and knew how to get to them.

This was his fatal mistake, because among the new acquaintances was Arthur. After five minutes ofВ talking toВ Agatha, the giant decided that he would never take another step away from her or let anyone else hurtВ her.

So the three ofВ them were wandering around for several hours until the hapless suitor eventually got lost somewhere on the way, seeing that he could no longer even try toВ claim her waist or the rest ofВ her body.

And Agatha and Arthur’s romance spiralled swiftly and relentlessly. They were completely different, but found things they did have in common. They were together all the time, and when they were near each other, they shone in a way that could dazzle those around them. Never before had either of them been seen like that.

By now their mutual friends, who were particularly sharp-tongued, were saying that this bogatyr was now under the Tartar-Mongol yoke. And Arthur didn’t mind, as well as Agatha.[9 - A reference to how Russian principalities were forced to pay tribute to the Mongol Empire for a long time.]

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