Regina "Gina" Petrov

[Tonyksin]

Name: Regina “Gina” Petrov
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Grade: 12th
School: George Hunter High School
Hobbies and Interests: Baking, Running a YouTube channel, Volunteer work

Appearance: Regina is an average-sized girl, standing at 5’8 and her weight fluctuating between 135 and 140 pounds. Thanks to her Russian heritage, Gina is very fair both in skin and hair. Her soft and lush straight dirty blonde hair reaches down to her mid-back and is usually styled in a long three-strand braid. Her face is very angular, with high cheekbones and a pronounced jawline. Her lips are thin and long, and her nose is small but broad, with large nostrils. Gina’s eyes are wide and round with long lashes and a bright blue color to them. Her brows are kept thick towards the bridge of her nose, thinning out as they reach the other end of her eyes. Gina’s ears are proportional to her face, and are adorned with three piercings on each side. The first hole of each ear has a small topaz stud, the second a medium rose-gold hoop, and the third a diamond cross hanging from a long silver chain. Gina tends to be very fashionable, but in a plain, comfortable way. During the kidnapping, her lower body attire consists of light wash, skinny blue jeans with a dark brown rope belt hanging off her thin waist loosely. On her feet are brown soft suede booties with a three-inch heel. Her torso is covered by an ultramarine colored knit sweater that is snug to her body and accentuates her curves and breasts. Accessory-wise, she wears a white banded smart watch on her left wrist, and a bracelet of wood-colored beads on her right wrist. Her nails are painted a simple pastel blue and are cropped short. Make-up wise she wears the bare minimum, with just a light base to work from, some pastel pink lipstick, some eyeliner and mascara.

Biography: Regina, or Gina as some friends refer to her, was born the only child to Russian immigrant parents in November of 1999 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Her parents, Konstantine Petrov and Tatiana Petrova, immigrated from Vladivostok in 1991, both looking for a new beginning in the United States. Tatiana was only twenty-two years old when she made the decision to follow her twenty-six year old fiancee to the states, quickly getting married in their homeland and leaving behind her entire family and way of life in the process. Things were rough in the beginning for both Tatiana and Konstantine, neither speaking much english, and receiving quite the culture shock in America for the first time, but through hard work and dedication to their decision to follow their dreams, the two overcame their language barrier and became successful real estate brokers. The two settled in Chattanooga in 1997, and in November of 1999 when Regina was born, Tatiana quickly adapted to the role of housewife whilst Konstantine continued his career. Because they had been in the states for years by the time Regina was born, they thought it was important to Americanize themselves as much as they could, so when time came to fill out their daughter’s birth certificate, they decided to forego Russian naming convention and keep Regina’s last name Petrov.

From a young age, Regina was always closest with her mother. Tatiana staying home to take care of the household left her plenty of time to spend with her daughter, and the two were near inseparable for most of Regina’s childhood. From how to tie her shoes to how to properly make her bed, Regina learned everything from her mother. Her father was around as much as possible, but his work kept him very busy, especially since he was supporting an entire household on one income. Konstantine tended to travel a lot for work, so Regina’s education and care was mostly placed in the hands her mother. Tatiana was a happy-go-lucky and kind soul, so Regina grew to be very much like her.

One skill that Tatiana passed on a love and passion for to her daughter was baking. Tatiana’s parents ran a pretty successful bakery back in Vladivostok, and she was happy to pass the family tradition on to her daughter. Regina took to her family’s trade like a fish to water, and it became one of her most treasured passions and memories of her childhood spent in the kitchen with her mother. As she got older, Regina found that she could use her passion to inspire others to do the same, and with a bit of help from her friend Camille Bellegarde, created a YouTube channel for her baking called “Gina’s Sweet Stop” in their Freshman year of high school. The channel became pretty successful among her peers, and by their Senior year the channel had thousands of subscribers from all walks of life, although they were still just shy of becoming YouTube partners at only 9,500 subscribers. The channel regularly put out one full video where Regina would bake something complex and share a recipe with the viewers per week, along with smaller videos showing a particular baking technique or a smaller, simpler recipe and how to do it.

Aside from her YouTube channel and Baking, Regina also developed a love for animals of all shapes and sizes from a young age. When she was 7 her father bought her a puppy for her birthday, and she immediately fell in love with the wide eyed golden retriever. She named the dog Misty, and the two became quick best friends, her parents often finding Regina passed out in her bed with the puppy cuddled up next to her. As she got a bit older, a friend who had a cat told her said cat had given birth to a litter of kittens, and they were looking to give them away now that they’d grown a bit. Regina rushed over, and found that they were all spectacularly adorable, but Regina found herself drawn to one particular kitten who was all grey with little white paws and a starkly white patch above its nose. Her friend notices how much she liked the kitten, and suggested that she take her home. Regina called home and asked her mother if it was all right, and when she agreed she brought the kitten home to introduce her to the family. Naming the kitten Daisy, she hoped that Misty would be comfortable around the new addition. Her worries were unfounded however, and the two animals got along swimmingly. This love for her pets is what gave her the inspiration to start volunteering at the city’s animal shelter on weekends. She started her volunteer work in her freshman year of high school and has continued to donate her time at least one day a weekend since she started.

In school Regina was an average student. Not at the top of her class but not flunking out of anything either. She enjoys Math and Science classes the most, and tends to get higher marks in classes relating to those subjects than her other classes. Regina can be classified as a social butterfly, not really sticking to any particular clique, instead floating between them all. She keeps a pretty positive perspective and is able to get along well with most of her peers. Whenever she has two friends who are at odds with each other she does her best to be the bridge between them, never taking sides, trying to help everyone get along. That being said, she also does her best to avoid directly involving herself in conflicts as much as she can, much preferring to be on the sidelines of teenage drama. Friendship-wise, Gina has very few people she considers to be her real friends, but likes to keep many an acquaintance. She finds that it’s easier to be surface-level with most people, but even so, she would go out of her way to be there for or help any person she has a good relationship with, weather that be a close friend or acquaintance. As Regina’s close friends come from a variety of social cliques, she doesn’t have a friend “group” per-se, but more-so just a few people that she interacts heavily with at mostly separate instances from each other. Romantically, Regina doesn’t really have a lot of experience. She’s only had one previous relationship, and it ended after only six months when her boyfriend graduated her Sophomore year. The parting was mutual, and she doesn’t hold any grudge concerning it. Regina is still a virgin, and tries not to focus too much on romantic relationships, as she feels that if she’s meant to be with someone it’ll happen on it’s own.

After Graduation, Regina has plans to go to New York and attend the Culinary Institute of America. Although this would put a temporary hold on her Youtube channel, as she would be without her editing partner Camille, Gina feels that the formal pastry chef training would be a huge leap forwards toward her dream of owning and operating her own specialty bakery in the future.

Advantages: Regina gets along well with most of her classmates, so forging alliances and finding others to watch her back should be a simple task. Her positivity and can-do attitude would also be a great morale-boost for any group that she finds herself with.
Disadvantages: Regina is a kind girl, and that kindness could end up being her downfall if she puts her trust in the wrong places. She also tends to try to be a peacekeeper too often, and during conflicts on the island her judgement could end up being clouded, putting herself or her allies in danger.

[Rattlesnake]

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Gina is temporarily denied pending some mostly minor changes.

To start off with, the entry in her hobbies should be listed as "Running a YouTube channel." YouTube is also the proper capitalization of the word for use throughout the biography.

Thanks to her Russian Heritage, Gina is very fair both in skin and hair, her soft and lush straight dirty blonde hair reaching down to her mid-back and is usually styled in a long three-strand braid.

This sentence gets a bit awkward in the middle and doesn't have full verb agreement. I'd suggest cutting it into two after the first instance of "hair."

Her Parents, Konstantine and Tatiana Petrov

Lowercase parents

Regina learned everything from her mother, weather it be how to tie her shoes, to how to properly make her bed, her mother was Regina’s whole world.

Weather->whether. Also a bit of an awkward construction. It should be "whether it be how to tie her shoes or how to properly make her bed" or "from how to tie her shoes to how to make her bed." The last clause ("her mother was Regina's whole world") is an idea that doesn't really fit with the rest of the sentence.

When she was 7 her father bought her a puppy for her birthday, and she immediately fell in love with the wide eyed Golden Retriever.

Golden retriever should be lowercase.

She named the dog Misty, and the two became quick best friends, her parents often finding Regina passed out in her bed, the puppy cuddled up next to her.

Slightly awkward. Remove the first comma and replace the last comma with "with" and it flows much better.

They were all spectacularly adorable, but Regina found herself drawn to one particular kitten who was all grey with little white paws and a starkly white patch above its nose. Her friend notices how much she liked the kitten, and suggested that she take her home. Regina called home and asked her mother if it was all right, and when she agreed she brought the kitten home to introduce her to the family.

The first bit is too informal. Judgement about the kitten's adorable status should be framed in terms of the character's view, i.e. "Regina found them all to be spectacularly adorable." Notices->noticed. The implied timeline also seems a bit rushed for this. Kittens usually aren't ready to leave their mothers for a couple months.

The parts about school and social life could use some elaboration. Are there any subjects she particularly loves or hates, or which she scores exceptionally well or poorly in? Does she form any close friendships, or is she content with looser acquaintances? Is she a member of any clubs?

The parenthetical aside about the CIA is unnecessary. Also, why would her attendance there put a hold on her channel?

Her advantages and disadvantages could use a second extra entry in each.

Overall content-wise, nothing is objectionable, but I'd really like to know what she does when she's not baking or making videos about baking. Essentially, she needs one more entry in the Hobbies and Interests field, with the explanation to back it up.

Post again once you've addressed everything covered here and I'll give Gina another look.

[Tonyksin]

I think I hit every note you made, and changed a few other inconsistencies i found while i was reworking the profile. Hopefully it's more up to standard now.

[MK Kilmarnock]

Hey, Tony. Thanks for your continued patience, and I will be taking over Regina's profile, so bear with me during this transition period. We'll make it as painless as possible.

Regina is currently denied pending some more edits.

Hobbies and Interests: Baking, Running a YouTube Channel, Volunteer Work < 'channel' and 'work' should not be capitalized.

Thanks to her Russian Heritage < Do not capitalize heritage.

I'm going to ask for some plainer language for the appearance section, particularly in regards to things like 'striking blue eyes' and this sentence in particular: "Her torso is covered by an ultramarine colored knit sweater that is snug to her body and accentuates her ample C-cup breasts." In fact it's typically frowned upon to include a cup size in the appearance section, so deleting the words 'ample C-cup' would be your best bet here.

Nitpick I learned having since written a Russian character: as a Russian immigrant, Tatiana should be following Slavic naming convention and her last name should be Petrova, not Petrov. Regina's name can remain Petrov if desired as the United States does not follow the same naming traditions and conventions, and the parents could have elected to name her that but... it matters to me.

The rest of the profile is actually looking pretty good, giving it a couple read-throughs. I think we're just about done.

[Tonyksin]

Updated! Let's see if third time's the charm!

[MK Kilmarnock]

Lookin' good.

Approved