Vaska Nikolai Akulova

the iron reaper || female || homosexual || thirty-seven

APPEARANCE

PERSONALITY

HISTORY

Vaska was born in a remote village in Siberia thirty-seven years ago to parents Nikolai and Varya. Nikolai, a member of an organization called the Tarantula, was a strict yet loving father who brought Vaska into the world of organized crime at a very young age. She still went to school, and studied what was necessary, but a great chunk of her time was spent training her body and learning how to use a gun. Because of her height and muscular physique, Vaska was picked on a great deal during her childhood. Regardless, this did not deter her as she wished to make her father and mother proud. Sadly, when Vaska was only fourteen years old her mother passed away due to cancer. This was the first time she had experienced loss, but due to her father's conditioning and the respect she had for the strong woman Varya was, Vaska only shed a few tears. She learned at this moment to stifle any negative emotions, to deal with them when no one was around, to keep a stiff upper lip when people's eyes could be on you. As Vaska got older and learned more tricks of the trade, she rose through the Tarantula ranks until by the age of eighteen she took the position of an enforcer.

As an enforcer, Vaska was primarily tasked with shaking down businesses as the group - and thus, father and daughter - moved around the country. Whenever someone needed muscle, both figuratively and literally, Vaska was there. Due to her status in the Tarantula organization, Vaska would also pick up the knowledge of numerous other languages though she preferred to stick to her native Russian tongue. Eventually both Vaska and her father Nikolai ended up in the United States, and this land mesmerized the young Vaska. The amount of opportunities extended to people that had nothing to do with criminal activities nearly pulled her out of the life. The Russian mafia situated in America frequently hired Tarantula to assist in various tasks, from drug smuggling to sex trafficking. Vaska only felt shreds of guilt from time to time, realizing that this was the best way for someone like her to make her money. When Vaska was only twenty years old, she met and fell in love with a prostitute by the name of Natasha. Giving her the nickname "Tasha", Vaska pulled some strings and simultaneously got Natasha out of the sex slave ring she was involved in while also making sure that her family was safe back home. Love blossoms in the weirdest of places sometimes.

As the years went on, Vaska started to train Tasha and together the two would act as an enforcer pair for Tarantula. Eventually, due to his older age and frequent cigar smoking, Nikolai passed away due to lung cancer. Keeping a stiff upper lip in public was what she was taught to do, but at home in an apartment complex Tarantula members were situated at in New York City Vaska wept deeply into her lover Tasha's arms. It was during this moment that Tasha, fearful that something might happen to either of them one day, proposed to Vaska. This was a very difficult situation due to the mindset of gay marriage in the United States, but with enough strings pulled Tarantula made it happen. At the age of twenty-six, Vaska became the proud wife of Natasha and the two ended up adopting a ten year old boy from an orphanage back home. Naming him "Nikolai" after Vaska's father, the pair did their best to raise the boy and try to keep him away from the horrific life of organized crime. One night, while protecting Tasha and young Nikolai from a group of rival mafia gang members, Vaska heard her very soul speak out to her and pulled out a pair of dog tags that belonged to her father, a memento she was allowed to keep to remind her of him. It all happened so fast, but in that instant Vaska transformed the dog tags into a large rifle. This attracted the presence of a large, black, monstrous beast, which caused the rival gang members to run off and Vaska to use her skills learned within Tarantula to use the weapon and take it out.

A man in a black suit ended up approaching the Akulova family a year later, as Vaska hit the age of twenty-nine. He sat the family down while Nikolai was at school and explained to the two what Vaska's power was, what that monster was, and everything related to the spiritual world he could. Vaska discovered that her mother did not die to an illness but instead complications due to injuries sustained from a Hollow attacking her in Siberia while she was pregnant with Vaska opening once more. Vaska eventually left Tarantula amicably and joined up with this man's organization, who called themselves Black Widow. Due to Vaska's departure and rivals encircling the group, Tarantula dissolved and a few associates followed Vaska into Black Widow. Over time, Vaska would use her power as what the man called her, a Fullbringer, to destroy the Black Widows enemies as well as Hollow. Destroying Hollow became more commonplace than the illicit activities Tarantula performed and Vaska preferred it this way. Life was perfect, even if it was a bit risky. As Vaska came up on her thirtieth year and had grown closer to Black Widow as if they were family members, tragedy would loom.

The group would come across a much more humanoid looking Hollow than what they had experienced before. Introducing himself as an Arrancar by the name of Valdez, he attacked the group and though he seriously wounded a few, he made sure not to kill anyone. He promised he would be back for more and disappeared from sight through what looked like a portal. Though Black Widow grunts wished to go after it, Vaska calmed them down. The man in the black suit who had recruited Vaska informed her that the creature was called an Arrancar and that the Black Widow thought that they were only myths. Not only that, but it was unlike any Arrancar they had ever seen. Unknown to the group, this was a Vasto Lorde Arrancar who had it's sights set on the faction. A few months later, Vaska had Tasha and her now fifteen year old son visit the Black Widow's headquarters in an abandoned aircraft hangar and meet many of the faction's members. They were nice as they could be and cheerful, but had not expected a large explosion to blow their hangar door off and Valdez to walk in. Not only that, but he had reinforcements: A large number of lower class Hollow who instantly attacked. Try as they might, Black Widow was not prepared to deal with this many nor the power of the Vasto Lorde Arrancar.

Vaska had no choice but to watch her brothers, sisters, her comrades in arms die to the vast numbers. Her Fullbring weapon allowed her to gun down a great deal of the lower level Hollow but this exerted a great deal of her energy despite her advanced skill shown in using her BFG. When it came time to fight the Vasto Lorde Arrancar, he effortlessly knocked Vaska's weapon from her hands and took out he right eye. Vaska used all of her energy to launch an attack against Valdez as he approached Tasha and Nikolai, but it mattered none. Tasha and Nikolai were forced to watch as Vaska's right arm was ripped from her body and she was beaten within an inch of her life. The man in the black suit stepped out from behind a large truck but it was too late. Vaska lost consciousness just as Valdez approached Nikolai and Tasha. The next thing Vaska knew, she was in a hospital with her arm socket tied up in bandages and bandages around her right eye. The grim look on the man in the black suit's face told her all she needed to know and tears came from her working eye. Valdez had killed Nikolai, Tasha, and destroyed Black Widow. The man took on the name of Black Widow in memory of the group, and informed Vaska that he wouldn't rest until he found the Arrancar who had done this. Agreeing, Vaska swore on her deceased loved one's lives that she would find Valdez and destroy him. Not only that, but she wanted to know why he decided not to chase them out of the hangar.

Seven years later, due to her steel spirit and artificial arm Vaska has gained the moniker of The Iron Reaper, a mercenary mythologized as a woman with special powers. Alongside Black Widow, Vaska operates as a renegade member of the criminal underground. In her free time she either spends it relaxing, getting repairs from Black Widow who serves as both her technician and partner while she's out on field operations, or hunting down Hollow due to her immense hatred. She still suffers from nightmares of the night Black Widow collapsed, but feels like there has to be more sentient Arrancar out there who she can gain information from. To this day, Black Widow receives constant contact from Valdez, who taunts and mocks the pair only angering them further into trying to track down the son of a bitch. Alongside her spiritual activities, Vaska also acts as an "ordinary" mercenary and does the jobs that no one else wants to do. She has fallen back into criminal activities such as drug trafficking, kidnappings for sex slave rings, etc. and acts as the "muscle" where most people need it. Despite the money she gains from these activities, she still runs her operations out of an apartment complex in Naruki City, having adapted to the Japanese lifestyle and having pooled all of her money together to spend on things the pair need to continue attempting to track down Valdez.