#at this point i'm just committed to loving anya forever tbh

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&&. announcing her royal highness, ( nikolina ivanova krasimirova ), the ( 24 ) year old ( princess ) of ( bulgaria ). she is often confused with ( anya taylor joy ). some say that she is ( self-obsessed & insecure ), but she actually ( introspective & creative ).

idk why i did this but i love career-oriented royals & anya taylor-joy so here we are.

statistics.

full name: nikolina ivanova krasimirova

diminutives: nikya ( friends ), nikolitschka ( family )

title: princess of bulgaria

d.o.b / age: september 30th, 1996 / 24

occupation: retired figure skater

gender / pronouns / sexuality: ciswoman / she/her / bisexual

tv trope: the ingenue at the olympics - there's always one girl who becomes a media darling expected to win a stack of medals in her debut games (and usually does to some degree). by the next olympics, she won't do as well and by that point there will be another new it-girl on the scene.

family origins. 

much like the irl windsors, the krasimirovs were originally called something else and changed their house name to reflect their bulgarian identity. before they were krasimirovs, they were house koháry de csábrág-cantacuzène. kohary was a powerful austro-hungarian magnate house, one of the richest families in medieval europe. csabrag was of slovakian minor nobility. cantacuzene came from the byzantine greeks, that produced wallachian and romanian princes. bulgaria became independent from the ottoman empire on 1878, and the house of saxe-couburg et gotha relinquished control to the widely popular local nobles, the house of csabrag-cantucezene, of whom took a more ‘bulgarian’ family name: krasimirov. the house name was christened after its first reigning member: tsar krasimir, with the added meaning of “beautiful peace”, in order to symbolise the family’s vow of keeping their nation peaceful and prosperous. ( the family task will be done at some point i’m just putting fcs down to remind myself oajdfhad ) 

father: late tsar ivan viii ( bill nighy )

mother: queen mother tatyana ( julianne moore )

1st brother: former crown prince andrei ( john krasinski )

2nd brother: tsar dimitar ii ( theo james )

3rd brother: prince timotei ( dave franco )

older sister: princess svetlana ( tamsin egerton )

self: princess nikolina ( anya taylor-joy )

figure skating tldr

nikolina started figure skating at age eight, and started competing professionally as soon as she could. at age fourteen, she placed second in the bulgarian national championships - junior level, and by age sixteen she placed first in the youth olympics. her first wide-spread success was when she placed first in the 2014 winter olympics in sochi, before her famously steep ranking dive in the 2018 winter olympics, in which she placed eighth. nikolina quit right after the 2018 olympics, citing that she will focus on her responsibilities to the crown following her retirement. 

personality

nikolina had always been fickle. she tried painting, basketball, anything to amuse herself as she spent lonely days in the castle. her parents didn’t even think to arrange for noble children to be her playmates during her sessions with her tutors, even when her siblings were already off to higher education and leaving her to study basic history on her own. this made her all the more insecure, how was she supposed to know her worth when her own siblings barely gave her the time of day? even in the beginning of skating, her coaches had applauded her natural talent but were worried that she lacked the discipline to make a career out of it. they were right in the end. 

for all intents and purposes, nikya always felt like she was an only child, even though she wanted nothing more than to be noticed. some families dote on their babies, their beloved youngest, and although her parents might do so     the older krasimirov children only saw little nikya as a nuisance. when nikolina was learning how to run and talk, her older siblings were in their teens, with responsibilities and worries as they tried to navigate their way into adulthood. there was an age chasm between them, and no matter how much nikya wanted to bridge it ( with her shining career, hoping to impress them ; or with merely placing herself within their eyesight ) nothing was ever enough. 

so she said, fuck it, she had a chance to see the world and become her own person     and she took it... only to fall into a relationship with hanne glucksburg that made her all too happy to leave her old life behind. nikya started cancelling small championships left and right, making up excuses or straight up refusing to do them when it coincided with an important date. it wasn’t a good look for an olympic gold medalist. when her relationship with hanne irretrievably fell apart, her already declining career flatlined, and as if her adolescence never happened at all: nikya was back to being nothing, a young princess who would never inherit a throne and a washed up figure skater at twenty-three. 

but this time, she did not despair at her lack of recognition or attention    but shrugged it off in a sort of sad acceptance. nikya doesn’t know who she is, what she’ll do, she’s lost and jaded in a world that she doesn’t understand. currently in argentina, alongside her brother the tsar     only the two of them !     god knows what her life will evolve to now.