#ch: anastasiya lenkov

[dreamerwithapen1]

tell me all about your grishaverse ocs!!! im already obsessed!!! your anastasiya lantsov poster is to die for!

omg thank you!! 😭 i’m more than happy to talk about them!! this is about to be way longer than it should be lol

anastasiya lenkov

* the peace between ravka and her country of astaria is still relatively new, and as such, she and her mother (the queen of astaria) embark on many diplomatic trips to ravka and that’s how she gets to know our dear nikolai

* basically she sees this hyperactive, little whirlwind of a boy and thinks “yes, i need him in my life” and from then on they spend countless hours together: sparring (which ana soundly beats him at every time), creating various inventions of nikolai’s, and lowkey causing mischief wherever they go

* nikolai has the softest crush on her and little ana is completely oblivious

* ana, along with being a princess and a warrior, is also a grisha, a corporalki to be exact, and spends a lot of her time in ravka at the little palace, learning from baghra and other teachers. she’s an incredibly talented heartrender but she also learns as much as she can about healing

* because of her grisha powers, she’s kidnapped by slavers while on a trip to ravka and is shuffled from one slaver to another for several years, never being able to use her powers or fight back. she becomes a shell of who she used to be and has given up all hope of being able to escape

* during this time, nikolai is masquerading as sturmhond and stumbles upon an auction where ana is being sold. he buys her, frees her, and she spends several months on his ship, recovering both physically and mentally and trying to learn how to be herself again

* she convinces nikolai to take her into the part of the fold that stretches over the astarian volcanic mountains, and that’s where she finds a lone dragon egg. she takes it with her and is able to revive it, and shortly after, the dragon hatches. (i’m also toying with the idea of her dragon being her living amplifier)

* once the events of siege and storm roll around, she goes along with nikolai and crew to help alina defeat the darkling

* despite her feelings for nikolai, she supports him in trying to form a marriage alliance with alina as she knows that it’s more important than one between him and herself

* she and zoya are bffs and my absolute queens. they can and will destroy you without hesitation, an iconic duo

amara desai

* my crow baby 😭

* she’s mainly suli with a bit of zemeni from her dad’s side

* she grew up in ravka, traveling from one city to another with her family and never staying in one place for too long. she never had a place to call home, instead her home was wherever her family was

* both her mother and older brother were grisha; however, they kept their powers quiet and hidden so as to not be drafted to the second army

* when she’s just a young girl, her family is attacked by druskelle. her father, while not grisha, is killed while defending her mother, and her mother and brother are taken away in chains, leaving her with her fathers body

* members of the second army stumble across her there, and they discover her own grisha powers and whisk her away to the little palace where she spends the next several years training as an inferni

* amara is reckless, stubborn, conniving, intelligent, and far too curious for her own good

* all of these traits lead her to being very unhappy at the little palace. she hates the rules and the monotony of living there. and she hates how close minded her teachers and other grisha are. she wants to know why they’re bound to only one category, why no one stretches their powers to new limits by trying their hand at other powers. after all, if she could manipulate fire, why couldn’t she do the same with air, with water?

* at about 14/15 years old, she escapes from the little palace and the second army and finds herself in ketterdam

* she’s all alone in a country she’s never been to and yet, she hasn’t felt this free since her family was alive and she becomes attached to ketterdam immediately, loving the chaos and unbridled energy that the city has

* she willingly becomes indentured to councilman hoede in order to get close to other indentured grisha and learn about their powers from them; however, she also wants to gain the protection of a gang without letting hoede know

* she recognizes and sees the potential in kaz and the dregs and offers to feed him information about hoede in exchange for becoming a member of the dregs, and she makes it clear that she sees kaz as her leader and not haskell.

* she admires kaz’s ruthlessness, his intelligent mind, and his willingness to do whatever it takes to get what he wants for those are all qualities she herself has, and as the grisha say “like calls to like”

* she and nina know each other from their time at the little palace and there’s some tension between the two as amara doesn’t hold the same love for ravka as nina does and has no interest in returning to her home country or helping it. the two eventually work past their differences and come to understand each other. and honestly, what a scary duo, you do not want them plotting against you

* and then of course, there’s amara and matthias. now that’s one friendship that never quite happens. after all, amara had her family killed and torn apart by the druskelle, and matthias had his family killed by an inferni (at least i think it was an inferni) she’s openly hostile toward him throughout all of six of crows, and in crooked kingdom they have an unspoken agreement that while they’ll never be friendly, they can at least be cordial with each other

* inej is like a sister to amara and vice versa. they bond over their suli roots and lost childhoods and amara is extremely protective of inej and makes it her mission to see her dream of stopping slavers and reuniting with her family come true.

* she has her own reason for wanting to infiltrate the ice court, that being to seek revenge and kill the druskelle commander that ruined her life as a child. she doesn’t tell the others about this personal mission of hers and it causes things to go a bit south

[dreamerwithapen1]

anastasiya lenkov + promo pics

“I am not nothing. I am the future queen of Astaria, a warrior by birth and blood. I can bring a man to his knees or raise him from the brink of death. I was born amidst the flames, and I will bathe your shadows in fire until all that remains is dust and bone.”

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[dreamerwithapen1]

I swear you have the most incredible worldbuilding lol From the Ashes we Rise sounds am-az-ing! ^_^

Oh thank you, Day!!! 🥺🥺

I love when I can take a canon world and add my own spin on it, so that makes me so happy to hear!!

~ Dreamer

[dreamerwithapen1]

Anastasiya Lenkov + Shadow and Bone 

The country of Astaria, The Land of Fire, was not known for its mercy. The Scorched Earth was home only to its people- and to its dragons. Together, they ruled the skies, and no one dared touch them for fear of their wrath… but the darkness was not afraid of their flames, and when the Fold was created, it stretched its claws as far as it could, encroaching into Astaria’s eastern border and consuming the dragon hatchlings that resided in the volcanic mountains.  And from that dark stain was born centuries worth of hatred- for Ravka, for the Grisha, and for the being that carried the title of the Darkling. 

The two countries remained at war for years before the current Queen of Astaria and King of Ravka signed a peace treaty, putting an end to the countless deaths of their people at each other’s hands. 

As the sole heir to the Astarian throne, Anastasiya has been groomed from birth to be the next in the long line of Warrior Queens- the crown passed down from mothers to daughters since the country was founded. From navigating royal court proceedings to planning battle strategies, Anastasiya has handled it all with the grace and wisdom befitting of a queen. But while on yet another diplomatic trip to Ravka, the princess is kidnapped, sold to slavers for the Grisha power residing inside of her. For five years she was beaten and broken, waiting every day for death to claim her.

And that is how Nikolai finds her, a mere shell of the person she had been, of the person he had known from their time at court, and of the person who had been his closest friend. Months at sea with him and his crew help mend the shattered pieces of her soul, but it’s not until a treacherous journey into the volcanic mountains in the Fold that she finds what she had been missing for so long.

Anastasiya Lenkov had been stripped away piece by piece, but she would not let it be the end of her. She would emerge from the ashes stronger than ever and break her country free of its dark shackles once and for all.

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