Haute Couture::Alteration Shop Rodion

Name: Rodion Romanovich Alias: Rodya Gender: Female Height: 183cm/6'0" Occupation: Alterationist and shop owner of a store on the 3rd floor of the Grand Magasin Sisyphe Affiliations: Grand Magasin Sisyphe Relations: Boutique du Rouge (Clients), Maison du Noir (Clients)

Rodion, the Alterationist is a tailor working within the Grand Magasin Sisyphe. There, she accommodates any that seek her out work.

Appearance: Physique: Rodion is a tall and well-built woman of large breasts, thick thighs and a pale complexion. Expression: She has a serene expression, usually seen with her eyes closed. Hair, Eyes: She has thick, bushy hip-length warm, golden-blonde hair and deep blue eyes, and a beauty mark under her right eye. Tattoo: On her left breast is a tattoo of what appears to be an anatomically correct heart split by an axe.

Clothing: Hat: She a small gray fascinator hat on the right side of her head adorned with several small white flowers and a black veil partially draping over her hair and face. Dress: She wears a dark gray colored, high-necked dress with a fitted bodice and layered fabric with a shattered, stony-like appearance and ornamentated scissors lining the hem. Floral Aesthetic: A series of small white flowers and dark brown branches are decorated and scattered across the dress. Gloves: She wears black, bridal-like veil gloves that reach up to her forearms. Footwear: She wears heels of the same gray, stony-like appearance.

Weapon/Tool: She wields a large, well-sharpened one half set of sewing scissors with a stony, cracked like appearance with small floral white flowers and dark branches wrapped around it.

Abilities: Rodion can open up people with her scissors. An example would be opening someone's head to see their thoughts, or open someone's torso without hurting them if so desired.

More importantly, Rodion is a master alterationist, which means she can basically restore anything to one piece and even alter things, in fashion or in any other matter, doesn't matter how destroyed or scrambled said object or person is.

Personality: Rodion is a highly amiable woman who makes a consistent effort to be on friendly terms with the people around her. She presents herself as brazenly fun-loving, laid-back, and playful, with a preference for casual speech and nicknames. Rodya always makes an effort to be talkative and keep the mood up though she is deeply focused on all matters involving clothing, frequently noticing details on others' outfits while speaking to them. She is a gentle speaker, exhibiting little stress at the exceedingly large workload in front of her.

Oftentimes, her fun antics are motivated by a particularly strong dislike of boredom and time-wasting. Having been afforded few luxuries in her youth, Rodya highly values access to food, free time, and relaxation. This is often displayed in an unabashed love for eating and money.

Rodya possesses a more solemn side shaped by her impoverished upbringing in the Backstreets. Having experienced the plights of the City's lower class first-hand, she's often the first to comment on wealth-based inequalities and tragedies. In times like these, Rodya grows more deadpan and determined to be heard out, as her words become uncharacteristically dour. However, Rodya seems uncomfortable acting too serious; as a result, she rarely commits to her frustration in these moments, instead opting to break up the discussion with an excuse and a forced laugh more reminiscent of her usual demeanor. In reality, Rodya's easygoing disposition is largely an exaggeration meant to help her avoid confronting her truer feelings. Her attitude changes strikingly when discussing or reminded of her past: faltering, growing cold, or acknowledging as little of it as possible. Largely insecure and unsatisfied deep down. She is also shown to grow deeply judgemental as a means of reassuring herself about her own self worth.

Additionally, these bouts of insecurity tend to lead Rodya to act impulsively. The tragedy in her hometown was a direct result of her unwillingness to wait for Sonya's "right moment", wanting to take matters into her own hands and affirm that she's special. Yet despite some self-centeredness, Rodion is characterized as a genuinely kind and empathetic individual, filled with honest feelings of compassion and desperation to help her people. And while acclimated to the misfortune of the City, Rodya still maintains a dislike for unnecessary violence and shows a sympathetic heart.

Unable to move on just yet, Rodya continues to struggle to let go of the guilt and regrets tying herself to her past.

Background: Coming from the N Corp. Backstreets, Rodion witnessed a devastating level of poverty and inequality in her lifetime, with all the district inhabitants growing poorer the harder they worked, while pawnbrokers hogged all of their money: the neighborhood she came from had been wrung dry, with heirlooms weighed with whatever monetary value they had. In response to this injustice, Rodion's friend Sonya began to deliver speeches and rally the people of the District together, organizing a group under the name of "Yurodiviye", which Rodion would join, yearning for a change.

Even the thickest of people were moved by Sonya's words to begin helping the impoverished, but over time, Rodion could see the goal of the organization shift subtly, turning into a group that cared more about debating how to best change the streets and the Nest rather than actually helping those in need. A pivotal moment for Rodion was the death by starvation of Ivan, the youngest member of the Yurodiviye, which didn't seem to affect Sonya at all.

When confronted, Sonya would justify his inaction by saying that they needed to wait for the perfect moment, a statement that Rodion could not agree with. To Sonya, the deaths of his companions, no matter how young, seemed inconsequential and inevitable, but to Rodion this further proved the fact that the Yurodiviye had strived too far from their initial goal of helping those in need. This finally prompted Rodion to take matters into her own hands.

Fed up with seeing her people suffer in the harsh conditions of the village, Rodion knocked on the door of one of the tax collectors with an axe in hand. Deep down Rodion hoped for the tax collector to change her mind and offer any kind of aid to those who were suffering outside in harsh living conditions, yet Rodion was only met with mockery, and struck the tax collector down with her axe.

In the moment, Rodion was sure she had done the right thing, having managed to finally bring positive change to her neighborhood, who was eating well for the first time in their life, but she would later learn that the tax collector was a Giant of N Corp.'s Grand Magasin Sisyphe, and that their status was the one thing that was giving her power. Since Rodion had killed one of N Corp.'s Giants, she was quickly captured by N Corp.'s taboo hunters and was sentenced to death by the Sisyphe Penalty.

Time skip decades or maybe even centuries later(? time isn't kept track of in here), Rodion has grown accustomed to Grand Magasin Sisyphe and works as alterationist tailor shop owner of a store on the 3rd floor of the shopping mall.