Post by Anastasia Nikolaena Petorzyna on Apr 11, 2010 3:25:55 GMT -5
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Anastasia Nikolaena Petorzyna
* tell us a little about yourself.
I have a feeling this is going to be thoroughly difficult for me to do..I mean I'll give it a shot but I'm not promising a well done execution. My name is Anastasia..but everyone calls me Anya...I know this is my actual name because it was engraved on a pendant necklace that I had since I was well...eight..it also had my middle name but not my last name. I'm guessing my middle name is sort of like my first name...people from my country like to do that sometimes. Like Anastasia Nikolaena would be my entire first name...confusing..tell me about it. I am currently twenty years old and my birthday..well um..one nun at the orphanage said that she was an astrologer...you know like the zodiac readings and she said that I possesses the soul of a Scorpio and so they gave me Halloween..or October 31st. She thought my love for the holiday meant something towards it being my birthday. In all reality...I have no idea when my actual birthday is. Its frustrating for me not to remember, but I have put that in my past. No sense in racking my brain when its sleeve as obviously been wiped clean. I currently do not work at the moment. My foster family and I just moved to Walten. They really don't think I should be working since they want me to jump right into my studies at the college here. So yeah..you guessed it...I'm not a Walten native. I was born and partially raised in Russia. Over the years my accent has become very faint, mostly because I'm never around any Russians. I believe I had a family once...or at least you can call it wishful thinking. When I was eight...I suffered something and was found next to a car wreck with a gash in my head and no recollection of who I was or where I was. The nuns did tell me as I got older that my parents were the ones in the accident...It hurts because I can't even remember what they looked like or how they smelled. But..I still know how to speak Russian...but the chance to seldom presents itself. After that I was taken into the system and shipped off to an orphanage in England with only the clothing I had and the necklace. This isn't an Annie story and I had no Ms. Hannigan bossing me around. It was a catholic orphanage and they were all fairly nice nuns (with the exception of the ones that thought I was too much to handle). I was adopted by the age of twelve to an Americanized Russian family. Apparently, they were looking for a girl that could fit the family resemblance and I was that girl. A auburnish brunette with big bright blue eyes and no freckles...symmetrical nose and a strong chin...sort of like Emily Blunt..but in a less gorgeous package. I never questioned why they looked for those qualities...they were also very touched by my story..so there I was off to become the daughter of a coast guard admiral and a shoe designer. We move a lot...depending on the Admirals posts. I have a problem with running away..and so my foster parents thought it was best to give me some space. I chose to go to college in Walten..which is far enough for me and only a few hours by plane for them.
* what are some of your positive traits?The women from the orphanage always told me that I was funny in my own way. See..usually I have this way of talking..like a sarcastic humor that just weaves itself naturally through everything that comes out of my mouth. Most of the time I don't even notice when I'm doing it and other times you can tell it was intentional by the smirk on my face. Sarcasm always takes the person off guard and I enjoy watching people get annoyed with me...really does tickle my funny bone. I bet its exciting for someone to have a conversation for me...only because its never boring..you never know what kind of absurdities will just fall right out of my mouth..think of me as that person that will always keep you on your toes...hmm I like that. Having a sarcastic humor also goes along with being daring and or adventurous. I try to make my life as interesting as possible. In the back of my mind...I know that I try to live every day like it was my last because I'm trying to make up for those eight years I wasted. Who knows...I've heard of amnesia cases where the patient did something the jolted their memory and BAM! just like that they knew exactly what happened to them..once again...I'm only trying to be optimistic here..but hey.. if it happened to them, right? Some have described me as fiery...I think I can see that..but I don't exactly know if that's a good thing or not? It's subjective really..I think its just about the best compliment I've ever gotten before. Another? Well...I happen to love that I'm always 100% honest. It would make me a hypocrite to despise liars and be one myself. I can be a little too brutally honest about my thoughts on...well everything...but hey if you have a problem with it then sue me. No one will ever put restraint over what I feel like I want to or have to say. Women have rights you know...after all it is 2010! Get with the program people. If someone says something to me, they have another thing coming if they think I'm going to keep my thoughts to myself. I always have a come back haha. I'd like to hear something I haven't already heard before, the nuns even told me I was a pain in their ass as a child and even right after I left.
* what are some things that you can improve on?
Well that's just ludicrous..do you not think that I'm the perfect homecoming queen Ms. Universe type...haha yeah right. I think they'd take one look at me and go running for their make up equipment...some major miss congeniality stuff. First off...I'm not graceful by any stretch of the imagination. The best way I could describe myself...is well...a tom-boy. I rough house way too much for a girl..I don't mind slumming it up with my sweat pants and sneakers. There is a part of me that knows I have the possible potential to be a lady...but why be a lady so soon..nothing has inspired me to want to become one. Why would I want to be categorized under the stereotypical mold of what a "lady" should be like..that's just not my style. I'm sure one day I'll go all "My Fair Lady" and enunciate 'the rain in Spain stays mainly on the plane'. My foster mother says I'm stubborn for always wanting to do things my way. I respect her suggestions on my fashion, but she's giving her opinion not giving an order. She knows that I can debate myself out of any situation If I just don't feel its fair. I tend to argue with those that try to tell me what to do. I think I'm of age and shouldn't be treated like a child because I had amnesia about how many years ago. I'll admit it though...I like to argue because in the end I know that I am right. If the other person is right then..maybe I'll give them the credit..but that is a fat chance really. Last but certainly not least...I tend to mimic others when I'm annoyed. Certain people just really know how to push my buttons...so at times I just make faces or mimic. I know its rude of me...but its just one of those bad habits that is just too much fun to die. I'll have to work on the mimicking though....its my toughest flaw to conquer. I have an attitude on me though so that is going to be hard...goes along with the mimicking and rolling of the eyes. When you look at my traits as a whole though...I'm thinking you will see that I'm charming..just a little rough around the edges.
* what's your biggest secret? we won't tell.Well..my parents and the nuns did not know this...but I remember a melody from my past and it often plays in my dreams. At times you can catch me humming it..or even playing it on the piano. My parents..well foster parents and I have really grown to become a family. So naturally anything that comes to me from my past really upsets them. They don't get angry with me...but saddened because they secretly believe I'm going to leave them one day and never look back. They also don't know that their thoughts are partially true..but I just can't bring myself to do that to them. I just can't help wondering who am I and I would do anything to find that out. No one but my parents know that I am also seeing a therapist for the reoccurring nightmares I have been having. All with the same sound of a woman screaming and metal twisting...then the song softly plays and sometimes I hear a voice just before I wake up...sounds like a boy..maybe my father but I doubt it would be him..the voice was far too young sounding. I can never fully hear what he says because I always wake up. Its made me a bit of an insomniac..which leads to my street wandering at late hours of the night. I can go on for days with my small secrets.
* what does your heart want?I um...I don't really date. My sexual orientation if I had to put a label on it..would be heterosexual. I'm straight in other words..but not narrow. I believe that anyone should be what they want to be and shouldn't be confined by what society wants to define you as. If I were looking for qualities in a man...they would have to possess a free spirit. I would want them to be spontaneous and really just enjoy life for the little things. A real genuine person that has no hidden agendas and doesn't give me grief for being who I am. Someone that doesn't pry into my private life or snoop.Someone that surprises me with how talented or unique he is. I would hate to ever get bored with someone I'm interested in, as I would think they wouldn't want to be in return. Its not like I'm delusional in thinking that I have a prince charming waiting for me somewhere...but it wouldn't hurt to have someone that I can connect with intimately..something between him and I...you know. Like those guys that tell you that they "never told anyone this before" and they really mean it. Some say opposites attract...but I don't think I would be attracted to my opposite..some differences, yes. I would like for him to be intelligent but not cocky about his intellectual side..like some men can be when they are trying to woo someone with their wits. Someone that can make me laugh and even if we aren't doing anything extravagant..we can still have a good time just by their presence. A big turn on for me that I think everyone forgets about is the need to be inspired by your interest. If he doesn't make me feel like I want to better myself or that I am better by just being in his presence...then he wouldn't be the one for me. Most of all, honesty. I have trust issues because I feel that many believe me to be a weak person, but I'm stronger mentally and physically then most people think. So once my trust is betrayed...I have a hard time letting anyone back in. A turn off...would be someone boring..just bland and has nothing going for them. A person that is closed off and won't share anything about his past and covers it up with humor..I don't get those type of guys. I really hate when a guy tries to smother me...I'm a runner and I tend to run right away from any uncomfortable feeling. I don't like boisterous people or melodramatics..talking with your mouth wide open and filled with food is nasty. Talking down to woman with degrading words does not fly with me. Any disrespect on his part towards me or anyone I love is a big no-no. If you can't learn how to roll with the punches and live a little...then you aren't the person for me. Just to add in...I wouldn't want to be with anyone that would break my heart. I've never felt heartache before..only the longing that I have for my actual family...but I've heard stories of dying from a broken heart. So heart-breakers need not apply. OH! and a biggie for me is the staring...first of all...its just plain rude and really obnoxious. If you stare at someone then obviously you were brought up with a pack of wolves or something. Assumptions about me really annoy me...don't try and guess your way into who I am. Its like they take a look at you and act like they know you like a book, back to front. Strangers beware because I will drop kick you if you touch me or stare at me...try me..I don't like violence but I will resort to it if I'm forced to.
* what do you do in your spare time?
For starters, I love music. Listening to music or playing the piano (even though I'm still very new to it all)..During one summer...my foster family and I went to a ranch in the country. It was beautiful..one of the best times I've ever had. I had an instructor teach me how to ride on horse back and it only took all of five minutes before I was riding all over the place. He said I was a natural with the horses, its too bad I don't have a horse of my own. One thing I like to do in my spare time isn't exactly a hobby at all..I do it for the feeling I get...well its twirling. When I'm alone..I like to twirl and watch everything around be spin into a blur...with my arms stretched out and my hair floating into the air. I even like the feeling of stopping and knowing that for that moment I have no control over my balance.
My biggest hobby deals with animals...dogs and puppies being my favorite. I just feel that I have a connection with animals..more than I do with people. They all belonged to a family..which would be their mother and father...then they become separated and placed into different homes. I know what they go through and how they crave to just be loved. I volunteer at a no kill animal shelter, I spend a good amount of my spare time there. They mostly put me in charge of the activities for the animals. I take all of the dogs to the dog park and run around with them...I groom them and try to find them all a home. The ASPCA usually calls the facility to come pick up animals that have been abused and its my job to nurse them back to health. For some reason, the animals that have been abused or have experienced something traumatic all really take to me. Its like they know that I've been through the same trauma and we end up supporting each other. Sounds a little foolish, but just because they don't speak..doesn't mean that you can't connect with them.
* so what does your family life look like?
I knew this would come up sooner or later. My foster parents don't know that I will never consider them my true family. I feel so terrible and selfish for saying that but..no one has told me anything of my parents or any family. What if I have a huge family out there and here I am with the substitute. My foster parents are lovely, they really are. Most of the time they smother me though, its like they have a hunch that I just want to get away and be on my own. Its a natural reaction I have towards them..and its wrong because they really do care for me. I feel like they are my house mates, always there to make sure I'm not getting into too much trouble. They act like friends that try to put down authority in my life...you know those type of friends. They always think they have a say just because they feel or are older. There isn't much to tell there...Hmm..I have a better relationship with my foster mother because she understands what I'm going through. The admiral on the other hand is all about structure and order. He's too quick to judge and believes that my parents must have been young fools that abandoned me when the going got tough. I don't believe that though. When they found me...they said that I looked well taken care of. They never really disclosed any information about why I woke up in a hospital bed with bruises..and I couldn't remember a thing. All I know is that I suffered an accident and that I was going to an orphanage...the hospital I was taken to wasn't a very good one...or so I heard from one of the nuns. Supposedly..they send all the unclaimed children to an orphanage after three days of their admittance. Lucky for them that the orphanage had a hospital wing where I stayed in a coma for two weeks before I woke up.
* what are the memorable moments in your life?
Memorable moments, well that is easy enough to come up with since I've only had a few. My first memorable moment would have to be when I woke up in the orphanage after my coma. Everyone was surrounding me and I could faintly hear someone saying that I was flinching a lot. When my eyes opened, there was a long withdrawal of breaths around me. There were a few young kids that said they read stories to me while I was asleep...and they asked me if I heard them. They were treating me like a big new born baby...asking if I knew the alphabet and If I knew how to speak..It was quite funny..now that I think about it. At the time I was shocked to wake up somewhere I've never seen before...with unfamiliar faces and not remembering how I got there. For almost a month, I didn't leave the hospital wing. I was distraught over not knowing who I was and especially frustrated as I tried to remember. I had no shred of hope in finding out who I was...until the last week of that month. Sister Vaniq walked in and showed me many arts and crafts the children made for me...all of the portraying a sleeping beauty..which was what they called me. Then she gave me the necklace with my name on it and said 'this necklace came with you'...It was the only thing I had from my past and it was my last strand of hope as I looked at the initials with the small heart engraved into it.
Another memorable moment was the first time I was adopted by my foster family. They all embraced me and my foster mother was crying as she stroked my hair. I remember closing my eyes and trying to picture a man and woman with my features...loving me so eagerly as my foster mother did in that second. My last memorable moment was when my foster father finally agreed to letting me study abroad! I was so excited that I screamed at the top of my lungs...I even told him that he was the best. The admiral is sort of a stiff log..so when I hugged him it was sort of an awkward dance that ended with a salute. I'm sure that memory ties into finally coming to Walten...seeing my housing and laying down in my bed knowing that I was finally on my own.
* so we've heard that you're a lot like disney character goes here
name: First name is obvious of course, same name as the character. Her middle name is also more so from the original character except I took out the 'v' in her middle name just to make it a little more feminine and allow it to flow better. Her last name is something I made up...it sounds Russian and her foster family is from Russian decent...I didn't want to give her the same last name from her parents because that would be a tad bit confusing.
play by: Emily Blunt just so happens to have the same eye color as Anya..she also has this semi pointy chin and has red hair without those freckles. Anya didn't have freckles in the movie...instead she had this silky white complexion that was highlight around the cheek bones and Emily has the same look. Only difference is the hair, good thing there are pictures of that auburn orange tint brown hair that Anastasia has going on. Emily is also very fresh and young looking without being overly young. She's slim and has a sort of hidden elegance about her that I pictured Anya having naturally.
positive traits: Anya came across as a head strong young woman with a void that she was desperate to fill. She was never fazed by what anyone thought of her, but always retaliated with comedic ease. Anastasia has the same sense of humor and never lets anyone get in the way of her dreams...not even her foster parents that have no idea about her plans to find any part of her family. In the movie Anya was courageous and adventurous in just leaving the orphanage knowing she wasn't going to listen to the caretaker. Faced with the fork in the road of what her life was to be, she chose the road of unsure fate. She wasn't afraid to go after what she wanted and that is how I made Anastasia. My character is a real go-getter type and will stop at nothing until she is satisfied. Breaking away from her foster family to attend a school in an area she has never been to before.
negative traits: I noticed that Anya wasn't exactly the most graceful of girls. When she shook Dimitri's hand..she basically crushed his hand. At times she would turn around and give him a playful punch that actually hurt. I thought about this while making Anastasias' negative traits. I wanted her to have that diamond in the rough exterior and potential. I'm thinking that the only way she would ever change her ways, is if she is trying to impress someone. She needs to be inspired to be the person she could be, but as of right now..she's stuck being her tom-boy self. Both characters are naturally argumentative. Into the movie Anya argues with Dimitri so much that he basically thinks she is impossible. They know how to drive people crazy because of their inability to allow the other person to have the last word. In the movie Anya began to mimic the caretaker of the orphanage behind her back, so I made that a negative trait in Anastasia. They both don't like following orders and it shows through their response towards them.
orientation: In the movie, Anya has no inclinations towards the same sex...so I made her straight. She forms a romantic attachment to Dimitri but is naive when it comes to matters of the heart. She's never experienced a broken heart before or any relationship with a man, but she does know she's attracted to them.
turn ons: Both characters were and are looking for someone that essentially completes them as a person. Anya saw a lot of herself in Dimitri in the movie..and I think that is part of the reason she fell in love with him. She wasn't looking for some great love affair..or that yin to her yang...she was just looking for someone that got who she was without telling them. Someone that kept her on her toes and although she could be difficult to handle...they always remained up to fight with her. I believe both characters live by the "I'd rather fight with you, than love anyone else". Both Anastasia's love to be challenged and know that they have to retaliate. Its almost like a game for them and to be just as free spirited as she is. She liked Dimitri and he was the kind of guy that didn't back down unless he got what he wanted....following no rules but his own.
turn offs: Movie Anya and my Anya have very little patience with childish antics and basically anything that annoys them. They both get annoyed easily, especially if you know what buttons to hit. If a man is full of himself and basically wants to date...well himself...Anya will let him know that he is no Fabio without even a blink to waste. Intelligent men are obviously something every woman wants, no one can carry on a conversation with someone like bevis or butthead. The only problem with intelligent men, is their ego. When they think they are the brain...they automatically assume that everyone else is Pinky. Being the opinionated young woman she is, she will set the person in their place AND then some. Coming back to Dimitri, he was anything but boring in the movie. He always had a trick up his sleeve and was smooth with just about everything. To be a con artist like himself, you have to have the proper tools. Tools that Anya was attracted to from the very beginning...even through all of her dislike for him. Most of all..I chose turn offs that would go against her characteristics. She is honest...therefor would be turned off by a dishonest person. Anya was angered and even hurt by Dimitri when she heard he was in it for the money.
spare time: The horse back riding idea was from the movie. When Vladimir mentions the young Anastasia love to ride her white horse, I thought it would be a great past time for my Anya. I made it so that she is a natural...in the studies of amnesia..patients find that they have all these hidden talents and it suggests that they have done it before. Twirling was a spare time activity I came up with by myself. As a young girl my favorite part of dancing was being twirled. In the movie, Anastasia was a young girl that attended all these high society parties. The dance choice of those high in status usually consists of a waltz. Waltzing has a lot of twirling, so I thought my Anastasia could love the feeling of twirling but never fully know why. Finally, the volunteering at the shelter is sort of obvious. Shelters are like orphanages for animals, where both characters ended up in. Pooka is very attached to Anastasia in the movie and the take to each other very quickly. She loved and was protective of Pooka..and so I made her an animal lover/volunteer.
family life: The two Anastasias have no recollection eight years of their childhood life. The only thing that is familiar to them is the orphanage. Since my Anastasia is a bit older, I wanted to make it so that she was adopted into a family. It is only now that they feel comfortable enough to allow her to go off to college...Like movie Anastasia finally experienced when she was allowed to leave the orphanage at the age of eighteen. They are both being lodged into the unprotected world...and although they were given instructions as to what they are to do with their new freedom...they are going to do what they want in the end. I made her relationship with her foster parents distant. Both characters have so much hope in fate bringing them to their long lost families that they would hate to make an attachment to anything else. Movie Anastasia couldn't wait to be let out of the orphanage and my Anastasia doesn't want to create an emotional attachments to her foster parents just in case she finds her actual parents. Anastasia treats her parents more like friends with seniority than parents.
memorable moments: The first memorable moment was more of a creation of mine. It shows what happened to Anastasia during the time she found out she didn't know who she was. It wasn't in the movie, but it had to happen to the both of them somehow. I took the nicer approach and also added in a coma. When one suffers amnesia for such a long period of time..it's usually because the person experience a traumatic event that their mind has blocked out due to extreme emotional and or physical pain. Movie Anastasia knocked her head..which is physical pain and she also went through losing her family...which is emotional pain. The second moment was just something I threw in their because any orphan would remember being adopted..especially since she was still holding onto the possibility of her real family like movie Anastasia would. The third memory is a spin off of movie Anastasia leaving the orphanage. I couldn't help noticing how alive and ready she looked to get away from it...which was how my Anastasia felt to be away from her 'substitute' family. Knowing that she could make her own choices now and no one could stop her, something both Anastasias wanted.this application was written by Harlee, who also plays Jean Davreaux, Siddalee Macabre, Gia Leon, Olivier Chaton.
