Age; 45
Affiliation; Insomnia / former House Silver oligarch
Bio; -One of Rudy’s daughters. Looks like her mother Margaret.
-Was always a darling of the people like her father; she would go out often into Platina and wasn’t afraid of talking to commoners.
-Part of the reason, she never got along with the other Houses – House Corvus was fine, but they were solitary. The other Houses – especially Golden and Grimm – Carine thought were too violent.
-As a kid, she befriended a girl her age named Ramona, or Mona for short. Mona was a commoner, but it didn’t matter – her and Mona were closer than some of her sisters.
-When they were teenagers, Carine was engaged against her will to Geneva’s older brother, Gaius.
-Though she didn’t love him, at first it was fine because Gaius was so polite and very handsome….. on the outside.
-But it didn’t take long for him to show who he really was – a vile, sadistic man who schemed and tortured.
-So Carine distanced herself from that, and hung out more with Mona. She told Mona everything, though couldn’t bear to tell her about the orphanages that Gaius once took her to.
-Well, Gaius got jealous.
-And one day…. Mona was just, gone. No one knows what happened to her. Her family was distraught, but gave Carine some information that made her believe Gaius was behind her best friend’s disappearance.
-Knowing what Gaius would do to people he didn’t like, Carine lost it. Now, while she’s much different now, she was a bit of a firecracker back then.
-She stormed into an oligarch meeting, demanding that if she didn’t have her friend back, she would bring down House Golden and expose it for what it was. She was so angry at the injustices and violence, her anger boiled over to House Grimm, because they were less than savory too.
-Needless to say, her outburst resulted in some oligarch chaos – and Rudy had to drag her out of the meeting.
-There was a united opinion—mostly driven from Golden and Grimm—that Carine was dangerous for Silver and she should be executed. Rudy already had many heirs to choose from, why not?
-Instead, he exiled her. Never to return to Silver.
-Carine lost everything she loved. Her best friend, probably tortured to death. Her family, who never wanted to see her again. Her country, who would be fed lies she died and those who knew the truth would label her a traitor.
-When she arrived at Insomnia, she quickly turned to alcohol to cope. She dyed her hair blue, wore sunglasses to shade her eyes, and gave herself the last name of Nova.
-She met Ellis at a bar and…. the rest is history.
-Ellis helped her forge citizenship papers… they were both drunk, as they usually were, and somehow when she signed her name it looked like a ‘k’ after the a. Thus, her surname became Novak.
-Though Carine is usually more drunk than sober, and usually sleeping a hangover off, she really does love her children.
-Indigo had it the worst since Carine had no idea how to be a mom, and she was doubly depressed because Ellis had distanced himself after she got pregnant.
-She’s especially close to Ramona, although she treats Ramona more like a best friend than a daughter.
-Carine and Indigo look more alike than she and Ramona; Indigo shares the same eyes as his mother.
-Cried for a week straight when Ellis broke the news her mother died five years ago. Indigo and Ramona had no clue why. Indigo attributed it to Ellis being an asshole.
-Carine has tried to get her life together since then....
-Wishes she and Ellis could be married and together. On her sober days, she thinks it would be best for their children, too.
-And on her sober days, Carine wishes she was a better mom.
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