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Zinaida

Appearance
- Roughly 5'4"
- Dark brown skin.
- Thin and lithe.
- Platinum blonde hair pulled tightly back with a hairband. Long bangs drape over her right eye.
- Dark, almost black green eyes.
- Small mole towards the back of her left eye.

Clothes
- Button-up shirts and sweaters.
- Pleated skirts, A-line dresses, and other things to that style.
- Simple shoes such as penny loafers or Mary-Janes.
- Glasses, bifocals.

Attitude
- Haughty and maybe a little bitchy.
- Acts very impulsive.
- Tries to show off and look cool to others, particularly children.
- Enjoys partying and harassing shop-owners to give her freebies, but wallows in a deep depression when the fun has died down and she's got time to think. If she could find a party that never dies she would probably stay there until she wasted away.

- Her magic fascinates her to no end. Uses it whenever she can at a moments notice in a subtle attempt to find an actual purpose for it all. Gets particularly cruel and thoughtless to those around her in fights or when she's angry.

Magic
- Control over rot and decay. Metal rusts and corrodes, flesh blackens and slides away, plants mold and wither. Alternately, she can prevent any of it. Excessive use or attempting great feats with it begins very lightly reflecting on herself as well.

- Lesser lifeforms such as plants or simple-minded animals such as rodents or livestock or what-have-you can be revived completely if they're intact.

- Higher creatures with sentience, sapience, or mortal wounds are revived as uncontrollable and weak undead that shamble mindlessly. She cannot command them, but they will not attack her. Zinaida hasn't as of yet discovered a limit to this ability, but tries not to do more than a few at a time to keep them from getting out of hand.

- With great stress and with a blood pact she can raise one powerful undead under her complete control. It can carry out simple tasks, fight, and she can communicate with it mentally. The strength of the thrall is greatly increased and it will not die unless she allows it, but only pieces attached to the head are controllable. If the head is destroyed, it will die.
As long as the thrall is in action she's in a weakened and anemic state, letting it fight for her or carry her if she's feeling particularly lazy.