Nadya Florica
Nadya Florica is a singer, songwriter, and grandmother of Natalia and Ophelia Belmund
| Nadya Florica | |
|---|---|
| Age | 70(A), 80(A1), 60(B) |
| Gender | Female |
| Birthday | March 29th |
| Favorite Color | Purple |
Early Life
Nadya Florica, born under a different name now lost, was born in modern day North Zolnit shortly after The Final World War. She was born the youngest of four children. Her father suspected (correctly) that she was the illegitimate child of a soldier who'd been here during the wrap up of hostilities and rebuilding. She was sent to a boarding school at an early age, a boarding school of the kind that was a reason for the later civil war and north/south split. At the age of eight she escaped and ran away.
Over the next eight years she went from town to town, country to country, using the skills she'd picked up, including a discovered gift for singing and dancing, to survive and make her way west.
At sixteen, she stowed away on an ocean crossing cargo ship to arrive in The Great Turtle Federation, where she found fellow Zolniti diaspora communities, as well as communities of other countries that spoke a similar language, including Freedonian exiles. She learned English and toured with several musical acts. It's when she arrived and applied for citizenship that she named herself Nadya Florica.
Musical Career
One day, a television promoter caught her act, and offered to give her a spot on a popular variety show of the day, performing with the up and coming group The Rattles. The performance got the highest ratings of any television show up to that point. She would peform on the show every week for the next three years.
At this point she was in a relationship with Rattles vocalist and songwriter Hector Richardson. This relationship would last for the entire run on the variety act. Shortly after the end of their third year on the show, Nadya was pregnant. This ended her appearance on the show, and the Rattles shifted to a period of recording studio albums for the time. Arguments about what to do about the child soured the relationship between Nadya and Hector, and they broke up very nastily. Nadya would never work with the Rattles again while Hector was alive.
She fled to the state of Franklin, and lived in their capital city Nakishwana, where she gave birth to her daughter. Nadya gave her up for adoption, a decision that remains one of her largest regrets. After recovering from the birth of her daughter, she tried to build a solo career, and met with some success. While she never attained the heights she had with her time with the Rattles, who'd imploded about a year after she left the band, she still remained a well liked and popular performing artist, and toured all over the country and even overseas on occasion.
The good times wouldn't last however. Nobody knows exactly what happened, and Nadya refuses to talk about it, but an event happening upon her brief return to the east coast shook her to her core. Between this and changing musical tastes, she left the music industry, cashing in what was left of her popularity in a series of sexually explicit movies and photoshoots, before eventually retiring.
Retirement
She returned to Nakishwana and tried to reconnect with the daughter she'd left there, but upon arriving found that she and her husband had both died. She further found that her granddaughter Natalia Belmund was in custody, having been found a delinquent orphan on the street. She later learned that her other granddaughter was not only alive, but in the care of the Wali-Emir of the Alimid Republic. She wrote a letter introducing herself as the grandmother of the girl now named Ophelia bint Baqir al Alimid and requesting that she move to Nakishwana so she could see her granddaughter again. This was granted, Ophelia moving there in the care of her foster mother Qabilah, who was Baqir's favorite concubine.
Raising a child in her 50s was her biggest challenge, but Nadya took to it with some panache.
Personality
Nadya Florica is a charming, witty conversationalist, deliberately cultivating her Zolniti accent to sound exotic. She can play any musical instrument she comes across within five minutes of it being in her hands.
