I think...therefore I dork.

I'll be turning in early tonight.

I got a phone call from my darling husband, and it was wonderful. We chatted about my character, and he's beginning to like the concept for her. We hammered out some details and some of them just got filled in by chatting with him. That is SO cool. He'll listen to me natter on about gaming, and then bounce some stuff back at me. Yay for gamer geek marriages!

So...here's the updated Elizaveta bio:

Born to a minor boyar family, Liza had a pretty idyllic childhood.

Her parents loved each other, and she worshipped the ground her older brother Pyotr walked on. She learned to write by pestering the priest at the local church, and by her 13th summer, she was transcribing books for the fathers. By shamelessly trading on her blonde cuteness, Elizaveta managed to not only learn to ride well, she learned to handle a sword with her brother and take care of the family estate. Very little has ever scared her, and as she's grown up, it's only gotten worse. Through the years, she's struggled to learn the "womanly arts," and her mother has pretty much despaired of ever turning Liza into a proper lady. Sometimes, Elizaveta will catch her mother staring at her, but she can't ever figure out what so concerns her Mama.

During the late fall of her 13th year, Elizaveta's mother died of a terrible coughing sickness. The next spring, Elizaveta's father concluded marriage talks, and they began to prepare for Elizaveta to go to her betrothed's household in the spring after that.

Much to Elizaveta's surprise, when she reached her new home, she found her betrothed to be all that her papa had promised and more. Ivan Ivanovich was a tall, handsome man with a quick mind and a exerburant personality. To both their surprise, they fell deeply in love. Despite their happiness, all was not well.

Ivan's younger brother, Rodian, was not so pleased with the way things had been working out, and not realizing that Elizaveta and Ivan had fallen in love, approached her with a plan to remove Ivan from the picture. Elizaveta rebuffed Rodian, but couldn't figure out how to tell Vanya that his adored baby brother was plotting to kill him. Being unable to speak when most needed had cost Liza many things in this life, but it would prove even more dear.

One afternoon, during a winter hunt, men set upon Ivan and Elizaveta. While holding Elizaveta to prevent her from helping her husband, the thugs knocked Ivan to the ground and forced him to drink poisoned wine. Leaving him on the ground to die, they told Elizaveta that her plot to kill her husband and take over the estates had been uncovered, and that her diary had been found. Aghast, Elizaveta lunged for Ivan's sword, only to be knocked to the ground. The thugs proceeded to beat her, then left her a horse, after telling her that the money and jewels she'd stolen were in the saddlebags, and they would be enough to get her to the coast.

Heart-broken, Elizaveta asked Matushka to take care of her beloved's body. Knowing that she would be killed immediately if she returned to the estate, she fled, confirming her "guilt."

That's all I've got so far, but it sounds pretty good to me.

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