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[number_seven]

Player Information
Player Name: Cara
Contact: storiestheytell@gmail.com
Other characters here: N/A


Character Information
Character Name: Vanya Hargreeves
Played By: Ellen Page
Original Canon: The Umbrella Academy

Personality: Quiet, shy, timid. Vanya has had to deal with a lifetime of abuse from nearly everyone in her family telling her that she was nothing special. She was ordinary. She'd never be like her siblings, and therefor she wasn't important. How it was possible she could be one of those babies born on October 1 and not have powers is not known, but it shows how even more unremarkable she is.

Vanya acts just as small as she physically is. She hardly looks people in the eyes, walks with her head down, and typically expects to be ignored, insulted, or told she doesn't belong anywhere at any point in time. Her biggest moment of bravery was when she decided to write and publish a book spilling the secrets of the Umbrella Academy. She doesn't regret it, because her siblings were going to tell her she didn't belong anyway.

Her relationship with her entire family is strained. While she cares about her siblings, she's so use to the alienation that sometimes she forgets. She's watched being superheroes slowly destroy their lives, almost one after another. She blames her father, if you could call him that, and the pretentious bullshit of the Umbrella Academy. Not that she would ever say that out loud to anyone at the moment.

Vanya is on medication, she has been on it for as long as she can remember to help deal with her mental health. She doesn't remember a time when she was off it, both her father and mother just told her she needed to keep taking it, and it's never occurred to her to question that. The medication leaves her feeling rather numb, which only contributes to her overall demeanor or small and apathetic.

Her one joy in life is the violin. She's good, really good, but her inability to put herself out there and really go for it means she's been sitting third chair in her orchestra for years. But music is the one thing that brings her a sense of peace and purpose. Playing for an audience as third chair, or teaching it to her students, at least she knows that this is the one thing she can do better than her siblings.

Overall you would look at Vanya, and think she's kind of boring. She wrote a book, she's a Hargreeves, she plays in an orchestra. She should be interesting, but she's just not. One might think she goes out of the way to make herself as unnoticeable as possible, but that is just how life as made her turn out to be.

Having been on medications for so long, she is dependent on them more than she knows. Without them, Vanya has no capability of dealing with extreme emotions, especially anger, which seems to be tied to her powers. Hargreeves brilliant idea was just to number her feelings, instead of helping her deal with them. Which, after all these years, will not lead a healthy or adjusted adult when she comes off them.

Abilities & Skills:

• Special Abilities; She is one of the 43, but she believes she is powerless. Due to a combination of medication, and Allison using her powers on Vanya, she has forgotten that she has abilities, and believes herself to be normal. In reality, Vanya has the ability to convert sound into energy, and she is very, very powerful. Potentially devastatingly so. This will eventually be explored further in game, but applications of power could include telekinesis, super hearing, weather manipulation, energy blasts, and so much more.
• Skills; Vanya is an incredible talented violin player who largely remains unrecognized due to her reserved nature. She is also a decent writer, having published a book that received relatively positive reviews at the time.

Childhood: Seven's childhood sucked. Royally sucked. She would argue it sucked worse than her siblings. Because while they all wanted their fathers attention, at least the others weren't looked down on as being the biggest disappointment in the family and isolated and excluded from anything. Screw you, Daddy Hargreeves, you're officially the worst.

Before her mind was altered and she was put on medication, Number Seven was one of her siblings. She was determined, headstrong, and kind of violent. Her powers allowed her to lash out while not moving a muscle. At a young age, she had difficulty controlling her abilities if she felt even the smallest amount of annoyance or anger. While still a child, Seven seriously harmed (potentially killed) several nannies, until Hargreeves introduced Grace. Unable to hurt her, and slightly scared by Grace's ability to turn her head back around after Seven attacked her, Seven somewhat fell in line and Grace become 'Mom' to all the children.

Thanks to Grace she became known as Vanya Hargreeves. This robot, who she came to love as a mother, offered more of a human connection then their father ever did. Despite this, Vanya's powers remained controllable to her as a child, and dear old dad decided it would be much better to suppress her powers, make her forget, and then subject her to a lifetime of emotional abuse and manipulation telling Vanya that she was ordinary, not-special, not good enough.

Left believing she was the freak and a family of powered people, Vanya became shunned by her father and siblings. She was the ordinary one, she couldn't be like them, therefor she couldn't understand them, hang out with them, or be one of them. Forever sidelined, Vanya's path became more focused on music. She told herself that shew would learn to play the violin, and in that she would be extraordinary.

Five's disappearance came as a huge blow for Vanya. He was one of the few siblings Vanya was almost close to, and with him gone it was even worse. For so long after he vanished, Vanya made a point of switching the lights on in the house after people were asleep, and leaving Five a snack of peanut-butter and marshmallow sandwiches in random places in case he ever came back.

Eventually she grew up, and lost hope. Vanya was not the first, but not far behind the first of her siblings out of the door as soon as they turned 18. Like literally the day she turned 18. She knew she wasn't wanted, and it wasn't an environment she wanted for herself. Having completed grade school through home-schooling, Vanya payed her way through college with her music. She earned a Bachelor of Music, and then started auditions while continuing her teaching. She eventually made third chair in a well known orchestra, which she considered a huge accomplishment. For a moment she was proud of herself, until she realized that her family really just didn't care. No one ever came to see her play.

When Ben died, the last few strings that made her reach out to her 'family' snapped, and Vanya pretty much gave up. She assumes most of them did. She stopped trying to reach out, stopped calling, visiting, or hoping anyone would show to see her play. Instead, she finally got a bit of revenge on her family. On her own, and sick of all the bullshit, Vanya released a tell-all book that revealed her life as Number Seven in the Umbrella Academy, and the only one considered ordinary. If she wanted a way to further isolate herself from her family, she succeeded. At least the book did well for a little while.

It's been over ten years and Vanya has not stepped one foot into the Umbrella Academy, and rarely bothers to reach out to anyone with last name Hargreeves. In fact, she wants nothing to do with heroes, superpowers, and the need to save the day.



Present Occupation: Vanya is a violin teacher, and the third chair of an orchestra. She also still receives some royalties from her book.
Present Residence: Vanya lives in a small, one bedroom apartment on her own. She's in a decent part of the city, it's not the best, but it's also not the worst. The decor is relatively bland, because honestly she can't really be bothered to do much with it. She has a little area for her violin to teach and practice by the big window, and that's good enough for her.

Anything else we should know? Vanya doesn't know how to deal with emotions, especially anger, so when she finally comes off her meds ya'll better brace yourselves.