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Name: Susan Ivanova Journal: susanivanova Player: Morgyn |
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| Age: 31 Height: 5ft 9in Point of Canon/AU: AU, someone gets to Marcus and Ivanova in time to disconnect them before Marcus dies. Ivanova stays on Babylon 5, running the day-to-day activities. |
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Brief Personality: Deep down, she believes that "all love is unrequited", perhaps believing that she is undeserving of true happiness. She is also fiercely loyal and caring about those to whom she is close. Given her troubled background, she also possesses a surprisingly good sense of humor, which often comes out at odd moments. She has a hot temper and this often leads other crew members to give her a wide berth whenever she is angry; she also possesses a strong sense of integrity and honesty. As a military leader she is brave to the point of recklessness, has the ability to think and act quickly in a crisis, and she can be creative and ingenious in coming up with ways to resolve any situation she finds herself in.
When she arrives in Whoville, she's furious, and ready to chew out the first person she comes across she can find to blame for her being here, and not on her station. |
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| Brief History: Susan Ivanova's mother, Sophie, is established to have committed suicide when Susan was a child, which Ivanova blames on the Psi Corps. Sophie was a telepath who refused to join the Psi Corps and, as a result, was forced to take telepathy-inhibiting drugs regularly. The powerful depressant effect of these drugs gradually drained her energy and eventually led her to commit suicide. Susan Ivanova eventually reveals that she is a latent telepath herself and lives in fear of discovery by the Psi Corps. She harbors a lasting grudge against the Psi Corps throughout the show, and blames them for the death of her mother. Her beloved brother, Ganya, died during the Earth-Minbari War, a piece of backstory set ten years before the show. He was a fighter pilot aboard the Earth Alliance warship Lexington and was killed in the battle with the Black Star, the Minbari's flagship. Due to her telepathic abilities, she was able to sense her brother's death despite the vast distance between them. She also didn't have a good relationship with her father, who became irritable and emotionally distant from Susan after her mother's death. In a first-season episode her father dies on Earth; she reconciles with him and forgives him before his death.
Over the course of the series Ivanova had two major romantic interests. The first, with telepath Talia Winters, was largely implied, though after Talia's betrayal and departure from Babylon 5, Ivanova did admit to possibly loving her. In the first season her relationship with Winters got off to a rocky start, and her inherent distrust of anyone in Psi Corps led Ivanova to behave rudely towards Talia. However, they eventually became friends, and possibly lovers by the time of Talia's departure from the series. Ivanova is clearly hurt by the revelation that Talia was actually a "sleeper" Psi Corps agent who had been sent to spy on the command staff of Babylon 5. The second relationship, with Marcus Cole, also began in a rocky manner, as Ivanova regarded Marcus as reckless and annoying and often told him so. However, they eventually became uneasy friends. Her world view may have been shaped by the difficult history of the Russian people. In the future Earth shown on Babylon 5, the Russian people have united in a consortium and are clearly an important power on Earth. Yet, if Ivanova is any example, they remember vividly more difficult times under czars and communism. Although she is not openly religious, and rarely discusses religion with anyone, Ivanova is established as ethnically Jewish when she sits Shiva after her father's death. Her uncle on Earth, a devout Jew, visits her after her father's death and she comes to accept her Jewish faith, if only in private. She does appear to have a belief in God, and she occasionally "talks" to God (in a rather joking manner) under her breath in a few episodes of the series. However, she keeps her religious beliefs largely to herself. Ivanova is promoted several times during the series. She starts as a lieutenant commander, and is promoted to full commander in the second season. (AU history bits) She was furious with Marcus for nearly dying to save her, and lets him know that in no uncertain terms - and the main reason she's furious is that she does care for him deeply. She was just getting off duty in C&C, and heading for a drink when she found herself a bit dizzy, and a moment of absolute blackness cleared to reveal... a street that is certainly NOT where she was a moment ago. |
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| Threads | Ivanova/Yana
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