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IRINA
NAME: Irina
DATE OF BIRTH: 1000s
DATE OF TRANSFORMATION: 1000s
SOURCE OF TRANSFORMATION: Sasha
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Slovakia
HAIR COLOR: Pale blond
EYE COLOR: Gold/black (vampire)
HEIGHT: 5‘2?
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Irina had straight, chin-length, pale blond hair.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: She did not possess a quantifiable supernatural ability.
FAMILY/COVEN RELATIONSHIPS: She considered Kate and Tanya her sisters, even though they were not biologically related. All three were transformed by Sasha. Irina considered Sasha her mother. Carmen and Eleazar were also part of her coven. Irina was building a relationship with Laurent before his death.
PERSONAL HISTORY:
Irina was the third vampire added to Sasha‘s coven, after Tanya and Kate. As a human, Irina was a pretty peasant girl living in a small farm community. She physically resembled Tanya and Kate quite a bit, and Sasha liked the idea of adding a new sister for her other girls. Sasha considered the girls, including Irina after she was changed, to be her daughters, and they in turn loved her as a mother. They were a close-knit coven, so it came as a great surprise to Irina when she discovered that her mother had created an immortal child despite the Volturi law prohibiting them.
Irina and her sisters were devastated when the Volturi executed their mother and the child, though they did not fault the Volturi for their decision. Sasha knew the law as well as Irina did, and none of the sisters could understand what she‘d done. They did, however, understand her decision to keep them in the dark; the sisters‘ total innocence of Sasha‘s act was the only reason the Volturi spared them.
All of the Denali sisters enjoyed the attention of men, both human and immortal, though — flirtatious by nature — none of them ever settled with one mate. As there were always more human men than vampire men, their relationships most often involved humans. In the beginning, these relationships with humans were short-lived and usually ended in a meal for one of the sisters. Their behavior earned them a place in human legend as the succubus. The myth varies from source to source, but at its essence is a tale of a beautiful demon who first seduces her prey and then drains him of life.
After a while, Irina and her sisters began to feel remorse; they were genuinely fond of many of the men they formed brief relationships with and regretted their deaths, though those deaths seemed inevitable.
After a while, Irina and her sisters began to feel remorse; they were genuinely fond of many of the men they formed brief relationships with and regretted their deaths, though those deaths seemed inevitable. They tried to pursue such relationships without killing the man involved, but eventually they would make a mistake and he would die. The regret and guilt became too difficult to bear. For a long while, the sisters avoided human men completely —
except as meals — but found this lonely. Tanya began to wonder if she could train herself to resist human blood altogether, and thereby make it possible to have human friends without killing them.
After a few decades, all three sisters grew adept at this new diet, and at enjoying intimacy with humans without injury.
While testing her ability to go without drinking any blood, Tanya had a similar experience to Carlisle‘s; animal blood suddenly began to smell better than nothing at all. Tanya experimented with living on animal blood and came to the conclusion that abstaining did make it easier to be around humans. Irina and Kate were excited by this breakthrough and joined their sister in her experiment. After a few decades, all three sisters grew adept at this new diet, and at enjoying intimacy with humans without injury.
Over a century later, a nomad couple named Eleazar and Carmen crossed paths with Irina and her sisters. Both unusual among vampires due to their compassionate natures, Eleazar and Carmen were immediately intrigued by the sisters‘ choice to forgo murder. They stayed with the sisters to learn their way of life, and grew closer and closer. Soon, they asked to join Irina and her sisters permanently. The sisters were pleased to enlarge their family.
By the time the Denali clan encountered Carlisle, they were all as good at vampire
?vegetarianism? as he was. They quickly bonded with the Cullens over their shared lifestyle, and considered one another extended family from that time forward.
When Laurent came looking for the Denali sisters on Carlisle‘s instruction, Irina was intrigued by his interest in her family‘s way of life. She began to have romantic feelings for him, and he seemed to return them. Before their relationship could progress beyond this early stage, Laurent was killed by the Quileute wolves. Irina never really forgave the Cullens for defending the wolves‘ action, until she realized she was guilty of a much greater offense against them.
Before she was killed, Irina had time to recognize how wrong she‘d been to betray the Cullens to the Volturi without first asking them for their story.
FAMOUS QUOTE
KATRINA
NAME: Katrina; preferred name: Kate
