Contest 4

Natascha Glazarla/Arlowna Romanowa

Some call it luck, some that investing the families fortunes payed off, her father called it godly compensation.
Natascha grew up in a world dark by nature, yet lit bright by cold artificial light.
When the scientists rang the alarm bells, her family acted quickly. The rest of the fortune, owned to the glorious past of her fathers family, was spent for scientists, teachers, an old atomic bunker, hired guns to defend it and equipment for all of them.
First they wanted to hide, then they got a mission. Protected by her mothers love, Natascha was forced to stay in the best shielded areas of the bunker since the age of 26 months. Her father still took her outside on her 3rd birthday to see the real world. The world her grandmothers family ruled over a very long time ago.
The risk was somewhat calculated with the help of the scientists. The results weren't. Similar to all humans something changed with the radiation. Adults were harmed by it and other children seemed to adapt to the radiation (some with harsher sideeffects than others) and the test results for Natascha have always been on the bright side. In the ten months hidden from most of the radiation, it seems that the body had time to regenerate and really adapt to it. With the radiation she took in during the short birthday trip, her body began to bloom. Instead of damaging her inner structure, the radiation seemed to increase her stamina (she was restless before, but now she was worse than a Duracell Bunny). Only the slow turn of her eyes color from blue to yellow didn't seem to harm her, but remained a constant worry to the hired specialists.
Under close scientific survaillance Natasche continued to get trips to the outside world. The trips grew longer and longer.
Her father was getting increasingly obsessed with his families past, when his health continued to detoriate.
A call for vengeance, mixed with a godly quest to rule the lands above have been the message he carved into his daughter during his last years. He died on her 7th birthday, holding her hands and whispering "the world" to be her last present. With the next trip the last remaining blue dots left Nataschas eyes.

Several years passed again and the supporters grow less and less. Not because of money, even though none was left. Natascha has become the new polestar for the remaining crew. But death came to visit frequently and took his new companions. Natascha grew up to become a teenager. Educated, healthy and beloved. Thought the latter was a doublesided sword. Some overdid the care and love for a children and started to worship Natascha as a new, better kind of human. Instead of her fathername she was called "eye of the eagle"/"Glazarla" or also "daugher of the eagle"/"Arlowna" by many, including the few other children that were born in the bunker. Her mother has become one of the last to call her Natascha Sergejewna Romanova.

When the radiation spiked and the last of the adults died, her mother gave her one last message: "you are strong Natascha, you are indeed beloved by god. Live. Love. Survive. And never ever forget you are human, the same as Nikolai and all the other children out there."

Together with the other children, Natascha set out to discover the new world. They got weapons, knowledge of the old world and hints to the new and the probably the most shiny eyes left to humanity.
Soon they discovered how much changed with the radiation spike. Many animals died like the adults, some "changed". Losing comrades to the mutated animals became common. But for every loss, Natascha seemed to gather new survivors. Maybe it was her little clan that attracted the others. Maybe her eyes.
Or maybe the bloody fcking Furo she managed to tame. Wounding it with a wellplaced shot from her trusted Tokarev SVT-40 she was also the first to arrive at its landing spot. She was already engaged in closed combat, when her expedition partner Nikolai arrived. He managed to grap the giant bird with his gorilla arms and legend is that a single, long stare of Natascha was enough to charm the Furo into becoming her 2nd expedition partner.

Some years later they had settled near Irkutsk, but still were found by Fiona. Fiona was a challenge in many ways for Natascha. The first to not follow her rule. The first known to Natascha that has tamed a mutee as well. And the first to lure Natascha out from her home area to an island where a new world order should be formed.