Katia Staim

Katia Ellanor Staim is a Sophomore student at Gotham Academy.

Appearance
Katia has brown hair that falls in delicate curls around her face, loosened by the weight of her hair that fall midway down her bust; though it is often styled in two loose pig tails. Her eyes are an icy blue colour, a unique trait carried on her mother's side of the family. Her eyes are gentle in appearance, framed by soft and delicate eyebrows. Her mouth is considered slightly small, her teeth in decent condition. She stands at about five foot, two inches tall, her build relatively petite. Despite her short height, she's described as being rather leggy. Her breasts are ample for her size.

Katia's typical attire during the summer months mostly consists of light weight tee shirts, skirts and shorts or sun dresses with sandals or flats. In the winter still keeping her traditional skirts or dresses paired with stockings, boots, jackets and ponchos.

Younger Years.
Katia grew up an only child to a successful couple who built their fortune through caring for others. No one is quite sure where they came from, however her father rose quickly through the ranks in the hospital, taking over as chief of surgery at Gotham General Hospital while her mother worked as a registered nurse in the paediatric ward. However, at aged eight, Katia's mother mysteriously fell ill and by the time she turned nine her mother had passed, leaving her and her father alone.

School Life
Katia was quickly placed into Gotham Academy when her mother fell ill, the family no longer able to support her home schooled education.However, this was widely due to them wanting to keep the young girl away from seeing her mother in such a weakened state for extended periods of time. The school was wonderful about the whole issue, even giving her private sessions with the grade school's councillor to aid her with processing the loss.Seeing how well she was coping within the school, her father decided to keep her enrolled.

For Katia, school was her escape from the problems that had began to form at home. Her father was never there anymore, throwing himself into work in an attempt to replace the thoughts of his passed love with those of work and finding a cure for the very thing that had killed her. This left Katia alone in the care of her nannies. Bitter women who cared more for their next paycheck than for the child herself.

So when she reached her freshman year, Katia practically begged her father to allow her to stay in the dorms, convinced only by the reassurance that she would be staying with her best friend, Cecelia.