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Elsa.

Her mother was a fanatical religious sectarian. As a child, she and her sister were locked in a closet for the slightest offenses, forced to pray at night, and beaten with a belt for "unclean thoughts."

Elsa hated God. She went into Satanism, demonology, magic—everything that scared her mother. She wanted power. She wanted to be feared.

Real name: Yana Volkova.

Her childhood was like a rotten fruit—it looked whole, but it was already crawling with worms inside. Her father was an alcoholic, her mother an ever—disappearing shadow who returned home with bruises and new men. At the age of six, Yana found a cat hanging in the closet. At the age of eight, I saw my father beating my mother so that she fell unconscious. At the age of ten, she broke a bottle over his head when he climbed up to her at night "just to hug."

She hated the light. She hated people. At school, she was teased as a "skeleton" — she was really skinny, with sharp features, as if cut out by an axe. But her eyes… One is dark like a bottomless well, the other is pale blue, almost white. It was as if death itself was looking through her.