#rocklinka

Kalinka and Rock have known each other since childhood after quite the adventure, involving many hijinks, Kalinka's father doing evil to save her life and Kalinka annoying the bits out of Bass while he makes her stay in Wily castle "comfortable" (Bass' mother is still alive at this point and she INSISTED her son have good manners while they have a guest, even if she's a kidnapped little damsel, the tiara and pink dress she is wearing in the first drawing is from Bass' mother letting her play dress up, and it's what Blues saves her in)

Kalinka is rescued by Blues but she looks to Rock as her real knight in shining armor after he saves her father. The Cossaks have been close friends with the Royal family ever since and were the first outside the castle to hear the news of King Light's passing.