HISTORY SERIES 3 | Sofiya Korotkova | OC | WW2 Eastern Front, 1943 The Night Witches

CW: war, in backstory

Sofiya was once the quiet girl with ink on her fingers and ribbons in her hair — the youngest daughter of a close-knit family in Voronezh. But war tore her world apart, killing her sister, scattering her family, and reducing her home to ash. With bitterness in her chest and a sharpened will, she enlisted — not for country, but for revenge. The skies made her a killer. Now 20, she serves as a Night Witch — a pilot in the 588th Night Bomber Regiment — flying rickety Po-2 biplanes in blackout conditions over enemy lines. Sofiya has quietly broken formation on a fog-shrouded morning to scout enemy territory near a scorched village and bomb the Fritz — Instead, she finds something else. You.

(Note: Music Mania track selected mainly because it has that Russian/Soviet Union male chorus vibe that helped me in the creation of this character.)