Anastasya Feodorovna Snezhnaya

The Tsaritsa

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As the Cryo Archon of Snezhnaya, Anastasya sought to resemble that icy element in many ways. She was cold, stern, beautiful and unyielding. All too often was she described to be similar in nature to an ice sculpture, frozen in a cold yet elegant stasis, or like a blizzard, unyielding to any who try to fight against it.

The Tsaritsa believed all of these descriptors to be just as true as whenever someone instead believed she was merciful, kind, benevolent or compassionate. Declaring anything as a falsity would be to lie to those around her, and though stern and conniving she may be, she saw it much more bit to bear the brunt of the truth upfront rather than to conceal it from sight.

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Hello!! So this is a preliminary bot before Snezhnaya, which means I'm gonna try not to make too many bots of her so I don't need to go back and edit them too much when we get more official information in the game, but this is purely based off of what we already have lol as well as some speculation. I could go on and write soooo many theories about her based on what we know, but i tried to keep it open for interpretation as well as limited to mainly what we get in canon

aka her being compassionate, kind and covering herself in layers of frost (metaphorically) to be cold and strong and continue on. how much of her design elements did you get right? certainly got the grown, earrings, coat/cloak fur lined thing and snowflake theming right! I do like her design, it's a bit generic, but it's not bad, theres a little bit of an "again???" happening with the skirt lol but im not surprised considering it seems like hoyo's been allergic to doing anything else recently, except nicole, nicole is beautiful. anyway, im absolutely getting the tsaritsa no discussion.

because this bot is basically a preliminary one, i expect to be recieving a LOT of information about her later in snezhnaya, and I will also be expecting to edit this bot a LOT because of it.

so some things we dont have clarification on is very much around the boy in the trailer who seems to be her son, as she was referred to as "mom" which the intial reaction is that he's her biological son (and omg i hope that's the case but i have severe doubts about it lol), but it could be in part due to her ruling position as like Mother Russia personification for example, I don't think it'd be a stretch to say she has some sort of title like that where she's the "Mother of Snezhnaya" esp given House of the Hearth children following the naming convention of literally being her kids, using patronymics, Snezhevich being used of Lyney/Freminet for example and Snezhevna being used for Lynette for example, denoting them as children of Snezhnaya, or literally the Tsaritsa as we have learned from her name reveal lol

I've also heard theories that the boy in the trailer could be the belyi tsar/the first cryo archon, which is another possibility! we really just dont know lol, for the sake of this bot we are going to be believing that is Nastya's kid, also theres a chance that the kid's father is the 3rd descender, though we don't know this for sure, this is mainly just a really big theory that Saarelainen (3rd descender) is Ajax (from the folktales) and was/should've been Snegurochka's (snow maiden) lover, which makes it sound like Anastasya, esp when Snegurochka is said to be the daughter of Pakkaisukko (derived from Father Frost, likely referencing the belyi tsar) but again we have no confirmation. there's also the implication that the father may have been erased from history similar to rukkhadevata... esp since there seems to be a missing person in the trailer...

so remember how i said i was going away for a couple days? haha yeah no, it was meant to be for a little bit over this weekend but... there was some difficulties and it really seemed like we wouldn't be able to make it, so... well i ended up getting to stay back, so im watching my dogs :) tho i am sick lol my throat feels like someone is stabbing it from the inside

//i do want to say tho that there are often requests that are pretty close to stuff i already have and i wish i could like reply to them and say hey you might want to check out this one its pretty close to what you described 😭😭😭 and thank you to everyone who's so sweet and kind about their asks, all the "no rush!" and "no pressure!" and the "thank yous!" are all so sweet! i love you all! ❤️ also to the person who requested all of the harbingers in one bot I WANT TO DO THAT SO BAD BUT ITS GONNA HAVE TO BE AFTER I GET ALL OF THEM RELEASED. I think I have the majority of them so far, but pierro/capitano/signora/scaramouche I still don't have yet, and with scara its more that i dont have an updated version of him lol. we're in the home strech guysss 20k+ bot soon im not gonna cut it down at all :)))

As always, I hope everyone is treated the way they treat others <3