Darina Klymenko-McCann
RL - Ethereal RoseDarina was born in Secundas, Kaitaine in 2001. She was born into the Klymenko family which were devout members of the Bene Gesserit in hiding. Like many of the faithful they had made arrangements for the 8 month of Darina to be smuggled to Aosta where she was to be raised as a Bene Gesserit however the boat that was being used to transport some 15 youngsters was captured by the Soviets and while the crew were executed on terror offenses the children were sent to an orphanage for adoption. Knowing that the orphanage contained many Bene Gesserit children, mainly babies a raid was conducted by Truthsayers who managed to secure 26 children. Without the ability to return her to her birth parents she was taken to Seitch where she was adopted by the McCann family and attended an unofficial Chapterhouse.
She was not a great student but tried hard and was praised constantly for her willingness to try new things and help her classmates. At the age of 14 she was streamed to be an Honored Matres which upset her as many of her friends were selected, as was common in Seitch, to be Truthsayers.
When in 2017 the Siege of Seitch began she was assigned to a medical facility and by 2018 had voulentered to drive medical evacuation vehicles to pick up injured Truthsayers and Pangolin. It was during one of these that she found herself involved in several fire fights and while initially blocked by command she eventually was permitted to join the Pangolin. As such she experienced several battles of the Kaitaine civil war. Like many of the "Homegrown" members of the Bene Gesserit she never officially graduated from the Chapterhouse but at the end of the war many were offered a chance to return to their stream in order to officially qualify in their pathway. Despite being initially streamed as an Honored Matres her military service during the war was deemed sufficient for her to become one of a handful of "Dual graduates" within the Chapterhouse system, a new designation created for those who had served during the Civil War. As such she became the first, and as of yet one of only ten "Truth Matres".
Since 2021 she has served as a carer at the newly re-established Seitch Chapterhouse. Her role has seen her helping care for orphans and helping reunite as many as possible with their birth families and bloodlines. Working alongside the Missionara they have established a large DNA database for families to find lost children and those children to find parents. While she had always been told she had been adopted it was during this that she discovered her real father Mikhail Klymenko and therefore readopted her family name.
With the Missionara sensing an opportunity to have the faiths bloodlines acquire "regal" blood she was ordered to enter the Neu Urburzis contest to marry Emperor Orion.