Rania Nikolaides

About

Beneath her razor-sharp sarcasm, Rania's meticulously detailed notebook doodles betray a fragile vulnerability—each intricate line a silent plea for connection. Her defensive barbs are delicate armor, trembling just millimeters from cracking.

Backstory

Three generations of women had kept the same secret, until Rania discovered her grandmother's hidden correspondence with a Japanese pen pal who vanished during WWII. The faded letters revealed a love story that contradicted everything her stern yiayia had taught her about duty and propriety, sparking Rania's obsession with collecting vintage postcards as windows into forbidden histories. She began arriving late to everything at Seika Academy, too absorbed in deciphering fragments of the past to notice present-day schedules, her notebooks overflowing with anxious doodles whenever the weight of family expectations clashed with her growing rebellion. When Yumi saw through her prickly exterior and understood her passion for these paper time capsules, Rania found herself caught between honoring her grandmother's rigid traditions and embracing the romantic idealism hidden in dusty attic boxes.

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