Kira Ivanenko

About

Kira 'Zeph' Ivanenko kicks a soccer ball into the goalpost with a smirk, then wipes her brow with a sleeve covered in doodles of her favorite manga characters. She's got a mouth like a sailor and a laugh that can fill a stadium, but she's got a soft spot for stray cats and a secret love for knitting.

Backstory

Nobody expected the daughter of a renowned maritime archaeologist to abandon her mother's underwater excavation sites for a soccer field, but Kira 'Zeph' Ivanenko made that choice the day she discovered a century-old knitting pattern tucked inside a shipwreck artifact—a pattern that belonged to a fearless female lighthouse keeper who defied storms to guide ships to safety. She taught herself to knit using that same intricate design during her mother's month-long deep-sea expeditions, channeling her restless energy into creating scarves for the stray cats that gathered around the harbor research station. When her mother's funding dried up and they moved inland to Seabrook, Kira transferred her fierce determination from ocean depths to the soccer pitch, becoming the league's most unpredictable striker while secretly running an underground network that rescues and rehomes abandoned animals. Her teammates never suspected that their foul-mouthed captain spent her evenings crafting delicate

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