When I was a teenager, about 16 years old, me and my real sister was on scouting duty.. It was a normal day without any interference up until that point, but suddenly, I saw Romans come out of the forest. I took my sister's hand and pulled her with me to get back to the village as fast as possible and warn the tribe. We barely got there in time.
I sent my sister to hide while I tried to defend her. I was knocked out. By the time I awakened, a woman, Livia-The Bitch Of Rome, was gathering up the remainder of my sisters that were alive to sell into slavery.
I grabbed a dagger, but it was my first battle and I hadn't killed before, so I hesitated, that was when livia turned and saw me about to kill her. My sister ran from the line and saved my life. She was slaughtered..
Since that day until Xena made me realize that I felt guilty and was searching to blame Livia. I tried to kill Eve/Livia plenty of times, until Xena got through to me.
As soon as Varia let the path of vengence leave her mind, she found love for the second time.. Her first love was Queen Marga, whom she was second in command to. Her second love was the very woman that she'd vowed to get vengence on so many years before. Eve the messenger of Eli, formerly Livia the Bitch Of Rome...
Varia fell deeply in love with Eve, and Eve to her. From the time that she sentenced Livia to death so that Eve may live, she spent every waking minute that she had with Eve, whenever was near the Amazon nation anyway.
It was that love that sent her to a boat, and from that boat, led her to Richard, and from Richard to the lost Island. But those details will come further down in the story...
One day, Varia got a message from her love, Eve, saying that Eve wanted to see her and where Eve would be. Varia wasted little time in picking up everything and leaving. She thought she would only be gone for no longer than a few weeks. By the Gods, was she very very wrong.
She got onto the boat that would bring her to where Eve was, or so she thought. After 4 days of travel, she knew something else was going on. She went to talk to the Captain, who tried to convince her to go with them and then she could back to see eve whenever she pleased. Needless to say, she didn't trust it.
She waited until the opportune time before attacking the men. The next thing she knew,the boat was docking on an island. She got up and demanded to know what was going on and then demanded to be brought to Eve. did it work? very little, for they did tell her only some of why they needed her, to train the people and who better to train them than the best of the best, which was the queen of the amazon nation, which happened to be her. However, she was never released to see her lover Eve EVER AGAIN.
From then on, Varia was stuck on that island. She learened everything there was to learn about it. She trained every single sole that was there. She gained the position of co-leader of the natives, to which she shared the role of co-leader with a man named Richard. They coinsided their plans with Jacob's and they might as well have been seen as King and Queen of the island.
Richard was the one that brought and kept Varia there, so he always seemed to believe he had a hold on her and that she belonged to him, no matter how many times she made it clear to him that she'd be damned if she let some guy treat her like a trophy to be displayed on his mantle.
Then more and more of his people died, but her and him never died or aged, so they looked to eachother for support.. They had fallen in love, but both of them were way too stubborn to admit it to anyone, especially eachother. She could still be the bitchy, hard-headed, stubborn amazon. And he could still be the over-bearing, possessive, controlling, dictator..
Things went on like that for centuries until one thing happened that changed things between them from then on, pretty much....
Eventually Richard had gotten Varia pregnant. They knew that being pregnant on the island was a death sentence, so for the first time in thousands of years, Richard permitted Varia to leave the island. He arranged that she could stay with a family...At the time it was Sam and Diane Austen. She stayed with them until 9 months after hers and Richard's daughter was born.
Varia thought that Diane wouldnt be stupid enough to leave Sam, but she had....... Varia left hers and Richard's 9 month old baby girl in the care of them. She then was brought back to the island. From that point on, she had no contact with the outside world and therefore didn't know what happened to their child.
Varia withdrew from Richard more then, and eventually she disappeared back into the jungle.
When different people started to make the island their home and pushing the original inhabitants of the island out, Varia did a smart thing. She killed one of the women and took her clothes and gave herself a new name. She had no intention of staying in where they live, but she also wasn't going to be someone that was shut out because of who she was.
Richard taught her enough english to get by and then used her as a spy to go back and forth between them and the new inhabitants that called themselves the Dharma Initiative.
She hated the clothes, but she dealt with it and got better at english by the day, but still wasnt 100%.
After a while, she helped to make "the purge" happen. After the Dharma Initiative was all but destroyed, she went back to the jungle, only coming back when she got overly lonely. Richard, however, stayed there and also left the island periodically.
Varia had left that name behind and the only on, maybe two that called her that by now, was Richard and maybe Jacob. She had become accustomed to Diane.
Her and Richard continued to have the "love, hate" type of relationship and he wanted her back and didnt even try to hide that.
She still had feelings for him, but ultimately, she needed a break from him. She'd been with him for thousands of years and she knew that she might go back to him eventually anyway. Plus, she'd started to fall for someone else...Benjamin Linus.
Ultimately, the three were very much alike, and that was probrably what made it such a dangerous mix.
She didnt care and had welcomed the danger. She really did love Ben too, but she also loved Richard. Richard's jealousy was apparent and what he'd do because of the jealousy, was something she always knew would be a very bad thing.. Not to mention, what ben also did out of a jealous rage.
She knew not to turn her back on either of them, but she didnt go back to richard yet and did her best not to for the rest of ben's life.
Just how many issues will this bring up? Coupled with the fact that she's pregnant again and the daughter she had with Richard was on the island now too? I guess you all will just have to wait and see... *smirks evilly*