Maiden name: Karlsen
Sofia is an only child to Konrad Karlsen II and Pixi Karlsen. Her
grandfather Konrad Karlsen was the founder of Bewickton Seafoods, a
local company who specialized in buying fish from the local fishing
fleet and serving as a primary processor. His son and Sofias father
eventually took over the family business as well as inheriting the
fortune he had built up over the years, thanks to the rich waters
outside the islands..
Konrad II continued to administer the
business successfully for some years, and eventually married Pixi
Nilsen, after which she took his name. A couple of years later, she
gave birth to Sofia, and things looked good for this tiny family.
It was around this time Konrad was about to expand his business
by building a new processing unit when, after a prolonged period of
heavy rainfall one autumn somehow the dam that seperated the town in
it's lower and upper parts 'mysteriously' broke and flooded the
entire lower part of, including the Bewickton Seafoods building,
drowning almost the entire workforce as well as several hundreds of
people living in that part of town..
The cause of the flooding was never found, though an investigation
that was made the accident pointed towards the possibility that
someone may have deliberaty planted explosions on or near the dam
with the intent of blowing it up, but for some reason a perpetrator
was never found and brought to justice...
Following this event it was decided by the town council that the
lower part of town should never be rebuilt and Konrads company was
declared bankrupt. Konrad then fell into a deep depression lasting
for a couple of years until he finally came back on his feet somewhat
starting a new career as a firefighter. However the trouble didn't
stop there, because it didn't take long for his wife to mysteriously
go missing, after which he received a letter in the mail demanding a
ransom if he wanted to see his wife again.
Konrad of course refused to give in to the kidnappers and reported
it to the police, but it was to no avail. The police in town appeared
to be completely clueless even though Konrad had an inkling who was
behind the blackmail and again whoever was behind it was never found
or put to justice..
Konrad continued to receive several letters now blackmailing him
for money if he wanted to keep him and his daughter safe, which led
to him always working overtime at the fire station to "pay off
the bills", and in turn never having neither time nor much
energy to take care of and spend time with his only child..
From Sofias perspective it looked like
the job was the most important thing in his fathers life and she
never understood why he never had any time for her. He made sure to
always she always had the best toys available in a poor attempt to
make up for always leaving her to some random baby sitter, and sure
enough there was never a shortage of material goods for Sofia when
she grew up. However, she became quickly bored with all the toys and
the babysitters mostly only did the bare minimum, which often made
Sofia wonder what was wrong with her since dad seemed to avoid her so
much..
This continued all the way until her
father died of a heart attack while at work, presumably from all the
stress he had endured over the years, shortly before her 18th
birthday. With no living relatives left and all of a sudden the owner
of a house and the sole inheritor of what was left of her fathers
fortune, she felt bewildered and didn't know what to do except
continue down the same path her father did and apply for a job at the
local fire station as well...
Sofia spent several years working at
the fire station, unable to form close relations with most people
("..how can anyone love someone like me, when not even my own
father could..?") and working hard to get noticed and telling
herself that living wealthy was the way to happiness and
fulfillment...
One day at work a young man called
Bhavan joined the fire fighting career. It quickly became clear for
Bhavan that Sofia was very concerned with social status, money and
wealth, and in a not entirely serious way he had told her of his
brother Palash, whom he knew had a talent for money,a nd who had also
been hopelessly single for quite some time .... So he suggested she
should ask him out on a date, because, as he told her, he was certain
that "she was just the right woman for him".
Sofia was of course naturally hesitant
of this at first.. who was this Palash guy and why would he be
interested in her, especially if he was being so succesful in his
career in finance? But after some more teasing and pushing from
Bhavan, she eventually dared to ask him and was a little surprised
when he said yes.. Now she really had to do her best, and took him
out to the most expensive restaurant in time and used all of her
talking skills, while of course perhaps not so subtly mentioning both
her swimming pool, her car, her house and most important of all –
that she was indeed working as a fire fighter..
..and much to her surprise, whatever
she did right there, it worked, because just a few months later they
found themselves engaged – and married, already on their honey moon
on a cruise going into far away tropical waters.. So it was possible
then, that someone could love her after all...
Following the cruise she found herself
pregnant, which was very tough on her for a while, mostly because
being a parent scared during her worst moments scared the living
daylights off of her.. how could she know how to raise a child, when
she had never seen it done? For all of her life she had avoided
having anything to do with children as much as possible, and now she
found herself in this situation.. She even considered the unspeakable
at one point, but she knew how important children were to his husband
and so she just couldn't follow through with such thoughts..
..and once her daughter Rose Marie was
born, after all, she was happy she didn't, and to her own surprise,
even found that she had what it took after all to both form a bond
with, and properly care for her little baby....
Parents:
Konrad Karlsen II (deceased)
Pixi Karlsen (deceased)
Siblings:
None.
Married to:
Palash Chitrakaar
Children:
Rose Marie Chitrakaar
Nephews and nieces:
Nishit Chitrakaar-Skurchk
Bodil Chitrakaar
Ole Christian Chitrakaar-Skurchk
Orinder Chitrakaar-Bråheim
Madhunisha Chitrakaar-Skurchk
Pets:Yumi Chitrakaar (dog)
