Sofia Chitrakaar

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 18^th 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)