Valeriya Volkova

Valeriya Volkova is a minor character who appears in “The Whimsical World of Leopold”; her only appearance is in “The Town of the Damned”. She is the witch responsible for the curse that befell Shapoklyakville.

Appearance
Valeriya Volkova is a beautiful young woman with light skin and waist-length red hair and matching eyes and lipstick; she wears a floor-length black dress and matching boots and hooded cloak, respectively; she also wears the wolf-inspired jewelry consisting of a necklace, ring and a pair of earrings, respectively. She also happens to carry a dark brown staff with the red gem.

Personality
Valeriya Volkova is a well-intentioned witch who possesses a strong sense of justice. She acts as a protector of Shapoklyakville and doesn’t approve of the oppression that the townspeople have suffered under Mayor Ulysses Shapoklyak’s reign.

However, despite her good intentions, her sense of justice can come with consequences, as shown in a flashback of “The Town of the Damned”, where she gets fed up with Mayor Ulysses Shapoklyak abusing his people and puts a curse on the whole town and causes the tyrannical mayor to become more miserable as the townspeople suddenly fall into a blissful trance and, thus, become mindlessly happy forever; also, thanks to her curse, Shapoklyakville promptly vanished without a trace and would only come back for a day every 100 years.

She’s also fond of wolves, whom she considers her favorite animals, and is even seen being accompanied by her wolf friend named Olaf.

In the fanfic
Her only appearance is in “The Town of the Damned”, where she only appeared in Mayor Ulysses Shapoklyak’s flashback in which she got upset over the mayor’s abusive treatment of his people, so she, along with her best friend named Olaf, appeared before him and his people combined and unleashed her curse upon the whole town. In addition to the town disappearing and then reappearing for a day every 100 years, the townspeople fell into a blissful trance and, thus, became mindlessly happy forever while Mayor Ulysses Shapoklyak became more and more miserable. However, only Olaf was unaffected, since he was a wolf, which Valeriya Volkova considered her favorite animal.

Trivia
Valeriya Volkova’s character design may be inspired by Eudial from the Sailor Moon series.

Valeriya Volkova may also be an ancestor of Rimma, Dima and Uncle Fyodor, respectively.

Her favorite animal is a wolf, hence her decision to spare Olaf and all other wolves, including his descendants, from her curse.