Varya Remington

Professor Varya Remington (née Nikolaev) is a new teacher at Duel Academy, and a former professional duelist, using a holiday-based deck known as "Starry Knight". She is the wife of Beckett Remington, the new Slifer Red Headmaster.

Originally coming to be with her husband, Varya was later hired as the new Professor of Lesser Tactics, when a new teacher was unable to be hired in time for the school year. She is a strict yet understanding young woman who pushes her students to do the very best they can. Throughout the Trials of Light, Varya ends up helping Fonda Fontaine with her duties as Headmistress of the Female Obelisk Blue Dorm. Later, in Trials of Dimensions, she officially takes the role.

Physical description
Varya is a young woman with mid-back length white hair, tied in a low braid, over her left shoulder, amber eyes, and a lightly dark skin tone. She wears a variation of the standard Obelisk Blue uniform, but in red: she wears a white jacket with red trim, dark gray shirt, a white and red skirt, and white heeled boots. She also has a pair of silver earrings and wears her wedding ring on her left hand.

Personality
Varya is a strong, strict and understanding young woman. She likes working with students and pushes them to work their hardest. She does not believe in an "easy way". She believes in a "work hard and you succeed" way.

She doesn't take anyone trying to take her dorm down and will fight back

Skills

 * Dueling proficiency: As a former professional duelist, Varya is an extremely skilled and capable duelist, able to work with practically anything she draws. With her deck being a focus on Dragon and Fairy-type monsters, Varya is quite skilled in knowing both the strengths and weaknesses for both types.
 * Teaching skills
 * Multilingual: Varya is able to speak Russian (her native lanague), English, and Japanese, having the learned the former two while in school.

Pre-series
Varya doesn't really talk about her past and tends to keep to herself. She was born and raised in Moscow, Russia. She got into dueling at a young age but had to keep it a secret from her parents, as they didn't find it interesting and wanted her to focus more on the family business. Varya had no interest in the business and wanted to go into Duel Monsters. As she got older, she started to enter dueling tournaments, in secret.

Unfortunately, shortly after she turned 15, her parents found her returning home late from a duel tournament and were furious with her, mostly because she was sneaking out and she had lied to them. They grounded her, forcing her to withdraw from some future tournaments she had signed up for. Her parents nearly took her deck, but a threat from Varya made them change their minds. After her sixteenth birthday, Varya got an invite to attend one of the best dueling schools in London, England. Her parents refused to let her go, as they didn't want her dueling, or leaving home, mainly not wanting to leave home. Left with no choice, Varya ran away from home, taking as much as she could, and flew to London. That was the last time she heard or spoke with her parents.

Despite not knowing the country or language of the United Kingdom, Varya worked her way and fought hard. She eventually became top of her class and graduated with top honors. She was instantly offered a Duel Sponsor for the Pro-League.

A few years later, Varya began to attend night classes for a teaching degree, having found an interest in teaching. She eventually left the Pro-Circuit, unhappy with her life, and continued her teaching degree.

At some point, she started doing night classes for a teaching degree and later left the Pro-Circuit, unhappy and continued on her teaching degree.

While attending classes, she later met Beckett Remington. It didn't take long for her to fall for him (and him for her) and then they began to date. They were married only a few months before Beckett got his new job as the Slifer Red Headmaster.

Trials of Light
Varya appears in the first chapter, "Starting the School Year with a Bang!, alongside her husband who have arrived on Duel Academy Island with the other new students. They approach stand-in-Chancellor Vellian Crowler and Vice-Chancellor Jean-Louis Bonaparte, announcing they new teachers, with Beckett being the new headmaster for the Slifer Red Dorm.

In "The Slifer Dorm's Last Stand, Varya is annoyed with Bonaparte's attempts in riding the Slifer Red dorm and challenges him to a duel, with Crowler adding in, turning it to a Tag Duel. During the duel, Varya's history as a Professional Duelist is revealed by Kari Sasaki, alongside her nickname, the "Star Knight".

Deck
Varya duels with a "Starry Knight" Deck, which is based around summoning Level 7 LIGHT Dragon monsters from the hand and then supporting them.

Trivia

 * Varya is a Russian name meaning "Stranger".
 * Varya's maiden name, Nikolaev, is a Russian last name derived from the given name, "Nikolay".
 * Varya was created after reading the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX manga and seeing Midori Hibiki and seeing that the Slifer Reds had a female headmaster.
 * She was originally made to be the Slifer Red Headmaster, but the idea was eventually scrapped.
 * Varya's deck was originally going to be something "Angel" theme, like Midori but the idea was dropped and Varya was given the "Lightsworn" deck.