User:Lxssie

The Lassie#4441 (she/they) is a user and editor in the Tiandi Encyclopedia. She is of, , and descent, and is a  of. She joined the encyclopedia on March 6, 2021. She currently manages the wiki for one nation, Talamh Caonach (currently sandboxing new version called Talamh Caonaigh). She identifies as and. She is in a relationship with Konstantinos Hery Krikelis. She is a believer in education, and an.

About
Alexandra Stephens, known to Tiandi discord users as Lassie, was born in, , on 20 September 2001 to an  father and a  mother. Her family resided in for nearly a year and travelled a lot while she was an infant. She moved to, at the age of 2 and her brother was born in 2004. She attended the Red Oaks School, a elementary and middle school. In 2014, Madison the joined the family. In 2017, she met Konstantinos Hery Krikelis online. They met for the first time in person in 2018 in,. Stephens graduated from in 2019. She currently attends in, Massachusetts. She will graduate in 2023 with a in  Science. She speaks, , , and. Her favourite food is.

Early life
Stephens and her family lived in Arlington when she was born. Eventually, they moved and lived in for around nine months so that her dad could go to  there. Stephens learned instead of talking. She apparently could understand, but her parents believed she didn’t want to speak. Due to her disproportionately large head, Stephens learned to scoot instead of crawling or walking. The Stephens family moved around a bit before choosing a split-level house close to the centre of Morristown based on the fact that it was a seven-minute walk from the South Street Creamery. Her parents joined. Her brother, David, was born shortly after they moved to Morristown in 2004. When she was four, at the end of the last preschool year, the preschool recommended holding her back, but her parents refused. Her parents enrolled her instead in a private school that they could barely afford at the time, called. She started kindergarten in 2006. The next year, David started preschool at Red Oaks at the age of 3. Stephens recalls giving up her extracurricular activities so that David could go to preschool. The Red Oaks School, which was in a historical building built in 1799, went to the sixth grade at the time but announced we would be expanding to middle school when Stephens was in fifth grade. She attended Red Oaks until her graduation from eighth grade in 2015 as one of 11 members of the first graduating class. The most important thing that occurred, Stephens recalls, is meeting her best friend.

Constructed Language
Stephens' first constructed language was created around 2011 or 2012 when she and a classmate collaborated to create Marybugcolorench. The language was named after an imaginary nation that she had created. The origins of this nation date back to long car trips with her brother. He created Garbageland, and she created Ladybugland, which was later renamed to Marybugcolorisima. Marybugcolorench was built upon the first and only remaining word, byerra prewok, a corrupted anagram of "power berry", which is what one classmate called a snack which she brought to class and shared with other students. Stephens created other words based on similar principles. Fellow students exploring adolescents yearned for a chance to use this language to express themselves. In true adolescent nature, they asked Stephens to create words for curse words so that they could swear undetected in Marybugcolorench. Eventually, this got out of hand, and teachers became aware of how the language was being used. Marybugcolorench was banned, and a teacher told Stephens to speak only English when at school.

Stephens has not created another constructed language since the demise of Marybugcolorench.

Portuguese
Just a few years after the censorship of Marybugcolorench, Stephens travelled to Brazil and began to learn Portuguese. One classmate teased her by calling Portuguese 'Portuguesian,' which got on Stephens' nerves. In Summer 2015, Stephens attended Mar e Floresta, a, a prestigious language program in Minnesota. It was there that she became fluent in Portuguese, earned a year's worth of high school credit in one month, and met her first love, Marcelo. She returned in 2016 for another high school credit. She is still friends with Marcelo to this day.

Swedish
In 2017, Stephens attended, the Swedish language village at. She attended for only two weeks in 2018 but became nearly fluent nonetheless. In 2019, she completed a high school credit in Swedish.

Relationship with Krikelis
In July 2017, Stephens and Konstantinos "Tinos" Hery Krikelis joined the same group chat aimed at facilitating conversation between young around the world. Stephens and Krikelis joined on the same day and quickly became friends with each other and another young woman named Lucija.

On 27 December 2017, Stephens asked Krikelis to be her boyfriend by suggesting that he changed his  to "In a Relationship." They made plans to see each other in August 2018. Stephens, her father, and her father's parents met Krikelis and his mother in, on 25 August 2018. They explored the city together and got to know one another's families better.

Stephens and her family met Krikelis again in April 2019 in,. On 17 April 2019, Stephens proposed marriage to Krikelis in front of the in Brussels. Stephens and her family also visited Krikelis' home in, during the trip.

In December 2019, Krikelis visited Stephens at her residence in, ,. He met her extended family during the holidays and remained at her home until late January 2020.

Stephens and Krikelis intend to get married on 27 December 2024.