Editing Sveta Karelia (section)

====[[Weld]]====
Weld was Sveta's idol and role model. Eventually they met at the advice of [[Jessica Yamada]]; they got along well and agreed on many matters together.<ref name="27.5e3"/<ref name="23.4 e1"/> They became partners, with Weld carrying Sveta around.</ref>

After Gold Morning they started a relationship together, Sveta has described it in terms similar to matrimony.<ref name="4.5 e1">“Where are ''you'' at?” I asked.<br/><br/>“Weld has been telling me things about what’s going on elsewhere.  Things he shouldn’t be telling me, but I think a lot of it is the kind of thing like a husband with a certain position might tell his wife, sometimes, even when those things are confidential.”<br/><br/>“Wife?” I asked.  I raised an eyebrow.<br/><br/>“Shut up,” Sveta said, lifting her chin a bit, looking mock-affronted.  “Not another word about that.”<br/><br/>“You’re the one who said the word.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/02/10/shade-4-5/ Excerpt] from [[Shade 4.5]]</ref> She considers him the most important person in the world.<ref name=9.8e1>“Hello,” the small creature on Amy’s shoulder said, voice high.  A few people glanced over.<br/><br/>“Hello,” Sveta said, before returning to what she was doing.  She kept Amy in the corner of her eye.<br/><br/>“Dot, meet Tress,” Amy said.  “My mother told me a lot about her, and I make- made small talk with her boyfriend when I ran into him at the Wardens headquarters.”<br/><br/>“You have a machine body, and you don’t smell much like flesh or blood.”<br/><br/>“Be polite,” Amy said.<br/><br/>“It’s good!” Dot exclaimed.  “So special, to have something made like that.  A lot of love and care.”<br/><br/>“There was,” Sveta said.  “The most important person in the world had to work hard to make it even possible, and someone had to study very hard to learn how to make it, and that’s a kind of love too.”<br/>[...]<br/>“My Red Queen does good work with a lot of love too,” Dot said.<br/><br/>“I’ve seen the work she does,” Sveta said.<br/>[...]<br/>“My Red Queen has fixed a few of my kind.  Big ones, weird ones.  She could fix you.  She can make you just as wonderful in shape and strong enough you don’t need the body.”<br/><br/>“Don’t volunteer me,” Amy said.  “Things are more complicated than that.”<br/><br/>“''But you can!''  You can make her any shape at all, and then she won’t need that machine anymore!  Then I can take a hand or take an arm!  It’s all so colorful!”<br/><br/>“That’s enough.  I’m sorry, Sveta.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/15 Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.8]]</ref>

They broke up due to inherent problems with their physiology, and her jealousy of his [[Slician|friendship with a teammate]].