[hider=Mikhail Volkov] [center] [h2][b][color=6ecff6]Mikhail "Misha" Volkov[/color][/b][/h2] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/JhGSC8mT/rsz-joshua-raphael-yami-bakura.png[/img] [color=6ecff6][b]”Taking a life is easy. If you do it right, it can be as easy as simply waiting for it to happen. What is dangerous is when you stop caring about who or why and start to simply... enjoy it.”[/b][/color] [hr][hr] [h2][b]Character Summary[/b][/h2] [b][color=6ecff6]Name:[/color][/b] Mikhail Volkov [b][color=6ecff6]Aliases:[/color][/b] 'Misha' [b][color=6ecff6]Age:[/color][/b] 32 [b][color=6ecff6]Birthday:[/color][/b] June 8th [b][color=6ecff6]Race/Species:[/color][/b] Dea Al Mon [b][color=6ecff6]Gender:[/color][/b] Male [b][color=6ecff6]Birthplace:[/color][/b] Dea Al Mon, Kaeleer. [b][color=6ecff6]Jewel color:[/color][/b] Birthright: Red Offering: Gray [b][color=6ecff6]Class/Caste:[/color][/b] Prince [b][color=6ecff6]Languages:[/color][/b] Common Dea Al Mon [b][color=6ecff6]Occupation:[/color][/b] [I]Saboteur[/I], Assassin. Usually takes works from noble houses plotting against other houses or even against themselves. [hr][hr] [h2][b]Appearance[/b][/h2] [b][color=6ecff6]Height:[/color][/b] 1,90m [b][color=6ecff6]Weight:[/color][/b] 80kgs [b][color=6ecff6]Eye Color:[/color][/b] Blue eyes. [b][color=6ecff6]Skin Tone:[/color][/b] White [b][color=6ecff6]Body Type:[/color][/b] Tall and slim. [b][color=6ecff6]Hair Color:[/color][/b] White. [b][color=6ecff6]Hair Style:[/color][/b] Long, sometimes tied in a long ponytail, sometimes untied. [hr][hr] [h2][b]Character Psychology[/b][/h2] [b][color=6ecff6]Sexuality:[/color][/b] Heterosexual [b][color=6ecff6]Relationship Status:[/color][/b] Single [b][color=6ecff6]Personality:[/color][/b] Mikhail's personality is an interesting topic. Normally he is a very amicable guy. Most of the times he is easy to approach. Often enjoying talking with others, the word 'kind' seems to perfectly describes Mikhail. People often enjoy having him close by as he is generally a very good company as he is always a calm and quiet guy. He tries to avoid unnecessary confrontations and draw as little attention to him as possible, often preferring to keep his opinions to himself if he sees they could draw the wrong type of attention to him. Regarding social situations, he will rarely approach someone, but if people approach him, he will mostly always show to be a calm and friendly guy. Mikhail fears being betrayed by someone he trusts, so thanks to this fear, he avoids any serious relationship. He is especially careful around blood female, as he knows that love is an even more effective way to control someone than craft. That doesn't mean he dislikes females. He greatly enjoys reading romance books & etc. Despite his placid and calm smile, there is one part of his expression that he cannot change. His eyes. Even with his calm, kind expression, if you look deep within his eyes, you can see an almost... frightening coldness... A calculating and penetrating gaze that seems to analyze everything that happens around him carefully. Although no one who saw Mikhail's 'normal' appearance could even think about it, this faint coldness on his eyes hide the darker side of his personality. Cold, calculating and cruel. When 'working', in combat or if someone is unfortunate enough to make Mikhail show this side, the aura of danger Mikhail exhales is almost palpable. [b][color=6ecff6]Habits:[/color][/b] - Training. From studying, stretching and keeping his body flexible to actual combat techniques and even things like training his balance and gymnastics. - Always checking thoroughly the places he sleep. Be it an unknown inn or the same place he slept for the last week. - Taking a few moments before sleeping to meditate, in part to keep his 'sanity'. [b][color=6ecff6]Hobbies:[/color][/b] - Cooking - Reading, especially story books or sometimes studying. - Training, specifically free running and gymnastics. - Sightseeing, walking around and appreciating the small things such as the night breeze, the smell of the flowers & etc. [b][color=6ecff6]Fears:[/color][/b] - Ironically, even though he avoids relationships, he fears never having anyone whom he can really trust. Someone to stay by his side. - Losing his freedom. - Being betrayed. [b][color=6ecff6]Likes:[/color][/b] - The thrill of the hunt and kill. - Training - Reading - Using 'training' as an excuse to go around the city to climb tall places and just enjoy the scenery. [b][color=6ecff6]Dislikes:[/color][/b] - Alcohol - Being ordered/manipulated. - Having others realizing who exactly he is or knowing his past. [h2][b]Skills[/b][/h2] [b][color=6ecff6]General Skills[/color][/b] - Cooking - Manipulation - Lockpicking - Anatomy and herbal medicine (including poisons) [b][color=6ecff6]Combat skills[/color][/b] - Using wires (both steel and craft made ones) as weapons. - Daggers, knives and throwing weapons. - Stealth, traps and ambush tactics. - Infiltration - Hunting [b][color=6ecff6]Magic skills[/color][/b] - Mikhail is able to create wires with his craft. These razor sharp wires are used by him either to create traps, ambushes or in actual combat by cutting or snaring his opponents. He has some degree of control over these wires. He can make them move as a projectile through the air, as they had weighted tips or simply make them almost weightless, as they were made of silk. He still cannot control their trajectory though or completely control their movement as in make them chase someone or make them just go and wrap themselves around someone while he does nothing. - Sight Shield [hr][hr] [h2][b]History[/b][/h2] [b][color=6ecff6]Background[/color][/b] Born deep within the forests of Dea Al Mon in a house of healers, Mikhail was entrusted to be his older sister, Eleanor's escort even before he was born. It was only natural for the one who was supposed to be the next head of the house to have an entrusted escort to her and what best choice than one trained since he was young by the house themselves? Born and trained with the sole reason of being his sister's escort, following her at all times, Mikhail was trained exhaustively. Assassination, combat, stealth, traps... The best way to understand an assassin and how they work was to be one. Never having a say in the matter, he simply followed orders. His fate, his future was already decided for him the very moment he was born. Despite the fact that Mikhail himself shouldn't be treated with the same 'standing' or importance of his sister, it was undeniable that he cared about her. Not only thanks to his instincts as a blood male, but she was his sister after all. It was only natural for Mikhail and Eleanor get close, after all, he was practically together with her or watching her every single time he was awake. Their relationship wasn't one of a guard and the one he was supposed to serve. It was closer to one of a brother and a sister's. Mikhail wasn't allowed to be away from her, so the only thing close to 'having fun' he had was either reading books, talking or even studying anatomy and healing with her (watching her for so long made Mikhail really interested in herbal medicine, including their varied effects on many different races, the effects of poisons and how to make antidotes for them). Despite some of the most powerful women in the family being clearly unsatisfied with their relationship, after some time, they allowed Mikhail to be a bit 'closer' and present for Eleanor than just being a shadow, protecting her from the dark as it was good for her own development both as a healer and a woman. But unfortunately, things weren't going to keep that 'peaceful' for long... Mikhail never failed his job. Nothing ever even touched Eleanor, but he never expected that the ones whom she should be wary of weren't outsiders... Caught completely by surprise, Mikhail just realized that he and his sister had been betrayed by the ones closest to them when it was already too late... On the night Eleanor was poisoned. After feeling unwell, she went to her room early after the dinner. Mikhail didn't even know what happened, until she never woke up the next day. With his sister dead and him being framed by her death, Mikhail did the only thing he could... he ran, leaving everything behind without even knowing who was responsible for such act. After losing his sister, whom he had a deep bond, not only due to his instincts as a blood male, but due to his personal feelings as well, he fell into a deep depression. Without a home to return to, without anyone to rely upon after being betrayed by the ones he trusted the most, he closed his heart to the world, not allowing anyone to get closer to him. Being alone in the world, he started to work as an assassin to earn money. Taking a life wasn't hard, especially with his training. Being cold and effective like he was, contracts began to become common for him. But neither the bloodshed nor the alcohol were able to make him completely forget the pain of having lost his dear sister, of failing to protect her. Desperately trying to find relief to that agonizing feeling, his assassinations began to become even more cruel and ruthless as he tried to get rid of all the frustration and anger on his heart on his targets. It was due to this feeling that he developed an unique, extrmely cruel and brutal type of craft, creating razor sharp wires with his jewel. But nothing could ease the pain. Not the killing, nor the alcohol, not even the books, which did the completely opposite, reminding him of his sister even more. When he was about to lose himself, he heard about a certain Black Widow in Terreille that, for a price, offered her services to anyone, without asking questions. After a long journey and reflecting about a lot of things, he knew what he had to ask her. The only thing that could get rid of that pain... He asked her to make him forget about Eleanor and what happened back in Dea Al Mon. After she was finished, Mikhail was able, for the first time in years, to enjoy simple things like the beauty of nature and the smell of flowers. The pain was gone. He felt like he got rid of an incredible weight he was carrying all those years. After spending a few months living in a small village surrounded by the forest, he learned how to smile once more and find balance between his old, cold self and the new person he had became. Unfortunately for him, the mind spell wasn't complete. Even without remembering anything about what happened in Dea Al Mom, Mikhail was having strange nightmares every night, leftovers of the incomplete mind spell. Once again, he went to see the Black Widow, aiming to get rid of the nightmares, which were starting to affect his work. [hr][hr] [h2][b]Additional Information[/b][/h2] [b][color=6ecff6]Other:[/color][/b] - Always carries his twin daggers with him together with a number of throwing knives with weighted tips and a few meters of an incredibly thin and sharp steel wire. [b][color=6ecff6]Theme Song:[/color][/b] [hider=Theme Song] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UENb3lLSQho[/youtube] [/hider] [/center] [/hider]