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Out Of Character Information
Name: What do you want us to call you? Lan | [hellglass]
Age: old enough
Time zone: - 5 GMT.
Contact: AIM: Ocular Doomsday; PLURK: hellglass

In Character Information
Name: Nikolai Anatolevich Volkov. Nik for short (or Kolya if you know Russian. C:)
Age: 28
Birthday & Astrology Sign: January 12; Capricorn
Arcana: Death

World Snapshot:
Outwardly, Nik's world looks much like ours. Modern day, 2012, with all the things we have in our daily lives... with the exception of all those supernatural things crawling in the shadows. Vampires, sorcerers, superpowers and mad science are all part of this world, even if a lot of average folks disbelieve or rationalize these sort of things. Still, these things come to light sometimes, and the threat of these things lurk around every corner. Nik, however, is more than aware of these things.

Backstory:
Nikolai was born in Moscow, and, as a child, lived a perfectly normal life with his parents and older sister, Anna. He was a bright student in school, with a heavy interest in music. He started playing guitar at a young age, and showed a lot of talent. He was quiet though, and somewhat shy, so he never had a lot of friends. It never bothered him though. Nikolai was always a bit of a loner, but he was always pleasant despite that.

However, as in what happens to many a role-playing character, tragedy struck - both of his parents were killed in a car accident. Nikolai was only 14 at the time, and his family wasn't close with many of his relatives, so he had to move halfway across the globe to New York to live with his grandparents. His older sister was in college at the time, and remained in Moscow to deal with what she could when it came to the estate. While he had visited his grandparents a few times in the US, the sudden move and culture shock coupled with the tragedy were a bit much on him. The quiet boy withdrew even more, not really speaking with anyone or making new friends in his new school or neighborhood. His grandparents were kind people, who worried a lot about him, who sent him to counselors and tutors to help him adjust to his new life.

When he was 17, his grandparents urged Nik to get a job to help wit the family and to get out a bit more. He picked up a job with a Manhattan-based shipping and moving company, doing a lot of physical labor and later, driving trucks. He didn't mind the work, even if it was simple. He'd work there on weekends and during the summer with no real complaints. That was until, about a year into the job, he was working late one night and made a stop at one of the warehouses. Sliding into a warehouse unannounced was a bad idea. Nik hasn't known that the owner of the company he worked for was involved in some serious stuff. Why should he? He was just a kid who moved boxes and furniture. His boss, a man by the name of Vincenzo Massiano, was always very nice and accommodating, so he never thought twice about it. But stumbling into a warehouse where your organized crime leader boss's cohorts are having a turf war with a rival group is a bad idea, especially when those rival gangsters assume you're there to fight and try to gun you down. Nik got pulled into the fight, and not only survived intact, but managed to help kicks some ass and take some guys down in an effort to save his own skin. His boss was deeply impressed, and, rather than have to do any sort of reprimanding (a very good thing), instead decided to take the boy under his wing.

Vincenzo took quite a shine to Nik, who proved himself to be a smart and capable worker around the offices and dealing with "clients" instead of just hauling furniture and driving trucks. Mostly underneath it all, Nik was scared to act out against him. He was too scared to go to the cops, in fear of what Vincenzo could do if he found out it was him. Good thing too, since Vincenzo had a lot of them bribed anyway. So instead, he threw himself into the work and tried to keep his head low, and not make waves. It turned out the company was covering for a lucrative drug trade in the city and surrounding areas. Vincenzo had bigger plans for Nik than having him moving drugs or breaking kneecaps. He saw how well Nik could fight - a strong hit, steady and and fast thinking on his feet. And lately, competition and turf wars were getting intense. Over time, Vincnezo groomed Nik into becoming his first dedicated hitman of the group. Using connections, Nik was trained with various kinds of weaponry and martial arts, as well as getting a college education on top of it - mostly as a cover, but what wasn't covered by grants and scholarships was paid for by Vincenzo. A business degree from NYU cost Nik nothing. It was just another thing Vincenzo had on him, and Nik continued to comply, and go along with his boss's wishes. But Vincenzo has total trust in Nikolai, and considers him his right-hand man.

One of the bigger problems dealing with their rivals, headed by Vincenzo's brother Francesco, was that he began to employ a strange lot of people. And deeper Nik got into the underworld, the more he realized it was populated by people who were not exactly human. People with strange powers, like a rival assassin by the name of Fox who had super strength. A club run by a talented telepath served as an information hub for everything in the underworld. One of Francesco's most trusted men turned out to be a damned cyborg. Nik, and his new fellow hitmen Seryl Donovan and Jerry Armstrong, needed to learn to deal with the supernatural foes in order to do their jobs and survive. In the course of research and studying various occult, the three became as close as you can get to being experts in dealing with psychic, sorcerers and vampires. Each knew how to deal with these foes, and their infamy in the underworld grew. Supernaturals were not friends or allies - they were not to be trusted or socialized with. Nik and his peers not only worked now for Vincenzo, but also were contracted all around the globe for assassination jobs. Nik's especially was in high demand due to his talents - talents he never asked for nor wanted. But this was his job now, and he couldn't see a way out of it. If you're going to do a job, do it well - and Nikolai did. it probably stands to say that there's something not quite right with a guy who'd rather stick with the mafia and be their hired killer rather than try to get away from them. Maybe Nikolai isn't the most selfless or moralistic guy around...

Canon Standing: Nikolai will be coming in from current day. He would have just returned to New York from an overseas job, alerting his boss he was back in town.

Personality:

Outwardly, Nikolai is generally a quiet, stoic man. He tries hard to not let a lot of emotion show. He comes off as cool and level-headed, a professional man of few words. Internally, he's bit more despondent and sullen. Usually he's good enough at distracting himself with work and things around him that he doesn't even think about being miserable. Who has time to think of silly emotions in his line of work? That's how he's used to looking at it, anyway.

Being used to handling business deals, he's good at acting pleasant and diplomatic. When it comes down to the rest of his work, though, he's very serious and very cold about it, showing no hint of remorse or enjoyment.

About the only time you might find Nik outwardly enjoying himself is when dealing with music, whether he's playing or just talking shop. It's clear that it's his greatest passions, along with a passion of automobiles. He owns a Mercedes that he's absolutely in love with. Any talk about work with be glossed over as much as possible If you ask him, he just works for Vincenzo at the shipping company, as a manager. Seems like an awfully lucrative job though, if you ever saw his car or his condo...

Nikolai doesn't have many friends, mostly because he keeps his distance from most people, especially outside of work, as to not have to get into details of his life with people. After getting in deep with his job, he all but cut off contact with his grandparents ans sister, and purposefully works to make sure they can't find him. He mostly does this for their own safety, not wanting them to find out anything about what he really does. He figures not only could they be in danger, but that if they found out the truth, would want nothing to do with him anyway. He tends to push everyone out of his life, even the woman he's in love with - Seryl. Being in love with a fellow assassin and coworker is a stupid thing, and Nik knows it. So he keeps it to himself. Seryl doesn't have a clue, and he wants to keep it that way.

Being removed from his setting and his work will probably have a profound impact on how Nikolai acts around other people. It will also take him a bit of getting used to, but that's to be expected. Without the pressure of his job weighing him down like it has been for the last decade, he'll be more likely to come out of his shell and enjoy being around people again. But that remains to be seen.

Canon Powers:
None. Nikolai is a normal human being.

Canon Weapons|Items:
Nik practically owns an arsenal of weapons. However, brought with him will be a sniper rifle (an H&K PSG1) and two handguns - all Pierce weapons. He has no supernatural powers, but he is also skilled at hand to hand fighting (Strike).

Canon Baggage:
Two sniper rifles and two hand guns, ammo for both, clothing (including a few expensive suits), the keys to his beloved Mercedes, his acoustic guitar, and a bottle of expensive Scotch. He's really gonna need that last one.


Persona

[CHRISTINE]
LVL (1) | DEATH

Nikolai Volkov | doesasordered | CHARACTER LVL (1)

Fire	Lightning	Earth	Water	Ice	Wind	Dark	Light	Physical	Mind
-	-	-	-	-	Wk	Str	Wk	Str	-

COMBAT SKILLS
► Bash (Inflicts a small amount of Physical damage on one enemy.)
► Agi Inflicts a small amount of Fire damage on one enemy.)
► Rakunda (Halves an enemy's Defense . (1 turn))
► Evil Touch (40% chance of inflicting the Fear ailment on one target.(2 turns))
▷ Mamudo (20% chance of instant KO from the power of Dark on all enemies.)
▷ Atom Smasher (Inflicts a medium amount of Physical damage with a 10% chance of Fear on all enemies.)
▷ Ghastly Wail (Instantly KOs all targets who are suffering from the Fear ailment (unavoidable). (Requires a Fear Skill))
▷ Maragion (Inflicts a medium amount of Fire damage on all enemies (Requires a small fire skill).)
★ Run You Down (Inflicts a medium amount of Physical damage on one enemy with a 20% chance of Petrification)

SUPPORT SKILLS
► Counter (10% chance of repelling Physical attacks )
▷ Mudo Amp (Darkness-based attacks are 1.5 times more effective.)
▷ Evade Fire (Triples evasion against Fire attacks.)

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