Post by blueeyeddevil on Oct 23, 2012 20:02:13 GMT -6
Your Username: Blueeyeddevil
Your Character’s Name: Nikolai Tarasova
Your Character’s Age: 28
Your Character’s Gender: Male
Occupation: Bartender at Le Silencieux
AI: Eric Balfour
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Physical Description: Tall at 6’2 with a slender, though fairly muscular frame. Handsome in a fairly unconventional way with a long, angular face highlighted by shaggy dark waves of hair and a goatee. Narrow eyes the color of mahogany peer out from beneath heavy brows. His smile is rare but very charming and he knows it. Tattoos decorate his muscled arms as well as a wide variety of scars.
Personality: Let it be formally stated that Nikolai is not a good guy. He has lied, cheated, stolen, and killed all without blinking an eye. He has scores of blood on his hands and isn’t repentant in the least. He follows the Thieves Code of the Russian Mafiya and that is the closest thing to morals he’s got. He has a hair-trigger temper and can be very violent when provoked…and it doesn’t take much to provoke him. Still, he is fiercely loyal to those he cares for and can be quite sweet when it suits him.
History: Nikolai Tarasova grew up in an orphanage outside of Omsk, Siberia. He got to be close friends with Maksim Borovsky, a boy his same age and the two watched each other’s back over the years. Unlike Maksim, though, Nikolai hadn’t been left there because his mother couldn’t care for him. Both of Nikolai’s parents had been killed in a shooting when he was barely two years old and with no other relatives willing to take him in, he wound up in the orphanage. This also meant that there was no suddenly reappearing wealthy father to come and rescue him, again, unlike Maksim. The two of them kept in touch over the years and occasionally Nikolai was allowed to visit his friend in his new home. He didn’t blame Maksim for his situation, but he couldn’t help but feel slightly jealous as well as betrayed that his only friend had left him. Nikolai never said a word to him about it though and they remained close friends.
When he came of age, Nikolai left the orphanage but struggled to find any kind of job or even a place to stay. It wasn’t long till he fell into a life of crime. He robbed stores and individuals and did a few years in prison as a result. When he got out he took up illegal fighting as a way to get money and found that he was quite good at it. After a fight one night, Nikolai looked up through a black eye to see a well-dressed older man approaching him. The man asked if he would consider a job as a hired muscle for his organization and the young Tarasova was quick to accept.
And that is how Nikolai became involved with the Russian Mafiya.
Over the years Nikolai was responsible for carrying out the hits on people who had crossed the Mafiya and for once in his life he felt like he finally belonged somewhere. He didn’t particularly relish in the killings, but never really felt much remorse for them either. The people he killed were people who had broken the Code of Thieves or those who tried to double cross the Mafiya in their dealings. No great loss. At least that is what he believed.
Just before he was about to turn 28, Nikolai was finally deemed loyal enough to be told the truth. His father had once held much the same job as him and had agreed to the follow the same Code of Thieves. Unfortunately, part of the Code was that those who followed it were to never have a wife or children…a rule his father broke. His father had hid his wife and son from the Mafiya for a few years, but was eventually found out. As was with all those who broke the code, he had to die, his wife along with him. The felt Nikolai was innocent in the matter as it wasn’t his fault he’d been born so they allowed him to live. Though they kept close watch on him as he grew up till finally they decided he was worthy enough to join them.
Truthfully Nikolai was shaken by this revelation. It made sense now why no family had come forward to claim him…they were too scared of the Mafiya. And it was their fault he was an orphan in the first place. It also made him question just how many children he himself had made orphans. He refused to dwell on that and instead made the decision that he could no longer work for those who had killed his parents. Unsure of where to go, his found himself calling Maksim who had taken up residence in Paris, France. His friend set him up with an apartment and even offered to find him a job as a bouncer at Moulin Rouge where he was patron, but Nikolai felt the apartment was already asking too much and instead found a job as a bartender at Le Silencieux where he would feel right at home.
Your Character’s Name: Nikolai Tarasova
Your Character’s Age: 28
Your Character’s Gender: Male
Occupation: Bartender at Le Silencieux
AI: Eric Balfour
"]Physical Description: Tall at 6’2 with a slender, though fairly muscular frame. Handsome in a fairly unconventional way with a long, angular face highlighted by shaggy dark waves of hair and a goatee. Narrow eyes the color of mahogany peer out from beneath heavy brows. His smile is rare but very charming and he knows it. Tattoos decorate his muscled arms as well as a wide variety of scars.
Personality: Let it be formally stated that Nikolai is not a good guy. He has lied, cheated, stolen, and killed all without blinking an eye. He has scores of blood on his hands and isn’t repentant in the least. He follows the Thieves Code of the Russian Mafiya and that is the closest thing to morals he’s got. He has a hair-trigger temper and can be very violent when provoked…and it doesn’t take much to provoke him. Still, he is fiercely loyal to those he cares for and can be quite sweet when it suits him.
History: Nikolai Tarasova grew up in an orphanage outside of Omsk, Siberia. He got to be close friends with Maksim Borovsky, a boy his same age and the two watched each other’s back over the years. Unlike Maksim, though, Nikolai hadn’t been left there because his mother couldn’t care for him. Both of Nikolai’s parents had been killed in a shooting when he was barely two years old and with no other relatives willing to take him in, he wound up in the orphanage. This also meant that there was no suddenly reappearing wealthy father to come and rescue him, again, unlike Maksim. The two of them kept in touch over the years and occasionally Nikolai was allowed to visit his friend in his new home. He didn’t blame Maksim for his situation, but he couldn’t help but feel slightly jealous as well as betrayed that his only friend had left him. Nikolai never said a word to him about it though and they remained close friends.
When he came of age, Nikolai left the orphanage but struggled to find any kind of job or even a place to stay. It wasn’t long till he fell into a life of crime. He robbed stores and individuals and did a few years in prison as a result. When he got out he took up illegal fighting as a way to get money and found that he was quite good at it. After a fight one night, Nikolai looked up through a black eye to see a well-dressed older man approaching him. The man asked if he would consider a job as a hired muscle for his organization and the young Tarasova was quick to accept.
And that is how Nikolai became involved with the Russian Mafiya.
Over the years Nikolai was responsible for carrying out the hits on people who had crossed the Mafiya and for once in his life he felt like he finally belonged somewhere. He didn’t particularly relish in the killings, but never really felt much remorse for them either. The people he killed were people who had broken the Code of Thieves or those who tried to double cross the Mafiya in their dealings. No great loss. At least that is what he believed.
Just before he was about to turn 28, Nikolai was finally deemed loyal enough to be told the truth. His father had once held much the same job as him and had agreed to the follow the same Code of Thieves. Unfortunately, part of the Code was that those who followed it were to never have a wife or children…a rule his father broke. His father had hid his wife and son from the Mafiya for a few years, but was eventually found out. As was with all those who broke the code, he had to die, his wife along with him. The felt Nikolai was innocent in the matter as it wasn’t his fault he’d been born so they allowed him to live. Though they kept close watch on him as he grew up till finally they decided he was worthy enough to join them.
Truthfully Nikolai was shaken by this revelation. It made sense now why no family had come forward to claim him…they were too scared of the Mafiya. And it was their fault he was an orphan in the first place. It also made him question just how many children he himself had made orphans. He refused to dwell on that and instead made the decision that he could no longer work for those who had killed his parents. Unsure of where to go, his found himself calling Maksim who had taken up residence in Paris, France. His friend set him up with an apartment and even offered to find him a job as a bouncer at Moulin Rouge where he was patron, but Nikolai felt the apartment was already asking too much and instead found a job as a bartender at Le Silencieux where he would feel right at home.
