Post by NIKOLAI ALEXANDER BELANOV on Dec 25, 2012 17:16:29 GMT -8
(NIKOLAI
[/color]ALEXANDER BELANOV)[/font]
"Won't repent to a mortal whom is all to blame."[/center]
full name: nikolai alexander belanov
nicknames: he used to be called "nikki" by a close companion, but he doesn't let anyone refer to him as anything but "nikolai" or "belanov" now.
date of birth: summer solstace in the year 1760.
physical/mental age: twenty-five
hometown: a piece of land near the russian-estonian border.
species: VAMPIRE
ability's: nikolai has the ability to make himself blend in with his surroundings, whether through mental invisibility or through sheer chameleon-like effect. it is a mental power, though it is very strong, and only someone with a very strong shield can break through the illusions he weaves.
height: 5'11”-5'12”
weight: 154lbs
hair: black
eyes: red (black when hungry)
play by: taylor fuchs
likes:
- being left to his own devices
- not having to worry about others
- the teeming life that the cities hold
- hunting in plain sight
- he likes the colour amber
- the thrill of the hunt
- human blood; he has to work more for it, so it tastes better to him
- winter
- frivolous conversations
- observation
dislikes:
- being forced into conflict
- being pursued
- when enemies track him down
- being seen when he does not wish to be
- people with overly intrusive powers
- werewolves
- any behaviour he perceives as "dog-like" in vampires or in humans
- his close ones dying
- things not going according to plan
- not predicting something
strengths:
- while not bloodthirty and angry all the time, it is very hard to make him feel regret for anything, so he gets things done very quickly and efficiently
- intelligent
- very versatile; he can become anyone he wants, and adapt to any situation, both through the use of his power and his own sharp mind
- charismatic as hell
- his lithe frame gives him a swift edge in a physical battle
weaknesses:
- he can be arrogant at times
- oddly easy to rile
- traditional vampire weaknesses
- not as physically strong
- he can be very cold towards people seemingly out of nowhere
habits/quirks: he will lapse into russian at odd points in his speech, and he often talks in russian sentence structure.
fears: death and losing someone else.
secrets: though he feigns neutrality, he tends to lean more towards the Volturi side of arguments concerning humans, though of course he's only there for as long as they're in power; he also has a fear of knocks in the night.
personality:upon looking at him, most wouldn't suspect that nikolai belanov is a main driven mostly by immense grief. outwardly cool and cordial, and with a permanent, small-but-enigmatic smile pulling at the corners of his mouth, he looks the very epitome of a somewhat mysterious businessman. charismatic as hell, he's always quick to comment and either smooth over or stir up a situation, depending on his mood, and yet he's still surprisingly ruthless, given to black moods wherein he does nothing but snap and lash out at all who approach him. this is the only hint to something Not Completely Right with nikolai, and most don't suspect how far it goes.
driven by the grief over the brutal death of his sire and lover, Joseph Steinitz, nikolai perfected the "cold-but-cordial gentleman" to a fault in order to win over allies while simultaneously keeping people a safe distance away from him, citing that he doesn't want to make friends.
"friends are merely liability," he is known to say, "and liabilities are not something someone such as myself can hope to afford." he simultaneously learned to dropped the russian way of speaking in sentences (well, when he focuses, and only when he needs to; naturally it's still there, and considering he generally doesn't care who hears it, it remains), perfecting modern english speech, although his accent--relatively thick--still remains.
and yet, even with all that practice, nikolai can be incredibly easy to rile up if one says the right (or rather, wrong) thing, in which case he will unwillingly display his more ruthless side, wherein he is more than willing to literally tear everything apart that stands in front of them. he usually tries to hunt when he gets to this point, taking his anger out in the bloody slaughter of his prey, whether human or animal.
mother: (Lady) Tatiana Natalya Belanova
father: (Lord) Peter Alexander Belanov
siblings: Natalya Arisha Belanova & Praskoviya Belanova
other family: none
other important people: maximillian kogler & joseph steinitz
history:it should come as no surprise to those who know him that nikolai is a bit of a gentleman. born fourteen years before the American war for independence and right smack in the middle of the Seven Years' War, he was the only heir to the lands and fortune his father held in a small Russian territory somewhere near the official Estonian-Russian border—that is to say, by a lake. it was for this reason that nikolai would be brought up with all the care in the world, being taught several languages by the time he was seven. his father was extra careful with him as well, for his mother had bourne no more living children by nikolai's eleventh birthday, and when nikolai was twelve his father had his mother locked away in a covenant while he sought himself a younger, “more fertile” wife, though he would eventually be disappointed when this later match only brought him daughters.
raised in a time when war was the highlight of Europe, and Russia's alliances were tricky at best, nikolai learned to strategise on his own, following the politics of war carefully from the time he was fifteen onward. nikolai lived his life in relative normalcy during this time, and spent all his human years under the reign of Catherine the Great, who would eventually lead into the first half-decade of his vampire life as well.
it was when nikolai was nearing the end of his twenty-first year that he was invited to court, an invitation he accepted graciously and with a tiny hint of smugness, as he knew it was because they all wanted to see Peter Belanov's only son, seeing as his father had died earlier that same summer. it was at court that nikolai was subject to the flattering attentions of a visiting dignitary from Austria, who helped to immerse him (and guide him) through life in any Court. maximillian kogler, for that was the man's name, would become a close friend of nikolai's, and a person of interest with whom he would exchange letters as often as possible, even after kogler left Russia to return to his native Austria when the tension between Austria and their rival Prussia heated up again. even so, for four years they kept up an odd friendship of sorts, kogler in russian and nikolai in broken austrian-german as he tried to improve that particular language, which wasn't nearly as strong as his russian, english and latin.
it was in the autumn of his twenty-fifth year that nikolai next saw kogler, and this time the wise middle-aged austrian wasn't alone, instead being accompanied by a charismatic and somewhat mysterious younger man by the name of joseph steinitz. nikolai was fascinated by steinitz, from his graceful, assured movements to his smooth, pristine face, and though kogler advised nikolai to keep his distance—“Many are wary about this one, Nikolai; odd things follow him where he goes.”--nikolai couldn't help but be entranced by the young man. and apparently steinitz had been somewhat entranced in return. a couple months later, when the snow had been falling in its entirety, steinitz invited nikolai to the temporary apartments he had been granted by empress catherine, and they shared a few drinks before steinitz spoke again.
“when you vere little, did your nursemaid ever tell you scary stories? stories about monsters and creatures of darkness and magic?” steinitz had asked. when nikolai had responded that such things were generally frowned upon, but yes she said, particularly when he was being naughty, steinitz had laughed.
“then allow me to be the vone to tell you that her stories veren't all false. i vill not ask your permission for this though, nikolai. i am a... very selfish creature, you see. and i like you, enough to vant to keep you vith me vithout the annoying mortal tendency to...age.”
nikolai hadn't had enough time to react as he felt his head cupped and gently tilted back, fangs digging into his neck before steinitz made an incision along his own neck, the blood from which dripped into nikolai's stunned and open mouth. steinitz then killed him, and was the last thing nikolai saw upon death, and the first thing he saw upon rebirth.
it was steinitz who taught nikolai to hunt, and everything he needed to know about vampires, and steinitz who provided nikolai with a charm to ward off the sunlight. the two maintained a relationship--romantic and sexual--for the next century before moving to estonia to escape the turmoil of russia, whereupon they befriended a smaller number of nomadic vampires and further established themselves. with steinitz as his Sire, and nikolai as the progeny, they enjoyed the extra level their relative solitude.
steinitz's death at the hands of a couple of shifters occurred when nikolai was out hunting. he came back to the house just in time to see steinitz kneeling on the floor before two individuals--male and female--blood leaking from the sides of his mouth as he flashed his two murderers a would-be smile. it was all he got in before they beheaded him, and nikolai's unearthly scream was the last thing they heard before the vampire slaughtered them both with more rage than he had ever shown in his lifetime.
in the aftermath, nikolai had stood there blankly, his face contorted with a mixture of rage and grief before he had bent down to coldly retrieve the family ring steinitz had always worn--a silver ring encrusted with an odd combination of obsidian and rubies--and left the house for good.
shortly thereafter he up and left the soviet union. he has not returned since.
your name: cheyenne
age: --
experience: 5+ years
who you play: alec volturi
how to contact you: PM ;3
how you found us: ad~!
have you read the rules: yuuush
role play sample: find a thread with alec in it
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