Name: Aleksandar “Alex” Mistreski
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Personality: An easy going person with a confident attitude, Alex walks through life with a relaxed self-assuredness that is at times frustrating. He is not the kind of person to get worked up about the small things in life, or the large things for that matter. He does not worry when things go wrong, or agitated when the unexpected happens; on the one hand this means he is able to keep a level head when others would panic but it also means that problems tend to spiral out of control because he overestimated his ability to deal with them or he just didn’t think it was worth acting about them.
He is someone who dislikes complications. He has simple tastes, a simple lifestyle and a simple, straight forward approach to problem solving. He has confidence in his strength above all else and isn’t one to think too hard about a situation, instead preferring to charge ahead and trust that he is strong enough to succeed; some would call him decisive, others an idiot.
This confidence also means that he cannot resist a challenge. For someone so easy going he can be surprisingly competitive and is easily riled into competing with others, the otherwise laidback Alex coming to life when there is a winner to be crowned and a first place to be taken. He takes challenges seriously and a friendly contest is never just a friendly contest. He is not a great loser, with a tendency to sulk, but he can handle a defeat with some grace assuming the contest was fair and he gave his all. A loss in a friendly game he will mostly just shake off and not worry about, but a loss in a serious competition will take him longer to get over. Alex is not one to hold grudges though, if anything considering them too much effort to maintain, and he can always pay them that loss back in the future.
Partner: N/A
Faction: Shibusen (Demon Weapon Meister Academy)
Student Class: Exceptional
History: Alex is the only child of Sostratos and Berenike Mistreski, a Meister and Weapon pair who have resided in Death City their entire lives. Alex’s family has a long history in Shibusen having resided in Death City ever since his ancestor showed signs of Meister abilities and the family was brought to the city two hundred and fifty years ago. Originally hailing from Macedonia, the Mitreski family has produced many Meisters in its time, with Alex being the ninth generation.
However, despite its deep roots the Mitreski family is not particularly influential or well known within the city walls. Its Meister’s have never been particularly successful or powerful; many retired early, others died, but none ever had much success with producing a Death Scythe. Most settled into the normal student group and stayed there, some failed to even make it to this level. Only Alex’s Grandfather, now deceased and for whom he was named, ever reached the level of an exceptional student. However, despite his talent he too was unable to make his partner into a weapon of Lord Death, failing in every attempt to claim a Witches soul and finally retiring. He died several years ago when Alex was young.
It was he who raised Alex, at least at first, since his parents were still very active at this point and spent long days or weeks abroad hunting Kishin Eggs. He taught Alex to fight from a young age, determined to prepare him for when his Meister abilities would no doubt begin to show themselves. He also taught him about their family, telling him their history, stories accumulated over the years from his own adventures and those that were told to him by his own father and grandfather; stories reaching back even to before their time in Death City, when their family still lived in Macedonia.
He imbued in Alex a desire to become a Meister, although it was always a given that he would be one and always spoken of as an inevitability, his grandfather was the one who made it sound like something he wanted to do.
When Alex was ten years old his grandfather passed away, prompting his parents to take a step back from their work and spend more time at home or at least closer to it. Alex’s father has taken over as his tutor and mentor, continuing the training his father started.
To Alex, being a Meister is something he always wanted to do; there was no need to consider doing anything else. While he was attending regular schooling, he would not pay attention in classes because he felt that he wouldn’t need the information for what he was going to do. He would work hard during gym class, genuinely enjoying the subject and having a competitive streak that wouldn’t allow for anything less, but aside from this he saw schooling as something to fill the time until he could attend Shibusen.
Luckily for him, Alex was something of a prodigy when it came to being a Meister. Only two years after his grandfather passed away Alex developed the first ability of a Meister; soul perception. And at age thirteen, during a training session with his father, he learned how to perform a soul purge for the first time.
They were sparring outside and his father was pushing things further than he usually did. Alex, frustrated with how he was being beaten so easily was beginning to lose his temper and wasn’t performing as well as normal. After knocking Alex down for the tenth time, Sostratos decided to give his son a push, tauntingly asking if he would ever make it as a Meister if this was the best he could do.
Something snapped inside Alex and without really knowing why he charged and threw a wild punch at his father, something rising up within him. His father easily sidestepped the clumsy attack and Alex instead hit the tree behind him. Instead of the pain he expected Alex felt that ‘something’ inside him flow down his arm and out of his hand into the tree.
The bark splintered, the trunk buckled and the tree fell.
Without missing a beat Sostratos said that they would begin the next phase of training tomorrow, and that he would enrol Alex at Shibusen when he could do that at will.
