Name: Mikhail Fedorov
Age: 47
Appearance:Nationality: Russian
Personality:Mikhail just sees himself as another person playing the game that life truly is, seeing the lines that connect everything together. Seeing the tropes and stereotypes played out in reality, he find himself assimilating with a few categories that he never expected to mesh together so well. Being a fairly outgoing guy which knits his entire package together on what someone could suspect what would be inside. With his general personality being quite open, he is someone to go for the fun and party that he can get started even if it's just a small group enjoying themselves. He simply just knows how to unwind at the end of the day before settling back down to handle business again at the start of the day.
Moving back to his normal everyday duties, he is a surprisingly perceptive person who utilizes it fully with his sociable personality to make the most of it. Being a guy like to flirt and toss witty remarks at people whether its get through to them or hits their thick skull which he finds as something fun. Having a good handle on feeling the mood around the room and easily adjusting himself to suit the situation to fit in neat and comfortable. Being a changing persona to play a new role, he is a social chameleon that can blend in when needed and attract attention if wanted. Keeping his true thoughts locked away in a safe far behind the mask that he has created for the situation, Mikhail is much more of a cunning individual once you realize this.
After his first death, his personality has seemed to take a sharp turn with several switches being hit off or perhaps maybe turned on in his head. Taking on a more sarcastic and darker personality with whatever happened to him seems to change him that seem to bleed out at times. It doesn't mean he is incapable of masking his true feelings, it just a change in what is happening within his head. With a more apathetic person seeming to come out of this alive compared to him previously.
Background & Death: Mikhail had an upbringing that could be labeled as sheltered with him at home most of the time until a spike in high school where he became exponentially more social. Before then, he was a much more reclusive person who didn't talk much due to his own insecurities at the time which came naturally from growing up. Raised in a less opportunistic household that you could consider rocky but as he grew up, he distanced himself away from that life.
Tackling his own problems as he grew older, a major issue that he had which plagued him during his earlier years was his lack of a backbone as people would say, spending a good amount of his life building a thin mantle of confidence that was a collection of traits and features from other people he had seen. Collected from the people that he had seen in his life that he has taken silent notes from as he built himself starting from the ground up as a different person. Building his self-confidence with clothing as he continued to progress with making more friends outside the handful that he already had, adopting mannerisms and other quirks from people that were made into his own thing. A fragile veil that solidified over years of electrical wiring in his head being reinforced by Mikhail's will to fit in and assimilate into society.
His life was rather successful if comparing it to the other's as an average to pinpoint, with his education being satisfactory to the standards of today. Being a teacher primarily in foreign languages whenever he wasn't traveling around the world seeking to have a fulfilling life and experience everything. He made do being an English teacher in other countries as a native while he enjoyed absorbing the culture around him. There was always the occasional trip back home after every few years to get rid of the homesickness. Being flexible between the transitions between places that he went to travel, he lived a very active life with a lot of spice in his life.
During the end of his trip to Colombia, he was finishing the night off with some of his students at a bar where his group had withered away to only himself. Deciding that the night was still full of energy and the party still going on so he continued to enjoy the night with the others at the club. There by chance, he met a charming lady whom they shared the night with dragging strangers to join a mish-mashed group to party with. It, however, came to a crash when the crowds began to die down and with a final drink the group that Mikhail and his lady friend began to break apart. Exchanging numbers and information, by the time he had exited the establishment, what initially was a warm buzz turned into a pounding headache that shook his vision...
Two figures grab him suddenly as he steadied himself on the wall before unconsciousness took almost immediately to his weakened state as his face was covered. When he woke up, he was bound along with the fact that he wasn't alone as the lady who accompanied him that night was there too in the same situation. While there were no signs of their captors, they both understood that they stood over the ledge of whether they would be able to escape their situation or slip through the dark cracks of society. In the few days that they had, suspense grew and the two of them underwent various events that only solidified their will and desire to escape from their captivity. Their escape was never... successful despite the two placing their bets with each other as they gave them a vicious fight. Like cornered animals, they were savage in their attempts to escape with a ruthless nature as what was on the line was their lives. While they indeed took down what they thought to be their initial two captors, in what they found out was revealed to be a bigger underground scheme than the two thought. They escaped with grievous wounds that were inflicted on them with the guns that were fired at them as they traveled as far their mangled bodies could go. With no sense of direction and the adrenaline coursing through them, they never made it as they were identified as a John and Jane Doe by the time they were found in a rural area in Colombia as victims of homicide without context to their story that would remain a mystery.
Name: It That Watches
Represents:The difference between the repressed 'inner' self that a person is and the 'outer' self that a person shows to others - In essence, it's the passions, needs, and wants that make up a person whether in the moment or as a permanent mark in themselves
Appearance:Personality: The Momento Mori that is attached to Mikhail is a silent companion with not much to say, compared to Mikhail's hot and sarcastic nature it is seemingly the opposite of him with a refined and calm intelligence. What he knows is that the creature calls itself a 'collector' whatever that means so he doesn't bother learning much about the strange figure.
Abilities:Assimilator of Self - After Mikhail's tragic event, he is now granted the ability of a keen mind on the mannerisms of other people around him allowing him to imitate them if he chooses. Having himself being so malleable that this ability allows him to easily learn things as well such as languages and other activities so long as he is able to see the action being performed in which he will quickly catch on. With how muddy and saturated his mind is combined with his own issues present, it makes mental manipulations on him much harder to effect him.
As with the Momento Mori, it allows it to study the others like him for whatever reason it is interested in about them...
By My Will - Mikhail's aptitude for the magical arts was unknown when his latent abilities were triggered in a grievous situation unlike any other. However, combine with the Momento Mori's own psychic abilities seemed to enhance its vessel's own powers but without separating the Mikhail from the Momento Mori it is unknown what his true abilities alone are. He is able to shove a decent sized person and similar level feats in the area as long a single person can do it without a problem, with concentration increasing his ability to effect things given time to focus the energy for the stronger feat.
