Damian Volkov
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Full name: Damian Nikolai Volkov
Age: 22
D.O.B: December 17
Birthplace: Severobaykalsk, Russia
Current location: Avalon
Blood status: Halfblood
Occupation: Auror/Personal Trainer (on the side)
Looks
Hair style: A very dark brown, his hair is kept long, typically left down but put up in a low ponytail when he’s training.
Body type: Fit, but not heavily muscled. He has a strong core and forearms, but not extremely so.
Dress sense: Almost everything he owns is black or dark grey. Most of his clothes are fit for training, or are formal, with the occasional casual piece scattered in there. He prefers covering the majority of his skin.
Personality
Likes: Exercise, including running, sparring/training, but not sports because those have no point in his opinion. Combat in general is what he typically enjoys. Mountains are among his favourite environments, as are beaches.
Dislikes: Lazy people who don’t take care of their bodies. Also, those who think they are worthless. He believes that everyone is capable of great things, though some chose the dark path and wind up as villains. Those he also despises, as well as stereotypes and his family. He's also allergic to hazelnuts, so natural he dislikes those.
Quirks: Always on edge, even when he appears to be relaxed. Any kind of touch to his bare skin causes alarm, so typically he wears long-sleeved clothing. From time to time he uses the occasional Russian word, be it a nickname or a swear word.
Flaws: He never smiles around others and can be very cold and closed off. Sometimes he tries to push people or himself too hard. He finds it incredibly easy to hold grudges, even when there is an apology, and is prone to extreme anger.
Strengths: He’s protective to a fault and is mentally and physically resilient. He’s realistic at all times, preferring to tell it as it is. He’ll brave through anything, especially if it’s for the sake of someone he cares about.
Weaknesses: He can be too concerned with training and staying strong, almost becoming obsessed. At times he is very strict, unrelenting, and almost heartless. His being extreme can drive people away sometimes. There is nothing that can get him talking about his family, as it causes him to become infuriated and somewhat violent; his dark past is not something he wants to bring to light.
More Information
Coming from a wealthy Russian family with a rich history, Anton Volkov was a prideful, almost pureblood businessman with a bright future, who happened to fall in love with a muggle woman named Rose Alkaev. Rose had a dark past, descending from a line of mostly criminals, but she was determined to make an honest living for herself. They met in a small shop in Severobaykalsk, where she worked and he shopped, and what started as polite conversation grew into deep discussions over meals, and dates. Anton’s parents disapproved, but he insisted that Rose was the love of his life, and eventually the two married.
Three years passed before the birth of their first child, all that time spent still in Severobaykalsk, with Anton taking a few business trips when he could. Nadya was wonderful, yes, but the Volkov family needed a proper heir, and it became an obvious necessity when pressure from the parents piled on. Yet they managed to delay three additional years before Rose finally gave birth to a son, Damian. All of Anton’s hopes rode on his only son, for the future of Volk Enterprises lay in him. For his entire childhood, the whole paternal side of his family was focused on him, even when Zoé was born.
Damian, even when he was fairly young, always loved to run and play actively, and that stuck with him throughout the rest of his years as a kid. The boy was too active even for his parents, so Anton proposed to Rose that he needed to be disciplined and learn manners, which she hesitantly tried to apply. Unfortunately, it was not effective enough for Anton’s liking. He took it upon himself to teach Damian how to obey, and that was when the abuse began.
Before the “sessions” began, Damian was a pretty happy kid, withdrawing only when around his father’s business partners and when the Volkovs moved to Moscow when he was eight for more opportunities. After, he became shy, but also angry. One time when Damian lost his temper, he set fire to a curtain and chair, which grew to an inferno that almost ruined their living room. Just one example of how the negative feelings that built up inside and escaped, causing damage no one had been prepared for. Truly, though, the real damage was being inflicted upon Damian himself. He was being pushed too hard towards something he never wanted, something he had simply inherited, his supposed birthright and future. He was even forced to attend a private, specialised school that prepared him for that, with a few courses geared toward magic-folk.
At age fourteen, one year after the abuse had gotten to the point of near-hospitalization, his older sister decided to join in, preferring to take the verbal route instead of the physical. Nadya, even though she once was innocent, became a ruthless businesswoman like her father, following in his footsteps the way Damian had supposed to. She was suddenly the ideal choice for the future leader of Volk Enterprises, and now there was no way for Damian to win the favour of his father. But at that point, he had no desire to. One night over dinner, he sealed his own fate by declaring that he wanted to be an Auror, and Anton simply lost it.
That was the first time Damian had been to a hospital in Moscow, save for the time his grandfather had suffered from a heart attack, and from then on he dedicated himself to training each and every day, even going so far as to ignore his studies until his mother told him the educational requirements of becoming an Auror. He decided that he would attend university, but try to shorten the years to provide more time for the three years of Auror training. Now, when faced with his father, Damian was capable of fighting back, and fight back he did, even when he was already wounded and exhausted. With the pain from his father, his mother was the one who always comforted him, who helped him through every day, though nothing she could do would rescue Damian from becoming hard and closed-off. Out of fear, she made no move to stop the abuse, but at least she was teaching him how to withstand it. Life, though painful, was bearable.
One fateful day at age sixteen, while in a terrible mood after a “session,” he unknowingly caused all the burners on the stove to turn on without lighting, filling the room with gas. One spark was the cause of his mother’s and younger sister's death. From there, Anton blamed Damian for killing part of his own family and disowned him soon after. For once in his life, Damian was free from the burden of business, but a different weight was draped on his shoulders; the weight of death is not easily carried.
Cast out from the Volkov family, Damian was left on his own to fend for himself. It was not easy at first, but eventually it became easier to live alone and take out his anger through exercise. He drove himself to limits he never thought he would hit, then pushed some more. Finishing school at seventeen was no problem when he had more time on his hands, and he passed his O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s with flying colours, making that the only time he was thankful for his forced education. For university, he found one in Russia that offered summer classes, which he took for two years straight before immediately moving on to Auror training. After three long years spent training, he finally received the official position. His first assignment placed him in England, and after spending a good amount of time there he decided to live there, which served to be a good decision. His most recent assignment was to personally train a promising young individual in Avalon, thus why he journeys there.
Family
Father: Anton Volkov
Mother: Rose Volkov (née Alkaev, deceased)
Siblings: Older sister (Nadya, 25), younger sister (Zoé, deceased)
Spouse: N/A
Girlfriend/Boyfriend: N/A
Children: N/A
Other (Optional)
Wand: Phoenix feather core, 12 inches, blackthorn wood.
Broomstick: Siberian Arrow, which he uses more for travel than sport, if at all.
Pets: N/A
School that they went to: Soblaznilsya, a private school in Russia.
House they were in: N/A
Other: N/A
OOC
OOC Alias: Makenna
Best Way To Contact: Usually the CB depending on the time, or PM.
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