Post by Demeter on Sept 10, 2013 22:26:18 GMT -5
Character Name: Ivan Illarion Kozlov
Age: 250
Birthday: June 10, 1767
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight
Species: Brood - Shifter
First Appearance: 2017
The Supernatural Bit
Were creatures
Genome: True
Beast Name: Koshka
Faction: Snow Leopard
Moon Phases/Classification: Full/hunter
Pack: Solitary but spends time in the Altay, Gates, and Point Hope Brood Holdings
Beast Disposition: 6-7
Beast Form: Koshka is very large for a male snow leopard. Attributed to his dragon half, Koshka weighs in at a surprising 170 pounds and is over six feet in length from his nose to the base of his tail. His tail is measured at 4 feet in length to help balance the six of his body. Koshka is smoke gray in color with a white underbelly, silver rosettes and silver-green eyes.
Infected at age: Birth
Contagion: He got his shifter genes from his mother, Arina
Brood
Clan/Color: White – born of the Altay Holding in Russia, raised in the Gates of the Artic Holding in Alaska and has respected visitor status at the Point Hope Holding.
True Name: Ivankosh’ka
Dragon Form: Ivan is on the small side for a white male. While his dragon half seemed to increase the size of his leopard counterpart, the genes that had been passed to him from his mother seemed to shrink the dragon. Ivan, in full dragon form, measures at 5 feet at the shoulders with a length of 10 feet and a wingspan of 14 feet. He is a silver-gray in color with dark silver rosettes splattered over his hindquarters and along his spine. He has two horns above his eye ridges that are twisted in a tight spiral. His neck ridges are more like fins rather than ridges and any rider has to settle behind his withers and above the wing joints. In place a scales, Ivan sports hide.
Brood Form (if achieved): Ivan’s Brood form is simply his wings and horns being added to his human appearance.
Appearance
Hair Color: Silver blonde
Hair Style: Ivan’s hair is cut in layers down to the base of his shoulder blades. When working, his hair is normally tied back in a low tail.
Eyes: bright blue
Complexion: pale and smooth
Teeth: straight, white, maybe a little crowded
Height: 6’
Weight: 210 pds – he’s heavier than he looks.
Fitness Level: Ivan keeps in shape by staying active. He’s involved in a variety of Alaskan sports such as skiing, snowshoeing, sled dog racing, hockey and mountain climbing.
Clothing Style: Ivan prefers clothing he can work in. Strong, hardy clothing that can take a beating and still be ready for more wear and tear. He has fancy clothes but is more often found in clothing typical for the Alaskan weather and seasons.
Tattoos: One, a large Inuit-Tribal design on his left shoulder.
Piercings: One in his right ear
Scars: Just the normal collection of marks from having a rough and tumble childhood.
Personality
Ivan is a fun loving person. He does know how to be serious but would prefer to just have fun. He loves his family, his friends and his dogs. He’s not terribly trusting when first meeting someone but he does enjoy the process of making friends. Anyone who has an love for animals is okay by him.
Basic History
Parents: Birth mother: Arina, Birth father: Modyaka’Mechta, Step-mother: Katianebo’sol. Step-father: Milan, deceased but still important step-father: Illarion
Siblings: Full sisters: Stasymesto’nebo and Zoyasvet’nebo. Dragon half-brothers: Pashasheg’ka, Sergeinost’ka, Vitalitsel’Ka. Dragon half-sisters: Radasya’nebo, Rozavera’nebo, Taisiyaschas’nebo, and Shurameya’nebo. Snow Leopard half-brothers: Grigory, Iosif, Kuzma and Nikon. Snow Leopard half-sisters: Alla, Darya, Karina, Milena
Close Friends: Rhea, Chastity, Grae, Cameo, Lilia, Ben, Isis, Theo, Hannah, Avery, and Kayle
Significant Other: Asiah
Children: None at the moment
Interests/Hobbies: skiing, snowshoeing, sled dog racing, hockey and mountain climbing, cooking, reading, playing with his dogs, playing practical jokes
Education: His early education was conducted by the ancient dragons that lived at the Gates of the Artic Holding.
College: Cornell University
~~Major: DMV program in the Vet School
~~Minor: Business Administration
Intelligence: Ivan is fairly intelligent, both from living life and the education the ancients gave him.
Occupation: Veterinarian
Place of Residence: Point Hope, AK – behind the recently established vet office and dens in the Altay, Gates of the Artic and Point Hope Holdings
History
Ivan’s history begins long before he was born. It started on the day that a hunter shot young Katianebo’sol, known as Katia to her family and friends, down from the sky with a stone and slingshot. She tumbled from the sky, falling head over tail, Katia crashed in Lake Teletskoye. She was rescued by Arina, a young snow leopard shifter who’d only recently left her mother’s side to strike out on her own. She recently settled her territory on the shores of the lake and saw the dragon when she crashed into the waters.
Abandoning the challenging tasks of creating her permanent den, Arina dives into the chilly waters to haul the dragon out. Still not fully grown, Katia was an easy to remove from the water. Hearing the sounds of an approaching hunting party, Arina stuffed the dragon into her well hidden temporary shelter. She then shifted and hid herself. From the bushes, she watched as the hunting party searched for the beast they’d shot down.
Eventually, the hunting party left the shores of Lake Teleskoye, Arina went to check on her unexpected guest. The dragon had shifted in her unconsciousness to take her human form. The stone that had struck her from the sky and the fall had injured her greatly and Arina applied what little medical knowledge she had to patching the woman up. Within a few days, Katia had healed up and the two girls became friends until Katia felt she could leave.
They remained friends for three years, Katia traveling from her holding deep within the Altay Mountains to visit the snow leopard. Then, one day, a scouting party from the holding came across a battered Arina. She pleaded with the dragons to take her to Katia. They escorted Arina to Katia and the Snow Leopard told the dragon that another female had come into her territory and taken if from her. Arina had been chased from the shores of the lake and had wandered towards the holding.
Katia took Arina as her bonded partner, giving the young snow leopard a place to spend her days with her dearest friend. It was a near thing but Katia had enough strength to cast the bonding spell. They grew up together and when Katia reached the age of mating, they looked over the young males of the holding together. There was one dragon in particular that had caught Katia’s eye.
Modyaka’Mechta, known as Modya, was the perfect male and he came with a bonus for Arina. He had a snow leopard as a bonded partner as well! Illarion has been raised with Modya; in fact, his parents were the bonded partners of Modya’s parents. No one was surprised when the two became bonded partners at the very early age of 20 as they were closer than brothers. And both men were intrigued when Katia and Arina proposed mating with them.
It took a few years of courting, but Modya and Illarion ended up with Katia and Arina. In short order the first children came along. Little Pasha for Katia and Modya was followed within the year by Arina and Illarion’s daughter, Alla. For the next 237 years, the four were happy and productive. Both couples produced children every 50 years or so.
But happiness wouldn’t last. In 1766, Illarion was killed, brutally. He’d been out in the mountain range, with some of the younger snow leopards connected to the holding, teaching them the way of the leopard, when he was shot by poachers. With the direct shot to the head, Illarion died instantly and would remain within his Snow Leopard form.
The young leopards remained hidden, each shaken by what they witnessed, Illarion’s youngest, Grigory would be scarred for life after witnessing the murder and subsequent harvesting of his father’s body. At the holding, Modya, as well as Katia and Arina felt his death the moment it happened. While the women sobbed in each other eyes, as Illarion has been lover to one and dearest friend to the other, Modya flew to were his bonded partner, who was more of a brother then those he shared his bloodline with, lay dead.
Illarion had been stripped of his thick pelt and his organs ripped from his body. He’d been left where he’d been shot as nothing more than muscle and bone. Modya, unable to face what had been done to Illarion, gathered the cubs together, holding Grigory close, returned to the holding. It was Modya’s brothers and cousins who retrieved the body from the mountainside and returned him to the holding for a proper burial.
While Katia prepared Illarion’s body for burial, Arina and Modya turned to each other for comfort. That night, dragon and snow leopard slept together. When Katia found them curled up together, she didn’t begrudge them of their actions. They were all in mourning.
After the burial, the only bright spot in their grief was that Arina was with child, though she honestly didn’t know who the father was. Katia sat her partner down and told her that if this baby was the child of Illarion or of Modya, it would be loved by all. There were some in the holding who told Katia that she shouldn’t allow the child to live because of the possible taint of its parentage. When told this, Katia would retort that fathered by Illarion or Modya, the child was a child of her heart, if not her body, and no one would ever make her end the life of one of her children.
Soon, the baby was born and Modya proved to the father. They named the baby Ivan Illarion Kozlov and he was loved by all three of his parents. For the first two years of his life, Ivan scampered around as an odd little dragon-leopard creature. If there was any who disliked him, Ivan didn’t know it. Anyone outside of his family didn’t register for Ivan.
When Arina once again became pregnant by Modya, many of the dragons in the holding were very outspoken in their disgust. The dragons on the Altay holding were very proud of their pure lines and they didn’t approve of the mixed parentage of these cubs. It was then that the three adults received an invitation to live at the holding of the ancients, located within the Endicott Mountains of Alaska. There, they would be accepted as a mixed family allowed to raise their children as they saw fit.
They moved to the Endicott range when Ivan was three and his baby sister, Stasya, was just a few months old. There, at the holding of the ancients, Ivan grew and learned and no one disparaged of his and his younger sister’s heritage.
In 1798, when Ivan was 31, his mother fell in love for a second time. She found a wounded male snow leopards on the slopes of the mountain and dragged him back the holding. As she nursed him back to health, she and Milan, the leopard, discovered that they had mutual feelings for each other. Katia and Modya, wanting Arina to be happy, double bonded the snow leopard, allowing him and Arina to remain together.
They have remained a happy family sense. Ivan grew up and found his own path. He loved animals of all kinds. He even went to the veterinary school at Cornell University to earn his DMV. He’s spent many years as sort of a wandering vet in Alaska but recently he’s decided to settle down in one town and establish a vet’s office. Now, he’s looking to start his own story and is eagerly awaiting what fate has in store for him.