Misha

[Demeter]

Character Name: Misha Orlov-Liao
Age: 2000 (in 2035)
Birthday: 6/21/0035
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Bisexual
Species: Alati

The Supernatural Bit
Alati
Deity: Veles – Slavic god of the Underworld
Role: Assassin
House: Unda & Ignis
Faction: Custos
Ethereal Form: When shifted to his ethereal form, Misha gains red and black scaled wings, red eyes, talons and fangs. When in this form, Misha bears his birth clan’s mark on his forehead.

Appearance
Hair Color: True black with blue highlights
Hair Style: When loose, his hair trails along on the ground. When bound back in intricate braids, it brushes his calves. Often, he wears bells in his hair. When doing his duties as an assassin, Misha wears his hair in a single braid, doubled over.
Eyes: Sea green
Complexion: Pale – Misha tends to avoid the sun.
Teeth: Straight and white
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 202 lbs.
Fitness Level: Very fit but with a long/lean build – he’s not bulky. Misha prefers weight lifting mixed with martial arts, swimming and hiking
Clothing Style: Misha just adores quality fabrics and the traditional clothing of both Mother Russia and China. That’s not to say he can’t be found in jeans and a sweatshirt but he always presents a nice, clean image.
Tattoos: Two – an unchained rose on his left hip and Tomas’s clan mark over his heart.
Piercings: Two in each ear – small studs in the upper and lower holes. He also wears simply styled cuffs on both ears.
Scars: No major scars

Personality
Generally, Misha will say what is on his mind. He coolly handles most things but he has a temper that can run very hot. He feels responsible for those younger than himself and doesn’t forgive easily.

Basic History
Parents: Mikhail Orlov and Min Liao
Siblings: Luka Orlov – younger brother
Close Friends: Tomas, Satoshi, Solaris, Thanos, Ransom, Remmie, Sabra, Nika
Significant Other: Tomas
Children: Nika
Interests/Hobbies: Martial arts, knife throwing, painting, classical music, playing violin and piano, flower arranging, hiking, photography, gardening
Education: A Lord’s education but no modern schooling…yet
Intelligence: Very Intelligent thanks to his education and life lessons. He’s curious and likes to learn.
Occupation: Assassin for his clan
Place of Residence: Mansion in the Olympic mountains, Tomas apartment, Rooms at the deLorme house, Rooms in the Orlov and Liao holdings

History
Born in year 35, Misha was a trail to his parents. He was a wonderful baby and a sweet child but he inherited his paternal grandmother’s nature in spades. She’d been a succubus all her life but none of her children had grown to be like her. And, even though he’d inherited her talents, Misha wasn’t a true incubus; he couldn’t shift his features to be anyone’s dream. So, his parents were stuck with a sexually mature Alati who was unable to join the ranks of the Incubi.

When Misha was 15, he overheard his mother talking about the idea of castrating him to stop the problems he caused and making his younger brother Luka the heir to the Orlov and Liao clans. His mother, Min, was embarrassed by her eldest child’s habits and overt sexuality. Angry at his parents, Misha ran away from home.

He wandered the globe for years before he ended up a captive of the Magda Clan. The lord of the clan recognized that Misha was a high born Alati. When Misha explained the situation, the Magda Clan Lord came up with a solution. Instead of allowing Misha to go free, he would make Misha into a consort and forge an alliance with the Orlov Clan.

Misha’s mother was horrified by the offer but his father saw the possibilities. Misha was well suited to the life and the clans would have trading and warfare alliances. Mikhail Orlov agreed to the idea of the promise that a member of the Magda bloodline be sent to Russia in Misha’s place. With the contracts settled, the Magda Lord put his mark on Misha.

Because it was a political contract, and because he was still the heir to the Orlov & Liao clans, Misha could not be claimed as clan property, thus he bore a rose with broken chains as his mark.

Until the day the lord died, allowing his son, Thanos, to rise to power, Misha was the consort of the clan leader. He remained loyal to the man, with a few sanctioned affairs on the side. One of those affairs netted him a son. Born in 985 AD, Nika would grow to follow his father’s footsteps. Misha delighted in the boy and let him run wild.
He would stay with the clan lord until the man died of an infection. After, drifted from partner to partner. Eventually, he would become the oldest consort and their defacto leader. Misha was the one they all went to with their fears. He would also become an advisor to young Lord Thanos. There came a point when Misha stopped taking partners and simply cared for the other consorts. And his heart grew colder as he watched the consorts find their mates among the Magda clan. Even Nika found his soul mate and while Misha was happy for everyone, he didn’t want to watch it happening around him.

And then in 1481, not long after young Ransom was forever bound to Claudio, Misha found his soul mate and it was a much unexpected person. After all, he’d watched Tomas grow from an infant to a man and perhaps that’s why he’d never noticed Tomas before.

It was a spring afternoon, during the festival to celebrate Ransom and Claudio’s bonding, that Misha was smacked in the face with Tomas’ maleness. He’d been walking through the gardens with some of the visiting consorts from Claudio’s clan when they came across a wrestling competition. Claudio and Ransom were seated at the side of the ring, more interested in each other than watching as Carmine Valerio, Claudio’s younger brother, sparred with one of the Magda clan.

The consorts stayed to watch; the Valerio consorts wagering on Carmine while Misha faithfully put his money on the Magda man. At first, Misha admired Carmine but soon his attention was fixated on the other contestant. Like all of the participants, the man wore nothing but a loincloth and his skin was coated with oil and the dust from the ring.

He stared at the man’s bare feet, exposed legs and back. He wanted that man. For the first time in a century. He wanted to bed, and be bedded, by someone. And when that man, after forcing Carmine out of the ring, turned around, Misha nearly swallowed his own tongue.

The man he’d so admired was Tomas! Even as he drank in the sight of Tomas’ finely muscled chest and flat abdomen and the trail of hair that dipped below his loincloth, he had flashes of Tomas the infant, the boy and the clumsy teen. Not even the Tomas of yesterday had inspired such feelings of lust and desire.

Misha excused himself from the group of consorts and took a seat. It was somewhere during the fourth match he watched that he figured it out. The before Tomas was Ransom’s silly best friend, prone to pranks and misadventures. This man in the wrestling ring was Tomas-the-man, a battle-hardened warrior with a ruthless streak and a stunning physique. When Claudio was off getting refreshments for his new mate, Ransom perched himself next to Misha and said that Tomas was awesome, wasn’t he, and how he was up for a promotion to an officer’s ranking.

Later that night, during the feasting, Misha listened as Tomas made his excuses and watched as he slowly limped towards the barracks. Misha made his own excuses to Thanos and hurried after the warrior. Had he looked backwards, Misha would have seen multiple sets of raised eyebrows but he was intent on reaching Tomas.
He waylaid Tomas and steered him towards the consorts ‘hall, claiming it would be quieter. He brought Tomas into his own spacious quarters and called for cold water and bruise salve. He soaked the bruises from the wrestling competition and coated them with salve, all under the wary gaze of Tomas. The warrior had never received such personal attention from any consort before, much less the leader of the group.

And then Misha pressed his advances on Tomas, telling the young warrior that he was more than willing to care for all of Tomas’ needs. Though it took several weeks for Tomas to realize that Misha advances were genuine (and that was because Thanos had to take the young warrior aside and tell him to stop being an ass because Misha was giving himself freely) Tomas would visit the consort whenever he had free time.

Once those hurdles were out of the way and the two were seriously involved, it seemed like no time had passed that they were declaring love for each other. By fall, the Magda compound was hosting another bonding ceremony. The party was to publicly announce that Misha Orlov-Liao was Tomas Eld’s soul mate ended up being a week long party.

All was bliss until 1485 when Lorcaine overthrew his father. Lorcaine, Thanos’ youngest son, was a cruel leader and declared all of the consorts, even those with special status, to be property and no one’s bonded mate. And yet, at first, Lorcaine was very careful around Nika and Misha.

Satoshi, Thanos’ mate and consort, had the same status as Misha but had killed himself, freeing Lorcaine from the threat of the Oshiro clan attacking. Misha, though, was very much alive and heir to two clans. Lorcaine knew that all Misha had to do was raise his pinky to start a war.

Misha also knew too many clan secrets. He’d been consort to Lorcaine’s grandfather and advisor to Thanos, after all. Misha was also the mastermind behind smuggling the consorts out of the compound. Thanos hadn’t been able to see them to safety, so Misha saw that plan through.

And even though Lorcaine treated him carefully, Misha wasn’t exempt from the horrors visited on the consorts. Tomas protested but Misha often drew the attention of Lorcaine’s men onto himself in order to spare the others. This often led to gang rape and brutal beatings but Misha suffered through it without a sound.

He feared for Tomas’ life. He worried that one day the warrior wouldn’t be able to handle the abuse he was put through and would snap. Plenty had been killed because they hadn’t been able to handle what was happening to their mates. Tomas seemed to possess a cool enough head to understand Misha’s actions and be a comfort to him in the aftermath.

In 1960, when Lorcaine discovered that he only had two consorts left, Misha was beaten within an inch of his life. He took the beating that would have killed Ransom. Now, Tomas pushed and pleaded with Misha to leave. When Misha refused, Tomas and the others want to plan B. They drugged Misha into a deep sleep and, with the help of Remmie Oshio-Magda, was spirited away to his father’s house. When he woke to see his son, Nika sitting by the bed, Misha knew what had happened. Nika handed him a letter and left the room. The letter was written by Tomas and he promised that he would keep Ransom alive. Tomas also said that they would see each other again.

Despondent at the absence of his mate, Misha spent the first five years at his father’s house. He alternated between hating and pitying his own son and the others who’d last their mates to death. Hating them because they didn’t have to live with the separation and pitying them because their mates were no longer alive. Through the strength of their bond, Misha could still feel every breath and heartbeat Tomas had. That strength, and the knowledge that Tomas lived, was the only thing that pushed Misha on.

It was about this time that Misha’s father came to him with a task. Misha hadn’t been just a consort to the Magda clan. He had certain skills that made him an asset. Misha had become a very skilled assassin. He’d been trained by Thanos’ father – his first partner to be a very deadly man. And now his father needed someone removed and Misha accepted the request. For the last seventy years, he’s travelled the world, taking hits and collecting on them.

Currently hidden away in the Olympic Mountains, he’s waiting for his next assignment and considering contacting Darius deLorme, the current person who holds what once belonged to the Magda clan and employs the surviving members of the clan.

Misha has a closely guarded secret. With the exception of Ransom, Misha knows where all the consorts are. He even knows where the still living body of Thanos Magda is.