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crescentviewmods) wrote2022-11-17 06:29 pm
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Mishka | Original | Tuesday
Name: Tea
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Other characters: N/A
Invited by: Cocoa
Opt-outs: Share a 'get along' shirt, Skinnydipping, Sing a song together, Bucketlist, Phone sex
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Name: Mishka
Canon: Original
Canon point: N/A
Age: Early 30's
History:
Mishka hails from the Ostoyan Empire, a country ruled by vampires beneath the eternal night. Mishka grew up in the territory belonging to the vampire Alexei Koshevek, a dismal marshlands plagued with rot and disease, and where the institution of the church reigns, led by Alexei himself. The mortal clergy are afforded access to a somewhat higher, cleaner standard of living; however, it was their indentured servants, nominally altar boys, who would test for poison and clear disease to keep the clergy pure.
Mishka was one such altar boy, and, after years of exposure to sickness and poison, found himself gradually hollowed out and occupied by insects and plague; instead of succumbing to his internal rot, he came to wield it as a weapon. His uncharacteristic rise to power within the church, and thus control over the village trade, eventually caught the eye of the Ebon Syndicate, a trade-based criminal organization, who offered him a deal: he joins them, and is trained as an assassin, or they remove him and replace him with a leader more pliable. Mishka, a survivalist, chose to preserve his life, and underwent years of excruciating training. To Mishka, he had only exchanged one collar from another, and though he rose in rank within the Syndicate, eventually achieving title of master assassin within Ostoya and becoming chief of finance, he hardly felt free.
His third and final change in masters came when he was approached by the vampire Valerie Michalek who offered him a better deal: Mishka put his skill in killing to use for his ends, and Valerie guarantees Mishka's freedom; a deal too good to be true, but Ostoya leaves its people desperate. What Mishka didn't expect was to join a party of individuals whom he came to care for and who cared for him in kind, nor did he expect that this softening of his heart would lead him to sacrifice himself to the endless abyss to save his friend and protégé, Adelis.
Personality:
Playful, evasive, and viscerally untrustworthy, Mishka is amicable and pleasant whether he likes you or not - or whether you like him or not. Mishka has lived his life with both resignation and bitterness knowing that Ostoya will become his crypt, and so he elects to take very little seriously as he toils toward his inevitable end. He carries himself with an air of easy confidence and comfort, and, like a moth to a flame, he's quite intrigued that which deviates from the mundane. He was raised with brutality and so engages in it with ease - but, to an extent, it's often out of care; he neither sugarcoats his words, nor does he believe those worthy of his respect can handle any less than the sharp blade of reality.
CRAU: N/A
Powers:
(As a note, since Mishka's whole thing pertains to insects, I do intend to put up an opt-out post for those who may not want to go near him!)
• Plagues
Mishka's body is a nest for insects and disease; insects gravitate toward him naturally, and, if he doesn't control it, he tends to make those around him sick enough to wither away in minutes. There are generally insects of varying kinds of insects nesting in him (occasionally, they will try to push out from his mouth, or less pleasant locations, like his eyes). He's like a reverse Spiders Georg.
Mishka can communicate with insects and have them obey him - typically, he uses them to scout and act as a liaison for message, as well as ask that they engage in combat on his behalf (more formidable in Ostoya where many insects are poisonous and larger than people).
Mishka can also manifest the abilities of insects briefly - ie, temporarily manifesting the wings of a dragonfly to carry him a long distance before they dematerialize.
His bodily fluids are generally poisonous when consumed in concentrated form, to varying degrees, depending on the fluid. (He needs to synthesize it into a poison, in other words.)
He's immune to the negative effects of poison, but he takes additional damage from fire, like an insect.
• Assassination
Mishka is especially swift, dexterous, and silent. He specializes in knives, swordplay, and perhaps expectedly, poison.
He's swift enough attack thrice in in the space of one blow, and he's good at getting the jump on people. Difficult to hit and keen on utilizing opportunity, Mishka packs a particular punch so long as his enemy doesn't know he's there or is harried by another.
Additionally, he can also see general shapes, without color, in darkness.
Note: Of all his abilities, I'd like if he could keep the bit where insects hang out inside him and are drawn to him (even if he loses his ability to communicate with them). I just think it'd be funny if his attempts to farm were hampered by the bugs he keeps attracting (some bugs are good for farming! Others... are not).
Inventory:
He had a couple fancy things, but none of them were on him when he was sent to the shadow realm. The exceptions being his clothes, and the "item" (as classed by the system) quite literally stuck to his skin:
• Ebon Syndicate Brand
(When likely removing/nerfing this, I'd prefer to leave it as a regular, depowered brand on his skin.)
Located on the back of this neck, this brand was imbued with magical properties upon Mishka's ascension to master assassin. This tattoo has 10 charges, and it regains all expended charges daily at dawn.
• When successfully landing a hit on a creature with a weapon, Mishka can expend a charge to deal a significant amount of necrotic damage to the target. Additionally, he regains regain a number of hit points equal to the necrotic damage dealt.
• When a creature he can see damages him, he can expend a charge and use his reaction to make a melee attack against that creature with extra potency.
Likes:
Mishka likes capable, independent, driven individuals who always seek to climb higher than they are now. He enjoys individuals driven by their personal values and ideals, and the ability and willingness to make them come true. He also likes them kind of weird, and people who can surprise him.
Dislikes:
Mishka dislikes individuals who need to be protected or are dependent on those around them, whether because they're soft-hearted or because they use the people around them to save their skin. He also dislikes preachy do-gooder types, or individuals deluded from reality by their ideals or beliefs. He dislikes doomsayers and people who get stuck in routines.
Ideal dates/venues:
He likes the unexpected. He probably also enjoys games (ie, cards) and bookshops. Barring these, he would enjoy outdoor and athletic dates - sparring, hiking, mountaineering, spelunking, fungus collecting, walking scenic trails, climbing super tall trees,
Also, he loves sugar. He's had enough urbanity to last him a lifetime, but he'd love a café date (neither sugar nor cafés are much of a thing in Ostoya, so these will be exciting discoveries).
Partner: Random
Farm Style: Rural or forest, ideally.
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⬥ Note: Mishka may continue to host insects within himself and have them drawn to him. He will also be able to understand insects, but until he regains the ability through bonus activity, he will not be able to actually communicate with them. He also will be unable to manifest any insect abilities or use the magical properties of the Ebon Syndicate Brand until they're regain by bonus activity.
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• Where does he live & does he live with anyone?
• Bingo machine broke!
◦ Sing a song together (opted out of - need to swap)
◦ Wine Tasting (received twice - need to swap one)
◦ Pillow fight (received twice - need to swap one)
• Would like to swap the following squares: Tickling, Serenade
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And apologizes for duplicates and missing the opt-out! Your new squares are now '20 questions', 'truth or dare', 'paddleboat', 'hug', and 'French kiss'.
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