<strong>Player Name:</strong>Tokyorose627<br/><br/><strong>Character Name/Identity:</strong>Koschei Romanov, Peter(Alias)<br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong>21<br/><br/><strong>Tale of Origin:</strong>Koschei the Deathless<br/><br/><strong>Alignment:</strong>Chaotic Neutral<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Koschei can seem like a cold and calculating individual, serious looking and someone that would look as if they would not wished to be bothered with at any moment. He's calculating and observing, but usually is quiet unless otherwise told to speak, or has something on his mind. He doesn't like when others dance around their questions, and usually speaks straight forwards in order to get whatever someone wants from him out of their mouths so he can give them an answer or not. However, despite him being in such a way, Koschei does have humanity still left in him. He can still feel hope, empathy, sorrow, happiness, and even love, but such feelings had never been given to him by his parents, and as a result, such feelings dwindle away inside him, swallowed by the darkness of his parents abuse, and his own actions against them.<br/><br/><br/><strong>Abilities:</strong>Able to use spells and magic to his advantage. His magic includes teleportation magic, elemental magic, and magic that can manipulate the shape and form of his own body to that of an animals. He has books on other forms that are forbidden to use, such as magic that causes illusions of one's most inner darkness or fear, or even curses and hexes that torture the victims to the point of insanity, but Koschei uses them only when he feels they should be used.<br/><br/><strong>Skills: </strong><br/><br/><strong>Persuasion:</strong>Able to persuade individuals to do things for him due to his outer charm and likable demeanor when in normal clothes, despite his kind and caring nature actually being a facade to have people get things for him, or to have them do things that they would otherwise not do. Despite this, he can be kind and caring, but has not found an individual who has interested him in such a way.<br/><br/><strong>Education:</strong>Despite his parent's constant abuse towards him, Koschei was given the best and brightest education their family could afford. Reading books on the magical realm and the human realm, Koschei was given the education that his family wanted of him, learning of different magicks, as well as culture and manners. He knows how to speak three different languages, has manners befitting of a gentleman, and even knows how to dance; however, skills like these have never been needed for him.<br/><br/><strong>Knowledge on Magical Creatures:</strong>Due to his knowledge on magic, it's only fair that Koschei would know about magical creatures, needing some ingredients that come from such beasts for spells and incantations. He has a book with multiple recordings of creatures and magical beasts that he has either seen or come across, and continues to write them down for future knowledge if ever the information was needed.<br/><br/><strong>Language:</strong>Koschei is able to speak a few different languages, from Russian, French, and even different forms of English, however he's most fluent in English and Russian.<br/><br/><strong>Offensive Skills:</strong>Koschei, unable to rely on magic all the time, ended up teaching himself how to use a sword in case his magic was taken or unable to be used. He's become good at fencing an normal sword fighting, and has used it on some occasions.<br/><br/><strong>Familiar:</strong>In order to spy for Rumplestiltskin while he is otherwise indisposed of, Koschei's family crest inked to his arm is actually a summoning spell for a Snake Familiar. By simply holding out his arm, the mark from his arm drips off his skin like thick ink, creating a large, imposing snake that Koschei can control and manipulate at will. From moving it to different locations at fast speeds, to being able to see through it's eyes, Koschei is versed in the magical arts when it comes to familiars, and uses it to his advantage whenever possible or necessary.<br/><br/><strong>Backstory:</strong>Koschei's life growing up was anything but happy. Born to a wealthy mother and father that were both versed in magic, Koschei was equally bound by family tradition to take on the responsibilities of learning the craft like they had. He didn't want to, but from the strict teachings of his parents, Koschei was forced into the family tradition of learning the magical arts, unwillingly. Lessons were hard for Koschei, as he could tell that his parents wanted him to become a great wizard and magic user, going to extremes to make sure he would get spells and incantations down correctly. Beating him, verbally abusing him, even going so far as to not let him eat or sleep until they were satisfied, Koschei kept going despite what he was put through, his mind starting to warp tremendously down a dark path. His childhood was soon taken from him, and as he grew older, his magic improved like his parents had wanted. Becoming a well versed magic user himself, he was taught teleportation magic, elemental magics, and magics that could even transform others or himself into objects.<br/><br/>But the most dangerous of all, was his parents fixation on the dark arts, magics that were forbidden to be used.<br/><br/>Each day, and each night, his parents would force him to learn of dark magics that were used for evil purposes, to be used on others for sick pleasure, and to be used for whenever one was becoming desperate. Koschei would read, shocked and sickened, with his parents strangely wanting him to learn such things, but his lessons became more frightening once it was revealed that he would have to practice such arts.<br/><br/>Not by him, but on him by his parents.<br/><br/>In order to truly grasp the magics full potential and power, his parents forced Koschei to endure the forbidden spells and curses, chaining him to the wall of their basement as the used spell after spell, his screams echoing but with none to hear them. They would continue this until he would pass out, and his lessons would be done for the day. It was on his 18th birthday, after enduring curse and hexes chained to the basement wall all day and night, that Koschei decided that enough was enough. He had lost his honor, his pride, his entire childhood; there was nothing left for him to lose. With that final thought, Koschei began to plan and plot, to escape, but not without exacting his revenge on his so-called 'Family'.<br/><br/><br/>On the night of his 19th birthday, a spell in hand, he escaped the chains that bound him and set sights on attacking his parents, a battle soon raging in their family home. Incantations and spells were thrown out, with his mother being the first to die by a raging fire spell that consumed her being the moment it struck, while the battle with his father soon raged on. Walls cracked and broken, furniture destroyed, Koschei's father had him cornered, bleeding and battered, his mother merely a scorching corpse. Before his father could give the killing blow, no longer thinking of him as their own son, Koschei used the deadliest of curses that his own parents had taught him, and killed his father instantaneously. Broken windows, destroyed furniture, blood covering the marble walls, Koschei was left with the dead bodies of his parents, and a fresh burning incantation on his right forearm, forced to him before his father perished; their family crest, meant to be given as a right of passage, was now a constant reminder of his family, and what he was brought into.<br/><br/>Locking the bodies away in one of their many rooms, Koschei was now free to do what he wished, but the damage from his parents had been far too great. Having not felt one ounce of love or trust from his family, Koschei began to spend his life doing the same terrible things he found that his parents had been doing as he grew up, from stealing coin and jewels, to killing those that wished to raid his fortune or his family's possessions. Koschei's revenge didn't stop there, even going so far as to invite the rest of his family to his home, only to lock them up, and kill them off one by one, no longer feeling remorse for such vile filth that dare let such a tradition to continue. Escaping death every time from people who tried to oppose him after hearing of what he had done, and killing anyone who tried to end his life and steal his family's wealth, he was given the title "Koschei the Deathless", for no mere mortal could ever have survived after enduring what Koschei had been through, as well as his deeds of killing the intruders that dare try to kill him for glory. Even the heoric Ivan from his home of Russia had come to kill him after Koschei dare kidnap his wife, a member of his own family, however the Hero had died from underestimating Koschei's abilities, and after, killed Ivan's friends, sisters, and even Ivan's wife soon after, so none would dare oppose him, or ever return.<br/><br/>Stories of what he had done spread across the lands, unable to comprehend that such a man could not be killed. Described in stories to be a ugly, disgusting vile man, Koschei lets the stories wonder villages and cities, no longer concerned in such recognition at the fact that people are afraid of his power and what he has done. Only the most idiotic of people would dare come in search of him to end his life, but people have tried, and none had returned since, only showing non-believers of Koschei's true ability.<br/><br/>Koschei, having not felt any form of remorse or comfort, locks himself within his family's home, now as perfect and pristine as it once was before the battle between his mother and father, yet the memories and torture still haunt him, as he lives in the mansion that kept him from freedom. Any witnesses that dare see him and try to escape are locked within the Manor, never to be seen again; as of now, no one truly knows what Koschei looks like, for all pictures and paintings of him have been burned to ash. Only the stories and tales of the hideous, haggard, and vile dark wizard Koschei are passed along through villages, all of them unaware of what the poor soul had truly been through.<br/><br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Heterosexual<br/><br/><strong>Appearance: </strong>Koschei, unlike the stories and tales told of him, is a handsome young man, with short blonde hair, and with piercing ocean blue eyes. Not wanting to show his face to people that he does not know or trust, he wears a long black cloak with a hood, as well as a mask made of pure metal carved in the shape of a skull, with holes for his eyes; the outfit itself is what gave him the title, "Koschei the Deathless", and "The Dark One". Along his right forearm is an inked mark of a skull releasing a serpent from it's mouth, the marking Koschei's family crest given to him by his father. Made by magic, it reminds Koschei of his family and his beginnings, and now uses it on his victims as a calling card for others that wish to kill him, even going so far as to put the mark on others he has killed.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mask in Silver</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://img0.etsystatic.com/016/1/7740874/il_340x270.458233598_jmyy.jpg)</div></div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Koschei's Family Crest</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/60/42/be/6042befe3c5af784b8f9a7f4641635f4.jpg)</div></div><br/><br/><strong>Face Claim:</strong>Tom Felton<br/><br/>(http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/c/cf/Harry-Potter-The-Deathly-Hallows-Part-II.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/270?cb=20140602031803)<br/>