Post by Lady Thorn on Sept 29, 2008 16:51:22 GMT -5
A psychologist determined to understand vampirism, lycanthropy, and any associated problems. Not that he's succeeded yet, mind.
Alias: Doctor
Name: Mika Evangelus Reed
Gender: Male
Orientation: Bisexual... sort of.
Physical Age: 21
Real Age: 132
Species: Vampire
Sire: Lady Thorn, in 1896.
Wealth: He has around £800,000 in his bank account, and some items of value in his house, just in case.
History of Wealth: Mika's clinic charges for the services he offers. Almost all his patients would be happy to pay anyway, but since there is a fee, this has never been an issue. And since he has been working in his clinic for around 100 years, and he has not been much of a spender, the money has built up and accumulated in his savings account. He also inherited a good deal of money when his grandfather died, since he had had savings in trust from his deceased parents. His grandfather also left him everything, including two houses.
Job: He runs a clinic for vampires and lycans, specialising in mental illnesses but working with all ailments. He also aims to find cures and treatments for mental illnesses in humans, as this was his job and his passion before he was turned.
Specialities
Mental: Mika has an exceptional IQ, around 160, and is highly intelligent. He is also very perceptive and logical, making him an adept problem solver. As a human doctor, he was once described as having "healer's hands" for his skills in the medical profession, and this has not diminished since his turning, quite the reverse in fact. His mental outlook is generally calm and reserved, allowing him to analyse situations and problems more effectively, though it can make him seem a little detached and remote. It also allows him to better deal with emergencies and sudden happenings.
Physical: Physically, Mika is in excellent shape. He trains often, being adept at fighting with a wooden stave and also at tai chi. His body is lean and fit, without being overly muscular, and that meant he was always in good health as a human, something which carried over into his life as a vampire. From his youth and his ballet-dancing mother's tuition, he also has some skills as an acrobat and all round stage performer, though he rarely puts these skills to use these days.
Hobbies: Mika's passion, his entire scope of existence, is focussed on his work and research, with little time for much else. He takes scrupulous and meticulous records and recordings of all he does, and is constantly seeking new ideas for further investigation. However, when he has a spare moment, he has been known to write, in rather elegant prose, articles noting some of his more publicly acceptable findings, and he has been published in several scientific journals and periodicals. In the course of his research, he also discovered a slight interest in medicinal plants and herbs and has found a little time to begin cultivating his own.
Weakness
Mental: Mika's high IQ and talent as a physician have lead him to be, in some ways, highly arrogant. He believes very firmly in his own opinions, and will not concede a point to someone else unless they have proven it to the furthest degree. This can make him difficult to deal with, especially in medical areas.
On the other hand, in his personal life, he is very naive, and this is marked by a strange contrasting pattern of behaviour. Where he would normally be assertive and determined, dominating conversation and the room, he becomes passive and shy, allowing others to take the lead. He also has difficulties dealing with strong emotions, and this has, on occasion, lead to embarrassing outbursts.
Physical: Being slim and lean, Mika isn't the strongest of vampires, despite his training and physical fitness. He isn't a weakling, by any means, but nor does he possess strength that would be much of a threat to most of his kind.
Neither is he particularly fast for a vampire. His skills are generally mediocre on this front. Astonishing neither for their brilliance nor their lack.
Other: Mika perceives himself as being a lot less capable than he is, and though he won't admit it, even to himself, his arrogance is borne of a strong sense of self-loathing. He believes himself inadequate, and treats himself and others accordingly, pushing people away rather than having to see how much better than him they are.
His affection for some people, always contrasting its rarity by its strength, can be a problem for him too. When he likes, or loves, someone, he puts his entire being into it, and rejection can wound very deeply. It is another reason why he tries to push people away.
Physical Appearance
Hair: From his father, Mika has very dark hair, a shade of brown almost black. It hangs down to his earlobes at the front, and a little shorter and messier at the back, due to his inability with the scissors. Generally, it is well managed, never particularly greasy or dry, and hanging straight and neat, but he does not take great amounts of attention over it, letting it behave as it will, meaning that style is more of an optional extra.
Eyes: From his mother, Mika has his green eyes. They were the thing that caught his father's attention about her, and they are, if anything, more captivating in the son. The shade can be described as emerald, or perhaps simple vibrant green, and it seems to glow with its own light. The colour accentuates the pale of his face and the dark of his hair, and also lends him an intensitof gaze which can disquiet the subject of his intent.
Facial Structure: He has quite a thin face, though with a pointed, chiselled jaw and high cheekbones, he is quite attractive for all that. His eyes are sunk a little deeper than is considered aesthetically pleasing, and his mouth is a little thinner, his nose pointier, than general fashion ideas find attractive, but all this serves to make him seem all the more intense, and rater suits his character.
Skin: Like most vampires, Mika is pale and pasty, though in his case, it was only a matter of exaggeration rather than change. His has quite rough skin on his hands, calloused from training and work, but the rest of him is still full of the softness and beauty of youth and inexperience. He has no defining scars and no odd birthmarks.
Height: Like his father, Mika was tall for his time, at about 6'3". Even now, he is a little above the norm. He seems shorter, since he stoops, though.
Weight: Due to his intensive training, Mika weighs the medical advised weight for his size. He always aims to remain within the healthy boundaries of size and shape.
Body Type: He was naturally inclined to leannes anyway, with gawky limbs and an undernourished look to the face. Training and lack of eating at times of stress or high levels of work have accentuated this, and he can sometimes look positively anorexic, though in fact is he is quite healthy.
Clothing: Since being turned to vampirism, Mika has felt most aggrieved that he has had to alter the style of his attire. Were it up to him, he would wear the clothes of his Victorian days, but common sense has encouraged him to update. Nowadays, he wears a neat shirt, with an old fashioned collar to suit his tastes, along with neat trousers, generally black and often a smart jacket or lab coat. When not working, he dresses to be inconspicuous. Genrally his style can be described as "smart/casual", though on days it can lean towards old fashioned and outdated.
Footwear: In defernce to his prefences of old-fashioned wear, his shoes tend to be neat, unfussy, of the black, patent-leather variety. Lace-ups, normally. He does wear sensible boots however, on the odd occasion.
Other: Being from a Russian mother and an English father, Mika's appearance favours both in some ways. Though not strinkingly odd, he was differet enough in his looks to be teased as a child, and sometimes as an adult, though now he finds this much easier to deal with.
Personality
Likes: Mika likes his solitude, his silence and his personal space. He detests most disturbances, unless they are patients, and will be even more cold and distant than normal when dealing with them. His food preferences are generally simple, a mixture of the favourites his mother cooked when he was young, and the solid English food provided by his grandfather. His taste in books, however, is wide-ranging, and he will happily devour almost any novel or history or other book with equal fervour.
Dislikes: His pet peeve is to be questioned. He will not stand to be disbelieved, dismissed. Nor does he like to be compared as being worse than others, or inferior.
Food-wise, he will leave alone anything which he knows has an unpleasant duty in the owner's body, and anything he knows is bad for him.
He detests romance novels, especially Mills and Boon.
Attitude: As mentioned in his personality, Mika is arrogant, and this can shine through his cold exterior. His does little to prevent this, not minding in the slightest that he appears cold and aloof. He likes to keep himsef to himself, and will do whatever to others to allow this. He doesn't care about hurting their feelings, unless they are one of the few people dear to him. Then, he is, if not caring, at leats pleasant enough. For some, he will do his utmost to protect them.
His work attitude is simple. He takes his Hippocratic oath very seriously, and will hold true to it, no matter what. He lives to save life, to preserve life and to discover cause of illness. He will do no harm. Outside of his job as a doctor, he tries his damndest not to hurt people physically, but understands that it is necessary in some situations.
In Tight Situations: In most dangerous or new situations, Mika is good at remaining calm and cool and thinking it through. He is rarely subject to bouts of panic. When in danger, he will defend himself, and try to save others when he can. He will only move to kill if it is the last, and final, resort. His respect for life is too great otherwise.
Schedule: Mika spends his nights and days working hard in his clinic. He rarely leaves the house, let alone the city, and so does not have much in the way of variety in his life. Each new patient is enough variety for him. Sometimes, though, he gets cold feet, and cannot help but go a-wandering, even for the shortest space of time.
History
Birth: Born in October 1875, Mika was the healthy first and only son his parenst had. They were living in Whitby at the time, though they soon moved to London.
Childhood: His father, a doctor too, was quite well off, as was his grandfather, and so the family lived in relative comfort in their Georgian townhouse, within close reach of the grandfather’s home. As a young child, Mika got all the attention and mental encouragement he needed, from both parents, and got his desire to become a doctor from watching his father work and from admiration. His mother helped to give the young boy his respect for life and for others. Until his adult years, Mika was frank and open, not the cold individual he would become.
However, when his parents died in an accidental fire, Mika went to live with his grandfather, who, while still kind and supportive, left Mika to fend for himself far more. This let the boy come into contact with his peers, who often ridiculed him, leading him to become a quiet, remote teenager, though focused on his studies, and an even quieter and more remote adult as he attended medical school. The death of his grandfather after he had begun work in New Bethlem mental hospital only served to drive him further within himself.
Transformation: Having never been in a real relationship, and living in London, the young Mika was sometimes tempted by the services of local ladies of the night. One night as he was walking home, he came across one who made him more than tempted. She was very beautiful, very strange, and it turned out that she was a vampire, although it took a while for him to realise. She agreed to “go somewhere a little quieter” with him, and did her job, but tried to drink his blood when he was vulnerable. Somehow, he got away from her long enough for her to feel sorry for him and he was allowed to leave.
He thought about her and her strangeness for several nights, and, realising that he could never do all that he wanted to do with medicine in one lifetime, he decided to seek her out to ask to be turned.
He found her in a different part of London, and she almost escaped him, afraid he would try to kill her, but eventually they managed to have a decent conversation. And he realised he had fallen horribly in love with her, though he didn’t tell her that.
She flat out refused to turn him, but he bargained and bargained and eventually she agreed. They went to her lodgings and she drained his blood until he was close to death, then allowed him to drink from her.
After the change was complete, and after she had explained what he was and what he would need to do to survive, though he was feeling weak and unsteady, Mika finally felt brave enough to tell her he had fallen for her.
She scoffed at his feelings, so silly and sudden, telling him that he was only a child to her and not to be so impulsive. Ashamed and embarrassed, he fled home.
For a few years afterwards, he worked still at New Bethlem, changing to the night shift and avoiding his colleagues. After some time, they began to suspect he wasn’t normal, however, and he left to set up his clinic in his grandfather’s old house.
Prey: Mika’s respect for life prevents him killing any of his victims. In truth, he dislikes drinking from humans, and will take donor blood when he can. Sometimes, he has to drink from people, though, and at those time he will take as little as possible, leaving them as unharmed as possible. He keeps a good stock of fresh blood at his home and his clinic, just in case he should ever need it.
Relationships: Being solitary and quiet by nature, Mika finds friendships and relationships harder than most. He had truly wanted to be with his sire, Lady Thorn, but since her rejection of him, he had ever more trouble forming bonds. Over time, he has gained a few friends, even a lover, but still he finds it difficult. The presence of his sire itself will trigger unhappy and problematic thoughts. He will generally not be at his best around her, and act geeky, and slightly odd.
Other: Mika has spent his time since being turned working hard in his clinic, and does little else with his time, except those thing mentioned earlier. He has met his sire a few times since her rejection, and has accepted her apologies for rudeness, though she has made it abundantly clear that she is not interested in him relationship-wise. So he spends most time alone, working, though recent events have brought him closer to other people, including his sire. He also discovered his bisexuality, which scared him at first, and he still isn’t comfortable with it. Otherwise, his life is still dull and monotonous, though not in his eyes. To him, his research is enough to keep him occupied.
Family: Parents, deceased: Christopher Alan Reed and Korshka Lukyanenko (an immigrant from Russia).
Paternal Grandfather, deceased: Edward Arthur Reed.
Maternal Grandparents, unknown: Aleira and Sergei Lukyanenko.
Alias: Doctor
Name: Mika Evangelus Reed
Gender: Male
Orientation: Bisexual... sort of.
Physical Age: 21
Real Age: 132
Species: Vampire
Sire: Lady Thorn, in 1896.
Wealth: He has around £800,000 in his bank account, and some items of value in his house, just in case.
History of Wealth: Mika's clinic charges for the services he offers. Almost all his patients would be happy to pay anyway, but since there is a fee, this has never been an issue. And since he has been working in his clinic for around 100 years, and he has not been much of a spender, the money has built up and accumulated in his savings account. He also inherited a good deal of money when his grandfather died, since he had had savings in trust from his deceased parents. His grandfather also left him everything, including two houses.
Job: He runs a clinic for vampires and lycans, specialising in mental illnesses but working with all ailments. He also aims to find cures and treatments for mental illnesses in humans, as this was his job and his passion before he was turned.
Specialities
Mental: Mika has an exceptional IQ, around 160, and is highly intelligent. He is also very perceptive and logical, making him an adept problem solver. As a human doctor, he was once described as having "healer's hands" for his skills in the medical profession, and this has not diminished since his turning, quite the reverse in fact. His mental outlook is generally calm and reserved, allowing him to analyse situations and problems more effectively, though it can make him seem a little detached and remote. It also allows him to better deal with emergencies and sudden happenings.
Physical: Physically, Mika is in excellent shape. He trains often, being adept at fighting with a wooden stave and also at tai chi. His body is lean and fit, without being overly muscular, and that meant he was always in good health as a human, something which carried over into his life as a vampire. From his youth and his ballet-dancing mother's tuition, he also has some skills as an acrobat and all round stage performer, though he rarely puts these skills to use these days.
Hobbies: Mika's passion, his entire scope of existence, is focussed on his work and research, with little time for much else. He takes scrupulous and meticulous records and recordings of all he does, and is constantly seeking new ideas for further investigation. However, when he has a spare moment, he has been known to write, in rather elegant prose, articles noting some of his more publicly acceptable findings, and he has been published in several scientific journals and periodicals. In the course of his research, he also discovered a slight interest in medicinal plants and herbs and has found a little time to begin cultivating his own.
Weakness
Mental: Mika's high IQ and talent as a physician have lead him to be, in some ways, highly arrogant. He believes very firmly in his own opinions, and will not concede a point to someone else unless they have proven it to the furthest degree. This can make him difficult to deal with, especially in medical areas.
On the other hand, in his personal life, he is very naive, and this is marked by a strange contrasting pattern of behaviour. Where he would normally be assertive and determined, dominating conversation and the room, he becomes passive and shy, allowing others to take the lead. He also has difficulties dealing with strong emotions, and this has, on occasion, lead to embarrassing outbursts.
Physical: Being slim and lean, Mika isn't the strongest of vampires, despite his training and physical fitness. He isn't a weakling, by any means, but nor does he possess strength that would be much of a threat to most of his kind.
Neither is he particularly fast for a vampire. His skills are generally mediocre on this front. Astonishing neither for their brilliance nor their lack.
Other: Mika perceives himself as being a lot less capable than he is, and though he won't admit it, even to himself, his arrogance is borne of a strong sense of self-loathing. He believes himself inadequate, and treats himself and others accordingly, pushing people away rather than having to see how much better than him they are.
His affection for some people, always contrasting its rarity by its strength, can be a problem for him too. When he likes, or loves, someone, he puts his entire being into it, and rejection can wound very deeply. It is another reason why he tries to push people away.
Physical Appearance
Hair: From his father, Mika has very dark hair, a shade of brown almost black. It hangs down to his earlobes at the front, and a little shorter and messier at the back, due to his inability with the scissors. Generally, it is well managed, never particularly greasy or dry, and hanging straight and neat, but he does not take great amounts of attention over it, letting it behave as it will, meaning that style is more of an optional extra.
Eyes: From his mother, Mika has his green eyes. They were the thing that caught his father's attention about her, and they are, if anything, more captivating in the son. The shade can be described as emerald, or perhaps simple vibrant green, and it seems to glow with its own light. The colour accentuates the pale of his face and the dark of his hair, and also lends him an intensitof gaze which can disquiet the subject of his intent.
Facial Structure: He has quite a thin face, though with a pointed, chiselled jaw and high cheekbones, he is quite attractive for all that. His eyes are sunk a little deeper than is considered aesthetically pleasing, and his mouth is a little thinner, his nose pointier, than general fashion ideas find attractive, but all this serves to make him seem all the more intense, and rater suits his character.
Skin: Like most vampires, Mika is pale and pasty, though in his case, it was only a matter of exaggeration rather than change. His has quite rough skin on his hands, calloused from training and work, but the rest of him is still full of the softness and beauty of youth and inexperience. He has no defining scars and no odd birthmarks.
Height: Like his father, Mika was tall for his time, at about 6'3". Even now, he is a little above the norm. He seems shorter, since he stoops, though.
Weight: Due to his intensive training, Mika weighs the medical advised weight for his size. He always aims to remain within the healthy boundaries of size and shape.
Body Type: He was naturally inclined to leannes anyway, with gawky limbs and an undernourished look to the face. Training and lack of eating at times of stress or high levels of work have accentuated this, and he can sometimes look positively anorexic, though in fact is he is quite healthy.
Clothing: Since being turned to vampirism, Mika has felt most aggrieved that he has had to alter the style of his attire. Were it up to him, he would wear the clothes of his Victorian days, but common sense has encouraged him to update. Nowadays, he wears a neat shirt, with an old fashioned collar to suit his tastes, along with neat trousers, generally black and often a smart jacket or lab coat. When not working, he dresses to be inconspicuous. Genrally his style can be described as "smart/casual", though on days it can lean towards old fashioned and outdated.
Footwear: In defernce to his prefences of old-fashioned wear, his shoes tend to be neat, unfussy, of the black, patent-leather variety. Lace-ups, normally. He does wear sensible boots however, on the odd occasion.
Other: Being from a Russian mother and an English father, Mika's appearance favours both in some ways. Though not strinkingly odd, he was differet enough in his looks to be teased as a child, and sometimes as an adult, though now he finds this much easier to deal with.
Personality
Likes: Mika likes his solitude, his silence and his personal space. He detests most disturbances, unless they are patients, and will be even more cold and distant than normal when dealing with them. His food preferences are generally simple, a mixture of the favourites his mother cooked when he was young, and the solid English food provided by his grandfather. His taste in books, however, is wide-ranging, and he will happily devour almost any novel or history or other book with equal fervour.
Dislikes: His pet peeve is to be questioned. He will not stand to be disbelieved, dismissed. Nor does he like to be compared as being worse than others, or inferior.
Food-wise, he will leave alone anything which he knows has an unpleasant duty in the owner's body, and anything he knows is bad for him.
He detests romance novels, especially Mills and Boon.
Attitude: As mentioned in his personality, Mika is arrogant, and this can shine through his cold exterior. His does little to prevent this, not minding in the slightest that he appears cold and aloof. He likes to keep himsef to himself, and will do whatever to others to allow this. He doesn't care about hurting their feelings, unless they are one of the few people dear to him. Then, he is, if not caring, at leats pleasant enough. For some, he will do his utmost to protect them.
His work attitude is simple. He takes his Hippocratic oath very seriously, and will hold true to it, no matter what. He lives to save life, to preserve life and to discover cause of illness. He will do no harm. Outside of his job as a doctor, he tries his damndest not to hurt people physically, but understands that it is necessary in some situations.
In Tight Situations: In most dangerous or new situations, Mika is good at remaining calm and cool and thinking it through. He is rarely subject to bouts of panic. When in danger, he will defend himself, and try to save others when he can. He will only move to kill if it is the last, and final, resort. His respect for life is too great otherwise.
Schedule: Mika spends his nights and days working hard in his clinic. He rarely leaves the house, let alone the city, and so does not have much in the way of variety in his life. Each new patient is enough variety for him. Sometimes, though, he gets cold feet, and cannot help but go a-wandering, even for the shortest space of time.
History
Birth: Born in October 1875, Mika was the healthy first and only son his parenst had. They were living in Whitby at the time, though they soon moved to London.
Childhood: His father, a doctor too, was quite well off, as was his grandfather, and so the family lived in relative comfort in their Georgian townhouse, within close reach of the grandfather’s home. As a young child, Mika got all the attention and mental encouragement he needed, from both parents, and got his desire to become a doctor from watching his father work and from admiration. His mother helped to give the young boy his respect for life and for others. Until his adult years, Mika was frank and open, not the cold individual he would become.
However, when his parents died in an accidental fire, Mika went to live with his grandfather, who, while still kind and supportive, left Mika to fend for himself far more. This let the boy come into contact with his peers, who often ridiculed him, leading him to become a quiet, remote teenager, though focused on his studies, and an even quieter and more remote adult as he attended medical school. The death of his grandfather after he had begun work in New Bethlem mental hospital only served to drive him further within himself.
Transformation: Having never been in a real relationship, and living in London, the young Mika was sometimes tempted by the services of local ladies of the night. One night as he was walking home, he came across one who made him more than tempted. She was very beautiful, very strange, and it turned out that she was a vampire, although it took a while for him to realise. She agreed to “go somewhere a little quieter” with him, and did her job, but tried to drink his blood when he was vulnerable. Somehow, he got away from her long enough for her to feel sorry for him and he was allowed to leave.
He thought about her and her strangeness for several nights, and, realising that he could never do all that he wanted to do with medicine in one lifetime, he decided to seek her out to ask to be turned.
He found her in a different part of London, and she almost escaped him, afraid he would try to kill her, but eventually they managed to have a decent conversation. And he realised he had fallen horribly in love with her, though he didn’t tell her that.
She flat out refused to turn him, but he bargained and bargained and eventually she agreed. They went to her lodgings and she drained his blood until he was close to death, then allowed him to drink from her.
After the change was complete, and after she had explained what he was and what he would need to do to survive, though he was feeling weak and unsteady, Mika finally felt brave enough to tell her he had fallen for her.
She scoffed at his feelings, so silly and sudden, telling him that he was only a child to her and not to be so impulsive. Ashamed and embarrassed, he fled home.
For a few years afterwards, he worked still at New Bethlem, changing to the night shift and avoiding his colleagues. After some time, they began to suspect he wasn’t normal, however, and he left to set up his clinic in his grandfather’s old house.
Prey: Mika’s respect for life prevents him killing any of his victims. In truth, he dislikes drinking from humans, and will take donor blood when he can. Sometimes, he has to drink from people, though, and at those time he will take as little as possible, leaving them as unharmed as possible. He keeps a good stock of fresh blood at his home and his clinic, just in case he should ever need it.
Relationships: Being solitary and quiet by nature, Mika finds friendships and relationships harder than most. He had truly wanted to be with his sire, Lady Thorn, but since her rejection of him, he had ever more trouble forming bonds. Over time, he has gained a few friends, even a lover, but still he finds it difficult. The presence of his sire itself will trigger unhappy and problematic thoughts. He will generally not be at his best around her, and act geeky, and slightly odd.
Other: Mika has spent his time since being turned working hard in his clinic, and does little else with his time, except those thing mentioned earlier. He has met his sire a few times since her rejection, and has accepted her apologies for rudeness, though she has made it abundantly clear that she is not interested in him relationship-wise. So he spends most time alone, working, though recent events have brought him closer to other people, including his sire. He also discovered his bisexuality, which scared him at first, and he still isn’t comfortable with it. Otherwise, his life is still dull and monotonous, though not in his eyes. To him, his research is enough to keep him occupied.
Family: Parents, deceased: Christopher Alan Reed and Korshka Lukyanenko (an immigrant from Russia).
Paternal Grandfather, deceased: Edward Arthur Reed.
Maternal Grandparents, unknown: Aleira and Sergei Lukyanenko.