Dmitri Ilych

Physical Appearance

• Medium length black hair, usually spiked
• Yellow slitted eyes
• Fair skinned with a pale complexion
• Medium/mildly short in height
• Black markings under eyes
• Usually wears eyeliner on top and bottom eyelids, which blend in with the tattoo markings under his eyes
• Scar on left cheek (has stitches at the beginning of OTE before he has them removed when it heals)
• Sharp fang-like canines and claw-like nails
• Missing his right hand and has a prosthetic replacement
• Missing his right leg from the knee down and has a prosthetic replacement
• 9 piercings per ear; 5 upper, 4 lower
• The edges/backs of his pointed ears have some mild amount of black/green scales on them
• Black/green striped scaled tail with a light green underside (similar to a garter snake pattern)

Clothing Style

Dmitri wears a variant of the standard Enlightened uniform, his particular outfit being more unique to his personal style due to his high rank. Dmitri wears almost entirely black with a few green accents for the normal color scheme of their gear. He wears a black jacket over a dark green shirt, black pants, and black/dark green boots. He wears a number of black spiked belts around his hips, arms, and legs, and a spiked choker (and usually makes fun of himself for dressing like some wannabe goth). He typically wears a fingerless glove on his remaining hand, and his earrings tend to be black or silver.

His prosthetic hand is typically gray, silver, or black, but he often ends up breaking or losing it when he gets into close combat and has it replaced regularly. His prosthetic leg is usually a matching color, although it doesn't always match depending on how frequently he loses his hand. He loses his leg much less frequently, but he also tends to need replacements every once in a while when it gets beat up too badly.

Personality

Dmitri comes off as very low energy and rather gloomy, and it's mostly because he is low energy from overworking himself and stressing, and he is thoroughly pessimistic. However, he's describe himself as an optimistic pessimist, since he usually hopes that he's wrong when he expects the worst case scenario. Although he can seem rather deadpan and dreary all the time, he speaks with quite a bit of lighthearted wit and has a healthy sense of humor, although his humor is usually somewhat dry and tends to poke fun at his own misfortune. Dmitri has resigned to the fact that his life is rather terrible, but he makes the most of it and appreciates what positives he can sometimes get. He commonly remarks things along the lines of "I suppose things could be worse" or "Well, I'm not dead, so I guess things aren't that bad" since he typically tries to look on the bright side of things considering his life is pretty terrible in a lot of aspects. He doesn't take the good things in his life for granted of course, and he is very loyal and dedicated to the people he bonds with, making him a reliable ally.

Dmitri is a hard working and efficient member of the Enlightened, and he's been that way even before he became a general. He tries his best to complete all his assignments to the best of his ability, and he gets extremely nervous when he thinks he might be failing or disappointing his superiors or peers. He doesn't underestimate himself, but he doesn't find anything he does to be particularly remarkable. Like numerous other Enlightened members, Dmitri isn't particularly dedicated to the actual goals of the Enlightened and primarily works hard simply because he wants to live, and also because he doesn't want his apathy or lack of cooperation to cause the deaths of any of his colleagues or subordinates. He doesn't try to make excuses for the atrocious acts he may do on behalf of the Enlightened, and he honestly doesn't expect any forgiveness or pity for whatever misfortune or retribution that comes his way. He considers various members of the Enlightened to be his family, so he works hard for their sake rather than actually believing the goals of the organization.

He tends to sounds self depreciating since he constantly makes fun of himself, from his aesthetic to his life decisions. As much as people tell him to be nicer to himself, he usually just comments he's not young enough to be bothered by such petty insults like the emo teenager he apparently stole the wardrobe of. His logic is apparently he can't get depressed if he's already down on himself, but he's not nearly as dreary when around his more uplifting colleagues. Dmitri seems to fair better when he has someone more positive around him, and since he's very close with optimistic people like General Amando, Ista, and Rahmue, it's not hard for him to be in brighter spirits (and by brighter, I mean relatively neutral). His lighter nature and sense of humor tend to shine the most when he's with his daughter, Mira, since he doesn't want to be too much of a downer around her, but he's glad that his gloomy nature doesn't seem to be rubbing off on her yet.

Abilities

• Lyfe rifting - rank 1/5, can mostly only create elemental charges to his bullets or something similar
• Has very quick reflexes and often can react to things before he's consciously aware of them
• Accelerated regeneration from demonic aura and can survive some injuries that would normally be fatal to mortals
• Moderate demon strength and stamina
• Skilled with firearms, particularly small handguns and rifles
• Seems to have some other supernatural abilities he is unaware of…

Strengths

• Hard working, reliable, and responsible
• Loyal, compassionate, and easy to talk to
• Resourceful, brave, and level-headed
• Clever, down to earth, and adaptable

Weaknesses

• A bit slow and low energy from exhaustion and stress
• Pessimistic, self depreciating, and rarely accepts praise or takes it seriously
• Demonic strength is only moderate, coupled with his small figure and prosthetics he's rather easy to overpower
• Gets very nervous about failing or disappointing others and is flustered by intimacy

Backstory

Dmitri does not remember much of his early childhood, although he's aware he used to be in the Delzin system. According to the mortals that took him in, a group of Rytilian within Delzin smuggled Dmitri out when he was an infant through a traveling mercenary team and he was transported to safety. He grew up as the only Rytilian and the only demon in a town of mortals, yet he carried out a relatively normal life until his teenage years. One day the town was lit ablaze, although Dmitri has no idea how or why. He was unable to escape his house and was trapped when the flames caused the house to collapse. He remained pinned under the debris for days until he was discovered by the Enlightened and taken to the Celarus to be drafted. As far as he can tell, there were no other survivors in the town, and his parents are assumed dead.

Dmitri became a missionary in the D.Z.L. Faction rather quickly after he learned to use both firearms and close combat weaponry at an astonishing rate. He oddly also had such heightened reflexes he was capable of deflecting projectiles, even bullets, with his Plazma blade. He performed well in the majority of his assignments along with also working rather well with the other faction members. He became well liked among his peers for his loyalty to them as individuals and as a team, and over the years he worked his way up to Major, and then Lieutenant under General Zevernelt. Dmitri was loaded with an excess of work since General Zevernelt was purposely slowing faction efficiency for the resistance, and this started a long cycle of him being overworked and tired all the time. However with the help of General Amando he was able to manage things well until General Zevernelt deserted from the Enlightened along with many other D.Z.L. members, leaving the faction short staffed.

During the time shortly before Zevernelt was promoted to General, a ship crash landed on Venshirica and the D.Z.L. Faction was assigned to investigate and salvage anything useful from the wreckage. It was determined the vessel might have been from the distant galaxy of Lylaeterial from the small amount of vastly superior technology discovered. Dmitri managed to discover an undamaged pod inside the vessel buried in the debris. Inside was a cat girl named Mira, who confirmed their suspicions of where the ship came from. They ended up taking her back to the Celarus for studying and questioning, although she grew rather attached to Dmitri and was only receptive to his interactions with her. He learned her parents had placed her in the pod before the crash, and she was now orphaned and had no method of returning home. Dmitri decided to take her in and treated her as his own daughter.

Currently General Ilych is trying to keep the D.Z.L. Faction in running order following a devastating attack from the resistance that killed off many high ranked missionaries. He has now appointed a young but promising missionary, Rahmue Tasibai, to be his new Lieutenant, and they are both gradually settling into their new ranks while trying to keep up with the constant chaos of the job.

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