Nikolai
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NIKOLAI MOROZOV
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Dancing Bears. Painted Wings. Things I almost remember. And a song someone sings, Once upon a December.
About
If you find yourself wandering the Deadland mountains late at night, possibly with a blizzard, you're.... probably completely lost. But you would also end up seeing a mysterious, large figure of a Spynxyn wandering through the dark, a lanturn strapped to his side just barely lighting the way forward. Then he would come to you, and from there guide you along to a safe area (either a cave or his home or down the mountain if your close enough), then once you are safe, leave without any further word; Pawprints fading away in the storm, as though he was never even there to begin with.
Nikolai lives alone on the remote and dangerious Deadland Mountains, north of the Rainbow Rapids. He is generally only ever spotted when he is helping others find their way off the mountain. He keeps away from civilization and other people in general outside of that. Nobody really knows his name, who he is, or even if he is real, as nobody really gets a good look at him nor does an image exist of him (he makes sure of that. Not that he KILLS them, but he makes sure to avoid anyone with a camera and if they try to pull it out he knocks it away.). Luckily, nobody really WANTS to go to the Deadlands regularly, so not many come to look for him. Nor is he even that famous of an urban legend as there isn't really much... urban to have the legend populate in a big snowy mass.
Personality
Introvert
Extrovert
Instinctive
Calculated
Deceptive
Sincere
Unjust
Fair
Indifferent
Emotional
Reserved
Affectionate
Cooperative
Lone wolf
Kind
Mean
Overview
Being a bit of a loner, he is also a bit of a grumpy boy at first. But he does like talking to people (since he is very lonely on his snowy mountain).
He doesn't like Centicorns all too much and is automatically suspicious of them usually because of their tendancy to curse Spynxyn (despite Merphins doing it more, he's never seen one so he doesn't think they exist. Cuz yknow, of course, you cant see them on a big snowy mountain).
Despite being a Spynxyn himself and not liking how they are treated by the other species, he dislikes other Spynxyn because he thinks that their cocky attitude and constant inclination towards messing with the other races is also what is getting them in trouble. Also, as such, if he is for whatever reason around most other races (which would be when he is in a civilized area), he switches to his anthrophomorphic form to make himself look 1. "More civlized" and 2. not like the other Spynxyn and therefore better and #builtdifferent. He's a bit contradictory like that.
If you are a person he encounters in the wild; at first, he is generally very curt and short, not wanting to be too unnessicery or fancy. But if you end up getting closer to him, he ends up showing more of his true colors (that being a more traditional, formal, gentleman type).
Background
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Early Life
TL;DR: Nikolai's family gets killed and he is all alone.
Before he lived by himself in the mountains, he used to be a price of a now-deceased and forgotten royal family who ruled over a good chunk of land in the Deadlands (the one on the same segment of land as Rainbow Rapids). It was, despite the location being known for housing many cursed spynxyn, full of normal spynxyn too. But very few gifted ones (because y'know, location). A lot of the population were spynxyn who weren't allowed to live in the warmer areas like Rainbow Rapid due to the centicorns not letting them.
A trait of the linage was the specific snowflake pattern, which he didn't recieve until he got much older (though by then his family was gone and he was too young at the time when he knew them to remember any importance of the symbol). He was intended to be the heir to the throne at the time. [I'll write backstory stuff on his parents and stuff someday but for now you will just never know who they were]
In the middle of a big celebration, when his family was having a big party (he was still a little kid), the palace was attacked by a group of Centicorns on a crusade to oust the Spynxyn from their territory in the Deadlands (as to them at the time, they were too close to Rainbow Rapids, their holy land, and by the sheer fact that they were living in the Deadlands, they must be decended from the Spynxyn that tricked the gods and are therefore evil. They weren't ofc tho.). The centicorns cursed Nikolai's parents into disfigured, monsterous versions of them with faces completely blinded by ice (which of course scared the absolute shit out of smol Nikolai). They were also thrown into a wild, feral madness where they couldn't recognize anyone, including their own son. He ended up getting the scar on his lip not from them, but from trying to flee them (he cut himself on broken wood when he got stuck on it, which also attracted his fucked up cursed parents toward him at the scent of his blood). He would have probably been slaughtered by them but the crusading centicorns decided to tie down his fucked up parents temporarily until they left or they might kill THEM and as such, also take Nikolai captive to figure out what to do with him later.
As they were taking Nikolai away, he ended up being able to escape into the snow. And since a blizzard had started to kick up, the centicorns couldn't follow after him. But Nikolai quickly passed out and was buried in the snow. He was luckily fine due to winter floof but the blood ended up attracting some other cursed spynxyn who had been wandering around the wilderness. Seeing this random spitten out all by themselves in the wilderness looking in pretty bad shape, they ended up bringing him to a nearby town to try and see if maybe his parents were there (they wreen't of course but they didn't know who he was).
More backstory to be written later
Adolecent Life
TL;DR: He gets racist towards himself, snaps out of it, remembers, goes to kill dad and get cool coat for it.
I haven't entirely finished the reason to get from here to there but basically, due to the sus-ciety he lives in and the actions of his adoptive mother at one point, his teenage years are sort of iconified as hating all spinxyn, despite also being one, which then leads to self hate as well. Because he doesn't want to be like other spinxyn and he thinks they're all awful and annoying and he'll never be like them, but he realizes that he is exactly like them anyways. So he kinda goes on a whole suck-up thing where hes like "Ok but maybe Harpips and centis are super cool and better than me actually and man" until he snaps out of it and realizes "Oh.... they just... see me as another spinxyn. Oh... 😐" and gets out of that mentality (sorta, he still dislikes other spinxyn but not as much as when he was a teenager).
[There are more things that happene between here and this point but I dont have it all finished and finalized so you get the very END point]
He finally returned to his old home in the Deadlands, and to the now ruined and haunted castle, filled with fucked up, near-feral, cursed Spynxyn. And one of this was his former father, still wearing a torn up version of the clothes he had worn all those years ago. Nikolai came to face his past and hopefully free his former father. Though, of coure, you can't fix a cursed spynxyn, if you know what I mean. Once the deed was done, Nikolai ended up taking the large fluffy coat with the bull-like crest, something which his father used to wear before as regular outerwear, and left his old home for good.
Eventually, he found himself living up in the mountains, away from everyone, and so high up it was hard for most individuals, including most cursed spynxyn, from reaching the top. However, he ended up finding that there would still be other Nephians who would wander the height anyways. And he didn't have the heart to let them die alone up there when he was fully capable to save them. So he assigned himself as a sort of mountain guardian angel.
Design
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HEIGHT:
6'6 ft (Feral)
8'6 ft (Anthro)
VOICE:
Neuvillette (close enough 🥲, if only he was cryo)
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Design notes
His claws are so THICC they don't retract. Therefore, normally you should draw his claws (although I won't come for you and say "GRRR INNACURACIES" if you draw him without them. I do sometimes too tbh... Just worth notin.).
Preferences
Likes
- Snow
- Being Alone
- You < 3
Dislikes
- Other Spynyxn
- Centicorns
- Magic (no matter the sort. Good or bad.)
- Curses
- Warm weather (because of all his floof it makes him VERY hot)
Fears
- Being Cursed
Ambitions
- None Lol
Favorite
Food(s)
- content
Drink(s)
- content
Scent(s)
- Pine
Music
- content
Trivia
- Dapper fellow :)
- Worst nightmare of all the people who say "They can do anything"
- He does not respond to "Niko". He will pretend he didn't hear you and if asked will say he thought you were talking to someone else (but even after being told that you were talking about him apparently and then calling him by that again, he will still give the same excuse). Truth is though, he hates being called "Niko" cuz he thinks it sounds baby-ish.
- You can bury your face in his floof. In fact, you could probably bury your entire body in the floof (and he wouldnt even notice tbh).
- Since he lives alone all the time in the high mountains, he doesn't know what most technology is. The most technology he does is lights and even then its the sort with a filiment string inside that sucks a whole bunch of power.
- He doesn't like magic very much and therefore he doesn't like to use it himself. Since he hates curses and having a curse himself and thinks that using magic is probably a gateway into getting one somehow, just randomly. The only magic he does use is the bit of magic to switch from feral to anthro and back again (and even then, he only uses that on the VERY rare ocassion that he encounters more than one person at the same time.)
- I have a crush on him. Yes, I have a crush on my own OC. You know I'm a good writer when I can fall in love with my own creations, literally. 😎
Related
His pseudo-adoptive mother. He dislikes her for lore that hasn't been written out yet but she hangs around him regardless (and inside he doesn't hate her as much as he likes to put off... But he does also dislike that she constantly sells other people gear that she KNOWS is faulty which means he has to go save people more often).
Decendant of the leader of the crusades, who cursed Nikolai's parents and turned his life upside down. Though Nikolai doesn't know that at first, nor does Troy, Troy does eventually figure it out (specifically after eventually recognizing where he saw that snowflake pattern before). Troy had been taught at a young age about the stories of the various conquests, one of the main ones being the assasination of the Morozov family. Of course, he had also been told that the last son was lost in a blizzard but had probably frozen to death. So seeing Nikolai alive and realizing that it wasn't just a name coincidence, but the same person, was a MASSIVE shock. So he decided to finish the job to honor his father (who is dead now lol) and finally have his own grand moment like his father did.
Nikolai first encountered her when she, like most others, had gotten lost on his mountain during a trip (in the middle of the night in the middle of a blizzard). He found her passed out and since she was particulalry close to the top, brought her to his cave to keep her safe until the storm passed. She woke up though and found out that "Hey, this is a spynxyn who isn't an evil mean trickster like I had seen all my life.". They end up bonding a bit over the time and she decides to invite him to come and visit her family to show them that not all spinkies are bad. He at first was apprehensive but siunce he actuaoly ended up liking having this social interaction, he decides to go with her back down the mountain. Blah blah blah stuff happens, lore, and they be bonding more.
[I still haven't QUITE decided if I want their relationship to be romantic or platonic sooooo... subject to change.]
Code by @Robb Images from Unsplash
Brian Stokes Mitchell
When they look at me
Huh, like they'd ever look at me...
But if they did
Do you think they'd see that thoughts are spinning in my mind?
To dance in their ballrooms
late into night?
What is it like to be taken... seriously?
To walk on the beach
And leave just one set of footsteps behind.
Liz Calloway
Dancing Bears
Painted Wings
Things I almost remember
And a song someone sings
Once upon a December
Far Away
Long Ago
Burning dim as an ember
Things my heart
Used to know
Things it yearns to remember
And a song someone sings
Once upon a December
Ramin Karimloo
Yes I know the irony of using this song considering his character and inspo lol
Be very careful of these rumors that prevail
Be very careful what you say
I was a boy who lived the truth behind the tale
and no one got away
I heard the shots
I heard the screams
But it's the silence after I remember most
The world stopped breathing
And I was no longer a boy
The Neva flows
A new wind blows
And soon it will be spring
The leaves unfold
The tsar lies cold
Could I have pulled the trigger if I'd been told?
Be careful what a dream may bring
A revolution is a simple thing
Miracle Musical
Alone at the edge of a universe humming a tune
with sparkling crystals souls aglow
