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Anatoli Kissin; Rashana - 6th Year
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[Name] Anatoli Kissin

[Meaning] Anatoli = “sunrise”

[Prefers to be called] Anatoli

[Ethnicity] Caucasian (Russian)

[Gender] Male

[Race] Shifter (Eurasian Brown Bear)

[Speciality] None

[Bloodtype] Pureblood

[Year] Sixth

[House] Rashana

[Wand] 40cm, teak wood with coco shell inlay, essence of dragon fire

[Electives] Care of Magical Creatures, Broom Flying, Arithmancy

[Height] 178 cm

[Hair colour] Blonde

[Eye colour] Pale blue

[Common Knowledge] He’s a Shifter, a Eurasian Brown Bear who can take human form at will. That’s how he sees himself; it is how all Shifters see themselves. Animagus are humans who can take animal form at will; Shifters are the opposite. Anatoli grew up in the Siberian forest, far from houses and roads and people. He’s a bear at heart and for a long time he considered all human things strange. Not humans per se, he is part human after all, but human things such as beds and clothes and…well…school. Nowadays he’s like people are most, but there was a time when he was frequently stopped from trying to run off into the forest and students his own age or older tend to remember it.

Bear Shifters are not like bears you see. Bears live lives in solitude, rarely accepting the company of other bears outside the mating season and for the exception of mothers and cubs. Shifters live in clans, sort of like packs, and act like herd animals no matter the species. As such Anatoli is a social, if yet a bit shy at times, person and he doesn’t like being alone for too long. Friends mean almost as much as family to him and he values friendship greatly. Very few things would make him turn his back on a friend and nothing could be worth betraying one for. He’s got a reputation of being a very loyal and trustworthy friend, and he lives up to it.

But as a result of being raised with solely loyalty, co-operation and clan spirit, he has a very hard time dealing with betrayal and backstabbing. He’s not a perfectly innocent boy, he’s a teenager and he will lie every now and then like everyone else, but betrayal is something entirely different. When he tells a secret he expects the other person to keep it, when receiving a promise he assumes it will be kept. That’s how he works and it is how his brothers and family works. Unfortunately there are people who are willing to use such things against him, even though it’s a bad idea to anger the Russian bear.

Because that’s another thing that is well known about Anatoli. He is kind, and quite cuddly too when winter kicks in, but if he gets angry he gets angry. All teenagers are grumpy in the morning and everyone gets annoyed when their favourite flavour of ice cream is sold out, but you don’t get angry for just about anything now do you? Anatoli gets angry when he’s betrayed or truly let down after having trusted a person, and then he has to restrain himself from physically harming whomever hurt him or break just about everything that’s within reach. Some people call it weakness, others sensitivity. He doesn’t know what to call it, just that he hates feeling that way.

Having grown up in the woods, literally in the woods, Anatoli prefers to be outdoors. Despite being sixteen years old, he’s still an adolescent even in Shifter terms, and he’s very much a cub at heart. He likes to play around and acting slightly stupid. At least when he thinks no one’s watching or with only friends around. It’s a bit embarrassing being caught playing tag or hide-and-seek when in sixth grade after all. But most people are used to his playful nature and friendly spirit, they know it’s just who he is.

[Secrets] Anatoli’s biggest secret is probably the exact location of his home. When asked he says the depths of the Siberian woods. It’s very unspecific and for good reasons too; the Shifters wants to be left alone. They are more animals than humans when living out there in the forest and they don’t want to be disturbed. But their home is also secret for safety reasons. There was a time when Shifters were kept as attractions in magical theme parks and zoos, there are even stories of Shifters being kept as familiars, and they don’t want to risk anything of the kind ever happening again. Consequently very few people have ever been told the route to Anatoli’s home.

Few people know just how strong Anatoli is. He’s a bear, but the near monstrous strength of his animal self does not accompany him into human form. Some of it does, enough to leave him as a strong human being but not more than that. He’s strong and fit and spends a couple of hours at the gym a weak in order to stay so, and still he never tries to show off or brag about it. Some people hanging around the gym might’ve noticed his workout habits and strength, but to most they are unknown. It’s not really a secret, but it makes him slightly uncomfortable to talk about how strong he is.

That’s probably about it. Anatoli believes is honesty, not secrets, and he tries to not keep any big ones himself. Apart from the home location that is. You can find out most things about him by asking, unfortunately not all people know that.

[Familiar] He is an animal himself, and a partly carnivores one to that, keeping a familiar seems like a bad idea.
Edited by Admin, Nov 2 2008, 10:39 PM.
 
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