| “ | My luck is so bad if I bought a cemetery people would stop dying | ” |
Katerina Michkov is a Russian Vampire who has lost everyone she cared about in this world. She's the last of her family having lost them all to both hunters and other vampires. She has very little trust for people.
Biography[]
| “ | You're a fighter. Look at everything you've overcome. Don't give up now | ” |
Early childhood[]
Alexei Michkov and Talia Petrova met on the 17th of August 1827 in Moscow, Russia. During a particularly bad storm. Talia was new to Moscow having only recently moved to the city, she'd managed to get herself lost on her way home. It was pure luck that she came across Alexei. But instantly the two knew what the other was, it was obvious when you knew what to look for.
Alexei immediately fell in love with her. Well not immediately. They'd escaped into Alexei's house which was nearest in order to wait out the storm. And it was there he began to fall for her. Quickly. She was funny, caring and unlike many of the human's he'd met, quick witted. The storm lasted for days and Talia used it as an excuse not to leave. Alexei was the first vampire she'd met in a while and really she wasn't so certain she wanted to go back to living alone. With only humans for company. And so she stayed, hours turned to days and before either one of them knew it the storm had ended. But she still didn't leave. And it was how, only a year later that Talia and Alexei found themselves getting married.
The couple travelled the world, never settling anywhere too long. For the next two decades they did nothing else but travel, until finally they settled down again in Moscow. And in the year 1852 they began they're family. It started with the twins Abel and Phoebe. Before ending, over a decade later with Katerina. Katerina was born on the 19th of June 1865 in Moscow, Russia. The youngest of the Michkov's and the last to be born in Russia. Only days after her birth the mob arrived at the door. The couple had stayed put too long. And they're inability to age had been noticed.
They'd tried to flee, but the mob had already made their way into the home. There was no way they'd all manage to escape. And so Talia handed her child over to Alexei. And turned back to hold off the crowd. Alexei was forced to flee, taking as many of their children with him as he could. Four was all he managed to save. Four children and himself. And for Alexei, that would never be enough.
Later Life[]
Alexei became paranoid. He'd live in a place for 5 years tops before he made them move. The children never had a stable home as they grew. They grew to learn that home was the people you were with rather than the building you lived in. And so Katerina grew up witnessing many of the crucial historical events. From the change in political leaders to the world wars that devastated so much of the world. She witnessed it all as she grew up, constantly being taught to fear humans.
The family set into a routine over the next century and a half. However, in the year 2010. It wasn't the human's that ruined Katerina's life once again. It was another coven of Vampires who broke into their home during the day when Katerina was still at school, the only one visibly young enough to attend. They burned the house to the ground, taking the occupants with it.
Katerina returned from school to find everything gone. Her home. Her family. Everything. And she had no idea what to do. Her father had taught her how to get food, but that didn't mean she knew how to survive alone. She might have been 152 years old, but to most she was no more than 13. And to vampires, 152 was still a child. But Katerina had no on left to turn to. And for the next year, she wondered the world, doing her best to stay hidden. That was. Until she heard about an academy. A safe haven for people like her. With nothing else to lose, she set off in search of the academy. And has only recently joined the school.
Olympus Academy[]
Katerina has been at the Academy for three years, she's currently in her fourth year of school and has come to love the safety of it. She likes not having to move every few years and she's very much considering staying on longer.
Physical description[]
Species: Vampire
Gender: Female
Height: 5' 3"
Hair colour: Brown
Eye colour: Brown
Skin colour: Pale
Personality and traits[]
Katerina was always a stubborn child. She was never one to do what she was told if she believed what she was doing was right. But Katerina takes after in her mother in some ways. She can be diplomatic when she wants to. After the amount of time she's spent on the earth, she's pretty smart. She'd spend most of her time reading considering that was all she was able to do for quite a time. She picks up languages really easily given how often they moved and had to learn the language. She does however sometimes struggle with modern things. It took her quite a while to get use to a mobile phone. But she learns to adapt. She always has. She's rather closed off half the time, she's quite convinced she's a bad luck charm. That doesn't mean she doesn't try to make friends, she just doesn't let them get too close. She's brisk and rash, she let's people know exactly what she thinks.
Magical abilities and skills[]
- Vampire's do not appear to age. If a vampire is turned they physically remain the age they were when they were turned. However the physiology for a naturally born vampire is slightly different. They age at a regular rate until they physically appear to be approximately twenty years old. At which point they do not age any further.
- As vampires live for much longer than humans and many supernatural creatures, the perception of lifestyle stages are a bit different for them. A vampire in their first hundred years of life are considered something akin to the first ten years of human life, they are little more than children to older vampires. Someone in the second hundred years of life is a teenager, the third hundred is twenties, etc.
- Vampires are classed as undead and as such have no physiological functions such as breathing, eating, brain waves, etc. They do not require air like humans do and as such can survive in many places humans cannot; buried alive, under the ocean.
- Turned vampires personalities are very different to the ones they posessed in their human form. This is due to the change taking a large toll on the human mind.
- Vampires were gifted with a natural beauty which attracts humans to them. This, accompanied with their natural charisma, makes it much easier for them to get the blood they need to survive.
- The consumption of human blood increases a vampires abilities. However, the consumption of animal blood, which many prefer, does make a vampire weaker than those who consume human blood.
- Vampires are blessed with many enhanced abilities including; Strength, Healing, Agility, Senses, Intelligence, Speed, Durability and Endurance. The older a vampire gets the more their abilities improve.
- Fledglings are newly turned vampires. They are stronger and faster than most vampires for the first 48 hours until they consume blood for the first time. If they elect not the drink the blood they will die.
- Turned vampires have a very strong bond with those that turned them. They are able to control the newly turned vampire by simply telling them to do something, in addition to this they share a psychic link.
- Vampires are unable to get sick by human illnesses. However, there are a few magical illnesses that can affect them and they can be effected by mental health issues. Consuming blood of someone with a blood disease can make a vampire severly ill.
- Most rumours surrounding vampires are factually incorrect. For example; vampires can appear in both murros and pictures. Garlic has no effect on them whatsoever, neither do holy items. However, certain rumours are true. Sunlight, although it won't kill them unless they are in the process of dessicating, causes an almost instant third degree sunburn across any visible skin. A vampire must be invited into a house which is inhabited by those considered living whether human or supernatural. A werewolf bite and werewolf blood can kill a vampire like a poison. Both stakes and fire can kill a vampire. However, this can also kill a human.
- Vampires have razor sharp fingernails, much like knives, which they use constantly in battle
- Vampires are able to use hypnotism and read the minds of humans. However, supernaturals and other vampires (unless they were sired by them) are immune to this ability. Vampires are able to sense the soul of all creatures.
- Vampires have a photographic memory and are unable to forget anything over the course of their lifetime. However, after they have lived a few centuries they begin to get confused on when it occurred.
- Vampires emotions are much stronger than those of humans, as such over time they have evolved to be able to turn off their emotions. This state is why vampires are characterised as being soulless as many go on murder sprees without emotions.
- Vampires have a true face which typically consists of; blood red eyes, dark veins and canine teeth. It differs from person to person but overall gives a much darker appearance to the vampire form. This only ever appears when a vampire is particularly angry, during a fight or when they are feeding.
- It is possible for a vampire to have both too much and too little blood. Too much results in the vampire experiencing a drunk feeling much like a human would when consuming too much alcohol. Too little blood results in a vampire becoming desiccated in which they find themselves unable to move at all until they are fed blood. They are incredibly vulnerable in this state.
- A Dhampir is a half vampire that must be born from a vampire and a human or a dhampir. As they are still living dhampir's still have a heartbeat, need air to survive and are able to eat human food in order to survive. Their need for these however is more like that of a serious athlete. For example; their heartbeat is much slower than most humans, they require less air to survive. Dhampir's are stronger than humans and experience many of the same abilities that vampires do. However, they have to work much harder than vampires to improve their abilities. Dhampir's live much longer than humans do, living for a maximum of around 300 years. Dhampir's have certain abilities which vampires do not, such as; a faster metabolism than humans and an ability to determine the species of a person by smell alone.
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Possessions[]
Relationships[]
Family[]
Michkov Family[]
Etymology[]
- Katerina- "Pure"