Ilya "Eli" Saburov

Ilya Saburov was a character played in Thirlcrest Academy and is played by UnlimitedWrath. He was [HR] and former leader of Outcasts and one of their longest running members, technically a founder of the Pit until up to his graduation in 2008.
==Appearance==
Eli was a tall, slender white male who stood at 5'10". Albeit healed, his body sustained a decade of injuries due to skateboarding, now combined with the environment at Thirlcrest Academy. His notable feature was his big nose, which accordingly took up 70% of his face and dark hair described as a "mop". He usually wore a red, black and white tracksuit with the brown club vest underneath, a pair of bulky shoes picked off from a skateboarding magazine catalog and a digital Casio watch. Ilya also carried a backpack around with a smiley keychain attached to it and a skateboard with a fire deck design.
Previously, Eli's hair was thin and fell below his jaw, adorned with a cap worn backwards. He was seen wearing the same shoes, baggy camo pants, a leather wristband and a black t-shirt with a skull design underneath -- Leaving his school shirt open to display it. However, as a result, he was often mistaken for a Bruiser ironically making him target of bullying.
==Characteristics==
Eli was prideful, ego-driven and traditional in comparison to the rest of the more laid-back Music Club, thus made it harder for him to get along with other people and keeps to himself, earning him a reputation for being a "strict boss" since it bled into the way he operated in the club; he was in charge of the club funds and dealing with heavy contrabands. What was originally known about Eli is now lost to history, but it's safe to assume he was once a easy-going skater with a flair for baggy jeans and punk rock music. The reasoning for his "degeneration" in personality remains unknown to this today.
==Character Background==
Eli was born Ilya Saburov to USSR migrants Mikhail "Michael" Saburov and Natalya "Natalie" Saburova (nee Ostrova) in Brooklyn, New York alongside his younger sister, Lidyia "Lydia" Saburova. His father is a will and testament lawyer, and while his mother would often take in odd jobs most of her adult life, she was mostly stay-at-home. The reasonings for their Anglicized names is they wanted to blend in with American society and culture, and their Russian names couldn't be made up for proper pronunciation. 
Due to his father's position at the law firm, the Saburovs lived a comfortable middle-class life in the suburbs of Brooklyn, right next to Jewish neighbors so he was often exposed to Jewish culture and teachings, even to the point of celebrating a bar mitzvah hosted by the neighbors even though it wasn't warranted. Albeit, the family (Especially Eli) was often subject to Michael's yelling and anger as a result of stress and overwork, combined with a harsh, disciplinarian attitude - Which might've contributed to the way Eli was as a person.
As a result, Eli picked up on skateboarding and grunge, punk rock music during middle school, rebelling against his father as an attempt to stray away from him as much as he could, becoming distant. This enraged Michael, but Natalie tried to assure and tell him he was "just going through a lot" and blames it on puberty; that is, until problems began to rise when Eli struck one of his classmates with a skateboard to the head over a dispute. While the classmate turned out fine and only suffered a mild concussion with a minor cut on the forehead, 16-year-old Ilya Saburov got the short stick of it and ended up getting detained, only to be sent to the principal's office and threatened with an expulsion if he did not change up his act; this was combined with the fact that he was skipping classes, drinking/smoking, vandalizing school property and generally displaying anti-social behavior. This particular incident was the straw that broke the camel's back.
When Michael heard about the news, he punished Eli for a month, threatened to kick him out and send him away to an orphanage "like they did in the Motherland". During this one-month period, Eli would often quarrel with his parents and shut himself in his room, with the occasional attempt to sneak out. Michael, overwhelmed with workload and family issues including his son, sought out alternative options to get Ilya "in check" and that is when he stumbled across a leaflet for the reformatory school located in Maine that's known as Thirlcrest Academy. 
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==Relationships==
===Rivers Borowski===
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===Milo "Snoopy" Wilks===
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===Claudia Massaro===
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===Bowie Rockets===
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===Georgie Covington===
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