Skander Vasilievich Smerdyakov

"For a lifetime, I'd been looking for a family to call my own. I was lost and confused, and I had nowhere to go, since the good ones had gone. Until I was finally found. By you." - Skander after reuniting with Pierre Skander Vasilievich Smerdyakov (née Zarubin) (Скандер Васильевич Смердяков) was the only son of Vasily Vladimirovich Zarubin and Olga Pavelovna Irodov, who were both Agents who died during their service for the KGB. After losing his only living relative, he was an orphan from Myshkin Orphanage who was raised and adopted under Pierre's wing until he ran away from Pierre and Alyosha to prevent any hindrance happen to Pierre. After illegally crossing the borders at Belarus, Poland, and East Germany with the help of fugitives, with whom he became a pickpocket, Skander served as a valet to Schroeder's heir apparent, Zigfried, for four years. He later became a troubled child who was stowing away from one train to another that took him to many countries like Switzerland and England that coined his nickname "The Stowaway". After being adopted by a professor in England, Skander completed his education at Eton College. Skilled in mechanical engineering, Skander was sent to a factory that turned out to be a hideout of an anarchist group, Rose Noire, in which Skander got inducted and considered as a second family. After losing the entire anarchist group to a mine explosion and the leader to his execution of the authorities, Skander also lost his professor guardian to the authorities due to his guardian's illicit activities and got deported back to Russia due to his participation and involvement with Rose Noire. Deciding to repent his crimes, Skander decided to work for the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces as an Engineer due to his connections to the military through his parents. A year before the events of Mr. T, Skander posed as Stefan's true Heir as a means to find a family in the Trifonov family. After being exposed and adopted by Dmitri Smerdyakov, Skander decided to start a new life with the last of the Kravenoff family and work with Alyosha at Oscorp as an intern.