Viktor Alexander Verano

Viktor Alexander Verano y Bonifacio (born 05 November 2025) is the deuteragonist of Flight Data, the fifth novel of the FLIGHT series. He is part of the wealthy and famous Verano clan, one of the richest families in the Philippines, and the oldest child and son of Nikolai Xavier Verano and Mayumi Phoebe Bonifacio. He is the older brother of Vasilisa, Valentin, Veronika, Vladimir, Valeriya, Vladislav and Violetta. Being the eldest, he is considered to be the heir to their family business conglomerate, the Verano Group of Companies, and take pride and great responsibility of such future. Due to a misunderstanding, he crossed paths with Aelia Cyrille Alvarado, an aircraft maintenance of Malyari Air Flight Training Academy, and decided to take responsibility for what happened over a drunken one-night stand.
== Biography ==
=== Birth ===
Viktor's conception wasn't considered a surprise at all for his parents, as he was born roughly nine months and two weeks after the wedding. According to his parents, it had been their intention to start a family at once that had been implied leading to his conception during the course of his parents' honeymoon. However, it was only roughly seven weeks after the wedding that the pregnancy was hinted after his mother started having morning sickness and missing a period weeks' late that had been earlier associated to the busy schedule and frequent travels that they did—having a business trip to Dubai right after the honeymoon, and a birthday present of his father to his mother that involved a trip for the Carnival Rio and a subsequent safari adventure at South Africa. It was only on his mother's birthday did the pregnancy was revealed to his father.XXX
His impending birth was implied to be the reason for the third quarter meeting of Malyari Air's Board was held by the end of July 2025, as mentioned to be Sage Nathaniel Martinez's excuse to Yvonne Jade Astilla for missing the church ceremony of the latter's best friend's wedding; saying that Viktor's parents needed to travel to France for his birth.Flight Deck
Viktor was born on the early morning of 05 November 2025 at Hôpital Necker-Laennec Enfants-Malades, Paris, France to Nikolai Xavier Verano, Vice Chairman of the Verano Group of Companies and Vice President of Verano Development Corporation, and Mayumi Phoebe Bonifacio, President of Malyari Air. He spent the first three months of his life in France, where his grandparents, aunts and uncles had visited him upon his birth, and during Christmas and New Year.
A few days after flying to the Philippines, Viktor was christened on 14 February 2026 at Santuario de San Antonio Parish Church at Forbes Park, Makati, Philippines, and was followed by a reception at the Banyan Garden of Manila Polo Club just a kilometer away. His godparents were Engr. Miguel Perseus Bonifacio (his maternal uncle), Rosalie Mariah Cadaval (his mother's maternal cousin), Maricelia Cariño (his father's paternal cousin), Marshana Rain Carpio (his mother's college friend), Engr. Owen Doyle (his father's friend from UCL), and Capt. Sage Nathaniel Martinez (his parents' batchmate from WAA). During the reception, Sage teasingly tried to take him away from his parents, ultimately leading for him to cry and be returned to his father. He stopped crying with his father's comfort before being handed to his mother.
For his first birthday, Viktor received a 3% share of his father's stocks of the Verano Group of Companies as a custom among the Verano family. Though it was expected to grow by age, it had remained as an equal share of his like that of his younger siblings; and he was bound to personally own it when he turned eighteen years old.
When he was two years old, on April 2028, he, along with his father and younger sister Vasilisa, accompanied his mother when she was invited to be the guest speaker for her high school alma mater. He was regarded to be a handsome kid with a very bright future and gentle nature for being quiet throughout the program, or could've been because of how good his father handled him and his sister as noted by his mother's former high school teachers.XXX
During the tenth anniversary of his parents' batchmates' graduation for their flight training, he was regarded as the "eldest brother" of the rest of the children, as Cristofer Monceda's daughter, who was older, wasn't present at the event. He exhibited the best traits of a caring, attentive and generous older brother as he patiently watched over the younger ones and allowed them to enjoy; which caused his mother worry of him having to grow up much faster than they intended for him.Flight Line
Later on, he had nine younger siblings, two were miscarried: Vasilisa, Valentin, Veronika, Vladimir, Valeriya, Vladislav and Violetta; he and his siblings roughly had a two-year age gap in between.
=== Education and career ===
Viktor spent his early days mostly in Paris, France; only heading to the Philippines during a few events and holidays. From nursey until fourth grade, he attended the British School of Paris; before transferring to the International School Manila in the Philippines for fifth grade until eighth grade as his family settled in the country around that time. Like his father, he attended the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland from ninth grade until twelfth grade. About the same time, during summer and holidays, Viktor took his flight training in their family-owned Malyari Air Flight Training Academy in Pampanga, Philippines; finishing the course all the way to A320 for roughly three years.
It was during his stay at Le Rosey did he entered into relationships with other students from the said school. His first girlfriend was Caitlin Henderson, a classmate of his who've admitted having a crush on him and they tried dating; however, Viktor wasn't interested with her and broke up with her after four months because he was interested with one of their juniors, Bianca Saviano. Four months later, he and Bianca entered into a relationship. Despite being deeply interested with one another, they broke up after nine months when Bianca didn't continue her studies at Le Rosey as her father, being the daughter of the Italian ambassador to Switzerland, was reassigned somewhere else. A year later, he entered into another relationship with a classmate of his; this time, with Abigail Lewis, who was also known to have a crush on him since his relationship with Caitlin. They grew close when Viktor and Bianca broke up, assuring him that she was willing to comfort him, which he generously declined. However, they continued conversing and became close with one another until he tried courting her with her own insistence of them trying it out. Just two months since graduating from Le Rosey, Viktor broke up with her as Abigail grew insecure of them being in different universities that even resulted to him filing a restraining order.
Afterwards, he also followed the same steps as his father by attending the University College London in England for university and took the same degree of Master of Engineering in Engineering and Architectural Design. During his time in university, Viktor met Bethany Griffiths during a school fair through a common friend in December 2024. Four months later, they became a couple; and both of their families and friends knew that they were meant to be together. Viktor even planned on proposing to her a year after graduation, but they broke up beforehand. The reason was unknown, but Viktor considered it foolish and avoidable, and they continued considering one another as friends still.
Upon graduation, Viktor was granted the position of being a Project Director of their family's Verano Development Corporation. And due to his achievements, just two years later, he was promoted as an Associate Director.
=== Meeting Aelia Alvarado ===
== Personality ==
Viktor, at first glance, was regarded to have "an alpha male energy" according to Aelia, which definitely was all because of his commanding, charismatic and almost aloof nature of being born into the Verano family and be considered the heir to its entire wealth. He usually appeared bossy and wanted to get things done on his way, causing his parents to wonder if he had been spoiled much when they've ensured that their children would not grow into receiving everything they asked for; which was later revealed to be because of his paternal and maternal grandparents, uncles and aunts, who were actually the one behind the spoiling whenever his parents weren't presence as a child growing up as he was the first grandchild of both grandparents and the oldest among his cousins from both sides of the family.
He was considered by his siblings to be the happy-go-luck, cheerful and teasing older brother who also took responsibility of them as the oldest one, evident with how he usually threatened whoever were courting his sisters and had been very protective. On the other hand, due to the rather large age gape between him and his youngest sibling, he hated being reminded of his age and being asked to be the most mature among them, a position taken by his youngest pair of siblings. Like his siblings, he was very family-oriented and always considered them as his priority; even beyond that of his lovers which he had told Aelia that as long as they were still not married with one another, his family would be on the top of his list, and by then that they were married, she would be part of that family, too.
== Physical description ==
Despite being usually referred to resemble his father as a baby, growing up had proven that he inherited features from both of his parents. Since his parents had the same dark brown hair and eyes, the difference had been evident when he inherited his father's facial structure and the shape of his lips; while he inherited the shape of his mother's nose and eyes. He had been handsome since he was young, which became prominent by the time he matured. He was an inch taller than his father though he appeared bulkier with broad shoulders of a swimmer and was a little tanner. He often wore suits, and had the same fashion sense as his father.
== Skills and abilities ==
Viktor, like his younger siblings, was privileged to explore a variety of sports, and learn instruments and languages. Like their parents, Viktor was also a skilled pilot, and was skilled in sketching, photography and modeling. He was an athlete and played a variety of sports like that of his siblings such as archery, badminton, equestrian, golf, karting, shooting and swimming; and also played basketball, football, polo and rowing. He also knew how to play the flute, guitar, piano and violin. He was also regarded to be a great cook, which he was surely trained by his parents. Like his siblings, he was also taught martial arts such as Muay Thai as some sort of self-defense. Additionally, Viktor was a polyglot, having able to speak and understand English, Filipino, French, Russian, German and Italian fluently almost like a native.
== Possessions ==
== Ancestry ==
* Father: Nikolai Xavier Verano y Alcántara
* Mother: Mayumi Phoebe Bonifacio y Cadaval
* Sibling/s:
** Vasilisa Alyona Verano y Bonifacio (m. Adrien Josef Buenviaje y Fernandez)
*** Aamir Konstantin Buenviaje y Verano
*** Arianne Klara Buenviaje y Verano
*** Aurore Kristina Buenviaje y Verano
*** Astride Klavdia Buenviaje y Verano
*** Ademar Kirill Buenviaje y Verano
** Valentin Alexei Verano y Bonifacio (m. Camille Soleil Vannier)
*** Aelius Ivan Verano y Vannier
*** Aether Ilya Verano y Vannier
*** Amarente Inna Verano y Vannier
*** Amandine Irina Verano y Vannier
** Unborn brother/sister (I)
** Veronika Aleina Verano y Bonifacio (m. Riccardo Inigo Dell'Agnello)
*** Aloisio Danil Dell'Agnello y Verano
*** Augusta Diana Dell'Agnello y Verano
*** Albus Dominik Dell'Agnello y Verano
*** Aquiliana Daria Dell'Agnello y Verano
*** Aldrik Dmitri Dell'Agnello y Verano
*** Almir Damián Dell'Agnello y Verano
** Vladimir Andrei Verano y Bonifacio (m. Serena Cordelia Garcia)
*** Acacius Leonid Verano y Garcia
*** Anastasie Liliya Verano y Garcia
*** Arsione Lidiya Verano y Garcia
*** Arsenios Lavrenty Verano y Garcia
** Valeriya Aksinia Verano y Bonifacio (m. Maksimilijan Hervé Walsh)
*** Anraí Sergey Walsh y Verano
*** Aisling Sofia Walsh y Verano
*** Aoife Shanna Walsh y Verano
*** Aodhán Stepan Walsh y Verano
*** Aedh Stanislav Walsh y Verano
** Unborn brother/sister (II)
** Vladislav Arkadi Verano y Bonifacio (m. Kaia Charlotte van Staveren)
*** Artair Yakov Verano y van Staveren
*** Aliza Yekaterina Verano y van Staveren
*** Alvar Yuri Verano y van Staveren
*** Aliya Yelisaveta Verano y van Staveren
*** Adair Yefim Verano y van Staveren
** Violetta Amaliya Verano y Bonifacio (m. Reece Kian Domínguez)
*** Arleen Eleonora Domínguez y Verano
*** Arawn Eduard Domínguez y Verano
*** Armelle Evelina Domínguez y Verano
* Spouse: Aelia Cyrille Alvarado y Guinta
* Issue:
** Achilles Mikhail Verano y Alvarado
** Alcyone Maria Verano y Alvarado
** Aeneas Maxim Verano y Alvarado
** Alcmene Marta Verano y Alvarado
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* Viktor's full name is Viktor Alexander Verano y Bonifacio.
** Viktor is the Slavic form of the name "Victor", a Roman name meaning "victor" or "conqueror" in Latin.Behind the Name: Viktor and Victor
** Alexander is the Latinized form of the Greek name Ἀλέξανδρος (Alexandros), which meant "defending men" from Greek ἀλέξω (alexo) meaning "to defend, help" and ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive ἀνδρός).Behind the Name: Alexander
** Bonifacio is the Italian and Spanish form of the name "Bonifatius" or "Boniface" which meant "good fate" from bonum "good" and fatum "fate".Behind the Name: Bonifacio and Boniface
** Verano means "summer" in Spanish.Ancestry: Verano
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