Victor von Graves

## Early Life

Victor von Graves is a man from a noble family. His childhood consists of being pampered due to being the only child born to his wealthy parents, which has shaped him to be quite vain. Up until recently, that's all he's ever known. Everything brought to him at the flick of his wrist. However, such things eventually started to bore him.

He's always been the curious type. Observing plant life, watching animals from afar as they lived their primitive lives, reading all sorts of scientific literature and putting his newly acquired knowledge to use through the means of experimentation. So, as much as he liked his easy lifestyle, he still preferred to flee the nest at the early age of 16 to pursue his interest of discovery, much to his family's dismay.

Ever since, he traveled through the dangerous lands with only the help of hired adventurers, whom unfortunately sometimes ended up paying with their lives protecting the young man. But despite all the gruesome deaths he's managed to witness in such a short time, he still continued forth with his quest for understanding until at last, he arrived in Oracle at the age of 22, considerably humbled by then.

### Recent Life Events

Victor has by now settled in Tinker's Cove, having built himself a home at the High Hills. Due to an accident just recently prior to arriving in Oracle, he doesn't remember as much of his early life as he used to, but it still doesn't stop him from sometimes reminiscing on his past. However, he is still a fairly changed man from the bratty rich kid he used to be, only thanks to what he's learned from his deceased adventurer protectors and from his all-too-many near-death experiences alongside them.

He is somewhat involved in the murder investigations of Oracle.

### Present Life Events

After numerous traumatic experiences, including supposed tormenting hallucinations, he secretly moved to Raia in hopes of escaping those that have been harassing him. Fortunately, he has been seemingly at least cured of his illness and instead is now one with sculk flowers.

### Appearance

Victor has quite a thin, frail frame of 5 ft 11 and 134 lbs. He can be described as rather stick-like in body-shape. His hair is cut short, curling in various places, most notably at the bottom. It consists of different shades of gray, dark the most prominent with lighter streaks at his temples going around the back of his head. Overall, it appears messy at first glance. It especially stands out against his ghostly pale white skin, which appears to be pretty spotless. All that aside however, the most noticeable thing about him is his dually-coloured eyes, the right of which being a brilliant blue and the left an emerald green, both of which nearly always narrowed.

His face is rather angular as a whole, long with prominent cheekbones and a pointy chin. It gives his appearance a bit of harshness, which may not be too far off from the way he sometimes behaves. As a whole, Victor doesn't appear very approachable as he gives off an air of arrogance in his mannerisms, usually rigid and all-too formal, as though he's not even a human at all- rather a doll of sorts.

As he is from a rather rich background, he used to be often found in quite fancy clothes, but ever since he's taken to travelling across the land instead of sticking to his home and lost a lot of money on the way, he possesses only a handful of such outfits- which he does wear, just not when he's on the move. He keeps them for his appearances in kingdoms and whatnot for the most part.

### Updated Appearance

Nowadays, he looks a lot more tired and weary, with an additional gray streak in his fringe. His eyes have become duller.

He now has sculk all over his body in the form of vines and flowers, and wears light clothing to match with the hot climate of Raia. His outfit consists of a tank top of a brown-ish colour with a red gradient at the bottom, with long loose pants and darker brown flat shoes. Additionally, he also wears green bracelets on his arms and legs.

### Personality

He seems rather unapproachable at first and cold at second. But the longer one talks to him, the warmer his attitude towards them gets until both speak on equal grounds. Victor has a habit of inserting himself into a lot of topics, but he'll let another talk if they've made an impression on him in any way and has no problem simply listening afterwards. But nonetheless, given the long time spent mostly alone or traveling with jaded adventurers and not to mention his snobby background, he is bound to sometimes be quite awkward around and towards other people, despite trying to get past it.

Considering his passions, he's quite an intelligent man, but his social ineptness gives him trouble showing it and some of the left-over ego he has leaves him rather flustered most often than not, only digging a bigger grave for himself. Only those he deems friends have the fortune of seeing him actually laugh at himself and not get defensive. Luckily, it's not hard to become his friend.

Furthermore, he has always had a problem with neglecting himself whenever too focused on whatever he finds himself working on, but it's gotten worse over the years of getting into life-and-death situations. It's left him with a habit of neglecting everything else in favour of finishing anything he deems important at the moment, to the point of days without any sign of him around Tinker's Cove or anywhere else until he one day finally appears looking paler than usual and slightly more irritable.

He has a rather questionable sense of humour at times, having used it to cope with his previous situations. Now it's just completely out of place sometimes, but he's getting used to filtering some of his dark humour now and laughing with people about slightly more appropriate things than those of gruesome undertones.

Likes: Reading, writing, fishing, experimenting, using sarcasm, cats, anything that reminds him of his old home and lifestyle

Dislikes: Mistakes - mostly made by himself, bratty people (they remind him of his older self), grime, wearing armour, being distracted from work

Strengths/Pros: Intelligent, observant, agile, knowledgeable about surviving in the wild, crafty, persistent, quick learner, sophisticated

Weaknesses/Cons: Negligent (mostly of himself), workaholic, forgetful, socially-inept, has low stamina, slightly impulsive, easily stressed under certain conditions, physically weak

Common Sayings: “I am not a mad scientist!” (In regards to being compared to fictional mad scientist characters sharing the same first name)

### Skills & Abilities

- Bilingual

- Has survival skills

- Can play violin

- Has navigational skills

### Fun Facts

1- Victor is very fond of cats and owns four of them currently, one of which is named after him.

2- His eyesight is actually kind of poor, but he refuses to wear glasses, only a monocle.

3- He has no idea why a part of his hair is gray, but he thinks it's due to frequent stress.