Mischa Palmer

Mischa is a member of the party marked by The Hunt. After his Becoming at thirteen, he grew up patrolling The Crowd, hunting local wildlife, and trying his best.

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### Relatives

Thomas Palmer (Dad)Alexander Minton (Father, estranged)

Carlos Minton (Step-dad, Estranged)

## Appearance

Mischa has short, messy ginger hair, with the sides shaved and dyed pink, along with two longer sections dyed the same color. It’s clear he cuts and colors it himself, but he does a good job. It has pale skin, tired looking blue eyes, and a scar at the corner of his mouth from a fight with Jacob in the past. It stands a solid 6’7 (200.66cm) while human, and while thin, appears relatively strong.

Mischa dresses in a manner one would expect from a small town librarian most of the time, with a nice cardigan or sweater on over a variety of different turtle necks. Occasionally he’ll swap out his sweaters for button downs, but his undershirt choices remain consistent. In fact, the only people who’ve seen it’s neck since it was a kid (other than his father) have been Ziggy and Levy.

A myriad of scars cover Mischa’s body, though the most prominent of them, and the one he works the hardest to keep covered, is the bullet wound in the center of his throat. Most of its scars are large. He has differently sized bite scars on each of his shoulders, one of which is notably smaller than the other, massive claw marks down his chest from it’s Becoming, and one of the newest editions, giant gashes down his back from fleeing a fight with Tall Nick.

## Personality

Deeply connected with his emotions, Mischa wears his heart on its sleeve. He tries to be kind to those he meets, and often catches himself feeling everything with an intensity he seldom knows how to regulate. He feels with the entirety of his being, he loves intensely, and often that leaves him feeling protective, borderline possessive, of the ones closest to him. Gentle as he tries to be, there will always be the primal, canine instinct in the back of his mind telling him to hunt, to chase, to cause terror, but the hunter always tries to counteract those instincts.

Mischa struggles intensely as well with an Atlas complex, taking responsibility for much more than is truly reasonable for him. In his mind, he has to protect The Crowd from danger, protect all of Rye from the things that lurk, and often takes personal responsibility when his close friends and companions get hurt. He will often put himself in harm’s way if it means keeping someone else safe. His total disregard for his own well-being and his protective nature are two of his biggest flaws, even if his intentions are always good.

## Plot

As a player character, Mischa Palmer will appear in all of Rite of the Visceral.

### Chapter 1: Passages

#### Episode 1

Mischa was the first player out the door when hearing a scream from the woods, after gaining enough distance switching to Kitty.

## Relationships

### Thomas Palmer

Mischa’s relationship with his dad is strained, albeit still incredibly loving. While Mischa still lives at home with him, they hardly see one another because Thomas loves to travel, and can work while he does. Even so, they work hard to schedule a little family dinner at least twice a month so they can talk and check in with one another. After The Hunting Trip that cause Mischa’s Becoming, and the divorce that came after, Mischa did start to distance himself, but that was quickly disuades by Thomas’ kind and supportive nature. While Alexander had been the one teaching Mischa to cook and bake, Thomas picked up so he could encourage his son’s interests. He did the best he could in the situation they were in, and for that, Mischa has always been grateful. The attempts to keep a sense of normalcy after everything were truly what kept them on the right path in their relationship, and their bond is still strong.

### Alexander Minton

Before The Hunting Trip, Mischa was the closer with Alexander than he was with Thomas. His father was home more often, took care to teach him how to care for himself, to cook, to bake, to hunt, and for those things, The Hound will always be thankful. Even after the trip, Mischa never blamed his father for what happened, and even went out of his way to try and reach out to him after the divorce. No correspondence ever reached him, however, and the most he knows about his father now is that he has a new husband named Carlos, and that they seem to be doing well in their relationship.

### Fletcher Bishop

Their friendship started as many small town friendships do: playing intricate imagination games on the playground involving corrupt governments, knights, and intense battles. They met up every recess in primary school in their special spot under the playground slide where they carved their names, and were as close as two friends could be. The two even even got married in under the school’s domed climbing structure after an incident with Jacob. Mischa went home after and asked his Father to help him press four of the daisies from the little handful Fletcher gave him at their wedding, which now reside in his wallet all that time later. While they started to grow apart in secondary school, they still did their best to make time for one another. On occasion, Mischa would join in on Fletcher’s movie nights with Abby and Blair, but as school came to an end, it became harder for them to meet. When Fletcher went off to Uni was when they really stopped talking, and the connection grew weaker over time. Now though, being able to reconnect with her, Mischa’s feelings for him have not changed, and the urge to keep her safe is still a hot flame in its chest. He would have done anything for Fletcher then, and that still holds true now.

### Ziggy Cain

Having been Mischa’s friend with benefits for years, and his dealer for longer, Ziggy is one of the people The Hound cares for the most. Mischa trusts Ziggy, feels comfortable around it, and feels a strong, deep seated urge to protect them. While things have gotten more complicated between them since Mischa’s explaining what he is, Mischa’s adoration remains unconditional, and the strength of his care for the local drug dealer has only doubled.

### Levy Tate

Levy is Mischa’s most trusted friend and ally, and the first person to have known about Kitty. There is a level of comfort and safety in The Lonesome that Mischa thought impossible after it’s becoming. Perhaps the ability to commiserate fostered their bond, but it’s clear the connection runs deep. Often times, Levy can be found tailing Mischa on hunts, or being dragged to The Hound’s home for a shower and a hot meal. Levy claims they only stick around the hunter to feed off of the isolation of the local wildlife before their demise, but little do they know, the beast they follow into The Crowd feeds them much more than the prey that never leave there again.

### Mahogany “Mags” Miller

Mischa met Mags the first time when they started working at the library. Mischa had been working there part time since it was seventeen, and Mags started a year later. They weren’t particularly close in the beginning, due to Mags’ antisocial nature, but with enough time- and a couple of empanada based bribes- they started to get closer. Things got complicated for The Hound a year later, however, when it realized that their new friend was tracking him as Kitty at night. Having to hide his wolfy status while maintaining carefully earned trust was stressful, but Mischa and Mags continued to bond and become closer, eventually even regarding one another as siblings.

### Cecelia Ward

Having only met Ward recently and subsequently helped them in their Becoming after finding them dead in The Tunnels, Mischa has begun to feel protective of Levy’s companion. Being the only other full avatar, it feels a kinship that it does not quite know how to explain. Still, Mischa decided the moment Ward went missing initially that since they were important to Levy, they were important to him too. There is also an inherent trust that The Hound holds for the researcher, having shared some things that were deeply personal to it while trying to bring them back from their end.

### Blair Hills

Their friendship blossomed after Mischa returned from its final hunting trip, when she offered to help catch him up on school work. While it was still early in the year, he missed quite a lot, so he greatly appreciated the help. Since then, they’ve had a fairly wholesome little friendship. He trusts Blair a great deal, feels comfortable around her, and finds her company pleasant.

### Tall Nick

Tall Nick is on the top of his shit list. Not only did the wretched creature throw Fletcher into a wall in the tunnels, but he also ripped Mischa’s back open and killed Ward. Unforgivable, wretched and violent monsters like that are what the hunter is trying its best to protect Rye and its friends from, and his his mind, that means the horrible plastic monstrosity has to die.

## Trivia

Mischa, despite his cooking and baking prowess, has never successfully cooked an egg. He set a pan of scrambled eggs on fire, and nearly started a grease fire on his stove making an omelette.

During story time at the library, when Mischa reads to the kids he makes up silly voices for all the characters in whatever story he’s reading.

Mischa enjoys doing tarot readings for himself and all his friends.

## Gallery

### Chapter 1

#### Kitty

Kitty PortraitKitty Half BodyKitty Side Portrait SketchKitty Fullbody
### Chapter 2

Chapter 2 PosterChapter 2 Poster (No Lighting)Mischa Palmer Fullbody Chapter 2 ReferenceMischa Scars ReferenceMischa kills a manHide and Seek Sketch (not canon)He asked for no picklesKitty and Garfield

##### Emotes

Mischa angeeMischa anxietyMischa bakesMischa chompMischa heartMischa nervousMischa queMischa stimKitty happyKitty angee