Nikita “Sasha” Sapohznik

"Everywhere I go, I remember the worst things that have happened."

Robyev

Nikolai Helstrom (twin brother)

*"Do you know what it is like to be incapable of forgetting anything? It drives you insane, plaguing your mind with horrible memories that can't simply be shut out. Everything's there, like a library, but the library's books are all movies and they're all playing in constant playback. It hurts. The mind is a prism, and it begins to shatter at the load..."*

- Nikita talking about his eidetic memory

Nikita Grigorivich Izmaylov, formerly known as Nikita Sapohznik, was a high school senior from the Prefeton Facility. He is the identical twin brother of Nikolai Helstrom, the ex-boyfriend of Annie O'Cassidy, and a good friend to Maurice Williamson, Allison Clark, and Ascot Rider. He is a meta-human with technopathic abilities, eidetic memory, and enhanced intelligence.

## Biography

### Build

It can be said that Nikita is a winner in the genetic lottery, as he can eat quite an amount of food and not worry about gaining much weight. He is not particularly muscular, but he isn't thin either.

### Style

Nikita usually wears clothes in the following color schemes: black and white, shades of grey, or monochrome black. His shoes are usually sneakers, and he prefers to use a beret for his hat. Due to the climate in Maine, he is usually wearing a hoodie. He also dyes his hair, usually white or grey.

## Strengths and Weaknesses

### Skills

* Polyglot: Nikita speaks English, Russian, and Yiddish with complete proficiency. Knows some French and German.
* Gamer's reflexes: Hundreds on hours spent on COD and other first person shooters has made his reflexes rapid compared to most.
* Musically inclined: Has intermediate piano skills and can sing tenor.

### Weaknesses

* Terrible Cook: Asking him to cook for you is another way of asking to be sick.
* Timid: He can't make up his mind.

## Powers and Abilities

### Phase One Power

**Omnissiah’s Blessing (Level 1)**: When touching a piece of technology, he learns everything about it. This essentially encodes the machine’s schematics into his mind, as well as how to build it.

### Phase Two Powers

**Omnissiah’s Blessing Innovated (Level 2)**: When Nikita touches a computer, he is able to encode the information located within into his mind. Should the information be secured with firewalls and encryption, cracking the code would take some time.

**Imputation (Level 1)**: Asides from accessing information, he can also inject data of his own. With this, he is able to feed false information into enemy networks, provided that he has already broken through.

### Phase Three Powers

**Technopathy (Level 3)**: Nikita gains the power to mentally control up to three different machines within a radius of 40 meters. He can make CCTV cameras feed false footage, as well as make gun emplacements fire on their own and take control of robots. However, this requires concentration, and disruptions such as sonic booms and attacking him directly can cause him to lose control.

**Computerized Mind (Level 3)**: The functioning of Nikita's mind becomes akin to a highly advanced computer, granting him eidetic memory, enhanced intelligence, and the ability to read data streams on a screen with very high efficiency. The technical aspects of his brain make it very difficult for mind reading telepaths to get a read on him as all they get are what could be described as a "deluge of ones and zeros".

## Personality

*"Just let me sleep... for the last time."*

Nikita is quite compassionate to an extent, though he is not without his brooding, secretive side. Between him and his brother, Nikita is seen to be the more expressive of the two, and is referred by Nikolai as "adorably clingy". However, one must not be deceived: they are *always* at odds in private. Still, they are very close and always have each other's backs. Like his brother, he also a strong sense of responsibility, and is often watching out for the younger students. He does, however, become colder as a result of his powers manifesting, which reached the point of altering some of his personality. He has occasional sociopathic episodes, as suggested by when he gunned down human bio-drones in the Prefeton facility using the point defense cannons of their rescue ship without even batting an eye.

He is quite sluggish when not emotionally stimulated, giving the impression that he is always sleepy.

Nikita possesses a much calmer voice than his brother; he sounds almost robotic when he speaks. However, of the two, he is the foul mouthed one, as evidenced by his unkempt vocabulary. He seems unable to make up his mind, and as such cannot be relied upon to make hard decisions in heated moments.

## Backstory

Nikita was born just a few minutes after Nikolai, and right then and there, they were seen to have a particularly close relationship, as he clung to his brother while he was still a mere infant.

Years blazed past. It would soon be apparent that despite their seemingly extremely close relationship as twin brothers, they had their differences, and they were leagues apart. Nikita was timid and quiet, while Nikolai was far more assertive. They were both intelligent, but Nikita was low key with it, while Nikolai showed off quiet a lot. Thus, Nikita never endured the same bullying as Nikolai did, but when he did witness his twin being attacked, that was when he would show his assertive side, firing litany upon litany of cursed and insults like a machine gun until they relented. That of course goes without saying that these brothers are actually in odds against each quite a lot, though they have matured enough to keep all of that under the rug.

It was during the onset of winter in Maine that his power manifested. When he touched the computer in their house, he found that a hologram appeared in his mind, and the knowledge of the machine has been burned into his memory. He continued experimenting until he knew how the local motorboats were made and the schematics of every cleaning robot. It was clear that he had powers over technology. It was all surreal.

It was during that night before the beach party that Nikolai revealed to Nikita that he could manipulate temperatures around him, unto which Nikita replied that he could see mechanical blueprints in his mind when he touched machines.

### Awakening in Prefeton

Nikita, though a little late, was one of those that attended Atalia's beachside party. In the Harvest Ball incident, he could only avoid the pink monsters. In the chaos that ensued, he saved Rashaad Pennell from being consumed by the creatures, if that was they intended to begin with, anyway. Everyone except for Nikita and the other powered children were not, which brought to question the legitimacy of quite literally everything in the island. He had a mostly passive role in the meeting in the Riders diner.

### The Truth Revealed

Maurice Williamson called a meeting at the behest of Sam Newton and Tobias Scott, the latter who led the group of metahuman high schoolers out into the sea, only to be attacked by a kraken sentinel. Their escape was further impended by the revelation that the island was actually a facility inside a dome, outside of which was outer space. They would then instead proceed towards the military base, wherein it was discovered that Isaac, Alis, and Steve had been turned. In the ensuing fight, they would manage to escape from the facility, after which the memories of the past would slowly return.

### Orphan Company and Remembrance

In the days that followed after their escape from the Prefeton Facility, the memories that had been long lost to Nikolai and Nikita alike returned to them. It turned out that they were not from Earth, but from a human colony on the Uranic moon of Triton, Vinterparadis. Their parents had marital problems, but reached a compromise of having legal custody over one of their two children each. This arrangement lasted until the invasion of the Ragon Empire. Both of their parents were killed at the onset of the Ragon invasion; their mother was crushed by falling debris when the building she was in collapsed after sustaining heavy damage from Ragon artillery, while their father, who was a sergeant, was slain while trying to fight off the aliens on their onslaught onto Triton. Their godfather had attempted to save them to bring them along in the evacuation of the moon, but was swatted away by the Ragons, and they were carried away into the depths of hell.

Between the two of them, though, Nikita was far more heavily affected by the return of their memories, as the incident of being carried away by the Ragons, and seeing both of their parents die was a traumatic event that had permanently scarred their psyches. In Nikita's case, his increasingly eidetic memory, which was part of his metahuman abilities, had negative mental consequences as he couldn't help but constantly return to those terrible moments, cursing him with nightmares and insomnia.

## Relationships

### Nikolai Sapohznik

Nikita and Nikolai are like magnetic poles; opposite, but inseparable. They occasionally argue due to differences in their personalities, but of the two, Nikita is the easier to woo into reconciliation, and their own arguments never last long. However, they do judge others together.

It is said that whoever Nikita befriends, Nikolai would follow suit and vice versa.

### Annie O'Cassidy

Nikita and Annie had a short lived relationship during the summer break. They broke up when Annie unbuttoned her bra while making out, and he perceived this as being seen as "cheap." However, Nikita had never stopped having feelings for her.

### Maurice Williamson

Maurice is seen by both of them as a close friend, to whom they also spread their friendly nature. Because of his short stature, he usually has little choice but to accept the eccentric (or foreign) methods of greeting employed by Nikita whenever they meet. His choice method of greeting is the bear hug accompanied with a three fold kiss at the cheek. Needless to say, Maurice often turns pink due whenever this happens.

### Katarina Sapohznik

Their older sister has always been an enigma, and they are not particularly close to her. However, it is evident that the twins care for their sister as well, and that is easily seen to be readily reciprocated by Katarina. However, their relationship turns out to be a lie as she was no more than a drone implanted to create some sense of normalcy.

### Cecil Nevverling-Wijgaants

Nikita has cordial relations with the Rhodesian If not a little confusing. He has no qualms with the fact that Cecil is a transgender, and would prefer to say that Cecil being trans is not the most notable thing about him.

### Harper Holiday

Nikita finds Harper to be painfully shy, and has a lot of hypotheses for this reclusiveness, ranging from being bullied to being simply that way. Either way, he thinks that Harper is cute.

### Ascot Rider

Nikita knows very little about the freshmen, but he is sceptical about the relationship that Ascot has with Jack. Nikita has been cynical about romance ever since his last breakup, and he has predicted that the two will break up in due time. However, when his brother became close to Ascot, he resolved to simply let it be and be friendly with him.

### Atalia Bayer

Nikita sees Atalia’s drunken mischievousness to be both irritating and funny, depending on the situation. However, he never appreciates it when Atalia spikes the drinks, as he has very low alcohol tolerance and will almost certainly feel sick or sleepy should he ingest even a small amount of spiked drinks. Still, he like some how Atalia tries to make everyone feel welcome.

## *Quotes*

* *"Every time I try to sleep, I see the day we lost everything."*
* *"We're cursed."*
* *"Oh brother, what will I ever do without you?"*
* *"I miss her, but at the same time, I don't.*