Ilya

### Relatives

Father (sent him to this and another boarding school)Mother (left at some point during his teenage years)

## Description

Ilya is a sophisticated teen of above average height, quite hefty and doesn't have any visible muscle but that doesn't stop him from rocking a business suit. After the hybridisation he earned two protruding upper fangs, a dual tongue and scales on his nape, back and limbs that he frequently sheds. He used to never stray from his typical formal look (trousers, shirt, tie, blazer) unless just by a little bit, but recently has become a lot more casual.

## Personality

Ilya is bossy and loves being in positions of power. He sided with Kiemo in hopes of one day becoming a less terrorising version of him but seemingly gave up all interest in the group after the Strange Passes of Time. Frequently has trouble with self esteem and is haunted by visions of bloody red eyes glaring at him judgingly. He can easily put himself in another person's shoes but rarely shows sympathy of sorts. Has troubles with being in touch with reality since he prefers to escape into fantasy worlds, and navigating social interactions. Ilya's a uniquely creative individual and can come up with practically anything yet rarely speaks about it.

## Story

#### Pre-Rp

Ilya was an only child in a pretty wealthy Muscovian family, it was a decent childhood but not the happiest. At around age four with his amazing imagination he developed an awful habit of falling into his own alternate universes that were way more entertaining than real life. This problem only worsened once he gained access to drugs in a previous boarding school, fortunately they were confiscated pretty quick. This did have an upside though: it helped him become a wonderful writer and later on a nationally renowned journalist. This fame fuelled his greed for more and more faces fascinated, in awe of him, until they began appearing in the walls around him watching his every move. Soon these hallucinations resembling problems with accepting critique began fading away slowly with the help of a psychiatrist (all this happened ages 13-15). The summer leading up to his 16th birthday he spent working as a mailman (the black blazer, bag and tie were part of his work uniform that he kept). Then after the grandiose celebrations with his family came the day when...

#### The Rp

  He was taken to the Academy by the teachers there to become a Student Council with the task of sorting things out, which he is still failing at. He immediately became affiliated with Kiemo because of just how much he adored the coyote's authoritative behaviour. After a couple of weeks he was injected with snake DNA and put in a pretty long lasting coma. He did eventually wake up though in his hybridised form that he did not enjoy for a while but eventually even got to exploiting his poisoned fangs, severed tongue and thermal vision. Most noticeably he showed hostility towards Fin and LaFaux.

Then his perspective was changed during his time in the infirmary spent talking with Fletcher, who he bonded with over their negative experiences due to being Kiemo's allies. Ilya swore to never return back to the coyote but is still trying to figure out where else to be. He begun leading a more healthy lifestyle after that: toned down on smoking, attended more training sessions. He also found himself in a position where he can speak to members of both sides without many consequences and thought of using it to become a spy yet hasn’t decided yet for which side.

He later reconvened with two old friends, Ice and Rayne, to form another neutral group with its sole aim being to get rid of Kiemo. In that moment, Niccolo too came in the room and has now joined the group, leaving his previous allegiance.

## Trivia

* Ilya is a smoker and keeps cigarettes in a box from a playing card deck
* Astrocat based this character off of a real life asshole student council he had in his former school
* Ilya went to a boys' choir at some point in his life
* He uses a bottle from vodka as his water bottle
* He writes poems to distract himself from his insecurities