Nikolai “Volodya” Sapohznik

"My life has been one big fat lie."

Batski

Nikita (twin brother)

*"You're smart, funny...and brave. You've... uhhh... shown good strength I guess."* - Allison Clark to Nikolai

Nikolai Leonhart Helstrom, formerly known as Nikolai Sapohznik, was one of the metahumans rescued from the Prefeton Facility and a new recruit into the Orphan Company. He is the twin brother of Nikita Izmaylov, the boyfriend of Allison Clark, and a good friend to Maurice, Luna, Ascot, Andrej, and Atalia. He has cryokinetic abilities and also has the power to transform into an ice phoenix.

## Biography

### Build

Lean and fair, Nikolai is not anything to really gawk at. He is rather average in most respects, having less than average height.

### Style

Nikolai is usually seen wearing knee length or ankle length overcoats, mostly due to the very real possibility of being covered with snow should he send his winter powers into overdrive. He is usually clad in monochrome clothing, with dark colors and similarly colored ankle length boots. When he is reading, he wears reading glasses to prevent eye fatigue. He also wears contact lenses, which make him look like he has grey eyes when he actually has blue ones. He uses a cane for simple aesthetic and for self defense.

## Strengths and Weaknesses

### Skills

* Intelligent: Nikolai is highly intelligent, as shown by his excellent academics.

### Weaknesses

* Poor Eye sight: He has astigmatism and needs contact lenses and glasses, especially when trying to read.

## Powers and Abilities

### Phase 1 Power

**General Winter:** (Level 1) Nikolai gradually radiates an aura of cold around himself in a radius of ten meters. Air temperature is decreased by 5 degrees Celsius within the radius, but he can actively make it go lower at a rate of -10 degrees per 30 seconds down to a minimum of -30 degrees. He himself and those he mentally selects are immune to the effects of General Winter.

### Phase Two Powers

**General Winter**: (Level 1) No changes.

**Glaciokinesis Kai**: (Level 2) Nikolai is able to create ice with a maximum weight of 25 kg in any shape he wishes. The ice is as strong as bronze.

### Phase Three Powers

**Psychic Glaciokinesis**: (Level 3) Apart from forming ice, Nikolai can also control it with high precision. With this ability, ice floes shaped into sharp daggers can be thrust against attackers with high speeds, making them as effective as any modern firearm. Thus, he can form ice in any shape with a combined maximum weight of 150 kilograms.

**Cryophoenix Transformation**: (Level 3) After a lengthy incantation, Nikolai is covered in a flurry of mist and ice, out of which emerges a six feet long phoenix that is seemingly made from pure frost. The Cryophoenix possesses a flight speed of 70 kmph, but in winter conditions, it increases to up to 100 km/ph. The Cryophoenix is able to maintain its form for up to 5 minutes before needing to return to human form, but it is also able to keep itself in a shrunken state the size of a starling indefinitely. When in Cryophoenix form, his Cryokinetic abilities become wildly imprecise, with the ability to shape ice into definite objects becoming ineffectual. Rather, the Cryophoenix possesses two main avenues of ice based attacks: its icy breath, which rapidly immobilizes and slows down targets upon impact, and the ice 'feathers' that it shoots out of its wings.

## Background

### Personality

*”For what purpose have we been bred into these weapons of mass destruction? Are we tools of a twisted god? No, to that I say. We will carve our own destiny.”*

Nikolai is a clever joker, perhaps best known for his love of memes on history and science. He has many strange interests, and is seen as strange as a result. However, he is also a flaunter of his superior intellect and looks down on those that don't understand in his level, giving him a mixed reputation. Still, he is ostensibly caring and defensive for those he sees as friend or as equals, but other people that are not as close don't receive the same treatment, and may even be seen with contempt of they had assaulted him in the past.

He loves his brother Nikita very much as they have a very close relationship since childhood. While he is not as expressive as Nikita, he readily reciprocates his brother's affection, much to the puzzlement of those that are not familiar with them. Nikolai also has a strong sense of responsibility, especially towards those younger than himself. This is evident in the manner that he watches out for the freshman and sophomore students, such as Ascot, Kalos, and Shawn. It can be said that he has a natural paternal instinct.

He is terrible at making girls notice him the way he wants them to, which has been a source of frustration for him, though he has somehow overcome this trait as shown through his confession of love to Allison Clark. Nikolai is also shown to be fearful of the future, as he asks Allison to take care of his brother if anything were to happen to him.

## Backstory

### A False Life

According to the false memories implanted into him at the beginning of the Prefeton experiment, Nikolai was born a few minutes before Nikita, making him the older of the two of them. He was the middle child, with his older sister Katarina being born a few good years before he was. His father, Piotr (or most usually known as Pete), was a soldier. However, an injury forced Piotr to retire from the military; he would then pursue online business, while also allowed him far more time with his twin sons. Thus, Nikolai would be raised in a rather, say, unique way; he was raised to be goal oriented and to have a will of metal; determination and perseverance are some of the things that would define him as he grew up. Nikolai would thus be seen with favour by most of the local people of Prefeton. Intelligent, courteous, straight A's: the perfect child in the eyes of many. He had great pride with himself, and rightly so, for he is bound to be of the honor roll of the local high school. It was in his elementary days that he developed his eccentric properties; he sometimes used a cane even though he was not an old man, and always wore black and grey. He was weird, sure, but that didn't stop the girls (and some guys, no doubt) from crushing over him and his brother, both of whom are admittedly attractive to the human eye. In junior year, he held the position of Editor in Chief of the school paper, which ensured that he knew quite literally everyone in the school.

Days would pass, and then they turned to months and then years. One day, while contemplating about the future, he found himself lowering the temperature of his surroundings; frost and snow had formed on the ground all around him. It was a strange time, too; it wasn't even the winter months yet. There was only one possible outcome, then: he now has the power of the winter.

After that, he would go on to tell his twin brother Nikita about his newfound powers, which he thought of as a gift from above. Perhaps this was intended as retribution against those who dared meddle with him? However, as it soon turned out, Nikolai was not alone; Nikita had gained technological abilities as his own powers, and other young people across the island would gain powers of their own as well.

### Awakening in Prefeton and the Truth Revealed

Nikolai was one of those that attended Atalia's beachside party, and was the one that found the plague victim washed up on the shore. In the Harvest Ball incident, he fought the pink monstrosities by freezing them to death with General Winter. In the chaos that ensued, he saved Isaac Kiln from being consumed by the creatures and pulled Ascot Rider from mortal danger, though he was (seemingly) injured in the line of battle and had to be rescued from (apparent) certain death by his father. It would be here that he started to get close to Ascot, perhaps because he had always wanted a younger brother that acted the part. Either way, Piotr was memory wiped, but Nikolai and the other powered children were not, which brought to question the legitimacy of quite literally everything.

Nikolai played a role in the meeting in the Riders' Diner, which eventually concluded in deciding to live normally until Maurice Williamson alerted them to instigate another meeting, and it seemed that their principal was some kind of secret agent after all. After some deliberation, Nikolai and Nikita decided to leave the island at the suggestion of Everyman despite the prospect of leaving their family behind.

They would all discover that their entire lives have been one elaborate lie; all the people of Prefeton, except for those with powers, were mere clones. They also found out that Isaac, Alis,and Steve had been turned against their former classmates. In the following chase, Nikolai and the rest of the Prefeton Metahumans manage to escape aboard a Federation starship. As they did, the memories of their true lives began to seep back into their minds...

### 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 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.

As of the current setting, Nikolai, along with the rest of the escaped metahumans from the Prefeton Facility, resides within the Federation starship *Nebuchadnezzar* under the tutelage of Sesijura Ipirvik, Roberta Newton, and Tobias Scott.

## Trivia

* Nikolai's first power, General Winter, is a reference to the harsh climate of Russia that has brought doom for many invaders.

* Nikolai is known for having a love for cats.

## Relationships

### Nikita Izmaylov

Nikolai is the older of the two of them by five minutes, and as such, feels responsible for the other's safety. They seem to be very at ease with one another, as evidenced by their rather special bond. They are highly protective of one another and have shown the willingness to go to extreme lengths to do so.

### Allison Clark

Allison had been Nikolai's crush during their days within the simulated environment of the Prefeton facility, and during the night of their escape, they became an official couple after a bout of confession in face of possible death. It would appear that they too are highly defensive for one another.

### Maurice Williamson

Maurice had been a good friend to Nikolai when they were still pawns of an unseen evil in Prefeton Island, and as such has been subject to 'double envelopments'.

### Ascot Rider

Nikolai sees Ascot somewhat as a younger brother, and will do quite a lot of things to keep him safe.

## Quotes

* *"Why am I this cute?"*
* *"I've always liked you, Allison Clark."*
* *"Beyond these walls lies freedom and truth."*
* *"You idiot."*
* *"Yay, hugs."*
* *"You know nothing of the world."*