Durzub

Durzub is a Red-Ring Orc Mafiosi who lives in The Stronghold in the Fiend Ward. One of the youngest Red-Rings currently in Drumarr's employ, he acts as the Baron's right-hand man, and personal enforcer.

## Background

Durzub is a large Orc with a bald head and decent looks who is directly involved in the personal affairs and goings on of the Stronghold, as well as his personal enforcer, ensuring that the day-to-day operations of his empire run smoothly. He was able to hold down a life outside of the mafia with a human girlfriend, but a sudden strike of tragedy in the form of a fatal car accident tore that away from him, and he fell back into his work in an attempt to cope.

All of this changed when he happened to see Lauren Gibby at a bar in the Fiend Ward. She struck up a conversation with him, and got to know him a little better while also plumbing for information on the blood trade, only for their cover to be blown spectacularly, and he found out that she was in fact a member of the police. As a result, he did not appreciate being assigned into being The Prince Division's babysitter while they attempted to find Amelia Hawthorne, but inevitably built an uneasy alliance with the division as time went on, and eventually was able to start over with Gibby, turning eventually into a full-fledged relationship with her. He later participated in a siege on the Troll Gang's warehouses in an attempt to muscle them out of their territory for reneging on an agreement.

Since that successful display of force, life has returned more or less to normal for Durzub, now with a girlfriend, and a more involved part of Amelia's life.

## Personality

While Durzub is unquestionably a proud Orc, cut very much from the same cloth as the Baron, he has at least a much more accessible emotional core to him, being very loyal and protective of those he cares about, as well as being genuinely friendly to those he works with, perhaps even being a bit of a goofball when away from the job. That said, he is still a mafiosi, and takes a certain amount of pleasure in the pain he inflicts upon others, and feels absolutely no remorse over the crimes he commits on a semi-regular basis.

## Relationships

### Baron Drumarr

Drumarr and Durzub have a close relationship, perhaps closer than seemingly any other Orc in the Stronghold. Drumarr entrusts nearly every major aspect of his empire to Durzub that involves the more illegal side of his operation, and Durzub sees the Baron like a father figure, as he taught him pretty much everything that he knows. He does however recognize that if it came down to it, he could be put between Gibby and the Baron, believing that he'd choose Gibby over him pretty much every time.

### Mama Rugigi

Durzub is either one of the many children that have passed through Mama Rugigi's doors, or is a blood relative of the Orc Matron, and as such she commands an absolute and terrifying power over him, cowing him when seemingly no one else possibly could. He is, for the most part, extremely deferential to her, and fears her wrath more than any other.

### The Prince Division

Durzub's relationship with the Prince Division is tenuous at best. While he is in a relationship with Gibby, it is only Khel Zouren who is unambiguously friendly with him, as Michael Bryant has at best a scathing disdain for his work and what he's done to people like Tanis, and Tanis holds him more or less personally responsible for the kidnapping of his daughter, and definitely didn't appreciate the methods they used to extract that information from Yagnar, and as such has nothing but complete scorn for him. As a result, he only ever really interacts with Gibby.

#### Lauren Gibby

Durzub took an interest in Gibby after encountering her at a bar in the Fiend Ward. After an initially cordial night, their relationship began rocky after it was discovered that she was a member of the RCPD, and was extremely terse with her intiially when they were charged with finding Amelia. Eventually, he began to soften his position on her, and she offered to allow them to start again, eventually allowing their relationship to fully blossom into dating. While he knows he can handle herself, he's often extremely guarded with her, having trouble reconciling her size and endurance difference from him, as well as dealing with the inevitable cultural divide between humans and orcs regarding physical affection. That said, he loves her very much.

### Amelia

Durzub has some form of affection for Amelia, though he can be somewhat exasperated by her simultaneous shyness and her insistence on causing trouble. He is one of the few people who actually knows about what Amelia actually is, and is deeply afraid for her safety, believing that the Baron would mistreat her or lock her away to forcefully develop her skills if he ever found out, swearing everyone else he revealed that secret to to an absolute secrecy.

## Trivia

* Durzub collects records in his spare time, and has quite the impressive collection at the present.