Adrik Lebedev

* Civilian
* Armoured

Eva Lebedeva (Sister)

Dinara Lebedeva (Sister)

Boris Lebedev (Nephew)

Adam Lebedev (Son)

Svetlana Constantin (Adopted Sister/Friend)

Ruby Storm (Friend)

## Overview

Eldest brother, X-Man, former mobster, and gentle giant; Adrik is the staunch (self-appointed) protector to anyone in the Xavier Institute and those he calls friends, though most of the time he feels like he's blundering through situations that are too big for him to handle. He isn't the smartest or the most well-spoken, but he *is* ***Colossus***, and if that's enough for his family, that's enough for him.

Currently the host for the slumbering **Phoenix**.

## History

#### Early Life

As the firstborn son, Adrik was tasked with the care of his younger siblings, which eventually tripled into caring for a sickly father and an even sicker mother. After his mother passed away, Adrik took this as a massive failure on his part and immediately started applying for job after job after job, getting nothing back as he was only 11 and that's definitely illegal to hire somewhere. Thankfully, his father was well-enough to work just a bit more-- when his cancer returned, Adrik was 15 and a tall, strong young man and was quickly swamped with running factory jobs under a fake name and age. As the new breadwinner, Adrik didn't have a lot of time to himself between running after his siblings, working most of the night, and taking care of his father so dropping out of school was a must. With the instability of 90's Russia looming ahead, nothing was quite enough to stave off the thugs looking to collect his mother's gambling debt or keep food on the table. Cue the Renault Clio.

As he was bringing his siblings back from school, Aleksandr was nearly turned into road jam by an oncoming car-- but, thankfully, Adrik's fancy metal form completely trashed the thing and caught the attention of local gangster, Sergei Verenich.

#### The Adders

Sergei ran a small mafia known as the Adders of Surgut. Adrik's metal form was invulnerable, strong, and most importantly *imposing*; the perfect tool when it came to intimidating. When Sergei offered large sums of money, safety, and better housing for his family, Adrik reluctantly agreed to work with him, just until his family are better off. He was introduced to a fellow super-person, Nikolai, an inhuman little person who was more of Adrik's friend than he was his manager. For years, Adrik was the cage fighter champion, Koloss/колосс, and muscle for shakedown after shakedown; but the money Sergei gave him was just barely enough to live in their new 'home' on the other side of Surgut; and his siblings, once they were old enough to understand, slowly began to detest him for not having the backbone to leave Sergei's service as it was the 'right' thing to do. One by one, they slowly leave Russia and leave their big brother behind-- and as they went, so did Adrik's drive to leave the mob. A brief fling with a Ksenia Sidorova led to his son, Adam, being born. Nikolai took pity on an old racehorse and, as one final act of friendship, got his bud a plateless car to leave the city with. Adrik of course went above and beyond and left the country entirely, not stopping until he got to the US.

#### Infinity War (Life in the US)

Coming as an immigrant with poor english skills and not a lot of education, Adrik was a bit on the unlucky side when it came to getting jobs. The only reason he got his apartment was that is was part of his landlord's employment deal-- be his bodyguard, do some shows, and get a free place to stay for it. It was small. Like, cramped, but Harlem was *huge* compared to Surgut. One day when heading home, Adrik ran into Svetlana Constantin; Svetlana walked into traffic, teleported a car to kingdom come, and Adrik tried to stop her from getting hit by a truck; and the rest was history. The limbo sorceress quickly became a staple in his life, introducing him to Ruby Storm and other close friends.

#### Civil Cleansing

During the cleansing, Adrik was offered sanctuary in Limbo by Svetlana, but refused to hide and joined the many mutants taking to the streets and fighting for their right to exist. And fighting in the literal sense, as he focused on toppling Sentinels and physically man-handling SHIELD units and tracking vans out of his home. On one of his many nights busting skulls, Adrik ran into one of the Legion, Irie, and Connor O'Keane atop a tower on 6th Avenue; their brief team up to kick the SHIELD jets off the roof ended in both Connor and Irie receiving grievous injury and Adrik ultimately killing Irie in an attempt to get her safely off the roof. Scarred by this realization, Adrik refused to fight anymore than he *absolutely* had to, focusing instead on helping mutants get to safety. Eventually he ended up at the Xavier institute, and joined the first X-Men team to help raid the SHIELD facility President Rose was hiding in as he signed the Thorn Act. After Doom stole the president's soul, Adrik returned to Xavier's with a hollow heart, and spent the next few months in a depressive state. As he was taking some time to process Irie's death, the Phoenix fell to earth and promptly possessed him, where it remains sleeping to this day.

#### X Men

The cleansing was hard on everyone, and eventually Adrik hauled himself out of his fugue state and got to work within the school; uncertain of where to start, he helped out with menial tasks and upkeep of the school's facilities. Unbeknownst to him (and everyone in the school, really) Xavier had built Cerebro, which was quite the trinket and quickly became the Brotherhood of Mutants' target in a raid on the school. After losing Cerebro thanks to the Superior Spider-Man's involvement, the X-Men launched a retaliation on the Brotherhood's homebase, Blackstone Mount. Adrik involuntarily protected a brotherhood member, Penny, from the mountain collapsing; taking her, his injured teammates, and Cerebro in tow, he and the X-Men fled the scene, narrowly missing being caught on camera.

#### Present Day

Adrik now teaches art at Xavier's and helps out with extracurriculars as needed.

## Trivia

* i am in love with him
* Adrik has the Colossus mantle, making him a variant of Piotr Rasputin.
* Adrik was voted the 'Most likely to be Coupon Champion' in the 2022 Slammys. He's the most broke bitch.
* He was a very talented weight-lifter when he had the time to practice and was coaxed by Nikolai into competing in a few small time events.