Vlykes Gladkov

**Vlykes Gladkov** was a recurring antagonist and father to Viktoryia, Viktor, and Vladimir Gladkov.

## Appearance

Vlykes Gladkov is a thirty-five-year-old male with dark eyes along with dark hair at medium length. He usually wears a black suit and necktie with a cigarette in his mouth.

## Personality

Vlykes is a very cold person and never makes friendships. He only communicates in professionalism and antisocial. He doesn't seem to care very much about his son and daughter despite claiming to, and is a player that has multiple affairs with various women, most of them being prostitutes and strippers. He has a compulsive habit of spending money on buying expensive cars and watches to impress girls, and struggles with addictions to cigarettes and alcohol.

## Relationships

As mentioned before, Vlykes doesn't communicate outside of business. He has no friends or acquaintances, and his one enemy consists of his own daughter, Viktoriya Gladkov.

## History

### Early Life

As a young boy, Vlykes was taught by his misogynistic father that he needed to increase his charm and get a wife as soon as possible. Vlykes also witnessed his father beat his mother and sister multiple times, and the thought that women were only property was embedded into his mind at a very young age.

Throughout his younger years, Vlykes grew up in the Northside of River City, but took trips down towards the Southside. When he was eight years old he wandered into the poor streets and came across a drug dealer from the Flameriders. He innocently took the drugs since he was told that it was free and instantly became addicted. Since that encounter, he started taking regular trips there to supply his need for drugs.

But eventually his father found out, and beat him so badly Vlykes thought he was going to die. He promised his father that he would make him happy from then on, and that was exactly what he did. At just ten years old he proposed to a poor girl from the Southside because he knew that her parents would want their daughter to be married to a rich man. He was horrible to her, and hit her and degraded her, and he impressed his father with the bruises that he had put on her face.

At just twelve years old, he divorced her because he thought she was useless. This sort of cycle went on, and by the time he was fifteen he had been divorced three times. Then he met another girl, and he was immediately hooked. He promised his father that he wouldn't divorce her this time, and married her just months after he met her, and they had twins just a few weeks after their wedding. He named them Viktor and Viktoriya, and actually loved him unconditionally. Eventually he grew to love his wife, too.

This was something his father didn't approve of. His father told him that Vlykes' wife didn't deserve his love, and this broke out into a heated argument. Vlykes told his father that women weren't property and that his father had been wrong all along, and his father in retaliation threw a beer bottle at him, causing Vlykes to get a deep incision on his head. The next day Vlykes took a plane to the small town of Springdale with his family, and swore he would never see his wretched father again.

When he was sixteen he attempted to have another child with his wife, but she suffered a miscarriage after just two months. This took a toll on both of them, and Vlykes' wife refused to try it again. But Vlykes wanted another child, so he went out and ordered a prostitute. He had sex with her and intentionally impregnated her, which was something that she wasn't very happy about. But Vlykes begged her to keep the child so she could give it to him, but she refused and threatened to get an abortion. Vlykes instead bribed her with a hundred thousand dollars which he attained from his inheritance from his father's successful factory company. The prostitute agreed and carried the baby for six months before he was born. Vlykes then took the baby home to his wife and claimed that he had found the child abandoned in the snow. Together, he and his wife raised their son, which they named Vladimir.

Then, after a few years, Vlykes heard someone knocking on the door. He opened it and saw the prostitute that he had impregnated all those years ago. She said that she needed more money from him to bail out her boyfriend from prison. Vlykes instantly refused, and told her that they were no longer connected, and shut the door in her face. A few days later he was confronted by his wife. She told him that she knew that Vlad wasn't hers and demanded the truth. Vlykes grew angry, he knew that the prostitute had confessed.

He then made the mistake of sticking to his story that he had found Vlad in the snow, and his wife refused to believe him and a large argument rose up, ending with Vlykes slapping her. This reminded him of the promise that he had made to his father, and then he stormed out of the household with his two "real" children, Viktoriya and Viktor, and with him he took all the money, leaving his wife and illegitimate son, Vlad, all alone.

He tried to move as far away from her as possible, but unfortunately, the only place that was available was an Anthropomorphic neighborhood in the same city; and Vlykes was a human supremacist, so he created a cult, the Dark Dagger, to fight back against what he called "sins". Once his son and daughter were old enough, he convinced them to join as well. But after separating from his wife, he kept on reminding himself of the promise he had made to his father that day.

He decided that he needed to fulfil it, even though his father was long dead. He knew that violence was what always made his father happy. So he went out for an alcohol and a pack of cigarettes and never came back. He left all of his children behind, and because of that, in the Dark Dagger operation that he started, he lost his son Viktor.

But he continued to work hard for his company and was looked at as a role model and professional company owner, but deep inside he was a sad man that could never fully complete his father's wishes. Eventually even his own daughter, Viktoriya, had left him because she figured out that he was the cause for Viktor's murder, and was angry that he had lied to her about it.

Afterwards Vlykes started taking out all of his anger through his cult, and went after Anthropomorphics and abducted, tortured, and murdered them himself. It continued like that for years, and the only thing that had been keeping him going was the promise he had made to his father all those years ago. Yet, Vlykes eventually channeled his anger and got back on his feet again. And after hearing rumors that his long-lost illegitimate son, Vladimir Gladkov, was living in Springdale still, he decided to go back and... "check on him".