Mykhailo Volkova

## About

* General Information:
	+ Sexuality: Bisexual
	+ Star Sign: Libra
	+ Tarot Card: The emperor
	+ Pronouns: He/ him
	+ Age: 77 (Ascended at 45)
	+ Fear: The Buried
	+ Job: Has taken over the Salesa emporium after his bosses 'death'
	+ Character Tag: MykaVolko
	+ Player: Kawaiiju

## **Friends/Allies**

* Father Vincent - Close friend
* Cherry - Close friend, fellow himbo
* Damon - Wrestle partner
* Connor - Close friend
* Ramon - Close friend
* Cipher - Ex work partner
* Al - Close friend
* Frank - Close friend
* Sylvia - Pretty acquaintance
* Iza - Returning customer
* Jade - Dirt friend
* Roscoe - Friend
* Louis - Friend

## **Enemies, Mortal or Otherwise**

None (: A friend to all

'Weary of'

* Baylee

~~Apart from vastards do not interact~~

## **Notable Events**

### **Of Great Exploration And Grave Robbing**

Mykhailo approached the Magnus institute and arranged a meeting with Genevieve Gladstone to discuss the handover of The Seven Lamps Of Architecture written by John Ruskin, A Leitner that enables the reader to interact with the geography of Robert Smirke buildings. He wanted to use the book to break into a secret vault beneath the London museum of history.
Genevieve agreed, under the condition that Mykhailo helps her in return.
Mykhailo was accompanied by Jade beneath the city, the two of them using the Leitner to call upon the tape-worm like a staircase that guarded the vault, the book enabling them to tame the flesh touched beast so they could venture within.
The vault was filled with many powerful artifacts, all of them entity touched from being stolen from their homeland. Mykhailo retrieved the gasmask he had been looking for, one that had previously been his own during his ascension.
Upon leaving he bid Jade farewell and handed the book back to them, after which Jade returned to the institute and was allowed 'Coffin time'. During this time Mykhailo broke into the Panopticon to retrieve the body within, handing it over to Breekon and Hope who in turn passed it on to Genevieve. Mykhailo received the book for his efforts and his promise to keep his involvement of the event hush hush.

### **Bonfire event**

Mykhailo attended Baylee's bonfire event as a guest, bringing along with him a strange bag of ornate Fabergé eggs that changed the colour of the fire when thrown in and emitted a sharp, screaming sound. A majority of his time was spent making friends with Roscoe and Louis, getting along with them both easily after approaching them to join in the festivities.
The eggs themselves were items he recovered from a spiral touched reptile store where the animals had turned into porcelain, the eggs themselves a batch birthed by a jewel encrusted snake. Originally he had tried to sell them, but due to the high mortality rate of any unfortunate enough to be around when the eggs ultimately hatched, he decided it best to dispose of them.

### **Salesa emporium**

Recently Myka has recently opened up the Salesa emporium warehouse to new workers, assembling a strange little cast of characters to work within its walls. Jobs range from artifact reprisal, hired muscle, organization, social media management and accounting. The current employment list is:

* Myka
* Cherry
* Vincent
* CJ
* Artemis
* Mercury
* Salesa 'You'

Strange events have been happening around the emporium with his new found employee's getting hurt, items going missing and new items turning up. It has been putting the usual calm buried on edge.

## **Powers**

### **Geiger counter**

Mykhailo's main power is his ability to detect the entity related danger levels of people, places and items through a built-in Geiger counter that manifests as a tinnitus styled ringing inside his ears. The louder the ringing, the more dangerous a situation. This power was used often while working for Salesa to tell the legitimacy of supposed 'haunted' objects. If something is exceptionally dangerous, his ears will bleed.

### **Infrastructual Ionizing**

Mykhailo can break down the bonds between atoms in buildings and structures to cause them to collapse. This same power can be used to break down doors or crack locks and open up vaults. It does not work on people or animals and what constitutes and 'building' can sometimes be situational.

### **Geomancy**

As with most buried, Mykhailo has some control over the earth, able to manipulate tunnels and ground to open up sink holes and enter the tunnel system below London.

### **Big boy big boy man**

Myka himself is large and muscular, years of working in jobs that require heavy lifting having toned him to be a formidable force without the use of his powers. He is able to add extra 'weight' behind punches and hit, making him a powerhouse in his own right. While he is not fast, he can easily take down most people in a single swing.

## **Backstory**

 Born in Kiev to a modest family, his mother was a stay at home wife and his father a factory worker. While Mykahilo's life in the city under Russian ruling was his normality, having been born into it, his parents were strongly against the new regime and made sure to educate him on the countries history and culture.

He attended school to study engineering in hopes of making enough money to be able to ensure his family lived comfortably despite the unrest in the country. After leaving school and working as a mechanical engineer for several years he went on to help with the construction of the cities metro system in the 1960’s, playing a key role in the development of the underlying infrastructure.

 As with many, he was called upon to help with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster as a liquidator, part of the cleanup crew responsible with removing radiated rubble from the heart of the blast site. He was part of one of the first teams of men to enter the destruction zone, and paid the price for it.

 He died and ascended after being trapped beneath rubble that collapsed in a contaminated building for several days, ultimately being reborn anew from the shell of his own radiated form.

After ascending, he went and spent several years in Norway, eventually coming into contact with Mikaele Salesa in 1994 after the fall of the Leitner library. The two got on relatively well and Mykhailo was hired to work as hired muscle aboard the mans ship. While at sea he became aware of Mykahilo's 'affliction', and while it initially caused some conflict, after Salesa became aware of Mykhailo's abilities he had him act as a secondary artifact appraiser.

Mykhailo worked alongside Salesa for many years until the mans ‘death’ in 2014. Since then he has taken over the Salesa emporium, the large warehouse where the surplus unsold stock was being housed. Mykhailo is currently selling off these wares, as well as collecting the debts from those who owe his ex boss payments.