Victor von Graves

Sharx, Gwen Brightshire, Pruine, Gnog, Ziva

## Early Life

Victor von Graves is a man from a noble family. His childhood consists of being pampered due to being the only child born to his wealthy parents, which has shaped him to be quite vain. Up until recently, that's all he's ever known. Everything brought to him at the flick of his wrist. However, such things eventually started to bore him.

He's always been the curious type. Observing plant life, watching animals from afar as they lived their primitive lives, reading all sorts of scientific literature and putting his newly acquired knowledge to use through the means of experimentation. So, as much as he liked his easy lifestyle, he still preferred to flee the nest at the early age of 16 to pursue his interest of discovery, much to his family's dismay.

Ever since, he traveled through the dangerous lands with only the help of hired adventurers, who unfortunately sometimes ended up paying with their lives protecting the young man. But despite all the gruesome deaths he's managed to witness in such a short time, he still continued forth with his quest for understanding until at last, he arrived in Oracle at the age of 22, considerably humbled by then.

## Arrival to Oracle

Victor settled down in Tinker's Cove upon arrival to Oracle, having built himself a home at the High Hills. Due to an accident just prior to arriving in Oracle, he doesn't remember as much of his early life as he used to, but it still doesn't stop him from sometimes reminiscing on his past. However, he is still a fairly changed man from the bratty rich kid he used to be, only thanks to what he's learned from his deceased adventurer protectors and from his all-too-many near-death experiences alongside them.

He was somewhat involved in the murder investigations of Oracle, those however remain unsolved.

## The Ritual of Jack Tinkers

After getting involved in a ritual initiated by Jack, he fell deathly ill, with the other participants also having been vastly changed.

Several failed attempts to cure himself later, he fell into the hands of a manipulator, Mira Knowstick, and has not been able to escape her since, only meeting more of such people on the way till now. However he was able cure himself after being forced into a deal to help "get rid of someone" in turn.

The cure covered him in some kind of plant variant of sculk that seems to be the cause behind his recovery.

## Escape to Cavea

Afterwards, being unable to handle the stress of being around his abusers, who only kept threatening him, he vented to his dear friend Pruine, who told him to leave Tinker's Cove. Amidst it all, he began experiencing hallucinations stemming from guilt.

But before he left Tinker's Cove, he went to visit his friend Adyra Cothe, another ritual participant, who's change was that of swapping personalities, which included the personality of Mira herself. Instead of speaking to Adyra, he found very quickly that Mira overtook Adyra's body and made him agree to a deal, stating that if he promises to do anything she wishes, she will let Adyra out for however long she sees fit.

Victor left promptly after to the Aristocracy of Cavea, where he became a part of the aristocratic table. However his safety did not last long, as Mira and Adyra both soon moved full-time to the Raia district as well, where he resided.

## Road to Insanity

Mira had her fair share of personality swaps, having turned into Ellie, who Mira wanted to get rid of.

She and Adyra soon became aware of Victor, so the time to fulfil his end of the deal came. Lured in Mira's basement, he was forced to torture Ellie out of Mira, which effectively broke him, driving him temporarily insane. What followed after was Mira being gotten rid of from both herself and Adyra instead and everybody going home to recover from the twisted events.

The next couple of days afterwards, Victor was described to act in a cruel and bloodthirsty manner, scaring away everyone who considered themselves his friends, that is except for Pruine.

## The Proposition

He found Pruine in his home one day rummaging through his things and upon being asked what he was doing there, Pruine told him to pack, that they were leaving. That he read Victor's private journal that logs every single thought of his up until that moment and that the last couple of pages do not sound like Victor at all, that clearly Cavea is only harming him.

Clouded in judgement, Victor at first refused, but after getting through to him enough, Pruine managed to get Victor to consider his proposal despite staying in Cavea still.

However, eventually after being visited by Ellie, who he was tricking into thinking they were still friends despite what he did to her for his own benefit, he decided that he truly had enough of Cavea and decided to tell her to leave him alone instead before she'd get hurt. He put it in a threatening manner, scaring her away and making her snap unbeknownst to him.

He followed it up with going to tell Adyra the same, only when he tried, Adyra decided to stand up to his empty threats, accidentally coming off as Mira and triggering Victor into a manic state where he blindly kills her in a rage, promptly found by Adyra's mother and told to leave.

Not too long after, her mother comes to get revenge on Victor, leaving him to bleed out on his kitchen floor by slashing him across the chest with her sword.

## The Hideout

He is later found by Ellie, who had gone off on a journey to find a way to get Mira back. Revived by the use of her potions, he is then dragged into her home under the pretense of being "helped", only to be locked in her basement and tortured as Ellie and Mira fight for control. Thanks to such, he is able to escape and, heavily injured, he manages to spend his adrenaline on running to Pruine, deciding that he was right all along.

On the way, he stumbles over a small goblin by the name of Sharx, who had been sleeping around the area for unknown reasons and he decides to drag him along in the heat of the moment.

Arriving in the hideout, eventually he is taken care of by Pruine and Sharx, who decides to tag along with their permission. Numerous painful means of sealing Victor's wounds later and finally, they can all rest as Victor recollects the last few days to his friend and Sharx, afterwards of which they decide to leave as soon as Victor recovers.

The next following days summarized are that of Pruine going out to scrounge up a few resources and Sharx insisting on disobeying Victor regarding not going to Cavea on numerous occasions, which Victor and Pruine eventually confront him about after he steals a diary from Adyra's home. Nearly burning Victor with a bucket of lava, Sharx is immediately told to leave and Pruine decides that they are leaving at dusk, but not before he goes out to pack his things, leaving Victor to wait for him.

His return is delayed and in the meantime, Victor and Sharx somewhat talk it out and a kobold named Gwen searching for Arktis is briefly introduced.

## The Cruel Cold

Upon Pruine's return, Victor and him finally leave Cavea altogether for the bottom left of Oracle, the cold Wintery biome. On the way however, they get lost from their original path and stumble upon a giant ice spire. Pruine, needing a break, drags Victor all the way to the top despite his protests, from which Pruine unfortunately then falls to the bottom into the frozen river below, for the ice he stood on cracked.

After fishing him out frantically, Victor witnesses Sharx revealing himself from the shadows but does not get to question it as they hurry to get Pruine into a cave, somewhere safer from the blizzard.

As the next following days consist of Victor and Sharx merely trying their best to take care of Pruine, Sharx reveals he followed them as he didn't want to be alone. Victor gives him another chance and lets him stay. They bond as they spend their days together in the moderate warmth of the cave, during which Pruine would sometimes wake up as though almost possessed, giving them ciphers to decode, then falling back asleep.

Eventually, after Gwen had somehow found them, they manage to figure out the ciphers and figuring out that he wanted them to get him back to the spire, Victor begrudgingly allows them to carry Pruine back up to the top, where Pruine is yet again possessed and they are told to leave the spire after desecrating it. He is then let go of, they make their way back to the cave and decide to leave as soon as possible. While the rest express that they are glad Pruine will now be alright, Victor has seemingly shut down emotionally after copious amounts of stress throughout the long days of helping Pruine recover and is unable to express the same for now. They simply leave for their original destination.

## Family Sticks Together

Victor has now settled down at Pruine's original base in a taiga alongside him and Sharx. Having built themselves a mansion (originally meant to be a small cabin, before they went overboard), they now seek to live in peace from all trouble and simply build upon their bond as a found family.

However, more and more troublemakers find their way over, making the already rebellious Sharx disobey Pruine and especially Victor at every turn. Now they're faced with a tough situation of what to do and how to make Sharx see that Gwen, Luce and newly Vleza are up to no good. Victor, despite trying his best to keep the family together and safe, cannot at all handle the stress anymore and has turned to drowning himself in wine.

Constantly, he debates whether he should persist.... or whether he should perish.

All the while, an entirely different threat looms over them, waiting for a chance to strike.

## The Kidnapping

One day, after Victor went out for a walk to clear his head, he comes back home to a broken down door and a frightened Gwen. She tells him that two bandits have broken in and kidnapped Sharx when he went downstairs to cook them something to eat. Enraged, Victor immediately decides to track them down- only before he does so, he tells her to hide. She hands him her scythe to use as a weapon and he sets out on his way.

It takes him only about a day to get to the bandit outpost late at night. After wounding a wall guard with a crossbow, he makes swift work of climbing up it to see Sharx in a cage, the leader sitting next to it. At first, Victor demands for Sharx to be let out, but after being denied, instead he jumps down and engages in a fight.

Both him and the leader are wounded in the end, the latter however eventually gets killed and thus Victor renders himself the winner. He frees Sharx and as they burn down the camp, more of the bandits start to return.

Together, they slaughter all of them, soon returning home.

Since then, Sharx and Gwen start acting much more behaved and the incident had strengthened Sharx and Victor's bond greatly, as this is where Victor officially began to consider Sharx his son.

## A New Leaf

After the bandit incident, Victor decides he's had enough. He's proved to himself that he is completely capable of protecting the family and enacting revenge upon those that have wronged them. Despite getting into an argument with Pruine, who suggests they leave, as the head of the family Victor sets that they shall no longer be running away from danger and that they are more than able of defending themselves if they stick together. If they are the threat, then nothing shall threaten them.

No longer bound to hide by his traumatic past, he instead uses it to fuel his rage towards those he deems dangerous, ready to make blood pour from his enemies.

Though it's not entirely over yet.

Shortly after the change, the kids - ever behaved - have decided to do something stupid yet again. Unbeknownst to him, they planned on kidnapping Mira.

Somehow, they had managed to succeed and one day, they bring both him and Pruine down to what they called their secret laboratory. Inside were not only Gwen and Sharx but also Vleza- all overlooking Mira herself, stripped of weapons and locked in a cell.

The situation, too reminiscent and alarming, of course made the two adults panic. At first, they merely tried to get the rest to leave the place, momentarily betrayed in trust as the kids not only brought the one thing they feared the most right underneath their house but also put themselves in danger. However that soon subsided as Victor got a bit too close to the cell and Mira, who managed to get a hold of an axe, wounded him.

Suddenly filled with adrenaline, Victor only sees red though. He whips around, opening the door of the cell before anyone can process it and beheads Mira in one fell swoop and with one roar of fury. Her head falls and her body crumbles to the ground before his feet as silence fills the laboratory.

At last, Pruine snaps out of his own shock, ushering the rest out and locking the door behind them for a moment of peace between him and Victor.

Eventually, the adrenaline wears off. And they both laugh as slowly, they realize that their biggest enemy had just been terminated by none other than her biggest victim himself; Victor.

## The Corruption

After the sudden death of Mira, Victor and Pruine feel much more energetic. They both plan out a little celebration of her death, jolly and happy that they no longer have anything to fear; that they are the ones to be feared in the first place. They even decide to go to the upcoming masquerade ball along with Sharx, whereas previously they were still in some form of isolation. At the masquerade, Victor is even specially thanked by the organizer, Maddox, for Mira's removal.

Their home expands as they build more and more things for the children to enjoy. They gather more pets, enjoy more things, bond together more than ever before. The children barely misbehave now and whenever they do, they quickly listen to Victor and Pruine's scolding. Seemingly, their life is headed for a better future.

That is, until one day, where Sharx wakes up dressed in something he never even had in his wardrobe.

Understandably, Victor is concerned. However eventually he reaches the conclusion that there's nothing he can really do about it, so he tries not to worry about it too much. Yet the unexpected change leads to something many a times more shocking the next few days.

Another day goes by and instead, after Victor calls Sharx down to eat, Sharx shows up with wings on his back and the news of supposedly being a godling, his mother the deity Ziva.

Though angrier than ever before, Victor manages to control himself in the presence of Sharx, merely asking questions and eventually deciding that he shall have a long discussion with the goddess the next time she shows herself - or at the very least, a written exchange.

Except the next person who shows themselves is Sharx's twin brother Astaroth, who looks nothing like him as a result of what was explained to Victor as Sharx's reincarnation power.

Not only is Victor already bitter about their peace and family dynamic being disturbed, Astaroth simply barging in like so tips him off the edge and there is incredible tension as they talk - eventually argue and insult each other. Insecure about his position as Sharx's father, he is furious even more as a result and after managing to get Astaroth to leave, Victor hands him a letter addressed to Ziva before he does so.

Victor seethes for the next upcoming days at every mention of Sharx's newly discovered heritage, though he hides it from Sharx as best as he can. To top it off, one day they find Gwen completely altered as she had apparently made a blood pact with either Ziva or Astaroth that turned her into a corrupted, granting her wings but disfiguring her scales in return- and it is not only her but also Luce, Rivera, Maddox and undoubtedly more- at least to come. Though after spending enough time with Gwen, Victor sets his mind to keep her on the right track instead of finding her a lost, corrupted cause- as despite past disagreements and Victor's hesitance to admit it, he's come to think of her as his daughter also. They offer her a place to stay at their home.

Victor also receives a letter back from Ziva, defending her own position which he barely listens to, merely ranting about it to Pruine. He briefly meets her when Astaroth yet again visits, but barely speaks to her- at most they insult each other.

The final straw is when, finally, Gwen and Sharx one day come to his room, Sharx just as well disfigured by corruption as Gwen.

Struggling to contain himself, Victor shuts the door on them- then flees through a secret exit out to the wilderness.

## Acceptance

The kids manage to track Victor down after he flees, finding him under a tree barely responsive. Gwen decides to stay back, leaving the discussion to Sharx. Eventually, Sharx manages to get Victor to open up. Victor tells Sharx of his fears; his fear of being discarded, his fear of Sharx getting hurt or changed in any way, his fear of the life they built crumbling to the ground just like that, by something they can't control. But Sharx insists that they'll pull through, that Sharx would never leave him and Pruine, that Victor is a stubborn man and that he shouldn't let it get to him- to which Victor begrudgingly agrees and concludes that he won't.

Throughout the days after that, Victor is a lot less tense and angry. He still gets irritated at the mentions, but overall he does better. He even bonds with Gwen some more and somewhat tolerates whenever he sees Astaroth, though their anger-filled arguments do not change.

He begins to see Ziva more. She visits frequently and each time Victor gets irritated, though at first it was tolerable. However, eventually they both break out into a screaming match, to which Sharx was a witness to. Disliking the way his parents fight like so, he sets out to change the hate-filled relationship into the opposite kind instead. Meanwhile, the match evolves into their sudden declaration that Ziva should move in just to see who gets driven insane by the other first- which she does.

Victor then sees and talks to her every day.

## Unexpected Attachment

Thrilled by the idea that came into his head, Sharx manages to get Gwen and somehow even Pruine to set Victor and Ziva up so they'd get along. The three of them set up a picnic side at the side of the nearby beach and in the middle of Ziva and Victor arguing, Sharx asks them to follow him. So they put it on hold and do so, just for him.

Except when they get there, confused by the setting, they are no longer allowed to leave and are made to sit down and talk. Left with no other choice, they eventually make small-talk and eventually delve into mostly Ziva's past. Unexpectedly gaining a new perspective of her, Victor changes his approach towards her to an extent. No longer as snarky, snappy nor insulting- more so just teasing her about certain things. She consequently does the same as they both admit error in the ways of treating each other. Ziva promises to keep their home safe from what she plans and that so long as Sharx loves him, Victor shall not be harmed- that she will make sure of. Essentially given her blessing, he from then on refrains on judging her as much and eventually, they make their way home after Sharx had to leave as well.

## Feelings

To Victor's "dismay" however, the picnic managed to spark up feelings he never thought he'd have towards Ziva. Though kept at the back of his mind, they'd surface occasionally throughout the day and eventually, after being teased by Gwen about it, he admits that he sees her in a much different light now. That she's much more of a caring mother than he expected and that maybe he wouldn't mind if there was something more between them. Though still not entirely willing to let it linger though, he quickly tells Gwen that he has no business with a deity anyway and that she shouldn't get too excited. That he knows she and Sharx are just trying to set them up, quite obviously.

But he thanks her for it, at least in his mind. And if nothing else, he does admit to her that he considers her a part of the family and his daughter now. Which Gwen is of course very happy about.

But from there his feelings only keep increasing the more he talks with Ziva. Going into subjects deeper than he's gone before with anyone at all. It gets to a point where even Ziva seems to share them- and one day Victor finds a gift from her in his bedroom; a wither rose, placed on the floor in a neat flowerpot.

Additionally, she hangs out in his room often in the form of a feline, where one day she decides that Victor knows too much about her and she knows too little about him, so she asks him of his past. After a bit of back and forth where it became apparent that she didn't know what to ask, Victor solves it by just offering to tell her straight out. It takes a while before they get to it though, as Ziva had to leave at that point. But when they do, Victor opens up to her all too quickly. He tells her about his life both before Oracle and after, her not saying a single peep throughout it all, leaving him to dive deep into his trauma, something he's not done in weeks now. By the time he's done describing it all, there is a stifling silence.

Ziva notices that Victor is despondent afterwards- and feels... furious that he had suffered through all of that. She even tries to offer comfort, though it doesn't work until she actually tells him that she's trying to do so- which cheers him up considerably. Though that's about when she leaves again.

And Victor has fallen ever more.

After everything, he tells Gwen he wants to return a gift to Ziva. Gwen gives him a couple suggestions, some of those including flowers, sweets and a written poem. He does all three, pouring passion into the poem especially and after mustering up the courage.... he hides it for Ziva to find and waits.

Once Ziva discovers the gift, she decides to go and ask him about it as she is confused about the concept of romance (and poems). Victor is then forced to explain the bare minimum, but due to him being all too flustered, eventually Ziva resorts to simply asking the children instead.

Sharx and Gwen proceed to clear up to Ziva that Victor seems to have fallen for her, suggesting they get together and so with this newfound information, she comes back to Victor, agreeing and accepting his love. Officially they are now together and dating.

### The Poem

*“*Feelings are often quite difficult,

oneself may not even know their true meaning.

Figuring them out is considered miracle,

though such a feat can't be done by just one being.

My days in Oracle have left me with many,

too little of them of happy thought, if any.

Before I met my family, that is.

With dark skies looming over me,

my recovery hindered by suffering harm,

it was hard before I met the wonderful people

of which I call a family; my children, brother-in-arms.

Yet today as I gaze upon our likeness,

there's a tightness in my chest as I feel,

convey, attest that something is a-miss.

A spot beside me empty, cold,

it taunts me, simply told.

But I know of who may fill it,

though not why, I shall admit it.

My feelings are confusing as any other,

but that's no bother as I found another

to help me with deducing their true nature,

the otherworldly creator herself.

Ziva, your sudden appearance enrages,

but as I fill the pages with my rhymes

I find major changes in my lines,

obvious signs of feelings of...

what, I ask?

Ziva, you're no better at feeling than I.

I perceive inadequacy in your dealing

with feeling bigger than mine.

Yet I feel....

There, that word again.

I feel.

I feel as though....

together, we can know...

what plagues not just I

but you also, so let's just try.

Try and figure out the root

behind our sudden agreement.

Will you pursuit this demon,

with none other than myself?

You are who I shall find out with,

what it means to feel this way.

If nothing else, this may make

Sharx's day, so why not?

Feelings are often quite difficult,

less so with a godly miracle.

- Victor*”*

## The Proposal

Victor's confession resulted in Ziva accepting, thus starting up their relationship. They dated for quite a while after, figuring out each other's love language for a while until Astaroth got wind of everything and decided that Ziva has grown soft, therefore after finding out about a way to cure her of corruption by the help of Gwen, he resorts to drown Ziva under a quartz willow tree that Victor was requested to build by Sharx to spite Astaroth.

By some odd miracle, the willow tree had been imbued with magic, thus being able to purify corruption. Ziva drowned and, being a deity, got resurrected promptly after in the form of an elven humanoid, mortal and vulnerable.

Many days go by of Ziva now permanently living with the family. While many other negative things in relation to the corruption happen (and also the foundation of La Familia as a kingdom, as well as the adoption of Valerie and Gnog), Ziva still seeks to find a spark of joy in these trying times. Despite her past trauma with marriage, she builds a beautiful gazebo for Victor and herself as she decides that she wants to give it another try with the human who managed to worm his way into her heart against all odds. After one day leading him to it, she then proposes to him in front of the children and Victor accepts without hesitation.

After a celebration, the children then leave to give them space and the two of them proceed to have a lovely dinner out in the beach gazebo as the sun sets and the stars come out to shine on the newly formed engagement.

Victor and Ziva now plan to have a bohemian wedding. Victor plans to wear the wedding dress.

## The Break-up and Marriage

In a long period of time involving a lot of corruption troubles, in the end Gwen was kicked out of the family after having psychologically tortured Pruine. It caused her to turn to Astaroth's side. Maddox had been killed by Victor in self-defense, when the corrupted tried to kill Pruine. A lot of corrupted had been purified, more had been added to Astaroth's army in turn...

Eventually, Gnog, after being purified, was able to purify Gwen with his blood, nearly dying to the event. People wanted Gwen to pay for her sins (torturing her adoptive uncle, lying to the family, kidnapping people and corrupting them, attempting to murder her adoptive sister Valerie...) , so Victor and Pruine imprisoned her in the same cell Mira had been. Before then, Victor had a fight with Sharx about the morality of Gwen's handling (which was just making sure she wouldn't hurt anyone, therefore keeping her in place) and once Sharx somehow got wind of her whereabouts after, he let her free and fled in an act of massive betrayal to everyone within his family and more. It resulted in his disowning and banishment from La Familia. With a heavy heart, Victor and Ziva did what they had to, as they had enough of Sharx's constant disobedience and at times, dangerous actions (e.g. pulling a sword out at them, threatening to stab them if they didn't leave, hitting Victor whilst having inhuman strength...) for they have given him to many chances to count.

On the other hand, at last, their wedding has come.

Inviting only a handful of trusted people to their wedding, with Seibel officiating their marriage, Victor and Ziva have finally become one. The wedding was beautiful, filled with giant blue flowers to signify both Ziva and Victor's blue petals, floating candles to light it all up... even Victor's father had come to visit and proudly walk his son down the aisle. The wedding went without any complications, or intruders. Though a few were missing, especially once loved ones... they couldn't be any happier.

## The Silanus Haven

Considering how the family has been falling apart for quite some time now, more and more betraying Victor, his now-wife and his brother, they considered a name-change for their kingdom, as it seemed less and less fitting. Given their love for wine and it being one of their main export, they have chosen the name Silanus and Haven to symbolize the safety of the place thanks to the giant willow tree that has been erected in the very center of the kingdom.

## The Loss

After getting captured and tortured by Astaroth, Gnog escaped a prison underneath a volcano, only he had to leave numerous other people behind as he did so. But determined not to leave them for long, he organized an extraction party with many, many participants and together they all enacted a raid onto Zorfu's volcano. All unbeknownst to Victor until Pruine had sent him a letter that he was watching it go down from afar.

Pruine delivered him the most crushing news.

Those that were imprisoned had been saved briefly. But ultimately, only Skylar Knowstick survived. Both Gwen and Gnog died in the battle.

The news crushed Victor just as much as it did Luce, who at the time was with him searching for the two as they stepped onto the land of Silanus whilst being banned from it. Despite the many betrayals that Gwen had done, she and Gnog were still dear to him and Ziva. So later that day, he found Sharx in Arcadia and had a brief chat with him, who upon seeing him immediately assumed that Victor was happy about the news. So he told him he was wrong and that though he will never forgive them for what Gwen has done, she was still his daughter at some point and Gnog just did not deserve to die all around.

The next day, he told Ziva what happened and where Sharx is, to which they both made their way over once more despite Ziva's suddenly declining health as she wanted to see him. There, she told Sharx that this would've never happened had he not freed Gwen, as she most likely just would've done manual labour then, so therefore both her and Gnog would still be alive and with that, they both left once again.

Though everything is falling apart regarding their familial bonds, people they cared about dying, both Victor and Ziva try to move on.

## A New Beginning

Victor's life has not spared him a single time.

All the children he had died in one fell swoop or have betrayed him on one level or another. The only two people he now truly has are Pruine and Ziva, both incredibly dear to him, to the point where he's starting to get all too protective over them. Maybe obsessively so. He's entered a stage at which he's not capable of properly grieving, but instead drowns himself further in work and just accepts that the people he once held so dear are gone at the hands of supposedly an enemy he thought he had killed. A strangely familiar tune.

He finds himself at rock-bottom yet again. And he dreads every new day, for he cannot know whether or not it's the day where another will die or not.

But on the other hand, just for his beloved, he's trying. He tries to go on. After all, they've sworn to each other that they'd pass through dark times together on their wedding day. So now, he's built a new manor for them to reflect their status as leaders of a nation. A brand new home for brand new, hopefully happy, memories.

And as he's moving their things... he finds a book by Ziva in his bedside table.

## Prosperity

Victor unknowingly found Ziva's diary, detailing her life as a former goddess. Her past shakes him to the core, however after a talk with her, they both conclude that her past is not what matters and no matter how much either of them may wish to change it and protect her, the present is what matters and they should better their future. They decided to simply love each other and live in as much peace as Oracle allows them.

Thus they focus now on the development of Silanus, the kingdom beginning its golden age as it starts to thrive with members and infrastructure.

## The End

Victor and Ziva after years and years of torture in Oracle, not having aged a day due to supernatural properties, have left Oracle.

## Appearance

### General Appearance

Victor has quite a thin, frail frame of 5 ft 11 and \*134 lbs. He can be described as rather stick-like in body-shape. His hair is cut short, curling in various places, most notably at the bottom. It consists of different shades of gray, dark the most prominent with lighter streaks at his temples going around the back of his head. Overall, it appears messy at first glance. It especially stands out against his ghostly pale white skin. All that aside however, the most noticeable thing about him is his dually-coloured eyes, the right of which being a brilliant blue and the left an emerald green, both of which nearly always narrowed.

His face is rather angular as a whole, long with prominent cheekbones and a pointy chin. It gives his appearance a bit of harshness, which may not be too far off from the way he sometimes behaves. As a whole, Victor doesn't appear very approachable as he gives off an air of arrogance in his mannerisms, usually rigid and all-too formal, as though he's not even a human at all - rather a doll of sorts.

* Victor has lost weight and is now 127lbs.
* He has giant red scars that cover his entire body. The most notable ones are across his chest and back, which give him trouble in physical activities.

### Outfits

#### Early Life — Escape to Cavea

As he is from a rather rich background, he used to be often found in quite fancy clothes, but ever since he's taken to travelling across the land instead of sticking to his home and lost a lot of money on the way, he possesses only a handful of such outfits- which he does wear, just not when he's on the move. He keeps them for his appearances in kingdoms and whatnot for the most part.

* At the end of Mira's ritual, he gets covered in a variant of sculk thanks to the cure he was given.

#### Escape to Cavea — The Hideout

Nowadays, he looks a lot more tired and weary, with an additional gray streak in his fringe. His eyes have become duller.

He now has sculk all over his body in the form of vines and flowers, and wears light clothing to match with the hot climate of Raia. His outfit consists of a tank top of a brown-ish colour with a red gradient at the bottom, with long loose pants and darker brown flat shoes. Additionally, he also wears green bracelets on his arms and legs.

#### The Hideout — Family Sticks Together

Covered in not only sculk to remind him of his miserable days but also now huge scars all over his body, he now adorns a black long-sleeved sweater made by Sharx, decorated with an iron chain. He also now wears black pants and white shoes.

His sleeves are sometimes rolled up, showing some of his smaller scars.

#### Family Sticks Together — A New Leaf

He's now found himself a pair of glasses to wear. Despite his displeasure at wearing them, he now sees a lot better and a lot more, allowing him to perhaps be a lot more observant than before.

#### A New Leaf — The Proposal

Replacing his casual wear with a more formal outfit, he now sports a white shirt with rolled up sleeves, a black waistcoat covering it and a blue rose used as decoration. He's got a black tie with a clip on it, alongside black gloves covering his hands. He as well wears black dress-pants, a silver belt chain at his hip, and black dress-shoes. He still possesses his glasses.

#### The Proposal — Current

He is dressed in exactly the same clothes as previously, only now he lacks gloves as they've been replaced by the engagement ring, one of a golden band and a big blue diamond atop. Additionally, his hair has grown grayer.

## Personality

He seems rather unapproachable at first and cold at second. But the longer one talks to him, the warmer his attitude towards them gets until both speak on equal grounds. Victor has a habit of inserting himself into a lot of topics, but he'll let another talk if they've made an impression on him in any way and has no problem simply listening afterwards. But nonetheless, given the long time spent mostly alone or traveling with jaded adventurers and not to mention his snobby background, he is bound to sometimes be quite awkward around and towards other people, despite trying to get past it.

Considering his passions, he's quite an intelligent man, but his social ineptness gives him trouble showing it and some of the left-over ego he has leaves him rather flustered most often than not, only digging a bigger grave for himself. Only those he deems friends have the fortune of seeing him actually laugh at himself and not get defensive. Luckily, it's not hard to become his friend.

Furthermore, he has always had a problem with neglecting himself whenever too focused on whatever he finds himself working on, but it's gotten worse over the years of getting into life-and-death situations. It's left him with a habit of neglecting everything else in favour of finishing anything he deems important at the moment, to the point of days without any sign of him around Tinker's Cove or anywhere else until he one day finally appears looking paler than usual and slightly more irritable.

He has a rather questionable sense of humour at times, having used it to cope with his previous situations. Now it's just completely out of place sometimes, but he's getting used to filtering some of his dark humour now and laughing with people about slightly more appropriate things than those of gruesome undertones.

Likes: Reading, writing, fishing, experimenting, using sarcasm, cats, anything that reminds him of his old home and lifestyle

Dislikes: Mistakes - mostly made by himself, bratty people (they remind him of his older self), grime, wearing armour, being distracted from work

Strengths/Pros: Intelligent, observant, agile, knowledgeable about surviving in the wild, crafty, persistent, quick learner, sophisticated

Weaknesses/Cons: Negligent (mostly of himself), workaholic, forgetful, socially-inept, has low stamina, slightly impulsive, easily stressed under certain conditions, physically weak

Common Sayings:

“Don't you dare!"

"How dare you?!"

"Excuse me?" He says whenever offended.

"Absolutely not!" Whenever denying anything at all.

"I love you." Quite frequently in regards to Ziva in particular, though he says it to the rest of the family as well.

## Skills & Abilities

* Trilingual
* Has survival skills
* Can play violin
* Has navigational skills
* Can write excellent stories

## Fun (?) Facts

1. Victor is very fond of cats and owns an uncountable number of them currently. Two of them are named after him.
2. He is a very bad liar and gets told frequently so. But there are times where he's capable of lying perfectly fine.
3. His eyesight is actually kind of poor, but he refused to wear glasses, only a monocle. Up until now, that is.
4. He has no idea why a part of his hair is gray, but he thinks it's due to frequent stress.
5. Victor still experiences vivid hallucinations quite often, but he has learned to differentiate them from reality and ignore them for the most part. However sometimes he still questions whether things are real or not.
6. He's always been fond of wine and in his younger days he made sure to show it, despite what people may think of him. However now it's turned into a very unhealthy coping mechanism, however nowadays he's gotten better with it.
7. He is not opposed to appearing feminine and has worn a dress for his wedding day.
8. He is sometimes prone to doing things that could be described either as "insane" or "masochistic", particularly when it comes to protecting his family or worrying about them.
9. He would extinguish the sun for Ziva.
10. Despite what it may seem like, he's not that easily lied to. Most of his trauma comes from blackmail.
11. He's written 5 diaries, most of which have 100 pages, though he's given up on writing entries by now.

## Art and References

Victor's outfit before coming to Oracle.The Ritual of Jack Tinkers.A sketch of Victor at 16 years old.Victor's default outfit.Victor's outfit after he joined the Aristocracy of Cavea.Victor's rare moment of peace.Victor's Cavean outfit.Victor's casual outfit after finding his newest home in a taiga.Victor, Pruine and Sharx living together out in the cruel cold of a taiga.Family portrait featuring Victor, Sharx, Pruine and Gwen.Victor's casual outfit, with glasses.Victor's outfit after beheading Mira.Victor's outfit after beheading Mira.Victor's wedding dress.Victor and Ziva's portrait.