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Character Name(s): Nikolaos Aristedes
Nicknames/Aliases: Nik
Gender: Male
Race: Shadow Demon
Character Age: 148
Date of Birth: October 30th
Physical Description:
Height: 6'1
Hair: Dark brown, often shaved
Eyes: Black
Build: Medium, toned
Distinguishing marks: Large batlike black wings, claws, long forked tongue. Scarring on upper back that nearly comes up over his shoulder. Various smaller scars on his hands, arms and legs.
PB: Wenthworth Miller

General Info

Personality: Despite his rather friendly seeming features Nik is anything but. He hides a cruel sadistic personality beneath the guise of a personable man with kind eyes. Nik is domineering, controlling and above all is determined to get his way no matter what he has to do to ensure he gets it. He takes no prisoners and does not blink an eye to making others scream. In fact he rather enjoys it like any true demon should. Though he is rather selfish and tends to himself first he does have high regard for his bloodline and holds heavy respect for all those in power.

Even the crazy fuck of a grandfather.

He has a rather high superiority complex, believing demons are above all others, especially those of his brood or those allied with them. Calculating, manipulative, and more then willing to backstab. Nik enjoys facing his attackers face to face but there is a certain thrill in taking another down before they even truly realized what has happened. Though he believes most others lesser then him he does enjoy play and indulges in it often with anything or anyone that catches his attention.

Though despite that habit of his to indulge in all the pleasures of the world Nik does have the capability to be rather calm, collect, and fierce just like his father. There are many traits the two share…however one they certainly do not share is that capability to love. Or at least love one not of demon blood. Nik is not quite as “human domesticated" as his father.
Family: Father; Mikkos (

from_the_beast), Mother; Alexis, Grandfather; Haimon, Cousin; Dorian (

dust_and_shadow)
Birth Location: Hell

Misc

Race and Personal Weaknesses: Cold, Spine and Head trauma, Holy objects, Direct sunlight/bright lights can weaken him, cause him pain, and even blind him. Has a weakness for the many deadly sins in life.
Magical Abilities: Shadow manipulation; able to create creatures from both to use as attack or defense however how large the creature is limits how many he can make. Ability to bend shadows around himself.
Skills and Training: Increased speed and strength. Increased healing. Immunity to most human illnesses. Well trained in various forms of weapons and fighting. Has a very high tolerance to pain, his mother made sure of that.
Job: Punisher for the family, gambling.
Residence: Hotel for now
AIM Name: I Own Your Pain

Background

Personal Background: Born in hell's depths Nikolaos was the first, and only, son to Mikkos and Alexis Aristedes. His mother was never the sort of woman that wanted hordes of children to care for. In fact she'd had little desire for even one but knew her obligation as wife to one of the Aristedes clan. She was surprised actually by how she took to the boy...perhaps it was that rather cruel streak he showed even in such young years. Or perhaps buried deep within was actually some sort of maternal instinct...likely it was far more the latter option then not. Nik grew up in a world where from day one you knew your place. Young but he easily came to grasp the importance of place and power.

When other demon children were near they were shoved down, growled reminders of knowing their place spoken and should they forget or not wish to follow such words...Nik made them. Strong beyond his years Nik never once backed down from any challenge issued, not even if it came from those far older or stronger then he. He was his father’s son, strong, determined, and forceful. He was taught all the ways in which to fight, to excel, to move forward quickly within the ranks of their clan. It was not simply brute strength that was important, no all found education. They were to grow up to be something to be proud of...and if not they would not live long at all.

Though trained heavily by his father it was his mother that truly sank her claws into Nikolaos. From the shadows she taught him the ways of secrecy and subtle manipulation. Woman were treated as second class with the Aristedes men, never truly believed to be able to stand toe to toe. The wise woman learned how to manipulate and trick. How to twist all situations to their advantage. Nik was taught these same tactics. Not only stealth but cruelty. His mother had a true...knack for causing pain to others. A skill set that she eagerly passed onto her only child.

Skills that Nik used to his every advantage. Pairing all his teachings together to again and again prove his strength and place to the group.

These skills were put to the test time and time again. The family has many enemies, many of which often hold important information that the family would simply love to have. Nik aided in…convincing others to talk. He was taught to be rather persuasive…

He made his mother proud.

Life was a challenge within the family, constantly there were battles for place, for power, to prove that you even had right for life. Nik thrived within all of it. No amount of pain was near enough to keep him down; every challenge was met without hesitation. There was little time for play within all the work but Nik always somehow found means and time. Likely that task was made easier by his grandfather’s constant instance he find woman to play with. Nik knew why of course, all within the family had their role. But that part of his life, marriage, was a long ways off in Nik’s opinion.

Through the years Nik was focused heavily upon his task of simply surviving all that the young men of their clan were put through. But that training and challenges did not cloud him to the situations surrounding the family. Often his grandfather would pull him aside, ranting to him about the world above and how his worthless son still longed to be above ground. The tension within the family was always felt; he knew why his father hunted for others of their blood.

Yes Nik understood, he saw, as did his mother. The woman so eager to find better footing and place within the family, more then her husband gave her. When the years began to mount and Nik was no longer considered nothing but a child, his mother began to whisper words of how soon he'd take place as lead. The madness of his grandfather would soon eat him away and when the time was right he could shove his father aside and claim the family's power as his own. Nik indulged her words, her thoughts, her plans....but all the while he knew better.

He respected his father; despite all that he'd heard of his past he still respected him. He would never seek to overthrow him so deliberately. In truth, however, he knew it would take no such work. The power his father held he did not want, Nik could see it. If he wanted it, if he had the age to hold it, he knew his father would pawn it off on him just as he sought to place it upon another.

His cousin, Dorian. This Nik has no plans to allow to happen. The family would fall with such a spineless demon ruling it. A pathetic surface demon that could not even fathom the strength needed to rule. If he took place as leader they'd all soon find themselves licking the boots of their woman. Nik knows his fathers desire to be free of all of it but he can not sit idly by and watch the family power crumble. They had all worked too hard to gain such place in hell to throw it all away.

Especially to throw it away for something as pathetic as love for a vampire.

No Nik does not believe Dorian should ever take place as lead of the family but he does believe that the demon needs a bit of a reminder of just what family he belongs to and what that means. That he will aid his father in.

Originally Nik was not to join his father in his venture to the surface to find and capture Dorian. It was said that he was to stay within hell and continue his training. But at his mothers insistence his grandfather agreed. Both believed that Mikkos needed another within the family keeping eye on him. To ensure he didn’t….make the same mistakes of his past.

Nikolaos now has the task of joining his father on the surface, a place he has only been to a few times in his life. Of course he’ll do as his mother and grandfather wish. But Nik has plans to…explore a bit himself. To try to understand exactly what it is about the surface world that has his father so transfixed.

Plot Ties

Plot tie 1: Guards that have followed the pair to the surface.
Plot tie 2: Temporary playmates that don’t mind a bit of rough play.
Plot tie 3: Those he gambles with.
Plot tie 4: Someone he’s crossed paths with before on one of his few trips up to the surface before now.

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