Nikandros Volkov
age 17 years old ----• • •---- gender Male ----• • •---- race Human
01. Personality
[ Loud & Temperamental ]
Finding Nik is never a difficult task. The boy is practically a walking megaphone. Nik talks pretty loudly; even his whispers are loud. It can be quite obnoxious, but after a while, people get used to it. Majority of the time Nik doesn't even realise that he's raising his voice, even though he has excellent hearing.
Nik isn't just loud in a literal sense, he's also loud in the sense that he can be pushy when it comes to his views. He's definitely not afraid of voicing out his opinions on things, even when he's in the minority. When he sees something is wrong, he says it. He also isn't afraid to call out someone's bullshit--though he doesn't always do this in the most pleasant ways and that has gotten into trouble many a times. Nik stands up for what he believes in. He makes sure that people know what his stand is--even if it can get him in trouble. For Nik, getting himself in trouble doesn't matter, so long as his message is delivered, then it's good enough for him.
Unfortunately, Nik is also a rather hot headed person. It does take much to rile up Nik. He loves to tease people, but when it's his turn to be teased, he gets upset pretty easily. Nik is easily ticked off even by the tiniest of things. He's very impulsive and would let his emotions take over his actions more often than not. This, and his bad temper, has led him to a couple of fights here and there in the past. It doesn't help that Nik has a bad habit of jumping to conclusions. He has a tendency to overlook the other side of things, especially when angered.
[ Loyal & Selfish ]
Sharing was never one of Nik's strong points; in fact, he strongly dislikes having to share what is his. He can be quite possessive of things and, sometimes, even people. What is his is his alone and he makes sure that people are well aware of this. Nik is always very hesitant to lend people anything he owns. He fears it may never return to him. Even simply touching his things without his permission ticks him off. Nik knows when his things are out of place by just the slightest.
Though he is rather selfish, Nik is also rather loyal. He doesn't trust many but those that he does consider to be his friends have his undying loyalty. For them, he would go through great lengths just to keep them happy and safe. They are the people he listens to the most. He supports them in whatever endeavour they decide to take and doesn't question their decisions--no matter how dodgy it may seem. Nik simply trusts that they would do the right thing. The only time that he would doubt his friends would be when they insist that he do something against his moral code. He knows that a true friend would never force him to do something he doesn't wish to do. Once that seed of doubt has been planted, it's quite hard and almost impossible for the person to regain Nik's full trust.
[ Dauntless & Aggressive ]
There aren't many things that Nik fears and, unlike most, death isn't one of them. Nik isn't afraid of dying, which greatly explains why he has reckless tendencies. He often charges into a battle head on with his only plan being "Don't die." He may not fear death, but that doesn't mean he longs for it. Still, he is very aggressive and nearly jumps at every opportunity at a battle, specially one against Grimm.
Though Nik is quite violent and aggressive, he does have some semblance of self restraint. He wouldn't hit people just because he was angry and whatnot. He's a hot head, but he has morals as well. He knows that physically taking his anger out on others was just plain wrong. He does, however, tend to take it out on the next object that he spots nearby resulting in his notoriety for breaking things. However, when a person has done him or his loved ones wrong, then he doesn't hesitate to pick a fight with them.
As tough and scary (and psychopathic) as he may seem, Nik is actually afraid of bunnies. He flinches at the first sight of them. It was a fear he developed when he was still a kid and never grew out of. He swears that all bunnies are evil and are slowly working to take over the world. People find it funny how the idea of dying barely fazes him, but a little adorable fur-ball can send him cowering.
[ Competitive & Impatient ]
If there's anything that Nik hates more than people messing with his things, it'd be losing. Nik is a very competitive person and hates the idea of having to retreat from a battle. It may be a wise decision at times, but to Nik, it's like admitting defeat. Losing can put him in a sour mood for up until a whole week. A loss is something he never forgets.
The act of waiting is another thing he hates. Long queues annoy him greatly. Nik is the type of person who easily gets bored. He constantly wants to be doing something fun and exciting. There may be a ton of things that he needs to do, but if they all bore him, he'll push them away try to find something else to do. He's a procrastinator when it comes to things he finds boring and unworthy of his time and effort. Nik is quick to lose interest in things. Growing up, he received tons of video games as gifts. He enjoyed most of them to the point of playing them everyday, but after a month or so he gets bored of them. There are only a handful of games that he's finished in his collection.
02. History
The bastard son of William Volkov; Nik was conceived before his father was wed to his current wife, Anastasia. His mother, Julia Elwyn, raised him for eight years before passing away. Prior to her death, both mother and son had been in contact with Nik's father. William had contacted Julia with the intention of apologising to her for how things ended between them; he was completely unaware that they had a son together. It was only when the two decided to meet and catch up did Julia tell him about Nik. Naturally, William wished to visit his son and being the kindhearted person that she was, Julia granted his wishes. That was how Nik met his father. William visited him and his mother every other day for a month or so before Julia died. The authorities labelled her death as an accident, and no one questioned it.
Upon his mother's death, Nik was taken by his father and started living under their roof. It was then he met his pregnant step mother, Anastasia. From the first meeting alone, Nik already knew that the woman was no good. In front of her husband, her attitude towards Nik was all hugs and smiles, but when he was away, she was the evil stepmother. Anastasia hated Nik, he was the living reminder that William loved--and still loves--his ex-girlfriend Julia. Of course, Nik didn't know about this as a kid. He wondered why Anastasia hated him so much despite being a good kid as he remembers. She never beat him up, but her attitude towards him was horrible. Nik tried telling his father once, but before he could, Anastasia threatened him, saying that William would never believe him over her. Being the little boy that he was, Nik easily believed her lie and never told his father.
A month after he arrived, Anastasia gave birth to a young baby boy named Devon. Anastasia spoiled his baby boy while she continued to treat Nik like dirt. This unfair treatment continued to slip by his father whose presence at home was barely there due to his work. Looking back, Nik found it amazing how his father had managed to visit constantly the month before his mother died. Two years later, Nik had grown sick of being in a house where people hated him--or at least, Anastasia did. The staff in the house were merely ordered by the she-devil to ignore him and pretend he didn't exist. Nik didn't find them at fault at first, and couldn't find it in himself to blame them, but within the span of the year he started to think that they were partially at fault for how miserable he felt. Anyone of the maids could've reported to his father about what their mistress was doing, yet they didn't.
The thought that he wasn't wanted at home was implanted into his head. The only times when he felt wanted and loved where when his father was around. William couldn't be home much, but when he was he made it a point to spend it all with his son. This only triggered Anastasia to be more resentful of Nik. She started implanting the idea of Nik being the one to blame for his father's absence at home. The thought festered in his mind till he started to believe it. Not knowing any better, he decided to ran away from home while his father was away on a trip. He thought that maybe they'd all be better off without him there. Nik left a note on his bed addressed to his father, telling him why he was leaving.
The note never reached William, Anastasia made sure of it. She instead told him that Nik was simply an ungrateful child. But William loved his son, and he did everything he could to search for his little boy. Finding Nik proved to be harder than anticipated. For a solid year and a half, Nik miraculously managed to be left unfound. Anastasia had a part of it, she made certain that Nik was hard to find, covering up his traces for him. William was oblivious to this, he didn't even stop to think about anything else apart from his finding his son. It was admirable how William never gave up looking for him despite how long he'd been missing. The hatred that Anastasia felt for the boy grew even more thanks to this.
Nik had left with little money which only lasted him a month. He tried to find a job, but no one would hire a fraile little boy. Instead, Nik resorted to thievery. It was then Nik learned the harshness of reality. One day, as he was trying to steal some food to feed himself, he nearly got caught. A faunus with a wolf's tail helped him out by leading him to a safe spot as hey were chased by the shop owner. Nik later learned that his was name was Kole and was roughly a five years older than him. Nik was originally apprehensive of him, due to him being a faunus, but Kole kept popping up everywhere he was. He quickly became his friend and partner in crime--literally. Kole was friendly and mischievous, it wasn't hard to befriend him. His friendship with Kole made him question why people discriminated against faunus so greatly.
During his time with Kole, Nik learned how to fight with his hands, how to stand up to himself. He felt like a new person. Gone was the Nik who let people walk over him, who let people threatened him. He felt reborn and he loved it. It was amazing how much he changed in the short span of time they've been together. Unfortunately, he may have gotten a bit too courageous. He was so eager to fight anyone who insulted them and most especially, anyone who insulted Kole for being a faunus. This has resulted in them getting into quite a number of scruffs on almost on a daily basis.
Alas, his time with Kole didn't last forever. Their petty crime duo was broken when they finally got caught. It was meant to be a simple job, their usual 'get food and go' that they do each day, but it ended up greatly different from what the expected. No one was supposed to die, and yet, someone did. Nik doesn't recall the details, all he knows is that as they were escaping, he heard a gunshot and his friend's scream. The next thing he knew, Kole was lying in a pool of his own blood--dead. Nik was taken by the authoroties and it was then that his father finally found him.
He was devastated. He refused to come out of his room for weeks. The closest friend--no, the best, friend he ever had was now dead. Nik couldn't help but blame himself. If he did something, if things were done differently, if he didn't leave home in the first place, then Kole might still be alive.
After several weeks of mourning and locking himself in his room, Nik finally went back to living his life. Anastasia's attitude towards him didn't change, but now, Nik didn't let the bitch get to him. He still didn't tell William about Anastasia's attitude towards him though; he believed that his father loved the royal bitchiness and didn't want to spoil it for him just for his selfish reasons. He played with his younger half-brother a lot; the kid actually adores him. Although Nik hates his mother, he had no reason to hate the child. His dad started making sure to balance his time between work and home. He would make sure that his weekends were free to spend time with his two sons. Life was starting to look better for Nik.
When he reached fourteen, a question started to plague his mind: what did he want to do in life? The question was sparked by his father. During on of their father son outings, William had asked Nik what he aspired to be. Nik couldn't answer the question at the time. Being the kind man that he is, his father reassured him that it was fine, that he was still young and had time to think about it. Nik started looking up what he could do. Nothing seemed to appeal to him until he came across The Academy. Nik has already heard about The Academy, but he looked more into it and the more it did, the more and more appealing it became to him. Eventually, he decided that this was it, this was what he wanted to do.
03. Weaponry
Nik has two weapons at his disposal: Devourer and Lupus Anima.
[ Lupus Anima ]
A finger-less glove worn on his right hand. It's embedded with four diamond shaped knuckledusters. At the centre of glove's backhand is a circular dust compartment with six slots. Each knuckleduster is linked to the topmost chamber in the dust compartment for dust dispersal. The dust exits through a pinhole at the front of the knuckleduster, this gives Nik's punches added effect from the dust.
The following are the dusts which is loaded into Lupus Anima's compartment and their respective effects to the target:
- Wind - Emits a gust of wind upon punching a surface. Used mostly to propel himself off a surface. Nik is able to use it both defensively and offensively. He's able to propel himself out of danger, at the same time he can use the acceleration he gets from the propulsion to hit his target harder.
- Fire - Burns the target on contact. If Nik hits hard enough, he is able to cause an explosion. Although it is able to do great damage to his target, he may also sustain damage from the explosion due to how close he is upon causing it.
- Ice - Freezes the target area. Due to the nature of the weapon, Nik is unable to freeze huge targets in one hit, but he is able to freeze smaller parts of a target, such as their limbs, to render that part immobile. Punching the ground, or any flat surface, allows him to create a thin sheet of ice over it.
- Lightning - Shocks the target which may cause temporary paralysis. The only dust in his arsenal whose effects remain the same regardless of how hard he hits his target; hitting harder will not make it more likely to paralyse his target.
- Steam - Releases a fog of steam in the nearby surrounding area of the punch. Hitting harder causes more steam to be released. This steam fog allows him to move stealthly and confuse the enemy. It also gives him the opportunity to make quick and stealthy escape.
- Gravity - Gives his punches an added force making them two times heavier and stronger. Although Nik considers gravity to be his most powerful dust, he does not use it very often and especially not in continuous succession. Due to the pull his hand receives from the use of it, it can dislocate his arm--something that Nik has learned the hard way.
[ Devourer ]
Devourer is a chainsaw sword (chainsword) that Nik wields primarily with his left hand. On its hilt is a lightning crystal which serves as the source of power for the chainsword as opposed to the use gas.
It features an inactive mode which Nik calls its sheathed mode. During this mode, the chainsword shows no signs of it being a chainsword. The edges are blunt making it seem more of a paddle than a sword. It is these blunt edges that make the sword safe to carry around, usually holstered on Nik's left side. Although its edges aren't sharp, Nik can still use Devourer to fight with even in this mode. Striking hard enough can still leave an opponent staggering and even break a few bones.
From sheathed mode, the edges retract to the middle to reveal the chainsword that lays inside. This is Devourer's active mode. Unlike a regular chainsaw, the chainsword is lighter and can be wielded with one hand.
On the handle is a trigger, holding it down activates the chainsword. The moment Nik releases his hold on the handle, the chainsword stops spinning. Switching between sheathed and chainsword is also done through this trigger. Pressing the trigger twice in rapid succession switches whatever mode Devourer was in into the other.
04. Aura & Semblance
[ Rapid Cellular Regeneration / Healing Factor ]
Nik's semblance allows him to regenerate cells in his body faster than normal. This enables him to heal minor wounds, such as cuts, bruises and light burns, faster. Reproducing blood cells can be hastened thus allowing him to be able to recover from minor blood loss. Unfortunately. Nik's semblance is limited only to himself; he cannot heal anyone else but himself. The bigger the wound is trying to heal, the more energy and aura is drained from him.
Although he can regenerate cells, there are still limitations to the extent he can heal. For one, he is unable to reattach or regrow a dismembered limb. He can't heal fatal wounds completely, such as damage to internal organs and the nervous system, but he can close up any wounds to prevent further blood loss. Lastly, Nik is unable to heal fatally damaged cells such as in the case of a severe burn.
Unlike comic book characters, such as Wolverine, Nik's regeneration isn't automatically done by his body. Nik has to concentrate on the wound he wishes to heal for it to work. His aura, light grey in colour (timberwolf), surrounds the wound which he is healing. This makes it harder for him to heal himself in the midst of a battle. It should also be noted that while the cell regeneration process is faster, it is not instantaneous. The bigger the damage / the more cells that need to be regenerated, the longer the healing will take. Nik is unable to heal multiple wounds at once, thus, he prioritises the wounds that are most severe which he is capable of healing.
( inspiation / reference:
Regenerative Healing Factor )
05. Others
[ Dogs ]
Nik loves dogs. He can easily get distracted by one. When he's in a sour mood, or one of his fits, playing with a dog makes him forget what it was that he was mad or upset about. Nik has a rather goofy smile around these animals. They simply bring him great joy.
While he loves just about every dog out there, his favourite dog would always be his pet corgi, Helios. Helios has been with him since he was fourteen. His father got him a dog in hopes it would help him cheer up after the loss of his friend. At first, Nik hated the dog and he was mad at his father for giving it to him. He felt as if his father thought that a dog would be able to replace the friend he lost. After a while though, he eventually warmed up to the pup and now he loves him to bits.
Helios has orange fur, quite similar to a painting that his mother made. It was a picture of an orange corgi playing with a blue ball. The painting had always been Nik's favourite and was hung on the corridor wall leading to his room. Nik remembers showing it to his father when he was younger and telling him how it was his favourite out of his mom's works. Looking back, Nik thinks that Helios having an orange fur was no mere coincidence. He has no doubt that his father had specifically chosen the dog for him because he remembered the painting that little Nik excitedly showed and told him about. It made Nik love both Helios and his father even more.
[ View on Faunus ]
Faunus used to scare him. As a little kid, he thought they would gobble him up. He was six when his little fear turned into something completely different. Influenced by his playmates and neighbours, Nik started to think lowly of them as well. He wasn't exactly sure why he easily accepted the view of others so easily. Meeting a befriending Kole changed turned his opinion a complete 180 degrees. He started to see that faunus weren't as bad as people made out to be.
[ Not-so-important Details ]
• Nik's dominant hand is his left.
• A fan of graffiti art; he dabbles in it every now and then (
story).
• He loves to eat meat. When it comes to his steak, his preference is medium raw.
[ Playlist ]
Emperor's New Clothes - Panic! At the Disco
Crazy = Genius - Panic! At the Disco
06. Appearance

Nik has grey, somewhat messy, short hair. He likes to keep it short so that it stays out of his way. His eyebrows are thick on end and thin out on the other making them look sharp and 'angry' as some would say. Nik's eyes are sharp and of a golden colour. A mischievous smile sits on his face most of the time--exceptions would be when he's angered or in a bad mood. His smile is really the only thing that people can rely on to accurately tell the mood he's in. His eyes and eyebrows simply make it seem like he's mad all the time. He's quite tall, standing at a height of 6'2" and still growing. He weights about 158 lbs, not too skinny, but not too fat either.
Both of his ears are pierced; on his left, he wears a simple silver hoop earring, and on his right are two silver studs. Nik can usually be found wearing his black leather jacket. His style is casual but at the same time somewhat edgy. From time to time, Nik likes to wear a white hooded jacket with wolf ears attached to it. Wearing it with his hood up in public often causes whispering and incredulous looks among the people who sees him, but Nik doesn't really give a fuck. It's his way of showing that he doesn't share the opinion of the public when it came to faunus.
timberwolf - #DBD7D2 ; purple colour - 76697b
| Female | Human
