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Name: Luka Michel Nikitin
Residence/Hometown: New York City
Age/Birthday: 18, March 15, 1994. Mom likes to make it a joke that her precious was born on the Ides of March. It was an ominous beginning.
Gender/Sexuality: Male. Might be bisexual. He doesn't particularly care to find out.
PB: Michael Legge
Any notable differences from the pb? Luka slumps around 5'11", he's actually closer to 6'1" tall. Has a tantalizing dimple when he smiles or smirks. Has a pretty bad burn scar down the back of his left leg from when he pulled a boiling pan down from the stove top.
He likes to wear plain tees under button down shirts. He spends most of the summer in a ribbed white tank and Hawaiian shirt. He refuses to buy pre-distressed jeans; it doesn't take him long to get good looking wear on the ones he gets for himself; he uses his allowance to buy custom fitted jeans from a tailor. He has one pair of good black shoes that he only wears for band concerts, otherwise he's wearing his scuffed up shit-kickers.
Luka got a tattoo on his sixteenth birthday at Hawthorne's insistence and his father's reluctant permission (taking them to a parlor in NYC). It's a matching tattoo with his cousin Thorn, something they designed themselves and is located on his upper left arm. It's a T-Rex with a banner above that reads: "Dinosaur Motor Club" and one beneath that reads: "New York City." He got a second tattoo on his seventeenth birthday: a cuff around his upper right arm that says "Easy Come, Easy Go" in Russian.
School/Magic Stuff
Wand: 13 inches. Inflexible. Pine. Clabbert horn.
House and Year: Clemons, Senior.
Schedule: Junior year: Magical crafting, advanced potions I, ritual magic, spell theory, advanced herbology I, advanced care of magical creatures I.
Strongest subject in school: Potions and magical crafting
Weakest subject in school: History of magic
Extracurricular activities: He plays the drums in the school orchestra. He's really good at quodpot and plays on his house team, but he's missed so many practices that he's often on the bench as punishment.
Boggart and Riddikulus: His boggart is a pair of eyes staring through a window. His riddikulus is to pull the curtains.
Amortentia smells like: Bananas, fresh cut grass, clean laundry.
Patronus: A Lipizzan horse. A classic and rare breed.
Animagus Form: N/A
Family/Relationships
Immediate Family Dmitri Nikitin, father; Chloe Villeneuve, mother. An elder sister Elena.
His family is half-Russian, quarter-French, quarter-Canadian. His father was born in Russia, his mother a second generation Canadian (Quebec). He took an early interest in learning French when he heard his mother and sister speaking it, from that point forward his mother taught him to speak it and what she could of her culture. He learned to speak Russian from his father, but he didn't learn very much culture from him.
Familiar: A daschund he named Marco.
Any other relations we should know about: Attached at the hip to his cousin Hawthorne. Has two other cousins, Nikolai and Xavier.
Significant Others: Was involved with Rosa, but it was strictly physical. He's currently dating Adelaide, but neither of them can quite figure out what their relationship really is. He might take an interest in Steven Suzuki in the future. Definitely had casual sex with one of the Evans twins.
Friends: Rosa Cordozo Rios, Leland Sykes, Violet and Scarlet Evans, Ryder Balston, Arnaud Powell (his roommate), Cinna Thompson.
Enemies: Doesn't get along very well with Abernathy Ford. Dislikes Riley Bloodfeather.
Personality
Likes: Smoking jackets.
Dislikes: Difficult women.
Quirks: - Never has his own lighter, has to bum a light frequently.
- He's quite good at Wizard's Chess, but he hates it when people know this and challenge him to play.
- Trilingual. He speaks Russian, French, and English fluently. Mostly he speaks English, he just swears in Russian and converses with his mother's parents in French.
- Loves cheese. Almost an inappropriate amount.
- Bit of a gamer. Really into first person shooters.
Secrets: - Listens to jazz music in secret because he knows Thorn will say it's not punk rock enough.
Strengths: Friendly and fun to be around.
Weaknesses: Has a tendency to not give a fuck about anything.
Detailed personality: He inherited his father's laziness and foul mouth, but his mother's good natured attitude. Luka is tremendously easy-going. He gets along with most people and is very sociable. Something of a homebody; Luka prefers to stay in and hang out than go someplace else.
When he does apply himself Luka succeeds, but the trick is getting him to apply himself. When he's focused on a task he devotes his entire attention to it and sees it through, rare though it is. When he makes up his mind about something (or someone) he doesn't often change it.
He's relatively smart, though again it's a problem of not applying himself. He's made his teachers nervous by opting to take three advanced classes in his sixth year.
Luka is kind of a monster, even when he's trying to be good (make that: especially when he's trying to be good). He can't seem to help it. He's truly earned the nickname Hurricane Luka. This effect seems to get worse when Thorny is around.
Personal History: Luka decided early on that he was going to be the one thing that didn't quite belong.
Early on it was clear that he was going to be daddy's boy. He was into everything but he had that charming little dimple and those baby blue eyes to get him out of trouble.
One summer at his uncle's house Luka fed skelegro to one of the munchkin cats, thinking that the cat's legs were too short and it just needed a little help. His uncle would have sent Luka home, but the little boy broke out his big, sad, blue eyes and pouted his way into staying on the condition that he would leave the cats alone.
When it came time to pick a school Luka decided he preferred one closer to home, even though both of his parents were alumni of other schools (his father attended Pacific Coast, his mother L'Ecole Royal). He also figured he could forge his own path and not rely on their reputations. He chose a school in the Northeast: Dresden Academy.
Luka took up smoking as a social habit more than anything else. It affords him hang out time with Manney and managed to get him other friends at school. He almost never has a lighter on hand.
He doesn't have any solid plans for after school. He has a strong interest in magical crafting, but he's not sure how he could establish himself or who he would apprentice with.
Other Stuff:
One thing he/she can't live without: A ball pein hammer. And no, he won't tell me why.
Hulett's Landing, New York
Luka M. Nikitin
Senior