User:Carnarvan/Machine Shop

This is where all my character planning happens.

Silas Karahalios

 * Single Papa
 * Greek Cypriot
 * Attended Beauxbatons
 * Met his wife, Candace at Beauxbatons
 * Candace is actually Greek
 * Were wed right after graduating and went to live on Cyprus
 * Nine months after the wedding they had their oldest (Merida)
 * Four years after them, they had their younger child (Jaye)
 * Eight year later, Candace dies
 * Murdered by Silas' crazy younger brother
 * Said younger brother (Midas), was locked in a mental institution
 * To get away from it all, Silas moved his family far, far away, to Scotland

Ivan Kazakov
 Ivan Kazakov's nickname could not be more ironic. "Medvezhonok" meaning bear cub in Russian. Ivan could not be less cub-like even if he tried. He practically bristles with anger and it sends a very clear message to everyone around him. "Leave me alone, or I'll rip you to pieces with my bare hands." He does not like people, thinking the majority of the ones he's met to be idiots. He's not personally racist, really, he could care less if someone is a werewolf or not. However, he's smart enough not to voice this thought around people, especially their close family friends, the Adairs.

Ivan is cold-blooded and malicious, only looking out for himself and his family at the end of the day. Everyone else is a merely a pawn to make his life and his families lives better, and it all comes back to money in the end. If he can get paid using his skills as a spy, assasin or even as a thief, he isn't going to care whether or not it hurts someone else. All that matter is himself and his family. Survival of the fittest, it's only way to make things better for yourself. No one has ever gotten ahead by thinking of others and Ivan's not foolish enough to think otherwise.

That being said... he does care about some people. His older twin sister and older sister. Yes, Ivan is technically the youngest child but that doesn't mean he can't protect his family, no matter the cost. He's firecely protective of his entire family, his mom, his dad, his sisters, ane even to some degree, his wife-to-be, Phyllis Adair. If she's going to be his family and the mother of any kids he has... he better damn well sure make sure she's safe. He doesn't love Phyllis, no, not even close, Ivan can't physically feel love, and it's very diffcult for him to even feel sexual attraction, but he will make sure she's safe.

There's a common perception about people like Ivan that it's just an act. It's not an act with Ivan. It's actually how he operates. He is that cold, he is that heartless and he really doesn't care about anyone except his parents, his sisters and Phyllis. No one else matters to him and no one else ever will, besides any kids that may come out of the marriage to Phyllis. No one. Family is everything. Period. End of sentence. Done.

Ivan Kazakov was born with the name Ivan Kazakov. Ivan's orignal name was Sevastian Aristarkhov, and he was born for the normal purpose of just having kids, nor was he an accident. No, Ivan was bred to be a super-soldier for the GRU, a Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.

Ivan's parents now called Kazak and Lizaveta Kazakov, were both agents for the GRU who had been arranged to marry due to keeping the bloodlines pure. Ivan is their youngest child, having an older twin and an even older sister who are named Yakaterina and Anzhelika Kazakova. However, he and his sisters are the product of an experiment, and were bred for the purposes of creating super-soldiers. Ivan in particular took to hand-to-hand combat and assasination, and because of that, his abilty to empathize or even sympathize with other people just plumetted.

He had no childhood and he had zero abilty to connect with people outside his family. His first magical sign was during a training exercise with a fellow trainee who can't have been older than 18. The GRU had them fighting on a roof at least 300 feet high and when he got knocked down, and the other agent almost beat him.. the agent flew back and lost his balance falling off the building to his death, 300 feet down.

That incident in particular scared the hell out of the GRU who started having concerns about the project, and three years later, they had finally had enough. They made plans to cancel the project and kill the Kazakovs. Ivan's older sister heard the plan, told their parents who made their own plans in return.

The Kazakov matriarch and patriarch made plans to fake their own deaths. Kazak blew up the family's small yacht and escaped with his family to England, cutting of all ties with the GRU. The family now wanted to become normalized into society, Kazak going to work for Borgin and Burkes and Lizaveta going to work for the Department of Mysteries. Both eventually became the heads of each, meanwhile after three years, the twins convinced their parents to let them attend Hogwarts like normal kids. Even though Ivan really has no plans on being normal.

You see, Ivan's plan is to cause as much mayhem at school as possible and to then capitalize off of it. You see, Ivan knows wha is coming for the wizarding world and he intends to make as much money as he possibly can by spying on fellow students for other students, or heck, maybe even roughing them up a bit to scare 'em off. Ivan doesn't care, long as he gets paid.