NIKOLAYEV, yuri

[yuri]

despite the lies that you're making
YURI NIKOLAYEV
your love is mine for the taking
•••


we're all hiding something, aren't we?
from the moment we wake, look in that little mirror,
all we do is spin our little lies.

my love is just waiting
THE BASICS
to turn your tears to roses
•••

FULL NAME|| yuri nikolayev;
NICKNAME(S)|| none;
AGE|| twelve;
GROUP|| alchemist;
NATIONALITY|| drachman;
OCCUPATION|| none;
CANON OR ORIGINAL|| original;

ALCHEMIST?|| yes;
ABILITIES/TECHNIQUES||

yuri is just an average alchemist. when he was younger, he studied the form of alchemy widely known in amestris, however, when he was nine he gave it up. at age eleven, he began to learn about alkahestry instead and it is now the only form of alchemy that he will use. like other practitioners of alkahestry, yuri is able to read the flow of the dragon's pulse to an extent, he has not completely mastered this.

i will be the one that's gonna hold you
THE APPEARENCE
i will be the one that you run to
•••

HAIR|| white-gray;
EYES|| steel blue;
HEIGHT/WEIGHT|| five feet tall and seventy four pounds;
GENERAL DESCRIPTION||

yuri is about average in height for his age, if a little short and somewhat on the thin side. most of the time, he wears this outfit. it is little more than a long black coat that extends to his knees, with a hood and multiple zippers. with this, yuri wears black gloves, boots, and gray pants. underneath is a gray long-sleeved shirt. on other occasions, he wears a brown peacoat over these clothes, with white gloves;

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES|| yuri has a tattoo above and below his left eye. his left arm is covered in burn scars;

my love is a burning, consuming fire
THE PERSONALITY
no you'll never be alone
•••

LIKES||
• snow;
• friendship;
• peace;
• most foods;
• honesty;
DISLIKES||
• animals;
• fire;
• crowds;
• killing;
• dry weather;
GENERAL PERSONALITY||

yuri has a timid demeanor, he is shy, lacking in self confidence, and a lot of the time he is rather easily frightened. he's actually a pretty kind person, but when he gets nervous, he gets awkward... like really, quirky awkward... so it makes it more difficult for people to get to know him and vice versa.

even though he doesn't have much, the preteen is usually rather generous with what he does have. when it comes to others, yuri can be much like a naive kid, very trusting of people and the promises they make. while yuri doesn't exactly have many friends, loyalty is just a part of his character, it's how he is. so when he does have people that he's close to or who he trusts, they can count on him to remain loyal to them.

the burn scars on yuri's left arm are a burden on him, they force him into feeling intensely uncomfortable around others which is why he hides his arm beneath clothing and gloves.

when darkness comes i'll light the night with stars
THE HISTORY
hear my whispers in the dark
•••

PARENTS|| both dead;
SIBLINGS|| none;
OTHER FAMILY|| none;
SPOUSE|| none;
CHILDREN|| none;
HISTORY||

yuri was born to two drachman parents, both native to the country in which they lived. a cold country that is best known for its frequent skirmishes with amestris to the south. their family house stood in one of the southernmost towns in drachma, where even from that distance, the great wall of briggs could always be seen looming far off along the intimidating border.

life was... well, ordinary. yuri's mother was a casual practitioner of alchemy, so it was through her that the young boy began to receive his first lessons. it was like a little hobby they shared, nothing serious ever came of it and they only did the simplest of things for the most part. yuri quickly grew to love the art though, he had more of a passion for it, he wanted it to be more than just some insignificant hobby.

he thought that if he practiced more, became really skilled at it, then maybe he could do something with it... something important, weren't there people in the world who used alchemy for good things like helping people? that was what he wanted to do. it was the whole reason why yuri began to study alchemy further, even when his mother wasn't around. and then, he planned on showing her and his father just how much he had improved on his own.

there soon came a night when the boy was nine, when he sought to prove what he wanted to his parents, he thought he was ready. what should have been a harmless transmutation in the living room turned into something awful... an explosion was set off, he must have mixed the elements wrong in some way... in the end, the fire in the house went out of control, yuri's arm was badly wounded in the process, and his parents, they didn't... yuri was the only survivor rescued from the building.

the other burns scorched onto the boy's body eventually healed in time, they had only been minor burns, it was his severely burned arm that was never able to heal fully. all down his arm and over his hand are contracture scars, the skin so tight at his fingers that he'll never regain full functionality in his left hand. after all that, losing his parents, his home, yuri vowed never to use alchemy again.

that way of thinking held strong within him for two years. that is, until he met a traveler from xing at the age of eleven. at that point, it had become more common for people to run into citizens of xing, although for yuri this was indeed the first man from xing he had ever met. he told him about alkahestry, how it was different from the alchemy that yuri had known and practiced. the man even told him about its applications for healing. the drachman boy was intrigued, he decided that he wanted to learn more about alkahestry.

the first thing yuri learned about was the dragon's pulse, he had to become decent at reading its flow before he could begin with alkahestry. for a year he practiced with his teacher, surprisingly, the boy was better at alkahestry than he had ever been when it came to alchemy. it would have been nice if yuri had been given more time to learn from the man from xing, but the traveler moved on to other places and that was where the boy's training ended.

my love is just waiting
THE ROLEPLAYER
to clothe you in crimson roses
•••

ALIAS|| stark;
CONTACT INFO|| pm;
HOW DID YOU FIND US|| already here;
ANYTHING ELSE|| nope;
RP SAMPLE||

The swing was like this mystical object of a plaything. Selim was drawn to it. Always did he desire to play games and have fun, it was almost a constant thing, as if he never ran out of energy. But his mother, she did run out of energy a lot, she could hardly keep up with him whenever he ran anywhere now… it had to be because she was an adult! Then again, it was hardly as though the young boy knew whether or not it would be any different with someone younger… he’d never even had a friend before who was his own age, or at least close to it. There were no other kids that he truly knew.

This swing was sort of low to the ground, which meant that it was near enough to it that even Selim’s feet could touch down against the patch of dirt comfortably. He sat on the seat of the swing. ”I wanna try by myself. I think I can do it,” mostly all of the other times he had gotten onto a swing, it had been his mother who had pushed him until he was swinging perfectly back and forth, this time however, it was on his own that Selim wanted to attempt it.

The swing started off slow, he rocked back and forth unsteadily for a few uncertain moments before finally gaining momentum. At that point, Selim could feel the swing beginning to steady, he knew that he could do it! ”Look, look! I’m swinging high!” it felt high to the child at least. In reality, he couldn’t have been any more than two feet off the ground at the maximum point he was swinging at.

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Our first Drachman! I'm excited to see one that doesn't necessarily have that cold-hearted, rough and tumble persona that we sort of assumed (being that you don't see much of them). It's also nice to see some young alchemists alkahestrians in the mix. I really liked his history! He was young, yet you gave us plenty to understand him with. And what a history! That poor boy is welcome to come to Central; I'm sure he'd be pampered by all the lovely mothers (*cough*minna*cough*). I look forward to his threads and maybe even eventually seeing what happens when word gets out that he's a Drachman? Interesting, indeed! Glad to see another character, Stark! ^_^