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 ★ About ♚ NAME: Mikhail ♚ CANON: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 ♚ AGE: 500, looks around 24 ♚ SPECIES: Blade Eater (half human, half Blade) ★ First Impressions ♚ VISUAL: Roughly around 6 ft 4 in tall. Blonde hair that's swept back with an untamed fringe hanging over the right side of his face cuz he probably thinks it looks cool, bright blue eyes, and red/black armor that looks like it came out of Final Fantasy. He has a glowing blue crystal embedded in his chest, but it would be easy to assume it's just part of his outfit. ♚ FASHION: Tetsuya Nomura armor??? ♚ DEMEANOR: Playful, cocky, smug, extremely punchable. He's outgoing and loves talking to women... a lot... but he does have the capacity to shut up and be serious. It just doesn't happen terribly often. Sometimes he'll say surprisingly cynical shit out of nowhere but overall he's a fucking peacock. ♚ SOUND: voiced by Todd Kramer. here's a cutscene. he sounds like a tool tbh ♚ SCENT: too much cologne. he's meticulous about his hygiene though. ♚ MENTAL INFORMATION: he's lived for around 500 years so maybe that might've messed him up somewhere in the head? Mik's a misanthrope and likely has some PTSD from his childhood but he still has the capacity to grow and change, so he's not entirely hopeless. ♚ MAGICAL INFORMATION: Mikhail is a Blade Eater; he's a human who had a Core Crystal infused into his body, which grants him all the powers of a Blade plus a very slow-aging body. As a Blade Eater, he has the unique ability to distort gravity through his control over dark elemental ether. He can also form an affinity link with anyone who has the aptitude to be a Driver. ★ OOC ♚ BACKTAGGING: I'll usually backtag up to 2 or 3 months, or longer if it's something important to plot or character development. For memes/psls I'll backtag indefinitely as long as the other person is interested. Please poke me if you think I missed a tag, I promise I won't be bothered. ♚ FOURTHWALLING: Meta jokes in brackets are totally fine, but pls no trying to 4th wall Mik! ♚ PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Y e s . Mik is likely to get up in womens' personal space. With dudes he'll be a bit less enthusiastic but he's pretty much open to sidling up to anyone. ♚ PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Hahaha please feel free to fight him anytime, his body is sturdy and he deserves to be smacked. He claims he doesn't hit women, but that standard seems to be very loose since he shows no qualms about hurting Nia and Mòrag. ♚ RELATIONSHIPS: as far as castmates go I won't ship him with Patroka, Jin, Malos, or any of the main party members (with a huge exception for Zeke, which is my fave ship for Mik). This stuff is meant more for memes/PSLs, I likely won't put him in a relationship with anyone in a game. Honestly, I'm not all that interested in writing ships with him anyway, though I'm open to talking about it. Mikhail flirts a lot but I try to make it clear in the prose/brackets that I'm not angling to ship. |
misc headcanons
- he taught Akhos how to cook. Patroka loves Akhos' cooking but says Mik's is shit.
- his aptitude with engineering and machinery is largely self-taught.
- loves reading (ancient wisdom field skill) and has extensive knowledge of salvaging (salvaging mastery field skill). there was a lot of salvaging equipment left aboard the Monoceros.
- basically he comes off as a vain dumbass but Mik's actually pretty sharp. he just acts like a complete tool all the time smh.
- very very good at holding his alcohol since his body metabolizes it differently from humans. don't challenge him to a drinking contest.
- his showers probably take like an hour long
- kind of a masochist?? ew
- Haze was with him when they were separated from Lora and Jin. Mikhail was brought in by the Indolines when he stopped running after Haze abruptly returned to her Core Crystal; Haze was confiscated, and Mikhail was rounded up with other refugees to be experimented on.
- after he escaped Indol, he went on the run alone for a while. at some point he met up with Minoth but Minoth reminded him too much of Amalthus, so Mikhail basically told him to go fuck himself when Minoth tried to help.
- Jin found him again about a year later. by then, Mikhail was already steeped in anger and hatred so he did nothing to reassure Jin or help him with his issues. thus, Jin spent much of his time sulking alone away from Mikhail, which is how Malos found him in that rainy alley.
- Mikhail never came to fully trust Malos, even after accepting his alliance and understanding that his behavior was influenced by Amalthus.
- in the end, he trusted Akhos and Patroka more than he trusted Jin. he still loved and looked up to Jin, but questioning the reasons for their rampage near the end of the game made him also question his faith in Jin's dogma.
- his upbeat facade is half sincere and half forced. one part of him peacocks because that's his way of coping, and the other part is genuinely an obnoxious bastard.
- he genuinely mourned Cressidus, but only for a couple days. Jin and Malos did emphasize that they'd all be dying either way, so Mikhail got over his loss pretty quickly.
- his drastically changed personality was largely influenced by the Blade that would have been awakened from the Core Crystal that was implanted into him. initially, the Blade fought against his consciousness but was quickly integrated into his person. this is why Mikhail speaks with an American accent when he spoke with a English accent as a child, and why he's a flirty playboy in the present day.