Alexei Petrov Durmstrang

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Alexei is surprisingly tall for a 13-year-old, standing at 5'7". He has light brown hair which he usually spends far too much time styling so that it looks effortless. He is muscularly built, and overall is rather physically intimidating to people his age. He has dark eyes that are constantly moving and never stop on one thing for very long.

Alexei is certainly special. He is bright, but lazy, meaning his grades are barely above average. He is also incredibly vain. Coming from a wealthy well-known pureblood family means that he has a certain confidence and air about him. He is extremely ambitious, with his personality aligning fairly closely to a Slytherin. He feels as though he has something to prove, and is completely dismissive and rude to people that he doesn't believe can help him further his goals. He would fight anyone who said this, but he is also extremely insecure. However, to hide his insecurity, he comes off as overly arrogant. His sisters were both Quidditch players during school, but Alexei isn't fond of the sport.

He also has a need to assert his dominance around other boys, which means he doesn't have many friends. He tries to flirt with pretty much every girl he considers pretty but just comes off as a jerk.

Alexei's childhood was fairly normal for a Pureblood. He has twin older sisters and 4 older brothers, Natalia is the eldest, she's currently finishing her last year of studying to become an alchemist. Her twin, Alia, is training to be a dragon master. His brothers are 2 sets of twins, Boris and Ivan, and Grigory and Yegor, respectively, that are all finishing up their last years at Durmstrang. Being the youngest means that he has a lot to live up to. He was also an unexpected child and grew up spoiled but lonely. All of his siblings were older and had someone that just seemed to get them. He never had that. Still, he had everything a child could ever want and his parents doted on their precious youngest. With so much to live up to, Alexei yearns to be exceptional.

His mother, Anastasia, and his father, Leo, definitely coddle him. While having the family he has means that he feels like he's living in a shadow, he is the apple of their eye, and he has a genuinely good relationship with them. His mother is a Healer, and his father has some fancy job that Alexei really doesn't understand.

Is he a Quidditch player?

No

Approved

Third year: 45 Stat points
Broom: Nimbus 1700 I have that in my trunk
Stamina: 10
Evasion: 9
Strength:13 [2 from statistically relevant]
Wisdom: 4 [1 from statistically relevant]
ArcPower: 4 [1 from statistically relevant]
Accuracy:9


Year 1 Charmer
Alexei is the youngest in a house of exceptional people. Anything that he can do, his siblings have already done and have likely done better. He knows that he will not be the best at magic or most likely anything else in his family. Not yet. This ambitious boy will not settle for mediocrity in the meantime. He has worked at being extremely charming when it benefits him. He does not use this skill much of the time, but when he does, he can convince anyone to do just about anything.

Every pureblood child has to have some level of lessons in etiquette and dealing with other people when they are young. This young Russian took things to the next level. From watching his parents and siblings interact with others to reading ever book there was on the topic to practicing catchphrases, Alexei managed to learn a lot about human interaction and more importantly, how to do it successfully. While he does not waste his charm on those he considers to be beneath him, it is something considerable when he is interacting with someone who he believes can benefit him in some way. Having observed so many different situations with his older siblings, he has gotten very good at pinpointing exactly what people want to hear, and saying it in a way that makes them somehow feel grateful or indebted to him

To those who dislike him, his charm seems obviously artificial and practiced and slimy and almost stiff. He doesn't much care what those people think. To those who he actually tries to charm, his charming ways seem polished and elegant. Especially with girls he's interested in. When he tries, he can seem like almost like a prince charming of sorts. He doesn't do this often as he is still figuring out the entire girl situation and even with his charm, girls are strange and unpredictable. Still, it has worked a fair amount of the time.

This is also how he has made the few friends he has. He has turned up the charm and told them what they wanted to hear. He is something of a loner, but does have a handful of loyal friends or goons or underlings. Whatever you wish to call them, he has charmed them into doing his bidding. By the time that he is able to rival his siblings in skill and accomplishments, he will have already charmed half of the people he has encountered and be able to pretty much take over the world.
WC: 422


Year 2 Statistically Relevant
+2 to strength
With six older siblings, four of which are brothers, Alexei has learned a plethora of random skills. For example, he can do a perfect Dutch fishtail braid because Natalia felt it necessary to teach him when he was seven. Another more noteworthy skill that he has developed due to his siblings is physical strength. He started running around to catch up with them so he could do whatever it was they were doing the moment he could walk, and has been running ever since. That combined with the fact that he has four older brothers who like to play fairly rough and make fun of Alexei for being "a spoiled pretty boy" means that Alexei has been running and doing pushups pretty much since he was a toddler. He is very physically fit and strong, not that he uses it in any constructive way like playing a sport.

Still, this pretty boy is strong due to his years of activity, and, not that he or anyone else knows it, could probably hold his own for a few seconds in a fight. Not that he would ever even consider doing anything to risk his lovely face, but he could. To him, the working out is just another area where he is behind his siblings and trying to catch up. As with everything else, his siblings are better than him, pushing him to work at it until he is better than all of them. It is not even a matter of him working towards a specific goal. Just him feeling insecure and needing to feel like he is on the same level as his siblings. Nothing he ever does ever feels good enough.

It's also nice for him to feel like he can physically run away from his problems. Not that it helps anything, but it's a good feeling to be able to run away from his family's shadow. A small part of him hopes that if he becomes fast enough and strong enough, maybe someday, he can run somewhere far enough to get away from behind everything his family comes with. Not that he necessarily wants to be fully detached from them and the benefits they come with. It just makes him feel a little better to think that he had the option.

And of course, his working out may have been affected by his brothers suggesting that girls might like him better if he had more impressive muscles. Seeing as he apparently has a terrible personality, he was willing to try anything...
WC:422

Year 3 Statistically Relevant
+1 to AP, +1 to Wisdom
Alexei was embarrassed by summer camp. He was punched more than once by boys smaller than him, and he failed spectacularly every time he attempted to use magic. While he may seem strong and intimidating, he is not and has never been one to resort to physical violence to resolve a conflict. Given his confident and somewhat aggressive nature, this may come as a surprise, but it is true. In any event, he does not particularly wish to have anyone attempt or succeed to punch him again - after all, what is he if not a pretty face?

So, he spent every remaining moment of summer when he got working on his spell and reading everything he could to become a better wizard. This intensified when he reached school, with him even occasionally opting to study instead of flirting with pretty girls. He absolutely can not stand mediocrity in general, especially not from himself. He strives to be the best in every area of his life, and his trip abroad showed him how woefully he was failing in this area.

His studies began to gradually pay off, with more spells succeeding, and his grades leaping from A's to O's. Still, he kept studying, taking on more extra credit, and practicing constantly. He would be lying if he said that the girls' reactions to the change in him were not a part of what was fuelling his obsession. Somehow, they seemed to like him better now that he was a bit unavailable and studious. He had also grown several inches and was working out more, but it was definitely his new more serious demeanor. He was certain of that.

His improvement continued, even as he began to focus a bit more on girls again. One girl in particular. She seemed to like his serious side, so his focus continued. Even as he focused on the girl more, his resolve stayed. He finally felt like he was getting it together. Like he was stepping out of his family's shadow that was cast over his entire life. He didn't love his older brothers teasing him for how serious they said he was and how he was "settling down" so young, but he was fairly happy. Who knew that the boy who always felt lesser than could actually be happy based on himself and his life? Certainly not him. Here's to hoping this change lasts... Whatever fate might have in store for him...
1.) Is your character a Broom Racer?: Yes
2.) Is your character a Quidditch Player?: No
3.) Is your character a Duelist? No