Nikolai
Name: Nikolai Dimitri Sokolov
Name Pronunciation: nee-koh-lie
Age: 19 years
Gender: male
Date of Birth: 19/6/1990
Species: human
Morph: Hyaenodon
Family: Boris (brother)
Relationship: Maude McGhie (partner)
Children: Kristoff (son), Ingrid (daughter), Minerva (daughter)
Likes: playing guitar, model trains, going to the gym (but not overboard once there),
Dislikes: his brother hanging around him all the time, hurting others, prawns
Human Eye Colour: brown
Hair Colour: dark brown
Hair Style: long and shaggy
Skin Colour: caucasian
Human Height: 5ft 8inches (172.72cm)
Fur Colour: dark tan with dark grey points and cream stripes on back and inner ear
Animal Eye Colour: light brown almost amber
Animal Height: 80cm
Gang Status: Rebels Ancient member
Distinct Features:
Personality/Background: Nikolai was born in Russia to rather wealthy parents who, when he was three, paid a hefty sum of money to give him the morph of a hyaenodon. Unfortunately, it was discovered that this was done illegally by his father, who bought two stolen serum vials (one for each son) off the black market. He claimed it was 'in the name of science', but the Russian police thought otherwise and he ended up in jail. This left Nikolai's mother to try and raise her two sons alone. To make things worse, both Nikolai and his older brother, Boris, were targeted by Russian scientists because of their morphs. In a bid to save her sons from torture, and upon insistence from their incarcerated father, Nikolai's mother moved her family to Australia a year later. Nikolai was four at the time.
Growing up in Australia was a lot easier for Nikolai than his brother due to his younger age. He still had a Russian accent, but it wasn't near as thick as his mother or brother. That meant that, as he grew up, people often came to him in order to better understand what his mother and brother were saying... which also got annoying through time. Even more annoying is the fact that older brother Boris seems to like hanging around Nikolai and his friends and mainly because of communication abilities. Nikolai, however, is more than happy to push his brother into making his own friends and keeping Boris away from his own.
Whenever Boris wasn't around, Nikolai was happy to play his guitar, his musical talent something that his mother had discovered a few years after arriving in Australia. And it was while he was practicing his guitar one day that Boris rudely interrupted him exclaiming that the two of them weren't alone. It took a little bit for Nikolai to understand what his brother was talking about, but then Boris explained that there were others who could transform into prehistoric animals. Thus Nikolai discovered that he was to join his brother in a meeting with the leaders of both the Rebels gang and the Rebels Ancients gang. After going through a relatively easy initiation, both of the Sokolov brothers found themselves as members of the Rebels Ancients.
Not long after joining the Rebels Ancients, Nikolai met fellow member Dakarai, an Atlas Bear who gained a human form and came to Australia through a world discovery program that his original school in his home country of the Isle of Dragons had organised. Dakarai was curious about the strange language he was hearing from the brothers and eventually got up the courage to ask Nikolai about it. It was from there that the two formed a friendship which grew to involve Boris as well. Nikolai also started teaching Dakarai the Russian language... with help from his mother, who was more than glad to help.
What really surprised him, though, was when Dakarai came up to him one day and explained to him that he had fallen in love with him. Nikolai, not having thought about love before, didn't know what to think. He had to walk away from the atlas bear and discover himself some more before he could give his friend a solid answer to the proposal that was made. Sadly, that answer was that Nikolai did not reciprocate those feelings due to his own feelings leading him to a young woman who he often sees at the local gym.
That young woman was Maude McGhie and she worked for the gym as a personal trainer. Unfortunately for Nikolai, it took him weeks to get up the courage to even talk to her, mainly because of his heritage. But once the two started talking on a friendly level, he almost couldn't stop. It wasn't long after that that Maude asked Nikolai to be her boyfriend to which he more than agreed to. About three years later, and mainly due to events that were out of their control, the two got married. In the month that followed, Maude found out that she was pregnant. Nikolai was ecstatic with the news (as well as the following two pregnancies) and welcomed his son and daughters into the world with the brightest smile he had.
But due to the nature of how Nikolai received his morph, all three of his children gained health issues. Kristoff, Nikolai's son, was born deaf, Ingrid, his eldest daughter, was born with three fingers on each hand, and Minerva was born with a massive cleft palette. On top of that, all three children were born with the ability to morph into hyaenodons, unlike their cousins. That made Nikolai wonder about where his morph had come from in the first place... before his father had purchased it on the black market. Regardless of this though, both Maude and Nikolai loved all three of their children and cared for them as well as they could, with Nikolai even helping Kristoff, Ingrid and Minerva to navigate their world as hyaenodon morphers.
Name Pronunciation: nee-koh-lie
Age: 19 years
Gender: male
Date of Birth: 19/6/1990
Species: human
Morph: Hyaenodon
Family: Boris (brother)
Relationship: Maude McGhie (partner)
Children: Kristoff (son), Ingrid (daughter), Minerva (daughter)
Likes: playing guitar, model trains, going to the gym (but not overboard once there),
Dislikes: his brother hanging around him all the time, hurting others, prawns
Human Eye Colour: brown
Hair Colour: dark brown
Hair Style: long and shaggy
Skin Colour: caucasian
Human Height: 5ft 8inches (172.72cm)
Fur Colour: dark tan with dark grey points and cream stripes on back and inner ear
Animal Eye Colour: light brown almost amber
Animal Height: 80cm
Gang Status: Rebels Ancient member
Distinct Features:
Personality/Background: Nikolai was born in Russia to rather wealthy parents who, when he was three, paid a hefty sum of money to give him the morph of a hyaenodon. Unfortunately, it was discovered that this was done illegally by his father, who bought two stolen serum vials (one for each son) off the black market. He claimed it was 'in the name of science', but the Russian police thought otherwise and he ended up in jail. This left Nikolai's mother to try and raise her two sons alone. To make things worse, both Nikolai and his older brother, Boris, were targeted by Russian scientists because of their morphs. In a bid to save her sons from torture, and upon insistence from their incarcerated father, Nikolai's mother moved her family to Australia a year later. Nikolai was four at the time.
Growing up in Australia was a lot easier for Nikolai than his brother due to his younger age. He still had a Russian accent, but it wasn't near as thick as his mother or brother. That meant that, as he grew up, people often came to him in order to better understand what his mother and brother were saying... which also got annoying through time. Even more annoying is the fact that older brother Boris seems to like hanging around Nikolai and his friends and mainly because of communication abilities. Nikolai, however, is more than happy to push his brother into making his own friends and keeping Boris away from his own.
Whenever Boris wasn't around, Nikolai was happy to play his guitar, his musical talent something that his mother had discovered a few years after arriving in Australia. And it was while he was practicing his guitar one day that Boris rudely interrupted him exclaiming that the two of them weren't alone. It took a little bit for Nikolai to understand what his brother was talking about, but then Boris explained that there were others who could transform into prehistoric animals. Thus Nikolai discovered that he was to join his brother in a meeting with the leaders of both the Rebels gang and the Rebels Ancients gang. After going through a relatively easy initiation, both of the Sokolov brothers found themselves as members of the Rebels Ancients.
Not long after joining the Rebels Ancients, Nikolai met fellow member Dakarai, an Atlas Bear who gained a human form and came to Australia through a world discovery program that his original school in his home country of the Isle of Dragons had organised. Dakarai was curious about the strange language he was hearing from the brothers and eventually got up the courage to ask Nikolai about it. It was from there that the two formed a friendship which grew to involve Boris as well. Nikolai also started teaching Dakarai the Russian language... with help from his mother, who was more than glad to help.
What really surprised him, though, was when Dakarai came up to him one day and explained to him that he had fallen in love with him. Nikolai, not having thought about love before, didn't know what to think. He had to walk away from the atlas bear and discover himself some more before he could give his friend a solid answer to the proposal that was made. Sadly, that answer was that Nikolai did not reciprocate those feelings due to his own feelings leading him to a young woman who he often sees at the local gym.
That young woman was Maude McGhie and she worked for the gym as a personal trainer. Unfortunately for Nikolai, it took him weeks to get up the courage to even talk to her, mainly because of his heritage. But once the two started talking on a friendly level, he almost couldn't stop. It wasn't long after that that Maude asked Nikolai to be her boyfriend to which he more than agreed to. About three years later, and mainly due to events that were out of their control, the two got married. In the month that followed, Maude found out that she was pregnant. Nikolai was ecstatic with the news (as well as the following two pregnancies) and welcomed his son and daughters into the world with the brightest smile he had.
But due to the nature of how Nikolai received his morph, all three of his children gained health issues. Kristoff, Nikolai's son, was born deaf, Ingrid, his eldest daughter, was born with three fingers on each hand, and Minerva was born with a massive cleft palette. On top of that, all three children were born with the ability to morph into hyaenodons, unlike their cousins. That made Nikolai wonder about where his morph had come from in the first place... before his father had purchased it on the black market. Regardless of this though, both Maude and Nikolai loved all three of their children and cared for them as well as they could, with Nikolai even helping Kristoff, Ingrid and Minerva to navigate their world as hyaenodon morphers.