Full name: Shura Ananstasy Markov
Nicknames: Shushu, Markov, Baty (by his little sister)
Gender: Male
Race: Russian, causasian
Birth Date: May 9
Age: 18
Sexuality: Bisexual, closeted transvestite
APPEARANCE
Height: 5'11"
Scars/Tattoos/Piercings:
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[*]Scars: one on his arm from trying to handle a rouge cat and one on the back of his leg from a bike accident
[*]Tattoos: one of a pair of bat wings across his upper back.
[*]Piercings: none due to phobia of getting a pericing himself, not of them in general.
Shura is lanky like that of a dancer, though he never really thinks about it. As a matter a fact, he's rather shy about his build and normally changes the subject that matter. He eats like a horse most of the time, but always works it off in his hobbies.
His hair falls past his shoulders to his middle back, most of the time a dark brown almost black, though sometimes there are small trinkets in his hair sometimes.
PERSONALITY
Shura can be described as an odd person. He is rather shy at first, mostly content to watch a person before getting to know someone. At the best of times, he can be interesting just to watch or just talk to and generaly very friendly. His manner of speaking can change from his default accent to something completely different on a dime if he feels that someone needs a bit of a cheer up. His odd ticks also are a source of either amusement or confusion. From responding to movement behind him and cherpping when it's dark or he can't see to not being able to move his hand fully and a slight aversion to doing things during the day things that he really says are just part of him.
At worst, Shura can come of as weird, and in some cases a bit frightning. On the occasions that he gets agitated or mad, he has a tendency to hiss or lower his head as if growling at them in some way. Normally he's fairly passive agressive about the thing that's making him aggitated. Some times, usually when he's confronted with something he doesn't want to talk about, he almost shuts down and just reverts back to his shyness and stops talking most of the time. Even rarer is outright rage, which is none to pretty for someone with a penchent for hissing at people so they would go away.
Hobbies: Crossdressing, wood and claywork, dancing, playing his ocarinas
Wanted Occupation: He wants to go into burlesque dancing, but is looking into selling some of his clay trinkets as well.
HISTORY
Relationship Status: Nothing yet
Family: Mother, Father back in Moscow, two adopted little sisters
Known Languages: english, russian, sindarin (yes. you read that right)
Shura lived a relatively normal life being the eldest of his siblings, his mother divorced his father when he was young so he never really got to know him. However, moving to the us at the age of 5 started to really shake things up a bit.
His mother adopted his two sister when he was 8, and elementary was coming to take a toll on the boy. Being the overprotective mother that was is, she home schooled him up until they moved to degrassi. And being a freshman after being homeschooled for most of his school going life was a bit of a culture shock.
He didn't come out to his mother until sophmore year, but it didn't really go as he expected. No yelling, just a hug and a question of dinner options. Nothing that he had heard. This left him a bit paranoid and every small question about what he was doing set him on a sort of edge. After two weeks though, his mother spilled the beans on her thoughts. He was still her son even if he was attacted to both sides. So long as his little boy was happy he was fine.
Being in deggrassi has given him a bit of a game to play as a bit of a messenger. Always listening in on conversations even when he isn't intending to. Becoming a bit of an information bank for most. He's hoping to avoid become the start of some war over misunderstanding and has been taking a backseat to most things as of recently.
Other: There is an explanation for the odd ticks he has. Shura is an bat otherkin, meaning that he feels more like a bat, but still human in most ways. This also explains why he "can't move his hand" for he just has a case of phantom limbs in the form of his arms and hands feeling like bat hands, and having the feeling that he has bat ears rather than normal ears. This is why he responds to movement and random small sounds because if feels like his ears moved toward the sound or movement
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