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Ilya Rozanov

CANON

Heated Rivalry (TV)

CANON POINT

Season 1, Episode 6

PRONOUNS

he/him

AGE

Player

Grimm|

moryana | PST

Summary

CW: MATERNAL SUICIDE, HOMOPHOBIA, DEMENTIA

Ilya grew up in Russia to a high-ranking police officer father, a stay-at-home mother and an older brother who took after their father. From a young age, he was a mama's boy and this made things difficult for both his mother and himself living in a house with a very traditional man for a father who say anything but traditional masculinity from his son as a weakness. He showed an aptitude for hockey, which meant he was going to play it professionally once his father realised his son could make a living for his family through this talent.

Ilya mother died by suicide when he was twelve and he was the one to find her. His father downplayed what happened, citing it as an accident and forbidding Ilya from speaking about it. Feelings were a sign of weakness. Hockey truly became Ilya's escape after this, where he saw it as a means to get out of Russia and away from his father and older brother who was becoming like his father every day.

At eighteen, the international hockey world had their eyes on Ilya and he had his eyes on the MHL (or the NHL if you're not from his world!) He was drafted to play for the Boston Raiders at eighteen, his year's #1 draft pick and his father still called him lazy. Moving to America and gaining fame in his sport, Ilya became a fan of fast cars, partying, and the sort of playboy lifestyle connected to young athletes. All the while sending money back home to take care of his brother's family and their father as he developed dementia. All the while, he started to hook up with his rival-on-the-ice, Shane Hollander.

It all lead to a nearly decade long situationship, with ups, downs, and poor communication. But with Shane, Ilya learned what it was like to have someone who cared about him again beyond what he could do for them. He found an equal and, though it took nearly ten years, learned how to not fear opening his heart when that love could have been seen as a weakness or perversion by his family, by Russia, by hockey. He learned what it meant to have something worth fighting for, that losing his country and a family that hated him for who he loved was worth the person he gained.

IMPRESSIONS

HEIGHT
6'0

WEIGHT
200lbs

OLIFACTORY
cigarette smoke, cloves, spice, sweat, fresh ice.

AURAL
here

There's a reason that most people consider Ilya an asshole on and off the ice. He's loud, he's comfortable in his space, and he's quick to say the thing that strikes at the soft spots. He is, actually, an asshole. And he seems proud of it.

Skills & Abilities

Hockey God
Chaotic Bisexual
Russian Menace

Servitor

Ilya's servitor is a manifestation of his own depression and sense of worthlessness.

DESCRIPTION: At first, the Rusalka looks simply like a young woman with long, wavy, golden hair that hits her ankles and sad, pale blue eyes. She wears no clothes but thin silver chains that drape and wrap over her body. If one doesn't look too close, she nearly looks alive. But when one gets too close they notice that her skin is not pale but deadly white, that it rots and falls away from the bones of her arms as she moves and dances. At first it seems like she's spent too much time in the water, that she's rotted from time in the depths but as she dries her skin peels from the bones that keep moving like paper that turns into ash. She doesn't seem to notice as she glides through a room, leaving wet footsteps behind.

BEHAVIOR: The Rusalka does not speak at first. She sings pretty songs, the sort that nearly sound like words but her victims hear them as if they're just out of reach. She slips into rooms, dancing and singing with a gentle smile on her lips. And then she wails, throwing herself at her victims and holding on tight until the chains draped around her body wrap around them and squeeze tight, until the icy chill of her wet skin steals their warmth as her skin turns to black ooze and the sharp edges of her bones try to piece living flesh like they aim to become part of whoever she's holding.

And that is what the Rusalka wants. To become one, to be all emcompassing, to take her victim into the darkness that has eaten her up from the inside.

ABILITIES:

A feeling of cold, damp, heaviness: The rooms she moves into grow cold, grow damp. The air feels as if there is a heaviness and her victims find themselves feeling as if the air grows thicker at first. More time in her presences brings the feeling of drowning. Trying to huddle in toward oneself brings relief but also the idea that the less space one takes up, the better.
A familiar voice: She may not speak but as she starts to turn to ooze and meld with her victims, the Rusalkas wails start to sound like a familiar inner dialogue. She takes on the voice of her victims and says all the ugly parts aloud - She talks of worthlessness, of fear, of falling short.
A chain of events: The chains that the Rusalka wears are part of her - sentiant and alive. They move like snakes and bind tighter the harder one struggles. It's almost best not to struggle at all. After all, are they even worth the effort?

WEAKNESS: Bright lights, insults to her physical form, garlic, wormwood, warmth.