Viktor Malikov :: Vladivostok's Grim Reaper
Name: Viktor Malikov
Age: 18
Sex: Male
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 169 lbs
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Gray
Skin Color: White
Body Frame: Toned
Date of Birth: November 30
Place of Birth: Vladivostok, Russia
Known Aliases: [Unknown]
Known Alliances: New Mutants

Abilities
Kinetic Absorption
Hands of Death
Picture Click Appearance
Viktor is a cold natured person which usually results in him wearing warmer clothes such as long sleeved shirts, jeans, or jackets. As his Russian blood dictates, he has a prominent chin and facial features as well as piercing eyes and an almost royal stature.

Personality
Viktor is a relatively quiet man. He stays on the edges of confrontation and usually never starts conversations. However, when you get to know the man, he is an extremely intelligent person and is open minded about most everything. The only thing he won't ever talk about or bring up in conversation is his family.


Other Abilities : All throughout his childhood before his parents were killed, Viktor was doing his schooling throughout Asia. This allowed him not only to come into contact with multiple languages, but also many martial art forms. Viktor is considered to be a technical and applicable master of at least three of these forms, with

Origin : In Russia, Death comes in many forms. Through the harsh winters, Mother Nature reigns. During the warmer climates, disease takes a foothold. In Vladivostok, during any night no matter what the weather, the 'Grim Reaper' does his work. People are in a constant state of fidgety gossip and hushed conversations. When the sun falls below the horizon, few people dare the streets in constant horror of what may lurk outside their door.

Viktor Malikov was born into a mid class family in the late 1980's. Growing up in Russia had its own set of standards and virtues that few would want to live by. Starting at a young age, Viktor constantly expressed an inclination towards intellect and physical prowess. As an excelling student in his class, Viktor went on to study abroad in close by countries such as China and Japan. Throughout his childhood, he constantly stayed active in his classes and any physical activity he could get his hands on. During his stays in foreign countries, Viktor applied himself in the varying martial styles of combat in order to maintain what his father constantly referred to as 'a strong body and calm soul'. Viktor's father, Vladimr Malikov, was a proliferate boxer and Russian philospher. Viktor, who constantly admired his father, did anything and everything he could in order to gain his approval. Anastasia, Viktor's mother, always smiled when she saw her son.

Shortly after returning from Japan for the first two years of his secondary schooling, Viktor came home to a horrifying site. His father's throat was slit and his mother laid sprawled against the dining room table with dozens of stab wounds. Falling to his knees, Viktor's eyes flared with tears of sadness and retribution. As he closed his mothers eyes, blood erupted from his shoulder as a bullet created a fresh entrance and exit wound. Gasping for air from the sudden attack and gripping his hands into fists, Viktor turned to his assailant and the man who killed his parents. Catching the clip of the gun in his forehead, Viktor dropped to one knee, his eyes swelling with an instant passion. After two more hits from the pistol, a sudden force whipped through Viktor's body. Grabbing the man by the wrist, Viktor wrenched with a sudden burst of strength and nearly tore the man's arm off at the socket. Time seemed to flow slower as Viktor began to beat the life out of the man in a graceful and horrifying way. When all was said and done, Viktor clenched his fist as it began to shake, blood dripping from his fingers.

From that night on, Viktor tore through the criminal life in Vladivostok one by one. Hunting each and every member of the syndicate that killed his family, Viktor became a man of constant rage and anguish. His life was forfeit to his inability to control his blood lust and vengeance. It wasn't until shortly after his 17th birthday that he stopped one night after killing a man and then fled as fast as he could.

Getting away from the city, he used his international connections to keep him sustained and taken care of until he went to America in search of something more for his life. After arriving in San Francisco, he overheard gossip over the mutant problems in America. Finding a similar connection in all of the conversations he heard, he found his way to New York where he searched for and found the Xavier Institution. Enrolling himself with no evidence of his past, Viktor turned away from the literal monster he had become and strived towards a new way of life in his new home.

Arriving at the Xavier Institution, he was quickly accepted and enrolled into the program. Finding friends easily, he continued to display his quiet and reserved nature. Establishing a strong friendship with Jack Adler and a relationship with Adrienne Rowe, Viktor was greeted with open arms. Barely a month after his arriving, he was invited into the trainee team. Now a member of the New Mutants, Viktor has found a way to drive his hope of righting the wrongs he has committed in the past by providing justice in whatever form he can.