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seniormoment IC INFO
_CHARACTER'S NAME: Mihai Mihaeroff
_CANON: DOGS: Bullets and Carnage
_CANON POINT: Chapter 98
_CHARACTER'S (ACTUAL) AGE: No canon age, but he’s assumed to be in his 40s to late 50s. I’m going with 59
_CHARACTER'S (APPARENT) AGE: pushing mid 60s
_CHARACTER'S HAIR COLOR: Grey
_TANAGURA (elite) OR MIDAS (mongrel)?: Midas
_HOUSING PREFERENCE: any room in Area 3 of Neal Darts
_REAPP: N/A
_HISTORY: wiki
_ABILITIES: Mihai has 30+ years of assassination work behind him and was considered one of the best at his job. He possesses surprising strength and dexterity for a man his age. He actually exceeds the fighting capabilities of even the ‘powered’ characters in his canon though he has no powers of his own. He seems able to ignore or at least shrug off pain though he complains about it later once after the adrenaline wears off. He’s a crack shot with a firearm but just about anything he can get his hands on becomes a weapon; this includes a loaf of bread at one point. While not an “ability” per say, Mihai seems to have terrible luck. He is always running into trouble even if he’s trying to avoid it. He also has a comically bad sense of direction and gets lost even coming back where he’s been living for a good number of months if not years.
_PERSONALITY: By all accounts, Mihai seems to just be another old man enjoying his retirement years. At least that is what he is trying to be. He just wants to be another old man. He hopes to be someone no one cares about and someone that has no one out to get him. However this will never happen for him because he just can’t leave well enough alone. Through the course of the series, Mihai finds himself dragged into conflicts despite his better judgement. This is somewhat because he has the bad luck of being at the wrong place at the right time, but it is also because his personal sense of right and wrong forces his hand and he steps in to assist. One example of this is when instead of running and hiding with the rest of the non-combatants on a hijacked train, he instead chooses to fight so they can flee, regardless of the injuries he attains in the process. Even after those serious injuries, he still goes with Badou to help him. He follows the man into what was obviously a trap because he was asked and had nothing better to do. In another instance, though he is told he’s getting caught up into something dangerous, he chooses to continue because he personally made mistakes that caused him to lose and hurt innocent bystanders. He says at that the next time that he “won’t lose again”.
This involvement and unwillingness to actually retire fully is shown by his list of past accomplishments after he quit being an assassin. He not only ended the internal resistance in the family he just left but he also took the role of an adviser to clear up the dispute over which mafia would control that area. He was said to have been the best mediator for the job. Even years later other mafia members know of Mihai and his accomplishments. That he is known to work as a go between for dangerous men indicates Mihai’s level head and his ability to think clearly in even the most stressful situations. He has a lifetime of combat experience and rarely loses his cool when he’s fighting. This same maturity is what also makes him willing to apologize when he is wrong or when he injures someone. Though he had been under hypnotism, he still apologies to Badou for shooting him and letting their enemy get away.
Though he is retired from being an assassin, pretty much all of his experiences in the past has left him to believe that some problems can only be solved with bullets. In his case, this is probably not very wrong. He knows, pragmatically, that if it comes down to it, the final solution is a viable one. He has even pulled a gun and shot at his canon’s Big Bad before she can start talking, because when there is an opportunity to shoot, you shoot. He believes that carelessness is his worst enemy, stating that as an assassin, one never knows if and when they might be shot and that it is important to have eyes in the back of the head. This causes him to sometimes be a bit blunt. The woman he’s staying with calls him “gruff”. It also shows in his realistic approach to his advancing age. He even tells the younger members of his canon that the strange situation of their births aren’t a problem at all. He tells them to not sweat the small stuff and deal with it as only young people can. He then points out that it’s about the struggle for survival and “just try to bite before you get eaten, is all there is to it.” This is the sort of advice that only comes with a lifetime of experiences. Though he is more than willing and able to take a life, Mihai does try not to bring trouble to himself. He's retired, after all.
His age is often a factor in the things he says and does. At one point, he loses his glasses. A couple times after getting a new set he makes direct mention of his age. When he sees something suspicious happening he even says that he must be getting farsighted due to "old age" because he feels like he’s seeing something that definitely shouldn’t be there. There are quite a number of times in the manga where he refers to “Kids these days”. He also pokes fun at himself by mentioning that he should probably start exercising again, right before he goes and defeats a large group of powered individuals by himself. He takes his “poor luck” in stride, even laughing about it when once again, he ends up in places and situations he would have rather avoided.
One of Mihai’s biggest flaws is that sometimes he can’t really see the feelings of those right in front of him. This is evident by what happened with the first (and only) person he has ever mentored. Though his student felt a father-son bond, he was too afraid at the time to do anything about it, claiming that he had been scared to be called a father. Because of this, he lost the woman he loved. This death and his inability to kill his former student haunted him for years. It hurt him so much that he even burned all the pictures he could of the woman he loved so not to have to see them. This pain follows him into the start of the series (more than 10 years after), when he finally confronts Ian, the boy he pretty much raised and trained. This confrontation leads to Ian's death. With this death he now feels more guilt; guilt for not stopping Ian from killing the woman he loved, but also an even deeper guilt that it was his fault that his student even became that way in the first place. He now tends to hold others at arm’s length and seems generally very dense about other’s feelings towards him. Such is the case with Kiri, the owner of Boun Viaggio, a cafe he lives over. It is clear that she cares for him, so much so that other characters remark upon it, calling him 'Kiri's man'. However they also point out that Mihai himself seems to have no clue as to her feelings. Whether he is totally clueless or not, when he hears that the city might be in danger, his first thoughts are about Kiri and her safety. He also says that he’s relieved that things have been relatively quiet when he confronts a large gang of mafia members and other thugs that had been having problems with the main characters. Basically, Mihai tries not to care, but he actually does care a lot. He just tends to not notice that he does until it’s too late.
_ITEMS: The clothes on his back and a Sig handgun with a half empty magazine and one pack of cigarettes.
_CHARACTER'S NAME: Mihai Mihaeroff
_CANON: DOGS: Bullets and Carnage
_CANON POINT: Chapter 98
_CHARACTER'S (ACTUAL) AGE: No canon age, but he’s assumed to be in his 40s to late 50s. I’m going with 59
_CHARACTER'S (APPARENT) AGE: pushing mid 60s
_CHARACTER'S HAIR COLOR: Grey
_TANAGURA (elite) OR MIDAS (mongrel)?: Midas
_HOUSING PREFERENCE: any room in Area 3 of Neal Darts
_REAPP: N/A
_HISTORY: wiki
_ABILITIES: Mihai has 30+ years of assassination work behind him and was considered one of the best at his job. He possesses surprising strength and dexterity for a man his age. He actually exceeds the fighting capabilities of even the ‘powered’ characters in his canon though he has no powers of his own. He seems able to ignore or at least shrug off pain though he complains about it later once after the adrenaline wears off. He’s a crack shot with a firearm but just about anything he can get his hands on becomes a weapon; this includes a loaf of bread at one point. While not an “ability” per say, Mihai seems to have terrible luck. He is always running into trouble even if he’s trying to avoid it. He also has a comically bad sense of direction and gets lost even coming back where he’s been living for a good number of months if not years.
_PERSONALITY: By all accounts, Mihai seems to just be another old man enjoying his retirement years. At least that is what he is trying to be. He just wants to be another old man. He hopes to be someone no one cares about and someone that has no one out to get him. However this will never happen for him because he just can’t leave well enough alone. Through the course of the series, Mihai finds himself dragged into conflicts despite his better judgement. This is somewhat because he has the bad luck of being at the wrong place at the right time, but it is also because his personal sense of right and wrong forces his hand and he steps in to assist. One example of this is when instead of running and hiding with the rest of the non-combatants on a hijacked train, he instead chooses to fight so they can flee, regardless of the injuries he attains in the process. Even after those serious injuries, he still goes with Badou to help him. He follows the man into what was obviously a trap because he was asked and had nothing better to do. In another instance, though he is told he’s getting caught up into something dangerous, he chooses to continue because he personally made mistakes that caused him to lose and hurt innocent bystanders. He says at that the next time that he “won’t lose again”.
This involvement and unwillingness to actually retire fully is shown by his list of past accomplishments after he quit being an assassin. He not only ended the internal resistance in the family he just left but he also took the role of an adviser to clear up the dispute over which mafia would control that area. He was said to have been the best mediator for the job. Even years later other mafia members know of Mihai and his accomplishments. That he is known to work as a go between for dangerous men indicates Mihai’s level head and his ability to think clearly in even the most stressful situations. He has a lifetime of combat experience and rarely loses his cool when he’s fighting. This same maturity is what also makes him willing to apologize when he is wrong or when he injures someone. Though he had been under hypnotism, he still apologies to Badou for shooting him and letting their enemy get away.
Though he is retired from being an assassin, pretty much all of his experiences in the past has left him to believe that some problems can only be solved with bullets. In his case, this is probably not very wrong. He knows, pragmatically, that if it comes down to it, the final solution is a viable one. He has even pulled a gun and shot at his canon’s Big Bad before she can start talking, because when there is an opportunity to shoot, you shoot. He believes that carelessness is his worst enemy, stating that as an assassin, one never knows if and when they might be shot and that it is important to have eyes in the back of the head. This causes him to sometimes be a bit blunt. The woman he’s staying with calls him “gruff”. It also shows in his realistic approach to his advancing age. He even tells the younger members of his canon that the strange situation of their births aren’t a problem at all. He tells them to not sweat the small stuff and deal with it as only young people can. He then points out that it’s about the struggle for survival and “just try to bite before you get eaten, is all there is to it.” This is the sort of advice that only comes with a lifetime of experiences. Though he is more than willing and able to take a life, Mihai does try not to bring trouble to himself. He's retired, after all.
His age is often a factor in the things he says and does. At one point, he loses his glasses. A couple times after getting a new set he makes direct mention of his age. When he sees something suspicious happening he even says that he must be getting farsighted due to "old age" because he feels like he’s seeing something that definitely shouldn’t be there. There are quite a number of times in the manga where he refers to “Kids these days”. He also pokes fun at himself by mentioning that he should probably start exercising again, right before he goes and defeats a large group of powered individuals by himself. He takes his “poor luck” in stride, even laughing about it when once again, he ends up in places and situations he would have rather avoided.
One of Mihai’s biggest flaws is that sometimes he can’t really see the feelings of those right in front of him. This is evident by what happened with the first (and only) person he has ever mentored. Though his student felt a father-son bond, he was too afraid at the time to do anything about it, claiming that he had been scared to be called a father. Because of this, he lost the woman he loved. This death and his inability to kill his former student haunted him for years. It hurt him so much that he even burned all the pictures he could of the woman he loved so not to have to see them. This pain follows him into the start of the series (more than 10 years after), when he finally confronts Ian, the boy he pretty much raised and trained. This confrontation leads to Ian's death. With this death he now feels more guilt; guilt for not stopping Ian from killing the woman he loved, but also an even deeper guilt that it was his fault that his student even became that way in the first place. He now tends to hold others at arm’s length and seems generally very dense about other’s feelings towards him. Such is the case with Kiri, the owner of Boun Viaggio, a cafe he lives over. It is clear that she cares for him, so much so that other characters remark upon it, calling him 'Kiri's man'. However they also point out that Mihai himself seems to have no clue as to her feelings. Whether he is totally clueless or not, when he hears that the city might be in danger, his first thoughts are about Kiri and her safety. He also says that he’s relieved that things have been relatively quiet when he confronts a large gang of mafia members and other thugs that had been having problems with the main characters. Basically, Mihai tries not to care, but he actually does care a lot. He just tends to not notice that he does until it’s too late.
_ITEMS: The clothes on his back and a Sig handgun with a half empty magazine and one pack of cigarettes.
