Michael Nevelson
- Brooklyn -x- Zhanna Nevelsky -x- Bobby Pride
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Appearance: Michael has an extremely boyish look about him, despite being well on his way to manhood. His eyes are bright, though some would describe them as scared. Michael has a gangly physique, and he moves awkwardly, as if he were someone trapped in a body not his own.
Behavior: You have only recently learned to speak English (and have since changed your name to appear more American). You still have difficulty with certain turns of phrase and idiom, but that doesn't deter you from enacting God's will. Vampires are scourges on the earth, and the only thing that you hate more than them is people who would prevent you from doing your duty -- people like Bobby Pride.
History: Brighton Beach may have been named after an English resort, but it certainly didn't look like one in the early 1980s. Michael was born to Russian immigrants making their home in the collapsing Brooklyn neighborhood, and it's largely because of the cloistered nature of the ethnic neighborhood that he feels he's never been able to get ahead. The neighborhood always seemed to exist under a shroud of misfortune -- which turned out to be the shadow of the vampire Oleg Selivanov.
The Brighton Beach boardwalk was always a string of businesses cloaked in mystery. Some were Russian night clubs, some were restaurants, some were tchotchke stores set up as fronts for the mafiya. Almost all of them were run by sad-eyed men who moved furtively and who brought the fear of the Vampyr with them from the Old World. Michael's father was one of these men, and in addition to the rent and utilities, he paid his tribute to the undead. After seeing how hard his father worked and how much he had to give away, Michael vowed never to be in that position himself. In his 16th year, he had had enough, and carried a stolen pistol with him one night, fully intending to kill the man Selivanov sent to collect his money. The agent turned out to be a vampire, and handily defeated the boy.
In repayment for Michael's actions, the Cainites killed his parents, leaving him and his sister alive as a reminder not to cross them again. Their tactic had the opposite effect, however, and in a rage, Michael drove a broken broomstick through the heart of the vampire who came to laugh at the boy's misfortune.
Hostilities between the Camarilla and Sabbat came to a head before Selivanov was able to settle the score, and in the intervening years, Michael has learned that vampires are practically everywhere in the city. He sees his suffering as a test placed before him by God, who needed to be sure of the boy's strength of will before setting him free to do His work. With the fire of righteousness, Michael hunts Kindred, returning to the abandoned Bronx tenement he and his sister have holed up in at the end of the night to take care of her.
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