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Basic Info| Name: | Mr. Sascha Holloway-Lagus |
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| Name Sascha Hogni Holloway-Lagus Age 33 Birthday August 23, 1973; Virgo (Leo Cusp); Yin Water/Wood Ox; Inner: Chushu (Liqiu cusp) Monkey; Secret: Rat Height 6' 5" Weight 235 Visible Markings Tattoo on the nape of his neck (a guillotine - wears high collared shirts), three long scars along his shins from the opposition's cleats, 1 earring in left ear. Appearance Sascha can safely be a described as a big house. With a strong Russian chin and squared shoulders, he carries his weight as muscle and maintains it through rigorous training. All the effort and tenacity his Ox sign gives him is thrown into physical activity, and this comes out in the vaguely tanned, worn, but efficient mode of his appearance. When he feels he's lost too much control of his look, all of a sudden everything goes - hair, beard, the works. With this Sascha has stages of slowly losing the crisp edge, and during this time is the only time one might catch him taking advantage of casual friday. His features are classic, Western European; dark and shadowed, he has a high bridged nose and a prominent collar bone. He always wears a thin band on his index finger with a pentagram engraved. PB: Anime Baofu from Persona 2 PB: RL Billy Zane History Sascha was born during the waning years of the Cold War. Born to a Romani mother and an eccentric, forceful Russian politician, he lived in Sofia mainly with his Romani mother and his siblings - though a few were born when he had already left the house. Sascha, short for Aleksandr (though he legally removed Aleksandr from his birth certificate two years ago), remembered Communism much like a sore on the tongue. A shot of pain sends you the message that it's still there. Every few months, he'd be reminded by one force or another that he was a rich Russian minority. His schools were Russian, his friends were Russian, and his area of town? Russian. His older sibling, having even refused to learn Bulgarian, traveled through life isolated and superior. His brother spoke of Mother Russia as if he'd been there. His brother ignored any and all portions of him that would be or could be anything but Russian, anything but Communist. Sascha, on the other hand, was an early six-year old idealist. Catching his grandmother Satinka singing her Romani songs in the kitchen, he quickly began a fierce interrogation into his roots, into the language, into the existance around him that he felt he needed, but wasn't sure about. His grandmother hastened to chastise Sascha, explaining to him that the People's Republic of Bulgaria did not accept religion, and wasn't about to tolerate any talk of legends, language, and more importantly the Romani. His mother had seemed to take this attitude to heart upon marrying politician - but Sascha wasn't satisfied. Satinka, appreciative of a determined child and with an air of mischief to her, agreed to let him spend more time with her. He picked up Bulgarian from spending his weekends at his grandmother's local candy shop - speaking with customers along with her. At nights she taught whichever children were interested Romani on the sly (when his mother was out with her friends or in the kitchen in a hushed whisper.) It became his chore to "clean" her side of their expansive home, and there she told him stories while he washed the windows and the floors. His mother and father divorced in 1983, but his father quickly remarried a fellow Russian woman - this one with a distaste for any previous children. Sascha's elder brother, Sascha, his younger sister and his younger brother (still just an infant!) were suddenly put on the offensive. His mother and grandmother were allowed to stay in the house due to alimony agreements, but any child that seemed too Romani - any creature that seemed too Romani in the house - found themselves further and further alienated. His mother had easily forsaken her roots and his brother too, and so in the next year his brother was sent to Second Heaven under their cooperative agreement. The newer school in Europe sounded as if it was a good education - and it would certainly follow that such a "noble" side-family should be nobler in thought. However, now that Sascha was the eldest male of part-Romani descent in the house he found himself constantly berated by his father, and could spend less and less time dilly-dallying with his grandmother. His fluency in Romani remained as he often found time to communicate with her, but everything else became strained - forced to focus on his studies, demanded the typically reticent child become even more reticent (when you speak you speak too fantastically!), and eventually, under the strain of the ending cold war, when money became tight, demanded he start making money somehow as well. He did this by helping the candy shop his grandmother run keep afloat. Anything for more time with his favourite piece of family, anything to stay away from his domineering father and his new wife. It was in late 1987, three months before he'd take his own entrance exams to Second Heaven (that he had a mind to bomb) that Sascha developed Somniphobia (fear of sleep). His grandmother, after going to sleep, never woke up. He became insomniatic, nervous, refused to even close his eyes, and for that also became obsessed with the state of the dark. When one closes their eyes, what is it? How can something like sleep take someone? His inherant mystical side worked against perhaps a few of his sanity points - he became critically aware that people around him could go... and that the world itself was dark. His grandmother gone, his mother and he soon found themselves, for the brief period before his leaving for Second Heaven, he found himself under the scrutinizing eye of his father. It should be noted his mother is still alive, and every other Lagus after Sascha has gone to Second Heaven, including the younger siblings. Sascha, in Second Heaven, was at first so nervous from insomnia, darkness, fighting, aggrivation, and the stress that had followed him to the Alps he barely made it past a semester. Shortly thereafter he was suggested by the current PE teacher to try out for sports - after all, he was athletically built, tall, at this point scrawny and slender from a lack of activity. After trying Football he fell in love, and by the time he graduated Second Heaven he was in any sport he could manage, and near the top of his class - the application of the coping device had allowed him a breath of fresh air, and the ability to put himself to sleep by working his body to a point of exhaustion. It was here he defeated his own phobia, and after Second Heaven, (after also passing up a few scouts - sports were fun, but a professional? Really?) he became obsessed with SLEEP. The darkness occupied by sleep; the night hours; how one closes their eyes...? Returning to Bulgaria, lost, without his sports to keep him sleeping, he became nervous again, became insomniatic, but compulsively took sleeping pills - compulsively threw himself to sleep. He was going to figure this out - and hopefully, he was going to figure it out with the Romani. He sought out his great aunt in the Romani tribes of Bulgaria, and a little shoddy at first, quickly refreshed himself on his Romani. But it was becoming apparent - having been educated in Second Heaven - that this possibly wasn't the place for him. The life, without academia and full of mysticism, was just too fanciful, perhaps. It was... too light. The darkness was missing, and with that he was advised by his great aunt to try college. Four years later, with a degree in Religious Studies and a minor in Education under his belt (not to mention quite a bit of playing Football), Sascha followed the Romani type of paganism with a supplement of common Wiccan ideology, and returned to Second Heaven - in just enough time to get a job as a PE Teacher. Years at Establishment 8 Subject PE Personality Keywords Straight-forward, serious, dedicated, quiet, nimble, athletic, mystic, quick-tempered, disparate, devout, focused, ocd, occasionally cruel, whimsical on the inside. In-Depth Sascha is... dark. His sardonic sense of humour combined with an analysis of the world in terms of the waking or sleeping world, combined with the ideology of the Romani and the religious strength of the world of Romani, he takes himself more than seriously - he takes himself too seriously and is aware of it. His love for sports and for the coping mechanism it provides gives him a way of being obsessed with it, but in reality, his interests are so varied as to allow him a loner-type facade. He'd rather just read his books, his magazines, excercise, and maintain himself... the Romani community culture aspect showing up when he speaks of his home. His home is SH, his family is SH, and for him that's his community... It doesn't mean he has to talk to many in it. Because of how lost he felt most of his life he spends a good deal of time helping those he finds lost - if he seems too sensitive or too gentle on the freshmen, it's out of an affection for their situations, himself knowing the pain of transplant. Clubs and Sports Supervising instructor for: Basketball (Winter/Spring) T/Th 4.30-6.30 Football(Summer/Fall) M/W/F 4.30-5.45 Archery W 6.45-9.00, Sat 12-4 Occult Club W 3-4, Opt Sat 4-6 (he shows up an hour late) Birth Location Sofia, Bulgaria Why Second Heaven? Alma Mater Syndrome Favourite Color; Food; Activity; Subject Dark Colours; Meat and Potatoes; Football; PE! Least Favourite Color; Food; Activity; Subject Light colours; Tofu (It's pretending to be meat, the fucking poser!); Talking; None Other Likes Home-cooking, cooking in general, cooking shows too!, cleaning, corn-bread, sports magazines, the super bowl!, the world cup!, watching sports, russian + japanese literature, archery, medieval weaponry, medieval history, medieval torture devices, every sport ever made except for curling and gymnastics (wtf those aren't sports... neither is CHESS goddamn!), but he does like chess, the occult, specifically demons, DARKNESS, and other such unpleasantries, pagan history, Bulgarian history, Romani history, the Romani, mysticism, language, traditions, being awake. Other Dislikes Everything else, ESPECIALLY sleeping. Not readily visible Markings Tattoo on lower back, two on back of thighs; Tattoo on lower back is a black dove, both on lower thighs are pentagrams of the same style. Belly button piercing, tattoo around the ankle of the wiccan creed. Family Mother (Romani), father (Russian), older brother [36], younger sister [28], younger brother [24]; half-siblings (Father's Side): youngest brother [16], youngest sister [Anna, 14] Languages Bulgarian, Romani (Bulgarian Dialect), Greek, Russian, extensive study in Latin | ||
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