Oɴᴄᴇ Uᴘᴏɴ A Tɪᴍᴇ: • Born in the slums of St. Petersburg, Anatoli is the youngest of a whopping 12 children. His parents were way into their 60's by the time he was born and how they kept up with the little ones no one really knew. His father was a very young man when he feel victim to Chernobyl and it was believed that he'd never have kids....well that was proven to be wrong. There was always something...odd about his first four children. None of them survived though. When Anatoli's oldest brother was born he was practically perfect. In fact every child was perfect...till him. Oh sure he looked well enough till his parents discovered the strange glow of his eyes. The pale boy was often shunned and teased by his older siblings or the kids at school but it was just something he learned to deal with. If you couldn't stand on your own two feet then what good were you? Sometimes though when he got angry people swooned and became violently ill around him, the cause unknown to him for several years.
Everything was simple enough for a while, that is till he was 10. One day after school when Anatoli was walking home his path was blocked by a group of older kids. He tried to run but to no success. He tried to fight them but they just beat him down. Why did this always happen to him? Why was he always punished for being different? Anatoli had never felt the kind of rage that filled him. With a roar there was a brilliant green flash and several close by buildings cracked. All the metal in the immediate area rusted quickly and started to collapsed. The entire section of the city had to be evacuated due to radiation, as for the bullies....they imploded within hours. Their bodies couldn't handle the sudden mutation forced upon them. Anatoli fled the city. He was terrified to find out what they would do when they discovered the source of the incident. Outside the city, in the beginnings of a snow storm, that he met the man who saved him. For the first time his life he didn't feel like freak. Anatoli had sworn his allegiance to Magneto that day.
As the days rolled into years, Anatoli gained control over his abilities and came to hate the humans who had cause him such pain as a child. Honing his body, the young Russian trained in the art of Systema, a Russian made martial art. He is far from a master at it but he spends a lot of his time practicing throughout the day. Anatoli worked to gain the favor and respect of the older members of the brotherhood but never lowered himself to groveling. Making friends with Magneto's protegee, Anatoli often feels like Ricochet's right hand man. In recent years he has gained the job of recruiting mutants as well as helping infiltrate places to hunt for the left over X-men.
Uɴᴅᴇʀ Tʜɪs Mᴀsᴋ: • Playful, sarcastic and cold, Anatoli has a hard time letting people close to him. He prefers to keep strangers as far from him as possible. His cold and sometimes cruel nature tends to be more frightening to some then inviting. To those who he has become fond of, they see the softer side of him and the part that would risk life and limb for their safety. He tends to get shy when praised and will turn red very easily when compliments are tossed his way. Preferring to have fun with life he's a bit of jokester who likes to see his comrades happy and full of smiles instead of the serious look they get when working. Not that he has much room to talk as the moment things stop being fun he's right there with them in solider mode.
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Wʜᴀᴛ Mᴀᴋᴇs Mᴇ Sᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟ: • Anatoli boasts few major physical oddities. The biggest thing about him is his eyes. He has almost neon green eyes that do in fact glow in the dark.
Wʜᴀᴛ Mᴀᴋᴇs Mᴇ Dɪғғᴇʀᴇɴᴛ:
• "Radioactive"
Constantly giving off small levels of radiation, Anatoli is a danger to be around whether his powers are active or quiet. He had learned to form it over the years in to a small array of weapons that he enjoys greatly. These are range from passive to assistant to active powers. To help his allies he can focus the radiation in his vision allowing him to 'x-ray' a place and see the amount of people or things inside. He can do it to a person as well basically acting as a living x-ray machine. Anatoli is also capable of bio-luminescence, making parts of if not his whole body glow. His more active abilities are dangerous to most mutants and humans alike. By focusing his powers he can rapidly decay things from metal to flesh to concrete. It takes a lot of him to do this though so he tries not to do more then tiny bits at a time. His other offensive ability is something Anatoli affectionately calls 'globs of death'. By making solid glowing balls of radiation, he is able to thrown them where he pleases and they have the same effect as his decay. The only passive ability Anatoli has is his healing. His body could not handle what he does without the rapid healing that is constantly going on.
Tʜᴏsᴇ Wʜᴏ Lᴏᴠᴇ Mᴇ:
• His parents
• Eleven older brothers and sisters
• The Brotherhood
