Name: Mikhail Cale

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Ethnicity: Russian

Record Orientation: Heterosexual

Occupation: Mercenary

Mikhail Cale (known in his country as Mikhail Tarasov) was born in the city of Samara, Russia in the late 1970’s. His father, Roman Tarasov was a Colonel of the Red Army during the later years of the Second World War which became known as the Soviet Army in 1946. His mother, Alexia Tarasov, stayed mostly at home as a housewife and took care of Mikhail along with his two brothers Vladmir and Marko, and sister Maria. The family lived in decent conditions partly because his father’s military reputation.

Mikhail’s childhood was difficult being the oldest of four children. He was constantly subject to hard labor and abuse both verbal and physical by his father. Mikhail was forced to serve in the Soviet Army by his father when he became old enough despite protests from his mother. During his early adolescence, Mikhail was part of a junior division of the Soviet Army where he was under grueling physical training and harsh living environments in a military barracks. Despite these conditions, Mikhail learned much which would help him in the upcoming years.

When Mikhail reached the age of 22, his superiors saw that he was doing exceptionally well in the ranks of the Army and decided to give him a new challenge. Mikhail was then placed in Spetsnaz or the Russian Special Forces where he improved more at a quick rate. But Mikhail knew that this in not what he wanted. He was becoming tired with life in the military and he did not want to continue living in his father’s dream.

One day, Mikhail decided to leave Spetsnaz and find his calling elsewhere. For months, Mikhail strived to find a job and a place to live realizing his father probably had disowned him finding out that he left Spetsnaz. Mikhail finally was taken in by his uncle, Yuri Tarasov who owned a popular restaurant in Moscow, Russia. Mikhail was given a job to help out his uncle in the restaurant where he cooked, cleaned and serviced tables and also a place to live down the street in an apartment.

One night while working in his uncle’s restaurant, Mikhail waited on a table with men who were well dressed in suits. His uncle informed him that those men at the table were high ranking members of the infamous Russian mafia. After the restaurant closed, Mikhail and his uncle walked to the apartment building where they lived. Suddenly, they were attacked by a group of men attempting to rob them. Mikhail became angered and fought back against the group. During the fight, Mikhail injured and killed one of the men. Unknown to Mikhail, one of the members of the Russian Mafia saw the entire fight.

The next day, Mikhail went back to the restaurant where the mafia member who saw him the night before was. The man pulled Mikhail aside and began to speak to him. Mikhail learned that the man and the other men at the table he waited on were part of the Solntsevskaya Brotherhood, a powerful organized crime family from Moscow, Russia. The man offered Mikhail a job that involved his skills that he learned while in the Soviet Army and Spetsnaz.

One week later, Mikhail became an enforcer for the Solntsevskaya Brotherhood. Over the next few years, Mikhail would commit assaults and murders ordered by the brotherhood without question. He was the best at what he did since he was trained to do things like this since he was a teenager. Everything seemed to going well for Mikhail until one night in 1991.

Mikhail was ordered to kill man who was apparently an informer with evidence that would have placed many members of the brotherhood into jail. He carried out the hit on the man and shot the man in a nightclub in Moscow. Mikhail later learned that the man was with the Federal Security Service or FSB. The brotherhood informed Mikhail that the FSB was out in search of him which left him with no other choice but to leave his country.

Mikhail would eventually find his way into Hathian where he felt somewhat at home with the urban decay and poverty. The only thing Mikhail has from his country was his accent which can be heard when he speaks.

Mikhail tends to be quiet and keep to himself but would engage in conversation if one would start one. He wouldn’t be considered a man of words since he only speaks a few words when he talks. Mikhail likes to keep to himself because that is how he learned to survive. His size and mass play a huge part in his interaction with people. Mikhail’s height and mass that gives him that look that he would be or used to be in the military that intimidates many. Mikhail also is extremely dangerous since if given the right price, he would pretty much anything for beating a person up to shooting a politician in public view.

Mikhail currently roams the streets of Haithan looking for any situation which would call for his services. There is also a rumor that he has a hideout with the Devil’s Pocket.

((I'm not new to CD.. I have actually been around for awhile. I just wanted to reintroduce myself.))