Mischa
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✦ Name ✦
Mischa McClellan
✦ Pronouns ✦
He/Him
✦ Sexuality ✦
Gay, Trans Man, Exclusive Bottom, Grey-Ace
✦ Common Nicknames ✦
Mishi
Mish
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✦ Age ✦
26
✦ Height ✦
5'3"
✦ Build ✦
Slender, but bottom heavy. No wind is knocking over this boy, he's like a pyramid. A pear. He doesn't mind being bottom heavy, he thinks it's a really cute look. He has received top surgery, and thus has a typical man's chest for someone with his build. He has not gotten bottom surgery, and has no interest in doing so. Having the "original plumbing" works just fine for his tastes in bed, and the potential complications freaks him out. In magical settings, the choice to keep his "original plumbing" is due to it working just fine for his sexual preferences, and his top surgery is seamless.
✦ Skin ✦
Incredibly white. The whitest man. He wears throat to ankle covering clothes not for personal reasons, but to spare others from being blinded by the reflection of light off his drywall white skin. That's a joke. But he is remarkably pale, with a map of blue veins across the thinnest points of his skin-- like the inside of joints and his eyelids. He doesn't really have an opinion, other than it being a pain because he burns so easily in any kind of sunshine. The surface of his skin is otherwise unmarked by freckle or mole, but is in possession of a fair number of scars and tattoos.
The majority of the scars are barely-there scrapes from long forgotten wounds, but he does have a few faint scars along his throat and wrists from an attempt in his mid-teens. He doesn't enjoy talking about them, for obvious reasons. The wrist scars are covered by tattoos of imagery of gods he feels connected to, in most settings that's going to be gods connected to motherhood/the hearth or love and war. In the "real world" interpretation of Mishi, he finds himself drawn to no gods at all, and instead his wrist tattoos are interpretations of demons (Lucifer and Baphomet) posed and draped in the design of a Catholic Saint. It's his personal joke, and a nod to the fact that he's always felt more connected to devils-- being a queer child in a very restrictive religious upbringing. You can only really notice the scars if you know what you're looking for, or feel them when touching him-- and even then, he keeps his wrists covered by long sleeves or gloves nearly all the time.
His top surgery scars are covered in a filigree design inspired by the artistic patterns of the Victorian era, these remain the same no matter the time period/place, though the origin of the design changes to match the plot.
In many settings, he has a tattoo along the length of his spine that evokes the stylings of Art Deco while also incorporating the symbols of the pantheon of gods he follows, or the major planets in his home solar system.
✦ Hair ✦
Mischa's hair is short, and dyed pink. Naturally, undyed, it is a dark brunet-- which you can see in the color of his eyebrows and eyelashes, and occasionally in the roots of his hair. But never for long. I have done my research and am prepared to prove to you that there's at least some historical precedent for the bleaching and dyeing of hair, and I am prepared to provide it. We have proof as early as Ancient Rome for hair bleaching, and hair dyeing works...reasonably close to fabric dyeing. I'm willing to stretch the truth if you are.
✦ Facial Features ✦
A round, somewhat dollish face. He wishes that he had developed any of his mother's side of the family's sharp jaws and coloring, but alas. He is his father's son-- a soft, cute face. Big eyes, long lashes. Fortunately, he rarely gets called cute because he also has the world's best resting bitch face. His natural resting expression looks perpetually unimpressed, and a little bit concerned for your brain cell count. His mouth, which would otherwise be cute and pouty, is perpetually turned into a faint frown that really adds to the whole vibe.
If you give him a bit to warm up, that resting expression stays about the same-- but you'll find that his pale skin and dark eyebrows mean that he is also incredibly expressive in tiny ways. He blushes easy, and his eyebrows tell on him more often than not. That said, you can also tell his moods in different ways-- oftentimes by what he
isn't showing. A perfectly blank expression, or a dull smile? That's danger.
Mischa's ears are pierced all the way around the shell, and he often chooses to wear silver jewelry. Likewise, his tongue is pierced (though he typically only wears a clear stud just to keep the hole open). I can provide evidence for piercings being a common body modification historically, too, if required.
✦ Eye Color ✦
Mischa's eyes are a dark blue, very nearly black, caused by a lack of melanin that can be observed in his skin tone, as well. While not as severe and heavily impacting as that which albinos experience, Mischa still finds some discomfort in direct sunlight, and has associated poor eyesight. He wears glasses in many settings, and prefers to stay inside and travel in lower light conditions when possible.
✦ Additional notes ✦
Mischa chooses to wear makeup. His typical choice is a dark, almost burgundy tone of red lip. He can often be found painting his nails red or black, as well. In more "formal" occasions (or because he wants to), he keeps the red lip and adds on dark eyeshadow. Some people have told him that it's too dramatic, or too vampy. He thinks they're stupid-- if he went through the work to put on makeup, why would he wear something neutral?
✦ Fashion Tastes ✦
He stays in an awkward position of fashion-- he often doesn't care enough to wear anything more than jeans and hoodie (or the cultural/period appropriate variation), but he was raised by a family of good standing and wealth. As an effect, he is sometimes drawn toward more elegant and sophisticated looks, but he finds he has to be incredibly careful. His body type and tendency toward favoring more 'femme' styles means that even looking as much of a boy as he does, people see the makeup and clothes and ignore the rest.
Still, his styled looks tend to blend masculine and feminine styles. You'll never find him in a skirt or dress, but you might find him in high heels and a coat with a flared hip.
You'll pretty much never find him out of dark tones or black and grey complimented by accents of deep red or blue. In any outfit that would reveal skin, he'll probably cover it. Not so much for modesty, but more because he is unsettled by being touched by strangers, and frequently even friends. He wears gloves, even, to prevent it.
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✦ Personality ✦
Mean.
Okay, not really. Mischa is very nice, but he's also very...Mischa. He's very shy, for one, but his shyness comes across less as "uwu soft boy" and more "why does that twink over there look like he hates me?" "well, believe it or not, he thinks you're hot." He's a complete ice queen at first, the kind of person who is unfalteringly polite and gives absolutely nothing. It takes a specific kind of person, the kind of person who doesn't take no for an answer, and who enjoys making that kind of repressed, icy type snap and chase them around. Which he will. Because Mischa, under the shyness, is exactly the kind of person who cannot HELP but respond to every jibe and snark, and will always find himself playing along with the games of men who know how to bait him.
He will say he hates it. He is a liar. This is how he flirts.
That said, there is also a lot of steel beneath the funny "serious man" archetype he plays. Mischa holds some incredibly inviolate ideals, and he will hold both himself and others to that standard. If pushed too far, or someone he has decided is his family is threatened, you will find out very quickly that he tends to associate himself with dogs not just because they're his favorite animal and the only thing he truly trusts-- but because he will bite. He will give warning, but he will also follow up on that warning, without hesitation.
If you get Mischa in your corner, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone more loyal or devoted, sometimes to a fault.
✦ Sin ✦
Pride
✦ Virtue ✦
Devotion
✦ Vices ✦
Loves sugar and gossip
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✦ Abilities ✦
In magical settings, Mischa's magic is often aligned to the "other". The Afterlife, the Fade, the stars above. He is a fortune-teller, often times, and deeply attuned to the world around him. Sometimes that means a necromancer or conjurer. Sometimes that includes gravity magic, or manipulation of time. The only thing that stays the same, really, is that whatever he does, it will be something that tunes itself to the world around him-- a humorous tendency for a man who hates bugs and the sun.
✦ Background ✦
Mischa's background changes from setting to setting, but the basics stay the same. He was born as the eldest child to a young woman in a very, very traditionalist family who made a mistake with a man she shouldn't have, and who she left before she knew that she was pregnant with his child. Mischa, so similar in appearance to his father, was deeply hated by his mother for the memories he dug up in her-- more so when he attempted to come out to her just before he became a teenager.
He was parentified by his mother and had to take the brunt of the work raising his eleven younger sisters, a task that he gave up when he left home at sixteen. He still feels guilt for the abandonment of his sisters, but also knows that he would not have survived much longer in that place.
He often times, in the course of plots, is brought into contact with his father. Their relationship is rocky, but they're both trying their best-- Kaza'li to make things right with his son, and Mischa to forgive his father for abandonment of a child he didn't know existed.
✦ Associated Bops ✦
cold tea - towser
This Bitter Earth / On The Nature Of Daylight - Dinah Washington & Max Richter
Goodbye - Ramsey
✦ Suitable For Genre ✦
Any
✦ Fun Facts ✦
Major dog lover, will probably have a dog in just about anything.
I really, really love pairing him up with EQUALLY traumatized men. I don't want them to fix him, I want them to accept each other for what they are. I love pairing him to villains, especially. Anyone who is going to match his level of devotion, honestly. Obsession is not a deal breaker.
