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Nikolai Hix; Male, 38, Bald Eagle
Topic Started: Sep 17 2011, 10:37 PM (132 Views)
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NIKOLAI HIX
THE BASICS

FULL NAME: Nikolai Roland Hix

NICKNAME: Nik, “Hick”

AGE: 38

BIRTHDAY: March 11

GENDER: Male

PROFESSION: Military Test/Fighter Pilot


PLAYBY: Aaron Eckhart
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THE ANIMAL
WE'RE ALL A BUNCH OF ANIMALS

SPECIES: Bald Eagle

OVERALL APPEARANCE: A big bird, his wingspan is 6.8 ft, with a weight of 13 lbs. His body is an even brown with no white or honey colored feathers to break up the uniformity of the brown feathers. He has an entirely white head and tail, bright golden legs and beak, and piercing pale colored eyes.

DISTINGUISHING TRAITS: None
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APPEARANCE
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HAIR: Somewhere between flaxen and dirty honey.

EYES: A blend of graphite and saturated peacock blue/green.

BUILD: Tall and broad. His shoulders are immense giving him a much more masculine appearance than some of his counterparts. He’s very fit, though it should be noted that he is in no way toned. His musculature lays over his skeletal framework in dense clumps of worked, but not isolated, muscle. He’s of the ideal weight for his size and despite a horrendous diet he stays fit (mostly due to work, his metabolism is shit).

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: His strong, dimpled chin is usually what defines him in most people’s mind based on appearances alone. The second thing most people would consider distinguishing is his wide mouth lined deeply with wrinkles when he smiles- giving his entire face a good natured type appeal.

OVERALL APPEARANCE: Overall he’s a military man and that shows in his body. He’s fit but not toned, meaning there’s no excess fat on his frame but he doesn’t have miraculous abs and bulging biceps. Because of the nature of his work and the desire by the military to keep him agile, his body is trained accordingly and his frame displays that in the form of lean, hard muscle that could be most accurately described as “a very big man with thick bones working as a dancer of some variation.”

He has large hands, big feet, and surprisingly thick calves. Despite being a big man, his fingers are quite long and unexpectedly delicate and spidery. They were a great bane to him in his youth as he was constantly self conscious of them. He would often overcompensate for the femininity of his hands by wearing bulky rings and overtly masculine watches. He’s come a long way since then, and though he still favors the wearing of watches, he’s given up rings entirely as they often act like a hindrance for his career.

TYPICAL DRESS: He has two modes of dress. Despite whatever he’s wearing, you can count on one thing; he’s very neat and tidy.
Civilian Dress – When Nikolai dresses in civilian garb, it’s usually of the heavy duty persuasion. He likes cotton t-shirts, button down shirts with rolled up sleeves, thick polos, and jeans. He has a very trusty dark khaki colored coat that he’s had for ages that he wears every tear to weather the winter.
Militray Dress – When Nikolai dresses in military dress, he doesn’t have much of an option. He’s been in the service long enough to have perfected the uniform and feel comfortable in it. His casual military wear is the same way, though he’s never been very fond of the jump suits he often has to wear for testing purposes. He spend a great deal of time keeping his metals, insignia, belt buckle, and shoes in gleaming, perfect order. His daily routine after work is to peel off his shoes and spend however long is needed in polishing his boots (and they get mighty dirty. Once they are polished, he’ll secure them in his locker and store his uniform for dry cleaning or pressing, depending on whatever action it saw that day, and hit the showers. The time between showers and bed is free time. Before bed he’ll go over his boots one more time, polish the metal on his uniform, then spend the last hour slowing down for bed.

PERSONALITY
WHO ARE YOU?


Hix is fundamentally quite gregarious and confident. Having always been known for his dependability and hard-work-first mindset, he’s changed very little since High School. Not only is flying his profession, but at heart he is a fighter pilot and has always had a love for both the military and planes. He’s detail oriented and a perfectionist (which people often find a bit surprising), he likes to complete tasks even if that means staying past the clock. He doesn’t like the concept of leaving any kind of job half-finished and finds it very difficult to put himself to bed at night knowing there’s a job that he didn’t finish doing.

Being thorough, though, not only applies to work and his job, but with his friends and relationships as well. Nikolai provides a sturdy base of friendship that just about anybody can mesh well with. He’s open to many (if not all) personality types and understands that people are individuals. He tries not to get in anyone’s way- perfectly confident with simply ‘being there’ whenever anyone needs him. Nikolai isn’t a jokester at heart but he does like making people laugh despite not having a great skill at telling jokes. He’s a steadfast person who can be counted upon to do what needs doing in a friendship; being picked up when your car has died, sitting in the hospital when your dad is sick, taking that drive to the vet for an old, beloved pet, and perhaps most importantly, telling you when you’re acting like a yellow bellied, big headed dumbass. He’s honest and fair, simple at the core of his being, but quite smart.

This soft spoken, amiable Texan loves barbeques, guns, and surprisingly, higher education. He worked for ten years in the oil fields of west Texas before joining the military and has a Masters degree in Aerospace Engineering.

He’s a little bit of a cooky man, which you kind of have to be in order to do the things he agrees to do. He’s a decent leader, is great at taking orders, and his sense of duty is far stronger than your average person.


  • STRENGTHS: Technology is his forte. He’s great with wires, he’s handy with a wrench, and he doesn’t mind getting greased up to his elbows in oil. In addition to his uncanny knack for machinery, he likes doing it. His honesty and integrity are also very strong attributes that he has a lot of pride in. He’s honest to a default, preferring it as the easiest course of action.
  • WEAKNESSES: He cant cook worth a damn, no matter if it comes in a can and you simply have to microwave it, if it comes in a box with the instructions clearly printed on it, or if there’s someone there with him. He just cant get the hang of it. He has terrible handwriting, absolutely illegible. This has proved to be a problem for him numerous times on his paperwork and reports- but most of the time he can get by with typing (which he’s also pretty lousy at). While he can take a lot of damage (bad strains, broken arms, shrapnel and barbed wire gashes) he’s an absolute baby when he gets minor surface scratches and injuries. He doesn’t have cats for this reason, and he hates paper cuts the most.

  • LIKES: Hugs, roller coasters, fruit smells, fruit tastes, watches, leather jackets, building things, cars, old cars, dismantling stereos, assembling old games and large pieces of equipment and machinery, manual labor, flying, planes, military books, highly polished shoes, the smell of burning shoe polish, the feel of gooey shoe shine slipping over his uniform shoes, the word “dismissed”, spaghetti, food, horses, small movie theaters, drive-ins, clear skies, clouds, skinny dipping, people making fun of his accent, overalls, military galas/ball, honesty, women, stiff drinks, beer, the smell of spray paint, smell of gasoline, pepper.
  • DISLIKES: Losing control of his bodily functions in the simulators, ‘piddle pads’, catheters, going to the hospital, doctors, dentists, anything that improves his health when administered by a professional, rebellious tattoos, broken overalls, jumpsuits, teeth grinding, passing out from G forces, rulers, dishonesty, members of the Army Special Forces units, men picking on women, the sound of a woman screaming, art, cats, paper cuts, bubble gum and people who blow bubbles WITH their bubble gum.

HISTORY
HOW DID YOU GET HERE?


Nikolai was born on a small Texas farm. His parents were extremely old school. His father was a stern man who’d spent a great deal of time in the military and his mother was a receptionist for a small doctor’s office before she married. The two got along famously, Wilber a rooster and Iris a duck. Their love wasn’t one that would have written a fascinating novel, but they did form a strong connection that has kept them together so long.

Nikolai spent the earliest years of his life helping his mother around the house and around the yard. He learned from his pop that in order to live a peaceful life it was important to keep the women in your life happy. Nik took it to heart. He helped his mother around the house until about the age of ten where he then transferred his efforts and work into the manual labor of farm work. He helped his father around on the farm and grew into a strong, gentle hearted man with a firm set of ideals. He helped out on neighboring farms when it came to harvesting and planting, and took up odd jobs working on these farms- saving up his money to help his father buy the proper machinery so that the family would no longer have to share crop. Instead of being on the giving end of share cropping, they now had the tools to loan out their machinery and receive additional income in return for the labor of their machines. The farm boomed after this.

In fact, their income increased so substantially that when Nikolai was 18 years old the family tore down their old house to rebuild the dream house his mother had always wanted. He helped in the building process as much as he legally could while still maintaining the growing farm. His dedication and selflessness earned him a special place in the hearts of many of the people in that small town, and not a soul could honestly say there was a bad thing about him (except perhaps he wasn’t married yet).

In school he did poorly, not that keen on sitting through class when there was work to be done, but somehow he scraped and graduated. His favorite classes in high school were; shop and JROTC. It was through JROTC that he was told about the opportunities available to him that he always knew were there (just not that present in the small town environment).

After graduation he went to college on the family dough. His parents, always having known their boy to be rather brilliant, were not surprised to hear back from him that his grades were phenomenal, that he was getting scholarships for his GPA and his extracurricular assistance around the campus. A regular good ol’ boy, he excelled everywhere opportunity presented itself (everywhere but cooking). He quickly earned himself an AA in Science. Then he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering.

He wanted to put his work to good use. Almost immediately he headed for airports all over the area, trying desperately to get a job, get anything, to do with planes. But the opportunities just weren’t there for people like him. He had the degree, but he had no experience. He spent a small amount of time making wire harnesses for cargo and passenger planes, but the job was neither rewarding, nor was it a stable enough company to keep him satisfied. His degree was useless in that job- but seeing as he couldn’t get a job where it WOULD be useful, he followed the only road open to him.

He found work and started making money on his own. He’d met several people in college that had told him about the opportunities building out west, and he’d heard about the numerous varieties of people from all walks of life that worked in some of the labor intensive fields. Considering himself both strong physically and a fantastic worker, Nikolai headed to west Texas and the oil fields and jobs there. He found work, it was easiest for him to start at the bottom, having never done this type of work before, and he soon had a very fun time of it. He worked for ten years in the oil fields in west Texas, slowly earning a Masters in Aerospace Engineering and waiting for the jobs to snatch him up.

It was around this time in his life that jobs in the industry of his choice started opening up. It was also around this time that Nikolai finally realized he’d been wasting all this time walking in place when he could have had his choice career all along.

He joined the military, moved to Saxis, got engaged, separated, and attended his JROTC teacher’s funeral all in a six month period. However, he didn’t let these things get him down. Because of his degree and experiences in JROTC, Nikolai started at a higher rank than all of the other recruits. He was a Lieutenant. His degree aided him in getting the coveted pilot spot without having to jump through the hoops the other recruits had to. He was the obvious choice.

He spent a great deal of time brushing up on and perfecting the Army’s current code of conduct, rules for flight and fighting, updated machinery, and was even instructed to go back to school to take a refresher course (paid in full by the United States of America). Nikolai’s eyes were opened when his CO mentioned ‘Test Pilots’. He was instantly hooked.

He started training early and was put into a unit of new testers. While he was a friendly guy who worked well and liked all of the test pilots in his unit, he bonded especially well with Minerva King, a woman he found funny and unlike any of the southern girls he was used to.


  • FAMILY: Wilber – Father, Iris – Mother.
  • FRIENDS: Minerva King, Cass Archer.
  • LOVE INTERESTS: None.
  • PETS: None.
THE BEAST
NOW, WHO'S THE REAL ANIMAL...


NAME: ZOMBIE SICKS

AGE: 6

OTHER CHARACTERS?: :ha:

TIME ZONE: Central yo.

BEST METHOD OF CONTACT: :ha:

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Nikolai you beautiful, sweet, dear man ; . ; I want to know who the hell would let this sweetpea get away. WHAT AN IDIOT.
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