Cancer Character in When the Curtain has fallen | World Anvil

Cancer

Mikhail (a.k.a. Cancer)

The early days

Cancer, earlier known as Mikhail, was a child born in a country that was constantly at war.
His first memories reach the times when he helped at the frontline by carrying supplies.
The sight of death and the smell of gunpowder were his daily life.
The boy never knew his parents, but the soldiers of the front were his family.   During peaceful times, when he was eight, he was sent to the countryside school to learn.
The peace lasted six years, and when fourteen-year-old Mikhail heard about war breaking out again, he wanted to go back to the frontline as soon as he could.
However, his teacher, who was like a father to him, asked him to stay, to end his education, as the frontline wouldn't change with just one more soldier.
Two years later, when he finished middle school, he couldn't wait for any longer.
So he left everyone that cared about him and went back to the battlefield.  

The awakening

Ten years later his country was falling and he and his squad were ambushed.
Every one of his team was killed and he retreated into one of the houses and filled it with explosives.
His enemies knew where he was and they were closing in and he wanted to take them with himself.
That's when the Cancer and the Moon chose him as his champion.
The Moon let him see the positions of his enemies and to distract them.
The Cancer fortified the walls around him.
So when he detonated the explosives in the building, only the room he was in was still intact.   The same year his country surrendered and was torn by its greedy neighbors.
But he didn't feel anger or grief as he would years earlier.
Instead, he went to another battlefield, going from one conflict to another.  

ZODIAC

Fifteen years before the Extinction, he has been invited to join the ZODIAC, a mercenary organization that would take part in the greatest war in the future.
He joined them as one of the prophesied "twelve heroes" (The Prophecy). He was the oldest member of the ZODIAC.   But when the ZODIAC was needed the most, they disappeared.
  Cancers' current status: MIA

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Despite his age, Cancer is very fit and his body shows it.
Under his clothes, this thin man is very muscular.

Body Features

He has heavily tanned skin covered in white hair.
Additionally, there are scars on his whole body.

Facial Features

He has a strong jaw that is always concealed by his lush beard.
His pronounced cheekbones are set high and he has a long, upturned nose.
His eyebrows are black and bushy.

Special abilities

The Gift of the Cancer: Fortification

Whenever Cancer stays in one place for a longer time, everything around him gets sturdier.
Wooden things get as hard as metal, the doors, and their hinges get reinforced, glass acts like it is bulletproof or blastproof, and foundations and walls can resist explosions.
This ability only works for him and the people he wants to, so if anyone tries to use those reinforced things as a cover, they will work as they normally would.  

The Gift of the Moon: The eye from the above

Whenever he wants, Cancer can expand almost all of his senses (without touch) outside his body for up to 50 meters.
He can see, hear or smell everything in this area.
He can also throw his voice or create a mirage of himself as if he was anywhere in his influence area.

Mental characteristics

Education

He only has a middle school level education.
During his school years, he started to love reading books.   He is trained in CQC, proficiency with modern day weapons and explosives.

Employment

His whole life, he worked for the military.
15 years before Extinction he became the member of the ZODIAC.

Intellectual Characteristics

He is a genius strategist if it comes to defending the point and setting traps.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

At first, it was about ideas such as patriotism and defending his nation.
Halfway through, he stopped caring about those things.
Then his country stopped existing, and other battlefields called to him.
He just didn't know what to do with himself.
Because the war is the only way he knows.

Personality Quirks

If he can, he sneaks wherever he goes and doesn't hold his head high.
He always checks the locks on the doors and if anyone isn't hiding in the room.

Hygiene

To hide better, he washes very often with soaps that mask his scent completely.

Social

Family Ties

He has no family.

Religious Views

In his elementary school, he first learned about Christianity.
In the first years he was fighting, he often prayed after waking up and just before the sleep, but later he stopped, knowing that one moment of the inattention could cost him his life.

Mannerisms

He doesn't really like to speak, but if he speaks to someone out of combat, he talks to everyone as if they were his grandchildren.
During combat and while using the Gift of the Moon, he taunts his enemies from many directions to make them lose attention.

Relationships

Sagittarius

Indifferent (Trivial)

Towards Cancer

0

Honest


Cancer

Annoyed (Trivial)

Towards Sagittarius

-2

Honest


History

They only met a few times and never tried to talk to each other.
Sagittarius' laid-back, flirtatious nature annoys the Cancer when they are at the meeting.

Species
Year of Birth
49 BE 54 Years old
Circumstances of Birth
Cancer was born in a country shrouded in war
Birthplace
Unknown, as it doesn't exist anymore
Spouses
Siblings
Children
Current Residence
Unknown
Gender
Male
Eyes
Light green
Hair
Medium length (to the neck), gray, nearly white hair
Height
187 cm
Weight
85 kg
Aligned Organization
Known Languages
English, Spanish, French, German, Russian

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