Short Summary
♂ Male
24 years
178cm (5'10)
Wolf
Belsev
Ivan Vladimirovich Volkov, also known as Johnny, is a former Red Army sergeant who currently works as field security for Hyperborea. He is calm and friendly, but his cold attitude and honestly can make him seem rude.
Ivan is in very good physical shape and highly attentive. He has a lot of experience exploring dangerous and anomalous areas, which improved his physical abilities.
Ivan has a deep loving bond with his older sister, Autumn. He is currently in a relationship with many different women, and he wants to keep them all equally happy.
Notable relationships include:
Ivan Vladimirovich Volkov
“There’s always something going on in this place. Never a peaceful day.”
— Ivan
John
Also Known As:
Ivan, Johnny
Age: 24 years
Height: 178cm (5'10)
(Average)
Race: Northern Lunare
(Wolf)
Nationality:
Belsev
Family:
- Autumn (older sister)
- Vladimir Volkov (father)
- Olga Volkova (mother)
- Violet (older sister)
Affiliation:
- Hyperborea
- Red Army (formerly)
Occupation:
- Field security (officially)
- Army logistics (formerly)
Ivan Vladimirovich Volkov (Russian: Иван Владимирович Волков), also known as John or Johnny, is a former Red Army sergeant currently employed by Hyperborea.
Keen-eyed, with a skill for navigating and negotiating, Ivan earned a living by trespassing into exclusion zones in search of artifacts to sell on the black market, before eventually getting noticed and employed by Hyperborea for his activities.
While blunt, his calm and friendly personality often helps him find common ground with most people he meets.
Appearance
Ivan is a well-endowed north lunare (wolf) of average height and a muscular build, with messy medium-length dark brown hair, sharp wolf ears, short tail with a light tip, and weary yellow eyes. His hair is styled with two long parted bangs and messy sidelocks that cover the sides.
His usual attire consists of a black t-shirt, pale dark brown cargo pants with a brass army belt buckle and dark combat boots, sometimes with either a brown jacket or a beige trench coat. His work uniform is similar to other Hyperborea employees, usually a white or dark brown shirt with either a black or maroon tie, black pants and boots, and their signature maroon jacket. While on active duty he's also equipped with a protective vest, a walkie-talkie, a stun baton and a taser.
Personality and Traits
Ivan is quiet and reserved, prefering to keep to himself and only saying something when it's necessary. Despite that, he is still friendly and often eager to help even to complete strangers. Knowing what to say and how much helps him find common language with a lot of people and negotiate his way out of most situations.
Overly pragmatic, he is noted for being very observant and particularly skilled when it comes to navigating and route planning. A lot of the local Zones were charted out by him personally because he didn't trust any of the existing maps. Still, he is not too fond of travelling too far out and prefers to stay close to places he's already familiar with.
Ivan is an avid shooter and a skilled marksman, in part due to his parents. Despite that, he dislikes violence and refuses to take someone else's life, opting for a non-lethal approach if he ever has to fight someone unless absolutely necessary.
While calm and patient normally, on the rare occasions when he does get mad from being pushed too far he's proven to be completely ruthless, releasing the built-up rage in a targeted and quiet manner.
Even though his physical abilities surpass those of a normal person as a result of rigorous physical training and long-time exposure to the Zones, it's still nowhere close to superhuman levels. Since he cannot compete with true masters of their craft in a direct confrontation, he would have to rely on his wits instead.
Ivan tries to stay away from bad habits, but still drinks on special occasions, usually only a few shots of vodka at most. During his youth he also tried smoking but quickly dropped it.
He used to have commitment issues in the past, causing him to break up with his past girlfriends. However, he has since adopted a different mindset of being in a relationship with multiple women at the same time, as long as he's transparent about it and can keep them all equally happy.
As a result of the Zones' influence Ivan has some werewolf traits, sometimes turning more wolf-like during the night. The intensity of his transformation depends on the moon cycle and season, with him being completely unaffected during summer new moons, and becoming fully beast-like during winter full moons. These changes start with his extremities turning into paws and fur gradually covering his body, with his head also becoming completely wolf-like when it's a full transformation. While he retains his intelligence and remains bipedal, these changes can also influence his behaviour. Ivan doesn't mind his condition too much, finding it mildly annoying at most, but nonetheless he tries to hide it due to the social stigma it has. His sister, Autumn, is similarly affected.
Biography
Ivan is the youngest child of his family. His father Vladimir Volkov, a former paratrooper, was well-known for his physical abilities and past accomplishments, but also notorious for his unhinged personality ever since the war. His mother, Olga Volkova, was a former sniper who chose to become a police officer after being discharged. While his father trained him physically and wanted him to follow his footsteps, his mother actively discouraged him from pursuing a military career and instead encouraged him to negotiate his way out of conflicts. His older twin sisters Autumn and Violet were similarly polar opposites, Violet being a troublemaker who frequently ran away from home while Autumn was very doting towards him.
Ivan spent most of his younger years in the countryside. There he became close friends with an equally socially awkward girl from the local church, Sasha. Most of his youth was largely uneventful, frequently training with his father to become a future soldier.
After joining the army, however, he quickly discovered the disarray it was in and the poor morale of everyone in it, eventually getting transfered into logistics after proving to be resourceful. Despite being very proficient in his new position, he nonetheless had no passion for this line of work and was eventually discharged after several years of service.
Fresh out of the army, Ivan was convinced by some of his acquaintances to join them in trespassing into local exclusion zones, lured by the false promises of quick and easy money. Despite most of them eventually meeting their end in many of the Zones' dangers, Ivan persevered, gradually earning a reputation as a reliable and experienced stalker, enough to occasionally be employed by the local Arcane University of Thaumaturgy and Study of Magic as one of their informal guides into the safer and better charted out areas of the local Zones.
Eventually this caught the attention of Hyperborea, the parent company behind the University, who offered to clean his records of illegal trespassing into the Zones in exchange for employment, handing over any of his future finds directly to them as well as providing them with all the information he had about the local Zones. Not having much of a choice, Ivan hesitantly accepts their offer, becoming officially employed by Hyperborea as one of their field officers.
Relationships
“Some of us happen to like older women.”
— Ivan flirting with Jane
Autumn
Autumn is Ivan's older sister and the person he considers closest to him, being inseparable from her during his childhood. In turn, she would also be incredibly protective of him, with their bond lasting well into their adult life even as Autumn became more adventurous and would be away from home for extended periods of time. Whenever visiting their hometown she frequently stays at his apartment.
Sasha
Sasha is Ivan's childhood friend, being one of the few people he talked to outside of his family because of his shyness at the time. The two would later join the army together because Sasha wanted to follow him, but she would quickly get discharged due to being unfit for military service.
Samantha
Samantha used to babysit Ivan in his youth and has become a close friend of his family as a result, both helping him with homework as well as teaching him how to speak the Merlian (English) language. Ivan has had a huge crush on Samantha since childhood, something she would playfully humour him with in the past and something that she feels a little conflicted about now.
Sonya
Ivan is Sonya's boyfriend, being the only person daring enough to accept her advances. While normally anyone would consider a relationship with her an extremely bad idea due to her crazy personality, Ivan's inner drive for thrill seeking (and Sonya's figure) eventually convinced him to give it a shot. Despite her usually unhinged personality, Sonya's post-orgasm serenity and wisdom have proved helpful to Ivan, and his current pursuit of multiple relationships was originally proposed and encouraged by her. Sonya also likes to call Ivan "daddy", giving him conflicted feelings.
Pamela
Ivan is the first person Pamela met upon her arrival to Belsev, helping her find her way to the University. As a result she has taken a liking to him, and due to her promiscuous nature the two often end up getting intimate.
Jane
Jane frequently flirts with Ivan, greatly appreciating the attention from a guy so much younger than her. Because Ivan likes older women, he gladly responds to her advances with affection.
Catherine
Ivan is Catherine's most trusted employee and the one she personally sought out. During his years in army logistics he arranged for the transfer of decommissioned or sold military equipment for her company, earning her trust and respect.
Nadezhda
Ivan has deep admiration and respect for Nadezhda due to her title of a war hero and his father's stories about her. Because he stays professional around her and because of his honesty, he is one of the few people that Nadezhda is willing to open up to. Sometimes she lets him call her "mommy" to satisfy her secret kink.
Masha
Masha is one of Ivan's higher-ups who quickly started a workplace romance with him. While they usually limit themselves to light flirting and friendly conversations, on some occasions she ends up dragging him to the nearest closet or empty office to spend some intimate time with him.
Tanya
Tanya is Ivan's long-time friend and drinking buddy. Whenever she gets too drunk she inevitably gets too sexual with him, which has frequently been the cause of Ivan's breakups in the past whenever his girlfriend at the time would find out.
Gallery
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Ivan and Autumn's current designs (right) next to their old ones (left)
Ivan cuddling with his sister
Ivan with his boss, Catherine
Ivan with one of his higher-ups, Masha
Ivan with Sasha (old design)