The Other Kidnapper

Full Name:  Boris Nikolas Alehin

Nicknames: Boris, Nicholas, Nick, Alehin

Species: Human

Ethnicity: Russian

Known Languages: Russian, some English, ASL

Religion: Orthodox Christianity

Age: 47

Gender: Male

Pronouns: He/him

Sexuality: Heterosexual (bicurious)

Occupation: Kidnapper

Eye Color(s): Brown

Hair Color(s): Black

Height:  6’5”

Weight: 237 pounds

Body Build: Strong, muscular, broad-shouldered

Notable Physical Traits: Bald, scar on left cheek, many arm tattoos

Alternate Forms: None

Faceclaim: Fedor Bondarchuk

Voiceclaim: None

Phobias: None

Mental Health: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety, Depression, ADHD (all undiagnosed)

Physical Health: None

Assistive Devices: None

Medications: None

Parents: Anichka Alehin (mother), Artemii Alehin (Father)

Siblings:  Dmitry Alehin

Partners: None

Children: None

Friends: None

Allies: None

Rivals: None

Enemies: None

Content warning for war, death, self-harm, human trafficking, kidnapping, and torture.

Born 5 years after Dmitry, Boris grew up in a loving family. The two boys were raised during a turbulent time period for the family marked by much civil unrest. Both of his parents worked to provide for them, leaving Boris in the company of his older brother much of the time. He was an incredibly loving child who idolized his big brother and would often follow him around trying to mimic him and help him. The two spent all their time together and especially enjoyed cooking and baking. They also enjoyed gardening and growing their own food. Though talented and quick to learn other his hands, Boris was not quite as smart as his brother. He struggled in school, often being picked on for his issues learning from books, an inability to sit still, and a difficulty with understanding certain behaviors. Despite this, Dmitry helped him pass and supported him through the worst of it. Still, the experiences left Boris with the thought that there was something wrong with him to be so different from his peers. When Dmitry was eventually sent to Germany to live with their grandmother, Boris wanted to follow. Unfortunately, his parents kept him in Russia as they felt he was still too young to travel. Without his brother around, he became very withdrawn and sullen. His parents did their best to support him but he remained quite lonely, isolated from his peers and now without even the kindness of his kin to shelter him. 

After his brother’s departure, Boris left school to work and help support his family on his own. The decision was spurred on by his own unwillingness to continue to be bullied. He had already begun developing severe anxiety about leaving the house and began sobbing on more than one occasion due to fear. Not wanting to jeopardize his health and safety, his parents reluctantly withdrew him from school in order to allow him to work with them. Eventually, when he was old enough, he was enlisted to serve the military. Boris initially refused due to his own personal disagreement with the ethics and politics of the conflict but was not given much of a choice. While he passed physical examination with flying colors thanks to his powerful physique and experience in hard labor, Boris was far less skilled with weaponry. He preferred hand to hand combat and wrestling, finding the loud sounds of gunfire wholly unpleasant. All the same, he was made into a decent shot and pushed out into the frontlines. War was hell for Boris. The sounds, the smells, the bitter environment. During his time on the field, he killed only twelve enemies in total, finding it difficult to pull the trigger on anyone. He was reprimanded numerous times for his failure to act and threatened with arrest by military personnel over and over again. By some grace, his service was cut short when he was injured by an explosion just three years into the campaign, which left him with severe head trauma and several facial scars. 

Following the incident, Boris was relieved from duty after being deemed unfit to continue serving. He returned home and stayed with his parents for a time to recover from his injuries. His first few weeks were spent in bed with a cast in his leg and ice packs on his head to help with the swelling. All that time spent alone and with only his own thoughts to comfort him took a severe toll on him. The guilt of the lives he took haunted him. He developed severe PTSD and insomnia as a result of the frequent nightmares he experienced. Migraines became a frequent issue, as did dizzy spells and nausea during his initial recovery. Once he had stabilized and was able to move around again more efficiently, things improved slightly. He was able to identify migraine triggers and the dizziness subsided, and so he began looking for work. 

Holding a job was difficult for him. He went about doing odd jobs and freelance work before finally settling as a dealer in a casino. The job paid decently and required little education. Boris took to his tasks quickly and efficiently, dealing cards, running roulette tables, and managing slot machines. Unbeknownst to him, his employers were part of the Russian criminal underground and were slowly beginning to pull him into their more illicit business. It started with simply keeping inventory on supplies within the business, but it quickly evolved into picking up “materials” and transporting them without disclosing just what it was he was moving. Eventually, Boris was caught in the middle of a sting operation where he was made the scapegoat by his employers. It was discovered that he had been helping illegally transport alcohol, drugs, fake passports, counterfeit money, and other illicit goods without realizing. He pleaded his case and was found to not be engaged directly with the effort. However, as he was found in possession of stolen goods at the time of arrest, he was still charged with a lighter crime. Ultimately, he was imprisoned for five before eventually being released and returned home. 

Incarceration proved to be a horrible experience for Boris. The Russian prison system was rife with violent criminals and corrupt police known for brutalizing inmates. He was no exception. Because of his size and physique, Boris staved off many would-be assailants. Still, some who went down with him recognized him and through the rumor mill, he became an easy target. The endless harassment, violence, and lack of help from guards led to him becoming incredibly isolated and withdrawn. Eventually, he began to believe what the wardens would say about him: that he was a thief, a criminal, a monster complacent in the trafficking of people and drugs. Still, he couldn’t help but think that out of everything he’d ever done wrong, crime seemed to be the only thing he could do right. Haunted by guilt at his actions and inactions, Boris caved to the pressure and marked himself as a criminal, embracing it in the hopes that it would help his case. During his time in prison, he became quite the thief. He could memorize guard patrol times and routes, as well as the most effective ways of concealing contraband. He was suspected several times but never caught with any contraband himself, and so his sentence was never extended. Though his notoriety as a professional smuggler became well-known to his fellow inmates. It earned him the approval and positive attention of many, something that he had long craved to feel since childhood. Up until his last day, Boris was decently liked among the prisoners. In return, Boris grew something of a sneaky side and a thicker skin that helped him cope with the world around him, though perhaps not in the best way. 

Despite growing colder and even more withdrawn from the cruelty of the world around him, Boris still found warmth in his family and was present when Dmitry ended up coming home from his failed marriage. Just as he had always been, he was kind and supportive of his brother. He helped him through the darkest period of his life, offering kind words of support and pushing him to start over somewhere new. Despite how it broke his heart to let Dmitry go after finally seeing him again after so long, he still smiled and waved him off as he traveled to the United States to start over. 

Boris meanwhile continued to look for work, which was becoming scarcer and scarcer given his criminal record. He fell into a very dark place. Lacking the structure of prison living and being viewed as an unforgivable monster by the outside without much support, Boris began falling into a deep depression and engaging in self-destructive tendencies. He would often hurt himself in an attempt to try and drown out the noise of PTSD flashbacks or ground himself during high-stress episodes. He began using alcohol to self-medicate but did not have the funds to maintain such a habit and so he began using cheap medication to knock himself out for hours a time. Dreamless sleep became an escape for him, and his mother found him on more than one occasion knocked-out and unresponsive. While he never attempted suicide, he confided in her once that it was something he had contemplated many times, feeling hopeless and trapped without any way of improving or escaping. Concerned by his decline and realizing he needed the support of someone more than them, his parents encouraged him to go to the States and find Dmitry. Boris was hesitant to leave them behind, fearing what might happen to them in their old age. But his family insisted that they would spend their retirement traveling. 

Reluctantly, he agreed and relocated to the United States where he spent some time learning of Dmitry and his work as a kidnapper by night and florist by day. Though initially very hesitant, Boris fell into the same line of work, as it was the only thing he had ever been good at. He started off with stealing, infiltrating, and smuggling materials for his employer at first to show off his skill. When he made it known that he was an effective and experienced criminal with a knack of moving things without being caught, he was promoted to the same position as his brother: collecting criminals, heinous convicts that had slipped through the justice system, and nosy interlopers looking to expose Adam’s work, and bringing them back to be used as stars for his violent games. And while Boris is not particularly fond of the work itself, he does feel like he’s doing something good with his strange talent. He finds it’s better to be bringing people who deserve it to their death rather than simply trafficking innocent people. However, he still yearns to find a place of his own where he feels like he fits in, a job that he can do well without hurting anyone, and the sense of self-satisfaction, balance, and peace that his brother seems to have.

Like his brother, he has become a masterful kidnapper with a profitable career. Eventually though, he would like to leave the job. But the risk is too high right now, and frankly, he feels he’s too dumb and inexperienced to do much else.

Boris knows that he is different. From the time he was a child, he knew that the way he acted and how he thought was not typical but he did not know how or why. Raised in a rigidly traditional society, his interests in non-traditionally masculine hobbies and activities led to him being picked on and outcasted with only his brother to defend him. Additionally, he’s seen the world in all of its horrors, from war to human trafficking and cold-blooded murder. Firsthand, he has experienced the corruption of a system eager to throw anyone different into jail and call it justice. He’s very melancholic as a result and he often feels out of place and isolated, even when surrounded by people. His history of being viewed as strange, unbecoming, and improper has led him to adopt a very lonely way of living and generally shy away from others. He is markedly more quiet than his sibling and much more reserved. 

Despite this, Boris is incredibly gentle and kind, just like his brother. He shares Dmitry’s warmth and compassion to a heartwarming degree. When seeing someone in distress, he cannot help but to try and assist them. Whether this is helping an old lady reach cans on a top shelf, or helping a child find their lost pet, Boris does his very best to offer acts of charity and kindness to people. He’s also very humble and will downplay his accomplishments or acts of kindness as simple things that anyone would do. He struggles to accept praise as he is more used to being criticized. This comes from the fact that while he’s incredibly street smart, creative, and innovative, he lacks any real formal education past a mid-highschool level - a fact that has frequently been used to degrade him in the past. 

Despite this, Boris remains curious. Not knowing about the world drives him to learn from experience since he doesn’t really understand books. He likes exploring new places and situations and trying to learn from others directly. Hands-on learning is the best way for him to understand things, and he will try just about anything so long as he is encouraged to do so. Additionally, his curiosity and natural desire to learn in spite of his isolation means that Boris is very observant and perceptive. He picks up on many things others would not and makes solid connections using a very strong sense of critical thinking. Using information he has gathered, Boris likes to plan his next steps rather than acting on impulse - though when it comes to certain matters, such as his family, his emotions can sometimes get the better of him.

For the most part, Boris keeps to himself and sticks to communicating mainly with his family. He speaks very little English but knows a good bit of sign language oddly enough, and though he tries to educate himself and get out more to build knowledge and experience, he’s a rather nervous, lonely, and melancholy person overall, busying himself with very simple and trivial tasks. He manages to switch off his emotions when it comes to work but finds very little pleasure or satisfaction in his job. That being said, it does not take much to make him happy or entertain him. He is pleased even by small attempts at conversation and the pleasantness of everyday routines that involve other people. Still, he yearns for the feeling of peace and hopes to one day find a place where he feels he truly belongs.

DISLIKES: Pollen, splinters, heat, hot weather, sticky textures, grating sounds, 

Verses

text

• Boris is a very strong and surprisingly agile person. 

• Though he feels guilty about it at times, Boris is still very much a kidnapper.

• Boris does have difficulty communicating with others at times.

• Don’t let the anchor tattoo fool you, boats are Boris’ least favorite form of transportation. He gets seasick easily.

• The tally marks on Boris’ arm represent the number of victims he was accused of having when he was sent to prison.

• He has Saint Basil’s Cathedral tattooed on his arm. 

• Boris has a collection of Russian nesting dolls.

• Boris counts on his fingers. A lot. He also regularly skips numbers by accident (jumping from from 4 to 6 especially).

• Boris is very nervous when it comes to intimacy. He doesn't trust easily and finds connecting with others difficult.