ABOUT ROMAN | Must you keep my baby teeth in the bedside table with your jewelry.
CHARACTER BASICS
NAME: Romanyuk Annikovych Konstenko aka Roman Kon
AGE: Twenty-Nine
GENDER & PRONOUNS: Cis man, He/Him
FACE CLAIM: Dylan O'Brien
EYE COLOR: Brown
HAIR COLOR: Dark Brown
HEIGHT: 5′11″
DATE OF BIRTH: September 7th
ZODIAC SIGN: Virgo
LEVEL OF EDUCATION: High School Diploma
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: N/A at the moment
OCCUPATION: Primary Male Ballet Dancer for the Los Angeles Ballet Company
HOMETOWN: Kyiv, Ukraine
CHARACTER HISTORY [TRIGGER WARNING FOR CHILD ABUSE/NEGLECT]
The Konstenko name is gilded in grace overseas, holding a titular title as one of the most prestigious families devoted to professional ballet. Anichka Konstenko, following her own mother’s footsteps, paved the path for the engraving of their name in the industry as one of the youngest dancers to be part of three separate international companies and taking a lead at just sixteen years old. Her platform was built on the strength of her delicacy but also her insistence that she was far from fragile. However, her career that was promising to go farther than the usual retirement of most dancers was brought to an abrupt hault. Anichka became pregnant and was not only unable to dance, but never able to renew her contract again with the age in which she wanted to jump back in.
However, Anichka refused to believe her career was over and meshed into her new life as a mother to Romanyuk. She believed her son carried her talents and lovingly cultivated them for success following everything she had done right in her career, and avoiding everything she had done wrong. It was more than luck that her son carried the same passion she did but instead of feeding into a shared love, it drew out an obsession. Roman’s proficiency didn’t just encourage her and reinstate her sense of value, but challenged her own perception of her career. Her love grew into a hate where whether Roman moved along impressively or fell behind compared to previous performances. Dance was truly his guardian not only as what raised him, but protected him as it allowed him to create some distance between him and his abuser by attending dance academies in Ukraine, Russia, and France where he followed his mother’s reputation of signing with various companies to learn new techniques.
Despite the cushion of his mother’s reputation, Roman had different standards to follow as a man in ballet and her namesake only allowed so much for him to climb. He learned, just as his mother had before him, that he could use his body and sex to get not only what he needed but what he wanted even if he wasn’t deserving of it.
At fifteen, he took a the opportunity to get out from his mother’s thumb. There was an opening in the Los Angeles Ballet Company, miles away from his home. It was a risk to try and apply at his age, but he was accepted upon his background. He devoted his time to as many challenging productions as he could even if the shows were tied smaller theaters and operas, or carried an experimental title. Roman learned to measure his worth on how far he could push his body. He was given the opportunity to audition when a check came his way with a particular request to meet him. He took advantage of it and made sure to set up the meeting the week of auditions and ensured he had a place to stay to see it all play out. The last thing Roman expected was an eleven year old claiming to be his sister trying to scope him out. These two would never become allies, but surely being a nuance kept them in each other's lives.
Roman successfully joined the company as one of the youngest dancers they'd had in decades at just fifteen. His name didn’t carry much power in America, and he had to find a way to support himself upon limited funding. It was once again through his body that he learned to get what he needed, and he used his charm to get what he simply wanted as well. He excelled despite being a male dancer and found sway to get opportunity to prove his worth.
PRESENT DAY
Roman’s career, however, is coming to its end and soon enough he feels he’ll have to return home. He suffered an injury to his hip that was deemed the butchering of his ability to dance, but he pushed through. The only trouble is that the most he pushes it, he risks more than just not being able to go up on stage. Roman, however, is determined to go out with a bang if this is what costs him ever dancing professionally again so he continues to push himself hard.
HEADCANONS [TRIGGER WARNING FOR ALCOHOLISM, VIOLENCE, RELIGION]
Roman has a slight accent no matter how hard he tries to hide it, specifically around ‘a’ vowels. When he’s drunk, it’s very thick and he tends to lose most English pronunciation.
He can speak English and Ukrainian fluently, understands Russian and French, but he cannot read French well at all and tends to mispronounce a lot. This is because he attended school in the three countries where he had to learn enough to understand instruction.
As a means of coping with essentially running away from his life in Europe and the possibility that his dance career is over, Roman has dabbled in drinking socially. As of late, once he starts drinking he can’t stop. He takes advantage of the fact that he’s celebrating to the extent that the dance company knows to keep him around for recognition at the beginning of events, and then quickly have him escorted home.
His biggest vice at the moment? Dance can only do so much, and even though he’s determined to keep doing it, Roman knows he has to find somewhere else to ensure he doesn’t implode. He likes to test his luck with anyone willing to go for a brawl, finding some semblance of comfort in disclosed locations to fight it out.
Religion was often implemented into his craft early on by his instructors as a means of implementing a sense of drive, courage, and confidence. For some time, Roman practiced catholicism and came to America adamant in this part of his training. He ended up rejecting it all together as he was unable to put faith in something higher than his own autonomy when his entire life is devoted to what his body can do beyond his soul.
CURRENT CONNECTIONS
DILAN OSDEMIR — Dilan was the first person his age that Romanyuk met when he came to America upon the Los Angeles Ballet housing him in her father's hotel. Despite moving him to an apartment a month later, they stayed in touched and began a romantic relationship that was short lived. Their fuse, however, must be longer and more resilient than they think as they bickering is endless.
MAVERICK WEST - Meeting during a low point in Roman's life during physical therapy, Mav seemed to be the only one that understood his devotion and the pain of not doing his craft. One thing led to another, and a few social outings have become a pattern. They laugh, they banter, they fall into bed— or what has somewhat of a door.
EMERSYN BARNES - When he arrived in America bought out by some estranged family member, the last thing Roman expected was to come face to face with an eleven year old half sister when he was fifteen years old. While they they don't get along, and their relation and acknowledgement of the other is a fine detail hidden from most, they are two conflicting extremes more alike in their determination than anything else.
WANTED CONNECTIONS
The good ol’ classic hook up, whether it be something consistent or a one night stand that he gave into
People he’s come across in the city because of work or something else, such as patrons to the dance company or people with tickets to see shows
Friends growing up since he’s been in town since he was fifteen!
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