#zack wolfe

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Zakhar ‘Zak’ Volkov was born in a very dangerous part of Russia. His family had a long history with a prolific crime family based in Moscow and did rather well as smugglers. Zak was running errands by the time he was six much to the severe disapproval of his mother. She fought for his freedom against his father, escaping to America with Zak for a few years. He had a normal childhood for three full years until his father returned. Weeks later, his mother was killed in a car accident.

Zak remained in America with his father and became immersed in organized crime. His father gave him his first gun at 12. During a seemingly routine pickup, Zak and his father were ambushed by police. His father pulled his gun and was killed. Being a natural actor, Zak put on the helpless child routine. When the officers holstered their weapons, he proceeded to pull his pistol and shoot all three of them. Luckily there were no witnesses and his self-defense story was the only story. He spent time in Juvenile Detention and a psychiatric hospital. Once released, he was shuffled into the system and passed from foster home to foster home. Zak was labeled as a problem child and never treated like a proper person.

The moment he turned 18, he walked out of his current foster home and never looked back. He tried to get into crime again, but found it unfulfilling. Over the next few years, he drifted around the world looking for the ultimate escape. He tried drugs, arson, robbery, and vivisection on a few stray animals. Zak knew than his need for distraction would drive him to the extreme. He fought it as hard as he could, but the urge was invading his dreams. On his twenty-third birthday, he nearly killed a homeless man that lay sleeping in a piss-drenched alley. It would have been easy and no one would have noticed that the man was dead. The voice of Zak’s mother rang in his head, bolstering the scrap of conscience that remained. He checked himself into a mental institution that very night.

While in the mental hospital, Zak found that he could paint quite well. He started with the proper subjects such as fruit bowls and flowers in a vase, but his brain craved something more than what his eyes merely saw. He needed to output his inner monstrosity. Instead of fruit, Zak painted a bowl of entrails and dead birds. Flowers in a vase transformed into a vividly colored bouquet of severed arms blooming from a cracked vase crawling with insects. His art was grotesque, disturbing, and extremely worrisome to his caretakers. However, the more gore and horror that Zak painted, the more content and pleasant he became. Odd as it was, it worked.

Zak was released by the hospital the day after he turned 25. He was a model patient for a few months, taking his meds, never missing therapy, and always seeking help if he felt a relapse. Unbeknownst at the time, it was only the top of a downward spiral. The more normal he felt, the more he wanted to lash out. He stopped showing up to work after getting a particularly ferocious urge to stab his boss in the eye socket with a pen. Zak was nearing the bottom, when an orderly from the hospital had his paintings taken out of storage and delivered to his apartment.  Zak spent all night marveling over his work. With what little money he had left, he purchased supplies and was painting again.

After a few rough years as a starving artist and going by the name Metzger, Zak finally landed a showcase at a controversial gallery in Berlin to the horror of many art aficionados. His style was a niche that not many could fill and he sold it all. Zak was set, financially. He took to his new life as an artist like a fish to water. The lifestyle gave him license to be outrageous, offensive, and outright insane all for the sake of his art. This freedom made him the happiest and the most dangerous that he had ever been.

Now as a 35 year old painter and actor, Zak resides in London. He assimilated himself into the city like a chameleon, taking on the accent, slang, and habits of someone born and raised in the city. He still wields the brush as Metzger, but only when commissioned or when he is feeling particularly vicious. Zak’s work in theater is gaining attention and his stage name (Zack Wolfe) is started to become known in the community.

OOC INFORMATION

OOC name/alias: Simona

OOC age: 1200

Activity [1/10]: 11

Any RP experience: yep

Are you okay with smut?: yep