Sven Zalenski

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29th April 1998 Sven born to Aleksander and Beata in Kyiv, Ukraine. Late 1998 Beata and Sven moved Lutsk, Ukraine after Aleksander was bitten by a Vampire and chose to return to his home town in Russia.  (6mth old) 2002 Aleksander returned to Ukraine to reclaim his son, and took Sven in the dead of night, returning to Moscow, Russia. (4 years old) Late 2004 Beata tracked down her son in Moscow and stole him back from his father, fleeing to her parents home in Poznan, Poland. (6 years old) 2005 Aleksander found them in Poland 6 month later, causing Beata to flee again.. This time to Bucharest, Romania. (6 1/2 years old) 2010 - 2016 Sven attended Durmstrang school in Bulgaria.  (age 11 - 18) 2016 - 2017 Sven lived in coastal Tallinn, Estonia, studying independently. (age 18 - 19) 2017 - 2018 Sven lived in St. Petersburg, Russia, working for the Russian Ministry where he began to practice Legillimency. (age 19 - 20) 2018 - 2020 Sven moved across to Stavanger, Norway to be far away from the unrest/uprisings, returning to private study/research. (age 20 - 22) 2020 - 2021 Sven moved to Isle of Rothesay, Scotland when Bulgian laws changed and caused increasing conflicts across Europe. (age 22 - 23) 2021 - 2024 Sven lived in London, England, and joined the Department of Mysteries in the Ministry. (age 23 - 26) 2024 - current Sven lives in coastal Dover, England, while still working in the Ministry, now as Head of Department, but also do a lot of private/ independent work /research in his spare time. (age 26 - 32). Name: Sven Aleksander Zalenski Age: Thirty Two Date of Birth: 29th April 1998 Mother: Beata Zalenski (Polish) Father: Aleksander Rabrenovich (Russian) Siblings: N/A Early life: Sven was born on 29th April 1998, just days before the Battle of Hogwarts and the fall of the Dark Lord. These events had little impact on his parents living in Kyiv. That is, until a few short months later when the backlash caught up to them. Maybe who had affiliated with Lord Voldemort during the way fled from Britain to avoid punishment for their actions. Among those were a vast number of vampires who had benefited from the bloodshed and chaos the war had stirred up. It was in Kyiv that one of these vampires found Aleksander, stumbling home drunk one evening. His feast became his fairground, and Aleksander joined the ranks of the living dead.  To avoid putting his family at risk, Aleksander fled back to his hometown of Moscow, living in the shadows and slowly coming to terms with the changes and the troubles he now faced. Beata, knowing how controlling and possessive Aleksander could be, took her young son and moved, relocating in Lutsk. It wasn't much of a move, but it would be much harder for Aleksander to find them again when he finally came to terms with being a vampire and decided he wanted his first and only son back. Beata was not about to allow her only child to be raised by a vampire, even if that vampire was once the man she loved - still did, in fact.  Beata's fears came true in 2002, when Sven was just four years old. She'd heard the rumors of a vampire in town, and despite added security, Aleksander slipped past her defense and took Sven in the dead of night, returning to Moscow with his beloved child and heir in his possession. Aleksander had gained remarkable control over his vampire capabilities, and despite Aleksanders need for blood, Sven was never once at risk of being snacked upon. While Aleksander wanted his son in his possession, he did not intend to turn him into a vampire - certainly not at such a young age. It took Beata almost two years to finally get into Moscow and hunt down Aleksander and Sven, and in the end, it was Sven's school record that led her to him. She tried to plea with Aleksander to allow her time with her son - allow her to be his mother once again, but Aleksander had turned cold towards the woman he once loved, and saw her as a threat. He wanted Sven to grow up strong, and such over protective emotions as Beata's would only hinder him.  In the end, Beata intercepted her six year old on his way into school, and was on the next train out of Moscow.  Finally, she reached her parents home in Poznan and hid there, legally changing Sven's surname to her own to 'hide' him. Only, that was the first bad decision that she made. Aleksander was able to follow the paper chase straight to Poznan and it didn't take long for him to hunt down their family home. Beata's parents tried to fight Aleksander away while Beata and Sven fled, and it ultimately let to their untimely death. Alone and scared, Beata kept running as far as she could, and by any means possible, until she found herself in Bucharest. She settled down, certain that Aleksander would not think to search for them there, rather focus his attentions in Poland and Ukraine, and those areas in which they had lived previously. For many years the pair were safe, and Sven manged to live a relatively normal life, even attending school, up until the age of 11 when he was due to start studying to be a wizard. Beata lived constantly looking over her shoulder, and Sven could never really understand why they kept running. He knew, of course, that his father was a vampire, and his mother spoke of it often, but having spent the better part of two years living with his father, he didn't see what was so wrong with him that kept them running from him. The way he saw it, his father might not be the most emotional man, but he had been a good enough father, and Sven had everything he had needed or wanted in the time he'd lived in Moscow. To some extent, Sven resented his mothers' interference.  School Years (2010 - 2016) When he was eleven, Sven received a place in Durmstang School of Magic in Bulgaria, and it came as a great relief. He was away from it all - his mother, her paranoia, and her insistence that one day his father would hunt him down. Inside the walls of the school, he was safe... at first. At school, Sven managed to make friends with a number of boys there, and to some he shared a dorm with, he opened up about his past - moving from place to place, constantly avoiding his vampire father. The other boys hadn't made comment on his vampire father, until two years later when the first uprisings took place. Once the uprisings and anti-creature feelings picked up in Bulgaria, anyone in the school associated with a creature in any way came under attack. His once-friends turned on him, making sure that everyone in the school knew of his 'tainted' blood, despite the fact his father was turned after Sven was born. Over the years, the anti-creature uprisings grew worse, and so did the attitudes towards associates within the school. Most were bullied, but some, like Sven, were not the sort to slink into the shadows and be made to hide. His remaining five years at the school was filled with fights and duels, and his professors were more than willing to place the blame on him and give him harsher punishments that others, because they were equally as anti-creature as most of the students were.  During his final two years, Sven took a particular interest in the Dark Arts, not because he wanted to be known for dark magic, but simply because some of it was stronger and more dangerous than any of the spells they'd learned in class,  and he would need to be able to defend himself. If the reaction of those in the school was anything to go by, leaving school was going to be a lot worse. Despite the shared opinions, the Professors could only allow things to go so far without intervening, then then they had to break things up. Out of school, there'd be no one to stop things getting out of hand. Sven also spent a lot of his spare time improving himself physically, so no matter whether he was fighting with fists or with wands, he was always capable of fighting back. After school After leaving school, Sven refused to return home to his mother, and instead headed straight out on his own, going up to live in a coastal town in Estonia for a year, and living a very quiet, secluded life to stay off the radar from both his mother and his father. He spent the year studying, pouring over books and documents, improving his repertoire of spells, of all kinds. He also began to form a growing interest in the art of infusing magic into objects. He would spent much of his days along the quieter areas of the coast, surrounded by books, equipt with his wand, and completely absorbed in whatever it was he was working on.  His stay in Tallinn didn't last more than a year before he came to accept that he needed to work if he wanted to get by, and job opportunities in Estonia were few and hardly beneficial to someone with ambition and drive. It was hearing about a possible job opportunity in the Russian Ministry for Magic that had Sven heading for St. Petersburg, where he worked in a very secretive department, unable to discuss his work with anyone outside of the office. He worked on a number of projects at once, and one of the projects that interested him the most was the one that explored the true power of legillimency, and the true possibilities that could be achieved through using it. After some internal chaos and corruption, the department landed in turmoil and the projects fell apart. Sven took the files he could gather on legillimency and left Russia. He wound up in Stavanger where he once again fell into a solitary life, spending much time on his studies, but this time, concentrating on enhancing his use of Legillimency, and continuing the project started within the Russian Ministry independently. He was free from restrictions, and while he did not always follow ethical lines in his experimenting, he saw the positives of learning as far outweighing the negatives of ethics, and the harm that may or may not have seen caused to his 'subjects'.  Despite living out of the way in Norway, Sven kept a close eye on the news, always making sure he knew what was going on with the creatures and uprisings, and whatever new changes were taking place. It was in 2020, when Bulgaria laws changed, that Sven decided to get further away to avoid the inevitable conflicts that were going to arise from Bulgaria's changing policies, and those of the countries that decided to follow suit. Sven found himself on a small island off the coast of Scotland, living among a primarily muggle community, but that didn't bother him at all. He liked small and he liked coastal, and Rothesay offered both. He continued to work independently for a number of months before finally feeling ready to take up a job in England and work on his career.  Despite his love for small and coastal, Sven moved into central London, taking up a job within the Department of Mysteries.  His previous work experience in the Russia Ministry set him up nicely for the job, and he knuckled down and worked hard, quickly gaining rank and status within the department. After a couple of years, city life was starting to hold him back, and he opted to move out of the capital, living instead in Dover, and returning to his old comfort - the coast. When Sven was twenty nine, the Head of the Department of Mysteries was retiring, and needed a replacement. Despite not being the most qualified for the job when placed next to some of the others who worked there, Sven was determined to get the job, and lead the Department. All those years of refining and building his legillimency skill came in useful, and across a period of time, Sven tweaked and altered the memories of not only the department head, but also those closest to him, until which point they believed that he was the most suitable for the part - more so than any of the rest of them. The position fell easily into his hands.  Although not usually one to manipulate his way through life, he couldn't pass up on the chance to better his position, and did what he had to do to get he job he desired.  Not, Sven continues to live a secluded life, never bothering with relationships, and barely bothering to even for friendships with anyone at all, merely standing acquaintances. Hearing of the fall of Durmstang pleased him greatly, but news that Britain was granting equality to creatures did not. He can not understand the desire to allow creatures into the community at all, and is strongly against it. While he puts up a professional front at work, he is not happy with the way things are turning, and spends his free time trying to stir up a commotion and aid the anti-creature/anti-immigration initiative that is sweeping the county.