Mr. Client

Summary:


 * Name: Roma Pasternak


 * Nicknames: Mr. Client, "The Conductor of Souls"


 * Age: 200 or so.


 * Family: Wife and daughter. When he was younger, he was an only child with a mother and father.


 * Pets: A few dogs, some cats, chickens and hens, some fish in the outdoor garden, a couple mice, and a hamster. They're not his, mind you - his daughter's.

Personality:
He is cold and conniving. He will order someone's death casually and with a smile. In fact, he loves to smile! He puts on a heavy air of discomfort with said smile (unless you're Partridge), and enjoys watching people squirm. Despite all that, he is not a happy man. Rather, quite unhappy! Though you'll likely only see that side to him when he's speaking with Lev, the only person who really sees his true side. Anyways, Client is cold, powerful, and murderous, doing his work with no hesitation or difficulty. And he does it all with a grin.


 * Goals/motivations: To continue making the Pasternak name one to fear, and to keep the line of necromancy in his family strong and powerful.

Pre-Meme Background:
Where to begin. He was born in the early 1800s to a wealthy Russian aristocratic family that lived around Moscow. At a young age (10 or 11) his father began instructing him in the ways of necromancy, a family skill that was passed down generation to generation. However, Roma was born a bit weak, and needed a sort of enhancer to be able to do the spells: he was given a black conductor's baton of sorts, something simple and easy to conceal, and garnered a somewhat silly nickname in his family of "The Conductor of Souls." As he learned, his family arranged a marriage between him and a woman named Svetlana, or Sveta as she was called. They shared a strange relationship, Sveta often telling Roma that she hated him, then turning around and apologizing heavily and stating that she loved him for all time... She was sort of like a tsundere. However, after some years of marriage, Roma died suddenly of a form of influenza. Sveta begged his family to bring him back, and she was sent to retrieve the soul, being the only one with him at his death (and thus the only to "see" what it looked like). She was able to bring him back, but became depressed at what she had seen, and killed herself not too many years later.

Roma became more interested in perfecting his necromancy in order to bring her back, but stopped once he realized that she would truly hate him if he did that. Instead, a couple years later, he remarried to Agatha and they shared a nice, long life together for around 60 years. When she died, he brought her back to life, but she, too, became depressed. Roma didn't notice, as around this time, he began doing his job: hiring people to commit assassination, espionage, torture, etc and bringing them back to life if they died. Because of him being so busy and coupled with her depression, Agatha, too, killed herself. Roma's employees convinced him not to revive her.

He very soon remarried his mistress, Klara, but it wasn't really love at all, and when she died of old age reviving her never even entered his mind. After that, he married a second mistress, Ina, and she became pregnant by mistake. He began plans to have her abort the baby, but stopped and asked her to have it, surprising almost everyone: if he was planning on having a child, that meant he was beginning to abandon life, himself. He was looking for an heir. Only Lev expected the development, of course. Svetlana was soon born, and she was nicknamed Sveta. Once she turned ten, Roma began teaching her necromancy.

Appearance:

 * Height: 5'10" (178cm)
 * Weight: 150lbs (68kg)


 * Hair color/style: Grey and slicked back (originally blond)


 * Eye color: Grey


 * Any special physical description: He is very old and wrinkly.

Interactions:

 * Lev : His longest worker. He knows how intensely loyal he is, and (no surprise) manipulated him to be so. He very easily could have helped out Lev's family, knowing that help could have made Lev indebted to him, but instead chose to let them die, making Roma Lev's only real "family," as it were, and in turn, making him hard-working and ridding distractions. He thinks Lev is a good person, but that's about it. He's just very convenient for him, since he usually does a good job.


 * Partridge : He thinks he's funny and easy to manipulate. He also thinks he's a little slow.


 * Julian : He knows it's Partridge, don't try to fool him. You will be laughed at.
 * Big Brother : He wishes they could have worked together. He's a bit disappointed in him.

Etc:
Mr. Client's family has been doing necromancy since the 1400s. Thanks to Big Brother, that line may die out soon. Also, he talks

like

this.

Threads:

 * Mr. Client hires Partridge.
 * Mr. Client re-hires him.
 * Mr. Client checks in.
 * Mr. Client watches Partridge try to kill eyes.gif.
 * Mr. Client sees how that went.
 * Mr. Client leaves a letter, urging him to hurry the fuck up.
 * Mr. Client chats with an eyes.gif and gets them from Partridge.
 * Mr. Client returns with his employee.
 * Mr. Client meets Partridge's fiancee.
 * Mr. Client calls God poppycock.
 * Mr. Client assists in moving Mari's soul.
 * Mr. Client delivers a housewarming gift.