Lev Vsevolodovich Ivanov

Full Name: Lev Vsevolodovich Ivanov
Online Handle: lvivanov
Occupation: Physics Professor
Dorming: Odin Court A42

Lev is handsome in a sharp way, with a tan complexion (he's addicted to the unnatural glow of tanning beds; they're where he does his best thinking), spade-shaped nose and yellow, almost orange, eyes, one of which is always opened a bit more than the other. He's on the short side for a man (5'7"), something he's extremely touchy about, and has a build between average and thin, very little of him being muscled. With a short, dark-brown mop of hair that refuses to behave, he's tried, Lev looks charmingly disheveled or creepy and unkempt, depending on whether you like him or not. He dresses extremely well about half of the time, happily spending his family's money on overpriced suits, and wandering around in pajamas and rags the rest of the time.

His face is made of SAND sometimes.

His PB is Tyki Mikk from the manga D. Gray Man.

As a highly theoretical thinker, Lev's way of dealing with things isn't the most realistic. He is extremely to the point and honest, sparing no detail that could be useful. But, if he doesn't like someone, he won't speak to them about anything that isn't required by law or his job (or familial duty, sadly, it's becoming inescapable). His emotional responses rarely break the surface, but they heavily influence how he carries himself around certain people in the future. Depending on their characteristics, he assigns people conditions. If so and so is easily angered, don't speak to them unless spoken to, etc. Keeping everything in stasis is his biggest concern, aside from preserving his own skin, or course.

He has a terrible tendency of sticking his foot in his mouth and because of this, speaks very little altogether. His dislike of formalities stems from the fact that he doesn't understand them. Mr., Mrs., -san, -sama, and elbows off the table is about as far as he can get without offending. Lev isn't easily embarrassed and usually shrugs off the slights he manages to notice he's made. Most people who do put stock in formalities consider him to be very arrogant. In actuality, he is a little arrogant, but mostly just negligent.

Other prevalent traits include vanity (he has a daily skin regiment, an immaculately constructed wardrobe and shoes with almost imperceptible lifts in them), reliability (if he knows someone is counting on him, he'll do what needs to be done - no matter what. As long as his ass isn't on the line, of course), an inability to apologize (though he doesn't believe in making excuses), and naivety. Members of the opposite sex, and some of the same, find him to be very charming, most likely because of the startling amount of attention he can pay to a single person. He has that kind of energy which, again, either makes him seem magnetic or very, very creepy.

Lev is also secretive (especially of things he is ashamed of), fanatical about his research, negligent of his classes (students who show up as often as he does get A's, yay), and has a bad habit of lying about mundane details. He's not a skilled enough liar, however, to pass off serious fabrications as the truth. He's also got a few problems with infidelity...

The second son of the infamous Ivanov family (well, not so much 'infamous' as they are slightly well-known and looked down upon, but that doesn't sound as important), Lev misbehaved in all the wrong ways. The family, having lost a good deal of their money in the Russian economic depression of the 90's, has suddenly placed a good deal more emphasis on studying the magic that they're heir to rather than revelling in extravagence. They've matured and have come to see what is truly important. And post-soviet Russian capitalism doesn't seem to agree with them. Still, they've retained enough money to live comfortably in Moscow, which is no small sum.

So, in this flurry of pride in their magical heritage, Lev's mistakes started to become incredibly apparent...

To start at the beginning: Lev was born the second son of the incredibly powerful, ridiculously wealthy Ivanov family of Zurich, formerly of Moscow. During his youth, he was spoiled rotten by his spineless mother and largely ignored by his father, who was busy imbezzling money from his pharmaceudical company like all the other good executives. Lev was sent to the best academies, was tutored in several languages (Russian, German and English), played piano well enough to be considered "almost a prodigy", and incidentally learned wind magic from this tome their family kept locked away in the grand study of their primary residence. So, between learning very important things, formulating his own experiments (such as: how hard must one throw a marble bust to cleave the head clean off? and, what are the effects of putting bleach in his sister's shampoo?) and keeping quiet about his family's business, the boy didn't have a lot of free time to spend with friends and girls. Sure, he had friends, but he never learned to care much for them, unlike how he learned to care for girls.

Ah, girls. When Lev was fifteen, he decided that it would be terribly romantic to run away with one of the house girls. They made it as far as Vienna before the house girl, Irène, got tired of him and hurried home. Lev, heartbroken naturally, continued traveling and ended up living with an older woman in Salzburg. Their relationship lasted just over three months before his father found him an dragged him back to Zurich, but not before the woman, Miriam Schroder, managed to conceive. Lev never heard from her again and had no idea she was even pregnant in the first place.

Punished like no sixteen year-old boy has ever been punished before, Lev hardly left the house aside from going to school until he was sent away to America for university (in his third language no less~). At nineteen, without any hint of an engagement period, Lev was married to Ada Harlowe, his former mollecular biology professor. At twenty he was divorced and at twenty-one, his family found out about it an he was punished like no twenty-one year-old has ever been punished before. He was forced to leave school and come home. Home, incidentally, was now Moscow as it had been for centuries until the revolutions. Lev worked at his father's new company, lived at home an finished his unergraduate degree in physics at a local university. He was miserable, but then a miracle happened. A huge depression struck Russia and the family lost virtually all of their fortune! And in this miraculous chaos, Lev ran away and got married again, this time to a younger woman, Yelena, age eighteen. They lived together happily for a year, then unhappily for another three, in America. Lev worked towards his masters while she nagged him for a baby. He didn't understand the huge fuss his family made about marriage, but babies, well. Those were serious, magic or not. The two were divorced when Yelena demanded a child and Lev bought her a cat.

This time, at twenty-five, he returned home willingly and wasn't so much punished as he was temporarily wiped from the face of the earth. Lev stayed as far away from girls as possible after that and dutifully studied for his PhD while working as a TA in order to pay for some of his own expenses. Being part of the middle class was strange!

When thirty came and went, Lev, who had managed to suffer through the long, cold winter of abstinence, started to like celibacy. It was nice, relaxing almost. But his family ruined it by trying to fix the root problem: they found him a very powerful, very intelligent, very rich and very mean wife: Chie Iwai, a Japanese businesswoman working in Moscow. His family also chose to expose their magic to her, therefore forcing Lev to keep her happy. The plan backfired slightly; used to regular sex again, Lev started sniffing around other women. He still cheats, but very, very carefully.

Then there's Kaspar. Kaspar emerged from the woodwork soon after his sixteenth birthday, when his mother died. Lev was listed as the boy's father, though he'd never known about him. A letter showed up, announced he was Lev's son and Lev was shipped off to England to collect the boy. The whole family accompanied them to the hospital for some blood-work upon their return, and then Lev was punished like no man of any age has ever been punished ever before.

Ever.

Kaspar Levanovich Ivanov

Mariya Vsevolodovna Ivanova

Aidan Kerr Lezard

Alice Valmont

Emily Castagnette

Kazuki Yoshida Lyon

Klaus Lezard

Ravel Hawksley

Rolan Durante

Ruby Aisling

Sharifa Ashraf

Signius Le'Roux

Yu Hua Chen

M/W: 2:30 PM - 4:15 PM (Quantum and Cosmological Physics at the School of Science) ; 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM (Theoretical and Computational Physics at the School of Mathematics & Statistics)
T/Th: 2:30 PM - 4:15 PM (Quantum and Cosmological Physics at the School of Science) ; 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM (Physics with Theoretical Astrophysics at the School of Science)
F: SWEET FREEDOM

Lev is available to assist students with any questions they might have on the following days:

M/W: 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM (generally reserved for School of Mathematics & Statistics students)
T/TH: 7:00 PM -8:00 PM (generally reserved for School of Science students)

Further times available upon request.

He smokes a LOT. Anything he's ever touched smells like cigarettes now. And he wears too much cologne. Also, a low-ranking member of the order despite his family's status. This might change, though, when Lev actually gets his ass in gear. He has an assortment of publications and scientific awards under his belt, though nothing too major, for work in the more theoretical aspects of Physics. His academic life, however, has never been something Lev is particularly proud of, so he doesn't mention them much. Lastly, he and Chie have a two year-old daughter named Izumi Levanova Iwai-Ivanova.

Lev speaks German, Russian and English fluently, though his wording can be a little strange in English. He is conversational in French.

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