Romanov, Mikhail Loganovich

Bio:
Name: His Imperial Highness, Grand Duke Mikhail Loganovich of Russia or Mikhail Loganovich Romanov, Misha to his family and friends, Dork to Princess Brat, Mikey to his father, Mike to strangers.
Alias: Michael Roman
Age: 21
Birthday: May 7, 1988
Height:5'9"
Weight: 180 lbs
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
PB: Peter Facinelli
Relatives: Logan aka Wolverine (father); Natasha Romanov aka Her Imperial Highness, Grand Duchess Natalia Alainovna of Russia (mother); Anya Stark aka Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Anya Antonovna of Russia (half sister); David Roberts (half brother); Anthony Stark (step father); James Romanov-Rogers (dimensionally challenged half brother); Elizaveta Romanov (dimensionally challenged half sister)

Godparents: Col. Nicholas Fury; Valentina Fontaine; Steve Rogers aka Captain America; Queen of Wakanda, Ororo Munroe aka Storm.

Base of Operations: Xavier's Academy, Westchester, New York

Abilities: Misha has the ability to watch a routine or a demonstration of a fighting style and instantly translate it to muscle memory. He collects training films and documentaries featuring wrestling, martial arts, gymnastic routines, weapons training, dance and other physical skills to extend his range. His ability also allows him to fight and defeat a seasoned opponent by mimicking their own skills and moves while in combat. So far only his father can change fighting styles fast enough to beat him. Like his father, most opponents only beat him once in hand to hand combat. A second time is rare unless powers are used.

He inherited his father's healing factor. While not considered as powerful as Logan's, it's nevertheless faster and more efficient in healing and regrowing damaged organs as he does not have his father's adamantium to counter the effects.

His father gave him a thorough education in most martial arts and blades while providing him with a moral code that could only be taught by a man who had lived for more than a century. His mother taught him the trade tricks of master spies.

Misha speaks English and Russian fluently, and can get his face slapped in a half dozen others.

Special Equipment:

Selection of: short swords and knives, lock picks and items used by the well-stocked spy.

Glock 19: often replaced by Mom.

Stark Inc stealth armor suit: Advanced composite ceramics, fused with a kevlar-like polymer weave, are backed by optical fiber networks, that, working in synch with an array of poly-carbon head hologram generators cause the armor to be invisible to any form of detection, including night vision, infrared, and enhanced super-human senses.

The entire outer surface of the armor is essentially like a movie screen. Holographic-imagers project images of the surrounding area onto the armor's surface, creating the illusion of invisibility as the wearer blends seamlessly into the background. To further thwart detection systems the suit houses an active noise-reduction engine and internal air tanks for silent stalking. And to achieve total silent running, the armor stores the CO 2 produced by the wearer, releasing it through small vents only when circumstances are right.

The battle computer's adaptive combat guidance logic bases protocol based on data it has collected on a particular target. The armor retains the limited repulsor charge and uni-beam of previous models. However, it can redirect power to these systems if needed. A plasma discharge system provides protection against anti-metal weapons.

Armor specifics:
Flight: The armor can reach speeds in excess of Mach 8.
Power Cells: The suit is powered by a combination of solar converters, electrical batteries and an on-board generator that uses beta particle absorption as a fuel source.
Energy Conversion Power Recharge: The suit is also able to convert nearby energy sources, such as heat or kinetic energy into electricity, or even drain electrical energy directly into the batteries for recharge.
Self-Contained Life-Support System & Environmental Protection: The suit can be completely sealed for operations in vacuum or underwater, providing its own life support, and is shielded against radiation.
Armaments: Repulsors; limited Chestbeam spotlight (with infrared); armor can emit high-level Electro-Magnetic Pulse.
Energy Shield

Darlene: '71 Dodge Demon, midnight blue and all attitude

Strength Level: Misha's physical strength is the same as any young man of his age and build who trains daily in a variety of disciplines and workout styles. As part of the physical education department and an auxiliary member of the X-Men, he has the opportunity to push himself in a variety of training settings and against an almost infinite number and level of opponents thanks to the school's Danger Room. Through his mother, he has access to the Avengers' facilities and has used those to add to his skills.

History: Two government projects joined in one child would be any parent's bad dream. For Logan and Natasha Romanov it was nothing short of a security nightmare.

As long standing friends, Logan and Natasha enjoyed each other's company on occasion but were never a couple. The unexpected pregnancy did not change their status. Natasha told Logan and was agreeable to giving him the baby to raise when he asked for custody. Logan felt he had the more stable lifestyle and shifting to a part-time in the X-Men and full time staff member at Xavier's school allowed him the flexibility needed to raise his son. After his years with the X-Men, he was keenly aware of how the lack of guidance and attention could warp a young mutant mind. Especially as it was certain that Misha would be something more than the basic human child when he grew older.

Misha grew up surrounded by the X-Men and Avengers. Logan was the custodial parent; however, Natasha kept him with her as often as possible. He and Anya are as close as two siblings can be raised in different different households. He counts Brat as one of his best friends. Logan considers her part of his odd little family and treats her as an important part of Misha's life.

Misha attended the nearby public schools in Salem Center. As his abilities were not violent or intrusive by nature when he manifested at age twelve, Logan was satisfied that being kept in a normal setting as long as possible would allow his son to be more sociable and down to Earth. He graduated high school with a 3.5 GPA, and was offered a sports scholarship that he was unable to take due to his unknown mutant status. He began working as a member of the Academy's physical training department under his father immediately. Natasha continued to press for him to go to college, bringing up the subject at every opportunity.

When Natasha arrived for his last birthday dinner, Misha was worried to see she looked tired and drained. She resisted his attempts to get her to retire or cut back her activities. In a desperate move, he made a deal with his mother that he would go to college if she were to stop full time and stay in New York for as long as he was in college. He didn't expect her to take him up on it. To his surprise, she agreed. He would attend college beginning in the fall, and she would restrict her work to the Avengers and SHIELD New York.

His first attempt to begin school was interrupted by an attack by the Hand. Misha's bright idea was find a way to make himself trackable and then turn himself into bait. Col. Fury let him into a trial experiment using radioactive isotopes that could be tracked by satellite. Then he painted a bull's eye on his ass and waited. They didn't take the bait until after he'd persuaded his parents to take him with them on their nightly rounds of Hand housecleaning. He was kidnapped from under their noses.

He was rescued after a week of torture, having an eye forcibly removed with a spork, the tendons in his ankles severed to hobble him, poisoned and denied food to keep his body from healing properly. Surgery reattached the the tendons and mended the improperly healing wounds in his abdomen. He spent four days in SHIELD until he could stand on his own, practically eating his weight in food six times a day. The eye took approximately two months to regenerate and become usable again.

After Anya's kidnapping and presumed death at the hands of the New Mandarin, Misha lost what good sense he had and refused to believe she was gone. He manged to put together the clues needed and connected enough of the the dots to the Lady Mandarin. Recognizing he was in over his head, he went to Stark for help. Expecting to be tossed out on his ass, he instead found Stark with suspicions of his own and ready to listen. Tony offered him the use of the stealth armor for the coming battle to reclaim Anya. The two of them, with Natasha and Sarah Rogers, recovered Anya.

Not long after Natasha's announcement of her coming marriage to Tony Stark, Red Room made their move to kidnap Misha. He was run off the road in the middle of the night between the city and the institute by and taken out of the country before either of his parents knew it. Red Room used his cell phone to continue the illusion that he had just taken off without telling anyone, texting in response to any messages left for him. While in Red Room's tender care, under the control of Alexi Shostakov, his mother's believed-to-be-dead husband, Misha was put through intense torture and mind washing through the use of drugs, electroshock and visual stimuli with subliminal images designed to make him hate his family and want to hurt them.

The drug therapies and unnecessary surgeries, with and without anesthesia, were done to test the information contained in the files Red Room purchased from the New Mandarin. Misha doesn't know that as Lady Mandarin, Anya stole Avenger files and files Avengers had on other heroes and mutants, or that this was the means by which Red Room obtained their detailed information on him.

Once SHIELD learned he was somewhere in Russia through a normal check of their experimental isotope testing, his parents were sent to rescue him with a team of young Avengers, interrupting the brain washing process. The full extent and whether or not it was successful has yet to be determined. Each member of his family carries a special injector containing a drug designed specifically to counter his healing factor and render him unconscious in seconds with no lasting effects. It will give them a chance to escape and call for help if his brain switch flips and he becomes a danger to them or himself. The same drug dosage would be deadly in seconds to six healthy, ordinary humans.

He seems fine so far but there are moments he reaches for a memory or a name and it's not where he left it. Logan got him into therapy with Dr. Leonard Samson to deal with the effects of Red Room mucking about in his head. The good doctor is a little frustrated with Misha's refusal to open up about the experience. Misha believes the Doc Samson is reporting back to his parents so he only speaks in general about Red Room.

Not long after his mother's wedding to Tony Stark, the family was rocked again by the news that not only had the Russian people voted to bring back their royal family and create a figurehead monarchy similar to that of the United Kingdom, but that they were direct descendants of the last Romanov tsar.

The three Romanovs survived assassination attempts from other branches of the family, and Natasha was crowned empress. During the coronation ball, the director of Red Room made himself known to Natasha in a private conversation on a small terrace where she had retreated for a few minutes of air and peace. Alexi's appearance was a great shock, but his veiled threats were understood when Misha appeared to check on his mother and immediately tried to attack the man. Natasha's attempt to hold him back allowed Alexi to escape through the ballroom, and she only let him go when Misha told her that was the head of Red Room and the man who ordered him tortured.

With his father, Misha tracked the man through the palace and found him trying to escape through a basement access. Alexi tried one last time to turn Misha against his mother, and attempted to bribe Logan with information on his past. Logan sent Misha back to where Natasha had the rest of the family together in her rooms, and he took Alexi out of the palace and put an end to him elsewhere. Logan has been a killer all his life. He is the operative of last resort as there are times now when he is sent out to resolve a situation in the only way possible. He doesn't want Misha to live his life or to ever be comfortable the act of killing an unarmed man.

Recently, the Commission found an even more direct heir. Natasha's older brother Peter had fathered a son. Mikhail Petrovich Romanov has accepted the throne and Natasha happily returned to New York.

Misha is now a college student, beginning at ESU in the fall. He trains with the X-Men and the students at Xavier's institute as well as with Tony Stark to better his control of the stealth armor. His mother gave him her penthouse apartment after she married Tony Stark to provide him with a place of his own. Natasha funded an account for Misha's expenses from birth. Logan left it untouched as his membership in the X-Men and work with the Institute covered their room and board. Misha was given access to the account at age eighteen. His needs have been modest over the last two years, and working at Xavier's has covered his room and board for that time as well as providing a monthly stipend. Mom still puts money into his account for his expenses while he's in school.

His eventual goal is to earn a degree in education and open a center for mutant kids to have a place to hang out and get help with anything from their homework to physical training with their powers.

His summer plans include training with the Winter Guard, granted due to his status as a member of the royal family, training with his step-father in the care and feeding of a stealth suit, and continuing his ongoing training with the X-Men as a member of the beta team. His Little League coaching is what he does for fun. He might even start dating again.

08-04-2009
With the summer nearly over and fall classes starting in a few weeks, Misha has begun dating again. His sister is very amused that Tessa Reece is a redhead, as his Logan side appears to have an ongoing problem with the breed. He believes Tessa is a mutant because she often answers questions that he hasn't said aloud, and is wary because she denies it.

His trip to Russia and training with the Winter Guard was put on hold with the recent attack on Natasha and Tony. He feels his place is with his siblings to show a united front against the attackers, and the new Stark arrival. His surprise about Margaret Donovan-Stark's disclosure that he is a stockholder in Stark Inc. scored a point for the usurper. Ms. Donovan lost points in believing that being labeled a bastard in public would bother him.

12-30-2009
Misha’s encounter with Weapon X has somehow activated the incomplete Red Room programming, making him a danger to his mother and sisters. After his attempt on his mother’s life and the attempt to take his own instead, he has been in therapy with Charles Xavier. So far he’s doing well and has been allowed to associate with the rest of his family as long as they take the proper precautions.

He still believes he killed Tessa Reece. The information that she was a mutant and betrayed him didn’t seem to be as important as her death, although it has brought back some of his trust issues. The death affected him deeply. He is unable to sleep and vodka is off limits for the time being. The return of old friends is a diversion, but he’s kept his steady diet of barmaids.

With other people he is more his old self. They don’t need to know about the nightmares that haunt him or the rage that still simmers in the pit of his stomach. His attention is turned to being a dutiful son, a good brother, a dependable friend, and a strong teammate.

Goal for the new year: Finish the next semester and find time to train with the Winter Guard.

08022010

Misc:

Favorite activities: playing pool and collecting phone numbers.
Favorite food: a good rib eye steak.
Favorite beverage: beer
Favorite baseball team: METS!

Misha ID

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