Yakov Solonik

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Yakov Solonik was born in a small Siberian town in 1882, where he immediately turned to a life of crime. Showing a great deal of dissatisfaction for how the working class was treated by the government, he fell in with the local Vor group when he was 8, stealing from police and military until being sent to prison at the age of 16. Coming of age in prison and rising in the ranks of the vory, he became an assassin, doing the family's dirty work, and was released at age 22 and moved with his vor family to New York in pesuit of easy living, where he was quickly imprisoned for a botched assassination. Released again at age 28, he then continued his ways of killing the familys enemies, thieving, and chasing after dames. He was briefly imprisoned again at age 35 for burglary, and was released at 36.

Misc:
Tattoos

    Fortress on back bearing three spires and the word "север" underneath.
    Three barbed wire strands around left wrist.
    Dagger on back of neck.
    Ravens flying over the fortress on his back.
    Hooded medieval executioner on left bicep.
    Downward pointing spider on abdomen.
    "243" in a police badge, surrounded by three skulls on right bicep.
    Saint Olga on right forearm.
    Dried white rose with thorns on lower left leg
    Russia, stylized as a prison, on left thigh
    Cat in a musketeer hat on the back of left palm.
    "от меня уйти трудно" Under the cat.
    On both hands are various ring tattoos, including a circled letter A, a square with a dot in it, a square with a skull in it, and a lozenge bearing an orthodox cross.
    Four eight pointed stars. One on each collarbone/ shoulder, one on each knee.
    13 dots on his fingers.

Tends to be soft spoken and a touch arrogant, heavy smoker, not much for drinking, prefferign to keep his wits about him. Keeps a linoleum cutter, a cigar cutter and a pair of browning pistols on him.