FULL NAME: Adrien Ivanov
AGE: 19
D.O.B.: August 2nd, 1996
TITLE: Trainee
FC: Dylan O’Brien
Adrien was born on August 2nd, 1996, at 2:37 a.m. That date and time would always stay with him - not because that was when he was born, but because it was when his mother died. Exactly three years later, her husband died too, at the same time. While the first death wasn’t planned, the second was; Alexander Ivanov wanted to honor his dead wife by taking his own life. While Adrien didn’t remember Ana Ivanov’s passing, he wouldn’t ever forget the sight of blood pooling next to his so-called-father’s corpse, or the sound of the gun clattering to the floor.
His grandparents adopted him and whisked him off to Esher - a small, rich town in the middle of some country called England. As young as he was, he didn’t care; the only thing that mattered to him was that, somehow, he was not alone. Should they not have abandoned him? At age seven, though, he realized why they appeared to care for him as such. During the night, his grandfather would creep into his room and do what he liked with him. Afterwards, his grandmother would beat him. Those events made him realize that nothing good ever came at night, when everybody was sleeping. Silence ensued, for the most part, until he discovered that it was possible to escape from his home. If he wasn’t there, nothing would happen.
Sleepless nights led to exploration in the only way he could. His grandparents would not allow him to stray far from the house, but he spent many nights on the rooftop of his home with his laptop. Security cameras were easy enough to get into by the age of nine, and - ever the curious teenager at age thirteen - he was looking through laptop cams as well, spying on people of all sorts. He appreciated the beauty of the human form, so long as it wasn’t his own.
Live feeds were no longer enough for him after a few years, and he started to sneak out of home with a camera he stole from his grandparents. He found he liked to go beneath the windows of those in his town, wait until they were doing something they shouldn’t have been. On occasion, they were pictures of adults cheating on their significant others; more often than not, though, he photographed other teenagers. Those that left their blinds open as they changed became the focus of his series of photos, no matter their gender. The pictures were for no one but himself, but there they were, waiting for him. They made him feel better, for it turned out that he wasn’t the only one with a home life kept under wraps.
The longer he wandered Esher, the more quickly he realised that he enjoyed this - the adventuring, as he called it. Whenever he worked up the nerve, he went off into London, sneaking up onto rooftops and all the like. After a while, he caught wind of a secret branch of the government - MI6. With money procured from his grandparents, he was able to weasel his way into a spot as a 00 trainee. While he knew he might die, what did it matter? At least he wouldn’t be home anymore.
+ Intelligent, surprising, adventurous.
- Nervous, anxious, amoral.
ADRIEN IS PLAYED BY MATT ( HE/HIM, EST ).
