Atreu Vasilyevich

"“I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.”""― Thomas Harris, Hannibal"Atreu Vasilyevich VIII is the oldest child and only son between Atreu Vasilyevich VII and his wife Vittoria Borgia, and is the older brother to Milena.

Through his relationship with Catharina Reinout, he is the father of Vivienne, Milena, and Leta-Marie. He was also the surrogate father of Abigail Proctor.

Natural Abilities
Phoenix "Muroni" Physiology - Similar to Catharina but also very different, a cuckoo phoenix who was a relative of his mother was at the end of his current lifespan and while Vittoria was sleeping and put all of his life essence into her womb effectively killing the child she was carrying causing Atreu to become the being he is today. Being born from a muroni family and having distant witch genes on his father's side, he is a cuckoo phoenix masquerading as a muroni.


 * Eye-Color Shifting - The main trait common with Muroni is the ability to change there eye color from a reality normal "human"-looking eye to that of there true color in Atreu case his eyes turn completely white with three gold rings.
 * Enhanced Condition - Atreu was deceptively strong for his size, being strong enough to lift a body with ease. He has exceptionally developed senses. His sense of smell was perhaps his keenest sense. He instantly recognized William Orgelan by his aftershave, despite not seeing him in three years, and could identify Catharina Reinout's skin cream from the day before. After his escape, he refused to alter his nose, wanting to keep his keen sense of smell. He had unnerving control over his emotions and bodily readings. He could walk among vicious man eating boars with no fear, he could also control his pulse rate when committing brutal acts, such as his attack on the nurse, and a pulse rate of just over 100 when beating an officer to death.
 * Telepathy - Atreu can speak telepathically with other phoenix's either natural or cuckoo phoenix's.
 * Mediumship - Atreu possesses the ability to visually concept, perceive, summon and communicate with the deceased and other spiritual beings connected to many astral realms. This can be used to make deals, gain insight of people, situations and events and gain intuition. This can grant astral vision and detection.
 * Longevity - Atreu ages at a slower rate than humans, despite being well into his nineties resembles a youthful middle aged man.
 * Resurrection - Due to being a phoenix, he is able to self-resurrect herself through the ashes of his previous body.

Demonic Aura - Grant to him through his powers as a Muroni and through his noble and powerful bloodline Atreu is described as having an intense dark and destructive aura capable of demolishing buildings and crushing people under the weight of it.


 * Tranquil Fury - Atreu can attack in full rage while retaining control and are able to attack with the relentless strength of a madman while gaining the speed and precision of a surgeon.

Black Fire Manipulation - Atreu can create, shape and manipulate the fire of a darker, detrimental nature; that which damages, destroys, and consumes anything/everything they come across, representing the hazardous destructive side of fire, which in turn ignores most of the limitations and weaknesses of the normal fire. In essence, this is about solely controlling the negative powers of fire.

Skills

 * Genius-Level Intellect - Atreu has an extremely high intellect and masterful observational skills. He is presumably the third most intelligent character on the show currently alive. However, Atreu's intelligence was sufficient that he was able to resist (*&*'s) manipulation abilities.
 * Prediction - Atreu's intelligence allows him to plan attacks and deduce (often correctly) exactly how a scuffle will play out. He can even predict exactly how events took place, though sometimes his adversaries can jumble up the clues to misdirect him. This rarely works on him.
 * Investigation - He often uses a memory retrieval technique called "the method of loci", which he refers to as his 'mind palace'. (*&*) describes this system of storing memories as plotting them on a map of a familiar location and retrieving those memories by finding the way back to them, to theoretically never forget anything. To use this skill, Atreu requires silence and space to himself to reduce outside interference.
 * Cold Readings - Upon meeting a person, he will often "scan" them, using elements of their appearance and behavior to arrive at astonishingly accurate conclusions about their past or personality. He sometimes even performs cold readings on a location such as an apartment to deduce a trait related to the current resident. His cold readings are usually performed subconsciously, as his brain was still performing them and deducing things about people and places in front of him when he was heavily intoxicated on (*&*'s) stag night and severely depressed after (*&*'s) death. However, Gerald is not infallible, as he admits "there is always something" that he misses or misinterprets.


 * Master Tactician/Strategist - His advanced intellect allows him to perform various acts and set up traps in places, based on his accurate predictions. This involves jamming up machine guns and setting off trick bombs. He even carefully timed the throw and rescue of (*&*). Atreu's strategical aptitude can make him extremely unpredictable, as he displayed the willingness to go at great costs to carry out any complex and dangerous plan he had thought upon and he even seemed to always think many steps ahead and form backup plans in case his original plan failed, as evidenced when he simply and calmly blinded (*&*) after realizing a fist fight would be futile, catching him completely off guard.
 * Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant/Martial Artist - He is also shown to be very proficient in many known martial arts and boxing and had an aggressive, if not slippery, fighting style. His style also involves psychological warfare. He is a very adept boxer and was able to hold his own, overwhelm and defeat opponents much larger than himself, or multiple opponents inside and outside the ring. However Atreu is not above cheating, and will often use the environment, and other distractions in order to gain the upper hand when outnumbered, or outsize.
 * Expert Knife Proficiency - Atreu preferred using knives in his murders rather than guns, however he showed skill with a crossbow and was adept with a shotgun in two of his early murders.
 * Skilled Marksman - Though not as skilled as Wagner, he is also a proficient marksman. However, he has a habit of unwisely unloading all of his bullets into a single target.
 * Skilled Chief - When preparing a victim to be eaten, Atreu used his expertise to create delicious meals from them, either for himself or others. In at least one case, he cooked human flesh for the (*&*-*&*). Atreu often saw his victims as inferior to his high standards and his sophisticated preparation of his victims flesh elevated to them as art.
 * Skilled Artist - Atreu is a incredibly detailed and skilled artist being able to draw from memory of places, people, and things without a reference point for example when he drew Catharina naked a breastfeeding their daughter while imprisoned, or when he drew his own version of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Virgin and Child with Saint Rose of Viterbo.

Etymology

 * Atreu is the Catalan, Portuguese and Romanian form of Atreus which means "fearless", derived from the Greek negative prefix ἀ (a) and τρέω (treo) meaning "to fear, to flee". In Greek mythology, Atreus was a king of Mycenae and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus.
 * Dracul is a variant of Dracula which is from the epithet of Vlad II Dracul, father of Vlad the Impaler, which meant either "dragon" (alluding to his membership in the noble Order of the Dragon) or "the devil" from Romanian drac "devil".

Trivia

 * Atreu is of Romanian, Italian and Spanish descent.
 * He is pansexual.
 * His favorite meal is Catharina's duck bamboo curry with orange sauce along with bouchée à la reine and a bowl of tourin.
 * He is also loved a good well made café liégeois.
 * He graduated from University of Montpellier.
 * Atreu earned a Baccalauréat Général: Série Scientifique (S).
 * He did his internship at Johns Hopkins Medical Center after passing the USMLE.
 * He has bachelor degree's in anatomy, neurophysiology, physics, and psychiatry.
 * He has dolichocephalic and type III polydactyly.
 * Atreu's favorite novel is Le Misanthrope and his second favorite novel is Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.
 * Atreu owned a library filled with first editions book and several in the native languages.
 * Atreu can speaks several languages including his native Romanian, and those include English, German, Italian, Latin, Japanese, French.
 * Atreu is ambidextrous.
 * Atreu takes his coffee black, with two sugars.
 * In his apartment where Atreu's saw his patients, he has a book of recipe's.
 * He is prone to migraines when under extreme stress, which he usually addresses by turning the lights down, closing his eyes, and lying down on a couch.
 * Atreu has shown to be a skilled and brutal fighter, as he was able to take down (*&*-*&*) with only some difficulty, and he was shown to be able to defeat (*&*), although his victory was an exceedingly close call.
 * In addition to his skills as a fighter, Atreu has also shown that he has a high tolerance for pain, as most of the time that he has been injured, he has shown very little reaction to the pain.