Post by ORION GRAISON DUCHANNES on Feb 11, 2013 15:36:45 GMT -5
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CITIZEN. ROYALSTANDARD. IAN SOMERHALDER. HISTORY PROFESSOR/SPY. TWENTY-EIGHT. GENTLEMAN. SASSY. SECRETIVE.
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,386,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,true][atrb=style, width:130px; height: 200px; background-image: url(http://25.media.tumblr.com/85f587090812fcd6e8bf5f5c3a52c359/tumblr_mfd7byrKoM1qfg9xxo6_250.gif);][/style] | [style=height: 180px; overflow: auto; font-size: 9px;]orion duchannes was not the product of love. on the contrary, his story is a quite interesting one. you see, orion is the product of rape. but we're getting ahead of ourselves. let us begin at the beginning. raleigh templeton and grigori duchannes met under romantic circumstances. it was a love at first sight sort of deal, orchestrated beneath the moody lighting of a ball where only the elitest of the elite of charleston, south caroline were invited to attend. grigori was descended from the ancient aristocracy of charleston, the french who settled there long ago, and his father owned one of the major importing companies on the south carolina coastline. they made their millions from the fresh fish they hauled on a daily basis, shrimp, oysters, assorted shellfish and other treats those oceanside dwellers thrive on. this was in the seventies, but the south remained unaffected by the goings-on of the outside world. as always, culture sifted through charleston's fingers but she maintained her classic beauty and her class. grigori learned business from his father, accompanying his father on trips overseas to expand their trade to other fields. they became a massive import/export company with outlets in europe as well as the entire east coast. raleigh, the soon-to-be love of his life, was originally from alabama. she was a beautiful woman, descended from the french cajuns toward louisiana, no doubt. her family moved to charleston when her father was hired as the head football coach at the university of south carolina. the two young people met at a gala - as southerners are wont to throw - and they hit it off automatically. they were married a year later. grigori's social connections and quick wit garnered him close relationships with government officials in the statehouse in columbia, and he soon ran for mayor of charleston and won. after mayor, he advanced to the house of representatives and became a congressman by the time he was forty-five. once he was entrenched in washington, his connections with his family's import/export business overseas garnered him the attention of the president and he was elected to become the ambassador to england. however, before this fame, infamy and horror befell the duchannes family. their two oldest children were four and two years old respectively when raleigh was snatched from a press summit in columbia, south carolina. she was drugged and disappeared in moments, not to be seen from again for two years. grigori and the children were devastated, believing their wife and mother to be gone forever. however, the fbi managed to track her, finding her entangled in a sex trafficking ring in the underbelly of paris, france. she was five months pregnant and thin and souped up on different sorts of drugs which kept her coherent but pliant. grigori was driven into a deep depression at the sight of his wife, although he hid it expertly for the public to see. he gave her the best private care he could afford, continuing to raise their two children on his own as he nursed her back to health. a chasm formed between them as her mind was permanently scarred from the mental torment she'd befallen as a result of her captivity and slavery. even after she healed physically, she flinched away from her loving husband's touch and couldn't bare to sleep in the same room with him. the rift between them grew to the point that she had her own wing in the house, and grigori raised their children as a single parent. when orion was born, grigori was the one to name him. he was a sickly child, weakened by the drugs pumped through his mother's body while he was in the womb. he was born four weeks early and kept in an incubator until he could successfully breathe on his own. determined not to hate the child for the evil way he'd been brought into the world, grigori named him after the great hunter of greek mythology, son of poseidon: orion. with his mother incapacitated, orion was raised by her husband. grigori adopted him as his own, giving orion his last name and endeavoring to give him a better life. he sent the boy to the same schools as his half-siblings and urged the children to bond as they grew up. the two oldest (a boy and a girl) took orion in and loved him as their own, and the three of them bonded as healthy siblings should. he never felt left out as a child, and their family was close. when orion was eighteen, his mother contracted bone cancer. the doctors believed it was a repercussion of the drugs she'd had in her system when she was younger, and she died a year later. it couldn't be said he missed her. he'd never known the woman who birthed him. he'd only heard the brighter stories from her youth, the stories grigori filled him with so he wouldn't remember only the shadowy present she had for those eighteen years of his life. after his mother's death, he found the curiosity within him to look into his family history. with this research, he got too deep in to the trafficking ring she'd been kidnapped into. his father, grigori, wouldn't want him to know it, but being in washington, dc gave him a limitless supply of knowledge. as he searched, becoming obsessed with more information, he figured out something fishy with the operation. it had ties back to britain (strange for a french organization when the french historically and characteristically hate the english), and those ties connected back to the states. to the united states government. of course, he couldn't take these discoveries to the president, so he took them to his dad. being a naturally positive person, grigori refused to believe it was true despite his adopted son's evidence. he cautioned orion to keep it to himself, and he brushed it aside. however, orion was a characteristically determined young man - had been since childhood - and he refused to let it go. so he trained himself, groomed himself, and worked his way through college and applied at the cia. he was a natural at accents and picking up other languages. today, he can speak and read six different languages, and he's working on a seventh. he speaks english, spanish, french, mandarin, farsi (persian), and russian. he's working on arabic. he works for the cia now as a spy, and his cover is as a history professor traveling around the world giving seminars and lectures on american history. his primary goal is to search out and expose the sex trafficking ring that took his mother all those years ago, and he won't stop until he does. |
