Editing After The Storm: Second Wave InactiveCharacters (section)

==Background and Description==

Matroskin's 'real name' is Robert Blake, named for one of the first PoC serving in America to receive the Medal of Honor in a naval engagement.

His Dad is William "Wild Bill" Blake, who met Robert's Mum, a white tiger by the name of

снегопад* via the Witches. She's an ex Vegas resident, offspring of a now defunct magic act white tiger.

Snow was brought as a cub to New York and escaped from captivity after First Storm and some rather strange powers manifesting for the first time, including becoming way smarter than the average tiger, and like Bill, an animal with the power of human-like speech.

She is a cryo-kinetic, can cause small localized hail and snowstorms, manipulate air currents and chill the area around her enough to cause ice to form on nearby surfaces, and ice coat herself for improvised armour. Her ability to fly is more like Frozone's (From The Incredibles movies) Ice Surfing ability in that she needs to be able to build an ice sheet under her as she goes to do so.

Snow is also amazingly chill for a tigress, but particularly unforgiving of those humans who kill animals for sport.

*'Snowfall' in Russian, usually known simply as 'Snow' because I'm lousy at rendering Russian script into English pronunciation.

Matroskin is like his mother in that he has Telekinesis with the sort of fine control that would allow manipulating air currents as well as small and delicate technical components, and prefers to use finesse rather than force where possible.

Like Bill, he shares a fascination with technology and the uses of it, a love of fictional media and an eagerness to explore the strange new world of Post Storm America. He may have also picked up his dad's sometimes disturbing sense of humor, but is more of a jester than a Joker or a Comedian.

He has close ties with Ms Elsewhere's family, particularly her not so small now cousin Zoe, and with Swanncorp's joint CEOs.

I would expect he'd also know a lot of The Farm's ex-inhabitants, and The Odds as well, and may have connestions to the Witches via Snow.