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The middle child age wise, Slav is actually the middle height-wise as well. A respectable 6’1”, he’s still an inch shorter than his twin older brothers, although (thankfully) three inches taller than his younger brother. He’s more lank than anything else, lean muscles, but not much else. Despite the fact that he shares the same dark brown hair as his three brothers, Slav is the only Jones brother to possess blue eyes. Which he always considered odd more than anything else.

Completely unpicky about his clothes, he tends to stick to jeans and a button up shirt over a wife beater. Complete with his favorite pair of scuffed steel toed boots (out of habit more than anything else, have you ever dropped a car part on your toes before?)

Easily the ‘dreamer’ of the four brothers, Slav is easily distracted as well as absentminded. Daydreams and little mental walks make him seem far more spacey than he really is, and do not exactly do wonders to make him seem even average intelligence.

He has always had an eye for cars and devotes a good deal of his daily cognitive processes to anything having to do with classic cars. Most everything else tends to fall by the wayside the instant a car (only if it’s pre-1980) comes into the equation. Food, sleep, girls, they all pale in comparison to being able to get under the chassis of a car in need of restoration and help bring it back to life. His actual knowledge of engines is scanty, as they are not what draws his interest in getting elbows deep in, although he can appreciate the art of the mechanics involved.

Expect Slav to set something down and completely forget where he put it later, if he is even in the least distracted. And distracted he is, often. Okay, most of the time.

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Traveling With: His brothers; Nik, Ios and Gor.

Contest Entry: Involuntary – a family counselor entered them in the contest in hopes a vacation would save them.

Career/Job: Classic Car Restoration (Apprentice)

The atmosphere in the Jones household between the ‘Parental Units’ has been strained for so long that Slav has a hard time remembering a time when there was not even tense. It was probably both positive and negative that neither parent was around much, by that trope. None of the sons had to deal with bickering parents constantly, but they were on their own so much that they developed into their own little worlds.

Slav took the route of less practicality and reality than fantasy and dreams.

School was not particularly difficult curriculum wise, although he scraped by with a bare C average (except for auto shop), which was more due to his forgetting his homework or to study for exams than anything else. Admittedly, being named ‘Mstislav’ on an island that was about as South as you could get and still be in the U.S., was not exactly the easiest thing when it came to school bullies. It was probably his older brother’s reputation for having a temper that kept the bullying to a manageable minimum, otherwise Slav would not want to really think about it.

He graduated (without honors) last summer, and has been apprenticing with a shop that restores classic cars on the side for the last three years. One day, soon, Slav hopes to open a little place of his own, where he can spend all his time working on Mustangs, Shelbys, Corvettes and Barracudas.

Special Skills/Abilities:

Puzzle solving: Without this ability, Slav would be lost with what he wants to do. He can look at broken pieces and mentally put them back together without ever having to touch them.

Car/Truck Anatomy Knowledge: If you don't know where everything goes, you'll be completely screwed. Slav can replace a part nearly blindfolded (as long as he's not looking at the engine).

Language: English, Spanish (the Joneses live practically on the border itself)

Personal Weaknesses:

Family - The Jones Family is, frankly, highly dysfunctional. The ‘Parents’ are in marriage counseling, but only has not managed to not help their relationship, but has somehow made it worse.

Absent Mindedness - Slav is prone to be forgetful. To the point where he will set things down with each new distraction, and then have a hard time remembering where they were again. Time may be relative, but for him, it’s nearly impossible to keep track of.

Distractibility - At heart Slav is a daydreamer, and as such is extremely easy to distract away from the task at hand.

Personal Strengths:
His brothers - Slav’s brothers and he could depend on each other when they could on little else. As such, they can be very much a solidarity movement, on those odd occasions when they agree.

Networking Skills - Getting the parts you need to fix up a '57 T-Bird into a cherry, two-tones piece of art is impossible if you cannot handle yourself on the phone. Slav has been assigned the duties of talking to various dealers and enthusiasts to get as specific part more than once. He's not half bad.

Harmlessness - Maybe not a traditional skill, but when people are getting angry, the one who looks harmless is going to be able to calm them down without getting it turned on them instead. At least, hypothetically.

Bianca Jones - The mother who is so busy with her accounting firm that she just was not around for her four sons. She’s almost a mythical creature to Slav, because of the fact that his memories of any real time with her are mostly childhood wishes.

Louis Jones - The father who tries at times to be there for his kids, but they still end up taking second place to his chain of fashion stores. Sure, he tries, but he also tends to cancel activities and break promises because something often crops up.

Nikolai ’Nik’ Jones - Age 19 - The hotheaded one, it’s best to not get on his bad side. Not that that’s really difficult.

Iosef ’Ios’ Jones - Age 19 -The laid back one, it’s nearly impossible to anger Ios. Just don’t expect him to be all that practical himself.

Grigory ’Gor’ Jones - Age 16 - The geek, his little world is all about capes and fake teeth. It’s best not to even wonder what he gets up to.

I Deck - 1024 - The Olympians

This room is themed to represent each of the Olympian gods. The floors are a silver-colored marble, the walls white. Through-out the main room are twelve miniature columns, each topped with a statue of an Olympian god and nameplate. The main sitting room has a mini kitchenette, as well as a couch, two arm-chairs, and flat-screen TV. The furniture is all upholstered in white, and the curtains covering the balcony doors match.

There are two bedrooms, both identical, with a computer desk and queen-size bed. The linens are all white cotton.

The bathroom, which is done purely in white marble, has a jacuzzi tub, and a shower stall that doubles as a mini steam room.

Nicknames: Slavy, The Professor (as in the Absent Minded Professor)

Preferred Music: Classic Rock.

Blood Type: A+

Shoe Size: 10