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» Name: Dimitri Belikov
» Fandom: Vampire Academy
» Reference: http://vampireacademy.wikia.com/wiki/Dimitri_Belikov and http://vampacademy.wikia.com/wiki/Dimitri_Belikov
As the Wikis really don't have much information on Dimitri I went ahead and wrote this up for a more detailed background for him:
In the first book Vampire Academy Dimitri first meets Rose Hathaway after she and Lissa Dragomir, a Moroi Princess and last of her family, had run away from St. Vladimir's Academy, he is one of several Guardians sent to retrieve the Princess and Rose. Dimitri is named Lissa's Guardian. He stands up for her when they are about to send her away saying it would be a waste of talent and they are lacking in female guardians. He ends up being assigned to train her to get her caught up even though she is two years behind everyone else. He works her hard making her run at first to build up her strength, during these training sessions they both begin to fall for the other. When his charge Lissa is terrorized he along with Rose try to find out who is behind it, him relying on a connection of a bond Rose has to Lissa. During this time Rose is given a necklace by Victor Dashkov which unknown to anyone until the night Lissa is kidnapped was charmed. Rose goes to Dimitri and before she can tell him what's going on the charm takes effect, a lust charm to distract the two guardians, with each other. They come very close to having sex until Dimitri notices something and moves away from her with the necklace, the effects on her wear off but she sees him still effected. They go then to rescue Lissa who is being tortured until she gives in and heals Victor of his disease. Dimitri torn tells Rose what happened was just because of the charm, and he felt nothing for her yet she is informed by Victor, that the charm only enhances feelings already there and strips away inhibitions. Victor's daughter turns Strigoi and comes breaking him out and attacks Rose. Dimitri comes to her rescue and kills Natalie Dashkov. He then reveals to Rose he loves her as well but cannot be with her because of age, and because he won't be able to guard Lissa fully if she is near him. This shows both his sense of duty to his job as a guardian and it's conflicting nature to his romantic side knowing he'd risk his life for Rose.
In Frostbite the second book in the series Dimitri travels with Rose for her Qualifier exam though once they arrive at the home of the Moroi the guardian they were to meet with they come across a bloody massacre. Upon Rose discovering a silver stake, something Strigoi cannot touch Dimitri and the other Guardians are on alert, this means they now have human assistance. He knows as a Guardian at the school he must keep the students, and Moroi safe. Dimitri is offered a position as Guardian for Tasha Ozera, and a possibility of having children which causes Rose to be jealous and pursue Mason Ashford who likes her. To keep the students at St. Vladimir's Academy safe, a ski trip to a lodge owned by a wealthy Moroi family is set up right after Christmas. News of a similar Strigoi attack filters in and news on where the Strigoi may be hiding is discovered. Dimitri confides this in Rose who after a fight tells a boy who likes her named Mason Ashford, who along with his best friend Eddie and Mia, a Moroi whose mother was killed in one of the attacks, heads to Spokane to find the Strigoi. Rose discovers their plan, and she and Christian run out to stop them. The group of students is captured, and in the escape Mason is killed. Rose kills the two Strigoi and it's Dimitri that finally finds them. After Rose receives two molnija marks, marks given for killing a Strigoi he tells her he has turned down Tasha's offer. Doing so because his heart belongs to Rose. Another show of his duty to his position and his inner romanticism.
Shadow Kiss is the third book in the series has Dimitri trying to get Rose and Lissa into Victor Dashkov's trial to no avail, as well as him worrying over the mental state of the woman he loves. She claims to see Mason's ghost, as well as other ghosts and he unable to fully accept that worries she is going insane from her bond with Lissa. Dimitri and Rose go to visit Victor in jail, who threatens to reveal what really happened between Dimitri and Rose the night he kidnapped Lissa. They had been lying and saying the charm caused Rose to attack Dimitri instead of the true nature of the charm, to protect them both. Dimitri threatens to have him killed in jail, but Victor taunts them with his knowledge. Victor does reveal that Rose and Dimitri almost slept together, but everyone in the courtroom automatically believe this to be another one of Victor's lies and is sent to prison for life. Rose and Lissa are taken to a fortune teller, and Dimitri comes to find them. He is offered a reading and accepts and receives the fortune that he will "lose that which he treasures most". Dimitri and Rose finally give in to their desires and have sex, it being Rose's first time. On their way back Strigoi attack having gotten through the wards. Dimitri springs into action and sends Rose to go get help. Before Dimitri leaves to rescue Moroi and Dhampirs that the Strigoi stole, he tells Rose that he is going to ask to be placed with a different Moroi close to Court, so that he and Rose can be together. He doesn't make it back and is taken and awakened as a Strigoi. Which will change who he is.
Blood Promise, the fourth book, Rose leaves St. Vladimir's Academy to go after Dimitri, who has become Strigoi. She travels to his home and meets his family. Finding him not there she moves on to a bigger city, Novosibirsk, and eventually runs in to him but is unable to kill him. Instead he takes her captive and continuously bites her trying to get her to become Strigoi with him, willingly. He refuses to kill her, and instead, says he will keep her until she decides to turn Strigoi to be with him. Rose eventually manages to escape, grabbing a stake on the way out. Dimitri catches up with her, and they eventually battle on a bridge, where Rose manages to plunge her stake into his chest. She leaves believing she 'released' him from being a monster and killed him. Dimitri sends a package from Russia, enclosed with the stake she used on Dimitri, and a note from him saying he was not really staked properly, and was still alive, waiting for Rose to finish school to find him. Rose realizes that with Dimitri still a Strigoi, she has a chance to restore him to his former life, but only by finding Robert Doru. Dimitri no longer is that same man, he has no love inside, and is colder. He plans to kill Rose because she refused his offer, and tried to kill him.
In the fifth book called Spirit bound Dimitri still a Strigoi and has been sending Rose letters saying both he loved her, yet he was going to kill her, to taunt her. He finds her in Las Vegas where she'd gone to find out how to save him and attacks her. When she gets away again and is sent to do manual labor with Eddie, Dimitri shows that cold callous side once again by kidnapping Lissa and Christian to bait Rose to him. Rose and a group of others comes to find him to both rescue the two Moroi and to kill Dimitri once and for all. Rose is about to stake him when Christian surrounds him in fire, and Lissa infuses a stake with spirit and stabs him. This returns Dimitri to his Dhampir state. He tries pushing Rose away telling her that love fades, his has. In reality it's his guilt of the things he had done as a Strigoi that crush him. He feels the best way to keep Rose safe is to stay away from her. The good heart he truly has cannot handle the death and pain he had caused while he was a Strigoi. The next morning at breakfast, Rose and Dimitri run into each other and begin to talk. They are interrupted by Guardians there to take Rose, and Dimitri had been ready to defend her until she calmed him down. Though he silently promised to keep fighting for her.
The sixth and final book in the Vampire Academy series is called Last Sacrifice. Rose is soon broken out of prison by Mikhail, Eddie, Adrian, Abe, and Dimitri. Dimitri takes Rose out of Court and they drive for hours until they reach Sydney, who is helping with the escape. Dimitri stops Rose from escaping but promises to help look for Lissa's half sibling. They find out the only person who has the information needed to find Lissa’s sibling: Sonya Karp, who was once a teacher at St. Vladimir's but now a Strigoi. They find her and turn her back into a Moroi and she leads them to Jillian Mastrano's house, a girl they have met. They find out she is the daughter of Eric Dragomir, Lissa's father. Jill is needed for Lissa to be able to become Queen of the Moroi When Guardians attack they scatter and Victor and his brother Robert kidnap Jill. Sonya is able to locate where the brothers are hiding Jill and relays the information onto Rose and she also reveals to Rose that her and Dimitri’s auras shine extraordinarily bright when they are around each other, which shows they are in love. This just confuses Rose about Dimitri's true feelings for her not knowing he was hiding them from her. Rose, Dimitri, and Sonya find Victor and Robert and fight them to get Jill back. Rose in fighting Victor ends up killing him while in a rage effected by Spirit. Dimitri comforts the distraught Rose admitting to her he still loved her, but he would not take another man's girlfriend. Once again showing that noble side he has, it is only when Rose tells him she belongs to him that they go further than that and have sex. She tells Dimitri after they make love that in order for them to have a relationship, he must first forgive himself for the guilt he carries over his time as a Strigoi. Something he still hasn't been able to bring himself to do. When Rose takes a bullet for Lissa he stays by her side until she wakes letting her know they have received pardons as well as their guardian status. Rose is one of Lissa’s guardians and Dimitri is Christian’s guardian. This finally allows them to be together and be open about their relationship. The series ends with Lissa’s coronation and as she is crowned the new queen, Lissa shares a humorous look with Rose in the crowd. Rose, embracing Dimitri and feeling happier than ever with his love and Lissa's triumph, tells him she thinks that the future will be good. He's finally able to have it all, the love of Rose and the prestige and nobility of his job as a Guardian.
» Canon Point: During Last Sacrifice after Rose Hathaway tells him he needs to forgive himself for things he did as a Strigoi for them to go on. (chapter 29, right here: "I don't know," Dimitri said at last. "I don't know if I can . . . if I'm ready." "Decide soon then," I said. "You don't have to right this second, but eventually . . .")
» Gender: Male
» Age: 24
» Orientation: Dimitri Belikov's orientation as it is shown in canon is heterosexual. Dimitri's relationships or even interest is shown in women. The most notable is Rose Hathaway who he is drawn to and feels this strong connection to. The only other relationship they really hinted at was with Tasha Ozera. Nothing has been noted in his canon that Dimitri has ever had any inclination to feelings for the same gender.
» Personality: To most, Dimitri Belikov seems cold and unfeeling, but could best be described as stoic. Referred to as an antisocial god for his withdrawn nature and abilities as a Guardian, people see him as mysterious, usually keeping his distance from everyone else, which leads to him to appear intense and brooding. He tries to come across as always in control and though he does succeed, there is at least one person that sees him for who he really is and that is Rose Hathaway. She is the one who understands and even calls him on the fact that his life is a constant struggle between doing what is the right thing to do according to societies standards, and doing what he instinctively wants to do, and she couldn't be more right.
Being raised and trained to protect the vampires known as Moroi, Dimitri takes his role as a Guardian very seriously. He's passionate about what he does and believes that risking his life to protect the Maroi is more than just a job, it's the right thing to do. It's this belief that makes him not only a brave man who would risk himself to save the life of his charge, but a noble man as well. He is not however so noble that he doesn't have difficulty staying true to his path, something that became much harder to do since he was among the Guardians who returned Lissa and Rose to the Academy. The moment he spoke on Rose's behalf and agreed to train her to keep her from being expelled, his life would begin on a path that would change and challenge him in ways he never could have expected.
Despite caring deeply for Rose, it takes a long time for him to not only accept his feelings, but agree to act on them. He uses their age, the fact he is her instructor and that they will both be the guardians of Rose's best friend Lissa as an excuse for them not to get involved. He denies how he feels for her because he knows if he had to choose between protecting his charge and protecting Rose, that he'd jump in front of her instead. He has been forced to question the belief held by most Guardians, including himself, that “They (The Maroi) come fist”after seeing what was happening Rose as she struggled to come to terms with her Shadow-Kissed abilities. When he sees her sacrificing her own sanity to protect Lissa he is determined to help her save herself. In doing so however he also has to accept the fact that in sacrificing his happiness for the sake of honor and duty he is destroying himself in another way.
It is arguably this that also forces Dimitri confront his feelings for Rose, but doing so comes at a price when on the same day that he and Rose agree to choose each other over honor and duty, an attack on the Academy by a large group of Strigoi ends with the death of a number of students and teachers, and the capture and turning of Dimitri into one of the very creatures he has sworn to destroy.
As a Strigoi, Dimitri became one of the most powerful among their underground society, a creature feared by those much older than he, as his strength as a Guardian immortalised made him deadly. His only real obstacle in rising to the top, was the very woman he had agreed to love forever, when she arrived to fulfil an unspoken promise, and send him to his final death. Though he seemed in many ways like the man he had been, there was a coldness to him that was far from an act. During his reign of terror, as a soulless creature, he ruthlessly took the lives of the innocent, life becoming little more than something for him to take away. Love as a Dhampir, turned into obsession as a Strigoi, his capturing and wishing to turn Rose, more about possessing her than it was about needing her. Even after she escaped, he continued to stalk her, to try and terrorise her, to promise to be the one who would come to end her life. Though he might still have been recognisable as the man he had been before, at the core, at his heart, he was not the same person, but that is something he will struggle to move past, after the woman he had once loved finally succeeded in returning him to his Dhampir form.
Since then, Dimitri has felt as though he no longer deserves to be happy, and must in turn spend the rest of his life making up for his actions as a Strigoi. He pushes Rose away, unable to face her after how terribly he had hurt her and unable to believe that he could ever feel the same for her ever again, even going so far as to telling her that “Love fades, mine has” in an effort to send her away from him. At first, he can even convince himself that this is true, but in the time since then, more of the man Dimitri had been before he was turned is coming back to him. He has begun to see the beauty in the world, and the beauty in Rose, she the one who helps him to understand that he cannot be blamed for his actions in the past. He still does not know if he can forgive himself or if he ever will, but knows that if he ever wants to have a future with Rose, then he is going to have to. When it comes to Rose there is little that he wouldn't do for her, proving even after he had sworn to stay away from her that he would protect her with his dying breath if need be, exposing himself to risk of death when he fought the palace guardians, and again when he helped her escape from jail and went on the run with her. She unsettles him as she is able to see past the man he wants the world to see and knows him in ways that nobody else does, but in turn that is one of the many things that makes him love her.
She is the person that seems to bring balance to his life and though she may be six years his junior and she may infuriate him with her recklessness and inability to listen to reason, he also sees her as somebody who is wise beyond her years. Though being a Guardian may be the very thing that seems to define Dimitri, there is another side to him. He's the kind of man who enjoys reading old Western novels, as well as listening to Country or 1980's music. He can be thoughtful, romantic even, buying lip gloss for Rose before they even admitted their feelings for one another, not as a reward, but just because he thought it would make her happy.
He is dangerously protective of those he loves, stepping in and beating his Maroi father to stop him from striking his mother again when he was only thirteen years old. He has a jealous streak that usually presents itself whenever Rose and other men are concerned, Dimitri threatening to cause bodily harm to Jesse Zeklos when he discovered him with a topless Rose, and again with how he tried to scare off Adrian Ivashkov. He isn't the sort of man that can sit around and do nothing, growing impatient when expected to hide away with Rose after they escaped from the Royal Palace and one of the first to support the plan to try and rescue students and teachers who had been captured after the attack on St. Vladomir's (even if it did lead to his own capture and turning.)
To put it simply, Dimitri Belikov is a man of many layers, a person who will act one way even if he feels another. Somebody who is willing to sacrifice himself in pursuit of the greater good and somebody who has a passion that burns inside of him, even if he seems to try and hide that from the rest of the world.
» Appearance: Dimitri Belikov is very, very tall even for a Dhampir, standing at an impressive 6'7. Brown hair that comes down to his chin which he ties back from time to time, not that it always stays up. Sometimes it has a mind of it's own it seems and loosens falling in his face. He has dark brown eyes which are gentle and fierce at the same time. Dimitri is described to be extremely good-looking and exceptionally handsome with angular, masculine features. He has a lean, well-built, muscular physique with a deep tan. Dimirtri has chocolate brown eyes, brown chin length hair, and a deep tan. According to Rose Hathaway he is 'ripped'. He wears a long, brown duster which is a throwback to his love of old western novels. On the back of his neck he bears some tattoos; the Promise Mark all Guardians receive upon graduation. Seven Molnija marks which signify how many Strigoi he has killed. The zvezda mark, aka "the battle mark" given to those with too many Strigoi kills to count. (I will be using Ben barnes to represent Dimitri.)
» Suitability: N/A
» Name: Dimitri Belikov
» Fandom: Vampire Academy
» Reference: http://vampireacademy.wikia.com/wiki/Dimitri_Belikov and http://vampacademy.wikia.com/wiki/Dimitri_Belikov
As the Wikis really don't have much information on Dimitri I went ahead and wrote this up for a more detailed background for him:
In the first book Vampire Academy Dimitri first meets Rose Hathaway after she and Lissa Dragomir, a Moroi Princess and last of her family, had run away from St. Vladimir's Academy, he is one of several Guardians sent to retrieve the Princess and Rose. Dimitri is named Lissa's Guardian. He stands up for her when they are about to send her away saying it would be a waste of talent and they are lacking in female guardians. He ends up being assigned to train her to get her caught up even though she is two years behind everyone else. He works her hard making her run at first to build up her strength, during these training sessions they both begin to fall for the other. When his charge Lissa is terrorized he along with Rose try to find out who is behind it, him relying on a connection of a bond Rose has to Lissa. During this time Rose is given a necklace by Victor Dashkov which unknown to anyone until the night Lissa is kidnapped was charmed. Rose goes to Dimitri and before she can tell him what's going on the charm takes effect, a lust charm to distract the two guardians, with each other. They come very close to having sex until Dimitri notices something and moves away from her with the necklace, the effects on her wear off but she sees him still effected. They go then to rescue Lissa who is being tortured until she gives in and heals Victor of his disease. Dimitri torn tells Rose what happened was just because of the charm, and he felt nothing for her yet she is informed by Victor, that the charm only enhances feelings already there and strips away inhibitions. Victor's daughter turns Strigoi and comes breaking him out and attacks Rose. Dimitri comes to her rescue and kills Natalie Dashkov. He then reveals to Rose he loves her as well but cannot be with her because of age, and because he won't be able to guard Lissa fully if she is near him. This shows both his sense of duty to his job as a guardian and it's conflicting nature to his romantic side knowing he'd risk his life for Rose.
In Frostbite the second book in the series Dimitri travels with Rose for her Qualifier exam though once they arrive at the home of the Moroi the guardian they were to meet with they come across a bloody massacre. Upon Rose discovering a silver stake, something Strigoi cannot touch Dimitri and the other Guardians are on alert, this means they now have human assistance. He knows as a Guardian at the school he must keep the students, and Moroi safe. Dimitri is offered a position as Guardian for Tasha Ozera, and a possibility of having children which causes Rose to be jealous and pursue Mason Ashford who likes her. To keep the students at St. Vladimir's Academy safe, a ski trip to a lodge owned by a wealthy Moroi family is set up right after Christmas. News of a similar Strigoi attack filters in and news on where the Strigoi may be hiding is discovered. Dimitri confides this in Rose who after a fight tells a boy who likes her named Mason Ashford, who along with his best friend Eddie and Mia, a Moroi whose mother was killed in one of the attacks, heads to Spokane to find the Strigoi. Rose discovers their plan, and she and Christian run out to stop them. The group of students is captured, and in the escape Mason is killed. Rose kills the two Strigoi and it's Dimitri that finally finds them. After Rose receives two molnija marks, marks given for killing a Strigoi he tells her he has turned down Tasha's offer. Doing so because his heart belongs to Rose. Another show of his duty to his position and his inner romanticism.
Shadow Kiss is the third book in the series has Dimitri trying to get Rose and Lissa into Victor Dashkov's trial to no avail, as well as him worrying over the mental state of the woman he loves. She claims to see Mason's ghost, as well as other ghosts and he unable to fully accept that worries she is going insane from her bond with Lissa. Dimitri and Rose go to visit Victor in jail, who threatens to reveal what really happened between Dimitri and Rose the night he kidnapped Lissa. They had been lying and saying the charm caused Rose to attack Dimitri instead of the true nature of the charm, to protect them both. Dimitri threatens to have him killed in jail, but Victor taunts them with his knowledge. Victor does reveal that Rose and Dimitri almost slept together, but everyone in the courtroom automatically believe this to be another one of Victor's lies and is sent to prison for life. Rose and Lissa are taken to a fortune teller, and Dimitri comes to find them. He is offered a reading and accepts and receives the fortune that he will "lose that which he treasures most". Dimitri and Rose finally give in to their desires and have sex, it being Rose's first time. On their way back Strigoi attack having gotten through the wards. Dimitri springs into action and sends Rose to go get help. Before Dimitri leaves to rescue Moroi and Dhampirs that the Strigoi stole, he tells Rose that he is going to ask to be placed with a different Moroi close to Court, so that he and Rose can be together. He doesn't make it back and is taken and awakened as a Strigoi. Which will change who he is.
Blood Promise, the fourth book, Rose leaves St. Vladimir's Academy to go after Dimitri, who has become Strigoi. She travels to his home and meets his family. Finding him not there she moves on to a bigger city, Novosibirsk, and eventually runs in to him but is unable to kill him. Instead he takes her captive and continuously bites her trying to get her to become Strigoi with him, willingly. He refuses to kill her, and instead, says he will keep her until she decides to turn Strigoi to be with him. Rose eventually manages to escape, grabbing a stake on the way out. Dimitri catches up with her, and they eventually battle on a bridge, where Rose manages to plunge her stake into his chest. She leaves believing she 'released' him from being a monster and killed him. Dimitri sends a package from Russia, enclosed with the stake she used on Dimitri, and a note from him saying he was not really staked properly, and was still alive, waiting for Rose to finish school to find him. Rose realizes that with Dimitri still a Strigoi, she has a chance to restore him to his former life, but only by finding Robert Doru. Dimitri no longer is that same man, he has no love inside, and is colder. He plans to kill Rose because she refused his offer, and tried to kill him.
In the fifth book called Spirit bound Dimitri still a Strigoi and has been sending Rose letters saying both he loved her, yet he was going to kill her, to taunt her. He finds her in Las Vegas where she'd gone to find out how to save him and attacks her. When she gets away again and is sent to do manual labor with Eddie, Dimitri shows that cold callous side once again by kidnapping Lissa and Christian to bait Rose to him. Rose and a group of others comes to find him to both rescue the two Moroi and to kill Dimitri once and for all. Rose is about to stake him when Christian surrounds him in fire, and Lissa infuses a stake with spirit and stabs him. This returns Dimitri to his Dhampir state. He tries pushing Rose away telling her that love fades, his has. In reality it's his guilt of the things he had done as a Strigoi that crush him. He feels the best way to keep Rose safe is to stay away from her. The good heart he truly has cannot handle the death and pain he had caused while he was a Strigoi. The next morning at breakfast, Rose and Dimitri run into each other and begin to talk. They are interrupted by Guardians there to take Rose, and Dimitri had been ready to defend her until she calmed him down. Though he silently promised to keep fighting for her.
The sixth and final book in the Vampire Academy series is called Last Sacrifice. Rose is soon broken out of prison by Mikhail, Eddie, Adrian, Abe, and Dimitri. Dimitri takes Rose out of Court and they drive for hours until they reach Sydney, who is helping with the escape. Dimitri stops Rose from escaping but promises to help look for Lissa's half sibling. They find out the only person who has the information needed to find Lissa’s sibling: Sonya Karp, who was once a teacher at St. Vladimir's but now a Strigoi. They find her and turn her back into a Moroi and she leads them to Jillian Mastrano's house, a girl they have met. They find out she is the daughter of Eric Dragomir, Lissa's father. Jill is needed for Lissa to be able to become Queen of the Moroi When Guardians attack they scatter and Victor and his brother Robert kidnap Jill. Sonya is able to locate where the brothers are hiding Jill and relays the information onto Rose and she also reveals to Rose that her and Dimitri’s auras shine extraordinarily bright when they are around each other, which shows they are in love. This just confuses Rose about Dimitri's true feelings for her not knowing he was hiding them from her. Rose, Dimitri, and Sonya find Victor and Robert and fight them to get Jill back. Rose in fighting Victor ends up killing him while in a rage effected by Spirit. Dimitri comforts the distraught Rose admitting to her he still loved her, but he would not take another man's girlfriend. Once again showing that noble side he has, it is only when Rose tells him she belongs to him that they go further than that and have sex. She tells Dimitri after they make love that in order for them to have a relationship, he must first forgive himself for the guilt he carries over his time as a Strigoi. Something he still hasn't been able to bring himself to do. When Rose takes a bullet for Lissa he stays by her side until she wakes letting her know they have received pardons as well as their guardian status. Rose is one of Lissa’s guardians and Dimitri is Christian’s guardian. This finally allows them to be together and be open about their relationship. The series ends with Lissa’s coronation and as she is crowned the new queen, Lissa shares a humorous look with Rose in the crowd. Rose, embracing Dimitri and feeling happier than ever with his love and Lissa's triumph, tells him she thinks that the future will be good. He's finally able to have it all, the love of Rose and the prestige and nobility of his job as a Guardian.
» Canon Point: During Last Sacrifice after Rose Hathaway tells him he needs to forgive himself for things he did as a Strigoi for them to go on. (chapter 29, right here: "I don't know," Dimitri said at last. "I don't know if I can . . . if I'm ready." "Decide soon then," I said. "You don't have to right this second, but eventually . . .")
» Gender: Male
» Age: 24
» Orientation: Dimitri Belikov's orientation as it is shown in canon is heterosexual. Dimitri's relationships or even interest is shown in women. The most notable is Rose Hathaway who he is drawn to and feels this strong connection to. The only other relationship they really hinted at was with Tasha Ozera. Nothing has been noted in his canon that Dimitri has ever had any inclination to feelings for the same gender.
» Personality: To most, Dimitri Belikov seems cold and unfeeling, but could best be described as stoic. Referred to as an antisocial god for his withdrawn nature and abilities as a Guardian, people see him as mysterious, usually keeping his distance from everyone else, which leads to him to appear intense and brooding. He tries to come across as always in control and though he does succeed, there is at least one person that sees him for who he really is and that is Rose Hathaway. She is the one who understands and even calls him on the fact that his life is a constant struggle between doing what is the right thing to do according to societies standards, and doing what he instinctively wants to do, and she couldn't be more right.
Being raised and trained to protect the vampires known as Moroi, Dimitri takes his role as a Guardian very seriously. He's passionate about what he does and believes that risking his life to protect the Maroi is more than just a job, it's the right thing to do. It's this belief that makes him not only a brave man who would risk himself to save the life of his charge, but a noble man as well. He is not however so noble that he doesn't have difficulty staying true to his path, something that became much harder to do since he was among the Guardians who returned Lissa and Rose to the Academy. The moment he spoke on Rose's behalf and agreed to train her to keep her from being expelled, his life would begin on a path that would change and challenge him in ways he never could have expected.
Despite caring deeply for Rose, it takes a long time for him to not only accept his feelings, but agree to act on them. He uses their age, the fact he is her instructor and that they will both be the guardians of Rose's best friend Lissa as an excuse for them not to get involved. He denies how he feels for her because he knows if he had to choose between protecting his charge and protecting Rose, that he'd jump in front of her instead. He has been forced to question the belief held by most Guardians, including himself, that “They (The Maroi) come fist”after seeing what was happening Rose as she struggled to come to terms with her Shadow-Kissed abilities. When he sees her sacrificing her own sanity to protect Lissa he is determined to help her save herself. In doing so however he also has to accept the fact that in sacrificing his happiness for the sake of honor and duty he is destroying himself in another way.
It is arguably this that also forces Dimitri confront his feelings for Rose, but doing so comes at a price when on the same day that he and Rose agree to choose each other over honor and duty, an attack on the Academy by a large group of Strigoi ends with the death of a number of students and teachers, and the capture and turning of Dimitri into one of the very creatures he has sworn to destroy.
As a Strigoi, Dimitri became one of the most powerful among their underground society, a creature feared by those much older than he, as his strength as a Guardian immortalised made him deadly. His only real obstacle in rising to the top, was the very woman he had agreed to love forever, when she arrived to fulfil an unspoken promise, and send him to his final death. Though he seemed in many ways like the man he had been, there was a coldness to him that was far from an act. During his reign of terror, as a soulless creature, he ruthlessly took the lives of the innocent, life becoming little more than something for him to take away. Love as a Dhampir, turned into obsession as a Strigoi, his capturing and wishing to turn Rose, more about possessing her than it was about needing her. Even after she escaped, he continued to stalk her, to try and terrorise her, to promise to be the one who would come to end her life. Though he might still have been recognisable as the man he had been before, at the core, at his heart, he was not the same person, but that is something he will struggle to move past, after the woman he had once loved finally succeeded in returning him to his Dhampir form.
Since then, Dimitri has felt as though he no longer deserves to be happy, and must in turn spend the rest of his life making up for his actions as a Strigoi. He pushes Rose away, unable to face her after how terribly he had hurt her and unable to believe that he could ever feel the same for her ever again, even going so far as to telling her that “Love fades, mine has” in an effort to send her away from him. At first, he can even convince himself that this is true, but in the time since then, more of the man Dimitri had been before he was turned is coming back to him. He has begun to see the beauty in the world, and the beauty in Rose, she the one who helps him to understand that he cannot be blamed for his actions in the past. He still does not know if he can forgive himself or if he ever will, but knows that if he ever wants to have a future with Rose, then he is going to have to. When it comes to Rose there is little that he wouldn't do for her, proving even after he had sworn to stay away from her that he would protect her with his dying breath if need be, exposing himself to risk of death when he fought the palace guardians, and again when he helped her escape from jail and went on the run with her. She unsettles him as she is able to see past the man he wants the world to see and knows him in ways that nobody else does, but in turn that is one of the many things that makes him love her.
She is the person that seems to bring balance to his life and though she may be six years his junior and she may infuriate him with her recklessness and inability to listen to reason, he also sees her as somebody who is wise beyond her years. Though being a Guardian may be the very thing that seems to define Dimitri, there is another side to him. He's the kind of man who enjoys reading old Western novels, as well as listening to Country or 1980's music. He can be thoughtful, romantic even, buying lip gloss for Rose before they even admitted their feelings for one another, not as a reward, but just because he thought it would make her happy.
He is dangerously protective of those he loves, stepping in and beating his Maroi father to stop him from striking his mother again when he was only thirteen years old. He has a jealous streak that usually presents itself whenever Rose and other men are concerned, Dimitri threatening to cause bodily harm to Jesse Zeklos when he discovered him with a topless Rose, and again with how he tried to scare off Adrian Ivashkov. He isn't the sort of man that can sit around and do nothing, growing impatient when expected to hide away with Rose after they escaped from the Royal Palace and one of the first to support the plan to try and rescue students and teachers who had been captured after the attack on St. Vladomir's (even if it did lead to his own capture and turning.)
To put it simply, Dimitri Belikov is a man of many layers, a person who will act one way even if he feels another. Somebody who is willing to sacrifice himself in pursuit of the greater good and somebody who has a passion that burns inside of him, even if he seems to try and hide that from the rest of the world.
» Appearance: Dimitri Belikov is very, very tall even for a Dhampir, standing at an impressive 6'7. Brown hair that comes down to his chin which he ties back from time to time, not that it always stays up. Sometimes it has a mind of it's own it seems and loosens falling in his face. He has dark brown eyes which are gentle and fierce at the same time. Dimitri is described to be extremely good-looking and exceptionally handsome with angular, masculine features. He has a lean, well-built, muscular physique with a deep tan. Dimirtri has chocolate brown eyes, brown chin length hair, and a deep tan. According to Rose Hathaway he is 'ripped'. He wears a long, brown duster which is a throwback to his love of old western novels. On the back of his neck he bears some tattoos; the Promise Mark all Guardians receive upon graduation. Seven Molnija marks which signify how many Strigoi he has killed. The zvezda mark, aka "the battle mark" given to those with too many Strigoi kills to count. (I will be using Ben barnes to represent Dimitri.)
» Suitability: N/A
