Mikhail Kolvenik

From Eva Irinova: Keep loving her

About Maria: He sees her as an extension of himself and regrets what he did to her.

Marina: She doesn't care too much about her life.

Oscar: He doesn't like him.

De Luis: He sees him as a very trustworthy person.

From Dr. Sherlley: He is his best friend.

Marina Bleu: Woman, brave, blonde hair, blue eyes, white dress, intelligent, and loves to write. She likes Oscar Drai.

Oscar Drai: Man, black hair, brown eyes, tall, rational, a little playful with Marina. He is in love with Marina Bleu.

Eva Irinovav: A woman with wrinkles from age, her face disfigured by acid, always wearing a black veil, one green eye and one blue eye, and blonde hair streaked with gray. She is in love with Mikhail. Affectionate, maternal, sometimes serious, calm, and very self-critical.

Maria Sherlley/Kolvenik: Woman, gray eyes, blonde hair, fair complexion and slender. Shy, cold, intelligent and observant but not in an uncomfortable way.

Dr. Sherlley: Half English, half Spanish, wrinkles from age, intelligent, shrewd, sometimes lazy or mocking. White hair and blue eyes.

Luis Claret: A man with a few wrinkles, black hair with silver streaks, and honey-colored eyes. Serious, calm, and helpful, he deeply admired Mikhail.

The death of his mother and twin brother: This event deeply scarred and traumatized him. His brother's death was the reason he became obsessed with deformities and resurrection.

First interaction with Dr. Sherlley: They met when Mikhail was in prison; Dr. Sherlley was in charge of treating him, and despite not speaking the same language, they formed a friendship that lasted until death. The Doctor helped him when he began to suffer deformities, and together they shared a hobby of collecting photos of people with deformities.

Listen to Eva Irinova sing: Mikhail first heard Eva sing at the opera and was immediately captivated. He went to see and hear her sing as often as possible. One day, she called him to her dressing room, and they went for a walk through the city at night; it was then that Eva fell in love. Eva pretended that Mikhail had proposed to her so she could escape the toxicity of her adoptive parents. Mikhail, who was also in love, helped Eva escape her guardians, and they married soon after. Eva discovered that Mikhail was experimenting on corpses two weeks before the wedding, but she didn't leave and married him anyway.

On their wedding day: When he married Eva, as they were leaving the church, Sergei (Eva's former tutor) appeared and threw acid in her face. Mikhail operated on Eva to reconstruct her throat, but her face was left scarred for life with areas of skin missing and other parts with exposed bone.

Mikhail begins his transformation: he slowly becomes deformed. The only ones left in his mansion besides him are Luis Claret, Eva, Dr. Sherlley, and his collection of black butterflies. He begins operating on himself to repair himself, which is why he has metal teeth and metal hands.

He becomes a father: Despite having begun to avoid Eva's company (because he felt like a monster, not because Eva's face was burned), Eva became pregnant. This only increased Mikhail's madness, since he wanted to do the same as the black butterfly, and to do so he would need to end the lives of his own offspring when the time came (obviously Eva didn't know this, and Mikhail was too deranged to be objective).

Maria is born: Mikhail was locked up, but later (years later) she learned that her daughter had been adopted by Doctor Sherlley to protect her from Mikhail.

Mikhail escapes and burns Sergei and Tatiana: One day, the son of the former head of Velo-Granel and Eva's former guardians (Sergei and Tatiana, siblings, but the ones who exploited Eva for labor to become rich since she was a child) go to burn down Mikhail's mansion. Everyone manages to escape the fire, but Mikhail locks Sergei and Tatiana inside the house and flees.

Mikhail is reborn and meets his daughter: Years later, in 1979, Maria discovers the truth and goes in search of Mikhail, whom she begins to help.

Mikhail finally dies burned in Eva's arms: In the end, after a great fight between Luis, Eva, Carlos Drai (the protagonist of the book) and Marina (Another of the protagonists) against him and an army of dead that he revived, he dies with three bullets in the chest (which his wife fired) and burned while Eva hugs him.

He is usually calm and objective. He tends to have good judgment and can be quite romantic if he wants to be. He is passionate about medicine and science, and even created a special elixir that could bring the dead back to life by replacing parts of their bodies with mechanical components. He has a brilliant mind and excellent manners. He enjoys reading and experimenting.

A tall man with fair skin, a few wrinkles from age, black-framed glasses, sharp gray eyes, and black hair that falls a little past his ears (long enough that he hasn't cut it in a while). He has metal claws instead of hands; they're like hands but as sharp as claws, and he usually wears black gloves to conceal them. He has sharp metal teeth; he had surgery on himself that extended all the way to his throat. He's usually discreet and calm, but he's quite demented, so sometimes his smile can be macabre if he grins, revealing his sharp metal teeth.

White button-down shirt and smart black trousers. Black gloves, brown hat, and brown coat outdoors. He wears a black butterfly brooch on his shirt. He wears smart charcoal black shoes.