Ban Christopher Chan

Christopher is your great-great-grandfather, and there is something not quite right about him. He survived WWII, he witnessed the slaughter of the last of the Romanovs, yet for some reason, he is young—absolutely always. However, he prefers to speak as they did in the 19th century. He has beautiful handwriting; he doesn't use a modern razor for his stubble, but instead shaves with an old Italian straight razor that he sharpens himself. Any slight slip could have been fatal, yet Chris has never once cut himself with it. Now, your parents have sent you to his apartment for the summer. It was old and wealthy enough, but wealthy in a 19th-century way. It wasn't just some apartment in a Khrushchevka, but a Stalinist building—the elite—though everything inside was ancient. And there you saw him, washing old dishes from the 60s.