Player Name: yasmine
Player Contact: pm this journal; redmaresociety on discord; bluehellgazette in order of preference.
Pacing: all over the place but i try to do at least a tag a day. my horse just had spinal surgery and she came home today! so i'm finally able to actually sit down and post to this meme, but i have to work her every evening so that does take some of my time. i like to boomerang from time to time but i'm only really able to do that on weekends.
OOC Limits: dog/horse death or abandonment, eye/tooth/finger- or toenail injury.

Character Name: vasiliy yegorovich ardankin.
Canon: original character; he's from the russian 1930s. here's a quick summary of him; the super truncated TLDR is that he's a devout communist born in 1910 who during the russian great purge served as an interrogator in the nkvd (secret police/kgb predecessor). his role was emotional manipulation, not violence - vasiliy posed as a sympathetic figure with prisoners' best interests at heart to convince them to sign falsified confessions that got them sent to the gulag or shot outright, which he rationalized by telling himself they'd still confess in the end if they were tortured. after four years of this the head of the nkvd fell out of stalin's favor and was executed; as was the style of the times the entire bureau was purged, vasiliy among them. he was arrested, interrogated, and shot dead just like all of the people who passed through his hands over the past four years— only to wake up lying in the snow in the middle of nowhere in 2015 with the documents of a man by the same name born in 1985.

while acquainting himself with the modern world and coming to grips with how his actions—and stalin's regime—were remembered, he trained as an EMT and immigrated to the US to avoid being discovered and executed again. three years have since passed, and he's mostly destalinized (though he still grapples with kneejerk feelings of filial loyalty to stalin); vasiliy is constantly followed by an overwhelming sense of guilt over his actions and fear of being discovered, and is incredibly guarded and paranoid as a result. he's continued to work as an EMT with the feeling that he's counterbalancing some of the cosmic harm his four years in the nkvd put out into the world, though realistically nothing will ever actually ease his belief that he has no right to be alive.

Wanted CR: honestly open to pretty much anything. vasiliy's a pretty decent guy who has the wisdom/soviet era conditioning to keep his political opinions to himself unless he's convinced that he's in the presence of someone likely to be sympathetic to them, but i enjoy negative cr and am happy to brainstorm a reason for it. shipping is possible if a character's political/moral beliefs closely align with his, even if they don't verbatim self-identify as communist or agree on every single point, but it definitely takes time with him because he's not overly trusting. i'd love for him to start gradually making some friends - he's profoundly lonely, and has been since returning to the living world.

Unwanted CR: threads where people ~school him on communism~, 'let me show you around the modern world' types of threads. both get really old!

Event Ideas:

aurora: toying with the idea of having vasiliy see something that brings him back to his old life - generally speaking he's notably underreactive to horrifying displays of violence compared to most modern people, and he's seen plenty of gruesome injuries/dead bodies, but i think seeing someone pulled out of their house and/or shot execution-style in the back of the head would fuck with him.

i'm interested in having vasiliy go around town and explore during the aurora to try and get a sense for what's happening - only to encounter a situation in which he and the other character need to go into a basement, which, having been executed in one himself/having committed atrocities in one for 4 years, is one of his biggest triggers. if you're interested in cr that could eventually lead to your character knowing some or all of his real story, this could be a good way to start to raise their suspicion, because at the very least this EMT who's been pretty damn stoic for the duration is going to freeze up and clearly have to will himself to go deeper--not a typical reaction to a normal ass basement. it could also

generally exploring type threads could be fun!

wolves: time to shine!! guess who's literally always carrying a gun and is a much better shot than a normal and regular EMT in an urban area has any reasonable excuse to be? this guy!! let vasiliy bust out the piece he's always carrying under his clothes in inappropriate situations and rescue your character - or maybe patch them up after the wolves have already done their damage. just don't think too hard about why someone in an area where recreational shooting isn't easily accessible for low-income people is that good of a shot.

voices: this is definitely going to push him over the edge; vasiliy is going to assume that the interloper thing is connected to why he abruptly clipped back into the living world after being shot dead in 1940. he agrees that he shouldn't be here, and between that and his crushing guilt over the number of deaths he played a part in/belief that he of all people has no right to be given a second life, he's going to try to end it. grace is going to talk him out of it, but after that, he'll be available to talk characters down from the ledge.

i'm really interested in having him step into his persona as an interrogator for the first time since 1940 - vasiliy is incredibly persuasive and very good at reasoning with people, so he'd make a really good suicide negotiator.

Anything Else?: n/a