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𝐕𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐘 𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐈𝐍. ([personal profile] m1895) wrote in [community profile] singillppl 2024-09-07 07:56 pm (UTC)

vasiliy yegorovich ardankin | original character

Character Name: Vasiliy Yegorovich Ardankin
Canon: Original - 1930s Russian historical/revenant.
Aurora Feat: Nope! Aside from his body being frozen in time/unaging, he's a normie.

Wanted CR: Honestly all of it except for romance, but I'm especially eager for him to meet pragmatic sorts with farming experience to use his and Konstantin's small farm as a jumping point. He could use some buddies!
Unwanted CR: Romance - he is in love already! Also, found family.

Event Ideas:

First, generally, Vasiliy is going to be a mess this month. He's already in a psychologically precarious situation because he willingly immersed himself in a very triggering situation (interrogating the Forest Talker the other month, which, given his trauma from the moral injury of having been an interrogator in Lubyanka Prison + all of the things he witnessed and experienced during that time) really threw him backwards in terms of PTSD recovery.

Now, however, he's going to be in basically a completely immersive nightmare, so he's barely going to be functional this month, and probably won't be seen much around town.

PAINFUL REMINDERS: Vasiliy will be getting his own ashes in this event. After his execution, his body was disposed of like any other political prisoner's - cremated and tossed into the Donskoye Cemetery unmarked mass grave without any sort of funeral. This is already going to trigger him to hell and back, but he's going to be hearing a lot of voices on the wind, too, and it's going to fuck with him real, real bad.

Because the family members of people executed during the purges almost always got taken down too, there is no doubt in his mind that his parents were arrested and killed shortly after he was. Even if they weren't, he still has ample reason to mourn - when Vasiliy was executed and subsequently awoke in the modern world in 2015, he was only 30 years old, which is very young to lose one's parents. When he arrived in the 'future', he was faced with saying goodbye to everyone he had ever known all at once, because they'd all have died of old age (or execution, or in WW2), so it's effectively only been four years since he abruptly lost both parents.

He's going to be hearing his mother, father, the ex-boyfriend he broke up with shortly before his arrest (despite it having been a pretty serious relationship), and some of his friends, both those who were killed when Beria took power and those who outlived him. I am also toying with the idea of him hearing the voices of Yezhov, Stalin, or both, because they were both very, very important people in his life despite him never having met either of them, and he loved both of them. He will also be learning that Yuri, the boyfriend, wasn't executed because of his association with Vasiliy due to the well-timed breakup, but died in the battle of Stalingrad 2 years later.

I'd love for him to have a heart-to-heart with other character(s) who have lost their parents and to just sort of tell someone about them, especially because in general he is a very isolated person, both by circumstance and personality. Really looking to leverage the compulsion element of this event to get him to start opening up to some people around town against his will.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Sooo the entire focus of the NKVD's purges, after the extermination of the kulaks, was this idea that there were foreign enemy cells within the Soviet Union - 'wreckers' - who were the reason for the country's every failing. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed under this logic, and Vasya was one of the interrogators responsible for emotionally manipulating prisoners into signing falsified confessions saying that they'd been spies/foreign agents/secret Trotskyites/rightists/etc all along. Because of this, he is going to react really, really badly to any sort of witchhunt or even witchhunt mentality that arises from the very real risk of Forest Talkers disguised as Interlopers - his entire stance is going to be that they're a tiny percentage of the population and just something they have to deal with, because his mind is going to take this from zero to 100 and see a potential purge ahead. I'd really love to write him getting into an argument with someone who is more suspicious of the new people and getting really, really heated and invested in a way that suggests that he's been through something, even if it's not clear what. This could be a good stepping stone for future negative CR.

His and Kostya's farm is also going to start taking some damage here and there from the Forest Talkers, although most of it will happen at the end of the month. He's going to be looking for people to help him repair the farm, as well as potentially build a fence to keep Lyudmila, the reindeer calf who is now four (!!) whole months old, contained, and will be willing to pay with ptarmigan pullets...

BAD BLOOD: The farm is going to get raided in earnest! Vasiliy is going to shoot someone dead in self-defense, then end up bringing as many ptarmigans inside as he and Kostya can, calling the dog into the house (and in a major development, Mukhtar actually will read the room enough to know it's dangerous and come inside, albeit only into the living room), and barricading himself and Konstantin as well as Lyudmila the caribou and several hysterical ptarmigans in their bedroom.

Mukhtar is going to fatally maul a Forest Talker who manages to break into the main living area of the house but the guy's not going to immediately die, so I'd def be down for someone seeing their insane dog who doesn't like them that much kill somebody in a really graphic, non-instantaneous way (and maybe bring up that he's dangerous after the attacks?).

Afterwards, they will need even MORE help rebuilding the farm (and their house that got broken into), so if anyone wants to lend a hand, they would both appreciate it!

Anything Else?: Still on hiatus for the first half of the month but looking to get back into action after a lull in writing this guy/a bunch of deranged life shit (it's been one hell of a year for me lol).

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